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Sorry, I didn't make myself clear enough. I'm asking what is N2. I already know what N is. It doesn't refer to a particular area. It refers to a particular group of applicants who fall within the N group. Who are this group?

The N counter is used for non-business work, such as diplomats, experts, teachers, as well as students and monks. But what is the N2 subgroup specifically?

That's an interesting development. In the early 1990s "it's political correctness gone mad" phase of politics, what might be called a proto-Woke spasm, a similar conflation occurred between health and safety/risk avoidance issues and the "rectification of names" involved in the process of political correctness. The conflation arose then because both involved a sense of petty, wasteful bureaucracy, and both produced lots of headline news stories.

Kettle logic.

I ruled out taking the vaccine after I spoke to the doctor when she tested me positive for dengue the first time. Firstly, it is expensive. Secondly, from my memory of the chat, it requires several jabs over a long period of time. Thirdly, it's not actually that effective; I recall her saying around 60%, and then it fades with time. In addition, there other nasty mosquito diseases which the vaccine will have no effect on. In Thailand, they are the Zika virus and the Chikungunya virus. My doctor actually thought I had the Zika virus until the test results came back.

I can't speak for him but let me describe my 4-day headache from my dengue infection last year. The headache was no worse than the migraines I often get. But no matter what there was no relief for 4 days, except if I sat in a almost boiling shower. But the relief only lasted in the shower and 10 minutes after it. That brief period was the only chance I had to fall asleep. So for 4 days and 4 nights, I went back and forth to the shower every 30 minutes or so. I felt so exhausted from the pain and lack of sleep, that I gave up even drying myself off from the shower. I would just walk to my bed soaked wet and drop to sleep. I was so sensitive to light that when I went for a short walk at 2 in the morning, I wore sunglasses, and I still felt dazzled by the night light of the moon. There were other problems as well but this was the largest problem for the last few days. It was just a headache and yet there are very few people who have a headache which does not end for that length of time at that intensity. I'm so glad I did not go to hospital. By being home I could control the lighting, get to the shower, and keep the room completely quiet.

Just to explain what is going on here: a Russian refugee living in Georgia and working in IT, likes to comment on anyone with a silly understanding of Russia. This effectively opens up to him almost the entire population of the United States. In this particular review he's looking at the general tendency of Americans to see not just Russia but even Thailand as places to escape ideologies of America, not grasping that they are also not utopias. The conservative here is ironically making the precise argument that radical leftist feminist Judith Butler was making in her famous work, 'Gender Trouble'. She argued that not just gender but also even sex is performatively produced (this is the book where "performative" emerged in American discourse). The extreme conservative is favourable to that position by his supporting Thai ladyboys because they truly act like women, as in they performatively constitute themselves as women. He is implicitly opposed to American ladyboys because they don't try to act in conformity with his constructed image of women. It's interesting to look at this tail end of the 30 year-- increasingly flagging-- dialectical arguments between liberal forces and conservative forces. And just as expected, after all the screaming and shouting and knashing of teeth, the conservative ends up as the liberal. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

A particularly effective strategy is to lie on your left side.

This database has around 3 million books now. It is by far the best collection on the internet. Thailand is indifferent to the question of its legality. Western countries claim it is illegal.

The issue is not how much weight you have lost, but whether you are now at an acceptable weight. You should aim to be straight down the middle of the BMI chart.

I have a great workaround for this for mobile YouTube on my phone. I use my smartwatch which is connected to my phone and has the ability to override the play function on the YouTube app without removing the prompt question, ensuring no further prompts/ interruptions.

An article approvingly linked from the article here says he admitted to taking $500,000 of his fans' money in a Ponzi scheme. It looks like he's finally experiencing the rewards of his general behaviour. And as for other people here complaining that lewd display is normal in Thailand, this is different because it involves distribution of obscene content for money over the internet. Thailand is notoriously strict on this.

I agree with you on this. But they would have benefited from knowing. I guess they will find out eventually from somebody. Even if the company handles things, as mine does, you still have to physically turn up yourself at chengwatana. This e-extension offers two advantages. It removes the absurd waste of time sitting around at chengwatana (even with an appointment last year it still took well over 5 hours), and ensures that some clerical error by the office does not result in having to attend twice.

You would think that people would be throwing themselves at this option-- getting all the documents approved without even attending Chaeng Wattana-- but instead all there is is silence. I appreciate that most of the forum users retirees or aspirational retirees, and they are specifically excluded, but that still leaves a large number of others.

