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It's not the end of the world. My pension isn't linked to inflation. I get the same amount as I got when I retired in 2007. You plan and make do.

I find it interesting that it's crickets here on AN regarding the ballistic missile bombardment of Israel last night. Interesting. ICYMI video_2024-10-02_00-36-03.mp4 video_2024-10-02_00-32-25.mp4 video_2024-10-02_00-29-40.mp4

What I find interesting is the price of gold isn't moving in synch with global prices, which tell me that the USD is actually very weak although the THB is definitely strengthening.

How much do you want to bet that there was no fire extinguisher onboard? TIT.

How the hell did that happen?

Yeah, we deal with cobras a few times each year. However we have the house pretty well sealed and a bunch of dogs around the perimeter. They usually alert us to snake presence. Then I break out the snake catcher and relocate them. Next door neighbor has had cobras in their house twice. Scary.

Just buy a mult-B vitamin. I use Nat B which you can find in any pharmacy. It contains 50 mg of nicotinamide which is a form of vitamin B3 which doesn't cause flushing along with 50 mg of a bunch of other B vitamins.

I don't know why you're taking high dosages of niacin. 50 mg is enough to make a person uncomfortably flushed. If you want B vitamins, just buy a good multi-B vitamin. You need less than 20 mg a day.

Thailand welcomes Google's US$1 billion investment in data center Translated: Thailand puts itself on the hook to supply one small city's worth of stable, continuous power for each data center built in Thailand. Given the almost daily power outages we have had locally, I'm not sure where they plan to find the extra power. Oh - I know! Raise the rates for the commoners and then divert the power that they can no longer pay for.

Given that EVs are essentially a battery on wheels with that battery having been one of the primary cost of an EV, my guess is that EV prices will continue to trend lower. Not a bad thing if it brings them down to a reasonable price.

Yep

Keep up to date on your Covid boosters - that will help 100%. Safe and Effective.

And expert! You think the difference between a restaurant and a street vendor is the quality of the oil? That's just ignorance. Or stupidity.

Stick around with this attitude and you may get your wish when the West comes gunning for China unprovoked. You do realize where in the hell you live, don't you?

I like products made in China. And I've no problem at all with another country's political structure, China's included. Communist? Fine. It's not your Mao/Marx/Lenin flavor of Communism - it's evolve into a communist/capitalist hybrid, and it works for them. Who benefits? Consumers. And - let see, how many homeless drug addicts are living rough and s**ting on the streets in Chinese cities? Ahhh - About zero. In the West? Lot's of commoners sleeping rough on the streets with many more in the future, and the West can't help but become the recipients of the blowback of their own sanctions. The sanction-based economic blowback in Europe is evidence of that. And when all those countries band with the CPC Chinese and Russian (and Indian, Brazil, and South African) BRICS nations - Thailand included? 7 billion people will have access to affordable goods and services while the Golden Billion behind the Western firewall with be paying though the nose for basic necessities. Nope - I've got no problem with the Communist Chinese at all. Unlike most Westerners who spew their own home country's foreign ministry's hatred of all non-Western countries, especially China, I realize that the Chinese border is 200 km from my front door. Kids - you live in the Geo-political influence of China. When in Rome Shanghai.....

If I go electric, that will be my price range. Perfect. Get's ya from point A to point B? Good enough!

ICE ICE Baby.

Dissatisfied customer? 🤔

How many here on the Farang Pub hope to die in Thailand? That's the plan.

Me too.

My secret dream when I was a six year old. Had to come to Thailand to play out that fantasy with a couple of 20 year old Thai gals.

Freak show. <laughs> You boy is as sharp as a tack. Too bad he's not running for another term. IMG_3740.MP4

Yep. The Thai government will become the exact conduit for expropriating "Thai" land from Thai commoners. Once the government "owns" the land, the original owners will never get it back. Imho, they are paving the way to the privatization of Thai lands and the transfer of those lands to large multinational corporations like Blackrock. Then there is no coming back. Once a significant proportion of those lands are leased to foreign corporate interests, they'll be pressure from those ฿฿฿ Stakeholders ฿฿฿ to make those leases permanent. Who benefits? Large multinationals and the likes of HiSo Thais such a Thaksin. Buy up the lands from Thai peasants promising them 99 years of fixed income (inflation will eat that in less than a decade as the price of the physical land skyrockets), then kick the peasants into cities and then apply the economic thumbscrews. Don't fall for it.

Here comes Blackrock.

Yep!