Balance

What happens when they start eating expensive small dogs and other pets?

I disagree. Most of the problems are in the front end, i.e., strategic planning.

I played a game when I was about seven years old called "pick-up sticks." Each stick was about the size of a chopstick. You grabbed the bundle in the center, raised it to 2-3 feet, and let go. The result looked very much like the photo of the rebar. Then you had to pick them up without moving any of the other sticks.

A number of countries have solved the problem of truck drivers exceeding safe speed limits by having the manufacturers install "governors" on the engines that limit their speed. The same could be used for Taxi meters, i.e., if the meter is not on the car's stop.

The only way the land question can be explained is it was a condo, which can be owned, and there were gardening plots allocated by condo unit. If this is the case, the bloody management could have straightened it out with the police. All in all, the story, as reported, does not make any sense.

It would be better if "Israeli," the nationality, and "Semitic," the religion, would not get conflated.

If he was diving off a PADI-certified boat and there were PADI instructors in the water with him, and he was diving with a "buddy," then he should not have died while diving, barring, of course, that he did not have a congenital heart condition or another catastrophic issue lying in wait. Perhaps the details will surface someday.

When I was a 14 (1955) kid in what was known as Middle School, between Grammar and High School, the only person who could legally use corporal punishment was the Vice Principal. The reasons were disruption of the classroom, not obeying the teacher, fighting in the classroom or outside, harassment of girls by boys, boys bullying boys, and smoking cigarettes, among others. The wall behind the VP's desk was covered with paddles. You were told to pick the paddle you wanted applied to your butt. This seemed to have the psychological effect of connecting the punishment to themselves and the responsibility for their behavior.

I think the motive for charging more is simply collecting more, and money from foreign tourists is low-hanging fruit. Westerners tend to want to know where the money is going—to more tea money, to needed projects, or to invest in projects to increase attendance, for example. When a museum in America wants to add more space to display new art, it advertises the project, gets media attention, and generally builds a Buy-In for people to donate. People with extra money who can afford to donate to a project can also be recognized. Projects do not have to be big; improving or building new trails, building new restrooms, and renovation projects, for example.

I believe that most of the smoke is due to the surreptitious (at night) starting of fires in the forests to coax the shy mushrooms to the surface.

As I read through this, it occurred to me that Tea Money is likely the largest source of earnings in the country.

The part about solving the income inequality problem will begin with the completion of a mandatory hypocrisy class.

If you and your partner are in a monogamous and honest relationship then both can be tested. This was common as the AIDS epidemic was winding down.

Your post points directly to part of the problem at TA; there is no training. Assuming that the seats were not broken and that the controls were confusing, there should have been one or more people among the cabin crew who knew how the controls worked and were able to walk over and show the passengers how to work them.

The last sentence gets to what should be creating the real prospect that there will not be a Thai National Carrier in a couple of years and that the reputation of Thailand will continue to decline. I stopped flying with Thai Airlines when the U.S. banned the carrier from landing at any U.S. Airport. The reason: nonexistent or incomplete maintenance records combined with a demonstrated lack of training and inability to perform the work. The issue has been around for at least 15 years, but it seems that has been done about it and/or nothing can be done about it due to a lack of will to make individual people responsible for doing their jobs correctly and firing them.