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I would hope AI might improve the IQ of posts on ASEAN, although that does set a fairly low bar in some cases. I am also wondering how it would respond to controversial topics such as Trump, the war in Ukraine, and climate change. Would it go with facts, belief, or the most popular view?

The only users I can see for this type of glass are people with two heads.

I will concede it does drip with gravity when it is molten. As a solid, no.

Grasping at straws.

I would have thought a better option would be operating a regular air service from Chiang Mai to Mae Hong Son, using smaller aircraft. A turboprop would do the trip in less than one hour. By bus or car, at least 6 hours going around 1824 bends, mostly hairpin. It's not a good trip for people who get carsick. I understand pre-COVID, people who had done the road trip would opt for air travel on the return, to avoid a repeat of their experience. Mae Hong Son is one of those nice places to go to - once. Apparently the only way to get there by air from Chiang Mai is chartering a plane. Expensive. It needs an entrepreneur to get an affordable and convenient air service up and running. I used to know a massage lady in Chiang Mai whose family was in Mae Hong Son. Once a month, she would get on her scooter and drive there on Friday afternoons, returning on Sunday afternoon. I don't know how she survived.

I have my GF handle check-in. I guess hotel receptionists don't like the TM30 any more than I do. We travel between provinces occasionally, never had a problem.

It also depends on whether the drugs are adulterated with substances to increase profit or effect, or whether the girl is willing to keep working even when she knows she has a STD. I am in favor of legalizing both drugs and prostitution, there is plenty of evidence from around the world doing so reduces crime and corruption.

AFAIK there is nothing romantic about any STD, not that I have experienced one.

I can usually sift fact from misinformation on the basis of experience, training and evidence. The usual signs of misinformation are circular argument and red herrings. "of which there is a lot of"? My English teacher just turned over in his grave.

AFAIK Trump loyalists do not reside in any reality.

Get a few more quotes from independent mechanics, most dealerships regard customers as pigeons ripe for plucking. Or, as another poster has suggested, buy a tube of silicone and an applicator.

I have never felt a need to validate myself by wearing or owning expensive items. To me, it's a sign of insecurity. I understand some of the girls reject Indians as clients, because they want to have a gang-bang for the same price as a single.

The only woman I have had unprotected sex with in Thailand is my GF, even that was after two years with her, and she produced a health certificate dated the day before. I have never had a STD in Thailand, and it certainly was not because I was celibate before her. I am not getting into a p*ssing contest on who knows more about sex, just saying I must have been doing something right.

Given the amount of moral turpitude DT has displayed, and even boasted about, it is astonishing anyone would vote for him. It's a measure of the ignorance of many Americans, when in any other country he would run second to the neighborhood dog catcher.

Red meat has nothing to do with weight gain, otherwise all keto diets would be tossed out the window. Alcohol, sugar and high carbohydrates all cause weight gain. Where do you think the expression "beer belly" came from? Fat accumulates in the liver and other organs when one's metabolism is busy trying to deal with a flood of sugar and carbohydrate. It gets burned as an energy source by the liver if one eats a low carbohydrate, no sugar diet. My proof of this is going from 93 kg to 78 kg on said diet while eating plenty of cheese, which is 35-40% fat. Admittedly I don't eat much red meat in Thailand, due to its' poor quality. I am eating plenty of red meat in Australia, and have not had any measurable weight gain. Eating even more cheese, cheap and good here. Your post is unsupported by fact. Mine is.

Yes and no. Many Thai women are cast out by their husbands and left destitute when said husband decides his wife is no longer attractive, usually in the 30 - 40 age bracket. They do not have any skills apart from sex work to sell in a jobs market where 7/11's are asking for a university education. The smart ones accumulate a nest egg from their work, or nail themselves a farang. The dumb ones party, then wonder what went wrong when there is nothing left to sell.

STD's are only passed on when sex occurs without condoms. Anyone that stupid should be disqualified from adding to the gene pool.

Philips blenders are reliable, IIRC about 700 baht when I bought mine about 8 years ago. Still going strong.

My father thought Hitler had the right idea about Jews. A comparison of the number of Nobel prizes Jewish people have won in the hard sciences, against those won by Muslims, is revealing. Jewish world population, 44 million, Nobel prizes over 200. Muslim world population 1.4 billion, Nobel prizes 2. Religion has a lot to answer for in this world. I don't exclude Christians from that assessment. 50% of Americans still believe in angels. I agree, the media has dumbed down news in pursuit of the bottom line. Rupert Murdoch has been meddling in Australian, British and American politics for decades. He should be in jail. Bigotry, racism and ignorance can only be countered with a decent education, the supply of which seems to be diminishing.

I would not say it is charming; however, the warren-like market at Mae Sai just short of the crossing into Tatchilek is very interesting, and has items which are really not all that legal.

The list left out travelers who come to Thailand for inexpensive sex. I would be confident that's a fairly large cohort.

Baan Rak Thai, about 20 km from Mae Hong Son, way off the beaten track. A lake surrounded by shops whose main stock in trade seems to be lollies. The only place I have ever seen an albino Thai. Nan, Phetchabun and Loei are nice, also Sukhothai, although that is more like a city. For anyone who likes wood carvings, IMO Phrae is the place to go.

I don't consider anyone is able to dissuade an orang-utan, they are extremely strong. I was reminded of Edgar Alla Poe's short story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue".

Not my experience. Are you British? I am convinced there is a secret agency in the UK which goes around removing the taste buds of every new-born.

Virtually no-one wears masks in Australia anymore, the only exceptions being hospitals and medical practices.