Thai baht continues to fall in wake of Thaksin tampering of Bank of Thailand
Good Morning World and ships in space, it's almost the end of Friday and this, below, is the early edition of Fishwrap for Saturday, 16 November.
Did you have a pleasant Loy Krathong? Do you have plans for an enjoyable weekend?
Happy (belated) Birthday U.S. Marine Corps, from a U.S. Army specialist. We don't hate you; we just like to mock you.
Would it be great to refocus U.S. defence spending to actual fighting ability rather than teaching the Marines how to walk in 4" heels in a little black cocktail dress?
Saturday Morning Joke -- The San Francisco Bookstore
So I went into the bookstore before heading to the airport a minute ago and asked if they had the new Trump book on how to deport illegal immigrants....?
The woke clerk said:
"Get The ***k Out of Here, and Don't Come Back!!"
I replied,
"Yes that's the title. Do you have it in paperback?" (h/t the too-seldom correspondent Tom Morrison)
Fishwrap Approves
One of the newest and addictive tiny, online games tests and teaches English vocab. With a massive word list, Word Wipe presents 30-second tests of how many words you can trace with your mouse, the only rule being that you must start with the first letter and then join directly adjoined letters, in any direction. Works in any web browser, Windows, iMac, Linux, even DOS.
ILLUSTRATION
From left: 'Miler', 'Walk', 'State'.
In the real world, each word will disappear the instant you release the mouse button.
Graphic is from CrazyGames.com, where WW is free, without adverts. But nearly every small-game site now has Word Wipe.
NOTE: WW will not accept most of George Carlin's 7 Words but other than that... Robert is your mother's brother!
As United States' president of vice, Kamala will collect her weekly pay-cheque of US$5,473 until January 21 -- 186,866 baht and 46 satang in real money.
After that, she's on her own and she must vacate our splendid U.S. Naval Observatory that she calls home. She will run in 2026 for governor of California, the U.S. state that has been dropped on its head.
'Stolen Valour' king Tampon Tim Walz has returned to be governor of Minnesota.
Why Di'n't You Vote For Her?
The Epoch Times of New York City has mined a report by the Democratic Party's Blueprint polling firm. A quick-but-not dirty report compiled right after the U.S. election is fact-packed but boils down to one question. There are three answers at the top of the list of why Democrats ignored or even voted for Literally, Hitler and left Kamala in the American political toilet:
Inflation; too high. Biden-Kamala to blame.
(Linked to No. 1) way too many illegal aliens, and calling them "immigrants".
Kamala's personal love of far-left social issues, starting with transgender.
The newspaper's report makes it clear that top Democratic Party bosses and far-left pro-communist anti-Jew "activists" will neither revise nor apologise for the parts they played in humiliating Kamala and losing the election. Instead, they are currently committed to doubling down but "beginning earlier" in the election cycle to push their policies.
USA POLITICS Directly Related
The Left Shifts the Blame to America Itself
But the public's economic outlook is still the most straightforward explanation for voters’ rejection of the incumbent i.e. Biden-Kamala administration.
TECHNLOGY
Top Story Today: America, 2024; You will obey!
The FBI raided the home of the CEO of entertaining betting platform Polymarket -- which predicted the re-election of President Trump for some not very useful value of "predicted" -- and seized his phone and other electronic devices because they felt like it. (New York Post)
No charges have been brought, nobody has been arrested, the FBI and the Biden administration's Department of Justice haven't even hinted at an investigation.
So, no reason. They just did it.
The EU has fined Facebook 800 million euros for making the Facebook Marketplace part of Facebook. (Ars Technica)
Even Ars Technica knows this shit is coming to an end.
In the past five years, EU regulators have also passed a landmark piece of legislation–the Digital Markets Act–with the aim to slow down dominant tech players and boost the local tech industry.
It's Europe, the dying continent. There is no local tech industry.
Google has a new AI tool that alerts you when a caller is trying to scam you out of your money. (Google Android)
It's not 'new'. They already announced that.
UK phone company O2 has an AI tool that answers scam phone calls for you and pretends to have Alzheimer's until the scammers quit in despair. (O2)
That's more like it.
Intel's integrated graphics in its Lunar Lake laptop chips are... Pretty good actually. (Tom's Hardware)
This review puts Intel narrowly ahead of AMD.
A comfortable chair, perhaps even a sofa or (why not?) an old rocking chair can be perfect for reading. A kitty as warm companion, or puppy; at Fishwrap we're all doggeh-people but we'll not judge you. And you'll need articles worthy of consideration.
COMMENTARY by The Brookings Institution
How Taiwan can -- and often does -- help itself
Fact: Xi Jinping is Afraid to Invade
Taiwan's economy is one reason for Beijing to eschew war, the security partnership with the United States is another.
PHOTO: Staff introduce NVIDIA GeForce series equipment on display at Computex Taipei.
This could be the first genuinely economic-oriented analysis of Trump's (Literally Hitler's) policy, emphasising issues relevant to Thailand.
 Readers could find that an economic approach would give new insights into this much talked about topic.
I do not think Trump (aka, Literally, Hitler) is a trained economist. However,
 as a shrewd businessman, he surely understands that fewer imports mean more domestic jobs; more domestic jobs mean higher wages and higher wages and employment mean more loyal voters.
OPINION by Michael E. Smith, archaeologist at Arizona State University who works on Aztec sites and comparative urbanism.
Can We Move Our Climate-Threatened Cities? Â
Ancient Examples Show It’s Possible to Transplant Entire Metropolises -- but the costs are steep.
Gosh really?
Related ESSAY straight out of Canada
Is Vancouver Burning Yet?
An Elegy for Vancouver Summer
Rising Temperatures and Raging Wildfires have me dreading my favourite season -- and mourning the splendid days of my childhood
Last summer was my first in my new apartment. I'd moved into the building in the fall.
PHOTO: Vancouver has faced alarming heat, formerly unimaginable, in recent summers.
An AI Overview which (reminder) is artificial intelligence.
Not exactly out on a limb:
The climate in Vancouver, Canada in 2024 is expected to be characterised by extreme heat waves, cold winters, and other climate-related hazards.
This Traitor Is Panicking HARD
Jeremy Bash, one of the 51 trashy 'ex-intelligence chiefs' organised by Secretary of State Tony Blinken to lie about Hunter Biden's laptop and lie about Covid-19 wants much Much MUCH more.
He wants treason by U.S. Army generals and by all CIA directors and agents worldwide.
