TroubleandGrumpy

TAT is all lies and distortions - the truth is not what they claim it is. Imagine being a Government Agency that is funded and management bonuses paid, based on your own in-house (and very private) methods of performance management. TAT claims every arrival is a tourist and that they all spend an average of 50K here each. I dont think that the people walking over the southern border this weekend to visit friends, family or bars/girls, are spending anywhere near that amount. 3.5 million tourists from Malaysia already this year - I call that BS.

Maybe - but maybe you are wrong. We western raised kids did things for a long time, that are just not done today in the west anymore. That includes riding a bike to school for long distances in bad weather. I agree the policing situation could be much better - but as already explained they have to pay for things like that themselves - what policeman is going to spend his salary on petrol and a car to patrol the roads? Like you I take it as it is - but I dont think they are 'bad' - it is just the way it is here - and it will not change for a long time.

Good observations - I saw the same and recommended to my son that he focus on developing AI and not so much on the coding. Finished the degree, which was all about coding, but is now working for Government on AI implementation and developments. Hopefully one day he will be setup enough and have a go at doing it himself with his own company - you never know. IMO there will always be the need to employ those who can develop and implement AI - until the day Skynet becomes self-aware of course 🙂 But on a serious note - computers are just algebraic machines that can calculate extremely quickly using algorithms - they are a long long way from independent nuanced calculus type thinking. Many years ago I played chess and computers were developed which got better and better - and then one day I castled to set what it would do - and it was thrown out and I smashed it. It took many years before a program was developed to counter that 'unusual' move. AI is just reactive calculators operating within programmed parameters, with loopback 'learning' mechanisms. That was developed in the 80s and the guys that did that won the Nobel Physics award this year (Hopfield and Hinton) - it is just that with networked computers and components and their much lower costs it is possible to do it now. If you want to know about this field - check out the development of 'Self Driving' at Tesla. However. IMO for a long long time, there will be something 'instinctive' that an AI device will not understand and they will need a person to develop and implement them. They are like a savant that can calculate mathematics unbelievably, but cannot put on their shoes.

Nail on the head hit - exactly correct. I reckon Shapiro said it best - Facts do not care about your Feelings.

Clearly you do not know what Daddy Issues means.

The battery is what burns - spontaneous combustion - runaway thermal reaction. Up to you - put it under your bed for all I care.

Calling your Daddy names is just more proof.

The battery

My bad - did some checking and they are there - could not find them when last buying. Most of the websites not great - unlike BMW and Toyota - clearly only thinking about Thai buyers. But there are some good places, and it has shown me where there are dealers that are linked with the manufacturer. They are not 'official' dealers as such, but they are under the manufacturers umbrella. And yes they all offered finance for the newer used cars. Good to know - next year we are looking for a newer used car. Back in Aust when a car is 3-5 years you could take it back to the dealer and get a decent trade on a new model, or a newer used one. Thanks.

Well said - not sure he will understand though - cognitive bias precludes it.

Still got Daddy Issues

EV battery fires maybe?

Like I said - Daddy Issues.

I'll be blunt and 'not nice', and say it. Yes it is not an exaggeration and that is why I usually avoid other Expats. In my experience, most of those I have got to know, I did not want to know. and I dont know now. But it depends on where they are a lot, in terms of what sort of nutter they are. Many of those that live/reside in the tourism/bar-girl areas, are very strange and/or 'damaged'. Many of those that reside in the bush/remote areas, are lunatics that have 'gone feral' (some even think they are 'Thai').

Good point - some do have that option available - but not 'directly' as such - meaning not signed 'in house'. But those that do, can organise for a rep from a finance company to get involved. Very few 'non-franchised' used car dealers in Thailand. Only Toyota and BMW do that here, that I am aware of. And even then, the Toyota Sure places also sell other brands. It always makes me wonder why in Thailand, the 'dealers' only sell brand new cars of that brand. Where do the 'demos' get sold here? Why dont they sell traded-in models that are only a few years old? When reflecting on that and other idiosyncrasies here, I wonder why are 80% of the dealer used cars advertised online here, those that are for sale in Bangkok?

Just make sure you 'park' it well away from the house 😉

I agree - they are like the Japanese cars were like in the early 60s - cheap but not so good. But like the Japanese, they will get better and will probably dominate sales of EVs - when the time is right for EVs.

Yes indeed - and the silly fools fall for it every time. I recall the guns and abortions debate. We must allow abortions to be legal or they will be done illegally and bad things will happen. and then...... We must make guns illegal and that will stop bad thing happening. If they had enough sense to see the hypocrisy in their own views, they would be mature adults and vote for Trump.

No they dont (have more brains than this). They believe any MSM lies/distortion about Trump - because they need to hate him. I read somewhere that many of them have 'Daddy Issues'.

Yes I am serious - you assume she did not know - but what if she did know? Either way, they were in a relationship and she 'did the dirty' and gave him a terrible disease. In a legal sense - if you kill someone doing something 'wrong' they call that manslaughter. Likewise. ignorance of the Law is not an excuse to break a Law. Yes he was out of order, but 5 years in jail - on top of a STD that will affect his life going forward. Are you serious?? PS - the thing to do is to get an anonymous account that cannot be traced to yourself and download it using another device that also cannot be traced to you (internet cafe etc.). Before that, take everything off your phone/laptop that you need and lose it in a lake - and tell everyone for a few days that your phone was stolen - then download the stuff.

Says something IMO. She can get and give him an awful disease without telling him she had it, and there is no charge/offence? Posting pictures of her is definitely out of order, but 5 years in jail??

Mate - you need to rethink that analogy. If you drive at 60KPH you will do 60Kms in one hour - therefore 1Km in 1 minute. However, you are IMO 'almost correct'. The real reason feet, yards etc are still used a lot is because the height of a human being is very easily estimated when measuring them in feet - I mean how tall is someone that is 1.67 metres high? Likewise, the world professional golf tournaments are all played in yards - and as a player I find it easier to estimate a distance in yards than in metres. But overall the metric system leaves the imperial for dead - especially when it comes to weight and volume.

Post of the day winner - congratulations !!

I think you are the type of person that Trump loves. Why smart people are more likely to believe fake news | Books | The Guardian Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things - YouTube Intelligence doesn’t make you immune to conspiracy theories – it’s more about thinking style (theconversation.com) Quote from the Guardian - "A firmer grounding in sceptical reasoning could help everyone – whatever their IQ – to use their intelligence to make wiser judgments." These days kids are not so much 'educated' as they are 'indoctrinated' to believe whatever the teachers are saying is important. By the time they get to Uni it is too late - it needs to be done in the junior schools. Can you imagine that Uni under-grads who are gay, were marching to support the fanatical Islamists in Gaza who would kill them if they dared entered their part of Gaza and behaved that way.

I actually saw it while looking at a few youtube videos/channels - it might have been Jordan Peterson who first pointed me at it years ago. Give it a try - maybe you will learn something new - I was surprised too.