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Give him extra points for being polite. I wonder if he's trying to score a date, or just get his Line count up. In either case, sounds like a nothing burger.

I'm a US citizen and last month I entered Thailand for the 9th time in 2023 with no visa at all. Unless you're planning on staying beyond the 30 days afforded by visa exempt, I wouldn't bother with a visa at all. To be clear, I stay about a week at a time, once a month. Entering Suvarnabumi. I may suggest differently if you're planning to stay for an extended period as opposed to quick in and outs. Depends on exact details of your travel plans.

Good to know. I had this vision of lights flashing and alarms going off back at Immigration HQ if a hotel entered an overstay passport number into the TM30 system. Seems like it could be a nice little earner for them and the BMW.

As easy as it is to sell stuff online, I wouldn't be surprised if the growers are cutting out the shops. It's not like coffee shops where the product is imminently perishable. Of course, there will always be walk-in business in the tourist areas... Unless they start requiring a script.

Has anyone tuned in here ever experienced a problem checking into (or staying longer in) a hotel while on overstay?

I agree, but it does not hurt exploring it. Perhaps the IO would be reasonable or maybe even have a better solution. I am fortunate to live in an area (KKC) where we have a very professional and helpful immigration office , but I understand that this is not the case everywhere. My concern would be that once you've laid your cards on the table like that, it may cause problems to change your story later. Or is that thinking wrong? Do they record unsuccessful attempts to extend?

The difference being that a guy opening his fridge isn't offering a mind altering substance for sale to the public. Am I correct in deducing that you think it's okay to sell (for example) gummies that have no traceability to where they came from, and no labeling requirement for strength, other ingredients, etc? You can't even do that with chewing gum, but it's okay to do that with a pharmaceutical?

Could also be they're losing their butts, but their lease still has some time on it. Looking at the oversupply where I've been staying (BKK), I'd bet there's going to be a shake-out.

I often get a 2nd look at entries because my passport photo has hair and a moustache that I no longer sport. I'd add that, sometimes I have to scan both left and right fingerprints and sometimes it doesn't even ask for the 2nd hand. I always suspected it found a match on the first hand and didn't need the 2nd. But that would require that it actually does something with the fingerprints.

Can't refute the argument, so attack the person. Lefty playbook... Page 1.

Biden better start sweating bullets if he's not immune to prosecution for all his illegal acts while president. The border comes to mind, as well as student loan forgiveness. Obama, too. Not to mention W. In fact, any president will have to worry about going to jail if they decide to take out a foreign terrorist, test the limits of any Supreme Court decision, or any one of 1000's of decisions that make while in office. Be careful what you wish for...

I'm not sure that applies to income earned while living as a tax resident in Thailand and not reported. I'm only guessing, but I can imagine the RD getting real curious if a long term expat tax resident starts reporting OnlyFans income on Jan 1, 2024. (Or any income stream that was earned while a tax resident that preceded 1/1/24) Probably not so curious if an expat just starts reporting retirement funds being transferred on Jan 1, 2024. It's gonna get interesting...

I agree with that 100%. But keep in mind that a complaint of "dizziness" can lead down a long and very expensive path in the medical ecosystem. But I'd still go to the doc to rule out the obvious stuff, the stuff that's "going around" and the stuff that could kill you if left untreated.

I'd like to think there's a reason they ask for fingerprints upon entry nowadays, but I don't claim to know what they use them for. My guess would be one reason is to identify people whose other ID parameters change.

Took the oath in 1988. Haven't had a drink or a toke since then. But I do hang out with a lot of newly sober/ clean people who have horror stories about the ways their suppliers had of increasing profits and keeping their customers coming back.

You are out of touch! Are you claiming that there's no adulterated cannabis products being sold? If so, how do you know that?

Do you really need 10 pot shops in a 2 block area? Even as a non-toker, I have no objection to legalizing it, even for recreational purposes. But since it's a substance that has health implications, I'd like to see better monitoring of exactly what's being sold. Not unlike food, I'd like to see labeling requirements (strength, other ingredients, etc) And oversight of the supply to make sure that ganga isn't really yaba... or worse. With a shop or two on the block, random inspections and testing may be possible. With 10 shops, not so much. The idea that anyone with a table and a stove can whip up a batch of a mind altering substance is a little scary... Add in the over-supply that incents people to cut corners and even cheat to make a profit...

