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I did at Bumrungrad many years ago using some new tech with only a few minor incisions, they are all go now. It was not expensive for 1 leg, maybe because I could leave the hospital in the afternoon and no need to admin... So, got there 9am fasting, back home by 4pm with lots of pain walking, but cleared after few days. The doctor was a friend, so he didnt charge too much for his fees, but I had to pay full for the hospital fee which was around 44K THB, without the discount about 120K. maybe today should be close to 200K. I only did because I had the opportunity and it was genetic to my DNA. it's been 10 years since then and my legs looks exactly the same today without any large varicose vein ( that's because I became athlete in the past 10 years since the surgery) Sclerotherapy is also a good option, if you only have very small varicose vein or spider veins. Large ones need the actual removal of the vein.

oh, please... it's not AI that is awful, it's how people use, it's a tool, a very powerful tool, just like a gun, how do you use a gun? careful how do you use AI? careless that sums it up. I create tools with AI, use it for almost most of my job, rely on it, cant be effective anymore without it. then there are the people who has no clue about anything... posting here.

In the 90s I used to go to Koh Samet and Koh Samui often as a teen, with friends from uni, etc. so fun! good weed everywhere and cheaper than beer, nothing like it is today full of crazy cheap drugs. we rented really nice bungalows with aircon for like 400-600B/night, sometimes camped in the beach too and had parties. then I revisited in 2015 and it was already 1500-2000B/night, the same places I used to stay for 400B/night. That was one of the best times of my life in Thailand. Now a days also good, no debt, 😄

oh man, how awesome was Bangkok and most of Thailand before Thaksin. I don't know exactly what really changed in Thailand but I can tell 30 years ago was amazing, then things changed a lot in early 2000's , After his the war on drugs, it seems the crimes increased and there is just so much artificial cheap drugs just everywhere, it's insane how bad it is now. Pubs are no where are as nice and relaxed as in the 90s here. I remember telephone pub, quite famous, then route66 opened. damn, good old days! and at least Silom was not the trash it is today!

Funny how so many people here fall for it and give their miserable replies. so pitiful Bob, please bring in more of your stories! I love the one from the other day.

That's the way ! BTC is the only true value, gov cant touch, cant print, cant take away!

Just to emphasize, a 60kwh BYD Blade battery costs 600,000 baht to import from China and another 100,000 baht in some fees. That’s why Insurance companies are gone nuts with price hiking in insurance. Having repairable batteries could bring back the insurance cost back to where it is same or cheaper than ICE cars. Tesla Battery Pack are repairable, but I for sure they can’t be repaired in Thailand and likely getting imported packs from China, or just call it totaled.

They used to be very expensive before, now not so much. Now a days you can get the ex30, for 1.9mBaht , which I think is a ripoff, unless the battery is repairable in Thailand. Then maybe not so much of a bad deal for consumers. BYD batteries are non-repairable but they are a lot cheaper and priced really good, you gotta give them the hats on that. The sea lion7 destroys de EX30 on all aspects, and cost 600k cheaper (1.3mBaht) Volvo by opening battery repair facilities is really a big deal. They could even repair batteries from Malaysia and Singapore.

I test drove this beast today. It is a BEAST, that 690NM of torque is insane. I drove in ECO mode, and it feels like ATTO3 in sport mode. I will likely get the RWD with 380NM. Space is so good, very large, tech is amazing and feeling so luxurious. I'm hooked on this car, tried all other in the same range, didnt like any. but this is it! something as good as my Toyota Fortuner Legender but purely EV. This is the closest to that car.

The challenge here is the police managing to get their laptops any crypto wallet unlocked. When it comes to this, the dirty police going to get a back over their head and make them unlock their BTC wallets, only then they get deported back to cheeseland. or like the Silkroad guy, that apparently "suicide" on jail after his BTC wallets got drained. Most criminals love Crypto, they keep their crypto wallet locked until they are released.

I'm actually really enjoying this show? who isn't? 🤣 🤣

I really enjoyed reading it, thanks man. Please bring more in!!!!

