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Why do you hand out and ask thoroughly stupid questions?

What a load of 🐂💩 First world clean; developing world dirty. More implied racism.

Good. The sooner Ukraine surrenders, the better.

Another billionaire family who can "buy justice," 'eh?

(Looks at the "Made in Malaysia" tag on chips on the IC board) Yeah - that will be humorous when the chips and chip components from Malaysia stop being exported to the US. Thailand? Well, what leverage does Thailand have over the US, unlike Malaysia?

If I was in the United States and the "low-life foreigners who cannot speak my native language" but are in the country on a visa and living there legally? I could care less. It's their life, not mine. I wish them success. If they are living there illegally? I hope they get deported. Not one bit different than here in Thailand. Perhaps you don't like "low life foreigners who cannot speak your native language living near you" in your own home country, but I'm not a racist. If foreigners are in my country legally - I wish them the best in their "pursuit of happiness." And what nationalistic, xenophobic, ethnocentric Thais think of me? Seriously, I really don't care, although I get along fine with the majority of villagers here. What they think of me? That's there business, and as I said, "I don't care." Reality? Even a farang who would be living on the streets in their home country, but can afford to live here, is solidly "middle class" by Thai standards. You may look down your snooty noses at them, but they are economically equal or above their Thai neighbors.

Because if you truly live in a rural Thai community and are part of that community, like any small town in the West, everyone knows everyone. If you don't know what people think, you're living under a rock. I don't live under a rock, I interact with the community although as I get older I tend to value my privacy and allow my wife to be the social advocate of the family.

So what? It's called economizing. What do Thai's think, and I'm speaking as a foreigner living in a rural Thai village? The reality is that my "fixed income" (pensions from the government and my previous employer) puts me into the "well-to-do" category when compared to the villagers. We have a rai of land and two houses, no debt, savings, and various investments. I get along with villagers whom I've known for years although I'm a fairly private person. So what do rural Thais think of me? That's probably reflected in the status of my wife, who had she been under 60 years old, probably would be the head of the village. She's highly active in both temple and village affairs, and I'd actually call her the defacto village head. Why? That's pretty much a direct cause of being financially solid due to her marriage to me, which gives her a leg-up in status and allows her to be active in village affairs. So what do people think? We're relatively high status. Some people respect that; other probably like neither my wife or myself. Do I freaking care what they think or what you think OP? No - I do not. I'm not particularly fond of busy-bodies. I find that people like the OP sort of remind me of Gladys Kravitz on Bewitched or Stanley & Helen Roper from Three's Company, and Ned Flanders from the Simpsons. Dude's like the OP simply can't keep their noses out of other people's business and are endless critics of how those of us who are simply trying to live a good live in a country where a living a good life is affordable, unlike back in the freaking United State. So OP. Find a different hobby. Throwing shade at the rest of us on social media who you seem to look down on simply reflects your own insecurities. My guess is one of the only ways you find purpose in life is to demean other expats. Screw that. Really!

The Culture Minister will side with Google, I'm sure.

You've been here this long (2003) and haven't developed a support network. You must not like people very much. To develop a support network you need to interact with people - Thai and other expats.

In both driving and cross a road the only defense is to ALWAYS look both way and ALWAYS expect that some idiot will be coming down the street the wrong way. It's culturally ingrained and obvious is acceptable unless you are caught or kill someone.

500 THB fine and a scolding for the bus driver who hit her. 500 THB fine for the bus and cars driving behind the bus the wrong way down the street.

Grand forum. Pasty white AN members displaying their full range of ethnocentrism and cultural insensitivity. White good; Brown bad. Really - you people truly disgust me. This is where this forum has fallen to over the last few years. From the AN owners who allow it, right down to the individual members displaying this open racism? You should all be ashamed. I'm out.................

Ahhh, the joys of racism. White people good; brown people bad. Thai's - as the dominant ethnicity of the host country - are in a league of their own. They dislike everyone other than Thais.

You can, but you'll more often than not pay a significant premium.

