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You do make a very good point for waiting until after November 5th... I do think I'll hold off submitting the 1199-op107 until after the riots after Trump loses again. My US pension is so small I doubt the Thai government would even try to grab any. If they did, maybe I'd finally qualify for PR in 3 years... "save money" Sorry, I'm not familiar with that term... save?? You mean like if there was theoretically money left over at the end of the month or something???... I own a house here, I'm single and I can't foresee any situation where I'd need to bail out of Thailand, and not have access to my Thai accounts. You had some good points for people with different circumstances to consider. Thanks the response.

Is there a withholding tax or a Thai tax liability if I start having my US pension direct deposited into my Bangkok Bank account. I have been having it directly deposited into my US account and the using Wise to transfer it to my Thai account but I have had so many problems and delays with WISE in the past few months I want to cut them out of the loop. For example, if the 3rd falls on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday, usually the money isn't credited to my Thai account until Monday. This last time the transfer (ACH) took a week. The 3rd falls on one of those days about 40% of the time. That's five weeks worth of delays per year. What I want- The money in my Thai account within a day of two of the 3rd every month. What I don't want- The US government withholding 30% of my pension. or having to pay tax on just because it's directly deposited. I receive another pension from another country and they hold back 10% that I either need to file and exemption for or, get it back by filing a tax return. My objectives- Receive my entire amount each month to make sure I always have at least 65K THB in incoming transfers every single month so I can use the income method for a retirement visa. I want the transfers to be on full auto pilot. If I need to pay bills in the US, I'm fine with paying them by other methods or even transferring some back to my US account which I will retain, even though I'll need to pay a small monthly fee since I won't have direct deposit which avoids that fee). Questions for anyone having their SSA pension direct deposited into their Thai bank: 1). Are you receiving the full amount of your pension (i.e. no withholding)? 2). What is the difference in the exchange rate used for the conversion from the Interbank rate (XE.com etc.). Does the transfer and fees cost more or less than WISE if you've used both methods in the past? How much? 3). Does the direct transfer create any Thai tax liability for you? 4). On which date of the month is the transfer credited to your Thai account? The 3 (or 2nd or 1st if the 3rd is not on a weekend or holiday) or later? I can't think of a single downside. Can you? TIA

It’s 100% true. No matter how much the truth hurts.

No, he put in his resignation last my before he had any idea his unit was being called up. Your’re denigrating a man who served for 24 years and probably supporting a draft dodger who paid off a doctor to lie and say he had bone spurs so he could get out of military service ? Weird morals you’ve got.

The Magat Trump cult can’t find anything negative against Walz except a DUI for. 1995 so they make up lies. He served in the military for 24 years, retired and two months after he retired his unit was called up go to the Middle East so FAUX news is claiming he deserted his post. What do you expect from an entertainment media outlet that had to pay $800 million for lying? Trump complained that Walz was in favor of convicted felons being able to vote after they’d paid their debt to society. Yet, Trump, a convicted felon is able to vote in FL because they don’t care about a felony conviction in NY. Hypocrite. He’s a popular governor with no skeletons in his closet, like eyeliner-wearing, couch humper and dolphin sex fan J D Vance, who’s changed his name four times for some odd reason. Who keeps changing their name ? That’s weird, very weird.

Too bad the ceiling panels didn’t land on adults instead of children because adults are taller and , you know, gravity and physics. The injuries might have been limited to “ouch, what was that?”

Why don't they just let the cops have a piece of that to replace the money they're losing off of legal weed and leave ganja alone?

Again, in English please Mr. Maga voter. (the type of voter Trump claims to love)

Sodium hydroxide (or Potassium hydroxide) are one of the two chemicals required to make GHB. I don't think there's any connection to the lollies other than proximity.

They said he was grazed. It might not have even been an intact bullet, it could have been a tiny fragment that nicked him from a projectile that hit something else first. I think it was nick. Notice that there's not one single drop of blood on his white shirt. The ear is full of capillaries and if a pullet pierced his ear there would be more blood. It was probably a microscopic injury. I bled more than that when I nicked my nut-sack shaving.

I’ve received dozens of these exact same messages on Line. If you say “no” they apologize and try to start a conversation. I found an effective solution. I never heard back.

Better than winning chlamydia roulette on Soi 6.

