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What you like most about Brazil? For me, heading back to hotel a little tipsy from a 202 drink and a good time with a 202 boy. First night in 202, the long flight is already worthwhile. A rainy Monday until 6pm. Was a little doubtful, worried it might be an empty house. Weather app forecasts heavy rain until 10pm, it’s just cloudy with a few drizzle after 6pm! Way off, weather.com! The few drops are rather pleasant for the 30+ hot day. Junior’s son and a lady are managing the reception. I ask him how many boys are in house as I enter, he said muito. He didn’t exaggerate. Quite a few new faces since my last trip 2022 May. This cute boy with an army crew cut looks somewhat familiar, it’s until later of the night when I overhearing him talking in English with a client and looking closer to his tattoo that I realized it’s Solomon, the boy I had a 2peat in Lagoa on my last trip. A slim black boy with a pretty face stood out for me as I walk up to the shower and steam room. While I prefer the 30+ rio summer to -15 Canadian winter, you do need a shower after getting to 202 on metro. After surveying the room, I made him my top choice. The client he was chatting with fell through, so as I walk by him the 2nd time to the steam room, he followed me in soon after. The kiss is sweet and a little rough. The baby smooth Latino/black skin is my favorite, and it often comes with a huge cock too, as for this boy. We make a deal in 5 minutes in the sauna amid kisses. Long waiting list for room, so I bought drinks and we had more kisses while waiting. In the room, Brazilian boys are more often than not eating ass with a passion. When we get to the fucking, his baby smooth hole felt amazing. He likes getting fucked legs up, with a slim build like my all time favorite N, the hole is fully exposed in that position. A great bottom boy. Down side is he is uncomfortable taking a photo together. Well, on closer look, he is a little too polished pretty, unlike N, naturally handsome, married young with a son at the tender age of 19, cute with a glowing smile but not the slightest gay. Except that N often had a boner pointing to the sky when he started our encounter by sucking my cock. The wonder of some Brazilian straight boys! Fucking girls in real life, taking dick on the side for money… Break down of the night: 75 entry charge, 37 for two drinks, 40 for the room. Less than 30us$ for the house, long live 202! While 1st night is a happy night. Things outside sauna are quite different. The COVID tourist slump is over, hotel price more than doubled, often tripled in Copacabana compared to last May. long line ups for foreigners at customs too compared to no lines at all last May. Airport Lounges are open now. There is even a lounge for customers after arrival outside security in the parking garage. Handy to kill a couple hours as my flight arrived before 10, it would be too early to uber to my hotel right away as check in starts at 2pm. Another ugly shock is my debit card from an American bank used to give me very close to posted xe.com exchange rate for ATM no fee withdrawal at Bradesco, now the exchange rate is a full 10 percent off posted rate 😞 (5.2 posted, ATM withdrawal at 4.7). Credit card charge still happens very close to posted rate at 5.16. Tip, always choose getting charged in Real, not your local currency if asked. Time for bed. 117 tomorrow, muscle gods are not my type, so will be going with low expectations.

Unless you are Thai or Asian, forget Chakran. When it opened over 20 years ago, it was a wonderful alternative to Babylon but with more younger and in shape Thais and foreigners were made welcome. Over the last decade, though, it has become amost exclusively Thai for Thai or Thai for Asian. Even if you are young and slim your chance of success is pretty slim.

It is just a general trend in saunas. Young Asian are not into having sex with farangs for free... unless the farang is young and not fat. One asian boy there told me last month at Krubb "why fat farangs come here ? They should go massage shop and pay for sex. Sauna is more for fun" (meanning free sex)

Vietnamese guys are actually pretty cute, especially face-wise, though they tend to be flatter down there compared to Thais. They tend to be quite submissive during sex but outside it, they have a rougher character and lack some of the soft manners that makes Thais or even Cambodians so attractive. I guess given Vietnam history, both recent and ancient, it's in a way understandable. What I have heard from Viet friends and seen when I have been there, they don't mind meeting older guys, especially when they can practice English or any other foreign language.

I have only recently started visiting Vietnam in the last few years. In my limited experience, the Vietnamese you meet in Vietnam can be wonderfully cute and excellent in bed. And that's non-money boys. Plus the countryside can be stunning. I'm looking forward to experiencing more about the central highlands after Songkran.

