sidneybear

In the west, children aren't disciplined by their woke parents and look at what they grow up into.

What a daft title the OP has given this thread. He sets the condition that anyone who isn't a Zelensky apologist like him must therefore be a Putin apologist. No debate. Simple black and white. Just like supporting one or another football team.

Spare the rod and spoil the child. Thailand will end up like the ghastly Western world.

Looks like they had money to burn.

The government hates you. Why do you love it back?

Samsung S24+ same problem with app hanging at 56.1%. I fixed it by turning off Microsoft Defender anti-virus. From what others have written here it's a bad version that is incompatible with anti-virus software.

Debts make you someone else's slave. I scale my life according to my income.

April 25 is only a few months away, so I'd call it a fast change. The very next tax year after Starmer got elected.

Data exchange and data matching gets better and better. I'd say that it's a matter of time before any kind of spending, anywhere, is traceable back to wherever you're supposed to be paying tax. Let's enjoy our freedom while we can.

Irrelevant comment made because you have no rebuttal to the point I made that gerontophobia is bigotry.

No it isn't. It's a bigoted term used to describe elderly people

Why is gerontophobia tolerated, while other forms of bigotry aren't?

The remittance tax for non-domiciled UK residents is no more. It was cancelled by the Starmer government.

Thailand has always been quick to catch up on technology trends. There's already this harmless looking NDID, a centralised digital ID that "improves convenience" on my online banking app. Transfer of funds and other online financial transactions in Thailand requires facial recognition, so the Thais are a step ahead of most western countries there. Add to all of this humble noodle carts acceptance of QR code payments, and we're a very long way from the third world. We're a lot closer to total state control than we like to think.

ATMs don't work when the Internet is down or electric is out, but I'm also a fan of cash because I'm a private person. I think that it's nobody else's business to know where and when I buy or sell things.

I was there yesterday. My guest house by the river flooded overnight.

Who's generalising here? I'm not American and I don't like Trump.

Lefties hate free speech, so they blame the Russians (who renounced Leftism) for everything.

Under the CRS, banks ask customers where their tax residency is. If not resident locally, then the accounts of said customers become automatically reportable to the overseas tax authority where they reside.

You don't have to be rich to set up an offshore company.

The TRD could quite easily automate data matching, like they do in other countries. In Australia, for example, everything that I forgot to put on my tax return came back to bite me, with interest added. People here who think they're invisible might be in for a rude awakening.

Right. Investigative reporting seems to be dead everywhere in the world.

What kind of a democracy presents its electorate with Harris or Trump, from all the clever and capable folk in the US? The outcome is the same: degeneration, moral decay and increasing poverty. At least Thailand has a progressive left and a conservative right.

Did you see all those red and yellow marches? How were they apathetic? Thailand has a long history of passionate politics. Meanwhile, in America, the choice from millions of clever folk is Trump or Harris. In the UK it was Sunak or Starmer. Two parties to choose from are like two cheeks of the same arse. What kind of a democracy is that?

My thoughts. The media has obviously been bought.