JackGats

The sexual trade-union of femihags (who in the EU decide about visa policy) still see Thai women as a threat, although Thai women have long ceased to want to ply their trade in the EU.

That hotel may have been a literary one: the food was a farce and the drowning a tragedy.

This is positively false. Universal income tax is precisely what the Thais haven't instituted. They've made this perfectly clear.

I thought the LTR visa already catered to the same group.

The problem is, the US apparently only recognizes the one-year IDP (Geneva). So if you get it in Thailand it will only be valid one year anyway. Good news if the US allows you to drive with the Thai driving license only, which makes sense since all the info on it is in English. In Europe some countries like Belgium will recognize the Thai driving license because it is in English, other countries (France, Germany) will want you to carry a certified translation in the national language. Of course in Europe they accept the 3-years Vienna convention IDP, which makes getting a IDP in Thailand for Europe less of a waste of time than getting a one-year IDP eg for the US or Japan. I got the IDP for driving in Europe even where my Thai driving license in English is officially accepted. It's not so much the police I was afraid of as of an overzealous car rental employee.

Alas Google has given up improving its Thai-English module, as it has other language pairs I think. The hype is now AI, no longer machine translation. In my view this is a mistake, for language translation is a part of AI. In fact correct translation between languages is a hallmark of intelligence, whether artificial or human. I also think stopping R&D in the field of machine translation is a bad idea economically because the demand for accurate translations in everyday life and in business remains huge.

Indeed newer pools are shallow. Because they're not built on bedrock. They're built somewhere higher where too much mass poses an engineering problem. To me a proper pool should be neck deep in order to enable aerobics (and swimming without scraping the bottom when turning around).

Infinity pool = small and shallow. A joke for a swimming pool. It has to be small and shallow of course, otherwise the strain on the structure would not be tenable.

There would be freedom of movement of individuals they said. Then came the compliance/money laundering charade, and individuals got denied bank accounts except in their homeland, and then only provided they stayed to reside there. Soon we will have as much liberty of movement as the people in the UDSSR during the cold war. This will be achieved through the denial of banking services.

Except It should not be for any "people" to decide what herb I grow and smoke and cook with. Governments should stay out of what people decide to take into their bodies. The debate about drugs - and the war on them - should never have existed.

I tried several such apps over the past few years. Some apps (like "SayHi") worked well for some time, then the script kids couldn't leave well enough alone and ruined it. In the end I always fell back on Google Translate as it has been the app yielding the most consistent results. This is not to say the script kids are not trying to ruin Google Translate. For instance in the past Google Translate could capture a written sentence in Thai and send it (in Thai) to the translator page. Now no more. It only captures the English translation (which I need not capture since "seeing" it is more than enough). To summarize: Google Translate is the app with the least poor results.

Rice use too apparently.

One thing we can all do is refuse to board if we don't have our own life jacket.

I thought gender was a social construct.

50 Thai beaches would make it to the top 100 if it were not for plastic.

Which decriminalisation? There hasn't been any. Which obviouly doesn't prevent it to be declared a failure.

Didn't Thailand sign the 1968 Vienna as well? Because you can now get a 3-year International Permit in Thailand (in order to drive in the EU with your Thai driving license).

I am 99% sure the 1-year reporting requirement works like the 90-day reporting, only with 1 year instead of 90 days. Every time you come back to Thailand the clock gets reset. It would make little sense if it were otherwise.

Same with me back then. They can't stamp an LTR until the previous visa is cancelled. But you can choose to have your current visa cancelled on the same day and at the same place you get the LTR stamp, which is what anyone in their right mind would choose anyway.

My understanding was that it needed to be cash over 12 months, never mind which kind of account (current account, savings account, brokerage account). It then became an issue of showing at least 12 statements of account for at least 12 consecutive months up to the present.

I guess he lost sight of the 0.42 grams. A passport is the last place on Earth to hide drugs since it gets checked at the airport.

I am just emerging from 10 days with flu-like symptoms. Fever, aches, nausea, some coughing, sniffles, nightmares. Very unpleasant. Covid was negative. Bad-ass virus.

This makes a mockery of the online notification. This means peple who fly a lot will never succeed online. Pfff!

In fact not really addicts. Rather 70% of elderly patients in Europe right now. They start with 50mg, 2 years later already 250 or 300mg.

Many go for crappy highs. I tried "recreational" Lyrica out once. Felt like "recreational" Tramadol, ie poor, not worth the health risk at all.