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A Special Counsel vs DOJ Strike Force, a look see into the historic Dem Scandal &...
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What Thai cities float your boat?
Let's try not to trigger our resident clickbait and troll callers any more than they have already done by themselves. So here we go with what has been floating my boat here, off and on, since about 1978, and full-time since about 2007. Due to a cock-up with the airline, Mrs NL and I had our only trip to Chiang Mai cut short. The only thing we enjoyed there was the peaceful inner pool at a really nice boutique hotel somewhere in the city, then hitting a popular night market and buying huge strawberries before a red-eye flight south. I liked what I saw, and I would like to give it another shot, but that means being a tourist, and that will never give me the insight of others that have made it their home. Chiang Rai was nice and quiet, as was the drive to/from the airport in Chiang Mai, especially the circuitous route we drove back south skirting the Myanmar border. I recall we also bought some massive avocados by the roadside. Three trips to Phuket, spaced over about 30 years, with the first one being absolutely brilliant. Can anyone else remember when Patong beach had only two hotels (and only one with 24-hour electricity)? The second one was an eye-opener for not the best of reasons, more noisy and crowded, but that's what happens in (what used to be) high season. The third visit made me wish I had slept at the airport while in transit! More recently, a good friend of mine parked his bus for a long time down on Rawai, said it was great, but I don't recall ever straying that far south on my visits. From that first Phuket visit, Koh Pipi was probably the most memorable overnight ever when our small tour boat, avoiding storms when returning from the ritual tour of the caves and sea gypsy village, parked up on the beach for the night. The only occupants on the island back then were local fishermen with basic Thai-style shacks set just behind the palm tree line and totally invisible from the beach. One guy offered to put my girlfriend and I up in his brother's shack. It was brilliant and peaceful. No electric, Tilley lamps and big ongs full of water for bathing. I look at pictures of what the island has become now and shake my head. That truly is paradise lost. Hua Hin twice, with over 25 years between visits and once again, the first one being much more memorable due to the slow pace, the tranquil Railway Hotel, the expanse of empty beach, and a lack of maddening traffic and hordes of tourists. The kids did enjoy Takiab beach on the more recent visit though. The night markets and mall, not so much. Three tours of duty in Pattaya, the first as the hedonistic single guy back around 1978 that lasted about 12 years. The second one was as a married guy around 2005 for about 5 years and the third as married with family was even shorter. Most of my lasting farang friendships were made there, and a few I still keep in touch with, but visiting isn't something I would figure as being essential. We did have a short summer break with the family last year, stopping in Bang Saray, where I was very pleased to discover the new highway spur that totally bypassed Pattaya! Met up with three of my old mates there with two of them coming down from Pattaya for the day. I did live and work in Bangkok over a couple or three years around 2010, but I didn't really enjoy it too much, both the office work and the city. It was better when the wife and son came to visit, otherwise, I flew back to Udon on most weekends. But one Bangkok job was based out west in Salaya for three months and that was like not being in Bangkok at all and very enjoyable. Udon Thani, which has been home three times, in between the Pattaya sojourns, is the current resting place, and it's easily floating my old boat. -
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Electric Vehicles in Thailand
Since the IM6 comes with a lithium-ion NMC battery I wonder if MG recommends routine charging to only 80% since lithium-ion batteries may degrade a lot faster when routinely charging to 100% as compared to LFP batteries. But hey, even if MG does recommend 80% for routine, daily charging and 100% charging only for long trips it appears the IM6 battery comes with a "lifetime/no kilometer limit" warranty on the battery; not some typical 8 year/160K km warranty. That's good. I expect the lifetime warranty would wipe-away anyone concerns of "babying the battery" to only 80% since daily/routine charging to 100% (if desired/required) shouldn't hit the owner in the pocket book some day because they always charged to 100%. Yea, yea, I know, some people don't even keep their cars long enough to reach the warranty limit. -
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Habba,Bondi,Pirro,Noem,Tulsi,Karoline ,MAGA Women...
Criminal trial put on hold after defendant challenges Alina Habba's legal authority as US attorney President Donald Trump's effort to keep his former defense attorney in charge of the U.S. attorney's office in New Jersey faces a new test after a man facing drug charges filed a motion challenging Alina Habba's authority to prosecute him. A federal judge in New Jersey on Monday put the man's trial on hold and transferred the legal challenge to a judge in the Middle District of Pennsylvania to determine if Habba has the legal authority to continue acting as the United States attorney for the District of New Jersey. Trump named Habba, one of his former personal attorneys, as New Jersey's interim U.S. attorney in March, but after the Senate did not take up her confirmation before the end of her 120-day interim term, a panel of federal judges last Tuesday appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney Desiree Leigh Grace to the permanent U.S. attorney spot. https://abcnews.go.com/US/criminal-trial-put-hold-after-defendant-challenges-alina/story?id=124148581 -
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Re-entry permit: what's the logic behind it?
You mean the definition of differences in a translation. Only the arrogant would take that as literal.
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