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18 minutes ago, Pouatchee said:
i think we were always able to log in to it... using it for purchasing things from thailand might not work, though. i want to know fro anyone who successfully uses it to buy things from here. thx doctorman
AFAIU, that was the original plan for 'Thailand' Paypal, a restricted account only useful for purchases. Paypal (whom I talked with many times) fought the restrictions and Thailand eventuality said screw it and required all Paypal users to have the Thai national ID, killing the whole thing.
I'm guessing the Thai national ID restriction has now been lifted because it was also necessary for my Thai business Paypal account, which they just turned on.
I checked and my personal account is still restricted from making money transfers to/from banks and credit cards. So great for shopping but not useful for selling things.
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Wake Up! PAYPAL'S BACK.
Whats going on? I just received an email saying my new Paypal business account is approved, logged in, and it works. I applied in 2022 when my old personal PP account died like everyone else's. The business account application eventually failed for the same reason, no Thai genes.
On a hunch, I tried to login to my old personal account, after a couple of tries it said 'click here to download new app' to my mobile (I'm on a desktop). It proceeded to do so and Shazam! there is my old personal PP account with old banks and contacts with whom I had exchanged funds. It appears fully functional though I've not used it.
I don't have a clue what happened but thought I would give a heads up and see if anyone else received an email from them.
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4 hours ago, beautifulthailand99 said:This is how empires end hollowed out by venal financial elites , a restless populace and endless wars that destroy people influence and wealth. Whilst the US was busy fighting desert cave dwellers China was industrialising and building world class infrastructure. Its not difficult.If I was Ukraine now I would thank my western backers and politely decline any further aid and invite China in for the redevelopment and then let's see what sovereignty actually is. They would do a great job as well plus Russia wouldn't dare touch them.
Hollowed out? You mean Russia, right? To quote a famous and brilliant Russian:
"Every country has its own mafia. Putin’s Russia is the first where the mafia has its own country.”
-- Gary Kasparov
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2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:They can only waste that much money for a while. Eventually the peasants will rebel. Even sheeple will rebel if the masters go too far.
Defending the West that guarantees your right to criticize it endlessly is more than worth the money and effort. Putin jails people for less, a least when the windows are closed. You have never been in Russia and seen authorities grab innocent people off the street for no reason. I have. You don't know Russians who have suffered. I do.
The good news is the rest of the world will do the heavy lifting for you.
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5 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:I'll get back to you after Zelensky is forced to negotiate, which IMO won't be too much longer. Without US money they are doomed, and it's looking ever more hopeful that the GOP is going to stop throwing good money after bad.
Not to worry, good news...
The EU effectively broke Victor Orban's arm as he joins all 27 EU members to authorize the €50 billion support package for Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/rshereme/status/1753015297735328033
That was his left arm, next NATO will break his right arm over Sweden.
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Breaking
The EU has effectively broken Victor Orban's arm as he joins all 27 EU members to authorize the €50 billion support package for Ukraine. Can you spot Orban from facial expressions?
https://twitter.com/rshereme/status/1753015297735328033
That was his left arm, right arm is for NATO.
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46 minutes ago, retarius said:I expect when they come, the strikes will come thick and fast and accompanied by thousands of drones to defend against local air defences. Welcome to WW3 brought to you any NATO.
You may like to see this before counting your Russian chickens. Also note Russia is hopelessly behind the West in computers, drones, and AI software to control them.
Item - NATO - Russia.
Total military personnel
5,817,100
1,330,900 Active soldiers 3,358,000 830,900 Reserve forces 1,720,700 250,000 Paramilitary units 738,400 250,000 Air Force - - Total aircraft 20,633 4,182 Fighters / interceptors 3,398 773 Ground attack aircraft 1,108 744 Transport aircraft 1,506 444 Special aircraft ( recon.) 970 147 Tanker aircraft 615 19 Total helicopters 8,614 1,531 Combat helicopters 1,439 537 Ground combat vehicles - - Main battle tanks 12,408 12,566 Armored vehicles 1,004,844 151,641 Self-propelled artillery 4,532 6,575 Tower artillery 6,554 4,336 Self-propelled rocket launchers 3,272 3,887 Naval forces - - Total military ships 2,151 598 Destroyers 112 15 Frigates 135 11 Corvettes 55 86 Helicopter Carriers 13 0 Aircraft carriers 16 1 Submarines 143 70 Patrol boats 295 59 Minesweepers 151 49 -
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6 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:LOL. You should have fact checked that before posting erroneous "facts"
It's nowhere near the most corrupt country.
Somalia has that dubious honour at 180, while Russia is at 141. Strangely Ukraine isn't even on the list. Perhaps it is too corrupt to figure.
I'm discussing mass scale, how much, and depravity of Putin's Russia, not per capita public sector perception index. Tiny Somalia's GDP is one four thousandths the size of Russia's. But thank you for the pro Putin soundbite.
