John Drake

Bob. Meet Greg. https://twitter.com/greg16676935420

Don Corleone couldn't have said it better himself.

Don Corleone couldn't have said it better himself.

Many reasons. Not least is the sameness of the product. Movies (and TV) look the same (washed out grayscaling the photography), by the numbers casting, juvenile storylines, and refusal to give the customer what they want.

I have most of those things as well. Run fans and the computer almost all day. But I don't use a/c during the day. Not even in 40 degree weather. I want to acclimatize to my environment. Walking outside after sheltering in a/c all day is miserable. I only use the a/c around 10 or 11pm and set it at 30 or 31. With fans, it's okay. I do turn off lights and fans when not in use. I don't have any freezers, however, and that's one thing I wish I did have downstairs. Are you using the heat for those showers? Two or three cold showers seem like heaven to me. It's so hot right now, that the cold water is coming out hot. My electric bill is almost always under 1000 baht, often during winter it stays around 750 or so.

Okay, that makes sense.

How do people have a 6100 baht electricity bill?

Not as long as they stay in Vientiane.

Reflective of the childish low IQ of both candidates and their campaigns. Need a fully functional adult in the presidency. Not one of these two imbeciles.

Both a couple of brain-impaired old fools. The answer is RFKjr.

Question for those of you who watch the movement in bitcoin prices. When I followed gold closely, it was often if not usually the case that Asia would bid up the price of gold overnight or over the weekend. Then gold would get hammered down when US markets open. Is there a similar pattern with bitcoin?

Guess they do need the train for "connectivity." Because China is turning off the tap for the Mekong. SE Asia is just going to do what they're told and shut up. Or China will give them a permanent drought.

What's the surprise? This is how colonial mercantilism works.

Grilled cheese with American processed cheese.

Yeah. For the past week, 28 has been the low out here in the western suburbs of Bangkok. It's not the daily highs, even 41 or so, that are the problem. It's the high lows around 28 or 29 at night with high humidity that makes things miserable at times. Nights can be like a sauna here.

Now you know who to blame for the all the sugar cane burning and poison air.

You can forget about 26 unless you're hit with a rain shower.

A lot. Certainly the majority. Probably true of the Russian colony on Phuket, too.

The terrorists do deserve everything that is coming to them. But there is no doubt that Putin and his minions are using this to go after Ukraine, while the pro-Hamas people try to claim the Jews are behind it all. These whacko conspiracy theories then get played up by the likes of Alex Jones and Jackson Hinkle. The pro-Chinese (I should say paid Western China shills) are backing them up. But you really can't blame them. They defend their interests and the interests of their citizens, something Western countries are willing to sweep under the rug to keep access to cheap offshore labor.

Sniffing or eating? Cannibalism now appearing on American streets?

I think I will start out with a small position in an ETF. Both BRRR and BTF look like a possibility. Meanwhile, my wife who can open a Bitkub account has been buying steadily every month. And I feel better about it than the time she went out and spent 10,000 baht on lottery tickets of the same number!

Just checked on Twitter/X, to a man/woman, the pro-Hamas, pro-Palestine, pro-Russia, and pro-China accounts are claiming it's a Jewish conspiracy backed by the CIA and Mossad. It's remarkable they had their stories all lined up and waiting to go within minutes of the news breaking. Not to mention the usual whackos like Alex Jones are also claiming it's a Jewish conspiracy.

Billy Jack!

That's quite a list! I can't begin to match. I did mow lawns in the neighborhood when I was 10 and 11 years old. Did landscaping (which is damn hard work in 100 degree weather) while in high school, and then later worked at a shooting range--sounds easy until you spend 100 plus degree days running up and down inside skeet towers or flushing out the water moccasins from the trap houses.

Another factor, at least in the US, is people from my generation took summer jobs and even part time work during school. That doesn't seem to happen much at all anymore. Perfect way to gain experience, not only for discipline needed to show up and do work but understand salaries, deductions, and banking.