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And I’m Santa Claus. You’ve made all these so-called scientific claims about the quality (or lack there of) of the weed, yet you’ve provided absolutely no actual evidence to back any of it up. Just your "expert opinion". What really amazes me is how someone can even post multiple times moaning about the taste, the smell, or the so called quality of the high, while paying around $13 an ounce. Seriously?

Hyperbole much? Of course it’s real bud. I’ve bought all kinds of weed in Thailand over the years and seen it all. I remember when the only option was that dreaded brick weed, so things have come a long way since then. And honestly, the quality of the cheaper stuff from LINE vendors has only gotten better over the last 6-8 months, not worse. But you seem determined to paint everything negative for no good reason. Not sure what’s driving all this overblown doom and gloom, but people shouldn’t be misled by your complaints.

Sure, it’s not a huge amount, but you were the one complaining about buying 100 g and not being happy with the quality. I was just suggesting a way to avoid that, by not ordering so much at once before you’ve tried it. If you prefer to buy 100 g sight unseen, that’s up to you. Just don’t complain about it afterward. Not in my experience. The type of high you get is directly tied to how much THC you take in. It’s either strong or it’s not, you’ve either had enough or you haven’t. I’ve never had a “crappy” high or one that didn’t last, as long as the THC content was there.

I got some new stuff from Fis Hight 420 about a week ago, a few different strains. One was priced at 10 Baht and the others a bit higher, around 13 and 15 Baht per gram if I remember right. I’ve never found any this low end stuff from these various LINE sellers particularly strong, but it usually does the job. I’ll normally go for the highest priced bud they offer though, assuming it will be more potent. That used to be around 30 Baht the last time I ordered, which was a few months ago. Now it’s all even cheaper. I think the most expensive one they have now is 15 Baht. Anyway, the 10 Baht stuff looked really good, big, colorful, sticky, dense buds. The taste seemed a bit too fruity to be natural though. And it didn’t really get me high, so I gave up on it. Then I moved on to the higher priced stuff. The buds were a bit looser, drier, and had some black coloring around the edges, but surprisingly potent. Can’t remember the last time I got that high from low cost weed. Taste was fine. I was really pleased. The third strain I got from them was good too, much greener, smaller, and tighter buds, but also high potency. For 13 or 15 Baht a gram, I really can’t complain. Eighteen months ago, I would have paid ten times that price, for the same strength and would have had to drive to a supplier outside the city and buy larger quantities to get decent prices. Now I just send a text and the stuff shows up the next day. A lot lower cost, high potency, and no running around. But I’ll never order 100 grams at a time without trying it first. It’s not because of cost, but for the reasons you mentioned. Better to start with a small quantity when buying sight unseen. I normally order 10 or 20 grams of a few of their different strains to start, and then if it’s good, I’ll order more the next day of the one I like best, if they still have stock. Otherwise, if already sold out, I’ll order something else in low quantities again until I test the quality.

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Bloomberg Evening Briefing - 30/July/2025 The US famously bounced back from a pandemic recession that struck like a hammer blow in 2020. Fueled by a massive government rescue effort that pumped tremendous amounts of money into the economy, the nation was soon outpacing rivals in a return to growth. The country that saw more than a million people killed by Covid-19 not only avoided a depression, but eventually reached a level of employment so high it matched a half century-old record from when Richard Nixon was president. But that was then. For Donald Trump, it’s not Nixon but Gerald Ford that comes to mind this week. The president closes out his first 100 days in office able to claim almost-singlehanded responsibility for sending the S&P 500 Index down about 8%. It’s the worst first 100 days for markets since 1974, when Ford took over for his disgraced predecessor. And it gets worse. Unlike the churning US economy of the last half of the Biden administration, Trump now presides over the first US economic contraction since 2022. Inflation-adjusted gross domestic product decreased an annualized 0.3% in the first quarter, well below average growth of about 3% in the prior two years. The uncertainty over Trump’s chaotic tariff strategy, his radical push to deport undocumented workers, legal immigrants and foreign students, his mass firings of federal employees and a sometimes overt disdain for the US Constitution have all unnerved investors who a few short months ago were singing his praises. It’s all combined to send the S&P 500 diving into its seventh-fastest correction since 1929. There was however some good news for Trump in today’s hard data, with consumer spending advancing more than economists had predicted. But that comes amid a parade of consumer sentiment surveys—including one yesterday—showing optimism nowhere to be found. Low-income Americans are already facing the hardship of high prices while wealthier individuals have been set back by this year’s drop in stock prices. And a closely watched measure of underlying inflation accelerated to a 3.5% pace in the first quarter—the most in a year. —David E. Rovella - Bloomberg News

