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  1. Purdey
    At least 12 European countries currently ban smoking on the beach. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/how-smoking-bans-are-evolving-across-europe-2025-05-30/ Thailand is just catching up. Cigarette filters are a big pollution problem as they are not easy to recycle.
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    Whoever it is, they have to be qualified. Lowering interest rates further to encourage people to borrow and invest is not going to work while people don't want to invest due to the current economic climate.
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    Surely God can do his own work?
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    Off to the asylum for him.
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    Hope they reveal the "Autopen Papers" then, with proof.
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    Harry S. Truman was the first U.S. president to use an autopen. In March 2025, President Trump, admited that he sometimes uses an autopen. It is a tool.
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    Thai prisons cannot be compared with Western prisons. Simply don't break the law and avoid bad people.
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    The things a monarch has to do for the sake of diplomacy.
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    Charles has no political power.
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    So, roadblocks in rush hour, detours that take hours to go around, traffic congestion. Same old same old.
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    When a country can't even build a road like Rama II without killing people on a regular basis, then nuclear fusion, with the potential to kill or poison thousands, is probably not a good idea. Fusion plants may be the way forward but are not profit-making or used at commercial scale yet.
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    As if the Chinese were top quality tourists... I remember the first time the TAT went for value and looked down of backpackers, who bought street food and bought stuff in ordinary markets that the rich studiously avoided by only shopping in airconditioned malls. The backpackers gave money to ordinary Thais while the rich gave to the same billionaires who hid their money in Panama.
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    Why would the EU want economic revenge? Just don't buy American products if it upsets you.
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    If the department is simply a bureaucracy, then cutting back sounds like a simple move as the States take care of the actual education. However, no other department collects the data across the nation to evaluate how successful state education is. There has to be some bureaucracy. You can't have some schools teaching that, for instance, slavery wasn't a big thing in the South while other schools give a completely different history.
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    Yet another thread for people to sling mud at each other...
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    You have to ask, does America need yet another overseas military base? Does Thailand understand the military consequences of hosting a possibly nuclear naval ship? Why do Russia and China need so many military bases near America? (say it while dripping with sarcasm)
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    Associated topic: one sees shops and restaurants disappearing due to people not getting enough customers. Now, are they expected to buy more American goods? Will Apple and others start sending more Chinese-made products and pretend they are made in America?
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    As I expected, Ghislaine Maxwell has called Trump's bluff and said she is willing to go before Congress and "tell the truth". She may want time off her 20-year sentence but, whatever. Now, will she commit suicide in prison?
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    Honestly, there are so many rich and powerful on the list, if it exists, that Trump comes quite low in the ranks. Prince Andrew, after do many denials, would get kicked out of his home.
  20. Purdey
    Could someone explain what is the wrong fuel for an Alphard? One that would burst into flames in the tank?
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    You can lead a horse to water. Yes, Thailand could put zero tariffs on US goods but will the Thais buy them? If they were that cheap Thais would have been interested before now. Better for Thailand to trade with African and Asian nations and not rely on America.
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    Well, they have a brand name but no clear solutions. Motorcyclists2poor4car This means someone will be out of a job soon if the BMA wants them off Sukhumvit.
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    Thoughts and prayers. Such a pity.
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    Climate change is global. Cambodia will be flooded by what developed Nations fail to do.
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    The air force uses mainly Russian planes. Perhaps the rebels should invest in anti aircraft batteries and drones. However, ASEAN should really condemn both sides for extending the war. Perhaps request America to come to a deal between both sides where America gets land with diamond mines?

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