Just one example, Putin is famed for widespread assassination home and abroad using the world's most toxic nerve agents, radioactive Polonium, other poisons, throwing competition and reporters alike out of windows, shooting them on the street, or just blowing them out of the sky with passengers and crew. [2]
To the point, Russia's great military is so corrupt that their 3 day operation will soon enter its third year. Compare this to Zelinsky's multiple cases of cleaning up small scale corruption in the Ukraine military.
Slava Ukraini and go freedom.
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2 hours ago, still kicking said:
Who cares?
WHO cares.
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18 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:at least they are DOING something positive about fighting corruption.
I don't know what you are smoking, but seems like really fine stuff.
They are fighting Russia, the most corrupt country on Earth.
Vladimir Putin took a perfectly corrupt failed state, the USSR, and ruined it. Made it worse. Putin's henchmen the oligarchs have billions, each. Even low life mercenary Prigozhin was a billionaire before Putin shot him out of the sky killing passengers and crew alike. That's Putin's Russia.
40M is not much in wartime and this is not Zelinsky's first successful anti-corruption success. More power to him.
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2 hours ago, placeholder said:
Well, then, it shouldn't pose a problem for you to explain it instead of responding as you did.
Given that you were knocking the cost of govt provided healthcare as opposed to private health care, I think it was reasonable of me to construe the line you were following.
I neither knocked nor discussed a breakdown of US health expenditure. I gave a link to support total health expenditure.
Briefly, I compared the US defense budget with total US health expenditure concluding the much smaller military expenditure is worth the cost relative to US responsibility and global problems. If you disagree feel free to say so.
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2 hours ago, placeholder said:
That article you linked to doesn't support the 10x figure. I'm not saying it's false but nothing there to support it. And given that the elderly are virtually universally enrolled in Medicare, you think that might have something to do with whatever disproportion exists?
And finally, the systems other countries use to keep costs down are almost invariably described as socialistic by right-wingers.
Second grade math if you read what I wrote with and open mind.
What the H does the data I presented or what I said have to do with socialism? Who the K is a right winger? You have lost the plot.
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4 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:It would be nice if it was spend to defend instead of bombing other countries.
It is, a lot is spent on advanced weapons, missiles, aircraft, ships, and aircraft carriers to flaunt around so punks like Putin, the Ayatollah, Kim, and others behave. Sometimes they don't.
Granted there are questionable cases and sometimes things don't work but that's part of being a superpower as Morch pointed out.
If you really want to know what the military does, hold your breath and read through this Timeline of United States military operations. It's long and most you've likely never heard of. But read each one and ask why? Are they trying to help something or just being a Hitler/Putin punk. Start about 1980 for brevity. It's long.
Jordan is there as of 2014. Operation Prosperity Guardian is there and much of the last 20 years has been about terrorism.
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3 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:"2023, and here is where we stand: Congress in December belatedly passed an omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal 2023 including $858 billion for national defense, roughly half of which will be dispersed in the form of contracts to the private sector."
How The Defense Industry Became A Defining Feature Of The U.S. Economy (forbes.com)
And the $4.3 trillion the US spends on healthcare per year? Roughly 10X the private sector support.
Put in perspective, that's about 573 current US aircraft carriers per year. In ten years we could have nearly 5000 aircraft carriers. We currently have 11 from the last 30 years.
Considering the state of the world, US defense spending would seem worthwhile.
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1 hour ago, exfatriate said:
My order from Lazada arrived just now. The pack has "natural MELATONIN" in big letters, which is why I ordered it. On examining the small print on this Made In Thailand product (easily recognisable by the American Stars & Stripes flag on the pack) I am somehow neither disappointed nor shocked to see that Melatonin is conspicuous by its absence. Yup! (or rather nope) when they say "natural melatonin" they mean "contains no melatonin at all, in fact completely free of the substance" which now seems perfectly logical. "This Is Thailand" after all, the country I love and have made my home.
I shall try a capsule tonight, with its usual cocktail of "natural ingredients" and "vitamins" you'd need a Hubble telescope to detect, but I expect nothing, and I'm sure I shan't be disappointed. If you can bear the excitement, I will be posting a live update to this thread, probably about 3:00 a.m., so do check back.
(Incidentally, I have no trouble at all falling asleep, I'm not insomniac in that way, it's the rhythm of sleep that's somehow lost with age - as with so many things - I wake up after a couple of hours sleep, stare at the dogs for a while, go to the bathroom, back to sleep - rinse and repeat. Melatonin definitely helped me glide over the shallows back into satisfying sleep.)
A few weeks ago I searched Lazada and Shopee for melatonin as my wife wanted to try it. Though there were many sleep aids, only one used melatonin in the name, that was "Natural Melatonin" presumably the one you bought. At that time the fuzzy label claimed (in Thai) that each capsule contained 1.05 micrograms of melatonin. That's 1000s of times less than legitimate melatonin products.
The reference to 1.05 μg of melatonin is now gone.
