Gweiloman

There is one regular poster who is obsessed with links, completely believing everything he reads in “credible” western sources. It’s dangerous, as all too often, such reports have proven to be falsehoods. Your link above is one such falsehood. Actually, that’s not completely true. Your link merely claims it, does not say conclusively that it was a missile fired by Russia.

I’m a bit gobsmacked (though not confused) by your comments. The brave Ukrainians are not fighting to defend your safety and values (even though that’s why Zelensky says as he wants more aid) but for their own survival. I know of one incident when one Ukrainian air defence missile fell into a field in Poland, killing a couple of civilians. I don’t recall reading about Russian missiles landing in NATO territory. Could you remind me of such instances? Regarding NATO troops in Ukraine, even the foreign minister of the UK, Lord Cameron says such a move will be a dangerous escalation. At least he is still of sane and sound mind…

Flat tire, flat battery, electrical fault… Definitely not a fire, not yet anyways lol

I live about 15 kms north of CM, near Maejo. In previous years, it was hot during the day but cools down in the evenings so much so that we only needed the ac half the time. This year, the temperature stays consistently above 30degrees even at night and it’s ac on every night. Even the cold showers are hotter than what my instant water heater can produce. This report (not overly interesting I might add) mentions how part of the problem is that overnight temperatures are not dropping thus not allowing our bodies to cool down.

It’s really sad how some mis-informed folks come on here to try and prove a point using fake and false information. Don’t they realise how stupid it makes them look?

So don’t buy a Chinese made EV. Sorted.

What’s a fire-plug?

You really have a comprehension, communication and reading problem. I replied to your post saying that I don’t know what you are trying to say. How is that deflecting? My second comment of ruling you out was not directed at you but to another poster.

I watched the video again and you are right. The car had turned turtle. I stand corrected.

Did you mean to follow it more closely or not to follow it more closely? It is very true that lithium ion/ternary batteries do contain cobalt though. They are generally termed NMC batteries, nickel, manganese, cobalt. Many responsible EV makers are moving to LFP which is supposedly also safer with less risk of thermal runaway. However, when it comes to sourcing cobalt for EV batteries, I believe most of it is extracted via LSM (large scale mining) as opposed to ASM (artisanal small scale mining). If you’re interested, this is a good read. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/rethinking-artisanal-cobalt-mining-in-the-drc/48260638#:~:text=Cobalt extraction can be artisanal,such as Switzerland-based Glencore. Factual with no over dramatisation like many videos.

Operative words being once a crew is on it. Many years ago, some young hooligans stole a car and set it on fire in the grass verge opposite my house, in what would be considered a nice area in one of the home counties. Fire crew never got to the scene as no one reported it. I didn’t report it as I wanted to see what would happen. Sure enough, after a few minutes, the gas tank exploded. The car rolled but you can see clearly in the video that the wheels were on the ground when the the person inside managed to get out. The video then skipped to when the fire crew had arrived and the wheels were up in the air. Maybe the fire department had decided that the best way to fight EV fires were to have the batteries exposed where they can try to cool it down directly with water.

However, he cautioned against an idea from French President Emmanuel Macron to consider sending NATO troops to Ukraine to join the fight if Russia's Vladimir Putin achieves a breakthrough, saying that such a move would be a "dangerous escalation". "I don't think it is right to have NATO soldiers killing Russian soldiers," the foreign secretary said in an interview in the western city of Lviv on Friday, having met President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top ministers in Kyiv on Thursday. https://news.sky.com/story/uk-plans-to-ramp-up-weapons-production-for-ukraine-and-western-defence-as-lord-cameron-reveals-envoy-will-oversee-national-priority-13128072 Not sure if sky news is a credible source. If not, kindly remove.

Post of the year! Well done! 👏 👏👏

Interesting. Yes, I would definitely classify this as a car fire as a result of a big accident. I wonder if it was an ICEV, would there have been an explosion? What’s also interesting is that someone, presumably the fire fighters turned the car over to fight the fire. Also, if I understand correctly, the fire was put out within 3 hours. If it was a thermal runaway situation, could it have been put out as quickly?

Thank you for the clarification.

Wow, I will sleep better knowing that no western countries ever violates UN regulations. Oh, wait…

Wonders never cease. I actually gave you a thumbs up.

