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Just checked the air quality for Bangkok: 82, which is 2.8 times WHO health guidelines, which has cost 7,900 deaths in Bangkok in 2023. I suppose one could take the attitude that the air will kill ya no matter what you do, so might as well jog.... https://www.iqair.com/th-en/thailand/bangkok

Do they still pay taxes? being a Yank, I'm partial to the "no taxation without representation" viewpoint. And let us not forget the old empire boast that "the sun never sets on the British flag"... "Why should non-residents influence domestic policy...." I assume MPs might also vote on items involving international news. maybe take away votes of Britons who have never been out of the country...

Thai ministry ought to condemn the actions and perps shown in the video, rather than the showing of the video. But this is Thailand

It does not matter what party, if any, a judge may be affiliated with if the judge is an honest judge. He has been lenient, maybe too much, regarding Trump's outrageous behavior. ANy other defendant would be in the slammer for contempt. To somehow imply "he's a democrat" is any sort of rebuttal, ignoring all facts, incidents and behaviors towards the court and "the democrat" show a limited understanding of who is in charge in courts and what sort of sanctions they can apply to disruptive abusers of the system

The Republicans don't have to worry about cognitive decline in their ranks when they have no cognition worth a darn to decline. Peeled zeros.

from my own limited experience, I'd say Thais would rather give up their mamas than their phones.

"Engoron is a Democrat." you've got to do better than that lame accusation if you want any traction at all

Might want to screen the Russian tourists coming in. TB quite common there, esp in prisons

maybe because they have no marketable skills, thanks to awful ed system, so best they can do is farming? And let us not forget that the powerful like to import workers from Myanmar and Cambodia who work for peanuts in order to keep wages down overall, This ain't the EU

I'd also want to know why there is an army channel, a police channel: has NOTHING to do with what should be their primary duties, none. Same goes for "police resorts" and such "...causing losses to the television station estimated at about 2.8 billion baht." How is it a loss if their bogus channel wasn't supplying their content overseas? Someone stealing their stolen content?

so you are saying it is great medicine when you don't need any...... there is not cure in the absurd levels of ingredients in the so called medicine. Take homeopathic meds and be cured in a week or take nothing and be cured in 7 days. I made no mention of antibiotics & agree they are insanely overprescribed. "...the correct type and the dillution that suits you" The whole "dilution" theory is a scam of the first order. "Many homeopathic remedies come in 30X or 200C dilutions. A substance diluted to 30X contains 1 part of the substance in 10 to the 29th parts water. A very important ..." Can't get more gullible than this. One drop of something in a swimming pool amount of water is not going to matter. At one time doing nothing (which is what those "medicines" do) was a better choice than being bled by a barber or given all sorts of nasty questionable procedures. But that was hundreds of years ago. There has never been any scientific medical trial level proof that any of this grift works.

My take is that it is not an "end" but more like hitting the "pause" button.... take a breath for a minute or two and then go on with agenda of Saying the government doesn't work and then proving it by Republican actions. They really have no agenda other than demolish government. Really.

I recall a bit of "wisdom" along the lines of Borrow 20,000 from a bank & can't pay it back: you've got a problem borrow 100 million from a bank & can't pay it back: the bank has a problem Remember Trump burned so many bridges with US based finance orgs that he had to go to Deutsche Bank for loans, and their operations were "shady" or "aggressive" depending on your view. Lots of finance from (guess who) Russia

Romantic, my backside. Quite possibly the woman he stole it from received the necklace as a "romantic present". Send him to romance some other prisoner in the big house

Those other dangers you mention are personal choices: deciding to ride a motorbike or car, walking down the sidewalk I never drive anything here & sidewalks are free fire zones That's why I built a concrete bunker (above ground, have to consider floods and all), use 12 volt solar cell juice, have everything delivered. I've had dengue twice. Not a picnic by any means. It was your choice to read this posting about Dengue. Nobody did it specifically to "talk to you about Dengue". All the posting are not put on this site just to reach you. Ignorance isn't bliss, at least for most people.

"homeopathy" and "therapies" should not be used in the same sentence. Homeopathy is the biggest scam of totally worthless junk misnamed as medicine ever

I got a CD of hers about 20 years ago because it was great music and arrangements. Didn't know (or care) what she looked like

Cut Thailand some slack! It was during high season. They were busy....

Dang! Next thing ya know FedEx, DHL, post offices gonna start charging for items by weight! What? oh... wait...

funny. I'm an American, been watching Aus rules since around 2012 (Had ABC on condo cable). Yank football is devoid of action: WSJ says about 7 1/2 min of actual action. American baseball... even less. Cricket has much more action by comparison. Never got into ice hockey: too hard to see the puck on TV in the old days. No team sport close to Aus rules, in MY opinion... yours not so much, eh. Here is photo of US baseball diamond for game pkayed at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG.. they had 100,024 fans there last month for championship footy match)

You probably would have attacked FDR for being in a wheelchair. WTF does "sniffing hair" have to do with governing as President? Really. You fail to address that Congress is where spending originates in US government. President can't spend the money if Congress doesn't allocate it. President's role is to sign bills on taxation and spending into law, or veto. Pres can of course try to influence shape of bills passed, but that all depends on representatives and senators. Go back to high school civics class and learn how government is supposed to work

Is that the best you can do? You prefer a dude who would date his daughter if she wasn't his daughter? Cheat on multiple wives with hookers? Can't drink water with one hand? Okay... NONE of those have to do with job performance, but Biden hasn't said he wants head of joint chiefs hung; hasn't done his best to overthrow government, etc Where were you when Trump got Congress to give billions to rich and corporations for no good reason? Tell me that didn't add to debt. President does not have authority to "build national debt". Read the Constitution: money matters come from Congress. You should know that if you followed potential shutdown, meltdown of house under dysfunctional Republicans, etc

Citizens have been advised not to breathe for the next 36 to 48 hours.

What used to take all afternoon to screw up they will soon be able to derail within the blink of an eye.

It's part of Thai culture to extend invitations with no expectation the invite will actually result in someone showing up. "...exigencies often superseding moral imperatives." Yeah, that always trips me up.... "....a nation that has freshly emerged from the shadows of a military junta." sez who?