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49 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:
Rather funny it's only Fox News reporting on the border crisis, wonder why?? hmmmm
15,000 illegals under a bridge is a conspiracy in your world. Stunning.
Every country has border "problems" but it suddenly becomes a "crisis" on Fox when a Democrat is in office,.... an invasion, caravans of diseased, murdering, drug dealing, rapists with a few muslim terrorists blending in.
Fox is on a mission to trigger their viewers, with a daily dose of hate fear and manufactured outrage.
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A retiree needs to prove 65,000BT. monthly income to renew the VISA.
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It used to be so much easier being a cop until all these cameras started recording everything.
In the good old days, one could just kill someone, stuff a bag of pills in their pocket, call them a dead drug dealer and nobody cared.
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Pattaya City needs to buy a Drag Line Crane and permanently position it on the beach to steadily recover the sand that gets washed out after every storm.
I'd suggest making it a tourist attraction offering punters to operate an hour at a time for say, 1,000Bt.
Looks like fun.
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3 minutes ago, LarrySR said:
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Imagine if battery powered cars were the norm the last 100 years and someone now is trying to convince you to go internal combustion.
Remove the battery and electric motor and just add a cast iron block with a crankshaft, pistons, valves, cams, oil pump, fuel injection, exhaust system, air filter, pollution control devices, radiator, thermostat, fan, water pump, $5,000 transmission that goes out at 150,000 miles, drive shaft, differential, ..and every couple hundred miles you have to go to a fuel station and pump 25 gallons of gasoline into a tank under your back seat!
Not to mention the pollution from 100 million barrels of oil burned up every day.
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One of my birds is getting her 2nd dose tomorrow, hoping her bar opens on October 1.
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5 hours ago, hotchilli said:
Delusions of grandeur?
The shopping center should have designated PCX parking.
Maybe call it, GirlyMan parking area.
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5 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:
They could have done walk ins from the start for foreigners. No, let's have them register, send passport and visa info, jump through hoops. And all of a sudden it's just walk in and get a shot.
3 weeks ago, I was in Central for my scheduled BPH Astra shot and there also was a huge queue of walk-ins that day.
Perhaps they unexpectly found themselves with some extra doses and are offering them up. Good.
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Plenty of well marked parking for BIG BIKES in the Central Festival garage.
For some odd reason the road warriors on PCXs park there too. LOL
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5 hours ago, gk10012001 said:EVs have good potential and promise. However, you don't get somethng for nothing. The bill comes due. There are costs to produce and distribute electricity. There are costs to make electric batteries, regenerating systems that use rare earth magnets, etc. both dollars and environmental. Legislation in many cities and states and even countries seem to be pushing towards mandatory Electric Vehicles. Time will tell
Last year, 2 million electric car sales. This year around 3.8 million.
In 2025 estimated 40 million.
Half of the Mercedes fleet will be battery in 2025, Jaguar 100%. Volvo will be 100% battery soon and by 2035 you probably won't see any ICE vehicles for sale (except large trucks that will be phased out by 2045)
By 2030 many jurisdictions will outlaw and combustion engine cars.
Investing in the electric car market is a no brainer. How many of the below listed stocks will surge 1,000% or more?
NIO
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XPEV
CHPT
BYDDY
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1 hour ago, pomchop said:There is a reason that scammers are able to get millions of people to fall for their absurd scams....unfortunately many people are amazingly gullible and then double down rather than admit they got conned....if i were a scammer i would actively look for antivaxers who seem willing to believe the unbelievable in spite of massive amounts of evidence from thousands of doctors and scientists who have spent their lives studying viruses...how may anti vaxers are doctors? Maybe a few quack docs looking to run a scam.
Its quite obvious the gullible target demographic for a con man would fall into several categories.
The anti science religious types, the undereducated, conspiracy crackpots, angry xenophobes and the deplorable.
Hey, wait a second, I think I just described the Fox News audience...
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WOW Those electric cars catching fire on occasion are scary!
Whats even more scary? The 175,000 gasoline car fires per year in the USA that kill hundreds.
Publicists for the fossil fuel industry and politicians that are financed by them make sure any negative stories about renewable energy and electric cars go viral.
They try to convince the public climate change is a hoax and that carrying 25 gallons of gas under your back seat is just fine..nothing to worry about.
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Any business owner with at least 2 functioning brain cells would be installing them in their parking lot and listing them on Google Maps so the cars navigation system will show available charging stations within range.
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20 hours ago, cucme said:
Fact is that concrete deteriorates after 50 - 55 years. Excess of water or not, starts weakening even in dry conditions.
Concrete has a high PH that inhibits rust on the rebar but the PH lowers over time.
If water or chlorinated pool water is reaching the rebar, the building is a time bomb.
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20 hours ago, Jenkins9039 said:
If one falls, the land price has likely risen, so you can just collectively sell your plot, and buy somewhere else (further out from the city), chances are the appreciation offsets any actual loss...
