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Single entry 90 days (2,000 baht) plus 60 days extension for another 2,000 baht.  Gives you 150 days... then repeat. That's it... that's all you can get. No ME or anything like that. The other option is 400,000 baht in a Thai Bank in your name... 2 months prior to applying for extension in order to qualify for a 1 year extension. Then other extra information/pictures depending in your province Immigration office (Plus the mom of your child going with you). 

32 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

I wanted to challenge myself and place myself in any challenging situations, unfortunately or fortunately 2 nights in a row of "patrolling "Manila's subway at night I only had people either say hello or look away into their phones but it challenged me made me a stronger person 

What king of challenge are you looking for? There's one rule for fight club and well you know it... we never talk about fight club. Just swing at the first guy you think is going to be a challenge! 

I have an LG inverter and a Mitsubishi Heavy Duty...

LG- Cons: gets moldy after a few months (So clean it often). Everything else seems good. 

Mitsu- Cons it's on it own program... meaning I set a temperature and sometimes decides to stop running the fan in the compressor (Usually in the hottest times of the day). If the batteries in the remote are running low the AC start acting weird and not respond. The same thing when you get a power surge... It drives me nuts.

If I were to make an analogy on their performance... the LG feels like a direct injected engine (Runs great until the carbon build up accumulates), the Mistu feels ancient like a carbureted V8 at elevation (Never runs great and lacks any features) but probably outlast me.

3 hours ago, Homburg said:

No. When you are famous your life is no longer your own, always in the public eye. I much prefer anonymity.

This... I don't seek attention or need it.  

21 hours ago, soi3eddie said:

Profession->Manager, Salary->$100,000, Reason->General montlhy expenses. That's all they need to know and get from me (any institution that asks). It's not their business but regulations.

 

Cool, very close to my inputs. As long as they don’t ask again.

20 hours ago, ripstanley said:

Use the Website and not the App. I transferred more then 50K this morning from Australia using  Payid. I used  Long Term Stay it arrived at 1400 coded with FTT. I need this code for my extension

No option there. The website never asked this questions.

21 hours ago, Will B Good said:

Just checking....was it your bank that asked these questions or Wise?

Obviously Wise lol

Today I used the Wise app to make a transfer $$$ from my home bank to Thailand and after setting it up the usual it did not give me the option to choose "Funds for long stay in Thailand" (or whatever that option used to say). I thought well I guess the new tax laws caught up with Wise. After changing my option to "general monthly expenses"  it asked for a bunch of personal information... My profession, my salary, why I was sending money to Thailand... this time it gave me the option for "Funds for long stay in Thailand" and how much money I plan to send via Wise to Thailand (annually). 

This definitely a Tax law thing...   and no is not a scam... this is 100% the Wise app (I received the money within seconds as usual). The only thing I care is that the funds are viewed as coming from abroad (For Immigration/Visa purposes). 

So around 8 years... 😵‍💫

This was going to happen to China without Xi... but he's definitely putting it on the fast lane. Besides the housing debt crisis, China's biggest problem is its population demographics.

A little more experience, higher seat height to help his knees, and try in December/January to ensure no unusual (El Niño) heatwave and he should be able to do it.  

On 3/16/2024 at 3:20 AM, webfact said:

the original plan to purchase American F-35 fighter jets was no longer feasible

Meaning denied because of obvious relations with a country up north. 

I'm all against illegal immigration (here I am in Thailand legally and I would never jeopardize that for my wife and son) but the reality is those third world countries will one day rule society because if we are not having children... they are. Eventually as their countries advance they will also stop having children... and maybe we are the third world countries. Is all about numbers... We need 2.1 children per couple to sustain a population and we are not there... but they are. Tribalism will always be present because humans in general are not intelligent enough to overcome that. 

1 minute ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I certainly think the planet has too many people, but that is because I love the planet and having too many people is destroying it.

IMO it's irrelevant if we cull ourselves or the planet does, but I can't see a future where humans exceed 20 billion, without a major extinction event happening.

 

We would never reach that figure. We are bound to peak maybe at half that figure by the end of this century... if not decline at the end of the century. We are simply not having enough children. Certainly the vast majority of "First World" countries are already peaking or started to decline.

There's a big difference between the 1940s and today... and that difference is nowadays we have a certain group of "people" who hate the World, don't have any children or grandchildren and don't care about the future. In their mind we are overpopulated and wouldn't mind if a few billion of us would be gone (Kind of like that Thanos character from the Marvel movies). They are extinctionist, there's a few in this very forum... and of course spread through many countries... and the scary part is many a billionaires or CEO of a huge tech company. Now imagine people like that in charge of nuclear weapons. They don't care about the future... they would push AI without regulation, or put more chemicals in our food... and if given the chance consider nuclear weapons as an option.    

Change DNS Windows 11

Instead of google 8.8.8.8 I use cloudfare 1.1.1.1

I don't want 3BB to control my websites. They do limit access to some websites or throttle your speed a bit. 

