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How is Mae Rim doing at the moment?

Exactly right. The US Dollar (USD) Index (DXY) climbed into a fifth consecutive bullish day on Friday, driven higher by better-than-expected US Nonfarm Payrolls figures. Since hitting its lowest point in September, the index has been making higher lows, showing a change in market sentiment in favor of the dollar. If this continues, the DXY could aim for the 103.50-104.00 range, where the 200-day EMA is a major hurdle. https://www.fxstreet.com/news/us-dollar-marks-in-fifth-straight-gain-day-after-nfp-numbers-surge-202410042003 This is allround excellent news as the odds of the Baht going down are therefore higher than average.

Hope you're okay there. Looks like the road going past ABS is still flooded and unpassable then, even if Superhighway 11 is open.

There has always been strong intermingling between UK comedic talent and US showbusiness, one need only look at Stan Laurel, Charlie Chaplin or the early comedic films of Cary Grant, who started in UK vaudeville and then moved to the US. Worked the other way too, Bill Hicks, one of my favourite comedians, couldn't make it in the US but killed it in Scotland and England, A number of late night comedy show hosts in the US are from the UK. The US has a lot more black comedians who focus on black issues, while there are also some in the UK, Lenny Henry springs to mind, they're not as abundant. Jewish comedians seem to play a bigger role in the US, though the UK had a number too, Ben Elton was a fantastic comedic writer, but poor performer. Generally it would appear that US comedy has to be a bit nicer than UK comedy which thrives on offensiveness. But I think UK comedy has gone badly downhill with people in charge of television in the UK now who are infected with the woke virus. John Cleese has remarked on this. John Cleese was the apex of British comedy, with Monty Python, but even Fawlty Towers, anything he did was intelligent and hilarous, almost. But since the days of Russell Brand and Ricky Gervais you can see a clear decline in British comedy, Baddiel is terrible too. Gervais is just a slimy little offensive pug and Russell Brand has a messiah complex, both are unfunny completely to me, and their success signalled the downfall of British comedy. The Brits don't appear to have any real comedic talent at the moment, except for Ranganathan. Not sure why, but the PC brigade and woke tV prgorammers could be the cause.

Unfortunately WWIII used to be a nutjob scenario, but right now it is a realistic possibility. I am not thinking China. Israel has escalated the aggressive asset destruction competition with Iran. Israel is clearly trying to escalate things and get the US involved. If Israel hits the oilfields in Iran, which are Iran's livelihood, Iran has said that it will hit other oilfields in the middle east. That could be a catastrophic disaster for the world economies, and will almost certainly bring the US into the conflict. Russia has announced it will sign an alliance with Iran shortly and has explicitly warned Israel not to attack Iran. Whilst the chances of Russia attacking Israel or the US are zero, since they do not want to be involved in a hot war, this further complicates things as Russia will provide Iran with asssitance. If we look at WWI AND WWII both world wars were famously "sleep-walked" into, they did not happen by design, but by accident. Incompetent, foolish leaders were reckless and made mistakes. I have never seen more reckless leaders in charge than now than in my lifetime. These are the worst political leaders I have ever seen. The US, Biden and Harris want to send more weapons and pour gasoline on the fire in Ukraine. Germany and Britain want to send more weapons to Israel. The people who are in charge are reckless, inexperienced and dangerous.

The road going past Airport Plaza was one of the worst affected areas. Either you go through the water or you drive for hours looking for alternative routes. Check out how it was done at the height of the flood:

100 per cent. Flooding will go down substantially in 1 to 2 days. By 10th October all flooding is forecast to have receded. There is no heavy rain forecast in the near future that would cause additional flooding, only minor rains. I said San Kamphaeng was not affected, however, driving yesterday I saw that a number of the smaller villages had severe flooding. Chompoo in San Kamphaeng Noi has flooding and there are road closures which affect access. Here's a map of road closures, in Thai, but if you look at the map could help you figure it out. The facebook channel Chiang Mai news in English is good info https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10160016771056669&set=gm.1541885773134432&idorvanity=142788046377552 Hope the house is okay. Saraphi looks quite affected. Anyone know if the Superhighway 11 side road leaving from Saraphi past ABS school is badly flooded?

If you look back on the history of German industry, it started out copying British products. That's why "Made in Germany" was introduced by the British. It was meant as a warning. Don't buy this, it's a shoddy German product. The British could not fathom that German products would eventually become better than British ones. Eventually Made in Germany became a mark of quality. Just like the British then you think the Chinese are just copyists. But in time they will be the innovators. They already file more patents than the US. The Japanese showed the same development. And the same will happen with Thailand, eventually. Given time. History does not support this notion that only Europeans have a Monopoly on innovation and invention. It shows the opposite. And this notion that a harsh environment created an extra special white race more ingenious than others, again is the climate in Siberia not harsher by far? Why did Siberians not develop this technology gap? Or the Eskimos, by all accounts a harsher life, no technology gap there. The technology gap has other reasons. I'm not hating on whites. I'm just being realistic. I thought like you. Harsh climate. Greater IQ. Then I read the bell curve. The best book on IQ I ever read. Turns out Asians are ahead of us. Of course the IQ measurement went through a development stage. However, IQ is a fantastic predictor. It has correlations that are astounding. It is still the best predictor of scholastic and indeed professional success. There is a reason the US army routinely tests IQs of new recruits.

