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Is the OP asking about experiences inside or outside Thailand? Where are he and his GF living?

I've had times when I definitely felt unsafe in America, never in Thailand. My GF's house in the village is surrounded by relatives and friends, no concerns there. I have never heard of any problem with safety at my condo. IMO foreigners who get themselves into trouble in Thailand are usually asking for it. Polite, respectful and non-confrontational goes a long way here. So does being able to speak Thai.

You may be right; however, it still looks too flimsy to me.

An alternative may be to shop at the tailors on Chang Khlan Road in CM, IIRC they were not all that expensive. Had a couple of very lightweight trousers made there.

Mesh pictured is fairly useless in preventing cracking. IMO the diameter should be 1.5 to 2 mm, that stuff looks like < 1 mm. There are guides as to what to use in various applications. https://www.ausreo.com.au/reinforcing-steel/

Not really into spectator sport, I've always preferred participation. Back in the day, I always enjoyed bantering with the bar girls in my somewhat rudimentary Thai.

I suspect the poster you have responded to has been given a holiday. From a Russian perspective, the buffer states against invasion from the West that the Soviet Union used to have prior to 1990 are all gone. The Baltic states, Hungary, Romania and Poland are firmly in the NATO camp. Hence regarded as hostile. If you read "Journey into Russia" by Sir Lauren van der Post, he discusses the impact on the Russian psyche of repeated invasions by the Tatars and Mongols, plus ensuing famines. Russian deaths during WWII were more than the entire current population of Australia. He posits because Russia was a society kept on the run for centuries, it has never had the opportunity to develop into a true democracy. Gorbachev was probably their best chance. However, he was deeply unpopular within Russia itself because of the buffer security he abandoned, and his economic reforms. I am not in any way excusing Russia's invasion of Ukraine, or the previous annexation of Crimea. Putin has repeatedly stated his desire to return to the days of the Soviet Union, when the last outpost of democracy was West Germany. His wish is based on insecurity and paranoia. While Russian people may not have the second attribute, they very probably have the first.

The San Pa Koi market on Thapae Road past the Nawarat bridge outbound has second-hand clothing. There is a big used clothing store on Highway 118 past the 121 clover-leaf ( LHS towards Doi Saket ). Coffee shop below, clothing upstairs. My GF has occasionally found shirts and trousers for me there. I am 6 feet and 170 pounds, although I was up at your weight before dieting.

It's going to be just as expensive in Thailand to get treatment at a private hospital as it is in Australia, with no improvement in competence. In fact, pathology testing in Australia IME is far quicker than in Thailand. Have you been seen by an internist? https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/327316 I can't speak for Pattaya and Bangkok, in Chiang Rai I use an acupuncturist who also sells herbal medicine. Acupuncture has a scientific basis. It stimulates the central nervous system, which releases chemicals that help promote healing. It fixed a very sore elbow for me with only two sessions. If there's no improvement in pain level after three sessions, it's not working. The case for herbal products is not as clear-cut. Everyone is different, and herbals can have a significant placebo effect. Have never tried colonic irrigation. Kratom is legal in Thailand, you could try that for the pain issue. However, like all opioids, it is addictive.

Acrylamide forms when frying starches and sugars. The reaction will occur above 120 C, irrespective of whether the food is cooked in a conventional oven, or an air fryer. I only cook pork, chicken, beef and fish in my air fryer. Protein and fat by themselves cannot generate acrylamide. I use a meat thermometer to get timing and temperature right. The advantages of an air fryer are being compact, mobile, easy to clean, and using about 50% of the electricity a conventional oven does.

Dogs are regarded as unclean by Muslims. They have a point, as anyone who has seen a dog rolling in fox scat or eating cat poo will attest. I remember in Melbourne there was a furore over the public baths at the top of Swanston Street being closed to the public at certain times, so Muslim women could swim unobserved. IMO if that's what Muslims want, let them pay for their own swimming facilities. Different situation in the OP's mainly Muslim area, in Melbourne it was the tail wagging the dog.

When Fox came out with the statement they "adhered to the highest standards of professional journalism" at the end of the Dominion case, I wondered who they would pick to say it on air with a straight face. Not Tucker Carlson, apparently. His firing may well rebound on Fox, unless there is a non-disclosure clause. Fox paid out $787.5 million, basically to prevent Murdoch, Hannity, Carlson et al from being forced to take the witness stand. In the upcoming Smartmatic case, Carlson could do more damage. I have never been a shareholder in News Corporation or Fox. If I was, I would want Murdoch's head on a platter. Tucker Carlson and any who follow him out the door are merely scapegoats.

