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You will go to an early grave with a diet like that.

Not just heat, but cold then heat. It's the rapid heating that produces the oscillations.If you look at the temperatures for that period, they were quite cool overnight and into the morning, but then there was heating.

Thailand is making a massive mistake if it cuts the tourist visa from 60 to 30 days. They won't stop being a nuisance if the tourist visa period is reduced anyway. Thailand has a problem with certain nationalities and it refuses to deal with that. Instead it will hurt the honest long stay class of visitors. The cannabis concerns are reasonable. It is pathetic that some foreigners walk around puffing on their blunts. I was having dinner with friends at the Tapas restaurant near the Hilton. across the soi from a cannabis shop. We couldn't eat our dinner in peace because of the thick cloud of skunk stink that kept drifting in. There should have been zoning, restricting the cannabis shops to certain areas. And yes the value proposition has disappeared from many of the larger hospitality brands. One group epitomizes the cheapening of the eating options. This entity has its hand in everything from "steak" to coffee shops, to fast food and every operation offers awful quality overly processed "food". I recently stayed at an alleged 4* hotel at BKK and the room was in terrible shape. Furniture was worn out, the mattress finished, and I paid 6500 baht. The big brand hotel chains have all increased their prices, but the services have been scaled back. The big brand hotels have been moving to checkin times of 3 or 4 pm and checkouts of 11 AM. It's ridiculous. Yes, there is still some good value to be found, but short stay tourists don't want the hassle of having to search for the value. Nor should they have to travel to the armpit of Thailand to find peace and quiet. They want clean air, clean beaches and an accessible opportunity to relax.

it can happen if the transmission line is deteriorated or if circumstances are just right. We'll just have to wait for the investigation. I think alot of the event is related to the protocols that had parts of the grid shut down to prevent damage. As more of the grid shuts down, it takes longer to reboot and re-energize. I expect, that much of the power outage was a result of preventative damage actions. Thailand has power failures and electricity supply interruptions. PEA and the BMA list them on their website. 2 weeks ago, storms brought down transmission lines in parts of ChiangRai and Chiang Mai. It took a day or more to restore power. As an electricity importer, Thailand relies on a diverse supply network, unlike Spain. The transmission lines from Laos are reported as ranging from 22 KV to 115 kV. The Malaysia transmission line is reported at 300 kV. The Spanish transmission lines were reported as 400kV. I expect that with a diverse supply network, and lower volume of electricity transmitted by some of the lines , the loss of 1 or 2 lines would not be catastrophic in Thailand.

As was pointed out above, so what if you have cash. If the power is out, the gas stations can't pump gas. The retailers do not have power to operate, lights and refrigerators go off and the point of sale tills cannot operate, so the retailers close. Black markets do not spring up within hours to sell petrol or groceries. Your attack on renewable systems is unfounded. The USA suffered severe windstorm damage and flooding on its east coast last year. Electricity supply was interrupted. That wasn't renewable energy. The California wildfires knocked out electricity for hundreds of thousands of people. It was not renewable energy. When eastern Canada had its big ice storm, one of North America's largest hydro electric producers went offline for much of its region. The ice collapsed high voltage powers and power lines. Millions of people were without electricity for a week or more. I just took a look at a map of power outages in Canada, a country where there is an excess of electricity and it has some of the newest and most robust transmission lines. There are 100,000+ households and businesses without electricity because of a storm from a day ago. https://poweroutage.com/ca/ Power outages happen every day and it is not because of the use of renewable energy.

I am pretty certain the police were called as he walked about.

You are paying tax on your income earned in the UK. If you were not, you would be obliged to pay that tax to Thailand. The question is, if you add up your NIC contributions between 1959 and 2009, do they cover the amounts that you have received since 2009 and (hopefully) will continue to receive for another decade or more? Have you ever done the calculation? And one of the reasons why state pensions are not unfrozen across the board is that there would a large outflow of funds to countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, India and others in the middle east with no benefit to the UK.

