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Lazada is the only one with mostly English options. But I often use it on Google Chrome to get a full translation. Only the comments now have translation which is really good. Then the app could see a lot of improvements. I just wish Lazada would get rid of all the fakes and low quality things. I know... I've already ranted about this so much, but... Try to search for brands, like "makita" the first 10 pages are all fake. same for shoes, clothe, computer, phones, etc. If you don't have knowledge and know to spot fake vs real, It is incredibly easy to buy a fake, tell you haven't gotten a fake in Lazada once? I've got, and I have always been super geeky. except with shoes... I got a fake nike, returned was easy, Lazada accepted my return as counterfeit. Shop continues to sell.

Yep! If this goes on, the RTP is going to be super pissed. massive revenue vanished overnight. They already lost revenue from weed, now this, soon the casinos? 🤣 🤣 🤣

Absolutely True. It's so bad how most cars tires have poor tires.... I like to pay a lot of attention to details in cars, after all I'm car enthusiast, one thing I always do as a habit is check the tires when I pass by one, just a habit. even in my closed Villa when I take kids out, I would say most of the cars have at least one these symptoms: - Overly used tires, never rotated, and some tires already can see the threads (my neighbor Isuzu have the threads already out!) - Under-inflated, some by a lot and they driving it everyday. - Over inflated, you can tell how the center is so much eaten up, and the corners are not. these are very dangerous and easy to blow up. - Too old and already having cracks everywhere. - I once spotted screws deep inside the tire for a neighbor, guided her to not remove and go asap fix it. it's still there today 😄 I once rented a car in Chiang Mai, via those big names in the airport, I got a Toyota corolla with tires at least 8 years old, it was so dry and super slippery. They said it still had a lot of thread left 🤦‍♀️ which was true. Tires would even spin on that 1.5L weak engine, so terrible experience. Then the next time I book a Mitsubishi expander, they gave me a replacement Toyota Fortuner, the car was great, but the tires were really bad, not as bad as the previous time, but enough to make me nervous. I like the PSI a bit on the high end, normally I set 36-38PSI (that is 2-4PSI higher) I get better fuel economy and the steering wheel gets a bit lighter, while still being safe. I change my tires every 4-5 years, regardless of thread level. I go only for Michelin ( I've had Primacy 4, Primacy SUV+, Pilot Sport 4 and 5) also had a really good results with the Continental MC6, used one for almost 5 years, then replaced with Primacy 4, on the HRV. TIP to everyone: Stay away from the new continental EV, and Michelin EV tires for EV cars. They are terrible, they sacrifice wet and dry performance for lower rolling resistance, that in reality only saves a few percent of range. They are not worth it, and they are bloody expensive!

Damn. This is so tragic! I can’t imagine the despair of the parents waiting to know if their little child is one that escaped or died on the fires. This is super sad. i’ve already cancelled all field trips for daughters. No more. Do you trust the life of your cold in hands of a Thai bus drivers and often untrained teachers?

Guys, this is a huge problem worldwide, and now in Thailand it's starting to pick it up. How it start most of the times: the abusers start in social media, looking for teens and kids, then make friends and ask a photo or something that makes them shame, such as giving a top-less photo shot. Then, the criminal suddenly change attitude and ask for more, threatening to release that first photo to the school, parents and friends, making the child fear for being shamed. This go on for months or years, they are made do things in the camera and online, even meeting up. In the UK this happened a lot and still happening, also it started in Australia. Those kids and teens are being traumatized for life, they cannot even talk about it before totally breaking down. And do you know where the photos end up? in websites where people pay crypto to get those child abuse content. Worse of all, those websites are incredibly hard to take down. https://www.interpol.int/en/News-and-Events/News/2023/Operation-Narsil-disrupts-network-of-child-abuse-websites-designed-to-generate-profits-from-advertising The FBI and the Interpol are taking down sites all the time, but it's really hard and take a while. I read all about it this book with a lot of details: "Rinsed by Geoff White" https://www.ft.com/content/35867bba-65b5-407d-967e-716ef5cfb633 If you want to know how all this works, this book is incredibly good with mind blowing details. What do parents and schools need to do urgently: 1. Educate and teach children of the dangers in the internet, showing clearly how it's done and how they can prevent 2. Parents need to closely monitor teens mobile phone and social accounts. (parents can even use iPhone in child mode, so that the phone itself has safe guards enabled to prevent child abuse, Apple has child pornography detection. 3. Teens should have all the social profiles locked down to be private and all privacy settings should be enabled. Most parents dont do this.

