GrungthepGringo

In your case, even if the lights were on, still nobody is home. But hey, send me your long outstanding electric bill and I'll pay it for you. Then they will turn your power back on immediately. But it's not going to help you any because you're still always going to be in the dark.

Well done. Nobody is going to ever overcharge you 10 Baht in a bar. You should always fight for the last Baht until the end as you did. Plus, you've taught the women in that bar such a valuable lesson that they have learned immensely from and which they will never forget. And since you've been in Thailand for 10 years, you've certainly earned yourself the right to hug and sit with bar girls for free while they are working! Do you know bob smith? He would be very very proud of you! bob, oh bob, where are you?

If that's the criteria, then my vote is for Brick Top from Snatch.

This is not factual or news. It's an editorial. Meaning it's mostly opinions of the one writer at the Thaiger who created this piece. Maybe he even had some help from AI. So bear that in mind in the event you are expecting to read something detailed based on actuality. TBH, I skimmed the first few sections and gave up for the above reasons.

I hear ya, but bear in mind that the sound of the voice is only a "skin" or a "theme" laid on top of the AI model. So whether it's Kev, Lek, your favorite tranny, David Attenborough, the Som-Tom lady, or Sean Connery's voice, it will still respond with the same level of knowledge and acuity no matter which voice you are employing. So just imagine Kung from Up2U Bar being able to chat with you about quantum physics all night. Unfortunately though you'll still have to go down to Soi 6 for your happy ending.

For AN site members, once you can train the AI on the voice of your choice, they will probably want to create a voice speaking in broken mamasan/bar-girl English. Then they won't even need to go out to the bars; once they can chat all night with an AI model that sounds like a polite and respectful bar girl, and without having to pay for any lady drinks.

I agree, cannabis has hurt the illegal speed/meth market. And, as you said, has also harmed the cannabis black market. Given, if they make cannabis illegal again, it will increase the price for cannabis (benefiting the cannabis black market) and could reduce the current competition cannabis now poses for both speed and alcohol. So a win, not only alcohol, but for the cannabis and speed black markets too. As for Tony, he doesn't seem to yield the same level of power as before. Many see him as a runaway coward/criminal. Thus, the level of his importance has fallen and wealthy and powerful players in the cannabis industry like Anutin and Prawit are what he's now up against. He's also probably favoring the alcohol cartels more than he is the police and the black market drug industry at this point. Tony's greatest power is now within the PT party and controlling the ruling government, but things that are outside of his party's control is where his weakness really shows. It's not the old days when his power was far more consolidated and wide sweeping.

I don't think the AI is being used as the source of facts for the news articles. I think the writers take anecdotal information gathered from other sources (often unreliable and unconfirmed sources), drop it into the AI and ask the AI to write an article based on the information that the writers have provided to the AI. What you get is an article acting as factual news and information when it clearly is not. Or, the writers simply plagiarize other existing news articles by feeding the existing articles into the AI and ask the AI to rewrite the article to sound different, but to contain the same basic information. So it's just a regurgitated article that has been basically stolen from another source. Either way, it's not a good thing. The information put forward in many articles as being the facts is often just sensationalist conjecture and/or misinterpretations and incorrect translations of Thai language news articles.

When cannabis was decriminalized in 2022 there were 3,071 people released from the prisons who were serving sentences related to cannabis. If the laws are reversed back, then I imagine prisons could have as many as 30,000 or 40,000 people incarcerated for cannabis offenses by 2028 because of the exponential increase in the sale and use of cannabis flowers that has occurred over the last 2 years. That would cause a massive strain on the prison system, but it seems like the people in power aren't concerned about that. They recently decriminalized cannabis in Germany and one of the main reasons they did is was because there were over 200,000 open cases in the German judicial system that was putting a massive strain on law enforcement in Germany. So they decided decriminalizing it was better for everyone since they were clearly losing the war on cannabis. I think what Thailand doesn't seem to realize is that if they make cannabis a criminal class 5 narcotic drug again then it will likely have little impact on their intended goal of reducing current usage. However, it will increase the strain on law-enforcement, the judicial system and the prisons. And it will push the whole industry back underground, and back into the black market. So things will get worse for civil society, not better.

I think that's because there probably isn't another country like Thailand where the people in power (and who make the laws) are controlled by the influence, money and power yielded by the alcohol cartels over government decisions. This in turn can steer the profitability of the alcohol industry. At the end of the day, cannabis is the biggest threat to the alcohol industry in Thailand and has already had an impact on their profits. Now that this has become apparent (from the 2 year cannabis decriminalization experiment), the alcohol cartels are trying desperately to reverse things back.

So far it hasn't helped. And, in fact, the factuality of the articles that are intended to be news has continued to decline.

Always the hub of all hubs. Land of hubs.

Personally, I would never want it to know those things because that's not what I would ever want to use it for. But it's heading that way. Eventually it will start remembering things about you from your interactions with it and be able to provide information, feedback, and responses tailored towards your persona. Again, not what I would want. But I think that's part of where it's heading.

your always the victim right? it's all just a big hoax. in fact, it's a witch hunt the likes of which the world has never seen before, isn't it? obviously you never did anything wrong. you are the absolute perfect manifestation of an ideal foreigner living in thailand and you make their lives so much better by spending your masses of money there. i'll bet all the best people have already told you that?

Fagettaboutit. The whole thing never even happened.

I think the majority of people who have responded to this thread would have simply done the same. It seems like the normal thing to do in Thailand. Especially since sending your food back in a fit of dissatisfaction will likely result in something even worse being done to your food. It's just common sense to pay and leave without making a scene or a fuss. That's why the whole story seems like it can only be pulp fiction. But it is funny to think that someone would actually be as foolish to act any differently in that situation or to even rant about it on a public forum looking for sympathy.

Seems he might use things like grape jelly or maple syrup to improve the taste of tranny salad: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tossing the salad

How about "tossed your salad"? bob smith probably does that regularly on tranny nights.

You could say you "cooked up" a salad and that would be correct English.

Serious question. Why does only bob smith encounter such ridiculous situations in Thailand? I realize all of his posts are fictional, that he is simply trolling in order to keep people busy and to provoke 4-5 pages of chaotic replies, but let's imagine for a second that any one of his posts were actually a real encounter. Who could possibly have such consistently bad human relations with people? Is it even possible to have such poor interpersonal skills as this fictional character bob smith portrays himself as?

Probably would be a lot more comfortable with a lot less grief.

10X more at least.

And a common narrative which often leads to motorcycle accidents, expensive hospital bills to pay, drunk driving, expensive fines to pay, and the beat goes on...

It takes a brave and naïve man to eat anything after having sent it back in a fit of dissatisfaction.

Yes. Can. 1,000 B if you have form prepared and photo. 1,200 B if you did not bring form and photo. The office is open 24 hours. Right next to the immigration queue on the left side before you exit out through immigration. If you can't find it just ask the airport staff. They will show you.