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I wear 48/49 and they just laugh at me when I ask if they have a 48 at a Thai shoe store. I see quite a few Thai men with large feet so there must be some stores that sell sizes larger than 46. I just ordered a pair of some generic trainers in size 49 off Lazada. I’ve yet to receive them so I can’t comment on the quality or if the sizes run true but Lazada has a liberal return policy so it might be worth checking there.

Genius timing! Increase the price of beer right after cannabis is legalized. In every county, province or state which re-legalized cannabis, alcohol consumption went down. I don’t care if 100 alcoholics reply and say “I’m not switching to pot” beer sales are still going to go down. If they want to increase profits, quit ¢@ck-blocking retailers who want to sell Leo Strong and stop restricting sales to big organizations who pay them kickbacks. It used to be available everywhere regular Leo was sold but first they cut off mom and pop shops then small distributors who supply bars and restaurants and now not even Makro has it.

Vaccines are designed and intended to keep people from dying or becoming severely ill, not from becoming infected. Before people were vaccinated, 2% of the people infected died within two weeks. After most people have been vaccinated, almost nobody is dying. Thailand went for over 2000 deaths per day to zero deaths per day recently. So much ignorance and deliberate distortion of the facts here I feel like I’m reading posts on a flat Earth, climate change is fake and Trump won the 2020 election bigly website. None of you should have gotten vaccinated imo.

https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/heres-where-to-buy-cannabis-right-now-in-bangkok-map/?fbclid=IwAR1BCT6DpNOsOaN0bQ1zlks2gZOI50lEREzWZO2TD_L24eZhHFT7A8jTSmo&fs=e&s=cl

I’m 192 cm and there were two hotels I stayed at in Bangkok where the balcony was so low I could have easily fallen over had I leaned up against them. They might be fine if you’re 175 or 180 cm but all it takes is leaning against one that’s lower than your center of gravity.

At shooting ranges all guns should be considered loaded. At plays and movie sets often they’re not even real guns.

It's legalized for personal, medical use for people to use as they see fit. I've heard of no restrictions against someone growing low THC plants and making extracts for personal use by infusing ghee, or coconut oil or doing a methanol extraction. It's not full legalization of all cannabis but it's a step in the right direction where people can legally grow a few plants, use the leaves for soup or baking edibles or making tinctures so you're not reliant on getting GPO oil from the government. Another benefit is that Thai spouses can "grow" the plants for their non-Thai husbands to make extracts because they are excluded from the government distribution of GPO oil. To wit: I have prescriptions from three Thai doctors certified to prescribe cannabis. In 2019 I received GPO from a government hospital but after 1 Jan 2020 every government hospital's pharmacy refused to fill my prescription, even if their own cannabis-certified doctor prescribed it, because the Thai FDA told hospitals that it was up to them if they wanted to deny foreigners and only supply Thai citizens and they all decided to discriminate, even if you paid for the extract (Thai's get it for free so I guess giving foreigners something for free was against their principles and they couldn't figure out how to charge for something they get for free from the government). I went up the ladder within the Thai FDA and asked why and they said that it was experimental and they didn't want to be responsible in case a foreigner had a bad reaction. Bitch, It hasn't been experimental in the rest of the world for decades, the safety and efficacy has been well-established. I've had a prescription since 1996, I've been in the industry for over three decades and I'm considered an industry expert who has been invited and paid to give numerous presentations to doctors and government officials in various countries, you're not protecting me from anything. ( I didn't say 'bitch" btw)...

I guess the police make more off busting people for victimless crimes than crimes that actually concern the people who live here.

I trust experts opinions more than non-expert’s opinions on Thai Visa forums. Time will tell if cases increase.

I trust experts opinions more than non-expert’s opinions on Thai Visa forums. Time will tell if cases increase.

Firstly, unvaccinated people are more likely to infect others. They're more likely to become infected, more likely to be symptomatic and have a higher viral load. Secondly, people who avoid being vaccinated during a pandemic are much more likely to engage in behavior that makes them more likely to become infected in the first place. A lot of people opposed to vaccines are also opposed to masks, social distancing, contact tracing, temperature testing, hand sanitation etc. At the extreme end of the group of unvaccinated there are people who think the virus is a hoax or it's harmless so they go about their life in denial and take no precautions whatsoever. Would you have unprotected sex with someone who said they never use condoms because they don't think healthy people can get STDs/SOA's and that AIDS only effects drug addicts and gay men? That would be a huge red flag for me, just like the only person on the plane who refuses to wear a mask or isn't vaccinated.

The way it worked for me in Ubon is once they were finished asking for more paperwork, my wife and I went in together for an interview, they asked me a few questions, asked her a lot of questions in Thai and said they would come out for a house visit. Five or six immigration officers showed up in three police cars. They talked with our neighbor, brought in their own printer, printed off a form and had her sign it and maybe had a us sign a few things and then I went back a few days later, paid and got my visa. Subsequent renewals were a lot easier except that when they give you a "definitive" list of all the paperwork you need to bring in, it's not definitive and for me it required three trips after I'd already brought in everything on their list.

