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What's your point OP? I don't know about you, but I'm living in Thailand surrounded by a bunch of extremely nationalistic people who believe that "Thainess" is the most important aspect of there lives and they loath allowing all non-Thai into their "Thai" country lest it dilute that "Thainess", so in response they maintain some of the most draconian immigration laws in the world to keep all other ethnicities from settling in the country. Do you see any African or Middle Eastern refugees being welcomed with open arms here in Thailand? Nope. The only meaning "Whiteness" has here is that "whiter" skin tends to convey social status (more to do with the fact that darker skinned Thais historically work outside while "white skinned" Thais need not labor in the sun at all), and white "farang" make good ATM machines. If you have an issue with ethnic superiority, try addressing Thainess right here in your own backyard (if you actually live here - you may not for all I know). Most "white" people I know in the US are normal people trying to live a good life, although I'll admit that a tiny F'ed-up minority of "whites" in the US are "white supremacists." With that said, here in Thailand virtually all Thai consider their "Thainess" to be superior to other ethnicities and most are "Thai supremacists," yet those exact same people who will criticize those of European descent of being "white supremacists" for no other reason than they lack melanin in their skin, will completely give overt "Thai supremacists" a pass - in fact they'll defend Thai supremacy. I'm going to be blunt: Skin color does not determine a human being's sense of humanity, empathy, and compassion for other human beings. Racism and ethnic superiority are learned behaviors and are perpetuated through societal norms. Racism against all non-Thais is the institutional norm in Thailand. We live in one of the most ethnically superior countries in the world. Try addressing the problem in our own backyard instead of dragging this nonsense about "white privilege" 14000 miles across the Pacific and South China Sea. We farang are marshmallows in a boiling sea of Jasmin tea.

Nothing screams "Infidelity" like a case of MonkeyPox.

I've know Thai gals who "worked" 2 or 3 farangs at the same time. It's a lot more common than you may think and that GF you have who, "would never cheat on me, she is very friggin' honest and loves me to death," may be stringing along other farang who thinks, "would never cheat on me, she is very friggin' honest and loves me to death." Best of luck. Btw, you've been here two years and just found AN? 🤔 Hummm?

Probably 90% of Democrats are on the verge of mental breakdowns because they believe the conspiracy theory that the actual "reincarnation of Hitler" is going to throw them into concentration camps in 2025 if he becomes the US president. Therefore "he must be stopped my all means possible" because "you can't let Hitler come to power." Well, it may become a self-fulfilling prophesy in that case maybe. 🤔

It just means that the Democratic Party has become the war party. I remember it when it was the anti-war party. Not anymore. All this also shows is that the Republican and Democrat parties ARE the US Uni-party. Same party, same ideals. All the public show of so-called "differences" is just 🐂💩 buffalo excrement and kabuki theater.

And the Democratic candidate wasn't even elected in a primary. Nobody voted to have her run for the presidency. But then, all presidential elections are kabuki theater where two establishment clones are placed in front of the populace who are then given the illusion of voting for president. Democracy. <laughs>

I've never heard of any state offering "online voting." It would require some form of digital id.

Ohhh, you read me wrong. Go back and read what I wrote again. Trust me - I don't fit into anyone's black&white, binary worldview. I'm pretty well read, well read enough that other people will be telling you that I bow to the TV each time Alex Jones or Trump is mentioned, or they'll refer to me as a <gasp> Conspiracy Theorist <cue Twilight Zone theme song>. Me bowing to freaking Herr Aldolf Klaus Schwab. That's rich. The world will be a better place when he and Soros, and a rash of other globalists and neo-cons joins Zbigniew Brzezinski and Madeleine Albright in whatever circle of Hell they inhabit. No, I practice what I preach - I read the thesis's and writings of people (corporations, governments, NGOs) I neither like or respect because I want to understand how their minds work. You don't grasp that by living in a bubble and having your information "fact-checked." However I've been known to read the Epoch Times (wink wink) especially their health section (which by the way you can't post on this site, in fact you can't post any links by the Epoch Times here). <laughs>