202: as a smoker - I like the lay out at club 117 much more than point 202- the boys hang out at the bar more , there is music and good drink - smoking area in 202 is dead town ! also at point 202- boys is more skinny , slim fit , younger crowd , not muscular - but fit at club 117- they are in my opinion much more muscular from working out to steroid user to Body builder - big trap, big arm and big leg with a few slim fit Met my buddy Archer again - I got so many tips from him in person - do I use it ? Oh well , I will learn and use it on my next trip in April I had a tons of great sex in point 202 - but I think it is a slow night at point 202 - I feel like there is more customers than boys ! At 9pm- there is a show with drags queen and a stripper ! He is so hot , I got his number and plan for some more fun later I never had this much sex before in my life , almost all of the fuck I have here feel like the best sex I’ve ever had - there is just so many of them and so many options ! time to head for dinner - somehow the minutes I left point 202, a sense of empty hit me - I feel like I must write this report , I must share my feeling for strangers on the internet since I don’t think I can share it in person with my friend or family I am start to wonder - am I this repulsive ? I’m at 37 years old and have never been in a relationship that last more than 6 months - I work out every single day so I can have some validation and some sex on Grindr - I travelled from far flung country in the world so I can sex with hot men , get their valuation , attention and at some point love ! I think I’m very successful business wise , but I guess I have to learn money don’t buy me love nor happiness ! So many feeling - so much emotion - I understand how stupid and naive I am sound ! But I guess it is problem for another day ! Last night in Rio , the air smells so fresh here for me ! The restaurant is full of hots gay guy ! So many eye candy ! but hey - Great fuck all trip long - I keep count with one more tonight 27 times of great sex ! Like massage in Thailand - fucking is done very well in Brazil !

Brasil and Thailand are great, one for some things and the other for different things...guaranteed. Massage in Brasil isn't one of their things, Thailand holds the crown on that. Sure you felt like a little High School girl all giddy and happy......we've all been there. It's worse when alcohol is involved and you think you've met "THE ONE!" Luckily, because of my innate frugalness and poverty, this will never happen with me 😆 Idiot....he didn't realize how lucky he had it ???? You're not the first and won't be the last one.....However, one of the main lessons you should have gotten, if you read this message board at all.....business is business, don't think with the little head. There's a lot of lovely guys that you will meet in your travels, give it time to see if the love is both ways, not just one sided. And I'll be the 1st one to say we told you so....if you read the posts 😉

Use it next time we start talking anything Covid related, can only help improve your standing on this board I knew as soon as I read it.....

