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On 1/25/2021 at 10:21 AM, webfact said:

Therefore, we ask people to refrain from burning crops in the open air

They have records of land ownership and presumably could get satellite images...

How hard can it be to set up a system to fine farmers (semi?) automatically for burning crops? It would just have to look for substantial areas rapidly turning black....  wouldn't even have to read numberplates like speed cameras!

Looking at the map, I think this has been mistranslated:

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The new virus from Cambodia was detected in a bat species endemic to Southeast Asia that does not extend beyond Yunnan, where the two previous bat SARS-CoV-2-like viruses were found.

Beyond should be into.

That para seems to refer to R shameli, which is the only one of the three bat species with a range confined to Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

But viruses similar to SARS-COV-2 have also been sequenced from both the other two species on that map, and they have ranges that cover most of Myanmar and southern China (almost reaching to Wuhan).

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Chinese researchers have been searching for Sarbecoviruses throughout the country for about 15 years. They found more than 100 SARS-CoV-like viruses but only two related to SARS-CoV-2.

So it sounds like these other bats had viruses similar to the one found in R shameli. Shouldn't this also have conferred immunity to the human populations in the much larger ranges of those additional two species?

Arguably some effect is visible in the data for Myanmar; but the range for R afinis extends pretty close to Wuhan, if you take into account how much domestic travel goes on in China, and there wasn't much evidence of pre-existing herd immunity in Wuhan.

When someone from the United States, China, or India shows up at the ICC, wake me up. Worst case a few Israelis will have to be careful where they go on holiday.

In mainland China they teach kids the 'Socialist Core Values' and plaster them all over the place. One kid (~11 year old) asked me if i had to learn them when I was a kid. When I told her we don't have them, she said "That's good, they're nonsense" ????.

11 year old:1 - CCP:0

3 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

Only going by what I heard, one chap from UK said he paid 35,000 baht one way, plus 55,000 for quarantine.

There are some THB26-27k ASQ deals available these days if you don't mind 'roughing it' a bit.

Macafee again???

What, no amulet?

23 minutes ago, Chang2 said:

IOW, if you enter on a U.S. passport, do you get to open the bank account using the Irish passport?

Best approach may be use the Irish one to apply for a visa* & enter, and don't mention the US one to the bank unless specifically asked.

IDK about Thailand, but banks in China not only check your visa, but also cut off services on the expiration date, until you show them it's been renewed! 

*That should be ok as long as you have a passport or PR in the place you apply.

Human (land) life apparently isn't a priority...

11 minutes ago, Golden Triangle said:

No, Google this if you are unaware, beer condoms thailand 

 

Again, lack of a smiley fails to impart if the poster was jesting or not. ????

Blissfully unaware, thanks ????

9 minutes ago, Golden Triangle said:

I like a large very cold bottle (Archa) in a condom staying cold,

Autocorrect issues??

42 minutes ago, Leaver said:

So, incompetence and laziness, causing a lack of hygiene, would be the reason.  

More charitably: lack of the requisite skillset combined with lack of demand for its product.

It was also hard to find decent cappucino/espresso in coffee shops in the UK until the mid 90s, because very few people knew how to use/maintain espresso machines, and the potential customers were drinking draft beer instead ????

Dang, thought it was boxing.

40 minutes ago, ramrod711 said:

Apparently a neighbor complained that he was doing work that a Thai could do.

Note to self: never pick nose in public.

5 hours ago, simple1 said:

trump has refused to testify.

 

https://au.news.yahoo.com/trump-refuses-testify-unconstitutional-impeachment-222833309.html

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"If you decline this invitation, we reserve any and all rights, including the right to establish at trial that your refusal to testify supports a strong adverse inference regarding your actions (and inaction) on January 6, 2021," he added.

Apparently no 5th Amendment for impeachment hearings? AND no contempt of court (style) punishment?

(Seems like the framers of the Constitution lost the picture.)

18 hours ago, tingtongfarang said:

Are they ignoring the fact bangkok is soon to be underwater?

 

Yep, no imagination. Coulda been a hydroponic cannabis park...

1 hour ago, webfact said:

There was only one word in English and that was spelt wrong. It refereed to an Israeli company called Cellebrite who market data extraction equipment for mobile phones. 

Football in glass houses

15 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

I'm sure someone must be splitting heirs now.

leaves little for heirs.

23 hours ago, webfact said:

The International Monetary Fund last week sent $350 million in cash to the Myanmar government, part of a no-strings-attached emergency aid package to help the country battle the coronavirus pandemic.

Got to wonder if the coup wasn't specifically launched to allow a clique to misappropriate this. (If so, it'd be a rare case of the IMF screwing a country by not imposing conditionality...)