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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.

Not if you end up with detected retinas.

And after you first 90 day in person, your second (and future) 90 days may still be rejected online. It's convenient when it works, but it totally sucks when it doesn't.

Nope. No previous surgery.

I've been told by numerous ophthalmologists over the years that I have very misshapen eyes (high myopia -11) and very thin retinas which make cataract surgery relatively difficult and a high risk procedure. I don't particularly want to end up blinded in order to get the necessary surgery that I'm going to need in the next couple of years in order to be able to adequately see. As such I really am looking for the best ophthalmologist (and probably a full professor at Chiang Mai University Medical Department) in Chiang Mai to do the operation. Who would that person be? @Sheryl If you have an recommendation I'd appreciate your input. Thanks.

I hear there is flooding in Chiang Mai city. Anyone know where the River Ping is coming over the banks and what roads may be closed?

This time of year? I barely use it at night. Cool the room before going to bed then turn it off. It's called acclimatizing. Live here long enough and you'll get use to the local weather conditions and adapt.

How many cars in Thailand are for sale and have clean titles - and you subject yourself to this? Your next post next month will be how your got scammed. Walk away, find a different car.

Start off your proselytization with a lie. Grand way to begin to bring "Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior" into the lives of those "pagan, idol worshiping, Buddhist heathens who are all 'damned to Hell' for sure if they aren't immediately fooled into learning English Christianity and getting dunked into the nearest river." Anyway, what's the "tell?" A Burmese man and Thai woman "teaching English" should set off the red flags. It never occurs to these self-righteous Christians that copious warnings about the evils of "deception" is at that absolute heart of their own religion - and then they use deception in an attempt to create a schism and inject doubt into the hearts and minds of young Buddhist monks - deceptive proselytization. That should be an object lesson for these "naan": Deception is amoral.