That doesn't mean, "Don't read them," it means, "Understand the bias as you read them." You'll have a better understanding of how the world as a whole works if you expose yourself to published works that you know are biased, and you then perceive and understand that bias. "But I only trust 'fact-checked' information!!!" Then you live in an echo-chamber with your brain shut off as you are too lazy to think on your own. Yep - you'll get a single view of the world and you'll own that view too. Then you just become an ideologue. That doesn't make you knowledgeable, it make you brainwashed. You're more knowledgeable if you attempt to understand why the other sources are biased - you may not like it or agree with them, but you can better understand what drives the worldviews of others. There is a lot to learn there.

You met bob smith? I though he left for Spain?

There is always The Onion and The Babylon Bee!

"Name your news, but it has to be written at a high level and have good fact-checking." More like, "Name your propaganda..." "Fact-Checking" (in the context you're referring to) is the act of making sure that all information conforms to one and only one "accepted narrative" that falls in line with whatever the Western elites (e.g., The World Economic Forum, Western governments, Western leaders, etc.) states is the accepted narrative. Which makes your average Western consumer of "news" some of the most information-illiterate people on the planet, especially considering that what most Westerner's call "news" is pablum written at a six-grade level and written short enough to keep someone with the attention span of a gnat entertained. If you want to really understand reality, you use multiple sources of information and then use your God-given analytical abilities to discern facts from fictions while understanding that all purveyors of information spin their publications to support their own corporate, nationalistic, and individual interests. But with that said, let me throw one in that meets your criteria but is a periodical and not a "newspaper." Foreign Affairs Magazine

Name your favorite newspapers from around the globe. All languages They still have newspapers in this day and age? Really? Wow!

They assuage their conflicted internal contradictions by calling Trump "Hitler" and then blaming all of borders issues on The Orange Fuehrer. It's projection at it's finest.

US Progressive Liberal Expats in Thailand when they see a post criticizing the lax to non-existent US border policy and illegal immigration into the US: US Progressive Liberal Expats in Thailand when they see a post regarding changes to Thailand's immigration policies which effects them: These are usually the exact same people who will tell you that "you are only a guest in Thailand." Funny how that works, 'eh?

Nothing on the horizon coming...

Fyi, if memory serves me correctly, payment by QR code has been available at 7/11 for quite awhile. Hell, mom&pop stores in our village have been accepting them for the last year or two.

Like you, I use 7/11 to break 1000 THB notes. Now regarding PromptPay. I wonder if it ever occurs to the average person that in this day-and-age of cameras everywhere that their phone and bank pins are probably common knowledge to anyone who can review video records. Someday when their entire bank account is emptied that can console themselves, "Well, that's convenient!"

My last two times haven't worked. I asked at Immigration if they can give me a reason. The answer is always the same: "Mai dai, no can." It would take a phone call or an inquiry from my immigration office to Bangkok, but they simply will not do it. "Sucks to be you, foreigner." I've gotten a new passport now and have filed my first 90 on that passport number in person. So I'll find out in November if online works with this new passport with its new number. I'd say it's 50-50.

Q: When entering an unmarked intersection, what should you do? 1. Yield to traffic on the left. 2. Yield to traffic on the right. 3. Yield to oncoming traffic. 4. Bow your head, raise your hand to your forehead, and smile. A: 4

Is this Whose LINE Is It Anyway? The poll where "where everything's made up and the points don't matter." I'm thinking so!

What the heck is that?

I hear plenty of farang guys refer to Thai women as whores all the time. But a Chinese guy says that? "Grrrrrrr!!! Bad Chinese!" 😁 That's rich.

Of course she does...unless she doesn't. Heck, Hillery Clinton was beating the pants off of Trump according to the polls in 2016. "She's beating Trump by a landslide!" Ah-huh. I've decided that I'd like to see Trump win for no other reason that to watch a whole bunch of unstable people triggered. "I Hate you MAGA people." I'm not voting for either Trump or Harris. But I find the hysterics around Trump to be really tiresome.