Thai Government Attempts To Set New Rice Prices
Another week older, deeper in.
This is the earliest Bulldog Edition of Fishwrap, 11 November 2024.
Today should be Poppy Day everywhere.
In Flanders Field, by Canadian Doctor Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae
 Convey the duty of the living to honour the sacrifice of those who died, and continue the fight.
 Canadian Leonard Cohen recites that stirring poem...
  ... between the crosses row on row that mark our place and in the sky
  the larks still bravely singing fly
There are 69 Crying Days until, literally, Hitler becomes U.S. president.
So suck it up. Which The New York Timesis absolutely not planning to do.
Just wonderin’... Who in the h**k is M. Gessen who looks the life of a party?
How To Judge People Volume 3, Page 65
THAILAND APEC PERU
Prime Minister Paethongtarn Shinawatra, better known as Ung-Ing, is on her first trip abroad -- to South America, a week in Lima to be exact, for the 31st Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 31.
That's unusual on several levels. Regional leaders usually begin as heads of government with a tour of ASEAN members.
But in Bangkok, Ambassadress Cecilia Zunilda Galarreta Bazan is delighted. She said Thailand and Peru are natural allies, in politics and trade especially.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/2899407/peru-envoy-hails-pms-trip-as-chance-to-boost-bilateral-apec-ties
The Price Is Rice
Like many issues, such as school agendas and the hours for banning liquor sales, the government fixes rice prices -- sort of.
There's a major surplus of both regular and Thai fragrant rice this season, and a new price has been set by the National Rice Policy and Management Committee, to prevent a fall in prices at the market.
That's where it all gets sticky (no pun intended).
The government is offering subsidies of 1,500 Thai baht per tonne -- of which 500 baht is for farmers and 1,000 baht will "help" the middlemen. Meanwhile, the government-controlled agricultural bank (BAAC) will offer to lend farmers between 9,000-to-12,500 a tonne -- about US$365 max.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/2899367/rice-price-measures-get-approval
PHOTO: There are, officially, four types of Thai rice. Full details.
Pelosi 'accidentally' Spills the Beans
In an interview and probable podcast with The New York Times, shrewish Nan explained how the July 21 bloodless coup by herself and president Obama went so haywire that it caused a 40-year record mandate by voters for "Literally, Hitler" -- Nancy's own name for the election winner.
Briefly
The coup was left far too late in the election cycle. "Slow Joe" Biden totally outwitted Nan and Barry by instantly naming Kamala as his, and the Democratic Party's candidate before the coup managers could get control and organise a new, different party candidate.
Neither Obama nor Nance has revealed (yet) who they favoured instead of Kamala. So stand by as this impressive new narrative develops.
PHOTO: U.S. President's last (?) Joe Biden's mastermind.
Pogrom in Amsterdam
These were not spontaneous assaults. They were premeditated. The failure of the Dutch authorities is massive.
Hunting Jews
Israelis returned home on government Rescue Flights! As Eitan Fischberger writes at City Journal, "The intifada is globalised."
DNA shows
DNA shows Pompeii's dead weren't who we thought there were. (Ars Technica)
They had -- get this -- a mix of European and Eastern Mediterranean genes.
In other words, they were Roman.
TECHNLOGY
MacOS runs apps inside a sandbox for added security. Does it add security? No. (GitHub)
Oops.
https://jhftss.github.io/A-New-Era-of-macOS-Sandbox-Escapes/
The PlayStation 5 Pro is here and it's meh. (WCCFTech)
While it is technically a significant upgrade over the base PlayStation 5, with a nearly 50% upgrade to the graphics performance, it still plays PlayStation 5 games, so mostly it doesn't matter.
https://wccftech.com/ps5-pro-is-a-smaller-leap-than-ps4-pro-says-dev-pssr-is-better-than-amd-fsr-on-par-with-dlss-xess/
Scalpers who snapped up the first shipment are struggling to unload it even below retail price. (TechSpot)
Tragic.
The CEO of Sony's PlayStation division says that maybe the company should show upcoming games to gamers before it spends $400 million developing them. (WCCFTech)
What a concept.
Crucial's 4TB T500 SSD is out and it's fine. (Tom's Hardware)
By which we mean... it's reasonably priced and one of the fastest drives around, but does have some performance hiccups under extremely heavy sustained write loads. So not the best choices.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/crucial-t500-4tb-ssd-review/
Apple's new M4 Mac Mini has modular storage. (MacRumors)
It's a little card like an M.2 2230 SSD from a laptop.
Does that mean you can upgrade it?
No. Don't be silly.