They won't be coming to my neck of the woods, and they probably will be helping the Thai economy more than busloads of Chinese tourists. Have at it, guys.

Correct.

The smarter countries are working on making their economies independent of fossil fuels. The dumber and more corrupt ones are still part of the fossil fuel industry's rearguard action. Your opinion is wrong, if someone went back in time and stopped CO2 levels from rising from 300 ppm to 420 ppm, we would not be in our current pickle. Mind you, we would probably have the same standard of living as before the Industrial Revolution too.

Thais will shun any dwelling where someone has died, more so if the death was violent. Up the top of a hill in my GF's village, there is a quite palatial but neglected large house. Looks like it has been abandoned. I was driving past it with my GF one day, and wanted to stop for a closer look. My GF pleaded with me to drive on, saying the house had bad spirits. So I did.

Putin will never be able to move outside Russia again, except maybe to China. The threat of arrest or assassination with a long rifle is too real. Russians should be students of their WWII history. If it was not for the Arctic convoys from the West, and the threats of a second front there, it is highly probable Hitler would have overrun Russia. Putin might not know it; however, he is fighting a war on two fronts, just as Hitler did. The Molotov-Ribbentrop peace accord demonstrated the reliability of such agreements between dictators. Permit me to doubt Russia is withdrawing troops from the Amur River anytime soon, to help prosecute the Ukraine invasion. In addition, Russia could rely on Western efforts to cripple the Nazi war machine with bombing raids, even before Normandy. Now, the West is doing the same to Russia with damaging sanctions. At the height of the Cold War, Russia was importing about twenty optical emission spectrometers from the USA every year. The diffraction gratings in the equipment were used for Soviet ICBM guidance systems, the rest was discarded. Russian technology capabilities were not competent enough to make or copy them. History repeats itself, this time it is the microchips of refrigerators and washing machines.

I suspect Vlad66777 won't be posting for a while, if at all.

Russia is being destroyed too, just not as visibly. Politically, economically, and militarily. Politically, it's a pariah state. It's reduced to begging for ammunition and missiles from the North Koreans, of all people. Economically, no-one is going to trust it as a supplier for a long time. The EU oil and gas market was 70% of its export income. Replacing that income with Chinese and Indian buyers has huge logistical problems, as well as those countries screwing the Russians on price. Most of the Western companies who operated in Russia have departed, Russia's domestic aircraft system will become a lottery as to whether a passenger gets to their destination intact. Militarily, there are few countries that will buy Russian armaments after seeing how easily the equipment is being destroyed on the battlefield in Ukraine. Who is going to want military advisers, when the command structure has been shown to be so incompetent? The reputational damage is massive. IMO Russia will either become a failed state, or a vassal of China. The Chinese probably can't believe their luck, cheap fossil fuel and free lessons on how not to invade a country. The real tragedy for ordinary Russians is it should be one of the most well-off countries, even with endemic corruption. Instead, it is being led back into Cold War privations by a single man, obsessed with restoring an empire which is in the dustbin of history.

Given the average age and income of posters on ASEAN, perhaps the OP should be looking elsewhere to advertise.

The cachet of being a member of a society which has arcane rituals and a dash of elitism appeals to some. Rotarians and Buffaloes are the same. It's really all a bit silly and jejune. Provided it does no harm, no problem.

The landlords would say that if they have to pay for purchase and installation. If the tenant pays, they would want a split system. Window systems are definitely inferior in terms of noise, vibration and efficiency.

Agree, the OP used the term moderately differentiated. Is that Stage 4? I used the term overall, which is the average of all stages.

Overall, you have a 63% chance of surviving 5 years with treatment. I would suggest a PM to Sheryl with a full description of your diagnosis, she can advise the best options inside Thailand for treatment, and their cost. IME pathology and medical feedback in Chiang Rai is very slow, it depends on where you are. Good luck.

"Time crystals do not violate the laws of thermodynamics: energy in the overall system is conserved, such a crystal does not spontaneously convert thermal energy into mechanical work, and it cannot serve as a perpetual store of work. But it may change perpetually in a fixed pattern in time for as long as the system can be maintained. They possess "motion without energy"[16]—their apparent motion does not represent conventional kinetic energy.[17] Recent experimental advances in probing discrete time crystals in their periodically driven nonequilibrium states have led to the beginning exploration of novel phases of nonequilibrium matter.[14] Time crystals do not evade the Second Law of Thermodynamics,[18] although they are the first objects to spontaneously break "time-translation symmetry", the usual rule that a stable object will remain the same throughout time. In thermodynamics, a time crystal's entropy, understood as a measure of disorder in the system, remains stationary over time, marginally satisfying the second law of thermodynamics by not decreasing." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_crystal