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I just completed this quiz. My Score 0/100 My Time 19 seconds Interesting. Never got a chance to answer. C'est la vie!

Outside of computers I stay pretty dumb about current technology. I've got a Samsung Galaxy phone running Android with a single USB-C connector. I want to port the phone's screen to an external computer monitor using a HDMI cable but I also need to input an audio signal from my guitar amp into a music program that I run on the phone via a standard USB-A cable. I figure that a USB-C multi-port hub will do the job - maybe or maybe not. 🤔 The USB-C multi-port hub would have both an HDMI and USB-A port, but? I have no idea if the phone can handle both input and output in this manner. Thoughts from more tech-savvy folks out there than myself? Note: I know the phone can hook to a TV via "Smart View" but I don't have a TV, only a computer monitor.

To a globalist, anyone wanting to "Control Immigration" is a Racist. Well - unless you are a developing nation like Thailand, then controlling immigration is perfectly fine and dandy. Globalist only seem concerned with the "browning" of countries with European ancestry. They could give a rip about countries-of-color keeping out all migrants regardless of color, e.g., Thailand. So from a globalist perspective and amplified by pro-globalist politicians and media, if you wish to control the influx of migrants into the UK (US, EU, AU, CA, NZ) though legal immigration and keep out those illegally entering the country - then you are called A Racist! However, I believe the AU and NZ get a pass. 'Eh?

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Thai government statement about drunk driving 2024: "Blah blah blah..." Thai government statement about drunk driving 2023: "Blah blah blah..." Thai government statement about drunk driving 2022: "Blah blah blah..." Thai government statement about drunk driving 2021 "Blah blah blah..." Thai government statement about drunk driving 2020: "Blah blah blah..." Thai government statement about drunk driving 2019: "Blah blah blah..." Thai government statement about drunk driving nnnn: "Blah blah blah..." Let's not even talk about "PM 2.5 'haze'" or "annual flooding."

They are all corrupt liars.

Well, that's better than fencing off the entire area around the inauguration, surrounding it with military, and planting little American flags six feet apart in a total FU to the American public.

Yeah - they're running out of North Korean washing machines to make their missiles out of - 'eh? And the Ukrainian Army has the poorly equipped and unmotivated Ruskie conscripts pushed back to Mariupol as the Ukrainian Army is taking back all of the The Donbass in a massive offensive. Surely in the next three months Russia will be pushed back to Moscow and begging to surrender.

Three weeks and change to Trump's inauguration. It should be an interesting three weeks. I think the real fun begins after the New Year. Standby...

Who wants to Deny that Joe Biden was a Corrupt Liar? Definition of "Politician" - A corrupt liar. I'm not backing Joe Biden, he's vile and I dislike him, but for the record the vast majority of those who gravitate toward the power of politics are habitual liars who can be corrupted for money to gain additional power which brings in additional money.

But none of them are turning tricks in Phuket.

A 45 kg Thai sex-worker vs a 90 kg foreign sex-worker. Hummm 🤔 Dude deserves to be ripped off if for no other reason the a poor taste in sex-workers. If you want the latter, vacation in Africa. Or for that matter, just vacation domestically in Southern France.

Any farang who has been married to a Thai woman for 10 years should be given the option of permanent residency. At a minimum, the extension process should be nothing more than submitting proof you're still married. Or even better - apply the same rules to foreign men married to Thai women as they do foreign women married to Thai men: After 3 years of marriage allow the man to apply for citizenship. But? Never gonna happen. FYI - my Under Consideration stamp this year is two full months after I submitted my extension paperwork. So yeah - the Thai Immigration bureaucracy in BKK is drowning under a flood of their own paperwork. Consider it an "Own Goal." On the plus side, my wife has literally made friends with two of the women immigration officers in our district, so the actually paperwork shuffle, although still a bureaucratic pain-in-the-ass, is otherwise a fairly smooth, friendly process with smiles all around. That's sure a hell of a lot different than the horror stories I hear about some district where the IOs literally hate farangs which is very sad.

Along with all the other vitriol spewed at Farage, call him a Russian-Lover and Pootin's Puppet too. That will cause the heads of the rabid UK Europhile Statists to explode like in the first 5 minutes of the movie - Scanners.