It is wonderful that you are good friends with important and prestigious engineers. Until such time as there is actual evidence of a cyber attack, one should not claim that it occurred. It is a possibility however, the utility company provided its explanation.The utility even stated that it was the entity which cut the power once the disruption started. It also stated that it delayed the re-energization of the power grid to ensure that there was no overload. The shutdown of a power grid once an event occurs is SOP and is done to prevent further damage. Then as the network comes back up, there is a rebooting process. Unless you can show that the two outages were a direct result of cyber sabotage, the explanation of power disruption through inadequacy of cable stabilization is reasonable. At the very least, let the investigation determine the cause before offering a conspiracy claim. Yes, the power grid in Spain has weakness, and yes it needs investment. That is no secret. It is public knowledge. Whether or not the power disruption was directly caused by the deficiency has to be determined. It may very well have been if the fail safe overload switches failed, but even that is not known yet.

ok. However, nudism is just as taboo in Poland as it is in Thailand, perhaps more so. Polish people do not usually expose their bodies in public places. They don't even jaywalk. It is the land where people do not smile in public, that's how tightly would they are. It takes real arrogance and a disrespectful mentality to do in Thailand what they would dare not do in their homeland. They don't look like respectable people either.

He was drunk. Pickled. Tanked Up. Sauced. Inebriated. Cannabis would put someone to sleep before they did what Mr. Mustafa did.

Poor Pattaya, and I mean that sincerely. I feel for the residents who have watched the place turn into a cesspool because of people like this. No, Belgian. Denmark, Netherlands, Finland, the Baltic nations, Sweden, Greece are all EU members and we do not see their nationals act like this. Take a closer look at the mess. Someone has to clean it up. The wine went onto all the products on the lower shelves, making it impossible to sell. . The staff do not deserve this kind of rude and agressive treatment. 35,000 was a bargain. North Africans emigres typically settle in France, Belgium and Canada. They do not assimilate well. He may very well have been born in Belgium. Armenia is predominately Christian. Criminal records cannot be verified because Thailand is not capable of respecting the confidentiality or cyber security requirements that attach to information sharing agreements.

I am surprised no one has suggested that history is repeating itself. The rice pledging scheme. The same misguided mentality.

Fair point and I agree with you, but it is an impractical solution for most people. One needs to own one's home and to have the land to set up an optional system. I rent and my landlord isn't going to let me go solar, nor do the condo bylaws allow for it. For others, if they don't get access to sufficient sunlight they can't go with solar.

So no use of motor vehicles in a big city then. If traffic signals go down in Bangkok, you might as well turn off the car and have a snooze, because you are not going anywhere. The only thing that can easily get around is a small scooter or a bicycle. At least with a bike you can put it over the shoulder and walk around an obstruction. Perhaps everyone should move to Issan and go jungle.

Spain still relies on fossil fuel for approx. 25% of its electricity generation. 50% of its electricity generation is by renewables. So, bashing the country on net zero goals doesn't work. The utility relies on cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plants when solar is not available and for peak periods. Spain's use of soler energy has no bearing on this incident. The problem was with the power lines, not the form of generation. The event would have still occurred if there was a coal fired electricity generation plant.

