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Cloth and paper masks don't work any better for filtering out PM 2.5 then they did Covid virus and for the same reasons. Complete false sense of security. The only thing that works are serious, well-fitting respirators like 3M N95 and P100 filters.

1958 VW Beetle - great car

Have a meeting. Hold a press conference. Take pictures. Declare substantive reform. Kick the can down the road...............

Isn't it funny that the same Lefties who think illegal immigration in the US is a good thing totally reject illegal immigration when it's farang overstaying in Thailand...or they just remain quiet. Funny, but how's that work?

To quote my wife, "Army come soon." It's sad that the counter-balance to a corrupt civilian government is a military coup, but that counter-balance carries weight and has been used so often that you can slip into it like a worn sandal. Personally I wouldn't mind seeing the entire Shin clan in Dubai permanently.

She's the ex-Prime Minister.

So Tony is officially the Prime Minister now. That didn't take long, did it?

ICE is arresting less than a thousand a day. "...many millions"? Not at this rate. I'm just curious Jing. Where are you when Thai Immigration does mass sweeps and arrests, and then deportations of illegals residing in Thailand. Not as much as a peep from you and the others on the Left who are hand-wringing about Trump's move to deport illegals from America. When Thailand does it, it's fine! No Thai government immigration policy bashing at all from ya'll. Why not? Think about that. 🤔 I'm not anti-immigrant. I'm 100% percent for legal immigration through the front door of the US' Immigration system. Does the US need to address that system? You bet. It needs to be fair. You know.....like Thailand's Immigration! Right? I jest. Migrants and asylum seekers need to be fully vetted. The current system needs reform and a budget to accomplish that task and make the vetting processes more efficient. If migrants can add to and benefit the US society, by all means, let them in....via quotas. By the way, when my grandparents came to the US at the turn of the 20th century, they didn't suck of the teats of the American government. Any migrant entering the US needs to be able to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, assimilate, and add to the diversity of the "melting pot" in a positive manner. If they can't pay their own way (like we do here in Thailand and like my grandparents did when they arrived on the shores of the US) then their immigration applications should be rejected (for the same reason as Thai immigration doesn't provide welfare for any of us). No welfare, no free healthcare, no government assistance (especially while homeless US veterans sleep rough on the street and are granted none of the benefits afforded to illegals). The US needs to take care of those who served their country in the Armed Services first and foremost. And btw, I'm all for allowing migrants a path to permanent residency and a path to citizenship if they serve a full contract in the US military.

Yeah Jing. If you were in the US no doubt they would accidentally round you up and throw you into a MAGA concentration camp before deporting you back to Thailand where the Thai government would deport you back to the US, and you'd be stuck in Deportation Hell for the next 4 years or until a new DEI President is inaugurated. Poor guy...Freddy Kruger Donald Trump is gotten get 'cha if you dare to go to sleep! "I see MAGA. They're everywhere. Some of them don't even know they are MAGA!"

It's an update via the Windows Update Manager. It should self install. If not, go to Update Manager and look for the update to the most current release and manually kick it off. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-11-home-and-pro

It doesn't matter. Online betting and casinos benefit the wealthy who will be granted monopolies to skim the economic cream off of the top of the Thai public...and half the of the milk from the bottle to boot.

So a bunch of Euro-billionaire got butt-hurt by Trumps virtual presence. Hysterical.

CKD is staged. My guess is that most people in their 70s or older have CKD in one form or another. So the important question here is: What stage of CKD do you have. Then you can begin to have a discussion.

My guess is there is a positive correlation between the number of posts and the number of positive reactions. Positively.

Welcome to Thailand!

Now for the wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Yep!

Does air conditioning reduce PM2.5 ? An average AC or inverter without filters? Nope.

I think you can bet on it.

Btw - I'm sure that some member's definition of "comfortable" is a budget of $10K USD per month. Maybe more. I doubt the Marc Fabers of the world live like most of us here. I'm not knocking it. But defining "comfort" is a subjective, personal thing to do.

Nice! You got a Pizza Oven?

$1000 USD. But - you have to meet the Thai financials to stay so the amount you need to "comfortably live" is subjective, but it has to be at least 65k THB. The Thai government will insist you have an income stream of 65K / month which you can live on comfortably imho. Now, from your own point of view, define "comfortable." When I first got here I lived in the Thai community in an apartment which cost 1200 THB / mo and I was perfectly comfortable. 4th floor, view of Doi Suthep, sandwiched between Thapae and Loi Kroh in Chiang Mai. Walking distance to where I wanted to go. Life was grand. Now I live in a rural Thai village. With all the money I saved we now have 1 rai of land, two houses, and a good life. Comfortable!

Sounds more like he was mixing his cannabis with methamphetamine and alcohol.

In another 30 to 40 days you probably won't be able to see those building in front no less Doi Suthep.

Wait for another month and Chiang Mai AQI will have the entire world beat hands down.