I've been using Trump's right hand with used toilet paper for years already. Works almost as good at removing dingle berries as one of Trump's bibles made in China. Try it and you can thank me later.

Trump's recession will be officially announced on July 31. More winning than ever before!

Gotta give Musk credit for his tenacity. Still trying to polish a turd. Too much winning. More winning than anyone knows what to do with! Source: https://www.economist.com/business/2025/04/23/even-republicans-are-falling-out-of-love-with-tesla Apr 23rd 2025 Elon Musk is right to shift his focus back to carmaking “The future of Tesla is brighter than ever.” So declared Elon Musk during an earnings call on April 22nd. According to the carmaker’s boss, Tesla remains on course to become the world’s most valuable firm, worth as much as the next five companies combined, as it churns out fleets of autonomous taxis and armies of humanoid robots. As Mr Musk gazes into the future, however, investors remain transfixed by the car crash that is currently occurring at Tesla. Revenue from car sales in the first quarter was down by a fifth, year on year. Operating profit plummeted by two-thirds. Far from racing ahead, Tesla’s market value has fallen by roughly half since its peak of roughly $1.5trn in December. Earlier this month the company reported that it delivered just 337,000 vehicles in the quarter, 13% fewer than a year before and well below analysts’ expectations (see chart 1). In Europe, which accounts for around a fifth of sales, registrations of new Teslas slid by 40%. In America, the carmaker’s biggest market, sales fell by almost 9%, even as those of all electric vehicles rose by 11%. Can Tesla recover? Slumping sales partly reflect a backlash against the politics of Mr Musk, who has lately refashioned himself into a right-wing activist and nemesis of America’s “deep state”. Tesla’s showrooms have faced protests and arson attacks since Mr Musk took his chainsaw to the federal government as head of Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency. Some analysts had hoped that, at least in America, a boom in Tesla sales to right-wing consumers would balance out declining sales to left-wing ones. TD Cowen, an investment bank, recently estimated that although Mr Musk’s political activities could cut sales by more than 100,000 vehicles a year in America’s Democrat-leaning counties, they could boost them by twice that in Republican-leaning ones. That type of partisan rebalancing was on display last year as Mr Musk completed his maga conversion. Our analysis, drawing on figures from S&P Global, a data provider, suggests that Tesla’s sales shrank in left-leaning cities in 2024 while growing in right-leaning ones. For example, in the San Francisco Bay Area, which favoured Kamala Harris in the presidential election by nearly three-to-one, sales fell by more than 16% last year; in Tampa, which favoured Mr Trump by a wide margin, they rose by around 18%. Unfortunately for Mr Musk, even Republicans now appear to be spurning his evs. Trends in the used-car market suggest that a growing number of Tesla drivers in both blue and red states are putting their cars up for sale. Figures from MarketCheck, which tracks the inventories of more than 75,000 dealerships across America, show that listings of used Teslas have risen by two-thirds since the start of the year, twice as much as for other evs. Listings for the Model 3 have increased by 63%; those for the Model Y have rocketed by 80%. The pattern can be seen in both left-leaning states, such as Massachusetts and New York, and right-leaning ones, such as Indiana and South Carolina. That hints at a deeper problem for Tesla: stiffening competition. By contrast with its early years, when it was essentially unchallenged, the carmaker now faces serious threats from rivals such as General Motors (in America) and BYD (in China and elsewhere). It cannot afford a distracted boss. To investors’ relief, Mr Musk announced during the earnings call that he would now be spending “far more” of his time away from Washington and at the company. They will be hoping he can speedily reverse Tesla out of its mess.