Whether or not there is a green world, if the electricity fails, society comes to a standstill. It is electricity that operates street lights , home appliances, home lighting, traffic signals, telecommunications, and public transit. Not being green would not have prevented this event. One of the benefits of not living in the USA is that people do not go into savage mode as soon as there is a catastrophic event. Some countries have culture and civility. Why spread unsubstantiated claims? Do you get a thrill, or is this just your attempt to stir up people? After the initial disruption, the utilities intentionally cut additional power supply to prevent damage until they knew what the problem was. This is called a safeguard action. The utility explanation was; Red Electrica identified two incidents of power generation loss, probably from solar plants, in southwestern Spain that caused instability in the electric system and led to a breakdown of its interconnection with France. The electrical system collapsed, affecting both the Spanish and Portuguese systems. Spain was exporting power to France and Portugal at the time of the outage. Exports to France were close to the available net export capacity until 1000 local time. According to Red Electrica data, exports to France stopped at 1235 local time from 868 MW beforehand. The south of Spain was indeed experiencing fluctuations in its temperatures, going from cool to hot quickly in some regions. When the ground heats up very quickly the air above it warms, expands and becomes lighter. That rising warm air creates a pressure imbalance with the surrounding cooler, denser air. The atmosphere responds to this imbalance by generating waves, not unlike ripples spreading across a pond. These pressure waves can travel through the atmosphere. In some cases, they can interact with power infrastructure — particularly long-distance, high-voltage transmission lines. As the rapid heating induced anomalous oscillations in the very high voltage lines (400 kV) that connect Spain with France. It has happened before. As soon as the power was disrupted, automatic safeguard systems activated that started cutting power to protect systems. Once the location of disruption was identified, power could be restored. It is done in a step by step process to prevent system overload. Until an investigation is completed and hacking is demonstrated, the common sense explanation is reasonable, particularly since it has happened before, and the utility was aware of its risk. The real issue is the delay in upgrading the transmission lines and securing the power grid by updating safety mechanisms so that large areas do not need to be shut down.

How many of the people collecting pensions have actually contributed an amount that covers their full payout? It looks to me like only the top fifth of contributors actually cover a large part of their benefits. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/15195/production/_129112468_optimised-tax_burden-nc.png.webp

That is not "progressive". A few overlapping positions with responsible governments does not make one "progressive".

what will become of the Arabs who migrated to the lands now called Palestine and Gaza? Most of them are not descended from original inhabitants. This always comes as an unpleasant reality to Palestinian liberationists. Over 1 million arabs recruited from the region built the Suez canal. A large number settled in the land called Israel. Will they too be asked to leave. Not defending some of the settlers or land thieves as some are reprehensible bigots. However, they are in some cases settling on land that was originally part of greater Israel prior to the Arab expansionism and the Turkish colonial rule.

So it's a secret? Do we need to use our Buster Brown decoder rings? or maybe we need a special handshake?

Truly an idiotic comment. Progressive because his racial purity laws were brilliant? Or maybe the eugenics and mass murder of the disabled? The concentration death camps were holiday camps, right? Progressive because of his human breeding program? Or maybe it was the education, because we all know that ourging educators who disagree with the government is so very worthwhile.

Do say. We will all be educated.

The conclusions were based upon data for the 2021-2022 period. The theft numbers have dropped 20%+ and are still dropping. According to the insurance data there were 57,359 reported car thefts in Canada in 2024. In 2023, there were 70,475. 2025 data indicates a similar trend. It seems that Alberta has a problem because of the ease in which a car can be revinned. Other provinces tightened their rules. Alberta did not. Also, as a wealthier province, it has newer vehicles. Thieves like nice cars. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/auto-theft-canada-1.7457104

I don't think there is much to celebrate. The polls were once again proven wrong because they were indicating a Liberal majority and what we see is a MINORITY government. The liberals may cut a deal with the remnants of the NDP to get legislation passed.. The good news is now that Poilievre lost his seat, maybe the Conservatives can work with the liberals on important legislation. One thing it does say is that no one likes Poilievre. He was a professional politician, never having worked outside of politics and here he was always harping on the political machines etc. He did not get any support from provincial conservative governments who lined up with Carney. At least Carney knows finance and economics.

Not anymore. As the Trudeau government was sinking, it was forced to introduce new measures and there have been enforcement efforts since then. It still needs improvement, but they are working on it. The cars get stolen and are then shipped to Beirut, Dubai and Africa. Highest rate of thefts is now in Alberta, the law and order province. 🫠 https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2025/03/government-of-canada-reports-on-progress-to-reduce-auto-theft.html