What’s the mystery? It’s from a farang who was married to a Thai woman, he probably ran out of money but had a life insurance policy.

I didn't even think it was possible to fly without being fully vaccinated?

There are two types of pink ID cards, cards for people on one year visas and for people with a permanent residence permit. I believe the only difference in appearance is the letter "P" on the latter.

Essentially they just made it legal to grow hemp.

I've bought from this company online after meeting the owners at a convention in Bangkok a few years ago. They have a retail location in Bangkok but I'd suggest calling first to make sure their store is open. They have a wide selection and the owners speak English. https://www.growshopthailand.com/en

No. They were almost 100% certainty doing pool mining and after a solution is finished it's uploaded to the pool so at most, they'd lose a few hours of work. Plus the $800,000 USD worth of equipment that burned up of course.

They were mining cryptocurrency. They are, or were, ASIC machines, computers that are hardwired to do one thing and one thing only; solve one specific calculation.

I ran over a dozen ASIC "Bitcoin" miners a couple years ago. I stopped when the "difficulty" level went up and the price of Bitcoin when down. Depending on which ASIC machine you have, and what price BTC is at, it's still possible but make a decent profit. The BitMain S19 Pro is currently earning $29 a day. After paying $10 a day for energy the profit is $19 per day, per machine. 17,000 THB a month for monitoring the devices and restarting them or resetting cables if a board stop hashing. If BTC goes up 33%, like to where it was a few weeks ago, profit goes up because the energy cost remains the same. You might make $38 a day and profit $28. Sounds like a license to print money, right? The Bitmain S19 Pro costs $12,000. That means your breakeven point is 21 months and probably a lot longer. That assumes that BTC will remain above $43,000. If it goes up and stays there, you may pay it off quicker. If BTC crashes, there's a point where the energy cost is higher than the income so you turn everything off until if and when it does. Even if BTC stayed at $43.000, you're still not going to break even in 21 months. Every 90 days or so the difficulty increases. That means your machines do the same amount of work, use the same amount of energy but don't mine as many coins as before. Basically as times goes on, you make less and less profit until the miner reaches a point where it is no longer profitable to run after deducting energy costs. If you live in HK or have free electricity, they can still be used for a while until you decide the loud whining noise they make isn't worth the few pennies you make. To give you an idea of how difficulty affects the earnings, the miners that were making $10 a day when BTC was at $8200, now would make 52 cents a day when BTC is at $43,000. I put "Bitcoin" in quotes because while some of my miners mined Bitcoin (BTC), most of my miners mined alt coins like DASH, ETH, LTC and SIA because they were more profitable. You can even mine some coins using (expensive) video cards. The challenges were that you'd see a profitable coin, order the miner and by the time the device arrived, it was only half as profitable. No matter which coins you mine, all their values are based on BTC. If it goes down, they all go down. I don't know of any cryptos that are pegged against FIAT currencies. The machines aren't like running a PC or a clothes washer. If they stop working, you're losing money by the minute and they stop working way too often. Almost every day I'd get an alert that one or more of my miners were down. Best case I'd power cycle them, often I'd have to take them out of the rack and reseat all the cables and try again. Worst case, one of the 3 or 4 boards would die and I'd have to replace it or have it repaired and have the miner offline for a month or more. The miners sound like flock of angry RC airplanes and a 2000W miner puts out about 1995 watts of heat so you have to soundproof the room and bring in around 150 m3/hour of cool air per machine. My setup required a 16,000 m3.hr, 2200 watt industrial fan going through the enclosure and a 18,000 btu AC running full blast on the outside of it. I paid 40K to run 200 amp service to power it all. I spend many hours setting it up and maintaining it. Some months I'd make 200,000 THB but at the point I stopped mining I think I had just barely broken even. Had I kept everything at the ready and started back up when BTC went from $18K to $50, I could have squeezed a bit more profit out.

Unless you live in some incredibly remote part of the country it seems unlikely there's no ISP's that can provide you service. You've contacted True, AIS, 3BB, TOT, CAT and KSC and they all said "no"?

What country would want a bunch of unvaccinated foreigners in it? Anti-vaxers are most likely to be anti-maskers, anti-hand washers, virus deniers and the most likely to engage in behavior most likely to spread the disease. Their country, their rules. Don’t like it, leave. Expats are allowed to live her at the government’s discretion.

What country would want a bunch of unvaccinated foreigners in it? Anti-vaxers are most likely to be anti-maskers, anti-hand washers, virus deniers and the most likely to engage in behavior most likely to spread the disease. Their country, their rules. Don’t like it, leave. Expats are allowed to live her at the government’s discretion.

In America porn is legal but prostitution isn’t. To make prostitution legal you only need the “model” to sign a statement , show an ID and film the encounter. Maybe the opposite approach could be used here. It’s not porn, I was just paying a hooker for sex and filming it for security reasons.