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This thoroughly sucks. First - this contention: "In this regard, you can use banking services to make financial trnasactions via the SCB Easy (modile banking) application, which is more advanced and secure." Android is the quintessential data harvesting application. And trust me -- SCB_Easy over Desktop Linux is a ****-ton more secure than any application running over Android. I have a handful of transfers that I need to make each year so I need to do some soul-searching as to whether or not I need to exchange "convenience" for security. I prefer not to run my banking application on a so-called 'smart-phone.' Yeah, it's smart - smart enough to expose your private information (metadata especially) to all takers. And what's this "facial recognition" bruhaha. "You can continue using services and making financial transactions seamlessly via the SCB EASY app, including facial recognition"......blahblahblahblahblah... Yeah - put Joe Average and Somchai TaMaDa under the microscope while "Big Banks" are fined again and again and again for facilitating 'money laundering' - and no bank executives ever go to jail. But those of us with Jack-Scat? You gotta watch the commoners with you're phones camera as well as track a transfer of every satang. Ok - perhaps SCB EASY Android is secure - but I don't trust Android. I guess Google can sue me then, 'eh?

You're a good person to think so highly for your cat's care. I can identify. I take care of a lot of animals: some mine, some under my care (temple cats and dogs in two temples), and the odd ball feral dogs and cats as well a village dogs and cats who don't seem to get care wherever they happen to live. CKD just sucks, especially to watch it happen to two of your pets while the rest are just fine - and you wonder - why? Best of luck.

Can anyone make recommendations for cheap brick weed. I don't smoke it but I use brick weed to make tea. I decarboxylatize it using a pressure cooker and then use the tincture.

Most people use the term "Fascist" as a highly charged pejorative, but don't actually have a clue as to what Fascism actually is. "DeSantis Is A Fascist," really breaks down to the phrase, "I Don't Like DeSantis So I Call Him Names." For those who use "Fascist" as a term to label people they don't like, try reading Giovanni Gentile and Benito Mussolina's writings regarding Fascism. At least get the term right and apply it to actual Fascists.

I met a woman years back who insisted she was a marijuana addict. I know enough about human physiology to know that THC is not physically addicting such as opioids. But I can see any drug that pleasantly alters your perception as having the potential to develop dependency - which is not addiction. However, to the women I knew, that would be splitting hairs. Her perception of being "an addict" made her "an addict."

Amazing to learn after all of these years that I was being scammed by fellow tokers sharing bong hits in public parks and entertainment venues in my youth. My goodness, I feel so.............victimized. <not> Another Chapter in the Reefer Madness Chronicles. Thank god they weren't offered Kaow Laow or Kratom.

Exactly - so why's he foreshadowing his own return, and what preparations where made to pave the path with rose pedals and paper-hearts, and possibly even a red carpet.

I wonder what plans "Tony" made and with whom in order to grease the skids for his imminent 'home-coming.' It will be a wonder to watch the justice system back in action when it comes to dealing with another billionaire Thai national.

I spent most of my time after March 2020 trying to understand why I was one of only a handful of people not freaking out and displaying clinical symptoms of anxiety disorder. The majority thought they were going to die for sure. I never felt that the entire dog and pony show was going to be anything but an exercise in social control. And I've no anxiety about future "population killing global pandemics" or the apocalyptic end of the world due to global warming. All I need to do is look at the billionaire class: they don't mask, they don't social distance, they own scads of beach-front properties, they fly private jets everywhere while Joe Sixpack is told to stay in a 15 minute city and ride a bike. Taking my cue from them, there is nothing to worry about other then media induced irrational fear of (insert what the MSM is telling you to fear today), and billionaire class' insistence on the implementation of a totalitarian dystopia for the rest of us. "You'll own nothing, obey your overlords, and be happy - or else. And enjoy the crickets. Yum yum." My suggestion? Well, go see a psychiatrist and ask for some anxiety meds - or - develop a new world-view. It's difficult to be anxious and cynical at the same time.

Agreed. It's probably pragmatic and has nothing to do with 'fashion.' When out in the sun, I put mine up too.

Sorry to hear that. I just lost two dogs to CKD in less than a week two months ago. It's really sad to watch them waste away. I ended up just tossing the remaining Ringer's solution I had.

So if you wear pampers will it stop the spread? Asking for a friend.

We buy them locally in the village. As there are no middle-man in the supply chain (just the producer and seller all of whom may the the same people), eggs aren't marked up to ridiculous prices. So egg prices remain relatively stable in rural Thailand. For city dwellers? Yep - the prices are soaring.

