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It's either a Strategic Alliance, or it isn't.

I've often wondered why this doesn't happen more often. These boats can be incredibly expensive, and yet there they sit, tied to the dock with nothing more than a rope to keep it in place.

But how many Chinese were putting off their Thai vacations for fear of what awaited them upon return to China? If the covid regime is softening for visitors, then it makes sense that it would also be softening for returning Chinese as well.

I've wondered about that park. Never saw anyone actually using it, which always struck me as really odd. But Thailand.

So you didn't have to fill out a form? How lucky for you.

Pure laziness. Does that drive you nuts?

I'm beginning to think that they only legalized sativa.

The service may be free but the documentary requirements, as your post ably demonstrates, still send people running to TV for an answer. Easier to just show up, play the dumb farang, and avoid any and all drama.

And a great convenience that I'll take every time. Now looking forward to free and online 90-day reports far, far into the horizon.

I just handed my passport and 500B to an agent of Chang and sat in a seat for ten minutes.

So what do you need that space for? The option for the external GPU was a big factor for me. I can put two on this thing if I want. And still have ports enough to drive OP's three displays. I think you can put 2 4K displays on each of the Thunderbolt ports, 2 4K displays on the two leftover USB 3.2 ports, and then 2 4K displays using the two HDMI ports, and that's without resorting to the external GPU. You can host 2 M.2 devices and 1 SATA SSD so that's, what, 12TB SSD available? And still can resort to adding drives via USB, possibly via a hub which then gives you another half-dozen ports? I feel like I can run my own space program with this thing.

I don't know what to tell you. FIve minutes ordering the system online. Five days later, another five minutes and I'm installing Ubuntu and with absolutely no drama throughout. I'm assuming Intel knows what it's doing, and is capable of producing a bare-bones system that I won't have to mess with. Can something go wrong? Sure. It just seems really unlikely with this approach. I also like that, when it's moving time again, the drama-free experience continues.

I can now say I've built a half-dozen systems in my life. The ones I built back home were pretty straightforward owing to the reliable supply chain. The ones I built in SE Asia, not so much. You get an issue with a motherboard or RAM and it's a huge PITA to chase down a solution here, and expensive too. The NUC I got was on some kind of sale as I compared the price with what I would've paid back home and it was virtually the same, so that's what really tipped the scales for me.

It's been hard fighting through the censorship but eventually the truth takes hold. Just have to be persistent and recognize that not everyone is able to think critically.

Just went for a late generation NUC, have to say, am pretty happy. The two HDMI ports plus one of the three(!) USB 3.2 ports should satisfy your monitor requirement. It's basically an unlocked laptop CPU /w integrated GPU but it's fast and quiet. And one of those USB 3.2 ports can be used to add an external GPU, should that requirement ever appear. Really, USB 3.2 is the game changer. Big desktops don't make as much sense anymore.

Many fond memories of KSK, going back to maybe 2010? It was an ideal place to be a new farang; you had familiar and easy-to-access shoppes but then also more authentically Thai places for food and massage than you usually find in the more modern malls. And then of course the market out front, and if you were a brave pedestrian, the moat and the old city is right across the street. I might have considered the Nimman section again were I to return to CM but my thinking was always that if I were to do that it would be because KSK is just a few blocks away. Sad to hear it's going.

If weed is a narcotic then alcohol is doubly so.

Especially in jurisdictions where the government paid the hospital handsomely to conflate the two.

The possibility of reason is scheduled for sometime in the next decade. Until then, Chang.

Surviving in the wild is easy. Civilization is the real test. Neighbor balcony to mine likes to grow trees or bushes or whatever. Attracts birds. They build nests. Well guess what? When it comes time for the little chicks to go stretch their wings, they get to do so twenty stories off the ground. One of them got lucky and landed on my balcony. Didn't know what to do so I just let it be. Sure enough, along come the parents to harangue the poor thing into taking flight again. Up it goes. Peep peep peep. Then down it goes. Not a sound. Brutal. Don't let birds build nests on your balcony if you are so high that you don't think the babies will survive the fall.

7/11. Beer aisle. Chang will kill anything.

I can't believe they would re-criminalize, esp. after wreckage to businesses here caused by covid. Now you're going to shut these new businesses too? There should be stern penalties for enabling underage use and exposing others to smoke. Beyond that there is little point to further regulation given how little damage has been caused in these past months. Give us all a break.

Couldn't resist necro'ing this thread. Please SBF, bestow upon us more of your wisdom! Just how insolvent are they lol?

Put up a sign that says "Free beer for overstayers." No, it won't get them all, but it will get some. You're welcome.

Rigging social media isn't stealing an election if it's the Democrats who win because of it, is what I'm hearing here. It will be interesting to see how long that holds up when the shoe is on the other foot. Peace.