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2 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:
I just watched a video where they say it is only 12% of GDP, but then we hear all kinds of numbers up to 23%, so which is it, and then you have the soft underbelly where income is absorbed and earned by the unregistered and never reported. Makes one wonder.
I think the actual tourism GDP has been consistently mooted at only 12% for a few years now.
But it employs a huge number of people here.
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Aren't quality goods here actually illegal.?
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The Army is supposed to protect a country, not run it.
Get these khaki imbeciles back to the barracks.
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2 hours ago, webfact said:
The Ministry of Public Health is encouraging the general public to keep up with their COVID-19 vaccinations, as the majority of severe cases and deaths occur among the unvaccinated and those who did not get their boosters.
Well, they would now, wouldn't they.?
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A lot of bad decisions are made at 04:30AM. Especially after alcohol. Sounds like a real charmer.
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Immune system still working great, thanks. ????
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16 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:
Trump was also elected.
At least over there some people understand that doesn't allow him to be above the law.
But then, many voters over there are just as ignorant as many Thais.
Yes, elected. Not sure what Trump has to do with this thread, apart from trying to frame the democratic principle as somehow wrong..?
Who's ignorant here, then?
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1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:Go ahead with your medicine.
Do you have any other criminal heroes you want to tell us about?
He was the first democratically elected prime minister of Thailand to serve a full term and was re-elected in 2005 by an overwhelming majority..
Since replaced by the barrel of a gun.
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After a huge deluge of rain here in Rayong, it got cooler for a few days (at the start of November).
Back to heat and humidity (and thundershowers) again though. ????
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Fight "climate change" with nuclear power. ????
Not in Thailand, thanks.
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She could go and have a look at the protesters currently being fired upon with rubber bullets over at Victory Monument.. ????
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2 minutes ago, ChrisKC said:
Crypto is nosediving right now - not much better than a Ponzi scheme. I am glad I never went there
Yep, just as the FTX bombed, the Fed announces a new CBDC.
Coincidence, surely? ????
QuoteThe Federal Reserve Bank of New York and major banks will launch a three-month test of a digital dollar in hopes of studying its feasibility.
The initiative was announced by the regional Federal Reserve bank and nearly a dozen financial institutions on Tuesday. A news release referred to the experiment as a “proof-of-concept project” in which the banks will work with the Fed’s New York Innovation Center to simulate digital money representing the deposits of their own customers and settle them through simulated Fed reserves on a distributed ledger.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/fed-banks-digital-dollar-test
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Hope the charges, erm.. stick
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38 minutes ago, KannikaP said:I would be more embarrassed by the spelling in my headline! 555
A stammer is a terrible thing.
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2 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:
We're they given money for their gold. If so the wealth they had did not dissappear now did it.
Digital currency is already being used by many, it is called crypto currency and many spend it daily as well as earning interest on what they have staked.
They were given money at much lower value than the gold was worth. Basically a bailout for the Federal Reserve at that time, and private gold ownership was banned until the 70's. Australia and UK did the same also.
I am aware of crypto, thanks. Decentralized currency is fine by me, but replacing cash with a centralized digital currency is a disaster for financial freedom, imo.
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Just now, ThailandRyan said:
And you believe that.....laughable....
Ok, please explain how you think how a digital currency will benefit us?
Just remember that this isn't the first time that a Govt has confiscated personal wealth:
QuoteOn April 5, 1933, the president signed Executive Order 6102. It was touted as a measure to stop gold hoarding, but it was in reality, a massive gold confiscation scheme. The order required private citizens, partnerships, associations and corporations to turn in all but small amounts of gold to the Federal Reserve in exchange for $20.67 per ounce.
The executive order was one of several steps Roosevelt took toward ending the gold standard in the US.
https://schiffgold.com/key-gold-news/the-great-government-gold-heist-of-1933/
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11 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:Actually what we buy won't be tracked by a human- it will be AI using algorithms, and what could possibly go wrong with that?
Just because you live under an OK government at the moment doesn't mean that in 10 years time it's not like a Chinese government, and then you might have something to worry about, even if it was something you posted 10 years ago on TVF.
You simply do not have actual money or personal wealth with a (centralized) digital currency. It's just digits on a computer screen that can be erased, debited (based on perceived social infractions), or credited at the will of the bank or Govt.
Be a good citizen, or else.
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"We've got some good news, and some bad news.."
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16 hours ago, garrya said:
I wish one day COVID was isolated as any other pathogens.
That day may never come though.
The one and only pathogen in the history of mankind that is only "detected" by the very reliable PCR tests ????
Have a nice day!
Whose inventor Kary Mullis stated that running the test at above >7 cycles was 'meaningless'.
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3 hours ago, BritManToo said:
I read books all the time, mainly Science fiction, horror and westerns.
No need for paper, if you have a Kindle, everything is free for download.
Yep, I still have boxes of actual paper books in various states of decay and gathering mould, in the spare rooms. Never really gotten round to throwing them away, tbh.
But I keep a vast library on a single flash drive nowadays, and read mostly everything on a Kobo.
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Programmable digital currency is the end of financial freedom as we know it. It is being sold as 'convenient' and 'modern' but it is a total control method.
China is already using a social credit system where people get docked "money" or freedom to travel just for perceived infractions:
QuoteStarting in 2009, the Chinese government began testing a national reputation system based on a citizen’s economic and social reputation, or “social credit.” This social credit score can be used to reward or punish certain behaviors. The idea is that the state can give or takeaway points from a social credit score in order to engineer good behavior from the people.
By late 2019, Chinese citizens were losing points on their score for dishonest and fraudulent financial behavior, playing loud music, eating on public transportation, jaywalking, running red lights, failing to appear at doctor appointments, missing job interviews or hotel reservations without canceling, and incorrectly sorting waste. To raise one’s social credit score a Chinese citizen can donate blood, donate to an approved charity, volunteer for community service, and other activities approved by the government. The Chinese government has begun to deny millions of people the ability to purchase plane and high-speed rail tickets due to low social credit scores and being labeled “untrustworthy.”
You don't have money with a digital system. You have 'food tokens' that can be taken away at the push of a button. Your spending on eg; meat, air fares, travel etc can also be calculated and controlled using a 'carbon credit' system, that is already heavily-invested in by the usual billionaire elites. (Mastercard has started doing this already).
Keep cash alive for as long as possible.
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Immune system still working great, thanks.
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1 hour ago, Aussieroaming said:We hear this same snot adnauseum, when will this hub nonsense ever end.
Thailand is the hub of road carnage and death and that's it, I would love if all of their vehicles became electric
At least you can hear drunken Somchai coming round the bend in a diesel pickup... In an EV you won't.
Hub of hubris.
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Chinese Sub To Be Delivered Beyond 2024: Navy Chief
in Thailand News
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Turn it into a floating reef / barnacle farm, a la HTMS Chakri Naruebet, the Thai national aircraft carrier.? ????