Camelcapitalist

Morality and Capitalism. …..While Herding Camels 🐪 🐪 🐪

[Camelcapitalist @camelcapitalist]

The eastern world malls make you come and eat for the Airconditioning, the you shop and buy with a full stomach.

[Sam Szuchan @szuchans]

In malls in Asia in general, the food is either on the top floor or the bottom floor. Most of the time it's on the bottom floor.

That's where the food is in One Bangkok, a shopping complex costing about $3.4 billion that opened in the Thai capital in 2024. This explains a lot about why Bangkok's malls are packed while American ones are closing.

In the United States, malls were built around department stores, known in the business as anchors. A Macy's or a Nordstrom would sit at either end of the building, so you'd have to walk past every other shop to get there.

When the department stores died, the malls went with them. When Nordstrom said it was going to leave the Westfield mall in downtown San Francisco, in 2023, the mall's owners defaulted on their $558-million mortgage a few weeks later. In November 2025, the banks acquired the mall at auction for $133 million, about a tenth of its 2016 value. It was reported to be 95% vacant, with just two restaurants left in the food court.

Bangkok moved the anchor. Lunch is the new department store.

As the property firm Knight Frank has noted, Thailand's malls have been able to maintain occupancy rates of over 90% by handing space to restaurants and clinics, businesses that still benefit from foot traffic. The traditional split between retail and food in a mall used to be 70% to 30%, but it no longer holds, the head of retail at CBRE Thailand said earlier this year. Malls are now turning previously empty roof space into new restaurant floors. One Bangkok's food floor has more than 250 restaurants along a loop that's about a mile long.

I had a bowl of udon there.

California, Bay Area, probably $20, $25. This is $4 and no tip. You don't have to tip.

Food is of course cheaper in Thailand, and wages are lower, so this isn't an apples-to-apples comparison, though not leaving a tip is nice. What I truly can't get back home is the place itself.

In the Bay Area, where I live, the closest thing I can find is Valley Fair, in Santa Clara.

Our nicest mall is like... I don't have anything like this. We have Valley Fair. That's like our best thing.

Nothing in America is the equivalent of One Bangkok, or of ICONSIAM, on the Chao Phraya River. ICONSIAM, which opened in 2018 and cost 54 billion baht, or about $1.7 billion, has a ground floor that replicates a Thai town, spans four acres and was built to host over 3,000 local shops from all of Thailand's 77 provinces.

Even in Bangkok, the malls that haven't pivoted to food are struggling. CBRE expects occupancy across the city's malls to fall below 90% this year, which hasn't happened in years. The malls that are thriving are the ones that have gotten away from relying on retail, because shopping has gone online, and dining with family has not.

[Camelcapitalist @camelcapitalist]

I am Afro-Pakistani @OldColdWar

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'I am not ethically English'

'I think it's about choice'

Political commentator @MaajidNawaz and political adviser Stuart Thomson clash over English ethnicity

[Camelcapitalist @camelcapitalist]

Wtf

[fshgroyp @fshgroyp]

This is the most performative thing I have ever seen in my entire life

[Camelcapitalist @camelcapitalist]

Everytime Evolution enters the space.

@OldColdWar

[Teger ❤️ @Teger55]

I need this gif on WhatsApps 😢

[Manju @mandate2049]

Fully able bodied Indians scam the wheel chair service at the Airport wherever they go.
Now not only westerners but also the Chinese have to suffer and get scammed by Indians.
Beijing Capital International Airport:

[Camelcapitalist @camelcapitalist]

@mandate2049

[The Space Tech Guy @Thespacetechguy]

This is a Boeing 747 at cruise speed… filmed from another plane 🤯✈️

Your brain refuses to believe how fast this actually is.

[Camelcapitalist @camelcapitalist]

What’s happening to Gokturk

@GokTu_01001 @takeyourtablet

[Abdirizak Hashi @AbdiAbdinur]

Is Turkey 🇹🇷 losing Somalia to UAE 🇦🇪 and its allies?

Somaliland, a self-declared entity recognized by only Israel, Puntland, Jubbaland, half of Southwest, and half of Hirshabeelle are now under the direct influence of the UAE. That’s approximately 67% of Somalia’s total land area.