Sad to hear that you don’t consider me credible but it’s ok, I’m sure I will still be able to sleep at night. All of us, as thinking individuals (except for a couple), have our opinions. They may or may not be supported by facts. Just because a claim is made by a journalist or an unnamed individual on the condition of anonymity etc etc doesn’t make it a fact. I answer posts that I feel are substantive. I don’t normally bother with boring matters. Yes, I spotted the spelling mistake. Of course it should have been the Dalai Lama instead of Dalam Lama. Dalam means inside in the Indonesian and Malay languages, one of the 7 that I speak. Spelling mistakes can happen to the best of us. Not knowing what proper nouns are is not a mistake. Peace.

Sorry, but I have no idea what you are trying to say. Which obviously rules you out.

As for making you look stupid, I’m just going with the flow here. I noticed a lot of posts that insults the other poster gets a lot of likes and thumbs up and trophies whereas I seem to be getting only confused looks. Not sure if my posts are confusing or whether some people are easily confused. I speak 7 languages. What’s your point? The whole meaning of NATO is very well documented and published and it is very clear that NATO is not going to expand by force,never! NATO was set up as a defensive alliance against possible aggression by the Soviet Union. With the demise of the latter, the raison d’etre for NATO ceased to exist. As a defensive alliance, what were they doing in Yugoslavia? Why were they in Syria? Why are they thinking of opening an office in Japan? Do they not know what the acronym stands for? I don’t know what you mean by “not going to expand by force, never”. They should never have expanded, period. So by attacking the Ukraine the Russian themselves are moving closer to the NATO border. Russia went into Ukraine to stop NATO coming closer to their borders. That shouldn’t be too difficult to understand. Yes, the west has been very stupid to rely on Russian gas for their heating.Putin was going to use this as leverage to influence the West,it backfired on him big time! The west, in particular Germany relied on cheap Russian energy. This helped their industries tremendously so much so that they wanted to double their supply via NS2. It was America that didn’t like this. It would make Russia stronger, probably made Europe more dependent upon Russian cheap energy. America, being the worlds’ bully, couldn’t accept this, going so far as to say that they will stop it (interference in other sovereign nation’s internal affairs, as always). Miraculously, the pipelines exploded, stopping the supply of gas. As a result, Europeans now have to pay more for their energy requirements, major German carmakers and other industries are pulling out of Germany into, surprise, surprise, America. Blind is he that does not want to see. It hasn’t backfired on Russia but on Europe. The west could have relied on cheap Russian energy for many many years without interruption but for that hegemony across the ocean.

I don’t claim it, it’s merely what was reported. True or not, who can say. However, by virtue of your last sentence, you have painted yourself into a corner. In your view, no leader can have such popularity unless they are either a dictator or a tyrant. In the political system that I presume you are used to, that is western democracy with elections every few years, either 2 party state like the US or multi parties like Germany, it is practically mathematically impossible to gain much more than 60% popularity for obvious reasons. The electorate’s political mindset fundamentally does not allow them to deem the opposition’s leader as popular. I do not know but I wonder what Mandela’s popularity rating was. Singapore on the surface is a democratic country and you can claim that LKY was a tyrant and/or dictator but he regularly polled above 90%.If, for the sake or this argument we consider Tibet as a sovereign nation, would you dispute that the Dalam Lama would have greater than 88% popularity among Tibetans? How about when it comes to monarchs? I don’t think anybody would dispute that a certain ex-monarch was popular with almost 100% of the population. Tyrant and/or dictator? Finally, and this is naturally controversial and contentious because most westerners are opposed to it due to their education and govt propaganda, China is a one party state. If 88% of the population is happy with their government, by extension, this means they are happy with the leader, Polls by IPSOS or Harvard, I forget which, has found China to be the “happiest” country in the world with over 90% satisfaction rating. I can already hear the words rubbish, nonsense, gibberish in some posters heads. What some westerners don’t realise is that for many Asians, democracy, the right to vote, freedom of speech, all the intangibles that the western world cares so much about that they are willing to kill others for it, many Asians don’t really care. What they care about most is to have a good living and the opportunities to do so and this is something that the likes of LKY and XJP has provided them. Thank you for reading and hopefully we can have an intelligent debate without the usual posters who only insults, demands for links and are full of themselves.

Maybe Rishi thinks that by sucking up to the US, they will interfere in the coming elections and help him get elected, for the first time.

The interior looks like a Japanese made car lol

Like I said, b o r I n g…

I’m so glad my daughters and their friends have been travelling around Asia for the past year, not needing to pay back their student loans. The British government obviously don’t need the money.