connda

So - you get your banks routing number and send that and your bank account number to SSA Manila and request IDD transfer to whatever bank you wish to send it to. Personally I'm not of fan of Bangkok Bank.

KhunLA. Once the change to IDD, SSA Manila could send your money to any bank. I'd moved out of Chiang Mai to Lamphun. But until the IDD option, I had to go collect my money at Bangkok Bank in Chiang Mai monthly. As soon as IDD happened I immediately switched to SCB in Lamphun. No requirement to collect your payment in person. That was an utter PITA.

And they enjoyed that monopoly too. Once IDD showed up, I was like - 👋 "Goodbye Bangkok Bank!"

You can sent the SSA payment to any bank in Thailand using International Direct Deposit (IDD). I don't know why people insist on giving old information about having to use Bangkok Bank. No - you do not need to use Bangkok Bank.

Years ago Social Security HAD to come though Bangkok Bank. You HAD to set up a Bangkok Bank private account that was only used to receive you Social Security deposit - which you then HAD to go and collect in person. That was a pain in the ass. All of these references to using Bangkok Bank are old and the process is deprecated. Yeah - you can still do it that way, but really - why? Contact SSA in Manila and ask them to send you your Social Security payment to you - AT ANY BANK IN THAILAND - using International Direct Deposit (IDD). SSA began to offer that a few years back. When they did, I shut down my Bangkok Bank account and had my SSA sent via IDD to Siam Commercial Bank. Fyi - be aware of your options. Personally I don't know why anyone would want to use the old Bangkok Bank method. You really want to have to go to the bank to collect your money? Honest - that's silly.

Unfortunately I'm acutely aware and have been since the Citizens United vs FEC decision. What we see now is a direct result.

From CNBC: Billionaires spent 880 million USD on elections in 2022. Imagine that will be over 1 billion USD in 2024. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/03/american-billionaires-spent-a-record-880-million-on-the-us-midterm-elections-.html I'm just a dumb US expatriate, but for some reason it seems to me that the outcomes of elections are unduly influenced by the money from billionaires and large corporations (thank you SCOTUS via Citizen United vs FEC). The average citizens of the US don't have this kind of leverage via campaign contributions as billionaires and corporations. Then when someone is elected, then they become beholding to their sugar-daddy contributors. Do they work for the interests of the US citizens? Nope - they work for the interests of the billionaire and corporate sponsors who put them into office. This is "Democracy?" I don't think so. Not by a long shot. This is pathetic.

Everyone but Vorayuth Yoovidhya will end up in jail.

Exactly.

Cognitive decline sucks. Check out Phosphatidyl Serine and Huperzine A. You can look up their use and efficacy online. I use both. Phosphatidyl Serine is pricey. I was having significant memory issues a year ago but I've seen significant improvement over the last year. If you want to do your own research look up "nootropic supplements" online. Be aware that sites tend to try to sell you "their stuff" online. Imho, you look to see what the individual supplements are and work with them individually. I buy mine on iHerb.com. That's what I did with Phosphatidyl Serine and Huperzine A. I tried and reject a few other thing that didn't work for me personally. You got to experiment. You've got a lot going on. Take them one at a time and give yourself time. Like I said, it took me close to two years to get over Dengue.

I don't see how Japanese eat that stuff. Ugh - it's nasty. But it has all sorts of health benefits.

Sorry to hear that. I hope it eventually clears up.

I PM'ed him some resources to look at. If you look at mainstream media as well as main-stream health sites, they'll all acknowledge this "Long Covid" issue without providing much in the way of diagnosis or prognosis or "whys." Personally I think it's the shots although after having "Long Dengue" I will attested that viral infections can do some damage to your body. It took me 19 months after having Dengue to feel even remotely "normal." So I can't outright discount Covid infections having a "Long Covid" component, but from personal experience it was a mild flu and done. No one's going to fund a study to compare vaccinated against unvaccinated populations to find out if "Long Covid" is statistically significant in both populations. It doesn't fit the narrative. The FL*** provides a protocol but I won't bother to link it here. The mainstream health sites basically say "go to a doctor, do what they say, and pray." Basically mainstream doctors don't have a clue because their treatment options are still bounded by the "misinformation" conundrum. Doctors are allowed to prescribe everything except what may actually be effective. Medice, cura te ipsum. As some point you need to take your health into your own hands.

TIT.

Life sentence? Well that's better than 15 rounds from a Hekler-Koch sub-machine gun in the back. Maybe. Maybe not.

Whatever he's told to publish for the right price?

I guess the Obama's will need to leave their Martha Vineyards sea level property and move to Boulder Colorado. Once you see the Obama's leave, then you'll know Bangkok is doomed for sure. Until then? "Pip Pip - Stiff upper-lip and all that rot."

Oh my goodness. Someone's reading my mind. Or thinks they are. <laughs> Here - I changed it just for you. Make sure to check you're pronouns!

My goodness! How insensitive! Signed, connda Pronouns: neither, niether, either, iether

Sorry......bygones!

Putin's Commie Russian 9K720 Iskander missile being readied for firing at the Kursk NPP.

OMG! The commie Rooskie and Putin lovers have taken over BBC and are now publishing <gasp> misinformation!!! Egads! The IMF too!!! 🇺🇦 Russia woman staring at shelves in a Moscow supermarket and wishing she lived in London or Berlin

Absolutely. The ruble is rubble, the Russian economy is in the trash bin, the Ukraine military is winning, Russia is bombing its own nuclear reactors, and Russia is using computer chips out of washing machines to make their missiles. I know! I listen to CNN! I see you do too! 🇺🇦

An academic making a proposal and the Russian government making the proposal an actionable item are birds of different feathers. Putin is getting unsolicited proposals left, right, and center from the public, the media, those in his government, and his military advisors. This article is about as daft as some nuclear physicist from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory urging Biden to put nukes in Western Ukraine. Russia sits on Ukraine's border. There is no need to "put nukes in Ukraine." A tactical nuke in Russia could hit Ukraine from Russia in a few minutes. 🙄 Well, this did make "The Dictator Putin Is Hitler" crowd surface to feed.