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Here we go....

They still did them fairly recently in the UK, I remember my nephew said they told him he could join Mensa based on his results - pretty sure he didn't bother though, neither did I.

That's nonsense. Your IQ is largely fixed late in adolescence, it's a measure of cognitive potential, nothing more and certainly not education. Back when I was at school they made us all do an IQ test, this was in the 80s when we were 15 or 16 years old depending on when in the academic year you were born. After about this age your IQ will generally not change much if at all. You might be able to spend your time practicing IQ test type questions and get better at the tests but that doesn't change anything other than your ability to do those type of quizzes. I remember we were told during the test that there are many more questions that we can possibly answer in the alloted time - likely about an hour and that's how it's designed - they said don't allow yourself to get stuck on one question - if you don't know it and can't figure it out just leave it blank and move on to the next question.

He said that he sent it to around 80 people in various departments inside Cambodia, I think I read this in a Phnom Penh post article a few days back. The implication being that any one of them could have leaked it.....

No affect on renewals then? I've have multiple licenses over the years, I think it's been 1 year, then 2 x almost 6 years as I went within the week after my birthday each time to get the extra year. So I'm good until late 2026 right now but then I will need to renew.

Yes thanks but it's spread across many websites - the information is out there and in 2024 so many left that it was far more than many previous years combined with predicted results for this year also very high. It's OK though as the intent was to make the rich pay - which worked - so they left. Job done, except now they're running out of other peoples money. There's a long history of this kind of policy failure over the decades and nearly all of them were eventually rolled back and abolished. So either they're completely and utterly incompetent or planned this.

Not really, there's a massive censorship engine working overtime in Thailand. Eveyrthing you do goes through the wrongthink department before it's allowed or denied.

Give it a week, perhaps 2.

Yeah, this often happens. Raising taxes is one way to get rid of all your wealthy. Great job. Thailand is doomed to follow this same road and the result will be the same unless they get their act together. Remember though, we're one election away from this exact same path, it's what the people voted for last time there was an election. The only reason it's not in place already is because extraordinary measures were taken to keep Move Forward out. Those measures are now collapsing by the day.

If this Move Forward of whatever they're calling themselves ever get into power expect massive changes. Think of them of a kind of Bernie Sanders type operation, they want all your money. I believe one of their stated goals was to start taxing all gains made on the stock exchange of Thailand (SEC). They would inevitably fail quickly and massively of course but that won't stop them from doing it - it never does with these lefty types, look at what's happening in the UK - everyone with any money who's in a position to leave is leaving.

Yeah we all hope for low taxes and some of us take measures to ensure them. But until the ink is dry nothing is official regardless of how much they need the money - if the current government ends then nothing is going to be completed - it will be all on hold so it most certainly is an option to wait. If the government fails and is replaced with whatever's left of the move forward party - what do you think they policy is going to be on tax? It certainly won't be good

They do facial recognition on my ABA account in Cambodia and it works perfectly well. Can't you pop down to the local branch and get them to set it up for you like all the Thais?

Both of these changes are not yet official and due to political changes in the ruling coalition there is a very real possibility of total government collapse in the coming weeks. If it doesn't collapse then there may be a minority government and that changes things. Best to wait and see, there's a lot going on right now.

Has it been published in the Royal Gazette is the question, I believe it's a Ministerial Regulation so would be subject to a lot less scrutiny than a royal decree - therefore it's easier to get done. But it still needs publishing, because if anything prevents that from happening than nothing changes. Await confirmation Also - if you can't read the text of the law or regulation then it doesn't exist in its final form yet regardless of what some exchanges might say.

Proposed change not yet enacted. Just like the proposed change to the same and subsequent year remittance rules. Mere proposals at this stage. They make a lot of announcements about these proposals, many never see the light of day.

Yes, I use it. It's very useful. I never did use the free version, I went straight in with the paid tier so I have nothing to compare it to - been using it and a couple of other paid services for a few years now. I've used them since they got better at providing results than google for specific types of questions. I don't use it to think for me, I ask it very specific technical questions and it provides answers, not always correct but mostly correct. The thing is, I'm smart enough to know when it's talking rubbish and point it out and the response is typically 'You're right to point that out, here is a reviewed answer' or something like that. But I generally know what I'm talking about when using it - I'm just asking for details on something very specific like a linux commands parameter format or a database structure inside a well known open source system and how one thing relates to another inside the system in the databases, etc, even if I know little about that system I can very quickly determine if it's wrong and tell it so - then it will come back with a corrected answer. Sometimes with technical questions like this it may be referring to an older or newer version of whatever it is I'm using so it's not entirely wrong - just wrong for my specific use case. Now if I'm looking for something very specific that is more suited to a keyword search I will use google. Just knowing the difference between these 2 type of search / query is half the job.

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Exactly, urgent government business you see. Where there's a will, there's a way.

Many times I've come across these badly worded signs - they nearly all say 'Buy 1, Get 1' - I sarcastically said to the Mrs that I always get 1 when I buy 1 so what's the big offer 🤣

Only Thaksin himself can sort this mess out, what's the odds he leaves the country for Cambodia in the next couple of weeks on an emergency mission to save the day?

Nothing about the 'reversal' has changed yet. Until it's published in the Gazette it's just civil service waffle. When it gets published it will be major news.

Did any go with the less than 180 days a year route?

Not gonna happen. Many Thais in Cambodia too.

These people are earning far more money in Thailand than they can do back home in Cambodia and most of them literally won't give a crap about some border dispute that their lords and masters have. I'm in Phnom Penh now with the Mrs and she often speaks to Tuk Tuk drivers and other Cambodians who can speak Thai because they learned it long ago while doing such work. They were very happy with the outcome of their time spent in Thailand and the extra money they earned allowed them to purchase tuk tuks, open small businesses, etc, etc. There will be no exodus no matter what happens.