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    Need US phone number

    Another one in same boat here! I really need a US phone number to which my bank can send a text for 2FA purposes, or even a voice call will do. I was looking at Tello yesterday, but I found it very confusing. I'm looking for something desktop, and Tello seemed to be more like "sign up and we'll...
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    CIA searched for Hitler until 1955

    This is tangential, and not proof of anything at all, but I just remembered something Robert Cox said about when he was arrested by the Dictatorship in 1977 over things he had written in the old BA Herald, (the original one, not the trivial, neutered thing that bears the name today). In his own...
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    CIA searched for Hitler until 1955

    Mostly here in Argentina https://www.rt.com/news/615554-cia-hitler-secret-search/ Personally, I strongly suspect this is all utter nonsense. Then again, I read an account by a US Navy officer who claimed to have seen and conversed with Martin Bormann in 1946 in Austria. So, who knows? I'll...
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    Life after Skype

    Go back to page 1 of this thread, and look carefully at post #7
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    IMF reaches deal with Argentina on $20 billion bailout

    The last statement from IMF said, "it's down to the board of directors to decide", and that's still the case according to this news item. So it doesn't seem that anything has changed, why the announcement? Is it just something they did at Milei's request, to calm the nerves of those who scan the...
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    IMF reaches deal with Argentina on $20 billion bailout

    Look at that picture at the top of the article and tell me, where's her arm? Look at her right arm, the one extended toward Caputo. The sleeve extends toward him, and then there's nothing. In any case, it makes me sick when they say things like "rapid disinflation". Say &^*%#@ WHAT? Hello...
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    Does anyone else feel there might be a peso collapse this year?

    Agricultural Staples Fall Under Trade War Pressure. China’s reciprocal tariffs on the US have triggered a collapse in Chicago wheat and soybean futures as the tariff war puts US exporters at a disadvantage to Brazil, with both commodities set for their biggest weekly drop since November 2024.
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    Milei says Argentina has no right to the Islas Malvinas

    Oh myyyyyyyyy! Those veterans are seriously steamed. Well, I knew it was going to happen. That is one sacred cow you just do not challenge in Argentina.
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    Milei says Argentina has no right to the Islas Malvinas

    Anyone who says this does not understand the UNCLOS treaty, in particular the part about how EEZ may be extended beyond 200 miles by a continental shelf. Or the fact that the issue also encompasses what are called in English the South Sandwich Islands. Or the way in which UK possession of the...
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    Milei says Argentina has no right to the Islas Malvinas

    https://www-pagina12-com-ar.translate.goog/815283-cipayo-traidor-y-funcional-a-los-ingleses-las-criticas-a-mil?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp The usual Google Translate deal, banner is in Castellano and story will initially appear in that tongue, but wait a few seconds and it...
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    Poverty fell in the first year of Milei

    https://www-pagina12-com-ar.translate.goog/814891-la-pobreza-esta-mal-medida-victor-hugo-explico-por-que-es-en?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp The usual Google Translate deal, banner is in Castellano and story will initially appear in that tongue, but wait a few seconds and it...
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    1 in 4 renters forced to leave their home due to inability to pay rent

    (roll eyes) Spoken like a member of the property-owning landlord class. It says right in the headline "economic eviction". In paragraph 3, Gervasio Muñoz, president of inquilinos agrupados is quoted as saying, "one in four tenants suffered economic eviction , which is how we put it, which has...
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    What is the food you miss most from "home?"

    If I had access to a real NY Deli, I would go with a pastrami reuben and fries, with a big kosher dill pickle on the side. Not interested in sushi or lobster, you can keep the fancy stuff Jesus, yes, we gotta stop talking about this... AHHHHHHH!
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    1 in 4 renters forced to leave their home due to inability to pay rent

    https://www-pagina12-com-ar.translate.goog/794242-desalojo-economico-1-de-cada-4-inquilinos-tuvo-que-dejar-su-?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp The usual Google Translate deal, banner is in Castellano and story will initially appear in that tongue, but wait a few seconds and it...
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    Traders bet on weaker Argentine peso as Milei’s IMF deal looms

    So, the article seems to suggest that the IMF will continue throwing good money after bad because Milei is a handy tool and willing to pimp Argentina to the highest bidder.
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    What is the food you miss most from "home?"

    I miss Mexican food the most. Sometimes it's almost unbearable.
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    US bars Cristina from entering the country

    https://baexpats.org/threads/cristina-files-appeal.48522/ 12 obvious things wrong with her conviction. The whole business was naught but painfully clumsy lawfare.
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    Disappointed with Food in Argentina

    The owner of my local dietetica looks more grim-faced every time I venture in to buy something. He's a hell of a good guy, and I feel really sorry for him, but he voted for Milei, and was loudly enthusiastic about Milei's presidency at the beginning. Now, not so much.
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    Does anyone else feel there might be a peso collapse this year?

    Has that figure of 20 billion been officially confirmed now? Last I read this morning, Milei claimed it was 20 billion, but the IMF spokeswoman declined to confirm it, saying that the board of governors had yet to decide.
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