Just something I wanted to share, and hear your opinions on this. Does anyone think there is really a lot of control coming from countries and governments? Think about, this CRS system is so new and so powerful where all governments can track and assert control, such as denying a marriage visa based on the fact he missed declaring source he had abroad from other means. The end of cash and move to digital wallets is the beginning of the end of privacy. What can be the solution? I read about what Tornado cash did, allowing fully anonymous transactions on Ethereum. This is huge because any blockchain that is private is banned almost everywhere, like Dash, Firo, But Ethereum? I cannot be banned right? In summary, crypto really is the only way the government cannot track and control. and I think the current price of BTC is very much related to the new worldwide agreement for CRS. Could it be real and happening already? What do you all think?

It actually can happen and work well since Thailand has joined and have access to Common Reporting Standard (CRS) system. They just need to be able to use it! How the CRS Works in lame terms: 1. All financial institutions from participating countries have to identify and report all "reportable" account holders. 2. The selection and identification of reportable accounts are based on: residency address, amount in the account, and type of account. - Individual accounts: no exemption, everyone is reported. - Corporate accounts: those with more than 250,000 USD. 3. If TRD need to audit specific people, it can request via CRS if there are accounts abroad, the banks will have to share the information TRD will need to be able to use this system effectively. and as well it will depend on the banks on how "diligent" they are to report their foreign accounts. Sources: - https://www.asco.or.th/uploads/upfiles/files/ASCO article_CRS_ed(1).pdf - https://www.rd.go.th/fileadmin/user_upload/FATCA_File/crs/Thailand_CRS_Guidance_280823.pdf Just my thinking, I could be wrong; I still do believe they left a loophole: Entity accounts with more than 250.000 USD. What if people start signing up for entity accounts and registering a dummy business just to cover the requirements. Then that account can be used to avoid being report via CRS. Also I think there are many other ways people will find loopholes. I Think in the crypto space is where this can't be tracked, and of course, people will look for banks that don't participate in CRS. Another option Im sure people will try to use different residency address. However if TRD request information, they will get it. What I dont know is how effectively the TRD can leverage the use of CRS, just a matter of when!

Take that 800,000 Baht out, buy 0.4 in Bitcoin. 5 years from now you can retire in the Maldives Island. If you're still alive.

100% agree, I do NOT recommend those places, you have no protection, and you are likely to get scammed. I work in the credit card industry, can't say much more, but I can tell you one thing: Most sellers and merchants that have bad intentions, will avoid taking credit cards. Credit cards have a lot of regulations and pretty good protection. Didn't get what you wanted or got scammed, no problem... you can get the money back with some effort depending on how good is the bank from your card. That is why I recommend people to use credit card, and most of the time Thai people are so scared to use credit card online, not knowing that is actually much safer than doing a Promptpay transaction or Internet banking transfer.

Micro-dosing has probably been spoken in here. I switched from smoking 7g/week to less than 2g/week. I can say that much smaller doses is really the best way to consume... It still help me to get rid of the pains, I can function very well, and I still manage to train hard with micro-dosing. However I do micro-dosing with vaporizers only, I use Dynavap. With using less, it cost less, and I can spend on high quality weed. I found a shop that sells really amazing flowers for like 500B per 10g. that last me 1 month.

