"This last article is rather bizarre. Conflating a mass shooting with a pandemic?? Notice how every agenda is now made attemptable and interchangeable in relating to every other agenda: shooting / pandemic / climate change / censorship. It’s quite amazing how such continuous prose is breathlessly exhaled into print."
What a word salad that whole statement was. We decided to stay one extra day in Thad Phanom because there was a party today for an 18 year old family member who is going into the military tomorrow supposedly for two years. My guess is the ladyboys are much more likely to find that change your sex at birth loophole to avoid military conscription. The phone text message for cash disposits will disproportionately affect the working poor: I know many people in Thailand who either have no phone, or who have a phone but have no electricty to charge it, or who have no internet or phone service on their phone because they can't afford it, sometimes to the point that SIM cards must be changed. They'll probably come up with a workaround for some of the labor like having a boss or foreman deposit for all of the workers at camp, but I suspect this solution will lead to more corruption, not less. The big corruption as always is happening at the top and blamed on the working stiffs...
Thanks for the constructive criticism. I did end up producing a word salad in trying to describe another word salad from the Bangkok Post. I've edited that statement so that it reads more clearly, I hope.
I think you'll be proven right about the conscription loophole, and as for the cash deposits, if they allow a foreman to take charge then we'll probably hear about the 'fee' charged to the helpless workers, in order to have their cash deposited by someone who can receive the OTP.
Good luck getting back to Phuket smoothly Amy, and commiserations for the young lad who's been conscripted.
I thought you did a great job summarizing the number of mix and match euphemisms in display! I wasn't being critical of what you wrote I thought it described it well!
*Correction made to title and final section - proposed bill to enable people to change their gender on official identity documents (assuming national ID card and passport but not confirmed). This does not extend to birth certificates, as I mistakenly included previously.
The ONE good think about SOME of these digital Government systems is that they can eliminate corruption. At least in theory. It's interesting to note that where the most gravy flows, there always seem to be inexplicable dalys in implementation of online systems due to "software glitches" etc. Hmmm...
Corruption always finds a way. The digital wallet 10k THB giveaway scheme looks as if it'll be corrupted by government 'stakeholders' liaising with the vendors who are permitted to convert the digital tokens into cash (for a fee).
"This last article is rather bizarre. Conflating a mass shooting with a pandemic?? Notice how every agenda is now made attemptable and interchangeable in relating to every other agenda: shooting / pandemic / climate change / censorship. It’s quite amazing how such continuous prose is breathlessly exhaled into print."
What a word salad that whole statement was. We decided to stay one extra day in Thad Phanom because there was a party today for an 18 year old family member who is going into the military tomorrow supposedly for two years. My guess is the ladyboys are much more likely to find that change your sex at birth loophole to avoid military conscription. The phone text message for cash disposits will disproportionately affect the working poor: I know many people in Thailand who either have no phone, or who have a phone but have no electricty to charge it, or who have no internet or phone service on their phone because they can't afford it, sometimes to the point that SIM cards must be changed. They'll probably come up with a workaround for some of the labor like having a boss or foreman deposit for all of the workers at camp, but I suspect this solution will lead to more corruption, not less. The big corruption as always is happening at the top and blamed on the working stiffs...
Thanks for the constructive criticism. I did end up producing a word salad in trying to describe another word salad from the Bangkok Post. I've edited that statement so that it reads more clearly, I hope.
I think you'll be proven right about the conscription loophole, and as for the cash deposits, if they allow a foreman to take charge then we'll probably hear about the 'fee' charged to the helpless workers, in order to have their cash deposited by someone who can receive the OTP.
Good luck getting back to Phuket smoothly Amy, and commiserations for the young lad who's been conscripted.
I thought you did a great job summarizing the number of mix and match euphemisms in display! I wasn't being critical of what you wrote I thought it described it well!
Ha ok, I appreciate that.
*Correction made to title and final section - proposed bill to enable people to change their gender on official identity documents (assuming national ID card and passport but not confirmed). This does not extend to birth certificates, as I mistakenly included previously.
The ONE good think about SOME of these digital Government systems is that they can eliminate corruption. At least in theory. It's interesting to note that where the most gravy flows, there always seem to be inexplicable dalys in implementation of online systems due to "software glitches" etc. Hmmm...
Corruption always finds a way. The digital wallet 10k THB giveaway scheme looks as if it'll be corrupted by government 'stakeholders' liaising with the vendors who are permitted to convert the digital tokens into cash (for a fee).