WeekendRaider

it's 2019.  duh.  masterbation, oral sex and gay sex are to be promoted and respected.  anyone who risks straight sex, even if everyone involved is sterile... is morally sinful.

the possibility of a new born human is too awful to allow by accident, it would seem now.

at least for those who are Science People.  but some other folks are beginning to see "climate effects" that contradict what whichever "side" they belonged to no longer seems.....real.... are thus are joining our bandwagon.  any baby born today is not only not "the luckiest baby ever born" but we are all about, even the old, to experience the opposite of the story of Jesus, on Earth.... before.... we die of electrolyte imbalances or heat stroke.

what about debts?

oh heck, let's subsidize it.  we need more 'plant food' stuff!

anyone know where I can buy an official soccer team 'Fly Emirates' jersey in Thailand?  I just love my air travel "real life"  and also want to share my feelings on that as well as... I just think "fly emirates" sounds cool too!

4 hours ago, jerojero said:

Cloud based solutions are far cry from artificial intelligence. Think AI purported by Thai officials is simply a buzz word b..s.. Sounds high tech, progressive, and 1st worldly. However as we know, the Kingdom has LONG way to go to get firmly into a 2nd world rank.

you have to love reading.  Marc Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are as famous for their summer time reading lists than as software guys.  and software guys are all quite literate.  neither of those are weird coincidences.  in English or any other language where the written system is geared towards reading and writing, i.e. we only have 5 written vowels but about 40 spoken ones etc etc etc.  until that one is changed for at least 5% of the population overall, in the USA it's about 5% that are functioning as literate people..... everything else is just more nonsense talk.  but we are really good at that too.  only in peer reviewed science articles do we consistently at all ever see some form of "intelligence" and social progress.... plus some futile attempts to avoid social collapse even though that is not an 'agenda' in science, just a human thing.   

I'd prefer that they were blue motif aircraft carriers but anything that confronts the evil of my home country which has self convinced itself that Co2 is not a green house gas.... is a very good thang!

97% or more of Amerikee believes Co2 is either a Chinese Hoax, or 'only about some ice beginning to melt in 2100 something'... or that it is only about losing one's dreams or that it is too late for anything, including adaption except for a better border wall to stop folks none of us will have the heart to stop.

so.  go to it China!  build a couple dozen and make them bigger and better than the USA's. 

it can't get any worse than 2019, after reading Rosenfeld et. al. in January Science on an underestimated aerosol effect, Xu et. al.  on the Chao Phraya river basin and Freund et. al. in Nature Geoscience on Central Pacific ENSO's doubling in recent decades topped off with July 2019, in a year in which we never went above a neutral ENSO condition..... the hottest month ever recorded.  flat out. 

go to it China!!!!!  whoaaah China.  and I'm as American as anyone can be,     

it's what? almost impossible to imagine eh? let alone accept?

example.  July 2019 was the hottest month ever recorded.

too simple.  higher temps and less rain overall... isn't "real" enough eh?

yeah.  to get a truck license you are told to always stay on the left side of the road, except to pass..... about 5,000 times.  done. 

to get a motorcycle license you watch a film that describes every possible truck driving category for operating a big rig in ASEAN...  for a truck driving license... and not a single thing about motorcycling in any of the tests and instructions.  done.

and a color chart test.  yeah, we all know already.

11 hours ago, Matzzon said:

Nah, logistics would not be such a big things, due to that a branch of the bank probably will exist in almost the same area.

Not to put you down, but it can not be a reason to complain just because you can not be the first in line.

for me, the same issue but it would not be about "being first in line".  and it is a huge issue.

it would be about my bank not being in the "weeaung" by about 40 clicks..... and that I want to leave the "weeaung" as soon as I can.  always.  a distaste for everything about the city that I have always had.  or anything closer than 20 clicks of it, what the tourists call "Chiangmai" but isn't to anyone else.   it's no different from being in Bangkok or any city anywhere except cheaper for some service things.  especially still being there in the late afternoon or evening at all.        

solar powered water pumps, for village water towers.  we have time, example we are told in recent weeks we have a 60% chance of a continued nuetral ENSO for 2020 so far,  but at some point down the road, when we visit higher ambient temperatures.... many rural folks have also now had air con installed, and even if no one had added any.... there would still be a dangerous chance for grid failures over the next 5 to 10 years.  they happen everywhere, Thailand's grid is not special.  not exempt.  but now everyone depends on the grid for village water supply.  air con power requirement can go up almost exponentially when it is extra hot.

don't take the route the USA has.  all kinds of denial, on both "sides" of the Climate situation.  and lots of girlie man talk about "Plant Food", "a Chinese Hoax", "it's only about ice melting in 2100" (the self appointed "Climate Believer" nonsense).... and a particularly popular denial narrative now with both sides.... but which is probably backwards also.... that with Climate Change 'mostly only brown people in poor countries will suffer, not Amerikeens'.

face the reality.  don't get started with nonsense talk.  solar power for higher temps.   

the other things the Thai government has done, for water management, are very commendable so far.  but don't count out grid failures down the line. 

