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Linux is free. Publicly funded news outlets are free. There are also non-publicly funded companies who rely on donations and advertising. Like ASEAN NOW does. Even porn is free. I subscribed to Netflix until it ran out of anything interesting/new. That was years ago. Since then, nothing.

Insurance companies don't make any money out of declining to insure a property. They refuse to offer insurance, because the risk is deemed to be unacceptable.

Are the emergency generators for the condo located up there with you, or on the ground floor? I can't say when Bangkok will be regularly flooded, only that the data is showing an increase in probability. Most informed scientists worry about tipping points, such as albedo and clathrates. If they are triggered, probabilities become certainties. Over the last 20 years, the Greenland ice sheet on average has lost 270 billion metric tons of ice per year, causing a sea level rise of 15 mm. If the whole ice sheet melts, it will be more like 15 metres. Bangkok is 1 metre above sea level. IMO Chiang Rai is well situated to minimize the worst effects of climate change, apart from the smoke season, and earthquakes. Coolest part of Thailand, not subject to high winds.

Sticking one's head in the sand is one option. As you are located in Bangkok, you are first in line for any general sea level rise.

That's some crystal ball you have there.

I might be offended if I gave a rat's @rse about your opinion.

It was a joke, Joyce. Lighten up.

Jeff Daniels is American.

Photos needed. This is probably your speed.

Actually, Koreans get that accolade because they are more generous in tipping.

https://www.preventionweb.net/news/climate-change-accelerates-extreme-melting-greenland-global-impacts

Please have your argument with the physicists who formulated the laws of thermodynamics. When you have won that argument, let me know. I'll nominate you for a Nobel Prize.

Obama can afford to put seawalls around his property. The average person cannot.

The OP should get himself tested for fasting blood sugar ( FBS ) and HbA1c at a pathology lab. That will give him the information he needs, to determine if he has a problem.

IMO, no. 20 K baht/month leaves absolutely no wiggle room for unforeseen events, such as illness or accidents. Let's say the OP develops pneumonia, and needs hospitalisation. Even in a government hospital, a couple of days will be 7000 baht, which digs a pretty fair-sized hole in his budget. Or he buys an apartment cheaply, in an old condo. The management slaps a 100,000 baht assessment on every owner for urgent repairs, because the last juristic person took off with the maintenance budget. 5 months living expenses gone. Old condos are cheap for a reason. If he does not have the 800K for a retirement visa, a dodgy agent will be wanting 20 - 30K for their services.

The age of posters on this thread will determine whether they experience the effects of climate change. Insurance companies believe in climate change, which is why property insurance premiums are going through the roof in vulnerable areas, or insurance is simply unobtainable. Global warming and climate change are the inexorable laws of thermodynamics in operation. Denialists on this thread remind me of King Canute telling the tide to go back. Pro tip: Don't buy property on the Florida coastline, or in Bangkok.

I am a minimalist. I've never understood the need to impress family, friends and neighbors with any possessions I may have. Irrelevant anyway, most of the stuff I buy is secondhand.

Not racism, just discomfort with a religion in which women are second-class citizens in the most extreme countries. I don't know anything about Nigeria, but I do remember the hijab was favored over the fully-clothed burqua in Indonesia. I find the burqua confronting. Security staff at airports probably detest them.

I still fail to see how what you are posting is connected to my post. "An oligarch is a member of a small group of powerful people who control a country or an industry. They are typically extremely wealthy and influential, often using their wealth to exert political influence. Oligarchs are often associated with corruption and cronyism, as they may use their power to enrich themselves and their allies at the expense of the general public." There is wealthy, and there is extremely wealthy. In that respect, Trump and his associates such as Musk are a few football fields away from what has been.

Jeff Daniels disagrees with you.

I think you will find most of the UK's inventive streak originates in Scotland. Australia punches well above its weight in medical research. I had to Google Art Simone, which shows how much I follow the transvestite culture. You do have some interesting cultural aberrations in your murderers. We are amateurs in comparison.

I have seen enough criminal activity in so-called respected companies I have worked for, to know people take shortcuts and break the law, either for money or advancement. I don't know what it is like in other countries. Being a whistleblower in Australia is certain to bring down the wrath of the establishment, quite apart from being a career killer. Assange is a villain because he makes government machinations visible. Zuckerberg is a business hero that sells the personal information Facebook harvests to the highest bidder, including hackers and foreign countries. Go figure.

From the information you posted, 9 presidents had a net worth less than $1 million, and there is only one billionaire. Perhaps you should try reading your own research before posting.

I'm sorry , I am somewhat confused as to what connection your post has to mine.