John Drake

So far, what I have seen is nothing more than a glorified search engine. In fact, because you often need to winnow down the "conversation" with AI, it's better and faster to run a standard online search--excepting google which is full of ads on the first page or two.

I believe Xi is closing off China gradually. He doesn't care about FDI. He no longer cares about stealing foreign designs. He has enough already. His concern is to prepare for expansion, armed or otherwise. Thailand may be buying a pig in a poke. Wouldn't be the first time.

Good advice about the extra cash. I keep 400K to 500K available in addition to the 800K in my retirement account that I need to go to the bank to get. But I don't want to wait a week for a deposit either. I seem to remember this happened last year, too. BTW, Bangkok Bank had been good about getting 3rd of the month deposits in accounts until last month. They were coming in late in the day, sometimes around 4:30, but they were getting there. But I believe daylight savings time in the US, when it starts, knocks things back an hour or two.

The deflection is your post. The title of the OP is "Suspect in Texas massacre had been deported 4 times after entering US illegally, ICE source says" It's about immigration and the border being so lax that this killer could come and go as he pleased.

Until last month, I had been getting my SSA check deposited into Bangkok Bank on the 3rd when that was a weekday. Last month, it delayed until the 4th--Bangkok Bank seems to need an extra day when daylight savings starts in the US, as this happened last year too. So this month I should expect to get the deposit on the 4th, yes? No. Bank Holiday for Coronation Day. And just saw that the 5th has been made into yet another extended Coronation Day holiday. Of course, then the banks are closed on the weekend, the 6th and 7th. So maybe I get the deposit on the 8th???

Seems from this statement that Christopher hit them, not that they cut in front of him. Sounds like tailgating: "Mr. Sommai claimed that Mr. Christopher rear ended the victims’ vehicle, causing them to fall onto his lane. He said he could not brake and crashed into the victim, which killed her."

Interesting group of poeple. https://tdri.or.th/en/staff/

Nooooooo!

No.

Before Covid I would get them the first week of June. Last year, I received it the second week of July.

The guy says he needs help. Either fork over some money or don't. Never seen so many people who want to give a lecture.

Well, the OP claims that India's population is decreasing. Maybe. But how fast and how much? How much of the country still defecates out in the open? I see that India supposedly has 97 percent electrification in villages, but how many separate households does that reach? how many can afford electricity? Why does India have a space program when it lacks adequate sewage and public health facilities? OTOH, India is one of the most jingoistic countries on earth. Worse than China. In fact, I would much rather deal with Chinese than Indians. Both countries use immigration as a branch of foreign policy. A lot of countries are stupid enough to let them.

Right.

Interesting choice, I guess. On the Beach is a 1959 movie with Gregory Peck about an American submarine in Australia after a nuclear war. I seem to remember Fred Astaire driving around in a race car, too.

She's probably the only sane person there.

Russian language teacher? Can't be much of a demand for that. Or, if there is, I can't imagine much of a salary. May have been broke and busted with no way out.

No, it's not.

A region of the world where people just magically disappear and then suddenly reappear in jail.

Ought to take them just about long enough to walk across the room and stamp the contract "Sold."

Should try to link this somehow in Thailand News, because nobody is going to look at it in Cambodia News. Great story.

Precisely how things work with China. Get ready for lots more.

He have anything to say about the submarines?

"He expects Thailand to become a donor country and share its success in economic and social development with African nations." Right

So you, unlike the bus driver, exhibited situational awareness. And didn't hit the kid. Sounds like a successful way to deal with the unexpected on Thai roads. That unexpectedness isn't going to change, and it should always be the driver's responsibility to avoid hitting a pedestrian.

Were these people and their artifacts Thai?