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China tries to influence with money/investment "Uncle Sam" tries with sanctions, bullets and bombs.

shade tree example.

Pattaya is closer,cheaper and has more entertainment venues than Phuket.

No not a brand or chain...you find a nice big shady tree and setup shop underneath.

Shade tree motorcycle repair shop very little startup costs lots of business changing tyres, oil and engine rebuilds of those who never changed their oil ever !!

The flooding in Pattaya normally only lasts for a few hours the rainy season is not over so there may be more flooding this year.

Thanks for the photos internals looks nice and clean. Good luck with the rebuild hope they do a good job and let us know hows it works out. Here's how my 23 year old Toyota Soluna looked like while doing a timing belt change...at god knows how many kilometres as the "mileometer" is stuck at about 260,000 kms

I still use one not True but for the freebie stuff on Thaicom.

I see this old tuner looks suspiciously like a Satellite tuner. I would be surprised if the new box did not have a USB port I have not seen one that doesn't have USB not that they don't exist but...

As Thailand is close to the equator it could make a good launch site for Satellites.

I don't have a clue or care much really who is controlling Tenet I'd guess it's not the CIA which can only be a good point. Why 2 employees silenced but the company itself where not even indicted. BTW Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson,Kim Iversen,Jimmy Dore,Russel Brand,Tim Pool, Joe Rogan etc etc still going strong despite best efforts to silence them...there will be no shortage of "talking points"

How can you possibly know that a user was banned 60 times even if you are admin there is no real way to know if someone has been banned and created a new account....multiple consecutive accounts at the same time yes easy for admin (Ai bot) to spot them.

I think you'll find that those "estimates" have recently been "debunked"

They have thrown everything including the kitchen sink at Trump now they are back to the beginning Russia Russia Russia 😋

Some photos might help provide a solution ?

Are you talking about a satellite tuner ??

We will protect "our democracy" by removing the democratic principle of free speech from you the "peons" !!! Yet more evidence as if any was needed that these so called liberal democracies are fast approaching if not already surpassed the level of dictatorial control they accuse the above countries of using.

I have no one on my ignore list but would be interesting to see how "ignored" I am 👍

Sounds to me that its not firing on all cylinders perhaps you could get away with a cheaper top end overhaul without removing the whole engine,have they/you checked for compression in all cylinders clean the old injectors makes sure there is no coolant leak due to a possible head gasket leak ? 60,000 for a "real" complete engine removal overhaul and refit I think is reasonable maybe a bit on the high side...its a lot of work but labour and parts are cheap here in Thailand. there is an old thread here perhaps one of the participants have more experience at this (as I have none 😋)

What's the problem with the engine that you think it needs a complete rebuild @ 273,000 KMs ?

We're in the building where they make us grow And I'm frightened by the liquid engineers Like you My Mallory heart is sure to fail I could crawl around the floor just like I'm real Like you The sound of metal I want to be you I could learn to be a man Like you Plug me in And turn me on Oh, everything is moving 😋

Its seems ok to do so in Parliament,Congress,Knesset etc etc even here it's ok to call for death to the "evil Putin Orks" "Palestinian freedom fighters" "Trump and supporters" not forgetting worst of the worst "anti vaxers"

Reinforcing the message that "wrong speech" will not be tolerated...straight from 1984 in 2024 just a few years late.

No doesn't sound right to me I have seen pickups and SUV's at my local testing center...yes the 6 wheelers and bigger have to go to the DLT. If your Everest is overweight then take some of the gold bars out of the boot/ "trunk" 😋