Thanks but on the night yesterday things were happening en vivo so to speak and Google did not know yet. Yes, many businesses affected. It's terrible.

I drove to Central it was open. A lot of cars on the road. Meechok road was totally dry. 1317 as well. Still flooding in many parts.

Well, given that the ICI is based in part on the quality of universities, and the elite universities in the US and UK depend on the contributions of non American and non UK people we must be agreeing that the ICI does not support the notion that Europeans are more ingenous. Otherwise you would be talking nonsense.

There's a lot. Chef's table, Redbox, Baan Landai, Kiti Panit, Nasi Jumpru, Rock me Burger, Idink klin Krog, Sukishi Korean BBQ, Chennai to Rangoon, Petit Jardin, Tulou, Chom

Well, I was replying to someone who claimed that the adverse and harsh conditions in Europe created a people with higher ingenuity. I then replied that a problem with that claim is that Taiwanese, Japanese, Hong Kong Chinese, Chinese, Singaporeans, and South Koreans have a higher IQ than Europeans. And also that in Siberia the even harsher conditions would then have had to create an even more ingeneous people, but photography, x rays, or the telephone did not come out of Siberia. So you then texted the ICI, because there the US and UK have a high ranking. However, as we have established, that index takes into consideration the work of non American and non British, indeed non Europe people, the finest lecturers in the elite universities. So we agree basically that the ICI is not useful in supporting the claim that Europeans are more ingenous because of harsh conditions. Okay. I don't have a "need" to "speculate" about whether or not the ranking of elite US and UK univerisities is due to non-American and non-British lecturers, that's an obvious fact. I've been in in Oxford and I can tell you it's the most international place you can imagine. If you take non-European people out of the UK or US universities, their rankings will drop. Considerably. I'm not speculating. That's a fact.

The ICI takes into consideration the quality of universities. So as a matter of course US and UK universities are given very high ratings due to their elite universities. However, those elite universities have lecturers from China, Japan, South Korea, from all over the world really. So it's important to understand that the ICI is not a suitable marker for the intelligence of European White nations, because it takes into account the contributions of many non-white, non European educators.

So why do Europeans not have a higher IQ than Taiwanese, Japanese, Singaporeans, Hong Kong Chinese, South Koreans, Chinese? https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-iq-by-country Another problem with that argument is why are people in Siberia then not the most ingenous and intelligent? Why did photography, the telephone and x rays not come out of Siberia? Conditions are even harsher there, surely the people should be even more ingenous?

I was just told by someone who lives in Urbana 1 that the Superhighway 11 side road is flooded. Not sure if the main Superhigh way is flooded. If anyone is driving on the Superhighway 11 tell us here. It could go either way with Central Festival, they're known to battle through emergencies, but given the state of the roads there would hardly be any people going there, and not sure if employees can come in either. They're obviously elevated though, so Central Festival may not be affected. I feel bad for the small Thai shop owners, I saw dozens flooded yesterday. First covid lockdown now this. This is will be really bad for businesses. Many great restaurants will close.I had a reservation at Petit Jardin yesterday. They had to cancel as the restaurant was forced to close. Power cut.

Ignore the Democrat spin doctors, very interesting article. Disgraceful Kamala Harris supported these criminals. Looters, Loozers and fraudsters.

I've just been driving 7 hours in Chiang Mai. It is very dangerous, roads being flash flooded. Don't venture out. Can't go to Central. Festival or Don Chan Big C. The road to the Airport is of course flooded. Nong Hoi, the road to Lat Prao and in the other direction all have flooding. I saw the powers that be go down there with boats to save people. The big bridge-type motorway to San Kamphaeng, off the 121, has a swimming pool at the bottom. Traffic jams are massive, people stranded walking on the streets, cars going the opposite direction. Pandemonium. Debris all over the place from the floods. If can, stay at home. God blessed San Kamphaeng, which is not affected.

A psychologist? A misguided child and a psychologist would suffice for this? Are you serious?

I tell you what, I wish I'd chosen Thailand 20 years ago.

Both are of course part of it. Cultural expression takes many paths.

Yes, a paywall article, shame, it looked interesting. The wiki article just tells of Stalin's population transfers, very common in those days, don't forget the Americans and Churchill sanctioned the ethnic cleansing of 14 million Germans after the war. The Atlantic Council is of course a vile propaganda vehicle of NATO and the US, and has no place in a discussion on culture. In Russia it is banned by law. Quite rightly too. But then your last link is not bad, it gives the full picture of Russia's diverse ethnic make up, 190 ethnicities. Quite something. As for "destruction of criticism" I don't really buy into that narrative, after all in the US the mainstream media has all but banned critical voices that attack Kamala Harris, in Germany thought crimes are used to silence critics of the government. Russia's policies are just what all states engage in. And i don't believe high culture necessarily has to be critical of the government anyway, if you remember Richard Strauss, quite good music, and not government critical at all.

Great video. So funny.

It's a global conspiracy.

And those funny thin skiis, any type of skiis really...