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Look into India if cost is a factor.

First White House spokesperson claims that all videos of a bumbling Biden are AI deep-fake "Cheap-Fakes." Now the Huffington Post comes out and encourages the Biden campaign team to use AI deep-fakes to augment Biden in videos. There is something seriously wrong with that both ethically and morally imho. But what do you think my fellow AN members? Should we jettison morality and ethics and step into the abyss of deliberate misinformation as "the ends justify the means to stop Trump at any cost?" What say you? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/it-s-time-for-the-biden-campaign-to-embrace-ai/ar-BB1pkvjU

As Western corporations pull their factories due to the Thai government raising the minimum wage to 400 THB, the Chinese come in a fill in the vacuum as the Chinese think long-term and are not seeking short-term profits by exploiting the work-force.

Actually out here in the rural rice-fields of Thailand many Thais are exactly that: "kind, friendly, relaxed and honest Buddhists who are highly conservative and traditional." Which in turn fits my lifestyle of being kind, friendly, relaxed and an honest Buddhist who is conservative and open to Thai traditional values as I'm pretty much one of the few farangs living in our Amphur. And I like it out here. Regarding the OP: I keep seeing these posts from newbies who just joined and have a handful of posts. They are obviously troll posts aimed directly at expats and my guess is that it may be the same person with multiple accounts. This reads like a template that I've seen before. I've seen other post like this a couple of weeks ago. Somebody who was an AN member for a matter of days and had like 6 posts. I find it really suspicious. And I'm really tire of these "create a new account and start bashing away at those expats who live here long-term as well as foreign tourists who come to visit." Why? There are pocket's of foreigner stupidity but you'll find that in any country which has tourists and expats. The doom and gloom the OP presents is hyperbole.

You've been on the forum for 1 week and 1 day and have 6 posts - and you are an expert on "undesirables in Thailand." Really - if it bothers you so much - book a flight out of the nearest airport and find a country with expats more to your liking.

"Mummy - make the bumbling old hair-sniffer go away!" "I'm proud to be, as I said, the first vice president...the first black woman to serve with a black president.” You can't make this stuff up. Come-on Joe - time to head out and enjoy your last few years in the pasture.

Interesting - the only accounts that I send my funds to is my own accounts at Thai banks which are clearly in my own name. Are you sending the funds to a third-party? That may be why this audit was triggered. If not let us know. And did you get this message via email or when you logged in?

Blame your government. They are the ones who are pressuring Wise. The government focuses on the little-people's transfers because the real serious money laundering happens between extremely wealthy people and the executives at major banks. Look at a bank like HSBC and others who facilitate money laundering and then get a fine which is a small fraction of their profit margin and are written off as expenses - and nobody goes to jail. https://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2013/investing-news-for-jan-29-hsbcs-money-laundering-scandal-hbc-scbff-ing-cs-rbs0129.aspx "Although providing only a partial view of HSBC’s suspicious activity reports, the records show that between 2013 and 2017, HSBC’s U.S. compliance staff, who are charged with monitoring customer activity, filed reports lacking crucial customer information on 16 shell companies that had processed nearly $1.5 billion in more than 6,800 transactions through the bank’s Hong Kong operations alone. More than $900 million of that total involved shell companies linked to alleged criminal networks, according to an analysis by ICIJ and its media partners." https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/hsbc-moved-vast-sums-of-dirty-money-after-paying-record-laundering-fine/ And the do it over and over again because it's lucrative and bank executives are not thrown into prison. Hell of a deal, huh? But we little-people are viewed under a microscope which ties up the rank-and-file regulators, that way they can ignore or overlook the big fish until some government accountant inadvertently catches them at it once more. Just give Wise what they request, it's not that big of a deal and it's not their fault. They are reacting to government audits. They no doubt consider it a PITA as well.

Everybody should know that special wealthy people in BMWs have the right-of-way. All the victims will be required to fix his car no doubt.

Oh! I forgot. What this really is about is the new trope that cow farts makes commercial flights dangerous and all of you useless eaters should probably stay within the confines of your 15 minute cites and eat bugs. We should be seeing these "commercial flight hits turbulence" stories on a weekly basis now.

The ones where you don't end up getting beat to death by 10 Thais wielding rebar at the end of the night.

My tailor wouldn't slap me because I'm not a farang woman - I slap back.

Pressure cooker - perfect cooked dried beans within 20 to 35 minutes depending on the type of bean.

A box of Cheeze-Its. 450 THB. A box of Cream of Wheat. 550 THB. Raisens. 350 THB I just don't buy this stuff anymore. I buy locally produced products. Like my raisins are about 100 THB for half a kilo. Much better. Things like Cheeze-Its and Cream of Wheat - they're a thing of the past.

Solution? Keep your seat-belt on while seated. I do. When I was a private pilot I didn't take my seat-belt off just because I had reached cruising altitude. So why do it in a passenger plane?

"Well there ain't no time to wonder why, Whoopie! We're all gonna die!" - Country Joe and the Fish

Did they quadruple the price for dirty foreigners?

So the airport monopolies get the nod from their connected friends in government. How about the rest of the bars and restaurants in Thailand. Oh! Silly me. They don't have the proper connections!

Other than being notorious for sucking valves on the third cylinder. However with that said, I owned two back in the day and could do my own maintenance on them easy-peazy. Solid vehicles for the most part.

So the opposite side of the uni-party coin wins the day. What changes? Nothing.

I'm sure the conversion will be amazing. All of the anti-gun club suddenly become Second Amendment advocates and wannabe gun owners when the invading horde enters Thailand and begins to execute Westerners. <laughs>

Your friendly Western embassy will send a car to pick you up and transport you to an awaiting flight out of the country. Not!

It's a free market. Have the government throw money at the problem only increases the inflationary pressure. Let the market shake out those who can't compete.

Gone in 15 minutes or less.

"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." - Harry S. Truman