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Paying voluntary National Insurance contributions - ridiculous processing time
Sounds like you have been very fortunate so well done. I paid in May and had several subsequent phone conversations - I actually raised an online complaint on 9th November detailing all the dates of my calls and feedback from the staff. Had a reply from an actual individual on 4th December and payment for last year now showing. They have also paid me £25 as compensation.............. So I am curious if I hadn't raised the complaint whether it would still not be showing but at least it is all done now and fully paid up. -
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EV Owners Frustrated as Samui Ferries Restrict EV Transport Over New Year Period
Hence, they could never deal with an EV fire, buckets of water will not cut it...................🤗 -
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Thailand Birth Rate Nosedives: 81% Drop Surpasses Japan
Gold leaf, and gold paint, hardly rich.. Thailand is very good at showing they are good at covering bad things. -
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Joe Biden Ranked 'Worst President' in Modern History, Poll Reveals
Read my post above again. It may register in the empty void above your shoulders. Or it may not. -
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Google's Quantum Chip "Willow" and Bitcoin
Lots of doomsayers claiming this is the death of Bitcoin. Seems slightly more nuanced than that, although it could provide a reason that some people have been looking for to exit crypto. -
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Progressive Leaders Join Elon Musk in Critiquing American Healthcare Costs
It is interesting how competitive the pricing is for medical and dental procedures in the US that are typically not covered by insurance. I can get a tooth implant or elective eye surgery cheaper in some areas of the US than I can in Bangkok. -
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Bank reset
After purchasing a new phone and number, I'm locked out of digital banking. OK, trip to the bank with passport paperwork signed all sorted. However HSBC UK Updated app on phone with no option at the bottom to generate a QR code I continue with my username instructions, follow, and continue with pressing scan at the base of app camera appears with a scanner for me to presume scan!!!!!! At this point, I'm lost. I have nothing to scan. Help and chat line I cannot find the answer Any advice appreciated -
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Thailand Birth Rate Nosedives: 81% Drop Surpasses Japan
Collasping demographics are happening almost everywhere, probably for similar reasons, which I'll mention a few below: 1. To encourage families to have more children, and women in particular, you need to have decent family-friendly government policies... it needs to be worth it and for people to know they will get quality support from the authorities. 2. Families used to have large numbers of children because some wouldn't survive, the ones that did were free labour on the family farm/land... and maybe one might make it and do well, thus helping the rest in the future. Once you have everyone moving to cities and living in apartments or smaller areas, lots of kids are just problems and mouths to feed. 3. To have children, most people need to feel confident about the future and what it might hold. Without this positive sentiment, then many people simply don't think bringing children into a tough and unprosperous world, where it's almost impossible to progress well and the middle classes are fast shrinking, isn't such a great idea. 4. Women want careers and to earn money and may well put-off having children until they are financially secure. 5. Lots of men available simply aren't good father material and many women are catching on the the scoundrel "shoot and scoot" MO of your average oxygen thief in most places. 6. Having children and bring them up so that they are healthy and educated now costs a fortune... along with all the things Gen z and younger feel entitled to. For example, the wife's niece is like 12 years-old and is pestering her father for an Apple Ipad. 7. The direction the world is going in has taken a sharply negative curve in the last 15 years... so not sure having kids is such a great idea at the moment. There will be more, but that's just a few obvious one. However, a smaller world population may not be such a bad thing from an environmental persective. Governments panic about it because you now have too many older people and not enough younger people to work and pay taxes, so worry about how to pay for everything... the old "Aged society" thing, but they should have seen this coming long ago and done something about it. Basically, countries that have this problem (and that inclusdes Japan, China, South Korea, North Korea, Russia, Thailand and many more etc.) have two choices: Either, 1. Allow mass migration like Europe and the US has done to make up the numbers... but look what a mess of problems that has caused. If you do this option, then it has to done correctly, i.e. only allowing people in that have skills and something to offer, can work, pay taxes, and not commit crime or relentlessly remit all they earn abroad. Europe is in a mess because it has completely ballzed this up. 2. Ecourage your native people to get married and have kids through very generous and family-friendly policies (such as free government-funded childcare etc.) that make it benefitial to have kids in society, rather like it used to be. Neither option is easy to do, and can cost a lot of money, but many countries are heading down this difficult road which ends with some very hard choices to be made, and kicking the can down the road just inevitably makes the decision more painful the longer you leave it (got to get their heads out of the sand). This demograhics problem will only worsen as time goes on, and I read a detailed report about by the late 21st century, only subsaharan Africa will have healthy demographics... for example, there were more children born in Ethiopia last year than the entire EU. Certainly food for thought. Okay, I've rambled on longer enough already... good day to you all.- 1
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