"Natural Melatonin" claims to contain tart cheery, chamomile, and lemon balm. Many plants do have trace amounts of melatonin, which may be how they perpetrate their hoax.
Before buying, I would confirm that the ingredients panel lists from 1 to 10 milligrams of melatonin. It may be best to order from iHerb as Sheryl suggested.
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31 minutes ago, retarius said:
The headline points to an obvious truth, Israel should stop its occupation and give Palestinians a homeland like the Jews have. Netanyahu's rejection of the two state solution because he wants to steal more Palestinian lands is an outrage. But just a correction, there are no schools in Gaza, just as there are no hospitals functioning because of the Israeli bombing.
Israel seems not to notice that their actions cause the Palestinians to hate them, so stop the action to stop the hate. There is no justification for all this murder and hate from Israel, treating Palestinians like they were subhuman.
If you kill people their relatives will hate you until they die.....but if you steal their land they will hate you forever. Getting rid of Hamas will not get rid of the original injustice, and will result in a movement more extreme and violent than Hamas. With drones it's pretty easy to deliver any sort of really nasty substance into Israel, and it is only a matter of time until Hamas or its successor gets hold of really nasty stuff. Better to solve this by negotiation rather than an endless cycle of violence,
https://www.rt.com/news/591253-british-pm-quizzed-over-gaza-video/ Watch this....it's from ITV in the UK filmed by their cameraman. Surprisingly the ITV comment is entirely impartial.
"If you kill people their relatives will hate you until they die.....but if you steal their land they will hate you forever"
A simplistic generalization. I sincerely doubt the millions of Russians mourning their lost loved ones who died in Putin's illegal meat grinder invasion of Ukraine are hating Ukrainians.
Otherwise your statement is a record achievement in onesidedness.
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Ouch, what gives?
I just used the 'new' (well since 2021) 90 day online system, all went smooth and Chaengwattana approved my application in 24 hours.
I even followed their suggestion to applied ~15 days before expiry. So then, they cut 15 days off my 90 cycle. I must report again 90 days after applying, not from expiry of the current cycle. I've been here a while and don't remember having days cut before but I could be wrong. I used mail in for several years and returned to online 6*90 = 540 days ago.
Did they used to cut days from the cycle?
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2 hours ago, rudi49jr said:
Not there yet, because Orban - the Putin stooge in the heart of Europe and wannabe dictator - is still opposed. He’s probably holding out for a couple of billion $$$ or €€€ in ‘aid’Yes and he's already making bargaining noises after failing his promise not to be the last country to agree on Sweden in NATO. He will probably need some jets or cash as you say.
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A milestone in the free world's fight against Putin's growing aggression against the West.
Turkey approves Sweden's NATO membership bid after 20-month delay.
Turkey's general assembly, where President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling alliance holds a majority, voted 287-55 to approve the application that Sweden first made in 2022 to bolster its security in response to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Go NATO, go freedom, go truth.
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3 minutes ago, ozimoron said:Reuters is just reporting that Israel has lost 21 soldiers today. They were apparently mining a house for demolition ( a war crime) when militants fired at a nearby tank, causing the mines to explode. There's a buddhist word to describe that.
No. mining a house by itself is not a war crime. And no there is not a Buddhist word for that.
But maybe your post could be considered a forum discussion crime. A crime against forum?
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28 minutes ago, placeholder said:
Seems pretty clear to me. What's Hamas going to do with the hostages as Israeli troops draw closer?
A clear and utterly useless piece of whataboutery. IOW, more trolling the discussion.
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6 hours ago, placeholder said:As Israeli forces draw closer, will this be something that will lengthen or shorten the life span of these hostages?
Wow, talk about having nothing. What on Earth is this supposed to mean?
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6 minutes ago, ozimoron said:
I said that UN money is audited. I assume the money from Qatar was not. It is reasonable to assume that the bulk of the money came from the money intended to help Hamas militarily. You are pearl clutching.
The US Defense Department is audited.
The Pentagon can't account for 63% of nearly $4 trillion in assets.
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4 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:The UN needs to do some reflection on its own failings on this.
It is completely ridiculous for the UN, who have put billions of dollars into Gaza with donations from the US and so many other countries, have an entire organization dedicated to Palestinians on the ground, and whose own employees proudly join Hamas ranks, to lie through their teeth, claiming they had no idea about the miles of tunnels under Gaza.
Incredible. How can the UN lie so badly?
Just did a google search for "Gaza Tunnels" from long ago up to 11/11/18. There's a near infinite number of videos, pictures, news, in depth documentaries, and events about Gaza tunnels.
No one could miss all that, and he's an 'expert'? Do you think he posts on AN?
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Paypal no longer available to foreigners starting October 2022
in Jobs, Economy, Banking, Business, Investments
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I'm in the same position except my account used a Thailand address so I was caught up in the Thailand Paypal mess.
Good for you, wish I had done the same.