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THAI's Sky-High Deal: 45 Dreamliners to Revamp Fleet
And once upon a time, I was FL-class diamond-encrusted Rhodium with KLM before they climbed into bed with Air France. -
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59 Dead, 458 Injured in First Two Days of Songkran Holiday Travel, Bangkok Tops Fatalities
Exactly as I predicted - a completely uniformed post by someone who doesn't know the first thing about road safety -
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Even the blinkered Trump and MAGA fans must smell a rat now?
Fact. Victor Reklaitis explains it quite succinctly; A year ago, he was serving time in prison. Today, Navarro is Trump's key adviser on the tariffs that have roiled markets. Two years ago, Peter Navarro wrote a 30-page policy paper titled "The Case for Fair Trade" that urged the next Republican president to take aim at "those countries that have relatively large trade deficits with the U.S. and apply relatively high tariffs." Navarro wrote that China, India, the European Union, Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan, Japan and Malaysia all belonged in this category and should be targeted with big levies. Navarro's plans for trade were the basis for half a chapter of Project 2025, the Republican policy guide published by the Heritage Foundation think tank. He wrote about "nonreciprocal tariffs," called for "the onshoring of a significant portion of production currently offshored by American multinational corporations" and warned of opposition from "hedge funds of Wall Street and tech entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley." The WSJ was more specific. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/peter-navarro-trump-tariffs-48dc0b74 Navarro's policies do not reflect Republican positions on trade, and Navarro was brought into the Trump collective by Jared Kushner. Trump didn't know who he was until Kushner introduced him in 2016. Marc Short, who had served in the first Trump administration and is now Chairman of the conservative interest group, Advancing American Freedom, had this to say, "It's not always the best idea to take somebody fresh out of jail and put them in charge of your trade policy, as Peter Navarro is right now," Trump's "liberation day" tariffs aren't truly "reciprocal," as initially promised. "It's branded well, but that's not really what this is" It matters because Navarro is an idealogue. His views are "theories" and do not reflect nor take into consideration market realities, consumer behavior and how businesses operate. Navarro has no business experience. He taught economics. That's why it matters. The operator of a small car repair shop has a better grasp of market realities than Navarro does. -
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Children addicted to smartphones
The first time in history that kids have access to their friends wherever they are, and people want to cut off their two way communication. As someone mentioned, it used to be television that was the bête noir of parents. I hate seeing SWMBO (She Who Must be Obeyed) on the iPad all day. However, she can call and text her family upcountry every day and her friend in Italy because of WiFi. I guess everything has good and bad. -
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59 Dead, 458 Injured in First Two Days of Songkran Holiday Travel, Bangkok Tops Fatalities
QED – when someone doesn’t actually have an argument they either start sealioning or regurgitate the old cliché "you're entitled to your own opinion" you are doing both! - this is so often nonsense as the person is not actually expressing an opinion but just baseless rubbish. The phrase "you're entitled to your own opinion" often gets thrown around as if it ends an argument or shields someone from criticism. But actually it's kind of a rhetorical smoke bomb to cover ignorance, isn't it? Just because someone believes something doesn't mean it's valid. An opinion needs to be based on some degree of reasoning, evidence, or lived experience. If someone says, "The Earth is flat" — that’s not an opinion, that’s a demonstrably false statement s are most of the comments on road safety in Thailand. Dressing it up as “just my opinion” doesn’t protect it from being wrong. "Entitled" doesn't mean immune – whilst everyone can hold their own beliefs, it doesn’t mean those beliefs are beyond challenge. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from critique. You’re entitled to say what you want, and others are equally entitled to call it nonsense – which is what people post on road safety especially over Songkhran. These cliches are often used to avoid accountability People use it to shut down uncomfortable conversations. E.g - "I think vaccines are a government conspiracy." "That’s not true, there’s overwhelming evidence otherwise." "Well, I’m entitled to my opinion." This move turns a factual dispute into a matter of personal taste, like ice cream flavours — which it isn’t. Road safety is a public health issue and a science. Most of all on ASEAN NOW talking about raod safety, it is no more than a lazy escape hatch… it is used by people like you to retreat from the conversation without actually defending their point or engaging meaningfully. Like saying, “I just feel that way” to dodge the hard work of thinking critically. and thinking you are engaging in an argument by sealioning is equally invalid
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