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What I find strange about this is that both my Apps for Kasikorn and TTB both announced around 3 weeks ago they would need facial scanning recognition to proceed, but then a couple of days later both announced on the Apps that I had waived the requirement. I had not done anything except pressed "agreed" to using facial scanning. After that, both Apps then blocked me from using the Apps until I disabled the "accessibility" function on my phone. This function on the Samsung S20, allows Apps to "watch" other Apps. In my case, I use it among other things for an antivirus App and a YouTube ad skipper App as well as around 5 other Apps. I did this a couple of times and the banking Apps worked fine as long as the accessibility function was off. There was no sign of any facial scanning. Around a week ago, the Kasikorn app started working again without any demand to switch off "accessibility". The TTB App continues to demand that I remove the accessibility function (this would take around 5 to 10 minutes each and every time I switch on the TTB app, making it functionally useless should I for example want to buy a coffee by scanning through the App). I find this pretty bizarre since nobody has seemed to mention these extra demands of the Apps on Thaivisa, as well as the odd way the banks are working in lockstep.

Not correct in some ways. If I state what I'm writing is incorrect, when it turns out to be incorrect, then my post is entirely correct. It follows the same structural homology as the liar's paradox.

There are a variety of ways to note my bewilderment. One is to notice the contents of my post where I state that I am genuinely bewildered. My bewilderment can also be inferred from the structure of my post. Thirdly, my appeal to others and my caution as to the accuracy of my post also display my genuine bewilderment. I'm glad that from that you are able to a certain that I am genuinely bewildered.

This was designed by those countries as a bribe to get the students to pay the exorbitant fees for those expensive countries. The UK has become a great deal less generous to foreign students in recent years.

You are not giving "them" your bank account details, you are giving Lazada/Shopee etc. your bank account details. Please explore the endless discussions on this topic in the forum.

I don't know about your country, But my recollection for the emergency travel documents is they can only be used to enter your Motherland. Not sure though...

As has been endlessly pointed out on this forum, you should not use COD.

If there is no bacterial infection, this is famously challenging and frustrating. To quote the Merck's Medical Dictionary: "Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome Treatment is difficult and often unrewarding. In addition to considering any and all of the above treatments, anxiolytics (eg, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors [SSRIs], benzodiazepines), sacral nerve stimulation, biofeedback, prostatic massage, and minimally invasive prostatic procedures (such as microwave thermotherapy) have been attempted with varying results."

I'm genuinely bewildered by this post and I noticed nobody else has touched it. Are you suggesting that you will apply for a new British passport whilst you are on a 30 day holiday in Thailand? Let's be clear: that will be impossible. It will take at least a couple of months for your passport to arrive after you've applied in Bangkok. I also think you cannot apply for a new passport from Thailand unless you are living in Thailand. A tourist visa presumably removes that possibility of claiming that you are "living" here. I hope you can clarify your intentions and I also hope other people will help me and you out on what you're trying to do.

I quite admire this.

My passport couldn't be read by the e-gate kiosk. I received the exit/departure stamp from the human.

This is an interesting edge case. She is strictly speaking following the Woke Bible by suggesting there is a hierarchy of victimhood and she correctly places the people whose ancestors were on slaveships as the ones who may claim the most victim points. Normally the biblical position on this would be met without resistance. But she presented the commandments of Wokeness in an inverted form which allowed her to be attacked. If she had only stated the blacks were at the top of the pyramid she would have been fine. Instead she described who was at the bottom, or near the bottom of the pyramid. Obviously the entire Woke Bible's claims are nonsense for any enlightened liberal. It cannot possibly make any difference to your life situation as to whether your great great great great grandfather was on a slaveship or not. But this is where we are today. She lost on a technicality.

Using the KBank App, simply set the daily amount limit of the account to zero. This will block all and every attempt by any means to deduct money.

Every time the topic of ants turns up, one person quietly gives the perfect answer (apply Bayer Quantum), but it always gets drowned out by pointless discussions of all the useless devices, like chalk, available at the convenience store. To the OP: buy the Quantum from Lazada, apply a tiny patch to your desk, be free of any ants for around 2 months, possibly 3. Your neighbours will probably also find themselves free of ants.