absolutely stunning.  The New York Times, which I have been reading since it was required in junior high school, acknowledged that California is being affected by "Climate Change".  this is the same newspaper that eagerly applied the "it's only about some ice melting in 2100 something" narrative for many decades.   I know, a daily reader for 50 years about.  and from New York!  imagine that, where we would still be making Charles Bronson movies were it not for..... deregulated air travel and tourism.  trust me on that too, many New Yorkers [wink wink] are quite expert on all of the above alluded to.  including folks who own stuff like expensive golf resorts and fancy hotels.  duh.

in today's coverage on page 1 of the PG&E blackout control room story. 

but in Thailand, there is no connection at all on these threads.  instead we have arsonists.  uneducated farmers  (who don't even speak Pasa Thai!  which many 'farlang' spend a lot of time trying to learn but never even get the vowel durations or tones anywhere close to sounding like a Thai dialect).  and of course other farmers and arsonists in Laos and Burma.

but on this blog it somehow almost never seems to be connected to...... science based "intellectual" stuff.  which has dotted connections to not just eating meat..... but air travel and tourism.  gulp.  so we have arsonists!  uneducated farmers! .... and California, even in the New York Times now, has a different related "political agenda" (belonging to Mother Nature if you need to put a face on it, which apparently a lot of folks need to do).

for me.  Co2 and methane and the IPCC forcings chart do it pretty good.  but hey, that's just me it seems.      

you never know, some of the passengers may be children or babies that might cry because they are more frightened or upset than usual.  on an airplane that could be very disturbing to the other passengers, and as well will need to be reported as urgent international news.  

please also keep us all posted with instant updates on any additional flight delays. 

yes, a  continued recovery of the post-1997 Thai Baht has some downsides.... it is not 100% wonderful.

but if you know that tourism, and air travel.... by airplane.... any airplane we have today or will manufacture after safety testing super lightweight WHATEVER for 300,000 to 400,000 new aircraft just down the road.... it is 98% good news nit just for Thai outbound tourists.... but everyone in Thailand because tourism has escaped relatively well from any effort to scale or in time to delay extinction of everything with eyeballs so far... all the way to 2019 so far..... but the reality is coming in thicker and thicker. tick tock.

Elon Musk used to talk.... at the drop of a hat.... on why he started all of his businesses, Climate Change as a near-term extinction event.  but since Tesla sales began to be a real thing along with Spacex he copped out socially.... plus for very very obvious marketing reasons.

in earlier times he wasn't at all sure Tesla or Spacex would survive at all.  it's true. so just around the time before his big Mexico talk on Mars some years ago...he swung almost 180 degrees and today is an Al Gore/Greta Thunberg type.

my "copped out socially" comment should be obvious but if it ain't... it is impossible to talk about Climate Change socially unless you talk silly like Al Gore or Greta Thunberg as if it were merely a fashion or political thing.  not the hard core science, which Elon goes by or... just shuts his mouth if it would kill his chances of genuine success. which is not so idiotic. but is girlie man. 

for folks who use psychobabble to dismiss anything they don't like, in another words, girlie men.... and are ready to dusmiss what Inam saying, not just about Musk either, as a "conspiracy theory" rant or alarmism, they teach this stuff in B school.  for accounting majors like myself, who also studied oceanography believe it or not, it is called "OB" which is short for organizational behavior... or you can switch majors to something called "marketing"... and then it's not a Conspiracy Theory nor rant at all.

Musk is just another fat American, I really doubt he will even ever try to launch his own butt off on one of hus rocket ships.

it's so lame, the USA too, where some folks say we should visit the planets.  aside from the smallish dead planet of Mars that only leaves two terrestrials one of which, our sister, which had an ocean on it too at one time, is now 500 Celsius yet not much closer to "The Sun" than we are.  the same nonsense talk like Chinese Hoax or Plant Food.  "man" should explore other planets.  but because of the speed of light thingy, that means Mercury? that is quite idiotic. so yeah, an everyday Amerikeen idiot.  Elon tiwing the socially acceptable line in the USA... anything but talk tgat is "too serious" which not even Greta Thunberg the media darling ever has even cone close to, in specific real action suggestions... to scale and in time.  duh.

even with health cover and 800k THB that is not enough for any serious medical issue if it involves expensive tech such as scans or drugs such as cancer treatment.  it's not even in the ballpark, at all. in Thailand.

services are not expensive, but tech or anything imported is perhaps even more expensive here than at home because we will be helping to subsidize it whereas at home it is just normal treatment.

and this will be more and more true going forward because of Thai demographics.

Greta is a media darling.  like Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio etc.... she tackles a very serious problem by acknowledging it but then focusing on it in a way that is acceptable for broadcast.  she expresses her feelings.  she makes accusations.  she asks for things to be done.  and on the first real baby step we must take, or every other economic sector as well as most people will balk at any significant cost or sacrifices.... she makes opposing aviation and tourism sound like it's only a fashion or political issue... along the same lines as calling it "air travel shaming". what you will not hear from her are specific action items that would work to scale or in time.

