Sir Dude

Lol... mental health issues in foreigners are like a tsunami here. Good luck with that.

Limit carbs, eat lean meat, consume lots of cruciferous vegetables that contain sulforaphane (like Broccoli and cauliflower etc.), plus mushrooms, onion, carrot, loads of garlic, get into spices like tumeric/sage/ginger/fenugreek etc. Also, fasting will help, along with getting rid of as much sugar as possible from your diet, as glucose fuels cancer cell growth.

It's not just about the tariffs countries slap on US goods, it's the VAT too, which compounds the issue, especially in countries that have VAT at 10% or more... a big barrier to trade for imports. The US doesn't do retail tax in the same way, it leaves it up to the individual states to decide the retail tax level, and some states don't have any at all. If you look at the levels of import taxes countries put on US goods compared to the old US tariffs for exports from other countries, then there is a huge imbalance... then add the VAT, and it is grime reading. For example, the EU puts 39% tariffs on US goods, then you add the VAT, and they are whinging about 20% in return... a little delusional really, and same goes for everyone else with huge trade imbalances. Thailand and others can hardly complain with their aversion to imports, to protect their home-grown monopolies etc... can't have it both ways. I'm not saying tariffs are good, but I'm not suprised a businessman who is elected president is pissed-off about the imbalance... the answer is FTAs, but that scares many smaller local economies that like protectionism. Can't have your cake and eat it though... you have to choose.

40k a month is perfectly livable on if you want to... however, there are a few caveats depending on personal lifestyle choices. 1. Having debts will screw you over, although if the debt is, say, 8-10k a month for a car payment, and you have no mortgage (just renting or own your place), then it still can be done with a few minor sacrifices. 2. Are you the eat out at restaurants everyday type? That can get costly, but it depends where you are and what restaurants you visit... western restaurants in touristy places are clearly going to be more than somewhere like Korat etc. You can eat out without blowing the bank balance, but it needs a bit of planning, and again, depends on food choice. 3. The real killer is the booze and ladies. If you are married and a tee-totaller, then fine, but even being married can cost a lot more than you think. If you are single and rent not buy, then avoid the yellow fever changing ladies every day or two MO. 4. Do you like traveling around the country exploring and staying in hotels? Yes, can be done on budget, but again it's a logistical choice on your behalf. 5. Health insurance is a good idea, as many come unstuck over this at some point... a worthwhile expense. 6. Have hobbies and interests that don't really need much spent on them. 7. Places like Pattaya are great to visit, but probably best to live just outside it, as it'll be a little cheaper and you can easily go into the vortex when you want to, or avoid it completely. However, if you don't have debt and are measured with the other things, then yes, you can easily live on 40k a month, as long as you don't do a banzai charge to the bars and girls everyday... the art of moderation is the key, but that doesn't mean you can't partake in everything a bit and must live like a monk.

Nice click-bait topic from someone who should know better. Why do you assume all foreigners are the same and that what you say applies to all? Many expats live harmoniously in their local environment and get along with the locals without any drama. Sounds like you are living in the scumbag places where you get moron tourists, rather than expats that just want to live out their lives somewhere cool.

I would say that under the present climate for tariffs and business, many foreign investors are taking a time-out for a while... as many places just seem not right, including China. Better to park your money in gold, defense stocks (as the world is re-arming), the Yen or other trditional safe havens for now.

Well, if you let in all the dodgy Russian draft-dodgers who have money... WTF do you expect? Then pile on top of that the Indians and their nonsense. You have to choose between lots of money and the resulting chaos and crime... or less money and some sort of sane situation you can manage. Have to choose as you can't have it both ways.

Usually the removal will be done at night as they are less aggressive than during the day... and they will use the old smoke trick to make them more passive. The removal guys should know the score, but it's about catching the queen, then the rest will follow as long as she lives.

