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pepi2005

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  1. Sad to read that so many people don't seek mental health support when they are suffering from depression.
  2. woooot .... not having a current driving license, next time it's a red card? Seems a bit ... extreme .... to me?! (not to justify driving w/o helmets or license, but...)
  3. Wasn't it announced years ago that travelers coming to Thailand are automatically insured with a fee that's added to their plane tickets or something like that? What happened to that? Nope, the 300b are to 'maintain tourist sites' and to 'protect the environment' we were told, so probably that helps to stop the rampant deforestation (especially since the tax law was changed and land owners have started to replace century-old rainforests by ugly banana plantations now all over the country )
  4. Sad, because only by itself, Beach Road is boring and sterile. The remodeling didn't help either, I wish they had used all that money to fill up all the potholes and dangerous "jump gutters" on roads.
  5. Good riddance there of Paypal. It's a 'woke' company, ready to freeze the accounts of people who dare to speak up against governments or who are otherwise deemed not 'wanted'. It can happen overnight, to anyone. Not reliable, and expensive. Take control over your wealth, convert it into a good store of value (gold or rather Bitcoin as it's easily transferrable over the Internet, directly p2p) and keep it in your very own wallet that you have 100% control over. Creating and holding a wallet is 100% free in Bitcoin, and transactions only cost pennies when done over its Lightning Network (and only cents to single-digit dollar amounts when done on the base layer itself, even when it's millions ???? ). Take control over your money, don't let companies treat you like a toddler.
  6. Bitcoin fixes this. Permissionless, direct p2p transactions. No need for banks or anyone else. An increasing number of vendors already accept Bitcoin - and one can take them anywhere in the world, without needing to exchange anything. If anyone wants to rant about 'volatility': Bitcoin has been less volatile than the stock market this year (!). Things are changing. If one's smart enough to buy a stash now, during a low, the 'volatility' will most likely just move one up in stored value. But yeah, feel free to continue to feed centralized and authoritarian institutions like banks or remittance systems are.
  7. I have to admit I might have been pampered by my home country, where I can see all the blackmail money I owe to the state in an online interface and can pay off my debts directly. Thanks for the input guys, I'll ask management to keep an eye on those letters! ????
  8. Chonburi ... so I can't get a 3-month tourist visa from within TH I suppose.... Have to leave Thailand, re-enter, get 1 month, extend 1 month, leave again, and do the same for another time? Yea, that would give me 4 month until late March ????
  9. Hi guys, my work permit will expire in December and I won't extend it, but I'd like to stay a few months (approx. 4) longer. What's the best way to do this ... can I just extend the visa at Immigration, or would I have to leave the country (ideally just to a neighbor country) to re-enter, or what's the recommended procedure in such a case? thanks for any insight! pepe
  10. I've just left the country for a few months (!), only to be 'welcomed' with remarkable 'late payment fines' because I didn't pay the land tax for my condos 'in time'. Turns out, there is a physical LETTER dropped into postboxes containing a few non-trivial instructions on payment in Thai language (my wife had to handle it), but if you're out of the country of course you won't receive this letter and find yourself confronted with some severe financial punishment (I heard horror stories of condo owners who missed payment for longer than 1 year). Isn't there any way to have these government offices send bills through email? That would be the minimum service one could expect for these quite remarkable and new money grabs. How do you guys handle that?
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