lampang.bsky.social
Thai-English translator; keen on dogs; distressed by Bluesky's apparent feline bias.
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A man whose ignorance, arrogance, and charmlessness is at such Olympic heights that he makes Trump look elegant and urbane by comparison.
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Safe to assume that the government knows exactly that, and rather a lot more. But it's probably wise not to burn our bridges too early.
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Relative to total population, US and UK deaths in Afghanistan were close to equal. Hard to know what would more a country could do to demonstrate its (now apparently deeply unwise) desire to support the US. Perhaps Vance could let us know.
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Isn't that absolutely fantastic.
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They seem to be discovering my account here so give it time.
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I'll post the one about doing as well as one can do in your A-levels (for the same reason) and then making a comprehensive fuck up of everything subsequent to that; schadenfreude is, after all, much more comforting than hope.
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^Clearly giving serious consideration to which wine to choose.
Charles (golden retriever) and Daisy (bouncy little street dog). Love Charles because he's an idiot and Daisy because she's not. Plus, what would one do without them?
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Daisy says hi right back. And if anyone finds her missing ear, please could you pop it in the post.
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Unfortunately, learning from your experiences requires a degree of self-awareness that she lacks.
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She manages to be simultaneously utterly shameless and absurdly thin-skinned.
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As somebody else said, it's like Russell Brand at his most irritating.
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In fact, even if you just divide GDP among the working population, you still don't close to THB 77,000 each (it's slightly less than half that) so I'm not sure where all this extra money is coming from.
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Also slightly peculiar to claim that average wages are some 10-times higher than the minimum wage.
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Yes, that's obviously so. But as I said, having lived and worked in Thailand for 20-odd years, those figures sound a little off, so if you have it, I'd be interested see some official data that indicates that average salaries are anywhere close to THB 77,000/month.
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Having lived in Thailand for two decades, the NSO statistics sound believable to me; average incomes of THB 77,000/month do not.
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Reported by who? The National Statistical Office reports that in 2023 "ครัวเรือนทั่วประเทศ มีรายได้ทั้งสิ้นเฉลี่ยเดือนละ 29,030 บาท" (household income from all sources averaged THB 29,030/month) www.nso.go.th/nsoweb/stora...
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Quite. No particular reason why anyone from the States should know that, unless of course they feel the urge to write the most unreadable, turgid crap about British history. In which case, it turns out to be somewhat important.
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Interestingly, Cromwell's time in Ireland was almost instantly lost to history. If it wasn't for the work of a handful of dedicated historians beavering away in obscurity, we'd know nothing about it. Or so I'm told.
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And rightly so.
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According to the source for that data, average Thai salaries are c.THB 100,000 but according to the Thai government, average household incomes are less than a third of that.
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That graph looks very dodgy - I very much doubt that the average salary for Thai IT engineers is THB 75,000/month
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Moral - I was fairly successful in avoiding the idiots/lunatics on X but I really can't square my participation there (in any form, even as only a passive consumer) with Musk being so determined to be such an atrocious individual and to use the platform for such awful ends.
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A third of the country are basically in favor of xenophobic violence? That can't be right, surely.
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Seems like a pretty popular post-politics career. Particularly attractive, I guess, if you've fully mastered (as these two clearly have) the core skill set of utter shamelessness and Olympian levels of stupidity.
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The calculation will vary depending on individual circumstances, but for those like me who don't have any pressing need to communicate with as big an audience as possible, that time has clearly come. And equally, the answer to the question of whether to stay or go is also now blindingly obvious.
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After Musk's most recent outbursts, I came to think that that fight has been decisively lost - non-lunatics staying there merely helps to obscure the platform's current core function as a central rallying point for some of the worst people on the planet.
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It was exactly that post that finally convinced me that staying on Twitter was no longer reasonable or acceptable. It's so clear where Musk wants it to go that the only decent response left seems to be to leave.
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Quite. I've not exactly been a massive presence there but the recent tsunami of officially sanctioned trolling on behalf of Reform racists has finally driven me to deactivate my account.