Since my last update broke the news before any news site on the planet, I should rename my updates, 'Breaking News!'. Zipmex has submitted documents to the Singapore Court for a 2 months extension of the creditor moratorium. According to the affidavits, they have found three different parties who might have various levels of interest. Party in which they might have the most hope is a Thai company listed on the stock exchange. I suspect the court will give them an extension but not of 2 months. Probably a month.

What isn't mentioned here but which relates specifically to people with regrets on their deathbeds: What is quite fascinating but is something the dying will only quietly mention to academic researchers is the distancing from the loved ones in the final days. Despite the impression that the "Disney death", where a huge family surrounds the dying person, and they go gently into the night, it turns out that is not what the dying person is thinking. In fact, they are preparing for the next journey. Wherever they are going it is not with their family or close ones. They are preparing in their head to distance themselves from their family. You are their past. The family being around the bed with them is quite awkward for them. This is obviously such a taboo that even close to death they will not mention it. But could be reassuring to any members who have no family with them now.

No. Because your old employer must inform them that you are no longer working with them. Immigration will need that letter with a date on it to type into their computer when your work permission ended. I recommend that you ask your current employer to end your employment in 3 weeks time in the future (the maximum length of time in advance you may apply for a new work permit and visa with a new employer). Your new employers then have three weeks to get the paperwork together to make the application. Press them to put the paperwork together. My memory is, counter-intuitively, you need the visa before the work permit issued. This necessarily means there is a period when you are working without a work permit. It follows you should apply for a re-entry permit with the current visa. Do not use leaving and entering the country as a way to deal with this issue. (I would be interested in feedback on my suggestion)

The key moment of decline was when they all but abandoned trying to provide a serious cheese selection. It is 10 years+ since they stocked French Heritage Camembert, the greatest cheese to have existed. Now, a pack of processed cheese sandwich slices is the best you'll find.

Very expansive selection for detecting cancer. Diabetes is simple enough. And... for neuropathy, not so simple.

The military budget 2022 was 6,300 million dollars. The number of pensioners in Thailand is 12.11 million. If half of military budget was given to the pensioners that would mean 21 dollars per pensioner per month. Around 711 baht extra. I guess better than nothing.

Expenditure on refugees inside the UK was in 2021, £898 m. That money was obtained by simply reallocating development aid funds that were intended for outside the UK. The pension by contrast was 104.5 billion in 2021. Not only have the refugees not cost a single penny more than was allocated in the general fund for development aid abroad, they are little more than a rounding error compared with the high cost of pensioners. In fact the burden of pensioners is far greater, since prioritising their health crippled the country during Covid, and their voting inclinations for Brexit decimated the economy by a far greater sum than a mere billion..

I can recall discussing the concept of inheritance tax with a taxi driver many years ago. Since back then there was no inheritance tax in Thailand and no discussion of it, there was a crashing noise as the scales dropped from his eyes. Part of the reason why the Thai population is so placid, docile and pleasant is because the wealthy elite very carefully limit any discussions of welfare benefits and redistribution of wealth. Buddhism, in contrast to the early revolutionary creed of Christianity, also encourages docility and acceptance of the social structure. Just accept your lot in life. Hope that you are reincarnated as a robber baron as a reward for your merit in this life.

USA is considerably more unequal than Thailand, coming in at the 47th most unequal in the World. This is only possible because of massive levels of government propaganda to support the extreme neoliberalism. This incapacitates Americans from noticing, by telling them how evil the alternative of "socialism" is, or deflecting blame by pointing out Mexicans "r takin' r jobs".

Correct. Thailand is the 98th most unequal country in the World. South Africa holds the dubious distinction of being number 1. Even "Communist" Lao comes higher than Thailand. The UK is... 94th.

Thailand, in line with many countries around the world, is getting older. State Pensions found in European countries are staggeringly expensive; in the UK, welfare benefits are a rounding error compared with the cost of State pensions. And the problem just increases as the elderly portion of the population increases. The only possibilities for even wealthy Western countries are to either cut pensions, place the burden on their children or raise the age of entitlement. It is implausible that Thailand can do anything except a very modest increase in the pension.