I get it. This isn't you. It's an iHerb problem. Here's the problem. The certificate hostname is incorrect. That would cause the error you're seeing. What you need to do is get around the redirect from www.iherb.com to th.iherb.com. Go to my previous posts and try clearing cookies and resetting the DNS to Google's 8.8.8.8 - or - just use a VPN. THIS: Hostname does not match. iHerb's hosting service needs to fix that. That will get you your error. If the certificate isn't good, you'll never get a secure SSL (https) connection.

save the frogs Give this a quick try ☝️

Not sure what browser you use. If using Firefox, go to Settings/Privacy & Security/in Cookies and & Site Data click on Manage Data. Search for "iherb" then select and remove all instances. Also check for th.iherb.com. There will be a secondary window where you'll confirm you want to remove them. That gets rid of the cookies. Then retry. I also agree with KhunBENQ. Set your DNS to Google's DNS (8.8.8.8). If you don't know how, let me know your operating system and I'll try to provide instructions. Or use an AI like Grok or ChatGPT and ask it for instructions. When you switch to a VPN, you are 1) geo-locating to the US, and 2) probably using the VPN's DNS. One other trick to try. Use a private window (or incognito in Brave) and try that.

Agreed. Try different browsers. I keep Firefox, Brave, and Chromium on my system. Each gets around different problems I've experienced from time to time.

I'm not using a VPN and I get right through to https://www.iherb.com/ Give that a try.

Hire the Dutch to build dikes.

Really? You don't say?

Ha ha ha ha ha

I'm have to bookmark this. I have some 1 oz silver rounds from the US, but when I first got here 18 year ago a couldn't find anyone in Thailand dealing in silver bullion. These are long term investments, I've had them for decade. Saving them for a rainy day. I bought the for around $7 / oz. Not even sure what silver is selling for now.

The US has an "Israel First" commitment. That means Ukraine comes last. And as is becoming evident, supporting Ukraine with more weapons is whipping a dead horse as Russia has taken full control of the Luhansk Oblast as of July 1st and has about 70% control of Donetsk Oblast. The Russian attrition offensive has moved into Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, and Sumy Oblasts as Russia opens up new fronts. Russia also controls around 75% of both Zaporizhzhia and Kherson Oblasts and probably will be looking at reestablishing control of the West bank of the Dnieper River soon. Then? Hello Odessa. Now for those of you who believe that pulling US weapons from Ukraine is "disgraceful" my personal take on it is that the sooner Ukraine simply surrenders and stops fighting, the sooner the terms of surrender can be ironed out and the needless killing ended before Ukraine loses even more territory. They've lost 4 Oblasts, all four of which had referendums and voted to become part of the Russian Federation regardless of how badly the UK, EU, and US refuses to admit it. Wait much longer and they'll be losing a total of 6 or 8 (or more). Like gambling, you've got to know when to cut your losses and simple stop. Or not. Maybe the UK and EU want to pull some troops together and pick up where the US left off with weapons and perhaps even put boots-on-the-ground and chase Ivan back to the Urals...or not. It will be interesting how Gen-X in the UK and EU react when they heads of state calls for involuntary conscription to gather cannon-fodder for the Ukrainian Front. That ain't gonna go over well methinks. This has always been about NATO expansion and protecting the rights and well-being of ethnic Russians in Ukraine which were the provocations for Russia to invade, and this whole thing could have been settled in April 2022 accept the Biden Administration and the UK decided to have Zelinsky try to beat Russia militarily as the goal of NATO has been the strategic defeat of Russia. Well - that didn't work out. It's time for Ukraine to accept the inevitable and throw in the cards and count their losses and move on as a neutral state that has been demilitarized. Otherwise? Well.....? Maybe the UK and EU will cut their social welfare systems and redirect state funds from helping the most needy citizens and redirecting those funds into weapons manufacturing for the benefit of Ukraine, and building armies of Gen-X conscripts to send to the Russia Front. I'm sure their citizens will support that 100%.