Ugh, this is so pointless. The government is just wasting time on these fluff pieces that just make them look busy. Prices are bound to go up with this, and I doubt it'll fix anything. The bigger problem is the rampant fakes flooding Lazada and Shopee. It's crazy! Search for a Makita drill, 90% are knock-offs! Collagen Type 2? Forget about it! All fakes. And the highest voltage drill you find? now we are talking 259V! 🤣 Finding genuine stuff is a nightmare because Lazada keeps pushing these fakes every time in the results. At least refunds are easy. Got my money back for everything fake I got on Lazada, including some fake Nike shoes. Refund approved instantly by Lazada under "Counterfeit", returned in 3 days, yet the seller's still selling those fakes! Anyone else feel like this needs a real solution, not a band-aid?

I made a really good amount in BYD stock, glad it was not TESLA 😄 would have lost half. It's true, the USA is really bad at mass-manufacturing products that can be competitive with China even after shipping. But this is old news... this is the past and both countries are not not so worried about that. What they are both worried and competing very heavily and discreetly is the AI and Chip WAR. 1. In AI software development and applications, both US and China are the biggest players by far without any serious competition, the likes of Google, MSFT, BABA, JD.com, Baidu, and others are the examples. 2. Chip manufacturing: there is a lot happening, It's really tight for China now, that they are making new orders for outdated Chip designs (ARM) because the quota to purchase newest high end chips from TSMC from Qualmcom design is very limited and blocked by the BIDEN administration. 3. Biden is dumping a load of money on the CHIP Acts, to bring manufacturing to the US. This wont happen anytime soon. Chip manufacturing is staying in Taiwan for a very long time 😄

Actually this is very interesting, because many people don't know that BYD has been making extremely efficient and resonably reliable Gasoline engines, more efficient than Toyota and Nissan. This new BYD engine has a brake thermal efficiency (BTE) of 43%; the world’s most thermally efficient gasoline engine in production. To achieve this large range you need very good efficiency, and BYD is really good at it, only behind Tesla and German cars.

Best of luck and I have full sympathy, since I also have girls in school. It's really tempting to try to justice with our own hands, seeing our own child getting abused to be traumatized for life is very hard to deal with. I hear this happens a lot in Thailand and most schools will try everything to hide it. PLEASE do everything you can to make those responsible pay for this.

Unless Super rich gets into the Digital card or digital wallets, they are out of business in 5 years. Even crypto wont save them.

Travel cards are amazing if you can use them! I just started using SCB Planet Travel card (https://www.scb.co.th/en/personal-banking/cards/prepaid-cards/planet-scb-card.html) It's sooooo good!!! It's so good because you basically use the SCB app to Top up any currency, anytime, anywhere, without the 2-4% that most Cards use for foreign currencies. Example: I went to Japan in December last year, we bought some good amount of JPY from the SCB app and used the card every where in Japan, enough to pay the houses we stayed, food and transportation. Twice during the Trip we topped up the card with more JPY, right from the SCB app while still in Japan using 5G. In the end we came back to Thailand only a few JPY left and I exchanged it back to THB. not a single coin! Major benefits: - No need to handle coins or paper money - No need to handle Superrich queues - No need to pay for extra exchange fees - Easy to track what you spend in the SCB App - SCB Card works everywhere (except inside taxis or buses) If you need cash, no problem, use your SCB planet card to withdraw cash in Japan ATMs! we did that as well to pay at some shops that refused cards 😄 PS: I'm no sales from SCB or have any links with them, I'm just an IT Infosec professional and I advice what is best in IT and security.

Society now a days is so fkd up, with so many abandoned and neglected children, bad schools and bad education system, all the raping in the Thai TV dramas, Canabis is a least the minor issue I would say... They just want to take away our only form of escape and recreational without paying taxes on it. They cannot tax cannabis and they failed to get rich, so they want to take it back. Not to mention the big revenue loss to the police, they must be desperate.