Mogadishu, NorthEast, half of Hirshabeelle, half of Southwest, and GalMudug remain strong allies of Turkey. That’s about 33% of Somalia’s geographical area.

Turkey and the UAE pursue diverging strategic interests in Somalia. So far, both countries have achieved their shared objective: further dividing Somalia.

Somalia is now a deeply fragmented country. The mandates of the government and the parliament have ended. HSM, with the help of Turkey, is desperately and hopelessly clinging to De facto illegitimate power in and around Mogadishu.

How can this country 🇸🇴 survive?

[Camelcapitalist @camelcapitalist]

Why are a bunch of K6s fighting each other? What happened to fighting Alshabab?

@MPGenius17

[ꜱᴏᴜᴛʜᴇʀɴ ᴀxɪꜱ ᴀʟᴇʀᴛꜱ @rmconsultantgrp]

🚨 Heavy fighting erupts in #Daynile! Clan militias are battling gov forces as the regime loots #Mogadishu's last public assets before fleeing. The north is boiling over mass seizures of public and private land, ready to take up arms. The puppet is collapsing from within 🚨

[Greg Hunkins @greghunkins]

What is the charge? A succulent Chinese meal?

[Camelcapitalist @camelcapitalist]

@BobbyPL07 @MPGenius17

[Camelcapitalist @camelcapitalist]

Alshabab and Houthis.

But but but Puntland Saaar!

[Arab News @arabnews]

WATCH: Alleged weapons sales & military training between Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis & Somalia’s Al-Shabab are raising fresh alarm. Read more here https://t.co/7UfJOToiHS

[Camelcapitalist @camelcapitalist]

@GokTurk_01001 @MPGenius17 Gok thinks we run them 😂

[Camelcapitalist @camelcapitalist]

My area is delicious

[Camelcapitalist @camelcapitalist]

Genius has defected @MPGenius17

[Rashid Abdi @RAbdiAnalyst]

#BREAKING

Somalia update:

The Shadow Intelligence War Between FGS and AS

Multiple Somali media sources reporting that a top Somali intelligence official linked to a Turkish-trained paramilitary armed intelligence unit - Dufaan (Storm) - has defected to Al-Shabaab.

The official, whose code-name is "Luqman", was a Dufaan commander and reportedly made away with unit assets - laptops, communication gadgets and files.

The Somali intelligence agency, NISA, is said to be severely compromised, with Al-Shabaab now potentially having access to crucial intelligence data, such as names and addresses of informants working in sensitive AS-controlled areas.

NISA is scrambling to contain the crisis but it might be too late.

Luqman is believed to be in Al-Shabaab-controlled territory in the Middle Juba.

@SahanResearch analysts have received more info about the real name (withheld for now) of the commander and his clan affiliation.

[Camelcapitalist @camelcapitalist]

@MPGenius17 https://t.co/xlqqVtmLcE

[Baidoa Online @BaidoaOnline]

#BREAKING: Beledweyne Elders Declare Somalia Has Fallen Apart, Call on Soldiers to Leave Somali National Army and Join Their Communities

Traditional elders and community leaders in Beledweyne, Somalia’s Hiiraan region, have issued a strongly worded statement accusing Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of dividing the country and undermining national unity.

“Somalia has fallen apart, and Hassan Sheikh is responsible for tearing it apart. Every soldier should return to their home region and community, and every community should withdraw its forces from the Somali National Army,” the elders declared.

The remarks reflect growing anger among local leaders amid escalating political tensions and reported military defections in Hiiraan.

The statement raises serious concerns about deepening divisions, the potential fragmentation of Somalia’s national security forces, and the risk of further instability as tensions between the federal government and local communities continue to escalate.

[Camelcapitalist @camelcapitalist]

@MPGenius17 Sure bud. You're a Red Man 🤣

[Camelcapitalist @camelcapitalist]

@takeyourtablet If they don't look like captain hook, we don't want them. 🤣

[Camelcapitalist @camelcapitalist]

@westineast7 Who Said Tommy HassanFiger