John Drake

The entire point is that I don't want to use a phone for any financial purposes and SCB is all but forcing customers to do so.

Okay. I see your point. I did, however, have nearly all my transactions set up for online banking. The last time I had added a new one was almost four years ago. I simply dislike being forced to put more and more compromising information on a phone. Just added to the trouble this week, when I finally broke down and got an ID.me account over the phone.

No. There was no need. I didn't have anything other than the telephone and FB and LINE on it. Everything else I accessed was no danger of compromising me. It's only recently that financial transactions have been forced onto phones. I was happy to do all my secure business on my desktop.

It all started when SCB required me to lock my phone.

It sure is looking like you're right and we'll eventually need a phone dedicated only to the bank apps. Or will we need a separate one for each bank's app? Phone companies going to love this.

I don't like to use the phone apps at all. That's why I was disgruntled when SCB removed online internet banking. Now, to use SCB I have two choices, use the phone app I don't like to use or try to find a SCB branch that's still open and go there. Or I guess I can use my SCB ATM card on another bank's ATM machine. That appears to be what SCB is doing using other bank's ATMs as the only option so they can save on "servicing" their own. They're a parasite like the cuckoo laying its eggs in other birds' nests.

Just on the phone. I did a search for VPN and found the Samsung VPN listed. Went to it and was given only the option of deleting it. Didn't see a toggle under "connections" or anywhere else. After deleting, the app worked. And btw my Bangkok Bank phone app has continued to work without ever sending me these warnings about disabling stuff on my phone. I really hate SCB, especially for removing the internet online banking. If I didn't have money set up years ago to come to SCB I'd get rid of the account.

I had been using the phone app since July, when they closed down online internet banking. But today, I got the VPN message and the app automatically closing itself. Just give me the option of online internet banking and I would be okay with things. But they are frogmarching everyone into the phone app and then making the phone app difficult to use.

Yes, there are no SCB ATMs that I can find inside the Lotus now. I live on Phutthamonthon Sai 3. Used to have two SCB ATMs within 200 meters. They went some time ago. The Mahidol branch where I originally opened my account has been closed since Covid and never reopened.

That's what happened to me when I arrived here and began working for Mahidol. No choice. Opened a second and third account a couple of years later with Bangkok Bank. Thankfully so.

They've become the "No Service Bank."

Just today, the SCB app on my Samsung refused to open and told me to toggle off the VPN option if I wanted to open the app. I didn't even know I had a VPN on the phone. Anyway, the only option, after I found it, was to delete the Samsung VPN. No toggling found. Why is SCB making it so difficult to bank with them? 1) They removed online banking 2) I haven't seen an SCB ATM in my area in over a year. 3) SCB is closing branches left and right, the latest being the one I used most often (and its ATM) at Lotus on Phutthamonthon Sai 5. 4) Made me sign a waiver instead of installing the photo recognition function on my SCB app, saying they couldn't do it for foreigners (funny, Bangkok Bank had no problem doing so months and months ago.) 5) And now the VPN obliteration on my phone along with the earlier disabling of Malwarebytes. Do you need to get a "dumb" phone dedicated to using SCB that does nothing else?

Almost all the 80s films and miniseries were in some way critical of the empire. Even in the Far Pavilions, Ben Cross stopped and gave a sermon against colonialism in the middle of the series. William Holden did likewise in The Seventh Dawn (and indirectly in Bridge on the River Kwai). About the only films overtly cheering for the empire is the above mentioned The Planter's Wife (made in the 50s) and films like North West Frontier (also made in the 50s). The criticism today has become much hotter. Maybe because Hindu nationalism is now stretching its wings.

I think both Democrats and Republicans are terrified of RFKjr. Biden is conducting lawfare to try and keep him off the ballot. Trumpers are raging about Ted Kennedy. And the neocons at National Review have run four (4!) articles in less than 24 hours about how bad the RFKjr Superbowl ad was. Panic. Fear. Terror. People want a candidate they can vote for, instead of a couple of mentally diminished 80 years olds where you have to choose one to vote against.

I'm guessing the 31.2 percent who would be upset are PTP voters.

AQI of 169 in western suburbs of Bangkok at noon.

Because there will be a new set of people selling it while they're in Thailand on 90 day visa free entries???

Xi's Nine Dash Line will now be extended westward to include Thailand.

So foreigner married to Thai women are going to be treated just like foreigners married to Thai men?

Laughing more at people who vote for Trump or Biden. Both unfit.

Today has another horrific cloud of pollutants. But nothing will ever be done until Chinese tourists start falling over dead in the streets.

Vote for RFKjr and none of this is a problem.

The only thing I truly care about

I've heard about it but never seen it. Don't know the 1980s were such a hotbed for empire films and tv. But it was and it was, if not worldwide, at least common in both the UK and US at the same time. Part could be that nostalgia was of the times and in the 1990s immigration transformed both countries, continuing on until today.

And Nikki Haley won't be either.