From the Bloomberg Markets Daily email newsletter I received this morning: 100 days of whiplash Donald Trump promised Americans a “boom like no other” if they elected him president. But based on the stock market’s performance during his first 100 days in office, it depends on what you mean by “boom.” The action certainly has been explosive — just not in the way investors were hoping. By April 30, Trump will have closed out his first 100 days in office. Despite last week’s rally, the S&P 500 Index is down about 8% since his inauguration and on track for its worst run during a president’s first 100 days since Gerald Ford in 1974, following Richard Nixon’s resignation. “It was whiplash after whiplash after whiplash,” said Dave Lutz, macro strategist at JonesTrading and a 30-year Wall Street veteran. Few on Wall Street saw the U-turn coming after two straight years of over 20% gains and what was expected to be a pro-growth agenda. The uncertainty over tariffs, combined with the administration’s aggressive push to deport undocumented workers and its mass firings of federal employees, unnerved investors and sent the S&P 500 spinning into its seventh-fastest correction since 1929. “It was an extreme, for-the-textbooks, systematic risk in its purest form,” said Mark Malek, chief investment officer at Siebert. “The volatility has been wholly different from anything we have experienced in the past, and it indiscriminately spread through all sectors and asset classes like a wildfire, constantly being fueled by random sound bites and shifting policy moves.” Traders went all in on the America First bet immediately after Trump’s election victory, sending the S&P 500 to its best post-election gain ever. The thinking was the administration would loosen regulations and lower taxes, which would boost growth. But the president has instead focused on his tariff fight, sending markets spinning with each new announcement of levies on trade partners. The S&P 500 lost more than 10% in two sessions earlier this month after Trump imposed the steepest US tariffs in a century on April 2. It then soared a week later when the administration reversed direction and delayed most of the duties for 90 days. Stocks have bounced around since then, but traders have struggled to find a direction. “What he was elected for was ‘Make America Great Again,’ the ‘economy will be booming,’” said Eric Diton, president and managing director at Wealth Alliance. “But all the trade uncertainty has actually detracted from economic growth.” —Esha Dey

Worst April since The Great Depression. Winning, the likes of which the world has never seen before! --- Dow Headed for Worst April Since 1932 as Investors Send ‘No Confidence’ Signal Few think administration’s negotiations with trade partners will yield results soon enough to ease the strain By Hannah Erin Lang - WSJ April 21, 2025 9:00 pm ET The Trump rout is taking on historic dimensions. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed almost 1,000 points on Monday and is headed for its worst April performance since 1932, according to Dow Jones Market Data. The S&P 500’s performance since Inauguration Day is now the worst for any president up to this point in data going back to 1928, according to Bespoke Investment Group. Worries about trade restrictions and the prospect of President Trump firing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell have investors bracing for greater losses ahead. Corporate earnings reports are rolling in, along with executives’ tariff-dented outlooks for the months ahead. Few think the administration’s negotiations with trade partners will yield results soon enough to ease the strain. Meanwhile, counterweights that usually strengthen when stocks fall—such as government bonds and the U.S. dollar—are also under pressure, leaving investors with few havens to wait out the storm. “It’s the hallmark of the ‘no confidence’ trade,” said Scott Ladner, chief investment officer at Horizon Investments. The Charlotte-based firm trimmed its U.S. equity position several weeks ago to favor more international stocks. “It’s impossible to commit capital to an economy that is unstable and unknowable because of policy structure.” Here’s how markets have reacted as threats have multiplied: STOCKS In the weeks after Donald Trump’s presidential victory, major U.S. stock indexes soared, lifted by investors’ hopes for tax cuts and a deregulatory push that could boost corporate earnings. But the administration instead pressed ahead with aggressive tariffs that threaten to raise prices and slow economic growth. Many investors still wrote off the president’s threats as mere bluster, a negotiating tactic meant to spur concessions from other countries. That changed on April 2, when Trump revealed steep tariffs that sent markets into a tailspin. TREASURYS Markets still haven’t recovered—even after the president rolled back and delayed many of his tariff plans. Typically, bond prices rise when stocks fall, offering a hedge for investors during stock market turmoil. But that hasn’t been the case in recent weeks. Yields on 10-year U.S. Treasurys, a key benchmark for borrowing costs, have increased 0.16 percentage points in April. Bond yields rise as prices fall, meaning investors are selling U.S. government bonds—widely considered one of the safest and most dependable assets—even when stocks are falling. THE DOLLAR Concerns about the economy, along with fears about Trump’s growing feud with the Fed, are weighing on the U.S. dollar. The ICE U.S. dollar index, a measure of the dollar against a basket of major currencies, slipped more than 1% on Monday to its lowest level in three years. GOLD With other defensive plays falling short, investors have piled into one of oldest hedges there is: gold. Future prices for the precious metal reached another all-time high on Monday. VIX The markets’ “fear gauge” remains elevated, with worries about the trade war and the broader economy adding up to expectations for more volatility ahead. SENTIMENT The mood on Wall Street is darkening as a result. Bearishness levels—or expectations that stock prices will fall—among ordinary investors have hovered above 50% for eight consecutive weeks, according to a weekly survey from the American Association of Individual Investors. That is the longest-lasting bear majority on record, the investor group said, based on data going back to 1987. Source: https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/dow-jones-stocks-worst-april-1932-74fe82ac

