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IMO you can put it down to just three brands - Maccas, KFC, and Pizza Hut. In Thailand, eating that garbage is also regarded as a status symbol.

I think the OP will find your suggestion is a lot more expensive than Lazada, irrespective of whether it is short term or long term.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/monthly-report/global/202204/supplemental/page-2 Outlook is 2022 will be "95% confidence interval of 2nd to 8th warmest year on record" Looks like you picked the data that suited you. If climate change is not real, according to you, please explain why the Insurance Council of Australia is warning 1 in 25 houses will become uninsurable by 2030 due to climate change. Insurance companies live and die by risk assessment and probabilities, permit me to doubt they are lefty organizations treating climate change as a religious crusade.

I've been playing on an army course in Chiang Rai, natural grasses. Never seen anyone use any chemicals in the 2 years I've played there. True, it uses water, growing grass and trees that absorb carbon dioxide. It also provides free food for the 100 caddies that work there, by way of mushrooms, fungi and various vegetables that grow wild. You may have a point with the more artificial golf resorts. Having said that, golf courses do provide a lot more employment than would exist if they were not there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus_on_climate_change

If one looks on ThaiFriendly, there does seem to be quite a few females - even teenagers - who list their desired partners as " Minimum Age - Any" "Maximum Age - Any".

I suppose sticking a label on someone is the last resort of a person who has run out of valid data or argument. Bolt is a Murdoch puppet, and a grub. He's had judgments awarded against him for defamation, defended a pedophile, expressed racist views, and winked at the sexual grooming of children. I don't hate him, despising him is enough.

It was an interesting experience for my Thai GF in Australia, she commented on how everything was bigger. People, houses, meals, distances, trees. Native wildlife, she freaked out seeing a wedge-tailed eagle at full wing span. Her biggest culture shock came when we drove from Cobar to Broken Hill,and thence to Mildura. No houses or people, where are they? I guess her perspective was also influenced by her weighing 41 kg soaking wet.

Murdoch was born in Australia, and gave up that nationality in 1985 to become an American citizen in order to further his media interests there. If you care to check the dividends his companies pay to shareholders, you'll find they are quite derisory. He's still meddling in Australian politics, via his masthead "The Australian" as well as talking heads such as Andrew Bolt on Sky News. The relevance of his location is about as meaningful as your posts on climate change, false data and confirmation bias on full display.

People who enjoy the work they are doing can go on into their eighties or even nineties. Those that don't, usually tap out at 50.

IMO you have it a$$backwards, the media has been controlling governments for years. Example: Rupert Murdoch, who has been having governments kiss his bum for decades. Remember him, the guy who had memory loss during the UK phone scandal? Been dodging his fair share of taxes in Australia for many years. Perhaps Robert Maxwell is closer to home for you.

Let me guess - all made in China?

Any climate denier can cherrypick individual data points from a century ago, ignoring the fact the tools used in measuring those data points were far more primitive than the equipment we have today. Or they can say other causes, just like the reef example. The Australian bushfires of 2019-2020 burnt an estimated minimum of 60 million acres. That's a lot more than Ash Wednesday of 1983, or Black Saturday of 2009. I doubt the area burnt by a bushfire in 1800 was even measured. It's the frequency and intensity of storms and bushfires that is increasing, obeying the First Law of Thermodynamics. Multiple data points. It's quite obvious your ignorance of thermodynamics is equaled by your ignorance of basic statistics, goodbye.

Yes, that one, thanks. Really spectacular.

I care about facts and logic, that I see burnt at the stake on a daily basis in social media. The human race seems determined to dumb itself down. Beneficial change is possible, if the politicians would listen to the scientists. Problem is, many are in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry. Example: 90% of the advisers in the Australian Prime Minister's Department have coal, oil and gas affiliations of one kind or another. No use getting into religion with me, because I think all believers are <deleted> in the head.

The Larsen Ice Shelf is melting at unprecedented rates, Iceland's glaciers are disappearing, Australia has had record heat cells in the interior over the past decade. The Great Barrier Reef has had four bleaching events in the past seven years. Since when has Russia, of all places, had to fight bush-fires? These are not models or projections, these are facts happening now. I don't mind the average climate denier, most are mouth breathers with the attention span of a goldfish and the intelligence of an amoeba. It's when people who should know better join the denial conga line that I get irritated.

I'd say not a very good one, if you don't understand basic thermodynamics. Global warming is the Second Law of Thermodynamics in operation, climate change is the First. I am a retired scientist too. However, I only worked in private industry, where performance is valued more than how many connections one has.

If one is on a low carb diet, beer is one of the worst offenders. OTOH, whisky has zero carbs.

The Balloon festival at Singha Park in Chiang Rai is a more decorous affair. Can't find the video of a Thai catherine wheel /helicopter firework the size of a house, dammit.

Guilty as charged. To me, it's like the Romans practising haruspication, or people that read tea leaves.

I'm not a trader, never have been. I look for undervalued assets. Property, shares, precious metals. Happy to hold on for months or years until the market turns. As you say, crypto probably has value in terms of blockchain transactions etc. My problem ( not really as I don't own any crypto ) is understanding when crypto is undervalued or overvalued. With shares and property, one can get income as well as capital gains. I have yet to see a crypto that is producing income for its buyers.

I am almost entirely out of shares. Cash, precious metals and peer-to-peer lending. BHP is the last man standing. I got out of RFG when it hit $2, took a $3000 bath. IIRC, there is a class action winding its way through the courts. No way I could sleep well with 70% of my money in the sharemarket, but I guess that is age-related too.

I'll continue barking up the wrong tree, thanks. My attachment to real assets has resulted in me probably running out of money when I get to 105 yo. Rule 1 of investing is never put your money into something you don't understand. I don't understand how a stream of electrons in cyberspace can have any value, apart from what people imagine it to be. OTOH, the Australian share BHP is IMO a screaming buy. One of the world's biggest mining companies, it absolutely defecates money in terms of cashflow. Every year, it can swallow a $10 billion minnow without blinking.

And how many are there that have lost their life savings? Don't know if you have noticed, but for every winner there has to be a loser.

Silver is down, gold is holding. Still 10% ahead of my buying price. Silver is at a historically low ratio to gold, it will get in sync with an improvement in the economic outlook. When it comes to crypto, Dutch tulip bulbs spring to mind.