Thailand to take action against 8-year-old Buddha reincarnation
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"We don't serve time travellers here," said the bartender. A time traveller walks into a bar.
BUDDHA BOY REINCARNATION
Lawyers and a senior politician have organised to charge the family and the 8-year-old boy claiming to be the reincarnated son of the Lord Buddha.
Police in the southern province of Surat Thani received allegations of six criminal acts in the case of 'Nong Nice', the child who claims to have magical powers -- computer crime and money laundering included.
The main complaint was handed to Royal Thai Police by the head of the Dharma Army Lawyers Foundation, Ananchai Chaiyadej.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2817506/
OPINION
Dear South Koreans and ASEAN Neighbours: Do Not Fear Thailand Embracing Same-Sex Marriage
Only hours had passed since the junta-appointed senate finally made the expected vote of approval to endorse Same-Sex Marriage Bill, making Thailand the first nation in Southeast Asia to legalise same sex marriage, when the impact from Bangkok was felt over 5,367 kilometres away in Seoul.
"Ugh... Dirty..."
Khao Sod (Fresh News)https://shorturl.at/idDKv
ASEAN DIPLOMACY
by Kavi Chongkittavorn, veteran journalist on regional affairs
Vietnam's bamboo diplomacy in play
In front of a gigantic golden statue of President Ho Chi Minh, President Vladimir Putin stood, solemnly shaking hands with his counterpart President To Lam.
 The iconic photo underscored the ties that bind the two nations.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2817101/
Throughout the Russia-Ukraine war, Vietnam has remained neutral.
 Moscow has even thanked Hanoi for its "balanced and objective stance on the Ukraine crisis."
 In a nutshell, Vietnam's bamboo diplomacy [bend with the wind but never break] is boldly and skillfully at play.
Western countries, especially the US and EU, are unhappy with Mr Putin's visit, given Vietnam's value-added economic and security ties
USA POLITICS
Trump and Biden will renew their 2020 debate at 0800 tomorrow, which is 2100 (9 p.m.) Ottawa time today.
CNN Trump haters Jake Tapper and Dana Bash are the hosts.
Jeremy Bash, her ex, was one of the 51 'intelligence experts' rounded up in September of 2020 by party apparatchik Don Tony Blinken. Each signed and swore that the news stories of Hunter Biden's Apple laptop were Russian dezinformatsiya. Bash also claimed in writing that Trump conspired with Russia to get this.
Ms. NBC, sure, but who knew CNN was still broadcasting?
Totally Trivia: CNN owner Teddy "Bear" Turner is the last person known to have paid a huge amount to see Hanoi Jane Plemiannikov in the buff and boff her.
Trump is floating the idea of a drug test for both himself and Bidenbefore tomorrow morning's debate. Biden, for obvious reasons, will not agree to it.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/trump-floats-drug-test-biden-self-ahead-first-debate
Not only that, but cannibals ate his uncle!
HANOI JANE
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors scheduled annual Jane Fonda Day and celebrations on April 30.
On any scale, it is somewhere between difficult and  impossible to place. Is it pig-ignorance, pig-arrogance, intentional tribute to communism and its Vietnam Party? Or what? Is it all of the above or NOTA far, far out?
 This directly undermines the memory and sacrifice of the 58,220 US soldiers and 250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers who died in defence of freedom and democracy during the Vietnam War.
 -- State Senator Janet Nguyen, who calls her "Hanoi Jane", and correctly a "propagandist who supported a Communist agenda in Vietnam" and adds
 "By honouring a pro-communist activist on the anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, the Board shows contempt for the deeply painful experience of Vietnamese refugees."
Fonda-Plemiannikov replied
 When you go into the ballot box have climate in your heart.
This is an existential year. How we vote all the way down ballot is going to matter for whether young people have a livable future.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/jane-fonda-day-sparked-backlash-vietnamese-americans-rcna152639
SPACE EXPLORATION
The new Space Race
We are shifting from the early era of space exploration to a more serious phase extending ever further from Earth’s orbit, focused on key opportunities such as mining and manufacturing as well as military purposes.
https://www.newgeography.com/content/008218-the-space-race-gets-serious
TECHNOLOGY
AI is exhausting the power grid in its tireless search for progressively more refined bullshit. AI companies are proposing to solve this by using unicorn farts. (MSN)
A ChatGPT-powered search, according to the International Energy Agency, consumes almost 10 times the amount of electricity as a search on Google, and is, somehow, even less helpful.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technology/ai-is-exhausting-the-power-grid-tech-firms-are-seeking-a-miracle-solution/ar-BB1oDl5z
True, the above. That 900 percent increase in power consumption is pumped directly into Nvidia's bank account.
The companies argue that advancing AI now could prove more beneficial to the environment than curbing electricity consumption.
We're unanimous on this: Of course they do.
Are You Shocked?
In Indonesia, Women Pirate More Music and Movies Than Men
https://torrentfreak.com/in-indonesia-women-pirate-more-music-and-movies-than-men-240303/
Why going cashless has turned Sweden into a high-crime nation. (Forbes)
Because, you absolute ninnies, if you can access your money from anywhere at any time, so can everyone else in the world.
https://archive.is/z7Sa1
With cash, someone has to be there to beat you up and steal your wallet. With an online scam, they can be in Laos or Lichtenstein or Lesotho; it doesn't matter
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week. What are pirates downloading? (Links are to movie trailers. In (parens, last week's ranking.)
1 (...)IF
2 (1)Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
3 (...)Trigger Warning
4 (3)The Fall Guy
5 (4)Civil War
6 (5)Dune: Part Two
7 (8)Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
8 (2)Hit Man
9 (10)The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
10 (9)Kung Fung Panda 4
CANADA FOREIGNERS
How the rush to grow Canada's population is testing the country's limits.
Canada has reached another population milestone and it's almost entirely due to immigration. According to the latest data from Statistics Canada, as of April 1 this year, the population passed 41 million people (41,012, 563). For context, the population hit a record 40 million in June 2023.
https://magazine.macleans.ca/reader/preview/085ba40a-1476-429b-986c-95abc58768b8
NORK MORANBONG BAND
If there's a stand-up bass and electric cello in the band, you know it will be good.
The audience is invited to clap rhythmically or else.
It's literally the same store.