That's one opinion. My belief (and that's all that it is) is that HCQ and Ivermectin are useful in cases where the side effects of the Covid treatment lead to complications related to parasites, which is their indicated use. On an aside, that's why I think the hospitals didn't randomly administer HCQ. I suspect they only (or preferentially) gave HCQ to patients already in distress. And that's why it's correlated with higher mortality. But the reason(s) isn't mentioned in this meta-study.

Dems did. In Wisconsin. Here's the Wisconsin Supreme Court case that says they did. https://www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&seqNo=542617 Wisconsin Election Commissioner Meagan Wolfe unilaterally declared ballot drop boxes could be used to vote in 2020 elections, even though “WEC’s commissioners never voted to adopt this memo.” Ahead of the November 2020 Election, Wolfe encouraged clerks to use “creative solutions” to deploy drop boxes, that she said could be "unstaffed.” There were 528 drop boxes used in the General Election, and a total of 1,969,274 absentee votes cast, including 1,346,731 votes cast by mail, and 653,236 in-person. In a concurring opinion to the ruling finding drop boxes to be unlawful, Justice Rebecca Bradley writes, “If the right to vote is to have any meaning at all, elections must be conducted according to law. Throughout history, tyrants have claimed electoral victory via elections conducted in violation of governing law… in Wisconsin elected officials “deriv[e] their just powers from the consent of the governed.” Of course, by the time the WSC decision came down in July, 2022, it was too late. So you can't say "no evidence". That's what you call evidence. Here's 32 more pages of similar, nicely compiled, on 5 swing states. With 99 footnotes. If you don't believe the guy who compiled these, follow the footnotes. (Wisconsin case above is on P12). https://cdn.nucleusfiles.com/e0/e04e630c-63ff-4bdb-9652-e0be3598b5d4/summary20of20election20fraud20in20the20swing20states.pdf And I challenge Danderman123 to show me which of these allegations is a lie or a half truth... But cite a specific case and the footnote. Or I won't bother responding.

I got the Pfizer. Twice. And I still got Covid. All this study indicates is that people who were given HCQ had a higher mortality rate. It includes no information about why those patients were chosen to receive HCQ. They didn't evaluate any alternative hypotheses, or if they did, they didn't mention them. My guess is that, knowing that HCQ has profound side effects, those patients were chosen to receive HCQ because they were in worse shape. Something was different about them already, that justified the use of HCQ. But that's just a guess.

How would any hospital choose who got HCQ and who didn't?

I'll ask you the same question. How did they choose who got HCQ in hospital and who didn't? And how did they make it random without violating ethics? Keep in mind these were studies of people being treated in hospital, real time. Not double blind random studies with volunteers.

Here's a tidbit. I'm open to the possibility that both parties cheated like crazy in 2020. And Trump's pissed because he didn't get his money's worth. But nobody's ever going to convince me it was a clean election. Too much evidence that it wasn't. Maybe not enough to change the results, but it wasn't clean.

How, exactly, did they randomly select who got HCQ and who did not? If they gave everyone HCQ, they can't calculate the difference in mortality. If they randomly chose who got HCQ, they were conducting a medical study without the consent of the patient. That's unethical. If one doctor gave out HCQ and another didn't, the doctors are also a variable. If one hospital gave out HCQ and another didn't the quality of the hospital is a variable. If they selected patients for HCQ based on a symptom, that is a HUGE variable (and I suspect that's what happened) Just like they choose heart patients for a CABG. Only those with serious problems get a CABG. So, we're already at risk for a higher mortality.

Key word there is "associated with". Coronary bypass surgery (CABG) is also associated with a higher mortality than those who have never had CABG. But I'd be dead if I hadn't gotten a CABG. Don't even get me started with their recommendations to more tightly control off label drug use during the next pandemic... This result argues in favour of tightly regulating access to off-label prescriptions during future pandemics That's a huge stretch, just from a study of HCQ. Tinfoil hat stuff. Or, maybe just sponsored.