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16 hours ago, orchis said:

ok.

No problem to predict the future about smoke, we can tell on April 3 2024 how it wil be on April 4 in 2030

Jeez, get alive man. About 6-10% of the world human population is gay. It seems that figure in the animal world is even bigger.  So the other 90-94% is straight and always got 100% of the TV time. Now a few % of the TV time is spent on the other 6-10% of the population and it's immediately terrifying

Yes, it has an inpact on the youth of today. They finally learn that it is okay to be gay when they are born that way. Very few will act or turn gay if they are born straight. So, what is the idea behind the extinction of the world population when children see that it's okay to be gay???? There are still 90% of straight people, never learned to count at your school?

The coffee used in Thailand is for the iced and coffee shakes. Tons of sugar, ice and sweet milk added will take the sharp taste of the dark roasted (sometimes almost burned) beans. Not at all suitable for a nice hot espresso.

In the north of Thailand there are many coffee roasters who have light, medium and bold roasted beans. You can ask for all these different roasts. A good coffee roaster is Aka Ama calls the roastings like; city, Italian and dark roast. They grow and roast their own beans. Another one is Phupanna in Doi Saket.

Always check if you get Arabica and not a mix with Robusta beans.

From Phupanna I buy dark and bold roasted beans and mix them to find my taste of coffee.

21 hours ago, JeffersLos said:

Inferior German engineering. 

 

Not good like Thai engineering. 

It seems to me that this is a Chinese build car. Maybe some German electrical system in it but for sure wired in China.

Besides that, it's not common for metro systems to make an emergency stop between stations. The danger of people getting out and walk on the tracks where they can get electrocuted from the high voltage 3th rail is bigger than someone falling out the car. So usually the train moves on to the next station where assistance can be offered.

In the same article qoute Prayut:

On Thursday, Prayuth asked farmers to stop burning agricultural waste altogether after imposing a three-month ban on burning it last month.

“Please, I don’t want to use the laws. If it’s used, you all will be breaking it. I don’t want anyone to be in trouble, but you must think about the quality of life of others and their health too,” he said.

He knows he can't use the laws because then he has to address the big money in Thailand and they will kick him out if he does so.

Yes, we see fires around us but Chiang Mai province is doing its best. Bush fires are not always to avoid so we have to live with that, nothing new. Of course, there are fires lit by mushroom seekers and the police should actively seek and hunt those irresponsible people.

Thailand can do its best to avoid crop burnings in farm lands which are not too many of in the mountains around Chiang Mai. Last week there was many burning in the central of Thailand which you can blame to the crop burnings.

As you look at the fire hot spots today you will see it's burning all around Thailand in Burma and Laos and not to many fires around CM. So our government should talk in the Asian meetings about this.

Chiang Mai has the disadvantage of being surrounded by mountains so without wind or rain we are stuck with the smoke dwindling in from other places.

148 microns pm2.5 in the rice fields north of Chiang Mai for the past 3 days already. 

US AQI last 3 days 186 to 205 and rising. Only the UV index of very high doesn't seem right, the sun is hardly pusing through the smog.

Thanks for the reactions.

I was talking about the rain water sewage in the streets, it seems some of the houses have their gray water also connected to that. I live in a area that was private and the owner doesn't take care of it due to old age and illness. They claim the plan is handed over to the tessaban and the tessaban says it isn't, we finally sorted out this problem. Yet at this moment we still we don't know where the sewer pipes lead too but it's now a problem for the tessaban.

I wasn't talking about the sewer from our toilets, I live 11 years here and in 2 different houses, I know very well the septic tank system, thanks.

After clearing al the dirt and debris around the put holes I had come to the idea of the honey suckers myself. Later in the afternoon one took up the job and cleaned out the system in my street. 

Water from a laundry is suposed gray water yes but did you look what it does if it's standing still in the blistering sun? Algue will form and mosqitoes do like the place and I'm not talking about the smell yet.

I live in what seems to be a private part of a village. The municipal doesn't really help and the villagers take for granted that the sewers don't drain the water after a storm. Othe villagers even add water to the mud pool by dumping there waste water from there laundry machines.

I live near San Sai does anyone know or have experience with a company who can drain and clean the sewage system in our street?