There are 4 types of honey bees in Thailand, and from your picture it looks like they are bees, not hornets, like in the picture someone posted in reply to your original post with the guy in what looks like a hazmat suit... hornets have that swirly paper-style nest they make, whereas the picture you posted looks like them all clinging to the honey combs that will be just under the surface of the bee covering... however, caution is advised as they might still be aggressive, and get someone in to sort it. The hornets are the ones to worry about, especially the Asian giant hornet that is super nasty... but it doesn't look like they are the ones in your picture as they prefer making their nests in the ground or dead tree trunks near the ground.

Sent back to Russia... then to the frontline in Ukraine.

Guess a big factor is how the electricity is generated... if you just push the carbon further up the supply chain towards the sources, then it's a moot point. There are issues with EVs like where all the lithium and colbalt etc. is coming from, and the places much of this is mined is hardly the poster-boy for ethics and sustainable business in a green way. Hopefully, there will soon be an alternative to lithium batteries and they are heading toward solid state batteries but will take time. Also, making an EV has a bigger carbon footprint than making an ICE car... just takes time to clear the debt for an EV with using elecricity. The transition will take time, and the tech has to mature and convince people they have nothing to worry about like poor charging/reliability in cold weather, insurance, repairs, expensive replacement batteries, or range anxiety etc. However, during the transition, then ICE cars are not going away anytime soon (unless maybe you live in a deluded Milliband eutopia fantasy land country), and I think the real near-time objective should be these e-fuels that have tiny-to-zero emissions that you can put in an ICE engine... that should be pushed and normalized.

Not "bees"... hornets mate. Get a removal service in pronto, those thing can be bad ass.

The more they dig, the dodgier it becomes... got China's slipshod corrupt MO stamped all over it, even though Anutin will try to bury it over an extended investigation that won't report for months, and when released, will be almost no media attention on it as the bribes will have been done by then and the news cycle has moved on, lift carpet and brush quickly, nothing to see here move along.

Putin, like all dictators, relies on fear and supression... and only respects strength. There is nothing to fear from conventional warefare with Russia, they can't even take Ukraine (and that's with no NATO soldiers fighting), and in conventional conflict with NATO, Russia would be ripped a new one, especially from the airpower. Ivan won't go nuclear unless it is attacked with nukes, which won't happen, and if he did a first strike, then it would be the end of Putin's Russia. The thing with nukes is that you can't just use one or two, you have to use hundreds to properly take out, say, the UK and France because otherwise the retaliation strike would destroy many Russian cities. The thing is, Ivan might have 5-6k nukes on paper, but how many actually work and are ready to be deployed... probably some, but not all of them and the cost of maintaining them is sky-high when you look at what the uS spends on this, and when you consider the scale of corruption in the Russian armed forces, who's to say that that doesn't happen in the nulear forces too (especially when so many generals probably think that their strength is in just having them as a deterrent, not using them, and don't think they will be used ever). The US has about 1,500 nukes ready or ready-ish to go from a pile of 5k, and the rest would take a bit of work to get up to snuff so that they could be used. I suspect the Russians have far less ready to go and it's all bluster, as is so often the case with the Kremlin... just threats. Don't believe the Russian propaganda or the scaremongering of the mainstream media... it's called brinkmanship, and they all want you living in fear.

Well, to the Obergruppenführer in charge of this, guess that is convenient for the CCP... kick it into the long grass and the news cycle will move on, then your overlords will be happy in Beijing, as no-one will care as you can easily sweep it under the carpet having received many brown envelopes to do the bidding of Sauron.

British nationals might be trying to smuggle weed a little but hardly an epidemic of it, but what about the African romance and other types of call center scammers etc.... or the Chinese that pretend to build sound buildings for the Thai government? Entitled UK citizens are hardly in the same league... just that Beijing has ordered a cover-up because the pesky earthquake caught them out, as they were quite happy to finish a crappy quality building and then let Thai government workers spend everyday at work in the place not knowing how fragile it was. Did anyone see the sickly propaganda advert, that was swiftly deleted, about that building as a perfect example of China's BRI construction prowess? Blimey... the complete bunch of Richards!

