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That is one serious piece of equipment. Thanks for the photo, I'll be able to identify you after your EV runs me down.

When you take statistically meaningful samples of a population, you really go the whole hog.

I made money for my employers. I did not cost them $760 million.

Yes I do. Ukrainians have a different language and alphabet to Russians, although they mostly speak Russian because it was made compulsory during the Soviet era. I suggest putting a "D" into your nom-de-plume, to better reflect your character. BTW, the spelling of the gladiator name you chose is incorrect. It is RETIARIUS.

You live in a country where you have the ability to say such things freely. In Putin's country, you'd be tossed in jail. See the difference?

IIRC I did mention Raskin and Blinken. How much political experience do you think Michelle accumulated in the 8 years of the Obama presidency? She would have been exposed every day.

The Russians in the east of Ukraine are not ethnic. They were parachuted there on Stalin's orders, after he killed approximately 6 million Ukrainians in 1932-33 in the Holodomor.

The OP will lose about $60 a fortnight in energy and phone supplements, more if he is on rent assistance. Unlikely it is a few hundred. Your pension is portable. Health insurance at your age is prohibitively expensive. If you have any pre-existing conditions, forget it. Self-insure. Your Thai wife can help you negotiate public hospitals, although they do have long wait times. Standard practice - the family stays with you and cares for you in hospital. Nurses only take measurements. Obviously, private hospitals are much more expensive than public ones. IMO if you have any disability, you would be better off staying put in Australia.

AFAIK he does not need diapers.

Unless he can win in 2024, the comparison IMO is valid.

Christie comes across as one of the few in the Republican Party to tell it like it is. The irony of Trump calling him fat was lost on most. If the Dems managed to persuade Michelle Obama to run, IMO she would wipe the floor with anyone the GOP could muster. Raskin or Blinken. Shallow, fake, incompetent etc. Aren't you describing Greene and Boebert?

It was a succession of softballs from Carlson, but then I expected to be disappointed. Hard ball would have been asking Putin how many tanks and soldiers Russia has lost in Ukraine, or why the attack on Kiev failed. I wasn't surprised to see Putin expressing his alternative reality, just like Trump does.

Apart from saying it is 100 baht less expensive there is no indication of what the actual plan is. You would not do a bait and switch, would you?

Not a single reference to Thailand, I wonder why that might be?

I don't know what you have against Kamala Harris. Perhaps there is some misogyny there. You prefer the talking train wreck, Marjorie Taylor Greene? Presidencies IMO should be measured partly by the quality of the staff they pick. Trump hired and fired many staff, in that kind of culture eventually the leader only gets told what his staff thinks he wants to hear. Just like Trump tells HIS followers what he thinks they want to hear. The results from the COVID pandemic are quite evident, a statistically significant higher death rate in red states compared to blue states. How many people has Biden fired? Again, the results are there for anyone to see. GDP growth, highest ever in 2022, low unemployment, a booming stock market. No wonder Trump wants the economy to tank.

If anyone is trapped, it is Republicans. A multiple loser with 91 indictments, are you kidding me? Swing voters held their noses in 2016, they won't do it again. As an Australian PM once said, a souffle only rises once.

IIRC, Trump thought Nikki Haley was responsible for Capitol security, confusing her with Nancy Pelosi. Haley was not even in DC. It's quite remarkable how Trumpers can focus in on Biden's weaknesses, while totally ignoring those of their hero. At least Biden can say he doesn't have to wear diapers. He doesn't have 91 indictments to answer to either.

I will be asking the RD office in Chiang Rai if I need a TIN.

Effectively, I can transfer all my savings to Thailand over the next 5 - 10 years, not pay a cent in tax, and allow the pension I collect every fortnight to accumulate in an Australian bank account for the same period, correct? Bad luck for pensioners who have Centrelink transferring their pension directly into a Thai bank, though.

That's probably offset by the number of people who have posted in negative terms.

I bring funds into Thailand periodically. They may be provable savings prior to January 2024, or subsequent savings arising from a pension. How is the RD supposed to tell the difference? If it's transferred into an account held jointly with a Thai, what then? Is the RD able to mandate the reporting of all overseas transfers of foreigners? How does it determine the residency status of each foreigner?

A very good question. It depends on whether the tax people can link up with Immigration to ensure visas and extensions are made dependent on tax compliance. Without that, IMO it's a toothless tiger. The difficulty there will be that the tax people will be p!ssing in the soup of corrupt IO's, and making extra work in determining the residency status of each and every foreigner.

Latin was part of my education, way back when. I have always admired the ability of the language to express concepts in simple and sometimes brutal terms.

The probability of someone turning on me in such a public place would be rather low. I might be 80. However, I do keep myself in good shape, and I am bigger than most Thais. I'd agree I should pick my battles. That does not mean I become a doormat for everybody.

Chiang Rai city has a population of 200,000. That's hardly one-horse, although it does mean traffic is manageable. Another dumb post from someone who probably has never been there.