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Exactly.

I wish he's go back to Dubai. 👴 "I just want to come back to Thailand to live out my remaining years with my grandchildren." Bravo-Sierra - dude came back to run the country.

That's cool! 🦋

We live in Thailand, so no big deal!

Lust.

The Decline of Free Speech: How the UK Became a Third-Class Nation "Third-Class Nation" is inaccurate. More accurate is an "Orwellian Totalitarian State." There seems to be a massive push in Western countries to embrace totalitarian restrictions on speech, as well as dissent. It bodes not well for the West. It's the same thing that the West accuses all the countries they have declared to be "enemies" of engaging in, like China. I expect it in China, I don't expect it in countries that claim to be "Liberal Democracies." Nowadays "Liberal Democracy" equals "Totalitarianism" and even Classic Fascism. Welcome to 1984 on the Thames. The Democrats and Far-Left Progressives were trying to take the US down that path, but just ran into a wall emblazoned with MAGA, Trump, and the US Constitution and Bill or Rights, and POTUS Number 47. We're not going down that path just yet. Sucks to be in Western countries outside of the US though.

Absolutely harmless. When you go to bed, turn out the indoor lights and open a window. It will fly off - attracted to light.

I had an Atlas moth flying around my place 4 years back. Fantastic creatures. Beautiful.

I think you nailed it!

It's a Atlas Moth, Emperor Moth, or a close relative. Beautiful creatures. Harmless as can be. Trump did not send it. It's a sign of luck. Buy a Lottery ticket. I'm serious about the good luck 'tho. I haven't seen one of those for about 4 years. https://www.thewildlifediaries.com/moths-of-thailand/

But still, it's a requirement to file tax returns - but they don't. Then those of you who are giving us excuses as to why average Thais don't file, then jump up and down in a hissy-fit telling those of us who have foreign income that is exempt by DTAs or that falls below the same tax exemption structure as the majority of Thais - that we need to file or else Uncle Somchai is going to get you!!! I'm not filing for the exact same reason as those "majority of Thai people don't earn enough to pay taxes." Those Thais income are exempt under Thai tax guidelines, and so is what I remit to Thailand. US Social Security is exempt via the DTA. I've crunched the numbers and posted the guidelines months ago. I own the Thai government nothing other than the 7% VAT they deduct from my purchases. And like every other Thai person who doesn't pay income tax - I do pay Thailand's regressive VAT taxes as well as tariffs and duties on imported goods. "You don't pay taxes!!!" Yeah - I do. So does every person buying goods in Thailand. You can't have it both ways. I have absolutely no tax commitment to the Thai government, just like all of those "majority of Thai people who don't earn enough to pay taxes." My earning are exempt like a whole lot of other farang expats here, and just like that majority of Thais you mention. "But you need to file tax forms every year!" So does every Thai citizen in Thailand. Again - you people worry wayyyyyy to much. Ask you local doctor for some diazepam. You'll relax and feel better. Honest! Stop beating a dead horse. And if you are one of those "rich, wealthy, Hi-So farangs" - then hire a tax consultant or get on your private jet and leave the country for 180 days a year. For the rest of us it's DNA - "Does Not Apply!"

Man-made thermo-nuclear global warming (then a mini-ice age) will happen well before 2100.

Thaksin Shinawatra Covered His Entire 6-Month Hospital Cost So that's the price of "Freedom" 'eh? Ha ha ha ha ha! Up next - Little sister takes a hospital stay after returning from Dubai. Seriously - how can you not be cynical?

You people worry too much. Relax. I'll see what shakes out in 2025 and plan accordingly. Now - business as usual.

The average Thai has never filed a tax form in their lives. They'd have to build concentration camps to imprison all of the Thai citizens who don't file taxes. If they want to push it they can take the 2K THB out of the withheld interest income that they'll be refunding to me. Back when banks actually paid more interest than they do now, I used to file every couple of years. My wife would do the leg work and I'd give her the refunded withholding. Wife wanted me to file to get the money. Since banks pay peanuts in interest, I simply haven't gone through the motions. Nobody at the tax office said "peep" about un-filed taxes especially considering they were paying me. I used to file taxes when I worked here. I haven't worked in 14 years. They are going to have to throw 75% of the Thai population in prison for failure to file taxes before they get around to farangs.

This is the beauty of Thailand. Sure they have laws on the book, but the enforcement divisions of their bureaucracies can even enforce the laws on Thai citizens. Trying to enforce those laws on foreign expats with external income sources will be like herding cats.

Immigration moved up my Extension date due to a new passport, so I'll be extending my stay in December. So I'm not worried about whatever changes being tied to an immigration extension this year. Other than that I'm not doing anything. The US has a DTA and I file taxes in the US. And even if forced, Thailand would just end up giving me back all the money that they withhold on income interest on interest paid to my bank accounts if I'm forced to file in the future. It's a bureaucratic paper shuffle and I'm not interested. Perhaps this is a problem for the uber-wealthy farangs who look down their noses at the rest of us. Isn't for me.

Another mentally unstable far-Left Progressive. Ignore it.

I expect Pam Bondi to assign him as a DoJ Special Prosecutor.

Russian is walking the escalation ladder in a measured manner. I imagine that hitting Kiev is another couple of steps up the escalator. The next response if the US/UK/France insists on continuing to launch their missiles (Ukraine is not launching them) will probably be a demonstration of more powerful conventional warheads. If the West keeps pushing, then Russia hits Kiev and destroys the governmental infrastructure. This de-escalates by the West standing down on the missile launches. Not sure they will do that. And for all the pro-war fan-boys urging the US/UK/France on - if this sh*t continues we all die. You morons can't grasp that.

Light off firecrackers - No problem. Fire a blank gun - Panic

"Teflon (Tony) Thaksin"

Russia just launched the first wartime ICBM armed with Multiple Independently-targetable Reentry Vehicles (MIRVs), in this case conventionally armed. They could be nuclear. You people really, really don't grasp this. The instrument to launch nuclear weapons has must been launched and has just delivered a payload to Dnipo (Dnepropetrovsk) in Ukraine destroying a missile manufacturing factory. HELLO!!! Russia is not bluffing. I give it 50/50 that we all die before Jan 20, 2025. Wanna know why? Because the average smucks in the West continue to root their governments to conquer Russia even as we are on the cusp of nuclear Armageddon.