Looks like the Covid vaccines will see to that, especially the Sinovac in China. Have a read about everyone on YouTube talking about "Where has everyone gone" with cities deserted, CCP cover-up... hospitals swamped, white-lung, sudden deaths... young people getting cancer. Looks like they have found a way.

Talk about upward failure and someone who has been promoted far beyond their capabilities, just so that the box-tick BS is met... all jobs of all descriptions should be awarded on meritocracy and because of nothing else. Best person gets the job regardless of anything... this muppet Lammy is an embarrassment, who will not be taken seriously by anyone outside of the UK. The UK is lost and shot.

Lol, so they are singling out the UK, not the scamming Africans or the corrupt Chinese.

The US has slowly been inching away from globalism etc. and becoming more isolationist again ever since the Soviet Union collapsed. After WW2 the US policy was to contain the USSR through dangling all the goodies of global free trade, patroling the oceans to make them safe for cargo ships (as they were the only with the naval assets to do it) so countries could develop and get richer... but the caveat was that you had to side with the US on security issues and essentually let them write these country's security policies, hence you see all the military US assests spread to the furthest flung places you can think of. Once the Cold War ended, then the calculus changed, and the US has slowly been shifting it's focus to the Asia-Pacific (even clearly wants out of the Middle East if it could too), especially China... so a lot of the old deal is starting to unravel as even the US can't be everywhere for everyone. Countries are going to have to choose again who they align with... and this is not just about Trump, it started a long while ago, look at how uninterested Obama was toward Europe, and even the UK, no trade deal with UK/EU, Biden the same even though he helped Ukraine (but that was more about weakening Russia than helping Europe). Trump has just really sped things up as the clock is ticking for him and he doesn't have much time to do what he wants to. I can even imagine a slow draw-down of US military personel in Europe soon too... maybe not the airpower so much, but the army maybe. Not saying who is right, but that seems to be what's happening.

Invest in western defense companies as the world is re-arming, guaranteed to make money... to hell with the ethic nonsense.

You almost got it right here with Hendrix... just the wrong song. The greatest was "All Along the Watchtower", even if not originally his, but his was a way better version than Dylan's... no-one can match his guitar prowess, even though many tried. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY

Well, the Thais are just getting a taste of their own medicine as they slap massive tariffs on foreign imports (karma really), and then there is also the VAT, which the US doesn't do the same way, rather leaving retail tax up to the individual states to decide, and some states have none at all. You can't have it both ways if you place or dish out crazy tariffs of your own, only to blub about reciprocal tariffs at half the amount you put on US stuff... that's delusional. Yes, it will be painful but that's because it has gone on so long that markets and economies have gotten so used to it. I'm not saying tariffs are a good thing, but the entitlement of many countries is stunning... even the EU is having a hissy-fit over 20% when Brussels screws 39% plus VAT on US goods to Europe. The UK got off lightly, and it knows it, but even the EU (20%) and Thailand (36%) have done okay too considering they charge the US double on its exports... much entitled blubbing can be heard. The answer is FTAs... but that makes some countries even more uncomfortable because they can't compete properly and need a rigged market to get their home monopolies etc.

When it comes to stuff like this, then it's not just "No"... it's "Hell No". The leech is strong here if you let it be so.

Clearly crappy corrupt Chinese company construction with them cutting corners, but thinking no-one will notice and we can just pocket the difference and run away. This earthquake caught them out and exposed their evil (they thought it would all be ok and they can just bail after finishing)... what if the finished building had been full of Thai government workers and then it fell later? The Chinese are a nightmare, they even tried to take away the documents to do a cover-up (probably ordered by Beijing), so that no-one knows anything in the same style they do in China. Can't trust the Chinese for anything... and this is great example, which is hugely embarrassing and massive loss of face. Karma for the CCP and their awful regime.