Yep, he’s <deleted>. Don’t sell hard drugs in Thailand. Countries that distinguish between soft drugs like cannabis, and hard drugs like opiates and meth have much fewer drug related problems. The only reason they want us reschedule cannabis the same as meth is because certain occupations in Thailand had their profits reduced after cannabis was relegalized. It had always been legal in Thailand and part of the culture, until the early 70’s when the US forced the Thais to make it illegal because “their soldiers were getting too high”. This was connected to Nixon’s War on Drugs designed to create felons out of pot smokers so they’d lose their rights. The stated intention was to keep <deleted> and hippies from voting for Democrats. That’s why thousands of Thais were sent to prison and many were even executed. Conservative American politics.

Everyone in favor was either police or military who were upset that they lost all that income from bribes and smuggling. They’re struggling to survive on yaba income alone.

You need to use a CDM to deposit money. Or an ATM/CDM but the writer doesn’t either seem to know that or think it’s important to write an accurate article.

No it isn't. You can buy whippets of it online and in restaurant supply stores all over the country. You can but 6m3 tanks of it from gas supply companies or online. It make be illegal to sell it in balloons for the purpose of people inhaling it but N20 is definitely not illegal in Thailand.

If he’s found guilty it will be headline news in the Right Wing media for a week praising the justice system on a fair and just decision and that they support the judicial system 100%. If he’s found not guilty, or just gets probation (as most anyone charged and convicted of saying “no” to a question on a firearms form is), they’ll be complaining that the current administration pulled a fast one. They seem to think Biden is capable of controlling a Grand Jury, and the jury that convicted Trump, (that the defense approved), but is powerless keep his own son out of jail. Logic only a “stable genius “ understands.

Something for Conservatives to celebrate. They love extracting revenge on Liberals. If the same thing happened and the director was conservative they'd be defending him to the end. Total hypocrisy. The producer hired an armorer , an expert in weapons to make sure there was no way accidents like this never happened. She allowed live ammo on the set where there was absolutely no reason to have live ammo on a movie set. If a producer hires a degreed and qualified engineer and a structure he designs fails and people are killed or injured, it's the engineer's responsibility. If a producer hires an expert stunt coordinator and follows his advice and a stunt goes wrong, it's the stunt coordinator's fault. If a producer hires a licensed caterer and they provide meals and people get sick or die from food poisoning, it's their fault, not the producer who hired them. Actors aren't firearms experts or stuntmen, or stunt drivers or stunt pilots or ninjas or Jedis or stunt divers. They're not expected to check every prop, inspect every car, every motorcycle, every camera rig, every wire, every pad , every harness, every gun, every bomb, every light saber, every club or sword, every knife, evey bottle, every window, every prop nuclear warhead or anything else to make sure it's safe. Since they're not experts, how would they even know? They weren't taught to tell the difference between a live round, a blank and dummy bullet because that's not their responsibility.

The 'disaster' is that alcohol sales and use and adverse effects have gone down since cannabis was (re)legalized, as happens in every state , province or country the decriminalizes or legalizes cannabis and that has caused alcohol revenue to go down. The other disaster is that police and military aren't getting a cut of the business and government officials aren't getting paid off to allow it. Nothing to do with public health or concern for Thai's who did as the Thai government suggested and started growing or selling produce that's more profitable than cassava, rubber or rice. All to do with greed and personal enrichment of politicians and government officials.

It didn’t say he sexually assaulted her, it said he made sexual advances. He could have been flirting or talking suggestively.

Per capita, The U.S. has as many sex workers as Thailand does.

I’m assuming all 3000 were brought to hospital and given a private room, you know, like they do with every inmate with health issues…

Amsterdam put a hold on the construction of new hotels primarily because of the disruption caused to the lives of Amsterdammers who live in the centrum, specifically de Wallen, the Red Light District. The problem is primarily caused by UK tourists who can cheaply and easily pop over for the weekend (because weed isn't legal in the UK) and get commode-hanging drunk, too high on weed, mushrooms, X or whatever else they were able to find and walk around the RLD yelling and shouting and singing and throwing things in the canals, <deleted>ting and pissing outside, photographing and harassing the sex workers in the windows. I used to live on O.Z. Voorburgwal twenty years ago, right in the middle of the RLD. On the weekends it was busier but in the past decade the streets have become jam packed with drunken sex and drug tourists who either don't know or don't care that they're standing right in front of people's homes, who are trying to sleep at 2 am. I don't know if they think it's Disneyland or Carnavaal but it's inconsiderate drunks that are causing the problem, not too many tourists.

Moby Grape, derailed by legal troubles in their prime. Bad Finger ruined by thieving management.

He should have vaporized dry herb instead and he wouldn't caused lung problems. I traveled for an extended period and didn't use any cannabis for four months and the only difference I noticed was that I'd remember my dreams. I didn't consider that a benefit. The most dangerous side effect of using cannabis are the laws.