Day 1 - The arrival My flight arrived at DMK around 6.30pm on a weekday, so immigration was smooth and minimal wait for my luggage. I am always guilty of overpacking, and this time around, I had to use my bigger luggage since the carry-on size cannot fit all my stuff, thus I decided to use a taxi. My flight did delay by about 1 hour, nothing too bad, but had I arrived on time, I could have shared a taxi with a forum member who just arrived from a trip an hour earlier. Arrived at the hotel around 8pm and arranged to meet with the forum member for dinner at G around 9pm after I unpacked and showered for the night out. I decided to first visit the lesser known bars for tonight, so we went to smaller bars on Soi 6, Golden Cock/Nature Boy, Super A and New Twilight (Queen). Queen unfortunately is not fully open yet, and told us they might have a show on the weekend, so we decided to not waste time there. We passed by Nature, which seems to have some boys not my type, and Super A, which has their door closed and no one outside, so we decided to skip. It is still quite early though. I also peeked through Tawan to see how small their new location is and indeed it is really small, but they had quite a good number of boys there. Since I've yet to visit dreamboy since they moved to patpong, and now they have moved to the old Lucky boy location, I decided to finally give dreamboy a proper visit and see their shows. As mentioned by many threads previously, dreamboy moved to lucky boy's location, upstairs. When you go up the stairs, even on the outside, you will see several boys, some shirtless sitting there, quite a feast to the eyes if you like the kind of boys on offer. Previously, the two huge pillars in the middle obstructed the view of the stage if you were unlucky enough to be seated behind them. Dreamboy decided to put the DJ table right there in between the two pillars thus it solved that part quite efficiently. We were seated in the second row which was fine for me, but yes, the music was way too loud to have any decent conversation. Decent numbers of boys, continuing the tradition of lucky boys, easily more than 40 boys of many sizes and ages, but no one is my type. I tend to be very picky body wise but more tolerant with the face, and I couldn't find one I wanted to off. Their infamous macho straight dancer who only goes with girls is still there, doing a few dance numbers as well as being the DJ there. He would've been the only one I might consider offing but too bad he is not available. Anyway, the show was just ok for me, the big cock show was there, the fake jerking off show was there, the drag shows were still there too but they seemed to do away with the funny slapstick comedy show by the katoeys. Since I didn't find anyone I like, we decided to leave. After I said goodbye to the forum member, I went back to Tawan and sat down. Ordered my drink and the boys were rotating on stage 3 at a time and yes all of them were wearing underwear with one of them, the obviously gay one who isn't as muscular as others, wearing a jockstrap. I saw one guy I like, an older type, but with a nice manly exotic face, with beautiful darker skin and a perfect muscular body, not too big, not too small. Asked him to sit with me and bought him a drink. The usual question of introduction, how long in Thailand etc, and then down to business. Asked if he is willing to go with me, yes. Asked if he will do LT, he paused, then said he is tired and asked if we can do ST. Told him, no. It is my first night here and I'm not compromising what I want haha. I asked him a second time, and said my offer, and he still hesitates. In the meantime, my eyes are already eyeing another guy, and through our conversation, I sort of felt like he doesn't really fit the kind of guy I want personality wise. So when he still says he can only do ST, I told him I am looking for LT and asked the guy I'm eyeing to come down as well to sit on my other side. Seeing this, he got the point and asked if he could leave and I said yes. This new guy, better looking than the guy before, bigger in size, typical thai skin complexion, body builder type body that looks like he is ready for competition. Bought him a drink as well and the usual conversation ensued. He is Issan, and will go with me for LT but asked for a higher tip but still within the range I'd pay for that quality. So I said yes, I'll off him. and he can get dressed. He went to get dressed, I paid the off fee and drinks, and off we went back to my hotel. Everything went well, I liked the chemistry with this guy and of course I enjoyed his body more lol. He woke me up a bit earlier than expected saying he needed to leave early though, something I usually don't have big issues with but certainly will impact my decision for a repeat. As in, he will not be my first choice but will still be in the running. Anyway, I went back to sleep after he left, and he asked me if I was ok with him leaving early and I said I understood. He seems glad that I didn't make any issue of this and yes, it's not a big issue for me. Side note, one forum member who I met before did reply to my thread and asked when we could meet. However, he didn't reply to my DM and line, but more on that for next update. Next - Day 2 - Getting into a routine

Personal experience? If yes, please share. Everything I heard about gay activities in Africa is either scam or dangerous.

I've had wonderful experiences with guys from all over SE Asia. In my experience, it depends as much on my attitude toward them. I believe it's a mistake to take the "I'm paying and you're doing" approach, especially with Vietnam guys. Actually, that's probably a bad idea with any group of men regardless of where they're from.

That is exactly my assessment of Olimpo too. One additional interesting feature about Olimpo is the low-key client-on-client action. In each of my three BH visits (typically six days each) I've been shocked by attractive younger (nonGP) guys — who must be borderline blind — who wanted to go to a room with me. That has happened to me once per week so it is not a nightly miracle but quite memorable nonetheless. Lots of that client action starts is in the dark room at the back of the sauna, rarely in the steam room.

That reminds me of a similar story when I was learning Italian in Italy. Each Monday morning we had to try to say what we did during the weekend. So, I said something like, "Ho scopato tante nuove cose" - I fucked many new things - when I wanted to instead say, "Ho scoperto tante nuove cose" - I discovered many new things.... The teacher barked at me and told me to stay quiet and to sit down!!! I never made that mistake again even if it was not far from the actual reality of my weekend :>))

In tone, veritas!

