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I don't think it has anything to do with public opinion.

I don't get your comment. My comment was intended to be sarcastically humerous. Maybe it missed the mark. I am not looking for fight though, as evidenced by this smiley face. 🙂

There are higher priorities for tax money than funding social security and veterans' benefits phone help lines and customer service like, for example, ...... (Oops, don't want to make this political!)

I don't understand why it is not emphasized more that when poor people lose their health care they use emergency rooms for health care at a horrendous cost. Do the Republican politicians have the balls to let people die in the streets? I mean that is what they believe should happen to the losers, but it is not politically feasable. So what happens when hospital emergency rooms function as health insurance? The answer is pretty obvious if you think about it.

She actually deserves it!

I started receiving my SS in October of 2024 after applying through Manilla. Anybody know if this form something I should be looking for or worrying about?

No offense intended honestly, but your post made me ponder once again the question: What is reality?

Moderate increases in taxes, both in the percentage collected from everyone and by increasing the cut off of SS taxes for very high earners will fund the program for decades. Anyone that starts off with the position that cutting benefits is the only option for solvency is suspect, in my book. It's a way of framing the issue to avoid finding a solution.

Just a bit of a hassle compared to taping it or getting someone else to repair it.

Thanks. Yeah, I should have taken a picture of it but it is inconvenient to get to and I managed to push it back together and don't want to pull it apart. I think what happened was someone working on repairing a crack on the outside of the balcony stepped on it or put something heavy on it. Now the male section of the pipe is cracked for a couple of inches lengthwise on the bottom and I am not sure if sticking the sections together with or without glue will work. I can just get someone to come repair it but if I can tape it together it will be less hassle.

The blue AC drainage pipe which runs the length of my balcony to the drain has cracked at one of the joints and the water is puddling on the balcony. Is there a kind of tape I can wrap around it for an easy fix? Thanks.

I had to contact J&T Express recently due to a delivery problem with a Temu order. It was literally impossible to contact anyone to resolve the problem. No phones answered, not possible to contact them by email or message. It was not a language problem, there was simply no customer service. It was kind of like attempting to contact Air Asia for help. It is all good until it isn't.

Yes! That is exactly the form I used also after researching to make sure it conformed to Thai law.

One thing that has helped my dry eyes, which I have had since LASIK 20 years ago, has been using a heated eye pad. I buy them from Lazada for 200 baht or so. The electronic switch tends to fail after a while so I buy a couple at a time.