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Thaksin Plans Electoral Changes to Counter Move Forward's Rise
John Drake replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Prayuth was better. And, as it now turns out, more fair and democratic. -
AI to impact less than 4% of Thailand’s service sector jobs
John Drake replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
The major skill needed for AI is to outwit and circumvent the algorithmic filters when asking for information. Pretty soon there will not need anyone with AI skills to create AIs, because the AIs will be able to do that themselves. Google Gemini told me so when I asked. -
Thailand Acts Against 'Price-Dumping Tours' to Safeguard Tourism
John Drake replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Hold a lottery among the offenders every six months. 3rd runner up gets the five year ban. 2nd runner up get a ten year ban 1st runner up gets a lifetime ban grand prize winner gets the death penalty. -
As usual, Trump and his own campaign team are his worst enemies. There is every chance Biden makes him look silly (there is also the chance Biden malfunctions and goes into blue screen mode). Trump gains nothing with a debate. He actually gains nothing and in fact loses whenever he opens his mouth. He had a golden chance to avoid the debate, with all the conditions the Democrats put on it. But he's stepping right in. Same way the judge gagging him only increased his poll numbers, because people didn't actually hear him mouthing off and embarrassing himself constantly. The man is a fool.
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Trump Campaign Confronts Internal Revolt Among Far-Right Delegates
John Drake replied to Social Media's topic in World News
Or vote RFKjr -
Thai PM Defends Changes to Property Rules for Foreign Buyers
John Drake replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Allow foreigners to buy land and property and most of the participants in this forum will be priced out of the country along with Thais who have poor or average income. -
Thai PM Defends Changes to Property Rules for Foreign Buyers
John Drake replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Thailand will not be the next Singapore. It'll be the next Sihanoukville. -
Thai PM Defends Changes to Property Rules for Foreign Buyers
John Drake replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
And Arabs will get their hands on those 99 year land leases. -
Top 3 Male Qualities That Thai Women Look For
John Drake replied to Alpha84's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Likely to be true if you're over 65 and the girl is in her twenties. But it's that way everywhere. Not just Thailand. Just the relative "wealth" ratio is lower. -
Rise in International School Costs in Thailand
John Drake replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
When I taught at Mahidol, the students enrolled there almost exclusively came from these schools and a few others not mentioned. Their oral and written preparedness was solid enough, mostly. But they had virtually no other academic qualifications. That is, their knowledge base was shallow, reasoning and research skills non-existent. At least three quarters had never been to a library. All written assignments had to be carried out in class. Otherwise, they simply would cut and paste from Wikipedia. Whatever the salary is in these schools, it is too high. Parents paying too much. They wuz robbed. -
Trump Campaign Confronts Internal Revolt Among Far-Right Delegates
John Drake replied to Social Media's topic in World News
This article is basically a conspiracy theory complaining about conspiracy theories. I used to attend lots o Democratic conventions as a delegate back in the 1970s. The sort of things this topic describes are routine convention politics. And frankly it would be a good thing to see Trump ousted at the Republican convention through whatever the rules allow. As for the Democrats, their party has its separate strands now fighting each other in the street. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-807411 I wouldn't be surprised to see Biden's antifa, Jews, and Muslims go after each other with guns in the street by convention time. The Democrats are becoming increasingly violent. -
Biden to Grant Legal Status to Undocumented Spouses of US Citizens
John Drake replied to Social Media's topic in World News
There are over one million foreign students enrolled at american colleges. Trump is proposing giving them a green card and the right to displace american workers from high paying jobs. BTW, the 9/11 hijackers were attending flight school. Great vetting, eh? -
Thailand to tax residents’ foreign income irrespective of remittance
John Drake replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
Wonder if Chinese will be exempt from the worldwide income tax or if it will just be unenforceable because can't get the information out of China. That would partially explain Chinese dominating the market. -
Srettha to Launch Monthly TV Show: "Talk with Srettha" Debuts Saturday
John Drake replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Prayuth was better. He had songs and poems. -
Thailand mulls allowing foreigners to buy 75% of condo units
John Drake replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Already have it about 6km from my house. http://www.chinatownsalaya.com/ -
Biden to Grant Legal Status to Undocumented Spouses of US Citizens
John Drake replied to Social Media's topic in World News
Are you saying, well, vote for Trump, because Biden is even worse? There is no disputing the fact that Trump is doing a 180 on his promised immigration crackdown. (He did this last election, too, btw, when he promised to cancel DACA on "day one" but instead on "day one" came out of a plane with his daughter and actually proposed expanding DACA.) The reason this time? It might just be this: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-mega-donor-adelson-back-major-pro-trump-spending-group-2024-05-30/ . Miriam Adelson is the widow of Sheldon Adelson who always conditioned his funding of Republicans on their support of expanded immigration. Basically, Trump is for sale. No matter the issue. Same as with Tik Tok, where he went against his own policy of banning Tik Tok just to get money from a billionaire invested heavily into Tik Tok. Don't be a chump. Vote for RFKjr. Trump has no core beliefs. And Biden's beliefs are bad. Not to mention that Herman Munster displays more agility and alertness than Biden. Only RFKjr can save the country. -
Thailand mulls allowing foreigners to buy 75% of condo units
John Drake replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Make room for the Chinese colonists. -
FTI Urges Government Action as 567 Thai Factories Close in Five Months
John Drake replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
This is the definition of a colony. Thailand is becoming a colony that exports its raw materials and agriculture to the mother country and in return receives manufactured goods. So its own manufacturing shuts down. This also explains the trade deficit with China. (And why things like durian are so much more expensive for Thais than in the past.)