Although I lived in Hong Kong, like many expatriates I found the nine tone levels in Cantonese quite difficult to master. Invited to a rather elegant dinner soon after I first arrived, I asked my secretary what I should say to the hostess after a good meal. Driving up to The Peak I practised saying the phrase many times. But after the meal I got the tones wrong, All the guests laughed, but no one would tell me what mistake I had made. It was only in the office the next morning that i was advised to be more careful with my tone levels. What I had said was more or less "I am a sex maniac"! Well, sometimes one has to tell the truth 🤣 🤣

If you want the most affortable guys, go West Africa. Cambodia are fully dedicated to customer, nice and polite behaviour, ready to offer a lot in bed, usually available for LT, can have slim or muscular body... Vietnam boys can be really handsome, then they play fashion models. I used to listen to them when they speak in thai... really no respect for customers they laugh at all the time not a nicely manner... I try to avoid them.

I would suggest Krubb sauna. I guess it can be considered the legitimate heir of Babylon (you will even find a plaque outside given to Krubb by the owner of Babylon). The facilities are quite modern and there is a nice bar (with a very cute bartender) + jacuzzi on the rooftop. However, there is no space outdoors like Babylon used to have. You can also try Chakran. I have heard the facilities are quite nice. The issue I have with saunas in Thailand right now is that guys are still wearing masks indoors, though fewer that when I went in May. Sauna Mania in Silom, a place I usually don't go to, had a very fun and crowded foam party/orgy during the white party days. Looked like lots of the guys went there before heading to the party. Never seen that place so crowded. Even there though, you could tell who was local and who was visiting cause even guys from other Asian visitors (Taiwan, HK, Singapore, Malaysia, etc) were not wearing masks but Thais were, including some of the performers the sauna hired. I definitely saw way fewer masks (usually just one or two usually) when I went to saunas in Kaohsiung and Taipei this month.

I also like 3some - massages - 4 hands and I don't like to do it in the massage shop - so I pay a premium over what others here in Pattaya / Jomtien pay to do it in the massage shop. I pay 2.000 baht to each guy - 2 massage guys - so, 4.000 baht. Some will sure SCREAM and say that I am overpaying for this local market but I do not believe so by much more. Here is an example if I do the same thing in a massage shop: 500 paid to the massage shop 1.500 tip paid to guy #1 1.500 tip paid to guy #2 ------ 3.500 to do it at the massage shop instead of the comfort of my home where I control the music, lighting, oils and lotions that we use, what we drink, fun chat time also on my balcony to know the guys better. Also, at home I do not need to worry about some things that freak me out at some of the massage shops; bugs and insects, where do I put my valuables when I take my shower, strange smells, temperature is too hot or too cold, I do not like the music, etc. so, for a 500 baht premium I am VERY happy to "order in" for my massage fun...

From The Nation A 61-year-old Belgian man, who goes by the name Willie, has been earning a living in Singburi by collecting empty bottles. Willie lives with his 32-year-old boyfriend Cherdsak (surname withheld) and the boyfriend’s parents in Khai Bang Rachan district. Apart from collecting bottles, the family also earns a living from gathering raintree leaves to be sold to fertiliser factories for 35 baht per bag. Cherdsak said he met Willie three years ago in Pattaya, adding that the Belgian man left his country after being fed up with life as a family man. He had been forced to marry a woman in his younger years and their son is now managing the family tour agency. "Willie never returned to Belgium after leaving it six years ago," Cherdsak said. Meanwhile, Cherdchai’s father Ping said Willie is a good son-in-law as he works hard and helps with household chores. He added that Willie earns about 1,000 baht a month from collecting bottles, and this covers the family’s power and water bills. “My son asked Willie to stop collecting bottles, but he does not listen,” Ping said.

No idea what kind of misunderstanding or what schemes happened between the boy, the mamasan, the previous potential customer, the following customer (if any). At least it seems it was not an attempt to scam you for money. I'm very sensitive to sex on clock, if someone tells me has only limited time, I rather skip. I had a similar experience in my early days, 2010 or 2011, when everything was new to me. I offed a boy in a bar in Pattaya and took him for a stroll over Walking Street instead of going directly to my hotel. Then finally in my room, I was just reaching out to touch, a phone call from mamasan. The boy forwarded the call to me and mamasan told me the boy has to come back now (mother sick in hospital, is that my memory or did I read that story too often?). I wrote it off as bad luck and gave the boy 500 THB (I didn't have more on me that time, else I would have given 1000; nowadays of course nothing and ask my off-fee back - nowadays I wouldn't take anyone to a walk).