Most shops are located in high-rent areas and also have running costs like staff, electricity, and so on, so they have no choice but to charge much higher prices per gram. Those prices are fine for tourists who are buying a gram or two and just want a convenient place to buy and smoke, but nearly all expats, as many have pointed out, buy online for about 5 percent of what the shops charge. Presumably, many of these shops are operating at a loss, but there’s long been speculation that some are intentionally doing so because they’re being used as money laundering fronts for other gray market business. Nobody knows for sure, but that’s always been the talk, mainly because it’s hard to understand how they survive while charging more per gram than even a dispensary in Amsterdam or New York.

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The quoted text below is from the article linked below, quoting an opinion about what might happen to the value of the dollar, equities, treasuries, and pretty much every other US asset in the financial markets if Trump fired Powell. It sounds like a pretty ominous prediction, but I’m wondering how realistic it actually is. Do the markets really care that much about Jerome Powell and his job, or whether the Fed has independence? I’m not sure what to think of the prediction. In my opinion, I don’t think investors are that concerned about the Fed having independence. In fact, a lot of investors don’t really like what the Fed does anyway, so perhaps the market would actually cheer it if Trump fires Powell and cuts interest rates by 200 basis points overnight. I realize there’s a lot of volatility in the market right now, which might suggest that the market is fearful of Powell being fired. That would indicate a possible negative response to his actual firing, but maybe the volatility is just due to the uncertainty. After Powell was fired, maybe the markets would stabilize and find a bottom following an initial sell-off. I don’t really know, and I’m not claiming to know, but I’d be interested to hear some other opinions, especially if anyone has any real understanding of the market dynamics of it beyond armchair speculation. --- Quoting the article: “Were Powell to be fired, the initial reaction would be a huge injection of volatility into financial markets, and the most dramatic rush to the exit from U.S. assets that it is possible to imagine,” said Michael Brown, a senior research strategist at Pepperstone, an Australian-based provider of trading services. “Lower, much lower, equities; Treasuries sold across the board; and, the dollar falling off a cliff,” Brown wrote in a note on Monday. Any sign of the longstanding, independent nature of the Fed coming under threat “would see investors across the globe selling every single U.S.-based asset that they have, and also poses the genuinely scary prospect of upending the entire way in which the global financial system operates. If this were to happen, then the reserve status of the dollar, and haven value of Treasuries, would be wiped out, probably forever in both cases.” --- Source: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-the-fire-powell-trade-could-look-like-as-trump-attacks-fed-chair-again-53511c3b