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18 hours ago, gargamon said:

Somebody better at searching on AN should see how many times the content from these traitors was posted here by the MAGA morons..

Most of it would be via the wingnut wurlizer.  They post it and then it gets passed around and reposted thousands of times, so you don't always know where it originally came from.

MAGA world lacks critical thinking skills and seems incapable of independent though, so they are easy to convince of just about anything after they see it reposted a few times. 

28 minutes ago, DD25 said:

An online article says:

 

 

The first sentence seems to be saying that income from remote work counts as foreign income so is only taxable if you are tax resident. That seems to be the received wisdom but the principle in other jurisdictions is that the income is considered to arise wherever the work is actually done, which would make it domestic income that is taxable regardless of residency. So is there anything in the Thai legislation, or maybe an official announcement about the DTV, to confirm this either way?

 

Does anyone know what they mean by "without added tax burdens on international earnings"?

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The DTV offers visa exemptions on foreign income tax....

The DTV offers no such thing, so that first sentence is completely wrong.   Visas and income tax are two completely separate things.  Different gov't agencies.

The influencers named so far include:

Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, and Benny Johnson. 

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Two Russian nationals working for a news network controlled by Vladimir Putin's government funneled millions of dollars to an American media company that paid right-wing influencers for videos pushing narratives favorable to the Kremlin, U.S. prosecutors alleged on Wednesday.

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The two defendants worked for RT, a media outlet formerly known as Russia Today that is funded and controlled by the Russian government, the indictment said.

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Federal prosecutors said RT oversaw a series of "covert projects" that included funneling $10 million through a series of shell entities to a Tennessee-based company launched in 2023 that publishes videos on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X, formerly known as Twitter.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-tenet-media-right-wing-influencers-justice-department/

Anyone know what happens when my passport expires with the DTV eVisa?  Not talking about a sticker in the passport but the separate eVisa PDF I print out.  It has my passport ID# on it and I will need to get a new one next year.  I can certainly bring my old one with me, but will I be able to go into immigration and get my existing eVisa updated with the new passport ID# so that I don't have to do that for the next 4 years?

29 minutes ago, Pattaya57 said:

Walking from 3rd road to soi bukhao to 2nd rd to Beach road seems pretty flat to me. Definitely don't feel like I'm walking  down hill going to the beach

Pattaya Klang is definitely downhill and it still floods.  It basically becomes a river.  Even though the water is moving fairly fast there is still way too much of it.

It drains much faster now but they can't make the pipes big enough to completely handle a monsoon downpour.  They need to turn some streets into dual use streets/spillways, like they have done in Hua Hin.

On 8/29/2024 at 10:40 PM, Sum Ting Wong said:

I have a feeling in 5 years this visa will be discontinued 

And if you applied in the digital nomad category they will have a record of that, questioning you every time you try enter as a tourist.  Most likely forcing a lot of people to get that expensive digital nomad visa.  

17 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

I liked it when the baht buses were banned, smooth traffic flow, what happened to the ban? 

 

Making it one way will interfere with my daily cruise up and down, it's medicinal.

 

Can't wait for Jomtien Beach road to become 2 way again, it's also interfering with my health, a nice ride along the beach then back onto that awful, dangerous 2nd road. 

 

 

Are they going back to 2 way in Jomtien?  I was hoping they would keep it one way with the baht buses doing the loop.  It makes more sense now with lots of new condos in that area.

7 hours ago, biervoormij said:

What is the direction of the proposed one way? Is it starting at Pattaya Central Road going to South Pattaya Road so south bound one way traffic or the other direction?

 

What will be the new baht bus route?

It would be opposite direction to 2nd road,  so southbound.

Respect these people?  Seriously?  No thanks.

Just use google maps in navigation mode.  

I can take money out of the ATM and pay for my meal with my smartphone.  I think Bangkok Bank charges extra for an ATM card so a lot of people probably choose to just go without that now.  During covid, I think you needed to use an app to get into malls at one point.  I think there will be more and more of that sort of thing so it will become necessary to have a smartphone even just for daily life.

7 minutes ago, chiang mai said:

You can influence your BP test results to quite a degree by breathing properly, often, sub conscious stress causes BP to be higher than it would normally be, eg white coat phobia where BP readings in a medical setting are much higher in many people.

 

Sit in a chair, upright, feet together hands in lap. Close eyes and relax. take a deep breath and fil your lungs, with your eyes still closed, breathe out very very very slowly from your mouth only. Repeat half a dozen times. That stimulates the vagus nerve which controls blood pressure and heart rate. Try it and see what happens. 

This is very true.  When I go into the doctors office my BP is fairly high even though I do not feel any anxiety or stress whatsoever.  When I get it done at those public BP testers its completely normal.  I thought maybe they weren't giving an accurate reading but I have tried many different ones and have been told by doctors that they are usually pretty accurate.

1 hour ago, kwonitoy said:

There is footage @frank 83628 , but the trump team won't release it,

Wonder Why?

I wouldn't bother arguing facts with weirdos when they refuse to accept them, no matter how obvious, and choose to try defend the convicted felon scumbag wannabe dictator instead.  Your time is better spent just ignoring them or pointing and laughing.

Ok so why can't I post images anymore?

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Came here to find an answer and nobody has given it yet.  When I asked this somewhere else, and assuming an eVisa so not a sticker in a passport, someone using another type of visa said they were able to go into immigration and get the passport # changed on their Visa.  So I am assuming this is how it will work with the DTV eVisa.

20 minutes ago, Scouse123 said:

Congratulations on obtaining your DTV,

 

Hope it works well for you.

 

I was toying with the idea, but with the way Thailand constantly changes its mind on visas etc, I thought I would just stick with the 800K method for now.

I was only planning to stay 2 months, leaving for awhile, then coming back, which I could do without any visa. I am getting the DTV anyways because it removes all the worry about travel dates and not having to go to Jomtien immigration to extend if it came to that.  Also, no worries (in theory) about them questioning me about re-entering too much on a visa waiver, which they seem to be doing more often now.

18 hours ago, Henk Langeweg said:

Mozilla Thunderbird has the same looks and feel as Outlook Express application and you can put all your email accounts into

the same inbox.

This is what I have been using for my business and personal email for many years now.   For Office replacement I use LibreOffice, Google Docs, and Google Sheets.

A bigly genius.  Everyone says so.  All the best people.  Ask anyone.