Like Germany's AfD, the Reform UK party will be branded by the Tories, Labour, and the UK media as a "far-Right, Extremist Organization Just Like The Nazis," after which Parliament will propose that the party be banned in order to "Save Our Democracy" which actually means to keep the nascent totalitarian UK state in the hands of the Conservatives and Labour who can then continue to bend the Anglo public over a stump and have their way with them. Welcome to 1984! - it just arrived 40 years late.

In BKK it is against the law - however, like everything else involving the laws and the BIB, the key is: Enforcement! Or the lack thereof. You can put laws on the books until the cows come home, but without enforcement they are meaningless. After enforcement comes... Sanctions In the US for example, in most states if you are caught driving down the road the wrong way you are promptly arrested and jailed. Driving the wrong way down one-way streets and highways leads to traffic deaths and the sanctions imposed by US authorities are harsh for this infraction as well as a host of others which can lead to injury and death. Here in Thailand, if caught driving the wrong way on a one-way street is a fine similar to driving without a helmet - ฿500 and if you don't pay it, well, no worry. You can still get your tax-stamp. Well if you want to. If you drive without a helmet, or a tax stamp, or a license shame on you - place what you have in a "brown envelop" and be on your way. And oh, by the way, in order to get caught driving the wrong way you'd need to be caught at a road-block, and considering all the cops have their backs turned to you, you can just turn around and be on your way. So driving on the sidewalks already is illegal in many cities in Thailand, but hey, who cares...right? In the meanwhile in Chiang Mai, business owners park their cars on the side walk in front of their businesses to keep from getting a parking ticket. "See - I'm not parked on the street which is illegal, I'm parked on the sidewalk where the cops don't care." <take a video of farang tourist almost getting hit by cars as they are forced to walk down a busy main road due to cars parked on the sidewalk>

Yeah - coffee is served everywhere in this country and making a latte isn't rocket science. So when I buy a latte, I buy from small Thai coffee shops and get a latte which is on par to the "American green logo coffeeshop" for a quarter of the price. Why spend money for nothing special?

Medium to high-end farang food restaurants are suffering quality problems? Color me surprised. We eat out at those places on very rare occasions and the couple of restaurants we rely on are still serving good food. Other than that we eat Thai or we eat at home - mostly at home. I'm not surprised as food inflation for the type of food that farangs like probably has a lot to do with it. The farang chain restaurants and upper-end farang-centric restaurants aren't making the profit they once did and cut back on quality of service. And why not? They serve to farangs who are probably tourists who will eat their once and never come back. And then those like yourself? You're turned off and vote with your feet and pocketbook. If you're eating native, I don't see a problem. The prices of vegetables and meats like pork and chicken are still very reasonable out here in rural Thailand, especially if you're shopping in the local rural markets. People are selling home grown vegetables and produce to locals who won't buy them if they are ridiculously priced. We went to the market yesterday and bought a bunch of beautiful cool season veggies like snow white califlower which were dirt-cheap. A large bag of medium sized cauliflower heads for ฿20. Like my wife said, we'd spend more money on the electricity to power the water pump if we grew them ourselves. The same goes for local village, tambon, and amphur restaurants - if restaurant prices go up or quality goes down, people will just go to a different restaurant or will eat at home. I've noticed price increases at Thai restaurant in small cities like Lamphun, but the food quality is still top-notch, and the price increases are incremental over a whole lot of years.

Yep - and all the foreign grade school kids were telling mummy and daddy to high to higher ground. That is the classic tell that a tsunami is about to hit.

Well color me wrong. They may have actually hit it with an air-defense missile in the fog of a drone swarm. "They shot it down on purpose because Russians are Evil." 🙄 They probably shot it for the same reason that a US F/A-18 was recently shot down by USS Gettysburg in the Red Sea. With so many targets in the air, IFF system are on the edge of their technical ability to correctly identify what is a threat and what is not. More than likely it was a friendly fire incident just like in the Red Sea.

The Devil's in the details as she, like Tony, wouldn't be coming home to visit them (if she had them) in the quiet solitude of retirement. The Shinawatra dynasty returns is to rule. "Visit the grandkids and enjoy retirement!" "I promise I won't be involved in politics!" Right!

Actually - there's the truth neatly wrapped and topped with a bow: It IS a business venture of the Shinawatra dynasty.

This is working so well for Tony, I'm sure that Yingluck will now want to "come home so that she can spend the rest of her days quietly visiting the grandkids."