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I'd like to believe that. In any case, and as a general comment, I desperately wanted to use my U.S. address, simply because that's the one I use for IRS stuff already, and because I will likely be changing residences in the future and then have to go through all of this all over again. The fear there is should you slip through a crack in the process it is tantamount to potentially losing your benefit. That said, I also had reservations about dealing with Manila. But those turned out to be unfounded. My application process went about as smoothly as could be hoped for. One final comment: they will send mail to your Thai address that contains your SSN. So if you have identity vulnerabilities, it's something to factor into your decision I think.

This is actually brilliant.

The only contribution I would deign to make on Thai culture is that western feminism should be kept as far away from it as possible. Let the west collapse under the weight of it and let the rest of the world see with their own eyes just how valuable their own cultures are without it.

Your recourse when overcharged for goods and services is to pay the bill and then never return.

It's mostly for show. They get away with it because pigeons can't swim.

It's called planned obsolescence, and its new champion is the lithium battery. The obvious course would be to make products that require the use of batteries to use AA, AAA, AAAA, etc. But then we wouldn't ever be in OP's predicament where faced with a dead battery we must resort to purchasing a whole new product.

But what, normal lions are okey dokey and let's have one over for beer? Pass.

Don't see weed grows exploding or spontaneously-combusting. Dude needs to 420.

Bank letter at the BKK branch is more painless than in the past.

People feed them on the beach, then they fly up to my balcony to poop. Can't explain that! The building across from mine has a balcony where they keep a full-size model of an eagle or whatever. I'm guessing it's effective only because it isn't covered in pigeon poop. Building doesn't allow cats.

Whatever you do OP, keep your friend away from Fresnel lenses. Get one that's large enough and you can melt metal.

Some bad dudes in Nongprue district. I'm just going to stay here in Pattaya.

Do Myanmar citizens have special rights to own property in Thailand? Or are we just talking about condos?

Probably want to post this to the Marijuana forum too.

I absolutely guarantee you that in the word graph ChatGPT uses, the word that most frequently occurs following the word "crazy" is "b!tch."

Me, outside of Thailand, during Covid: please let tourists come back in! Me, now inside of Thailand, during Marburg: please keep everybody out! At least I admit my hypocrisy.

Plenty of crazy b!tches too.

When you first created the Google Authenticator code, you were given the opportunity to save a key that would allow you to restore access in the event the phone was lost or stolen. You probably didn't save the key, but there's a chance you did. Think about where you might have saved/put it.

3bb here, no VPN. Same deal. I had attributed this to my streaming from overseas, and that it was congestion over those links that was the cause, but maybe not. It's also possible in my case that it's a flaky streaming service provider.

Business is good. Thais are happy. Let it be.

I'm sorry, the double-standard in what is permissible and what isn't with regards to which covid cures we may talk about is infuriating beyond words.

Clown show.

Do people really have faces? On Google Maps they're always blurred out.

I think with the hard drives you're ok, where it gets sketchy is with sd cards and thumb drives. Have ordered tech stuff from Lazada here and in the Phils and have never had an issue.

The legacy effects of this are going to kill more people than both the covid and the vaccines combined. This is of course assuming nuclear war or exploding tankers full of toxic chemicals doesn't kill everyone first.