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For the 3,000 revenge deaths in his so-called war on drugs.

Righto, you didn't come to Thailand for economic reasons, such as lower cost of living? Same for immigrants seeking a better standard.

Most of the stress on relationships are financial and/or infidelity. Yes, there is true love in Thailand. But to work, it has to be based on equality in the relationship. Everybody wants to live with a little bit of padding. That's not greed. Throw in betrayal and...you don't deserve her.

I think it was both, actually. We supported self-determination for Vietnam, did not believe in the domino theory. Nobody wanted to go--war is a terrible thing. Many of my friends went to prison, I was just lucky to get A Carter pardon.

Only the a-holes. I lost two buddies there...for nothing. Of course, the protests ended because no one was being drafted.

Very insightful, thank you. 'They' have outlawed the 60s when we really thought we could make a difference, that one individual could generate meaningful change. The US still has conscription. 18 countries have begun or restarted a military draft since 2020, 120 in total. I refused to register for the Vietnam draft in 1968. My friends went to prison. I went to Canada. I was arrested 35 times for demonstrations. I rode for freedom; racism is on the march. I joined the women's march for equal rights. I marched against war; there are more wars now than ever. I went to the UN against nuclear weapons; now every country wants some. I worked to legalise dope, abolish prisons. Today, corporados farm the ganja and investors have privatised the prisons. In defence of the planet, I spiked trees against logging, occupied salmon farms, blocked pipeline construction. In total, I served several months in jail. Today, I'd be locked up as a terrorist. Make no mistake, today is the zombie apocalypse. Chaos reigns, intentionally, to distract us while we're loking at our screens, envying celebrities, checking sports scores. Surveillance is on every block and on every house, every doorbell. AI, facial recognition, completes the illusion of privacy. Security theatre is everywhere. Militarized police try to pit us against each other. Soldiers follow illegal orders. Our children & grandchildren will never believe the genuine freedom we had. And still lives in us, no matter how old or invisible we are. Remember when people paid attention to JFK & MLK? How many crusaders are there in the world now, leaders who believe in equality and justice? Nope, got to keep those guns flowing. The old shell game: who's your enemy. It's not the new age, it's the new wage on the Monopoly board with fake crypto money: billions for me, nada for you. It's us boomers who raped and killed our mother. We don't deserve forgiveness, though it happened too slowly to see it happening and now it's happening all at once. Sorry about that, kids. This old sinner be ready to go. We know They Live! I'm ready to be Soylent Green.

Will mods please stop removing the names of products that are useful to posters!

The billionaires: Musk & Thiel?

Possibly the rates have gone up in five years. This is for both eyes, correct?

Don't want cheap. Want free!

Rutnin is expensive & no inpatient for insurance purposes. But their service is outstanding. What 'treatment' can you get for AMD?

Even Clulakongkorn is 25k for each eye.

My normal glasses--presbyopia & astigmatism do not improve the blur now. Taken to wearing no glasses at all but sun-glare is brutal.

Where & how much, please.

AND...all passengers on int'l flights touching down in USA must go through US Immigration. There is no transit facilities!

Give me a break! In my experience, there are no paid protestors, even here. Want to know where I can buy a keffiyeh in Ukraine colors. Imagine if all the police wore masks as they were clubbing nonviolent demonstrators. Is that okay? I'd mask, too. We live in a surveillance society with cameras on every corner, facial recognition & phone cameras. It's 1984, in case you hadn't noticed. All Middle Easterners are Semites, by the way. Israel's IDF are following illegal orders to blast civilian targets, against the Geneva Convention. I hope those who give the orders, including that 'Yahu are convicted of war crimes. The only Israeli heroes are the conscientious objectors.

Overseas? Folks here mention call rates. Except to landlines, my Skypecalls were always free. Guess Microsoft is short on cash. These days, I'd rather have something outside the US, even if I had to pay for it.

Thanks, Jack. Will try it. What a drag--rest of March & all April is full (I'm April 8 anyway).

Righto. Hoping for a queue ticket! Will try the cellphone route via app. Yes, 90 day. The problem still is getting an appt. Thanks, Doc.

Trouble is if you have concomitant eye conditions. I have open-angle glaucoma & AMD as well as cataracts. Trying to decide if it's worth it.

Goes rancid really quickly. Suggest olive oil for longevity. Deep frying & bad oils (soy, palm) are really bad.

Maybe true but pretty easy money trail if anybody's looking. Elon? would be interesting to know how much cash Immigration rakes in at CW every day, eh.

This is a consistent problem for retirement extensions, presumably for others as well. I see 6 IOs public-facing for hundreds of us every day. Apparently, there is no suggestion box, not that they'd read/heed us anyway. Q: If one goes w/o an appt to CW, does the queue close when a certain number of petitioners is reached??? That would be a wasted day, long trip, expensive. Apparently, Immigration doesn't like Macs--or something. I made the mistake of using an unsupported browser (Safari), worked fine, got my OTP but got an error message when I used it. Tried Chrome, same deal. Arrggh! A word of advice. Even if you've done this dozens of times, go to the "Document check" IO. Will save any delays or hassles. Similarly, 90 day extension appts, sometimes needed in a bind, have one IO & few appts daily. Jeez, these IOs are overworked! Let's face it, it's a mostly useless job. This is not where they catch any miscreants.

Check, thank you, Doc. I've filed TM30 online 15 days early with magnifying glass all along. A few have been rejected for unknown reasons, so resorted to mail. So far, no TM47 required. Weird--this esentially duplicates TM30.

Yes. Chiang Wattana. I'm a little thick: what's the difference btw TM30 & TM47? TIA!