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You seem to have a lot of faith in Milei's plan (in terms of helping the Argentine people); what would have to happen for you to think it wasn't a good idea? Everyone thinks it will be at least 6 months of suffering, and to me that's not an indication that it will fail in the end; but how long...

Oooo my friend is flying out that night. I would be curious too.

Went to lunch yesterday at El Litoral, price for same meal was a little over double what it was nearly a year ago. If you know the place (very 'popular' prices for good meat), in previous years there was a line of locals, but not yesterday. The restaurant I passed on Pasco that gets the...

I ran into a local acquaintance after I wrote about the "apartment inflation", and he had a more logical reason: they're betting the DNU makes it more valuable as a rental investment, if they can make long-term contracts for dollars (it's in Palermo Soho).

I've been watching the prices of various apartments for years; one down in Villa Crespo has been listed at the exact same price for over seven years. And it's not like it's some kooky dueno listing it; it's through a big RE company here. At some point, wouldn't the agent drop the listing if the...

My friend and I saw long lines at the pumps by the AAC, he says they expect it to keep rising and are filling their tanks.

Oh, I am a fool. I googled it and got the news from Uruguay as a top answer! Bad Google. Either way, its going to be significantly less than when the official rate was artificially low, which is why I was looking. And your math proves it, using the correct (for now) figures! Thanks.

So it looks like theyŕe going to raise minimum wage to $22.268 (a week?), which divided by 800 pesos per dollar, times 5 weeks a month is about $140USD. Before I couldnt apply for Rentista because you need 5x minimum salary, and it was calculated using official rate, which at the time was almost...

As an illustrator all I can say is, good luck if it was fed into AI and spat out again. The courts are still debating whether your data (your likeness, your voice, your writing, photography or art) deserves any copyright or privacy consideration in the face of the AI juggernaut. Don't get me...

I watched from my friends balcony on Av. de Mayo and walked down for the start of the speech, and early in the morning to see the crowd. Definitely some fanatics; people say he has nothing in common with Trump (haha) but the weird messianic imagery their fans occasionally embrace creeps me out...

Yeah even I have a dated sense of prices. I saw a roast chicken here for 6000 pesos and I thought, oh that's almost as much as the USA. But my friend back there told me that chicken would be $12 now. I just don't buy them at home.

I go to steak places that run about $8 for a steak that I can share with a friend, the bus is six cents to get there and then I can go dancing for $2USD afterwards, or go the opera for under $10... I guess it depends what you get up to. Don Julio is great, but is it 7x as great as some other...

Just out of curiosity, how long did it take from inky fingers to the document arriving at your house? I need to do that this year. I might have the same problem... no answers for you, only more questions.

I was wondering where this all started... Given that this was for the small stakes of selling a pre- construction condo, are you implying he was threatening you? (Having met a few fathers over the years; I would guess he was bragging 😆...)

Tell the truth were you thinking of this movie scene when you wrote this?

I will be there too.

Yeah, I saw this and looked it up. Biden made the usual call, and Milei seems to have changed his mind about his first international visit being to Israel. Sounds like hes going to be visiting the IMF, WB, and various treasury officials. Hes bringing Caputo. Probably a wise first move, with...

I opened my wallet to go to the St. Regis thing, because I didnt know about the other options. I regret nothing. It was the chef from the US Embassy; very interesting gourmet interpretations of the classics. Some strange substitutions of blueberries where cranberries would have made more sense...

Don Julio has been warned; well-done steaks with ketchup will be the special of the day.

A friend once quipped that Argentinas economy is what would have happened if the South had won the US Civil War... which might help explain the Confederate flags at Milei rallies? Now we have to unravel their deep ties to New Hampshire... (just kidding, of course)