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Last month when I came to Bangkok, I had forgotten my MRT stored value card so I bought a new one. My passport shows me now to be over 65 and they gave me an orange "Elder" card. This visit, I have both my old card and my new Elder card. If I'm getting a discounted fare using my old fart card, that's the one I'll top up when it runs low. If not, then it really doesn't matter. Any insights?

Sitting here in a hotel on Soi 16 and I heard what sounded like 10,000 butts puckering. I figured out why when I read this headline.

Maybe a minority, but it is a plurality.

Current polling says that 46% of American voters must be clowns?

That was back in the summer of 1980. It's gotten worse since then. Much worse.

Nope. Only 86.4% chance. I still remember my summer working for a Fortune 100 oil company, when 5 secretaries came back from lunch at 3:00PM loaded down with shopping bags. 4 of them were fired. I'll let you guess why they didn't fire the 5th one. Getting sued for discrimination, not a problem in Thailand.

Then your HR qualities are below par. I now loads of great Thai workers. It's the same guys who lament not being able to find good help back home, when they're offering minimum wage. I worked with dozens of very competent, responsible Thai employees. We paid them well enough that they wanted to perform well and stay. Still a tiny fraction of what we paid "back home".

You don't figure it's kind of suspicious that they're just now crawling out of the woodwork after 10-15 years of saying nothing?

5th largest economy on the planet and it’s only a state,and just so you know every state has its share of problems One stat tells it all... CA is losing population under Newsom, Florida is gaining faster than any other state under DeSantis. https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/population-decline-by-state They're gonna have to change Newsom's first name to Swirlie.

It's from the US News and World Report, Americans being able to own 100% by the Treaty of Amity. I know... Kinda sucks for the rest of you guys.

But given the choice...

Probably the same buyers who are swooping in and buying in the Maui burn zone.

I can see the new signs along Sukhumvit: Kidney Stone Expulsion, 300 Baht an hour.

Yeah, 'cause everything's ginger peachy keen in California with Newsom at the wheel.

Aren't you a little concerned about the state of American politics that a guy who has a pretty good chance of going to jail is still polling neck and neck with his other party opponent, and way out ahead of anyone else in his party? Hardly a vote of confidence in the Swamp...

True, but they're not afraid of him/her winning. They're afraid of RFK Jr (for example) pulling a bunch of Dem votes away from Biden Kamala if he runs on a 3rd party ticket. He may not even come close to winning, but one man could be the deciding factor in an entire election. Edit: The other possibility is that he'd be able to force concessions on the Dem party platform to keep him off the ballot... In either case, running on a 3rd party ticket may not be about winning.

Seems like the new CDC director has admitted that they lost the public's trust, and they're doing their best to get it back. A good start would be to detail what they actually screwed up to lose the trust... https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/16/cdc-director-public-trust-00116348

I'm not disagreeing with you because I just don't know. But some kind of reference pointing out where that suggestion came from would be helpful.

It sure isn't competence.

Where’s the PROOF where’s the EVIDENCE heck where’s the beef! Given the less than 2 minutes between my post and your insightful reply, I can only conclude that either you're a speed reader, or you really don't want to see any evidence. Edit: Did you at least read the 3 Bank Memoranda? Interesting stuff... With a promise of more memoranda as the subpoenas make their way through... Not looking good for Team Biden.

https://oversight.house.gov/the-bidens-influence-peddling-timeline/

Agreed. It's a WAG. Even just an assumption. But they have to forecast it so everyone in the company is using the same assumptions when they make an investment recommendation. Otherwise, there's no criteria to compare the opportunities.

Agreed, and if it's a choice between weed and nothing, obviously "nothing" is safer. If it's a choice between vaping and nothing, "nothing" is safer. But if it's a choice between smoking and vaping and between weed or booze, weed and vaping are both safer. I'd like to see the studies that look at the whole picture. For example, weed related car crashes and alcohol related car crashes, added up. Did they go up or down when weed was legalized? As an example, I can 100% predict that car wrecks would increase if they banned scooters in Thailand. No scooters, more cars, more car wrecks. But the number of deaths would go down.

Short answer... Yes. But longer answer is that there are long term infrastructure projects that won't pay out for decades. Some of them will last for over a century. In order to be consistent when financially modeling those projects, there has to be a forecast that everybody in the company works from. Even if they're wrong, all the models will be consistently wrong and they can still rank projects against each other. I still remember starting off in the oilpatch in 1980, working with a forecast that oil would be at $200+ a barrel by 1986. I don't recall the forecast price for 2050, except thinking "ouch". BTW, I suspect oil would have been over $200 if Reagan hadn't made a deal with the Saudis to bankrupt the USSR. Went as low as $8.

Just don't be cheezed off if your basket case, scrap scooter zips by your house at 100KPH in a few days. With a new, zoomy paint job.