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If anyone is surprised by this, they really shouldn't be. Op-Ed: Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs follows six brutal years of Republican anti-LGBTQ rhetoric (msn.com) Well if its any consolation, Colorado's gay governor will likely do a better job dealing with this than anti LGBT demagogue DeSantis did with the Pulse massacre. Florida Gov DeSantis vetoes mental health funding for Pulse shooting survivors – The Hill

I continue buying selected stocks. I know it's somewhat contrarian to many. It seems safer than Bitcoin anyway, yuck yuck. I bought Berkshire B, Palo Alto Networks, Mercado Libre (thinking of buying much more), Toronto Dominion Bank, and Disney. Looking at many more. But now an interesting issue has emerged. Tesla. I think it may be a great buy but I seriously hate and distrust Elon. Is that a reason to not buy it? For example, I think some tobacco stocks are good but I won't buy them, but I would buy cannabis stocks. Another issue. I've got the concept of you can't pick bottoms down well. But I know from my history that my problem is more like I don't know when to sell when stocks go up (in long term scenarios). They eventually go down but there is always the greed factor that they will go much higher, you wait, and then you lose what you had gained on paper.

He was elected. That's how he was allowed. Then the second time he lost and decided he knew better and incited a violent coup attempt. That's why he should not even be allowed to be a free man, to heck with Twitter. Troublemaker Trump doesn’t care about a second term – or America. What he craves is attention | Simon Tisdall | The Guardian

It's still hard to believe that such a moron WAS the most powerful man in the world and may even be that again.

I'm going to try that out myself. IRS audit? Thank you kindly but I am not partaking. That man is hilariously dumb. Pass the cake.

So you won't partake of the rules. Up to you. They are paying us money and it has conditions.

If you're living abroad social security requires that we inform them but deceiving them is a common way of avoiding the need to file the form.

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Interesting. So let's say a user uses a VPN with obfuscation, sets their device in Thailand to a US zone, English only, would that generally work unless your target decided to specifically investigate you?

Fox News?

You can't file this form there so why is that relevant?

I didn’t ask. But I made it clear I wanted to be seen as being in the US.

If banks know don't entertainment geo restricted streamers know too?

Loved this. I've never been much of a Springsteen fan (not working class) but this film uses his music brilliantly. Entertaining and uplifting.

This was already answered by a user but I just confirmed with Surfshark that even with obfuscated servers banks and others can still see your LOCATION. Drats!

The former is like my current solution but it's a bit of a burden. I have a PC box set up in his house. I power it on from Thailand logging on to his network. Then I use TeamViewer to use that US computer to login to my Financials. I was hoping that a VPN might potentially replace that.

Nikki Haley wouldn't take it!

Just found this. https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/nov/16/donald-trump-kari-lake-winning-2024-white-house-te/ "Trump-Lake ticket a winning White House formula" The moment I heard Lake was flying to Lard 'o Lago I figured Lake will probably be the pick.

This is interesting but again does it really work consistently? https://www.vpnranks.com/blog/securely-access-bank-accounts/ "Surfshark offers obfuscated servers so the servers you are connected to won’t be able to detect that you are using a VPN, which is just ideal if you want to access your bank from some other country. Our Surfshark review explores these aspects of the service in more detail."

I disagree. She's a woman and very slick and polished. He first ran as having no political experience so why should she? She's a winner if she says her election was rigged. He already delivered ending Roe vs Wade to evangelicals Also at the end of the day it's the top of the ticket that matters.

Federal. I have no idea about territories. Each US expat tries to craft their own workarounds but its a moving target. Very wealthy people of course can have private bankers A very common gambit which I do is FAKING being a US resident using a US friend or relative but that is always at risk of falling apart. Really US expat's problems are a separate topic. If any US expats don't know the State Department Federal Credit Union can be very useful. If that's all you need that's a total solution. I only wanted to know if there is a VPN that can reliably never appear as a VPN to banks etc. I thought maybe Surfshark is that.

It's not hard. She's visiting Lard Lago to worship the Biggest Loser. She's his likely running mate. She knows she lost and won't be governor but by playing this fascist game she just might end up president Dangerous lady indeed.

I don't tell them. This is more of an American problem. US financial institutions are aggressively hostile to expats and the laws there push them in that direction.

Asking them will put you into suspicion. It's known in general that US financial institutions are expat hostile. There are a few exceptions but I need multiple accounts A major exception is SDFCU which I do use Fidelity brokerage which I've used over 50 years was cool about it over the phone before I moved to Thailand, then changed their policy and began aggressively treating me as a suspect. Also banks frequently merge and then change policies. The trend is always worse towards expats such as requiring US cell phones in your name, blocking voip for 2FA.

The problem with bank logins is much more about them freezing accounts than login access. When that happens it can be a major headache and could even lead to banks kicking you out as many don’t want expat accounts. So I would want to have high confidence that the banks are not seeing logins as by VPN before even taking the risk of testing! I assume this is largely an issue for Americans because of American Know Your Customer laws. So for me refund policies are trivial because losing accounts is a massively bigger risk than losing a VPN fee.