1 hour ago, TroubleandGrumpy said:

Good points - but those 3rd world countries dont have that many 'bad' nuclear weapons and if WW3 started they would be the first ones destroyed in the ground.  However, you are right in that if it happens, WW3 will cause a 'nuclear winter' and as such for longer than 1815 - but claims of decades long winter is exaggeration. Claims that billions of people and many more animals and plantslife would die are not - we can only hope it does not happen.

 

Meanwile, something far more dangerous gets very little attention - Supervolcanos like Yellowstone as you mentioned. The last supervolcano eruption was 27,000 years ago (New Zealand) and although scientists are confident there will not be another one for a few thousand years - there is absolutely no guarantee the next one will not be sooner.  And quite frankly if there was indications that one was coming soon, I am sure they would shut down that information to 'protect everyone'.  2012 was a BS movie, as was several related global disaster movies, but they all got that part right - those in power will keep it quiet as long as possible and look after themselves first.

I agree as well that the "nuclear winter" if triggered... it will only last a few years (Not decades) based on the amount of energy of the entire World's nuclear arsenal yields. Is a good thing we abandoned the Tsar Bomba idea... there are things that are definitely overkill.

As for Supervolcanoes genetic studies of humans traced our lineage to a few thousand humans around 74,000 years ago. Something cataclysmic happened during that time that we almost went extinct. That something happens to be the Toba supervolcano just a few hundred miles south of  Phuket (and yes the caldera is almost as big as that red circle).    

On 3/5/2024 at 10:51 AM, TroubleandGrumpy said:

Sorry to be going against the grain (not) but all this BS about nuclear fallout from atomic bombs is like the climate crisis - scares children and is greatly exaggerated.  But dont tell anyone - Hollywood and all the other media BS will be annoyed.

 

 

And in answer to the question, given Neil is correct and a nuclear WW3 is survivable by those not in/near the blasts, I would look for a location where you can grow/make all your own food and necessities, and where you can either barracade or hide yourself against all the roaming mobs/gangs that will take everything you have and/or kill you. Remote places away from all other modern people (who are toitally dependent on civilisation to give them everything), where the natives will leave you alone if you leave them alone and/or add some value to them - Papua New Guinea? - Remote Outback Australia?  Or an underground bunker with decades of food and water and all the other necessities - but me thinks no one here will be allowed inside 🙂  Maybe all those preppers will finally be happy - until the starving mob arrives and takes everything. 

 

Listen to what he said... fission bombs... what kind of Nuclear weapons do you think Pakistan, India, North Korea, even China has? Do you think they have the Massive (ultra expensive and complicated ) hydrogen thermonuclear weapons or the easier to produce/cheaper "fission" nuclear weapons. Either way even the fusion "Hydrogen" bombs start off with a "fission" nuclear explosion who then triggers a chain reaction with the other elements inside the bomb. There is still radiation, just check with the residents of Bikini atoll after the 15 MT (MT as in Megatons or 15,000 tons of TNT) "Castle Bravo" thermonuclear explosion test. 

But... it's all about the yield. It's what really matters... the total world arseal of around 15,000 warheads has a Yield of around 1,460 MT... In 1815 Mount Tambora in Indonesia erupted with a force of 800 MT... ejecting 100 KM3 of material into the atmosphere. 1816 was known as the year without summer. The questions is would almost double that amount of energy be enough to release enough particulates into the stratosphere to create the so called "nuclear winter"... maybe. One thing is sure... the total world arseal can't compared to a SuperVolcano like Lake Toba in Indonesia or Yellowstone in the US. There's a SuperVolcano in New Zealand lol

The more you know...

On 2/27/2024 at 1:31 AM, GammaGlobulin said:

 

I do not care about the heat of Thailand.

 

I have ACs running 24/7/365.

I keep my rooms at about 20 degrees C.

 

Why?

 

Because, I spent a few years in HK.

If you have ever been to HK, then you will know that guys in HK like their living spaces super cold during the hottest times of the year.

I have a 24,000 BTU AC in my bedroom.

I like to sleep at 18 degrees C during the months of March, April and May.

When not asleep, I just have the temps set at 22.

 

I am not worried about heat.

 

 

Like you... I keep my A/C on 24/7... but I have acclimatize to 25C. Back home I used to be a 20-21C  Heat/AC person. But here that feels too cold, especially now that temperatures in the afternoon go above 37-38C... and I go outside a lot (Never turn off the AC though).

But back on topic prices here in Thailand varied. I managed to build a new PC for a comparable price to my home country (US).

Basically using an AMD 7800X3D CPU with a RTX4080 Super GPU and the supporting hardware. The only thing I couldn't find in Thailand was decent RAM (I needed 64GB DDR5 6000 CL30 the best I could find was 32GB DDR5 6000 but CL36). so I had to order it from abroad and make do with the inferior timings. This will keep me going even if China invades Taiwan (TSMC) and we don't get the ubber chips for a few years.

If I was back home I would've waited for the next generation AMD CPU/Nvidia 5000 series... but in Thailand you don't have that luxury.

I think we'll see 45°C this year... because of "El Niño".