Enjoyable though modest in collection size, and not a big time commitment. Nice little café. Not in a cluster of other sites, so a separate kind of activity, but was walkable from Poblado accommodations several blocks south. View of Olaya Herrera airport space to west, from rooftop. If you guessed the courtyard scene is a flash mob rock-paper-scizzors tournament you are likely correct. FullSizeRender.MOV FullSizeRender.MOV

Waitttttttt! The young sexy, muscular guy at the front counter of 202 is junior's son? He's very handsome. Hes available for hire? That's good to know. Thanks for the info. My husband is in love with him. Would definitely pay him and watch he and my husband make love to each other. Thanks again.

I know I read this forum for 2 years before I go to Brazil - I read entire forum - almost every single post , single reply but I guess my small head is just too strong - lesson learned

Monday : it bring us to present time - after a great night of sex , we had breakfast on the beach - I decide that I will get him an iPhone so he could love me more - that’s my true intention - I want to buy his affection I bought him an iPhone 14 pro and clothes - I took him to the most expensive restaurant in Rio - I don’t know why the need to feel validate, to buy for affection we got back to the hotel - and I had the most intense sex I ever had on my life ! 10m later , he started to freak out - acting weird - said he needs to go to medical center he did not feel well ! And I gave him 1000 reals and getting him an Uber to emergency room - he got out 6 blocks out hotel and text me he will take the train - I wish him good luck with everything ! I know how stupid it sounds the way I acted - will I change my opinion about Rio ? No - absolutely not - I love it here - please don’t be stupid like me - go Rio , first time visitor - please stay at sauna and don’t fall in love with any of them well now I will take a shower and head to pointe 202 tonight - hey I might even see my guy here tonight again!! I live and l learn - have some more common sense and think it with my brain and not my penis all the time - and continue to see my therapist I will write my last report when I am at the airport tomorrow - thank you for everything that reading it !

Thanks for your sharing

Asking open ended questions are not a good idea, in my experience. Offering anything other than a standard amount, without knowing the quality of the service isn't good either. Some guys are happy with 1 programa minimum per night, others want to try to get more, if it seems the night will bear it. If you plan on taking the guy to a suite but want to chat and have some drinks, just say so. Most sitting with a customer are doing just that, for the price of a programa. My deal is, I don't like going to suites, I prefer in my apartment. I explain this and tell them they are welcome to sit with me but when we're ready to go, we go together, 200 reis in my room....sometimes we go to eat before or after. Some will try to walk around looking for another customer, others will stay sitting or go smoke with their friends or play Bingo on those nights. To answer your question, the guys you see sitting with someone are just trying to "close the deal"....they're not being paid extra 99% of the times.

I listen to a few tech podcasts and they've been all over this thing. There was an interesting interview with a US highschool English teacher and how she is using it. Apparently it's a good head start on creating lesson plans. And it sounds like smart teachers are recognizing that their students will be using it, so they're teaching them what it's useful for, and what it can't do well. As noted there are frequently factual errors in what ChatGPT outputs. So it might be a good start but it still needs human intervention to fact check. I guess it can also give good feedback on student-generated writing by pointing out what could be improved. I picked up on it being AI generated right away. There's a certain elementary structure to it.

I have never experienced anything like this, but I have heard something similar, although by the time the story got to me, it was third-hand, so I cannot swear to the accuracy of the details. If I recall correctly, it happened in Pattaya. A boy was offed in the usual manner and was already halfway through the proceedings in the hotel room when the mamasan called. They boy then told the client that he had been instructed to finish within the next 30 minutes and get back to the bar as another customer was arriving soon. Since the boy had a follow-on booking, and he wanted to be sure he could rise to the occasion when needed, he told his client that he would not cum. This abrupt turn of events naturally left the client very frustrated. I don't know what financial adjustments were made.

