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Hilarious. Actually he has no idea what he's doing. Chess, my arse.

Rich coming from Putin who hasn't run a real election in decades and Trump the insurrectionist who is actively working to destroy American democracy. Zelinskyy's popularity is quite strong. He would win an election now. However, if he's forced to give up land to the orcs, then he would lose is a real election, but Putin's goal is political control of Ukraine similar to Belarus so that is probably academic.

Just a fact. It's still on for now and it has had the highest viewing ratings of any late night show. The meaning of ratings is viewer volume which is of course measured. Different than subjective reviews.

Barbarians.

That's a Nazi level meme. Congrats.

Well this time it wasn't one on one even though that what was announced before it was changed. Was it even the real Putin? I assume so but some people have their doubts.

What's not to hate?

Trump is basically working for Putin. DISGUSTING!

During my very long stay on annual retirement extensions based on an O not OA visa there were two (maybe three?) very negative changes to the rules but both were years ago and nothing recent for those already in the system. My understanding is that it is harder to start on that status now largely related to Thai banks being difficult and also Thai immigration being more difficult with change of status applications to an O visa done in Thailand (probably an office dependent thing). Anyway the two (three?) previous big changes. The third one about combo method might be more like unintended consequences of the first two. Thai immigration ordered embassies to guarantee that income affidavit letters were based on strong evidence instead of just verifying signatures. Some embassies naturally balked at that and cut off issuing the letters forcing income based extensions to be done only with proven MONTHLY transfers into Thailand. Some are saying that's the embassies fault. Considering this, that is wrong. If Thai immigration hadn't made a stink about what they were demanding the affidavits to be based on, there would have been no reason for the embassies to stop them as they were rather a cash cow for them. For those using the 800K bank method a very big negative change in seasoning requirements. Previous to the big change the rule was three months before extension to not under 800K but you could drain down to one baht the rest of the year. The changed rules: 800K -- two months before 800K -- three months after Not under 400K for the rest of the year Combination method -- that was never accepted by all offices and still isn't, and on top of that, trying a combo application got more complicated without an affidavit letter. The article remains misleading. However, I think someone said there haven't been any negative changes over many years, and that isn't true either.

This idea has been firmly put the kibosh on by the management here. I don’t fully agree with the reasons given but its not my show so the matter has been fully and finally settled. I do think I failed to communicate the idea clearly or well enough. But I don’t care about this enough to even try to lobby for it further. This will be my last post about it. I suggest that the topic be closed now.

2000 is a high dose.

Philippines does

Not the same.

Putin is just stalling so that Trump never puts on secondary sanctions. Trump is such a fool!

Three dementia checkers. That's brilliant. Did you come up with yourself?

This idea is inspired by a hostile post in the regular medical forum suggesting that we have something like a "Quack's Corner" as a separate forum. While I'm not suggesting a literal Quack's Corner even though it's a deliciously catchy name, I think there might the root of a need in that. To spell this out, on the regular health forum it is very understandably not allowed to post articles from the popular press about medical information and news. Yet in real life so many of us do read that stuff and might want to the chance to discuss it with others and get feedback. Also a huge portion of modern people take supplements of many kinds without consulting a doctor because we've read about them in news or other online sources. On top of that, I'm sure that many people don't even disclose all the details of that to doctors out of embarrassment. Going further as this is an expat in Thailand forum, it's certain that many people are buying powerful and potentially dangerous meds at pharmacies without scrips that they have SELF prescribed for themselves. Such as antidepressant meds. So I'm sure there is a demand for discussion on such matters. I can't answer if just because there is a demand whether it SHOULD be done. But I'm making the suggestion for consideration by the management here. Not sure what the title of such a new forum should be. Maybe put it out there for non silly suggestions? In other words, NOT Quack's Corner.

Yes, ideally.

Again you're not getting the message here. Oh well.

Off topic but I'm definitely a pro-vaxer. Remember polio? As as a kid we all had to get the jab or stay away from school. That was good and we liked it.

It shouldn't be an either/all contest. There are medical benefits from behavior and diet and there are also medical benefits from western medicine and meds. It's a case by case situation.

Very interesting. Well I can look up info about drug interactions but good point. My food cravings aren't very dramatic except for something delicious (usually savory and spicy). Only rarely do I go for desserts though I do eat a lot of fresh fruit. I eat so much brocolli that I get it delivered by the kilo.

What a provocative question. We all make medical decisions for ourselves. If you have a bad headache do you pop a pill or run to the ER? I don't take your question seriously as it seems to be a troll bait tactic.

Probably the biggest factor is hygiene such as running water.

As Thailand doesn't offer any path towards residence security for those on retirement status, it's always wise to have a Plan B (or several of them).

I wouldn't really be expecting any dramatic quick benefits. I'm most interested in the possibly true but unproven long term benefits mostly prevention for multiple things that I am not talking about here out of respect for not broadcasting "pop culture" medical news. In other words day by day if something really bad DOESN'T happen, you're cool with that, but you dont really look for a reason something really bad DIDN'T happen. But when something really bad DOES happen ...