Even the waterfalls for my occasional morning showers are not cold like before here in the south. Water that was coming out to be 15-17C right near the top are now definitely above 20C. If not 25C, wouldn’t be surprised. The last year almost everyday was a high temperature record, never happened before at this level of acceleration of global temperature rise.

The banning of vapes in Thailand must only be related to the Tabaco taxes going into certain pockets. Everyone knows this. I would say that vaping is only bad because it lets you smoke better, cleaner, cheaper and much more convenient. That said, it's easy to smoke more leading to long term addiction, the same goes for cannabis. I do have some portable vapes that last me almost a year, just for backups on trips, but no way it beats dry herb vaporizers like the dynavap that I have learned. When vaporizing, the herbs are only baked at high temperature, enough to release the compounds, but not enough to burn it to ashes going to your lungs. There is no burnt substrates, only pure extraction that provide exceptional flavors, and best of all, it extends my flower reserve because I now smoke 1/4 of what I used to do. After I discovered herb vaporizer method, I have not lit a joint since a year! But... vapes uses oil and concentrates, and I do know that there are some really crappy low quality vapes out there.

It is true there will be new battery technology coming based on Solid State. However current Lithium batteries are actually really good, and I do think LFP batteries have a long way to go, compared to NMC Lithium batteries. For comparison, Tesla and the first EV cars has been using NMC batteries since 2012, and only in 2023 it switched to LFP batteries with some models, other models are to follow this year. LFP batteries are the most durable and long-lasting batteries, and has slowly become one of the most popular in the industry. Every BYD car uses it. They are greatly overlooked and most people dont know they can actually last 1,000,000 KM , mostly used where long-range is not the primary requirement but affordability and battery life are. Eventually density will increase and provide better range. Here is a comparison, which translates to the battery of BYD atto 3 having the ability to last millions of KMs, which is way before the car itself is gone. This image is a bit old, and new LFP batteries are able to reach 200 Wh/kg If you ask me, LFP is always preferable for everything other than high performance luxury cars. It is crazy that it has been so overlooked and under-appreciated.

This article main image is so obviously created with AI, and then the article looks like it is as well. so much low quality content from that site...

And it looks like it's really bad in Myanmar, it confirms what people are saying and why so many are fleeing Myanmar. Laos and Cambodia have worsened a lot as well. I had to dig a bit to get to these reports here: https://ocindex.net/report/2023/04-continental-overview.html

Some news! The BYD Atto 3 now has dropped 200,000 Baht from the full price. The standard range 50KWh used to be 1.1 MB , Now it is being sold for 900K THB This is really a huge discount, now a tesla cost twice as the BYD, and now it is even cheaper than the popular ICE cars like Honda HRV, Toyota Corolla/Cross.

I also watched the same video and I realized the BYD Atto 3 is not a perfect car, and actually this is really bad for the customers. These LFP batteries are great for life cycle, but there is also the failed modules that will happen way before the battery reach 50% life time, or 1/2 of the 2500 cycles. If the individual module that failed cannot be easily replaced to save the whole battery, then doesn't matter than LFP batteries have such a long life cycle of nearly 1 million KMs. This is very crucial detail that nobody knows about, and will not surface until we see a lot of people affected by this, many years in the future. On the positive side, the BYD battery has very good water proofing, and so does the Tesla battery. Tesla and Nissan both have the best battery pack in terms or serviceability and repairs.

@macahoom also note that the MG4 motor is at the rear, RWD, while the MG ZS EV is at the front. that makes a difference in the fun factor by a large margin for EV, FWD EV car have many handling problems because of the very high torque on the front wheel. the ZS EV had this problem and I could hardly floor it on a straight without the car driving like a snake. You should really test drive the Tesla Model 3, if you liked the MG4. but not the Model Y. I hated the MG ZS EV that I had. sold it with 40% losses. If you still have yours, you might as well keep it 😄