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@danfinnJust curious your experience with GoogleFi in the Philippines? I’m thinking of getting the Flexible Plan (ie., $20/mo + $10/GB data) and turning data off while there. I doubt I’ll need international calling, except for the ... Read More

Actually you need to know how a trade war works - @danfinn I think I know. TACO is not up to much past humour because, in my most humble of opinions, Trump messes everything up so share prices fall. He, under cover of whatever shady shell company ... Read More

@James HartlandFair to say that the Philippines is unlikely to do this for some time but in another 10 years or so they will likely also go down this route.I moved to the Philippines with my eyes wide open and understand all countries need to make ... Read More

@danfinn Ankle biters? While I appreciate the complement if only true would question how you raised your children? Force? Coercion or a simple slap? Sure I am an outsider to the goings on in the US but it's plastered world wide on different media ... Read More

Actually you need to know how a trade war works - @danfinn I think I know. TACO is not up to much past humour because, in my most humble of opinions, Trump messes everything up so share prices fall. He, under cover of whatever shady shell company ... Read More

@bizwizard I don't want to hang sh1t on the US but the current administrations on again off again tariffs are a joke, I see these tariffs have been changed 21 times against China. OMO. - @bigpearl Trump is being openly mocked now about his tariff ... Read More

This thread has become totally useless. Let's put Fred, bigpearl and danfinn in a separate thread where they can make useless arguments about irrelevant points.I agree with flyrite, the fourth poster and so far the only one on-topic.The topic is an ... Read More

@Andy_1963 Has anything changed ? As far as I know PH tax on pensions is 0% - @emvaningenI happened to be looking at this along with with US treaty article 18 (same as austria) and it does appear to be zero tax for both of our "contracting" ... Read More

@rained It did on my Iphone. Just try it and your question is answered. - @vehicross100 How can you tell it is going through WIFI only? Read More

For USA expats we have treaty article 18 private pensions and article 19 social security. I see that austrla has a treaty, also called article 18 for private pensions. None if the above articles are taxable in the Philippines but are taxable in the ... Read More

@TGCampo The problem is that you can not always split politics from medical questions, Covid is a very clear example. Even medical questions need to be answered politically correct, and here Chinese interference is not worse than Biden ... Read More

@danfinnI am very happy with DeepSeek as well. However, I don't ask it political questions, but practical stuff that would take me forever to investigate on the Internet. It can be very helpful analysing DTAs and it is decent with medical questions ... Read More

I tried both AI offerings and they are garbage. IT is a scam. I worked in the industry for 6 years. Just look around at Apple and Microsoft and you'll undetstand. AI is merely a web browser reformatted to appear like human interaction with the ... Read More

@rike yao I know this is late. Deepseek is my favorite so far. Answers are very comprehensive. Read More