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What I remember from Bangkok is that in rush hour the cops would switch off the automatic system of traffic light and start doing it manually. Which of course led to total gridlock. I hope this new system can not be switched off the cops so can do it manually because they think they can do it better.

Oh no, another crackdown! But we all know this is just a token gesture. The powers that be on Phuket earn a nice little income (some not so little) from the kickbacks they get from the taxi mafia, so they’re not about to slaughter the goose that lays the golden eggs.

The Wagner boss is a personal friend of Putin Putin doesn’t have friends, personal or otherwise. Putin just uses people and when he has no more use for them he throws them away like used toiletpaper.

Other Russians - the very rich ones - are apparently getting in their private jets and leaving Moscow in droves. The rats are abandoning the sinking ship….

Talk about your close quarter fighting, holy sh*t! I could never do that. Those guys are real heroes.

Weh, we stole 140 million baht and they treated us like criminals, weh! (weh being the sound that a crying baby makes, in case that was not clear).

That’s a really bad joke!

and trousered a nice chunk of “influencer” change Which was, I would imagine, his primary goal: mo money, mo money, mo money!

What is it with these kids that they all carry around knives these days? It’s just completely nuts. When I was young, you fought with your fists. Nowadays, kids stab and kill each other seemingly without a second thought. And it’s not just Thailand, it’s all over Europe as well.

So just because you’re being a giant d*ck gets you interrogated by the police? Seems a little over the top to me.

Russia uses “disposable troops”. Journalists at the BBC and Mediazona have recorded the names of more than 25,000 Russian combatants killed in Ukraine. The typical KIA soldier isn’t who he used to be. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/06/16/the-changing-face-of-dead-russian-soldiers

I’m quite sure most officers are well aware of the thin line between crime and policing, but not for the right reasons. And that is why they joined the RTP in the first place: because it’s just so easy for the RTP to act as a mafia and collect huge illegal sums of money. One becomes a Thai police officer to get a slice of that pie and one is prepared to pay handsomely for that ‘privilege’. The system is rotten to the core, from the bottom all the way to the top, and the higher up you get, the more corrupt they are and the more money they make. Absolutely disgusting.

The air pollution for 5-6 months around the dry season is the number 1 reason for me not to retire there. I was in Chiang Mai in the dry season of 1988/89 for six months and absolutely loved it, mostly sunny, clear skies you could see forever, nice temperatures, not too hot, and quite cool during the nights. I’ve been back twice since then, got bronchitis both times. Now it’s just a more or less constant haze, it’s quite hot, the hot season starts much earlier. So thanks, but no thanks for me, I will find me another spot to retire to, probably not even in Thailand.

Kremlin officials turn to heavy drinking to cope with war stress: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/06/18/kremlin-officials-vodka-alcohol-ukraine-russia-war-stress/ May they all drink themselves to death a.s.a.p.

“Russia sets date of elections in newly annexed territories for Sept. 10, RIA reports” https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-sets-date-elections-newly-annexed-territories-sept-10-agencies-2023-06-15/ Hopefully by then there will be considerably less occupied territory in Ukraine that Russia can hold elections in. But besides countries like Iran, Syria and North Korea, there won’t be anyone who will recognize the results of these “elections” anyway.

Wonder how many people are pocketing money illegally and robbing children from being able to eat a healthy or at least decent lunch? It just goes to show how rampant corruption is in Thailand and how absolutely amoral lots of people are.

Putin is either delusional, or he’s being fed bogus numbers by his handlers. Or maybe both.

What’s the best place in Hua Hin to buy a new motorbike? And by ‘motorbike’ I mean one of those 100 or 125 cc semi automatics, like a Honda Wave or a Yamaha Finn or something like that. Are there any special offers to be had out there?

The brutality and barbarism of the Russians, as well as their hatred for Zelensky (Kryvy Rih is his hometown, which was bombed and at least 10 people dead) knows no bounds. How any western politician or citizen can still support Putin, or have even the slightest bit of sympathy for his brutal regime, is beyond me.

Not just a change in leadership, but a fundamental change in the way big corporations make money. For instance, big oil companies like Exxon and Shell knew back in the 1960’s and 70’s already that massive burning of fossil fuel was causing global warming and climate change. Yet they buried those reports and denied it to this day.

Nothing communist about it, just fascist.

The evil that is North Korea: “North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is cozying up to his counterpart in Russia, expressing "full support and solidarity" for the Kremlin's war on Ukraine.” https://www.businessinsider.com/kim-jong-un-praises-putin-his-war-wants-holding-hands-2023-6?international=true&r=US&IR=T

The evil that is Russia: “Kherson flooding: Ukraine evacuation boat attacked by Russia, killing three” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65869999

Holy sh!t! I wouldn’t want to be a hapless Russian soldier when that comes raining down. All those little ghosts (or whatever they are) appearing at the end of the video I find a little morbid, though….

Dumbing down seems to be the trend in the whole western world. Just look at the rise of the (extreme) right, if not outright fascism, in the USA and Europe. Lots of guys - and a few girls - are chomping at the bit to be next great dictator.