The first article places DJ Station in Soi 4. Obviously "ChatGPT" has never been to Silom. From National Public Radio (USA) This 22-year-old is trying to save us from ChatGPT before it changes writing forever While many Americans were nursing hangovers on New Year's Day, 22-year-old Edward Tian was working feverishly on a new app to combat misuse of a powerful, new artificial intelligence tool called ChatGPT. Given the buzz it's created, there's a good chance you've heard about ChatGPT. It's an interactive chatbot powered by machine learning. The technology has basically devoured the entire Internet, reading the collective works of humanity and learning patterns in language that it can recreate. All you have to do is give it a prompt, and ChatGPT can do an endless array of things: write a story in a particular style, answer a question, explain a concept, compose an email — write a college essay — and it will spit out coherent, seemingly human-written text in seconds. The technology is both awesome — and terrifying. "I think we're absolutely at an inflection point," Tian says. "This technology is incredible. I do believe it's the future. But, at the same time, it's like we're opening Pandora's Box. And we need safeguards to adopt it responsibly." Tian is a senior at Princeton University, where he majors in computer science and minors in journalism. Before his recent foray into the limelight, Tian's biggest plans were graduating college and getting his wisdom teeth pulled. Now he's fielding calls from venture capital firms, education leaders, and global media outlets. Over the last couple years, Tian has been studying an AI system called GPT-3, a predecessor to ChatGPT that was less user-friendly and largely inaccessible to the general public because it was behind a paywall. As part of his studies this fall semester, Tian researched how to detect text written by the AI system while working at Princeton's Natural Language Processing Lab. Then, as the semester was coming to a close, OpenAI, the company behind GPT-3 and other AI tools, released ChatGPT to the public for free. For the millions of people around the world who have used it since, interacting with the technology has been like getting a peek into the future; a future that not too long ago would have seemed like science fiction. Despite having studied AI, Tian, like the rest of us, was gobsmacked by the power of ChatGPT. He and his friends used it to write poems and raps about each other. "And it was like: 'Wow, these results are pretty good,'" Tian says. It seemed like everyone on campus was talking about how remarkable this new technology was. Sure, the text it generates is pretty formulaic and not always accurate. But it also feels like the beginning of a revolution. For many users of the new technology, wonderment quickly turned to alarm. How many jobs will this kill? Will this empower nefarious actors and further corrupt our public discourse? How will this disrupt our education system? What is the point of learning to write essays at school when AI — which is expected to get exponentially better in the near future — can do that for us? Stephen Marche, writing in The Atlantic last month, declared "The College Essay Is Dead." He paints ChatGPT and the AI revolution as part of an existential crisis for the humanities. "The essay, in particular the undergraduate essay, has been the center of humanistic pedagogy for generations," Marche writes. "It is the way we teach children how to research, think, and write. That entire tradition is about to be disrupted from the ground up." Edward vs The Machine After the fall semester ended, Tian traveled home to Toronto for the holidays. He hung out with his family. He watched Netflix. But he couldn't shake thoughts about the monumental challenges confronting humanity due to rapidly advancing AI. And then he had an idea. What if he applied what he had learned at school over the last couple years to help the public identify whether something has been written by a machine? Tian already had the know-how and even the software on his laptop to create such a program. Ironically, this software, called GitHub Co-Pilot, is powered by GPT-3. With its assistance, Tian was able to create a new app within three days. It's a testament to the power of this technology to make us more productive. On January 2nd, Tian released his app. He named it GPTZero. It basically uses ChatGPT against itself, checking whether "there's zero involvement or a lot of involvement" of the AI system in creating a given text. When Tian went to bed that night, he didn't expect much for his app. "When I put this out there, I just thought maybe a few dozen people at best might try it," Tian says. "I was not expecting what happened." When Tian woke up, his phone had blown up. He saw countless texts and DMs from journalists, principals, teachers, you name it, from places as far away as France and Switzerland. His app, which is hosted by a free platform, became so popular it crashed. Excited by the popularity and purpose of his app, the hosting platform has since granted Tian the resources needed to scale the app's services to a mass audience. Fighting The Hallmarkization Of Everything Tian says he has a couple primary motivations for creating GPTZero. The first is transparency. "Humans deserve to know when something is written by a human or written by a machine," he says. Along these lines, one obvious application for GPTZero is to help teachers identify whether their students are plagiarizing their essays from ChatGPT. "Teachers from all over the world are worried about this," Tian says. Some in the technology world, however, are not quite sold that copying and pasting what ChatGPT spits out is even a problem. "'ChatGPT plagiarism,' is a complete non-issue," tweeted Marc Andreessen, a venture capitalist and Internet pioneer, earlier this month. "If you can't out-write a machine, what are you doing writing?" Elon Musk, one of the original co-founders of OpenAI, recently tweeted, "It's a new world. Goodbye homework!" in response to reports that schools were imposing strict new measures against ChatGPT plagiarism. Of course, these are just flippant tweets. But it really does feel like we've entered a new world where we're being forced to re-evaluate our education system and even the value — or at least the method — of teaching kids how to write. Many of us lost our will — even our ability — to remember phone numbers when cell phones came along. By outsourcing memorization to a machine, we've become dependent on it to call our friends and family. You might say it's been for the best, and it's freed our minds to concentrate on other matters. Or you might consider it a kind of de-evolution, a dumbing down of our mental abilities. Don't lose your cell phone! Now humanity faces the prospect of an even greater dependence on machines. It's possible we're heading towards a world where an even larger swath of the populace loses their ability to write well. It's a world in which all of our written communication might become like a Hallmark card, written without our own creativity, personality, ideas, emotions, or idiosyncrasies. Call it the Hallmarkization of everything. But at least when we give people Hallmark cards, people know we're giving them Hallmark cards. If you use ChatGPT to write your friend a congratulations or an apology, they might not even know it was written by a machine. Which brings us to the other purpose that Tian envisions for his app: to identify and incentivize originality in human writing. "We're losing that individuality if we stop teaching writing at schools," Tian says. "Human writing can be so beautiful, and there are aspects of it that computers should never co-opt. And it feels like that might be at risk if everybody is using ChatGPT to write." Tian is no Luddite. He isn't trying to stop AI in its tracks. He believes that's impossible, and, he says, he opposes blanket bans against use of ChatGPT, like the one recently announced by New York City public schools. Students, he believes, will use the technology anyway. And, he says, it's important they're able to learn how to use it. They need to be aware of the technological changes that are sweeping our world. "It doesn't make sense that we go into that future blindly," he says. "Instead, you need to build the safeguards to enter that future." As for his plans after college, Tian says, the excitement — and clear demand — for his new app has convinced him that he should concentrate on making it a better, more accurate product. "If you're a teacher or an educator, our team — which right now is just me and my best friend from college, who just joined yesterday — we would love to talk to you," Tian says. So if you encounter some text that you suspect may be written by a machine, maybe run it through Tian's new app? You can find it at GPTZero.me.