The co-owners need a 100% vote to abandon and demolish a condo or I suppose the building could be condemned by the BMA.
Sale of the land plot then distributed to the co-owners.
A few years ago, I recall hearing the prime land on Sukhumvit was around 450,000 per Sq Meter.
The owners in a building such as Lake Green Condo on Sukhumvit Soi 8 (guessing the land is 800 SqM) would then divide 360,000Bt million.
If there are 100 units, that =3,600,000Bt. each. Currently listed on Hipflat for around 14,000,000Bt.
Is there any doubt we will be seeing lots of this over the next 20 or 30 years?
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The collapsed Florida condo, 12 stories, didn't look too bad to an untrained eye.
However, after the city and a structural engineer evaluated the concrete spalling, the winning repair bid was $15 million USD.
The 228 condo residences in the 12 story tower were facing a bill of $66,000 each to put the building back into a safe condition.
The corrupt practices in the original construction along with the delay in the repairs ended sadly with 97 dead and a total loss of the structure.
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The weight of the pool water will not be an issue in a properly engineered structure unless the pool has hidden leaks and the supporting floor/columns are weakened.
The problem with the high rise pools is, the plumbing, walls and floor are hidden from view, usually only accessible from a dark, tight crawl space that may not be inspected by Somchai for decades.
The intersection of a supporting column and slab floor could easily fail if the rebar has rusted.
As in the Florida condo collapse, it is speculated a column pushed thru the slab, (punching shear) instantly shifting the load on adjacent columns that also were weakened by rust, creating a chain reaction that caused the building to collapse in seconds.
Check the "Building Integrity" YouTube channel for an engineers viewpoint on the story of greed and incompetence, with a contractor cutting corners, developers bribing city officials, lazy inspectors & questionable maintenance resulting poorly constructing buildings sold to an unsuspecting public......in Florida.
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That condo should have a co-owners board of directors.
The problem is, many don't want to get involved and often, those with ulterior motives can get control the the property. (and the accounts)
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The Lincoln Project on "Ivermectin".
One of the funniest bits I've seen them produce.
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On 7/27/2021 at 12:07 AM, TallGuyJohninBKK said:
In the U.S., there have been nutjob groups of anti-vax medical workers, mainly in Republican/Trump states like Texas and Florida AFAICT, who have been refusing and fighting their employers efforts to require that they be vaccinated.
Now today we have this:
Doctors, nurses and medical groups call for mandatory coronavirus vaccinations for health workers
The health and safety of the nation 'depends on it,’ says a statement signed by 57 groups.
"Medical groups representing millions of doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health workers on Monday called for mandatory vaccinations of all U.S. health personnel against the coronavirus, framing the move as a moral imperative as new infections mount sharply.
“We call for all health care and long-term care employers to require their employees to be vaccinated against covid-19,” the American Medical Association, the American Nurses Association and 55 other groups wrote in a joint statement shared with The Washington Post. “The health and safety of U.S. workers, families, communities, and the nation depends on it.”
(more)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/07/26/mandatory-vaccinations-urged-health-workers/
Yep, the anti science Covid nut job Republicans are "owning the libs' one funeral at a time.
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9 hours ago, DrJack54 said:
If I had property for sale.....I wouldn't be looking for a farang that is wanting vendor terms.
Generally means skint.
A 20% down payment and some sweet interest on the balance for 10 years might sound good to some sellers.
Of course hang onto the deed and be able to evict the buyer if they default would be in the terms, registered at the Land Office.
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The sudden, catastrophic collapse of a Florida condo got me thinking?
How long before these older Bangkok towers begin to fail I wonder? A boom in high rises began in the 1990s in Bangkok and the designs, building techniques and inspections may be questionable.
Cracks in concrete are common and all too often, maintenance is neglected or deferred. Many condos have swimming pools located on higher floors and they could be leaking under the deck for decades without anyone noticing.
Would the condo maintenance staff, management or co-owners board of directors even know what to look for or be aware if their building was on the verge of collapse?
Are there any city regulations demanding scheduled inspections by structural engineers?
In Florida recently the deterioration of a pool deck is suspected of trigging the collapse of a 30 year old condo tower. Decades of water penetrating the rebar weakened the towers foundation, triggering a deadly failure of the structure.
Washington Post wrote a comprehensive article detailing the failure of management, board of directors and city after repeated warnings.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../pool-deck-condo-collapse/
Pictured below: Alarming concrete spalling at Lake Green Condo, Bangkok (built 1997) near 15th floor pool structure, possibly caused by unseen water leaks, poor drainage and years of persistent exposure to weather.
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The good news for the OP is that lots of the cable TV companies here in Thailand carry Fox and he can hook up with other Fox viewers at the coffee shop and discuss vaccine conspiracy theories and where to buy Ivermectin.
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Why do we need the military at the USA southern border ??
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Try journalism for a change.
In fact, visit any of the 200 schools of journalism in North America and tell them you watch Fox News ....and they will laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh.