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They need to hire YouTube's BushBarbie to do a PSA. The woman's a national treasure. Well worth a YT search if you've never heard of her.

You cross the safety Rubicon when you throw a leg over a scooter instead of buckling up in a car. Helmets are just a band-aid. Your friend who nearly lost his leg... How would a helmet prevent that? OTOH, over a ton of steel would have.

This would be a good time to quit digging.

That's gotta be plastic. Glass doesn't generally get scratched and virtually never fades. That would be the first thing I'd address, otherwise no light bulbs are going to work well. Either replace the lenses or find a YouTube on how to renew the old lenses by polishing.

Are the French really going to make an effort, or is it just lip service?

Search for a Passmark CPU benchmark for the 2 CPU's and you'll get a good comparison of their speeds. The I3-14100T is a little slow in today's world. (7705 is what I see, but cpubenchmark.net is blocked here right now) The I7-14700 is respectable at 15952. (Again, look it up yourself since I don't have access to the gold standard cpubenchmark.net) Either one will play videos, etc. But I'd opt for the I7 if you can afford it. In case you decide to change your usage later for gaming, etc. I also run huge spreadsheets for business and the faster processor is very handy for graphing. The 35W vs 65W is apparently just to run the CPU. All the other processes like video, HD's etc. will be driven by a much larger power supply.

Unless you need it on the flight over, I'd leave it at home and buy what you need OTC here in Thailand. Not that I have ever had a problem bringing some tightly controlled meds to Thailand (perfectly legally- I have BKK scripts for them, but they've never asked) I've never been pulled aside in probably 50-75 entries. But leave it home just so you don't have to worry. Then stop by a 7/11 and get some Brown Mixture (contains opium tincture) or go to a genuine pharmacy and ask for a codeine based cough medicine. There's even a Boots Pharmacy in Suvarnabhumi if you ever need something urgently when you arrive. And once you're on the ground (especially tourist areas), it's hard to swing a dead cat without hitting a pharmacy that can set you up.

Ditch that western voodoo stuff and get you some Leopard Brand Brown Mixture. Available even in 7/11s. But first (of course) consult your physician.

You'd figure that would show up on a dental x-ray.

The cars in the OP photo all look like GT-Rs. Gorgeous cars. Poor man's supercar. But they can be modified to be true performance cars. Not available in the US, and like hen's teeth in Thailand. I've only seen them at shows in LOS, When my (BKK) company sent me on an assignment to work in KL, I shopped for a used one. But the contract ended abruptly so I never did buy one. Had I gotten residence there, I would have. I'm more of a Toyota fan. But for a GT-R, I'd cheat on Toyota.

Perhaps that's because Egypt cooperates with US efforts to identify terrorists and criminals. And maybe it's not a kneejerk reaction to a single event as you apparently claim.

The proclamation fully restricts entry from 12 countries: Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen, all identified as having deficient screening and vetting processes or high risks related to terrorism, visa overstays or lack of cooperation with U.S. authorities. This action follows Executive Order 14161, which directed national security agencies to assess the risks posed by foreign countries. Additionally, the Proclamation imposes partial restrictions on seven other countries such as Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela due to high visa overstay rates and security concerns. Exceptions apply for lawful permanent residents, existing visa holders, and individuals whose entry serves U.S. national interests. (Quoted from the Daily Caller, but widely reported) Sounds like the platform he was elected on.

They'll be gone in an hour. That's the nature of a rally pit stop. They'd organize legitimate parking for an overnight or longer term stay. Their money will spend for weeks.

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Not hard to imagine the Thai authorities expecting a reduction in hard currency available if the tariff negotiations go south. If they no longer have that $50B (+/-) trade surplus, they're going to have to make up that shortfall somehow. And pronto. It'll be interesting to see if they flip or they flop when it all settles out. Edit: I'd add that Thailand saw a huge increase in the surplus from April to April ('24 to '25), but I suspect a lot of that is trans shipments and the US isn't going to allow that for very long. But we'll see...

And cycle a few thousand through it occasionally. Just to keep it active.

Then he really needs to provide details. Most desktops I've owned have had 250-1250W power supplies. The bigger power supplies are to run high speed graphic cards. Possibly, he's looking at a Mini PC?

Idiot. With one of those things between her legs, she could have easily convinced some hapless British guy to mule it for her.

Post back if you find one. I bought a 4G pocket router and the guy in the kiosk told me that True was the only SIM that would give me unlimited monthly, with (I think) a 10-15MB/S speed. All the AIS options were either capped at 100G/mo or ridiculously throttled after a small limit. He sold all of them, AIS, True and DTAC and he suggested True. I've never looked into 5G because the speed limits I have found are easily met by 4G. But I'm certainly open to upgrades as 5G gets ubiquitous. Let us know what you find. I'd be especially interested in the monthly cost of an account that can actually take advantage of 5G speeds without limits or throttling. I suspect they're out there, mostly for businesses.

The guy's an idiot, but it would be interesting to see the rest of the wall. Looks like he's far from the first to tag it. Some locales have tagging walls just for the purpose. A $100 coat of paint once a year and they can start all over. And they draw tourists like flies if they get good social media coverage. If it was Banksy as proposed on an earlier post, they can probably cut out that section of wall and sell it to fund temple operations for a year or more.

Especially those of us who come from the nanny states where we probably never encountered uneven steps.

There's still people posting that here on AN.

Be careful what you wish for. You could be the one getting locked up if you make a mistake on the highway. Or your wife. Or your kids. I'd rather see custodial sentences reserved for people who have intent to harm others. Or severe negligence, as in the case of a DUI.

So, similar odds to getting creamed on a scooter. But a lot of the same guys ragging on the helmetless don't object to going into a short-timer unprotected.

I haven't had a drink in over 35 years and I could have easily fallen down those steps without a railing. Especially if they had odd step spacing like so many projects in Thailand. There doesn't seem to be much thought of building codes that could have easily prevented this tragedy.