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23 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

 

BYD are outselling Tesla by a factor of 10 in Thailand.  It's Tesla's own fault, half a dozen price cuts everywhere except Thailand.  Tesla cars are a little old looking now.

Exactly. Current Model 3 price China = 245,900 or 1.24M baht. 

Import duty currently waived on Teslas in Thailand, price 1.6M baht.

If they lower the Thai price to China levels I'll buy one. Otherwise my next car is an MG or BYD EV.

2 hours ago, freedomnow said:

Yes, everytime I smoked it I felt to run around naked.

Only women should be allowed to smoke it.

29 minutes ago, Skipalongcassidy said:

EV?

No, that's a good ol' petrol fire.

On 7/11/2023 at 9:18 AM, ThailandRyan said:

I take it you have never eaten any Wisconsin Cheese then, or even cheese from the Northern California and Oregon regions..  Non Americans have no idea of what good cheeses are actually made in the US.

Don't leave out Vermont. 

https://guide.michelin.com/us/en/article/travel/michelin-guide-road-trip-vermont-cheese-trail

On 6/4/2023 at 5:32 AM, jonclark said:

Selling Tesla's here for a couple of years

Only grey market imports. Official deliveries direct from Tesla to Thai customers began March 2023.

38 minutes ago, Emdog said:

I got both shots same time when I was in US last September, fwiw. I think same arm....

Same

2 hours ago, tropo said:

The easiest way to prove you wrong is by going into a sauna and putting some water on the coals. I guarantee it will feel twice as hot.

Maybe I have 2 dimensional sensory perception where others have 1, but when throwing water on the "coals" in our sauna I feel like the temperature remained constant, but it became more humid. It also feels more comfortable to me because I don't particularly like hot, dry environments. 

I figured that was a relatively common perception, because most seem enthusiastic about throwing water and increasing humidity in saunas.

It seems very odd to me to describe increased humidity as "hotter". Almost like one is unable to differentiate between the two.

On 4/21/2023 at 3:13 PM, Snig27 said:

It really depends where in the city you are. I'm around the top end of Ekkamai and it's around 50% now. 

 

Arriving back from a week in Vietnam though, it's still a shock. It's around 20% there now, at least where I was in Saigon and the Delta. 

In Pattaya it's maybe 20%.

We were in Cambodia 2 months ago, pretty close to zero mask usage. 

12 hours ago, connda said:

Well, if I had a vote?  Anutin For PM. 

Thankfully as a dirty farang you don't have a vote and only 3% of Thais agree with you. 

I know it's blasphemy to many, but Som Tom Thai mai phit, mai wan works for me. It's hard to find a decent western salad here, so Som Tom fills the gap nicely. 

4 hours ago, h90 said:

I think controlling what information the people of the country can see is a bigger problem than when the oligarchs and elites put themself in jail.

Which oligarchs and elites are going to jail for lesse majeste violations?

I'm thinking of the 200+ students who have been jailed in the past 2 years since the current administration upped enforcement of lesse majeste laws. Anutin and Bhumjaithai vow to continue that level of enforcement. 

If you think needing to use a VPN to access some websites is worse than spending time in jail for speaking out against the government, we'll have to disagree. 

26 minutes ago, h90 said:

Maybe an additional point: I recall during Thaksin all internet traffic had to pass a state censorship server and you got sometimes an error message when it could not keep up with it. And he boasted that he hired 10.000 people to check/block/censor internet and I frequently saw foreign newspapers blocked. I am sure they still block some gambling or p*rno but I can't remember to ever again saw any message. It was a bit Chinese style. Don't know when it ended, but for sure it is not worse than before.
But agree every bit of censorship is bad. Don't know for TV and local newspaper as I don't own a TV but on Internet outside of Thailand I don't see anything blocked in my usage

Any idea which parties do and don't support harsh enforcement of lesse majeste laws? AKA jailing those who speak out against royalist governments?

In my mind, jailing the opposition is a little more harsh than internet censorship, which I recall being most severe immediately after the coup

8 minutes ago, h90 said:

..For one time Thailand is modern and understands that putting people in jail for smoking ganja is no solution.

And yet the current administration and Bhumjaithai aren't modern enough to understand that putting people in jail for criticizing them isn't the solution 

1 minute ago, h90 said:

I can not remember the prices but I think the Chinese vaccine was cheaper. It does not work well, but as we know now the other vaccines the same don't work well. That homebrew AstraZeneka is most probably something he had no choice, not his fault.
I hope the ganja won't be overturned, but I worry that you are right and it will....For one time Thailand is modern and understands that putting people in jail for smoking ganja is no solution. But I see how it angers many of the hardcore shoot first ask later right wing narcotic hardliner.

Sinovac was cheaper worldwide, but Anutin was paying a premium for it. More than AZ and about the same as Moderna and Pfizer while refusing to allow them to be imported. 

1 hour ago, h90 said:

I think the decision to use a proved vaccine technology over a new one, was good.

Was over paying for a vaccine shunned around the world, but manufactured by a powerful friend a good decision? 

Was disallowing and refusing pleas from hospitals and Dr's to import the vaccines medical experts worldwide deemed most effective a good decision?

Allowing people to choose their preferred vaccine would have been the best policy. Anutin absolutely failed by that measure. 

And pushing the ganja agenda through in a chaotic manner that's very likely to be overturned is another example of poor administration skills and decision making.