tomazbodner

Binary means 0 or 1, with nothing in between. I agree with you on the part of male / female. OK, there's a 3rd one which can be both at the same time, but that's rare and well documented. Not the 234392 other "non-binary" sexes. But what I was referring to is that - 0 or 1. Either you are full in on one side, or full against that side. In reality, between white and black, there are many shades of grey. Of people who agree on some but not all things, and people who might mostly disagree but still agree on some things. It would be rare to find people who completely disagree on everything. So please widen your horizon a little. The World is not all black or white, politics are not all left or right, and neither are the people. There are many more options in between where interests, beliefs and opinions are overlapping, and that's what makes the World a better place.

What's that got to do with right wingers or any of that sources? You're so binary.

So you are one of the people who would pay anything as long as it's made in USA, "every time". Hence it doesn't matter what the price is. Even if 100x higher.

Let's stop all the ships headed to US and find out? I bet it'll look like this:

Where do right wingers get financial advice then? Breitbart News? Newsmax? Toiletresearch.com?

And it will continue, until you start accounting for services - there isn't so much imbalance when you stop looking at physical products only, and look at the services. What happens if other countries started slapping tariffs on services like Google, Microsoft's Office or Azure access, Amazon Web Services, Meta, Visa/MasterCard backend services, AI processing in cloud or cloud storage and transfer services, etc.? But if you don't look at services, then there will always be imbalance. US produces mainly just agricultural stuff and little else, as most of the rest having already been outsourced to China due to cost cutting to lower manufacturing costs and increase corporate profits, basically driven by greed. Other local manufacturers couldn't compete on price and were forced to follow suit. But still, that accounts only for physical products. What about everything else? That's where US is one of, if not the biggest exporter of what other countries aren't taxing at all. Google (OK, Alphabet) didn't become one of the biggest companies on the planet for manufacturing Pixel phones. Microsoft doesn't make nearly any money out of Windows and Office boxes sold at shops and online, or their Surface tablets and laptops. Nearly all their revenue comes from services. But nobody is talking about this and only focuses on physical stuff made in factories? That's so 1950.

True. I also see that US products are now on buy 1 get 1 free more often than same or similar products from Australia or New Zealand, which sell out quicker. With prices basically same, there could be something other than price affecting decisions.

Not quite as generic but yes. If I hated Ford, would never ever want to own one because in my mind it's considered a pile of [insert dirty word here], then even if it was cheaper than competitors, I still would not want to buy it. On the flip side, if I really loved that thing, but it was double the price of a competitor, for example, but I really really wanted it, I'd still buy it anyway. You have this example with luxury goods in Thailand. People still buy Rolexes etc. despite being considerably more expensive than other brands, and considerably more expensive than in other countries. In fact you can buy a new one in Hong Kong (or US) cheaper than a second hand one in Thailand. But did that stop people from buying them? It didn't. Some just found a way to smuggle them in, others coughed up whatever it cost locally. But when they wanted to have it, they made it happen. On the other side, you could see someone trying to give something away for free and it's still not accepted as it is undesired. But of course, there will be people on tight budgets who only look at the price, have no brand loyalty, don't care about quality or where it came from... Obviously those would be only swayed by price and take all the freebies they can get. But how many of those would go for a US manufactured product vs. whatever is the cheapest on the market, probably something Chinese?

Eventually it's down to consumers. If people avoid buying US manufactured stuff, then it doesn't matter if they have or don't have market access, or whether import duties are 0 or 1000%...

Oh man... you really need to lighten up!

That's Boeing 737 NG. Below is A330, which was actually involved in this incident:

https://thehackernews.com/2015/05/fbi-plane-hacking.html Maybe not cyber attacked, but this gets quite close. And could potentially be done remotely if some additional hardware was smuggled on the plane. Not an easy feat, though.

You can't quote that on a Thai-hater expat forum

I think this was original... My bro in the US told me he’d been seeing this Thai escort and paying her $100 a shag for a while but last night she was charging him $136 so he asked her why and she said it’s because of the new 36% tariffs on Thai products and services into the US.

I think no matter which side you are on, you can tell she has a snowflake's chance in hell to get elected President...

Took them over a year but they've done a very neat job. Just wonder how long they'll last... as people don't really take care of anything that doesn't belong to them...

Just noticed this one yesterday... AREA 51... Apparently in Bangkok!

And get Cambodia to pay for it.

Thailand could include building the wall in incentives for trade deal with US. I'm sure Trump knows someone who could build the wall, and get Cambodia to pay for it...

Pinnacle of intelligence... HuFR6gcC.mp4

Paddy buys a digital watch... His wife asks him what time it is... he's quiet... She asks him again.... still quiet... She shouts at him for the 3rd time, Paddy explodes: I have no damn idea! You go and divide 14:56 !!

I have. From a store Chichang (from Chiang Mai - awesome seller), and from Banana IT (which also has many physical shops around Thailand). If you are buying a general laptop, that should be good enough, but if you want something classy and less available, you may need to deal with Advance or JIB. From what I know all have online stores as well as presence in Lazada and Shopee. Personally, I prefer Lazada in case anything goes wrong.

Young girl comes back from school with a big smile on her face and tells her mother: Today Johnny showed me his dongle... Mother is terrified but before she can open her mouth, the girl continues: It reminded me of a peanut... Was it that small? No, salty...

Doctor is checking up a chronic alcoholic... After a while doctor mumbles "Incredible, what alcohol can do to a body" To this, patient suddenly stands up and says "I fully understand your feelings, doctor. If you're not well today, I can come back tomorrow!"

It's just every possible way trying to deflect from Epstein fiasco. There will be a lot more "shocks" from him in attempt to bury his closet skeletons... Doubt they'd achieve their goal.