I'm just bumping this because the silence is deafening. I really want to hear some feedback on the use of the e-extension as I'm going to use it in the next couple of days. So, if you have ever used it, how did it go, how quick was it?

They get access to the medical records etc as required by the terms of the insurance agreement.

Correct. They describe it as a 'visa extension' by proof of a valid work permit. I was sloppy in my wording. And arguably they are also sloppy with their wording. Interestingly, the service is heavily plugged on the Immigration Police website. The "e-extension". But as I said before, it is rather restrictive to who can use it. I would be keen to hear how it went for others.

They won't solve it. They might provide a little relief with some medicine or possibly a suggestion of a therapist. ...But the truth is the solution will be rather boring and rather obvious: you need to cut back on whatever is causing the stress, you need to touch grass (go for a walk in a park, listen to the birds), meet friends, make time for family, make a plan to resolve the issues which are stressing you, even if that means compromising your current lifestyle. And stop drinking. Good luck.

I found the website. Has anyone had experience? Please note that it excludes retirement visas. And only includes a restricted class of work permits. Here is a newspaper article on it.

Sometime around mid-2022, I saw that for work permit extensions it was now possible to upload documentation to the immigration police in advance of the appointment date. They would then approve or disapprove the documents in advance. This is hugely useful because refusals of extensions are almost always because of clerical errors completely unconnected to the farang applicant. I'm unable to find on the immigration police website the link. Has anyone got it? Has anyone used it?

You are narrowing it down... But it is still absolutely useless information. Every country has an entirely different legal system. In fact, the UK alone has several different legal systems; an English lawyer has no idea about Scottish law for divorces. No.

The problem with being ignorant is that there is a fallacious tendency to view your own ignorance as somehow proof that the other side is wrong. That is, until you read my post you had no idea that a general principle of the EU is the localisation of power away from each country's ruling classes. Your lack of awareness of this does not mean that you were right. It should have provided a giant hint to you that you are wrong. As for your alternative favouring of an absurd extreme far right conspiracy theory, that in itself demonstrates your cluelessness. Please do not try and understand the EU from The Sun newspaper and The Daily Express. You are being gamed. Almost the only organisation trying to make workers lives better was the EU. The EU was a very useful scapegoat for the ruling class of the UK. And this is why you have such a negative opinion against it. They have taught you, like a Pavlovian dog, to instinctively oppose it. Now that the UK is no longer part of the EU, the ruling classes have run out of people to blame. Fun times ahead.

I'm not really sure this should be categorised as a "crisis", but instead is the new norm. Europe, with the UK, has been in a sustained relative decline to the United States. In 2008 Europe was larger than United States and today United States is 1/3 larger than Europe, around six trillion dollars. All the indicators suggest this will continue. Europe simply cannot compete. It's only hope of fairly cheap energy was Russia, and we can see will be presumably gone for years. Without that energy, German manufacturing will move to the United States as it has been doing. Terminal decline is the new norm. In the meantime, the UK working classes will suffer to an unusually heavy extent. One of the major aims of the EU was to take power from the ruling classes of the individual countries and regionalize it. It also had a very intense social regulatory programme to make the working classes lives better. Even when in EU, the UK ruling elite ensured that the UK opted out of these regulations, pushing zero contract hours. The idea today continues in plans to make the UK the Singapore of Europe. In fact this today is really the UK's only hope. But there's a lack of bravery in the government to commit to it. It is also largely a fantasy since for it to happen you need an extremely educated population and the UK has a famously poorly educated population for a developed country, below the small but highly regarded elite strata. The British working class are also notoriously troublesome (the image in Victorian paintings of the gin-soaked masses rings true even today) while Singapore relies on an extremely docile populous. I see nothing but pain and suffering. The population will increasingly vote far right. Criminality will increase. Wealthy foreigners will exit, as they have been doing for the last 5 years. The UK will fade into irrelevancy. And the growing populations of Africa, owing to climate change, will gradually but inevitably take over.

I haven't used them except very occasionally since the expansion of the metro services. But I was always amazed that they stuck to the same routes despite all the alternative transport networks growing around them. It just didn't make sense as they were following the route patterns for a city that no longer existed. The App ('ViaBus') with all the positions via GPS of most of the buses on most of the bus routes hugely enhances the experience. We've gone from having no idea where buses go or how frequent, to knowing the exact location of the buses in real time. I'm sure it'll be a long time for all the routes to use a card for payment.

I've never used the ATM for depositing despite living here for years and having had accounts with 4 different banks at different times. It doesn't require any identification? I suppose the bank gets its photo.