These topics are discussed at length so I encourage you to do a more diligent search of the posts. Before you do, however, ask yourself whether you're paying more for air fare than you have in the past and how much more you're paying for food and accommodations in your home country. These expenses have also risen in SE Asia so don't be surprised if tip expectations have likewise risen.

I have flown Avianca from the U.S. to Brazil and Colombia. They are a pretty decent airline. I've only flown Copa and Latam while inside Brazil. My experience was that they were just like your standard airline, like UA and AA. Neither one gave me the low quality feel like a Spirit or Frontier Airlines flight.

Thanks sir ❤️

well, he is a good guy. military, has another year I think, only available in the evenings.... even just a dinner date. he is fun.

OK. The author forgot to mention the vibrant sex trade industry in Bangkok, both gay and straight. For many tourists in Bangkok, affordable prostitutes are the main attraction.

@nynakedtop What is/was your handle there? Did you get banned?

I 90% certain I will be in Rio on the second and third week of April. Send me a PM if you are going to be around. I am waiting for a few weeks to buy the tickets. They are damn expensive.

I do not disagree with you. Non-GPs on Grindr respond to me when I am in Brazil that would probably not be interested in me were the interaction taking place here in the States. I am a huge fan of this phenomenon, especially since I am generally not into other tall white boys (especially ones with a few grey hairs like me) anyway. I like mixed, if that makes any sense. It doesn’t have to be the “mixed” that Brazil has in spades though. One of the hottest guys that I have ever been with was this half Japanese half Russian guy that lived in NYC.

Yes, I booked in advance. Just an FYI, the boy I chose, I see often on the apps, but no response from him ever. So, I thought this was an easy way to meet him and win him over. 50% done. And, I got his LINE and made him what I thought was a good offer. We will see if he ever responds. He did tell me the massage shops in Silom are full service and he has worked there before but here most customers are Thai and pay for only hand job. Also, several of the other guys on the site I have seen on the apps. They are not looking for customers but sex with someone they want.

