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He looks like Pepe The Frog. Not a good look for the VP candidate. He looks like he's about to zap a fly out of the air with his tongue. Excellent meme material tho'! 🐸 🪰

Nobody studies history.

They should just give the three southern-most provinces to Malaysia and call it good.

Same, so you make investment. But honestly, I don't even trust that the financial system will go bust and those investments will be around in the long-run. So...exactly.

Well of course. And mRNA Covid shots will keep you from getting Covid, Unicorn really exist, and the Earth is actually flat.

So, by his own admission Waltz is "friends with school shooters." Nice IMG_9319.MP4

However, they should have laws that prosecute anyone who flees from a fatality accident if they were driving. Thai culture seems to inculcate that running and hiding is what you do after an accident. Cowards.

I see they are going to throw the driver under the bus. They should do a detailed investigation of that bus' maintenance records. Careening into a guardrail shouldn't ignite a conflagration.

Anything that adversely impacts the Thai alcohol monopoly will not be allowed.

I've seen bald tires on these kinds of buses before. It will be interesting to hear what they find in forensics if they ever release that info to the public.

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.....