Now Imagine a China with an unlimited source of clean energy. Just imagine, since today their energy requirement is so large, they need to burn coal. what will that mean for the rest of the world, china without need to use coal or hydro, and with new cheap electricity. Because if they achieve that with Fusion energy, and I think they will very soon, it will put China in a position, kind of game over to the trade tariff wars...

Of course, and that is why both Trump and Musk knows very well that only BTC can't be printed. China is just too strong now in both Goods Manufacturing, Technology and LLM. TRUMP can try to put brakes on the goods manufacturing, he is trying hard to stop Chinese beast of technology by the EV cars tax BS, but that will only put a dent in the Dragon. Just look at the DeepSeek, that was a glorious blow to the USA and the rest of world. Trump will not be able to stop China technological domination even with crazy Taxing. if you dont know Deepseek, it can perform as good and even better in some areas than OpenAI, Claude and Facebook's LlamaAI, and still spend 1/10 of the required processing power and energy. It may sound like no big deal right? it is a huge deal! the power required for AI is really a lot, look at the price of an Nvidia H100 or H200 , with Deepeek I can run it on my mac!

Modern airplanes are much safer when only 1 out of 2 engines are working. The thrust, compensation and balance are all automatically handled by the computers. It would be impossible for the pilots to do that on the fly. They just need to fly the airplane with less available power and maneuverability. with only 1 engine: Pilots just need to be aware and trained of performance limitations. They need to plan a higher approach speed than normal, low speed with 1 engine can be very dangerous. Longer runway needed for landing roll due to reduced reverse thrust.

In Thailand the one thing you gotta learn: don't mess or piss off people with money or with police connections! your life can become very miserable, a friend in the police force told me many times and still tell me today. I can also say from own experience

He should have done that to me, then I would ensure with a very nice kick to his mouth, that no teeth would be left remaining. disrespectful aholes do this to people until they get a beat up and learn to show some respect.

Not sure what urgent matters are they talking about, right now I saw a a massive Trash burning fire under the Expressway entrance in Chatuchot, you can see far away the huge amount of smoke blowing up. While right next there are so many houses and villas and even a big primary School not over 2 km from that fire. PM2.5 on the BYD shows as 999. This actually happen nearly every day.

If it was "only" 150 as they say, it wouldn't be so bad. Truth s, it has been 200 to 400 everywhere in Bangkok, near my house it was 270-290 every day during the morning, then it lowers to 150-180 in the middle of the day.

Because now a days, there are so called "Edge" datacenters everywhere that caches content. AWS, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Cloudflare, Netflix, etc, all have Edge data-centers in Thailand, to make things like watching a netflix movie in 4K really smooth and fast, or some youtube video, or downloading a 20GB MacOS update. Edge datacenters are private, what is this article saying is that Google will launch it's public Cloud offering in Thailand for the customers, just like AWS just did. I use Singapore at my business, because it's the fastest and closest to Bangkok. we wont migrate to Bangkok as there is no need. the only benefit would be for people who want very low latency and real-time applications. AWS is a lot better, but Google Cloud is catching up.

dude, that photo is so AI generated. try harder 😄

Yep, I've been doing the same for the past 8 years. many years ago was just the same as today, but I never seen as bad as 2024-2025 has been, back then that nobody really realized back then how bad it was already. I started adding an extra Pm2.5 filter to all my air-cons was to save money from washing them every 4 months, with the filters on, I hire the team to wash once a year, 6 air-cons used to cost at least 3000 baht to wash. It's more now. I dont recommend 3M filters, first it's way over priced for such a small amount, and it's full of holes! It doesn't catch everything as good as the other PM2.5 sheets that are more uniform and leaves no holes.

Thanks for sharing your experience. 🙇 It is absolutely valuable.

You dont simply end up in a Thai jail and beaten up just for overstaying a few days, unless someone really want that to happen. Obviously the police was alerted by a tip off, in which it also included a good amount of money to ensure he gets the beating and stays in jail for a while. Could be he pissed of the wrong people, maybe his lady had connections with police, this is LOS, anything can happen anytime!

Perhaps you, as the smartest guy here can show the education? nahhh, just kidding nobody cares about what you say... Gottfridge