JackGats

I think there might be an objective reason for this anomaly. When people look at themselves in the mirror, they instinctively adjust their posture to their best angle. When I curse at hot girls not giving me the time of day in Pattaya, I only need to look at a random picture (or worse still, video) of myself for a reality check.

I feel the need to revise my dismissal of auto-generated sub-titles. I was wrong to dismiss them as useless. I am now using them on a regular basis. Even when not 100% correct they can often nudge the listener towards the right answer.

That's the trade-off I am living with. The tariffs make me lose a lot of money on my stocks, on the other hand they limit the hordes coming to Thailand because the hordes lose their travel money.

Call.com ?

Actually from the pictures showing swaying high-rises during the earthquake, I'm rather impressed by Thai building standards, also given the poor substrate they have to build on in Bangkok (waterlogged soil?). Note that the earthquake was far away but shallow. Shallow earthquakes are more destructive all else equal. In this case it seemed only the high-rises were affected, which has to do with resonnance (higher buildings swaying in unisson with the earthquake's wavelength). This is akin to the 1985 Mexico earthquake: "Buildings of 5 to 15 stories were most affected, as their interaction with the shock waves created a harmonic resonance, exacerbating the degree of swaying. More than 400 buildings collapsed, and thousands more were damaged."

The right, the left, the right, the left ... The binary trap.

In the land of the free, if you walk up to a woman in the street and tell her "I give you a hundred, let's have some fun in bed", you go to jail and have your mug in the paper. That's what they call "the American dream", "freedom" and "the pursuit of happiness".

Gosh what a victory: https://www.sundaymail.co.zw/breaking-zimbabwe-to-suspend-all-tariffs-on-us-goods I'm sure Zambia, Namibia, Angola, Comores, Madagascar, and many other will follow suit. They will make America great again for sure.

Maybe they were speaking in English and meant "crap"?

Mirosoft automatically created a Teams account for me when I recently logged on to Skype. It did so without deleting the Skype account (yet). I didn't see any dial pad in Teams though, I hope it will come in due time. Didn't know you could program your cell phone number as caller ID in Skype. All the more kudos for (defunct) Skype.

What enrages me about Trump's tariff ideology is its dishonesty and cherry-picking. Take Europe. It leaves out of equation the fact that Europe buys Google, Netflix, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon ... products, indeed even leaves those firms' profits untaxed. Europe is being "badly treated" by the US, not the reverse. Not to mention regular racketeering by US courts aimed at crippling successful European companies with astronomical fines (Bayer/Monsanto, Deutsche Bank, BNP, BP ...). I'm sure the US courts will soon find a way to fine Airbus in order to protect killer airliner Boeing. The disnonesty of it all!

It doesn't matter one little bit if you can use your remaing credit within Skype or within Teams. Main thing is, you can still place phone calls.

Cheap breakfasts (below 200 baht) are not worth the money. Better spend the 200 baht at a 7/11. The only ok breakfasts for me are the 300-400 baht buffet breakfasts of some hotels. They're not gorgeous breakfasts though, this is Thailand.

Well actually they care about farmers much too much. Farming is a holy cow in Thailand. This is also to a lesser extend the case in the EU. In the EU farmers additionally have the right to blockade and paralyse the country. Some Margaret Thatcher would be needed to break the farmers' stranglehold as she did the miners'.

You mean I do understand how jurisprudence works in the UK. A male person is presumed guilty as per the court of the lynching circuit (public opinion). In the old days when good sense and good justice prevailed, 20-year-old allegations would not only be thrown out of court, they would not even be considered by police or the prosecution. Even nowadays, when there's no male sex involved (no gold-digging wymmyn), you get rebuffed if you lodge a complaint with the police 20 years after your house was broken into.

Alas no, the prosectution hardly has to prove anything. It will be "victim should be believed", period.

Karma is not real but it is easier and more soothing for people to understand than quantum physics.

Everyone knows such charges are bogus if rape is still to mean what it should mean and not be defined as "what the woman says". Still, the charade must go on.

I'd much prefer Thailand stopped overtaxing foreign (US) food so that eating Western food didn't cost me an eye and a leg. I have no use for military equipment thank you.

You mean they should put you in prison before putting you down.

Sure, but it seems call.com only want 23 euro or so per year flat rate, which shouldn't break the bank. I am also hoping Teams will allow me to use up my remaining credit. I've got 63 euro credit left so it may be enough for quite a long time calling banks and govt agencies. Provided Microsoft keep their promise regarding the dialing pad in Teams for members with credit remaining.

Someone suggested call.com. There's a yearly fee of 23 euro for which you get a virtual number. Then calls to landlines would typically cost 1.8 cents/minute.

Quote from the post above: "a true woman out there in Thailand who meets your dream". There's no such woman, neiter in Thailand nor elsewhere. There are just women whose expectation you meet with respect to age, looks, wealth etc. You have a certain SMV (sexual market value) and the market is increasingly globalized.

I think I was optimistic. What will happen is that you can use your remaining credit in Teams, which does not allow phone calls.

I still have 60 euros in Skype credit. Does this mean I can still be using Skype for many months to come as I typically use up a few euros per months on average? From ChatGPT: "However, automatic top-up services for Skype Credit will no longer be available starting April 3, 2025. Additionally, please note that remaining Skype Credit cannot be refunded."