Wow. When I compare that to what you can expect from Saphan Kwai shops for minimum 700-800 tip, there's no contest. And at 365 The River, where a 1,000 "B2B" tip gets you full service, I've found it well worth going out of your way a bit. Having said that, you can also find very satisfactory outcomes in Silom area shops (where most shops don't have minimum tip) if you chat with potential masseur before committing.

Great report kn5. please keep your updates cumming - as I like the way that you are presenting your trip report to all of us. enjoy!!

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Vistied the Relax Men Video Club and Isicus Cali Baños Turcos sauna on the first Wednesday of January. Both establishments are located close to each other. Relax Men Video Club is a cursing bar with a number of dark areas and private both. Found the place to be clean and a nice place to relax, especially in the patio are on the upper level. When I visited in the afternoon, there were around 15 customers and two rent boys. Had full service with one of the guys in a private room - 100 MIL COL for a 30-minute service including kissing, oral and anal sex. He was a really good-looking local guy and an excellent bottom. With negotiated I'm sure he would have been available for a lower price, but I was more than happy with the price offered. https://www.instagram.com/relaxmen01/?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/uv?pb=!1s0x8e30a66c5aaaaaab%3A0xf7ca750379bf928a!3m1!7e115!4shttps%3A%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNtL0CF6grgWzqvY6JCJS5q53w6aoFvKssV3Mjz%3Dw172-h174-n-k-no!5sgay%20bars%20in%20cali%20colombia%20-%20Google%20Search!15sCgIgAQ&imagekey=!1e10!2sAF1QipNtL0CF6grgWzqvY6JCJS5q53w6aoFvKssV3Mjz&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjSg_f8nrv8AhUOjqQKHc6oBAAQ7ZgBKAV6BAgZEAc Later in the afternoon I popped into Phisicus Cali Baños Turcos sauna as it's located around the same block. https://www.facebook.com/banos.turcos.12/ There were around 40 in the buff customers as it was the venue's weekly naturist day. The sauna has great facilities including swimming pool, sauna, steam room and several play areas. Sex between client was rampant at times. There was one active rent boy with a huge dick available for 100 MIL COL and two good looking massagist offering services. Price ranged for 100 for message only, ranging up to 250 MIL COL for a full sex service. Went with one of the massagist as he was very good looking. There was some pretence at a message for 5 mins before it turned into a full sex session lasting 30 mins. Later on, I was approached by the clearing boy, a 20-year-old Cali lad, asked if I wanted to have sex with him for 100 MIL COL. Unfortunately, I was completely spent at this time so was unable to take him up on his offer. Thought he was the best-looking guy I had seen in both venues. Relax Men Video Club and Phisicus Cali Baños Turcos sauna venues are connected by one room on the higher floor of the building. There are prison style cage bars in the room to stop anyone transferring between the two venues, however perfectly designed for customers to have sex thought the iron bars. Lots of guys were engaging in this area throughout the afternoon.

So my 10 o'clock just arrived and he's ready to put all this BEAUTIFUL BRAZALIAN DICK IN me! InShot_20221230_093354391.mp4

Oh they can. But you will have to fuck the pharmacist in exchange for some cash. 🤣

I agree! Find the apps boring as opposed to enjoying the bars.

Over the last 20 years of visiting Pattaya I have always enjoyed kissing gay Asian boys, both in bed and also in gay bars and on Dongtan beach. Mostly they will allow it including tongue kissing, although on occasions when I find reluctance, I do not persist as doing so would spoil the occasion. I can’t remember ever asking permission.

When I've been in Thailand, and I've wanted to kiss one of the young men - French Kiss - to my memory, none have been reluctant.

Why are you only reading stories from people that don’t get what they want. Go back and read many of the stories here in the forums of all the fun times that most of us have. Most of the boys speak enough English to get your point across. If you start your trip with negative thoughts that’s what will happen. Most of us get on the plane with happy thoughts of all the fun we’ll have. You will have a negative experience, just don’t dwell on it., just move on. Lots of boys waiting for your arrival and to show you a fun time.