Greta enables media organizations to say "see, we covered the Climate Change issue".... but she is doing the same thing Al Gore did when he gave us the.... still used today by the media.... "(it's only about some) ice melting in 2100".  but in fact it's about heat stroke in grid failures, food and social chaos.  

Extinction Rebellion is also avoiding specific solutions.... by cleverly calling for "citizen assemblies" to later on come up with those action items.  but they are media darlings only to The Guardian and a few others.

yet.... if Greta.... or XR (the UK Extinction Rebellion) were to call for real action items, Greta would be yanked from any more coverage and XR would immediately lose most of it's ranks.

because action to scale or in time is almost as unthinkable as is our extinction.  and if you really push this..... that there are 7,800 million of us looms over almost it all.

so, for the USA, a better border wall along Mexico, and a US Space Force make a lot of sense..... to stop folks too similar to us or our neighbors that none of us would have the heart to stop... yet would also not be able to climb any ladders or crawl thru any tunnels, esp, en masse.  and the other project for solar radiation management, as the aerosol effect looms large no matter what we do or don't ever do.... any reduction in aerosols for any reason.... and requires special aircraft and 'one agent' (the USA military).

it's really only now a chance for some solace.  to do anything to scale or in time.  I am ready for that, and would support it as much as I can but making it less difficult for our own lives is really all there is to do.  XR is not getting anywhere nearly the level of support it has to have as well as what we should expect it to have achieved in 2019... the year of Rosenfeld et. al. in Science, Freund et. al in Nat Geoscience, Xu et. al. on the Chao Phraya river basin and...... July 2019, the hottest month ever yet not an El Nino at all hardly and the Arctic being much more rapidly lost than we thought before.

love the local English of referring to mutts as "soi dogs"..... except it sounds cute to my ear and mutts are generally neither cute nor safe to be around.  we have only been breeding dogs, and most importantly..... sharing cooked food with them.... for about 50,000 years.  some of these mixtures of various dog breeds can be quite miserable.

27 minutes ago, Almer said:

There is nothing wrong with the crossing hundreds use it daily it is the idiot who is so busy he cant wait 3 or4 minutes, lets feel sorry gor the train driver

like your comment a lot and am not surprised if that is quite true.... except for assuming the driver was in a hurry.  there are many reasons, and sometimes no reason at all, for what any of us do or don't do.

for example, some who drives very slo

Chiangmai and the other northern provinces are lucky.  in northern California they have "man made" grid blackouts because it is hotter and drier there, in spite of some raining, and there is a greater risk of fire just because of that.  so they are having blackouts not because it is hot and folks are running too many air conditioners but because low voltage lines are close to vegetation. might catch fire easily as well as burn more in such conditions.  

here in Thailand the problem is even more simple to figure out.  it is of arsonists, uneducated farmers and even lower class locals in neighboring foreign countries like Laos etc.  but California is on planet Earth, which just this past July had the hottest month ever recorded, even though it was barely above a neutral ENSO.  northern Thailand only has to deal with "man made" trouble makers because it is.... Thailand.  floating above the Earth.    

the "really real" solutions to this are something even Extinction Rebellion cannot directly discuss without losing 9/10th's of it's ranks in 2 minutes.   so they are passing it along to future 'citizen assemblies' to do that.  which they won't either.  

so on this we will endlessly talk about 'other countries' and 'uneducated farmers'. 

but what if stuff is burning more easily than before, even in this 2nd year of really good rain..... as opposed to 2015/2016 [gulp] ?
for example, July 2019 was the hottest month ever recorded.  as if it were 2015 and 2016 when every month was a new record.

   

9 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

You have to open the direct deposit account at Bangkok Bank first. The will handle submitting the SF1199 form to Manila to get it the direct deposits started. Here is the SF1199 form you can complete in advance. https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/SF1199A-12a.pdf?forceDownload=1

Info for opening the account is here. https://www.bangkokbank.com/en/Personal/Other-Services/Transfers/Transferring-Into-Thailand/Transfer-money-from-US-to-Thailand-via-Bangkok-Bank-NewYork-branch

One very important thing is that you are using your address here for the SSA. If not your transfers may not be done in the ACH required  IAT format.

wow!  it wasn't a stupid question at all!  for me that's a big surpise.  and it was ubonjoe that answered!!!! 

thank you very much. 

for those who will use direct deposit to Bangkok Bank, which do you do first?  call the Philippines to get it started or first open a special Bangkok Bank passbook account for US Social Security??? 

strange.  in the past we would use the word "slash" when the result was a large reduction.  but in today's world 2.7 percent GDP growth is not bad at all, even almost compared to China in it's "trade/5G war".  not bad at all!

more posts about farmers.  glad to see that.  I was worried that this might be related to the Aerosol Effect, as well as the Climate thing where for instance July 2019 was the hottest month ever recorded.  and so have recent years.  yet, thank goodness, this haze thing is something that has been going on for many decades, not just the most recent two.... decades.