ASEAN tries shopworn bound-to-fail attempt to trick the myanmar dictatorship
Good Wednesday morning June 29, boys and girls and all the rest.
No need to panic just yet but it is the last Wednesday of June of 2022 in your entire life.
ASEAN MYANMAR BURMA SUU KYI
PHNOM PENH: The ASEAN envoy charged with fixing the Myanmar military dictatorship is demanding that "The Lady" [sarc] Aung San Suu Kyi be released from solitary confinement - and then, but only then, ASEAN will talk peace and politics.
Not that ASEAN is contesting Suu Kyi's arrest, but ASEAN wants her transferred from prison solitary back to her home.
Special Asean envoy and Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn urged Myanmar to "exercise compassion and facilitate the return of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to the home where she was originally detained, in consideration of her fragile health and well-being".
PLOT REVEAL: It won't work.
Question: Is it 1997 again?
This is a story round-up of sorts - all about one part of the Asian inflation.
Central banks in Asia spend billions to slow currency declines
[BLOOMBERG] After years of building their foreign-exchange reserves, central banks in Asia are tapping into their stockpiles to bolster their weakening currencies against a rising US dollar.
Thai reserves slid to $221.4 billion as of June 17, in data released late last week. That was the lowest in more than two years.
Monthly figures show that Indonesia's stash is at the smallest since November, 2020.
Reserves in South Korea and India are at their lowest in more than a year. Malaysia's stockpile, meanwhile, has fallen the most since 2015.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2335473/
HMM. That's interesting!
Flu vaccination linked to 40% reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease.
Skynet smiles, and cracks an unacceptable joke.
John 11:35
Robots With Flawed AI Make Sexist And Racist Decisions, Experiment Shows..
"We're at risk of creating a generation of racist and sexist robots."
https://www.sciencealert.com/robots-with-flawed-ai-make-sexist-racist-and-toxic-decisions-experiment-shows
I can just hear the computer generated voice,
"Make me a sammich, dammit!"
Pop Star Pink Demands Pro-Life Americans 'Never F**king Listen to My Music Again.'
I have already replied in writing that her terms are acceptable.
Hmmm. Is this where Thailand is going?
China Last Year: Labor Shortage.
China This Year: "$1.35 An Hour. Take It Or Leave It."
https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=51795
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-factories-are-having-labor-painswe-can-hardly-find-any-workers-11629883801%22
VIDEO
A factory owner tells hundreds of students waiting to see if they can get a job that he's only paying 9 yuan (about $1.35 an hour; 47.75 baht in real money), and they can take it or leave it. Most stay.
Things you have learnt today:
The New York (City) Police Department has a beekeepers' Division.
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/06/27/nypd-bees/2481656329582/
GLOBAL WARMING
But... but... it looked so good on paper, dammit!
There is nothing quite like a relaxing summer kick-back with your loved ones—that is, until the party is interrupted by your SunVilla's Solar LED Market Umbrella bursts into flames.
It's not the solar, it's the batteries.
https://gizmodo.com/costco-sunvilla-s-solar-led-market-umbrella-recalled-1849112378
https://www.costco.com/sunvilla-11%27-color-changing-led-cantilever-umbrella-with-rolling-base.product.100805886.html
TECHNOLOGY (MORE)
WAR FALLOUT: Cisco confirms plan to exit Russia permanently.
https://www.techradar.com/news/cisco-confirms-plan-to-exit-russia-permanently
North Americans only. Thailand is completely neutral.
Google programmers, or, how one idiot hired more idiots. (PVS Studio)
I was dealing with these guys before there was Google. We called them idiots then too.
https://pvs-studio.com/en/blog/posts/0952/
The U.S. company that failed to make an aeroplane and a spaceship that could stay in the air can't make another airliner.
or
What's Holding Back Boeing's 787 Dreamliner?
Weasely answer:
[WSJ] Production defects and regulatory issues have largely halted deliveries of new Dreamliners to airlines for nearly two years.
PHOTO: Several airlines like the 787, which has never killed a passenger (yet).
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2335148/whats-holding-back-boeings-787-dreamliner-
QUOTES
What are the odds that on June 28, 2023 Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day is still an American citizen?
This alleged 'man' is so stupid he hasn't even noted the differences between the abortion laws of the U.S.A. and the U.K., which are notable. What he says:
There's just too much f-king stupid in the world to go back to that miserable f--king excuse for a country. Oh, I'm not kidding, you're going to get a lot of me in the coming days.
Have you been to the range?