Posts by Richard Nikoley
Think back. How useful has Rubber been in your life? Think way back.
Little did I know—or care, frankly—but I’ve lived amongst rubber tree groves for years in various places, and I’m well acquainted with how the stuff is processed. Curiously enough, and I love curious people, the rubber tree sap flows out as that white goo you see in the title picture. It only flows in the…
Read MoreExterior Design: Crazy Fun or Rastafarian?
Well, my last post, arguing that what the world needs now is war—sweet war—in my judgment, fell on completely deaf ears. I got no signals whatsoever that it was well received. Just one stupid comment on it from some moron who thinks Catholicism is a cult. I know that kind of idiocy from way back…
Read MoreWhat The World Needs Now Is War, Sweet War
Western Christianity is the one that kept the Greeks. Islam met them earlier and then shut the door. Judaism produced brilliant synthesizers and never let them run the institution. OK, as a prelude to this particular post, I want to say upfront that I had significant help putting it together. I got up about 12…
Read MoreMen: Using the C-Word Will Positively Improve Your Life
Hey folks. Doing the near daily video as normal. If you’ve been following, I do them from my man cave perch, my patio overlooking the property here in rural Thailand. I’m doing it from my office this time, in front of my computer, because I need to reference something on my side monitor here. I’m…
Read MoreMen Building Stuff Undercuts Feminism and Males in Name Only (MINOs)
Males In Name Only = MINOs. Time for another video from me, with a subsequent blog post with the transcription of this video. I’m going to take you on a little tour. The theme is building. Build! Okay, let’s go. This is a property in northeastern Thailand, Mukdahan Province to be exact, and this is…
Read MoreI Say Again: Money Makes You Fat. Nothing Else.
I’ve had this notion ever since I moved to Thailand nearly seven years ago, in early 2020. I came here quite a lot in the late 1980s, spending months in the country over several different trips, and I can’t recall ever seeing a fat person. I’m sure they existed, but there weren’t enough of them…
Read MoreShould X Become a New Full-Fledged 24/7 Media Company?
Thinking Out Loud From Thailand: Another 30-Day X Block, Spanking Kids, and Why X Should Become a Real Media Company Good morning from Thailand. This is a thinking-out-loud post. Use your own judgment. Push back if you wish. I’m on day four of a 30-day block from X. Second one this year. The first, back…
Read MoreThe Funny Hate Mail I Get
I live in this funny space in my life where I’m really happy, really content, and really satisfied: 65 years old, living in rural northeastern Thailand with a really great gal. It’s been interesting to experience that unfold. I’ve always received some degree of hate mail or hate comments. On my blog, those are typically…
Read MoreElon Musk Banned Me for 30 Days Again. Why It’s Dishonest
Time for another episode. It may seem silly that I’m wearing sunglasses on an overcast, slightly rainy day up here in northeastern Thailand. I’m on the patio of my man-cave perch. This is probably where I’ll end up doing most of the talking videos, as opposed to the walk-around ones. What do I have today?…
Read MoreX is Neither a Truth nor Quality Seeking Platform
All right, here I am heading out again. Heading to a little market, get a few things in my truck. Thought it would be an okay time to do one of my videos. This is something that’s been on my mind for a while. Think back to when Elon bought Twitter. A lot of people…
Read MoreThe AI Doomsday. Be Scared. Very Scared.
So, been a while. Greetings from my as-yet-under-construction man cave here in rural Thailand. Plenty of videos detailing that process. What I wanted to discuss this morning is the laughable proliferation of the AI-doomsday thing. I’m gratified because I see huge numbers of people saying, “Oh, here comes the fear scam again.” Some even harkening…
Read MoreThey Lined Up in Pink for the Woman Who Strangled Her Babies
That was the watershed. Not Roe. Not “my body.” The day millions of women decided a born child was fair game, and the killer was her sister. Men say no. At least there was 1 man on that jury. He may have saved a lot. I don’t know. We do know that if a criminal…
Read MorePotato Breakthrough
This is a cooking-video post, which I haven’t done in quite a while. At just over 16 minutes, it may be a little long, but I made it that way for a reason. Recently, I’ve been trying to figure out how to make the potatoes Thailand produces—what I call Thai potatoes. They’re yellow-fleshed potatoes, but…
Read MoreWhat Will Women Do When They No Longer Have The Support of Men?
Good, nice little late morning. I just poured—let me see—three truckloads of concrete, about five cubic meters each. So that’s roughly eighteen yards in American terms, all for the front yard driveway and parking lot. I had the guys working it, and it was pretty cool. I have a separate video specifically about that. What…
Read MoreHow Do You Build In A Foreign Country Like I Do?
Greetings from my plastic Adirondack chair overlooking the front yard. This video is going to be—I honestly don’t even know what it’s going to be. But let’s get started. August is historically, by far, the rainiest month in this region of Thailand. We just hit September 1st or 2nd, so we’ve gone over the hump.…
Read MoreSquats: From Dr Oz to Me
I feel like I owe you a post. It’s been a while. I’ve been out here in rural Thailand, doing all sorts of things. If you want to follow the blow-by-blow, the best places are my X feed and my YouTube channel. What I have for you today is something that’s already up on both…
Read MoreSomething Positive To Put Out
My last post here was about the governor of Massachusetts, surrounded exclusively by a gaggle of women, signing a state bill into law that permits women to kill babies right up to the moment of birth. I suppose the next logical step on that road is already obvious. We hear endless blather about postpartum depression…
Read MoreKilling Babies: Smiling, Cheering, and Clapping About It
I doubt that image or the video clip behind it are going to age well. It’s Massachusetts governor Maura Healey signing a bill to give females the right to kill babies up to the time of birth. She’s surrounded by other women cheering and clapping. It’s just a choice caricature, metaphor, and whatever else all…
Read More“You’ll pee off the patio.” Yes, I will.
Many have laughed already, so I have a duty to let you laugh too. X or YouTube. Your choice. In other news, did you know that if you’re an American and come to Asia…meet a woman and legally marry her, it will take you 2 years of State Department hoops to get a visa to…
Read MorePhotos of Rural Thai Homesteading
Mostly what I’ve done over the last few months, as I’ve been working daily on building out what I loosely call a homestead here in rural Thailand, is shoot short little videos. I typically upload them to X and YouTube, but I’m not trying to make a splash on either channel. This blog remains my…
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