Mission accomplished. The point of this exercise was to pair Nazism and White Supremacy with a GOP candidate so that the public will embrace the view that you just expounded. See - it worked.

It would be just as easy to pay some wing-nuts to march around with Nazi flags emblazoned with "Biden For President." This is electioneering of the most sordid kind. But it is America and like it or not, Nazi flags are protected expression under the First Amendment (unlike say, Germany). But utilizing them to smear a political rival is pretty low regardless to whether the tactic is being used by the Left or the Right.

You need to have the Freon topped off but you may have other issues. Best to have the A/C checked by a qualified shop. There are A/C shops all over the place once you know the signage. . Memorize this Thai script and look for it on roadside signs. It's a Thai transliteration of the word "Air" and is simple enough to remember: (Dear mods - I know Thai isn't suppose to be used in non-Thai forums, but in this case this script is more like a picture that the Op can remember in order to identify a road-side A/C shop. Thanks)

I'm in the market for a Looper and I want to try it before I buy it.

Unless a US "client-regime" takes office soon.

I'm literally 'married to Thailand' as someone who have been married to a Thai women for 15 years who doesn't want to move to America. However - if I was a on a retirement visa? I would have been gone a decade ago and moved to Mexico or The PI or perhaps certain places in South America or even Europe. I would not be here unless I was married. Thailand is one of the most unfriendly, foreigner hating countries in the world. And yet? Ya'll keep coming, and then complain when the obvious racial discrimination rears its' ugly, nationalistic head. Hey retired people. Why are you still here. This country hates you unless your net value is in the millions. My question OP is: Why are you still here?

So there is one nut job in the US (or maybe not in the US) who is promoting violence. This may be a real 'Trump Supporter', or it may be agent-provocateur who claims to be a 'Trump Supporter.' This provides the "Paint." Then a neo-liberal media uses that "paint" to make board brush strokes in order to paint every single Trump supporter, or for that matter every single conservative, as trigger-happy, civil-war advocating insurrectionists. You really have to ask the question. Who actually are those whom are advocating violence and civil discord? Elevating one right-wing whack-job to be representative of every Trump supporter is perhaps, in itself, an act of provoking violence and extremism - regardless if that extremism is on the "right" or on the "left." Humanity needs to begin to find common ground and acceptance of others with different views. If all side feel they have the only "true reality?" Yeah - then there will be war - civil, regional, and global. I swear that many here, especially those who are too young to have had parents fighting in WWII simply, who actually advocate a 'righteous hatred' of all those who fail to follow their own ideologies - Left, Right, and Center. Study history. There is a real, immanent danger in engaging in this type of rhetoric.

Can anyone recommend a guitar shop in Chiang Mai where the staff can speak English?

How many are shoved out of the door due to Thailand's embrace of age discrimination?

Don't marry her. Her debt will become your debt. She's using you partner. Run!

It doesn't mean diddly to me personally. These all are just people attempting to coalesce power. I'm not a fan of power freaks and billionaires. The courts will settle the issue of the share holdings and their significance. Regardless of how the courts rule, some people will be happy, some people will not be happy, and others of us will crack another brew, change the popcorn for peanuts and watch the show. If it gets boring (it will) I'll change the channel. . "Hey-sus! Bring me the paper and other beer like a good dog."

I find it difficult to believe that Pita didn't understand the consequences of holding those ITV media shares. Now we hear about the possibility of a another (color) revolution, which begs the question, was that in fact the point of challenging the EC and the laws regarding holding shares of media corporations in defiance of existing laws? If so, the next question to ask is 'cui bono,' who benefits. I came to Thailand in 2007 and saw 7 years of street protests and civil unrest. Then the coup happen and the civil unrest ended (or was driven underground or driven to Abu Dhabi). My wife actually applauded the new 'peace.' Now the specter of civil unrest is threatening to rear it's head again? Let me prophesize (actually not really - its just understanding history and watching it 'rhyme': The EC takes this to the constitutional courts and Pita and his party are disbanded; the various colored-shirts take to the streets again backed by various non-governmental organizations, domestic and otherwise, in the name of 'democracy'; eventually the Army takes back the streets; wash, rinse, repeat. What's another coup in a history of coups? As a farang living here long term? Best to be an interested observer and a complete non-participant. I don't back any side as I have no dog in this fight. This is just another 'game of thrones' or power politics. There are no 'good guys', there are only people with their own interests who seek to sway the 'little people' to their side as revolutions and rebellions, as well as their suppression, require cannon fodder on all sides of the conflicts to support the interests of the stakeholders involved in directing the frays. Crack a brew, fire up some popcorn, kick back, and watch from a distance. It's Thai Lakhon in real-time!