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Having an APU malfunction isn't a big mishap especially before take off. Even having an engine fail mid-air is no biggie. Serious yes but not fatal.

Quite right. Usually get some storms in May when so many start to say the wet season has started which as you correctly call as a false start. After this comes the build up to the true start of the wet. Humid and occassional storms until it breaks and the wet season truly arrives. Hoprfully a June/ July start this year.

China Obsever is not anti China it's anti CCP and why would Chinese imports be any different from the cars in China. Are they made to a different level for the export market? Are you saying the footage in this YT video is fake? Plenty of other articles and videos that show very similar things. As for your very confident statement "I am also on several Thai BYD groups and can confirm there has not been one single BYD explosion or significant fire here." @tomazbodner has shown otherwise. This happened when charging so there was obviously a quality issue. https://www.nationthailand.com/special-edition/ev/40030792 What about this story.... "Bangkok’s governor has ordered an urgent review of all premises in the capital storing EV vehicles and batteries after a serious fire on Wednesday night gutted a building in the Chatuchak area of the city." https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2023/09/09/ev-vehicle-concerns-after-bangkok-fire-bangkok-governor-chadchart/

Fairly sure that EV owners on AN represent a tiny proportion of people here on AN. Now factor in all the foreigners that aren't on AN that have EV's. Now factor in the rest of the Thai population that have EV's. Now you can factor in out of all the people in Thailand that have EV's how many charge solely by solar and are off the grid. Add all this together and I reckon you would end up with sweet FA. The obvious next thing to think about would be how much of the total EV ownership in Thailand uses fosil fuel generated electricity to charge their cars. I'm guessing it would be the overwhelming majority.

An interesting video is linked but here's a screen shot of BYD quality.

Who cares. What's the point. What about the more you do 0 to 100 in 4 seconds the less range you get and charging will be needed sooner with charging for most people with EV's requiring fossil fuels to make the electricity.

Interesting. I'm 40 km from you and current temp where I am is 28 with full cloud. You are more inland than me so that probably accounts for it. It's been a lovely cool day where I am mainly hovering between 26-28. Just SW of BKK.

I remember when saying that the vaccines could cause harm was an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory yet here we are on a thread about vaccine safety/harm. Interesting days indeed.

I see Nakhon Pathom at 28°C at 4:00 pm.

Big cool change today. 26°C at one point. I almost felt cold. Even though Thailand doesn't have a summer the BIG HOT of the hottest April leading into May ever, is finally over. Time for the humid days as we move towards the wet. Let's hope it's a good long one this year.

So what happened about the Thai fisherman who was also illegally fishing or am I missing something here?

Thailand is a dumping ground for cheap Chinese EV's. Now China wants to start making them here presumably because it's cheaper.

No. I looked it up. The 1 mil is an extra for the paint job. The repair to the tail end is Bt11.2 mil. Mercedes-Benz Maybach S-Class PriceThe Maybach S-Class is priced at ฿17.54 Million. https://www.zigwheels.co.th/en/new-cars/mercedes-benz/maybach-s-class#:~:text=Mercedes-Benz Maybach S-Class Price,priced at ฿17.54 Million. Edit: No. I'm wrong. S580e goes for around the 10 mil mark so you are correct. My apologies. So yes the article is a total shambles.

I have no problem with new variants becoming increasingly contagious. Still not as cotagious as measles though. The takeaway is that it is a non-serious highly contagious virus for the vast majority of people and is very similar to the common cold in the respect of symptoms and transmissability.

The car goes for around Bt17-18mil and the repair cost for what looks not particularly serious (indeed seems to have come off much better than the pickup) is 11.2 mil.? Well something smells here. 3/4 of the price of the car in damage would normally result in a write off.

Who would have been vaccinated if they were told it could kill you? "The chances of the vaccine causing severe injury, health issues or even death is highly unlikely but still possible." "We do not know what long term effects there might be but overall the vaccines are safe." Instead of these warnings people were forced to be vaccinated. I challenge anyone to say there's not something wrong here.

So says ChatGPT. Tailending a Maybach is definitely not recommended but as for unique? Maybe this has never happened before ever in the entire world or maybe this is once again an incorrect use of the term unique. My money's on the latter.

Agree. As for your last sentence may I say that less likely to be infected might not actually be the case. It may be that people still get infected being that Omicron is so infectious but they just don't get sick. Might get minimal symptoms or no symptoms at all but the immune system fights it off. An immune system that gets naturally boosted with each infection.

I couldn't agree more. Sadly many people either can't see this or completely ignore it.

Worst case scenario it takes lives.

If you can't tell the difference between positing a question and making a statement what I posted was the former and as such no supporting evidence is required.

An interesting point. Do boosters make a person more suseptable to getting covid?

This says it all. There are almost 12,000 beaches in Australia and I'll bet each and every one of them is better.

Please explain how the benefits outweigh the risks for anyone below 65. There's no significant difference. Why does the CDC still recommend jabs for 6 month olds when according to this there is no difference. 5-11. same. 18-29 same. 30-49 virtually no difference. 50-65 comorbidities start kicking in but still little difference. This whole thing is skewed by the 80+ group where age and severe comorbitities play a huge role. At this age a cold can be enough to kill you.