The fire on Samoeng was light because the officials were busy with the election.... 

In the afternoon early evening in the Doi Saket area PM 2.5 is 45-60 µg / m³. when I wake up PM 2.5 is 100-150 µg / m³.

They still don't understand the fires ar light when the officials are sleeping.....

21 hours ago, Antonymous said:

I wasn’t that guy, but I can say that I agree with him that Chiang Mai is demonized in the news and particularly it seems by TV members.

One reason is that people commenting are ill-informed about the scale and nature of the problem. Another seems to be nothing other than schadenfreude on the part of some very bitter people!

I urge everyone to read the fairly comprehensive report below to get a proper overview of the issues:

https://prachatai.com/english/node/9122

I will highlight a few paragraphs:

“The haze problem in Thailand is mostly situated in the upper northern region in 9 provinces: Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai, Lamphun, Lampang, Phrae, Nan, Phayao, Mae Hong Son and Tak. It occurs from January to April of every year and is not a new problem for residents in the area.”

“Two myths created from the media’s emphasis caused misunderstandings among the people. One is that Chiang Mai faced the most severe problem, and the second is that this problem is likely to increase in severity every year. However, statistics over the past 24 years, ever since the establishment of the Chiang Mai and Lampang air quality monitoring stations in 1998, indicate otherwise.”

“Thai media often refer to the rankings in IQAir’s ‘AirVisual’ application. Headlines like “Chiang Mai haze ranked 1st worldwide” or “at 1st place nationally” were used, but in reality, this was based on real-time data from a point of time, not a 24-hour average as in the ‘Air4Thai’ application reported by the Pollution Control Department. It also only included less than 100 major cities in the world. For Thailand, only Chiang Mai and Bangkok were listed in the network.”

 “From the 2019 World Air Quality Report by IQAir AirVisual [https://www.iqair.com/world-most-polluted-cities] which ranked the worst average air quality in the world and regions, Chiang Mai is not the city with the worst air quality in ASEAN (this is South Tangerang, Indonesia) or in Thailand (this is Nakhon Ratchasima). Chiang Mai was ranked 372nd in a total of 4,680 cities worldwide.”

“Data from the Pollution Control Department’s website [air4thai.pcd.go.th] for the 5 years between 2015-2018 show that for Chiang Mai, the year with the highest amount of PM2.5 was 2015 at 266 µg/m³ while the year with the highest number of days with PM2.5 values exceeding the standard was 2014 with a total of 86 days.”

Numbers, numbers.... But the feeling and experience of the most people is that it's getting more intense every year. I too, I live 12 Km outside the city for the past 9 years and my own experience is that the smoke is intensifying especially the last 5 years. Doi Saket is only 5 Km away from my house and there are many days in these 3 months that it's only visible if I get to 2 Km from the village. The PM 2.5 levels are on average 80 µg/m³ but more and more over the 120 µg/m³

Many of my Thai friends feel the same so it's not only TV members.

https://www.thaienquirer.com/25270/behind-the-haze-the-truth-about-northern-thailands-smog-problem/

So, there are no cute male teachers in Thailand?

The movie has played in Chiang Mai for 3 weeks. There wasn't much publicity outside the Facebook pages. It is indeed an outside the box gay movie but much more it tells the story of the poor and rich sides of the people in Thailand and the drafting for the army. It's in ways funny and touching. And yes it was professional sub titled.

I need about 5 truck of 3m3 with good soil for a garden. Anyone knows a good place around Doi Saket / San Sai?

Well even in germany are still some tracks in the 1000mm gauge..... But nobody with common sence build new tracks with this gauge.

The standard gauge of 1435mm is very common in the world and even that gauge is considerd not wide enough to be 100% stable. But ALL high speed train tracks in the world are now made in the standard gauge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_gauge

Replacing the wooden sleeper with a concrete sleeper is no good if the concrete sleepers are from some inferior quality. I have seen loads of sleepers not conected to the rails, concrete or wooden. Maintenace is well below the norm for safety.

So why plan a high speed train? Start with making the land under the track stable, dubbel the tracks and go to the standard gauge. After that you can think of electrify the lines. If you generate enough passengers by then you can start thinking of a high speed train who then might pay itself back. In the mean time (I hope) they have build enough knowledge to maintain it all.