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    How to call emergency services without a phone number?

    As lunar said, your phone should work regardless. Even if you see a 🚫 for connection you should still see in details something like "Emergency Calls Only"
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    Looking to buy a computer in Montevideo

    If anyone needs a computer I have an October 2021 MacBook Pro M1 14" I'm looking to part with (need the cash, nothing wrong with it other than 2 cosmetic blemishes). It has a US keyboard, which, if you're like me, is something I just have never been able to get used to be without when using...
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    Footwear manufacturing plant shutdown represents 360 layoffs

    No, but I do think that businesses here generally prefer to cut off their nose to spite their face. They could stop making them under license, do some white label shoes or clothing instead but nope. My only sympathy lies with the newly unemployed workers.
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    Allergies Anyone?

    Husband and I have swollen/painful throats, phlegm, and dry cough. My tonsils are swollen, his aren't, and he has a fever and I don't. Maybe something going around?
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    Aerolineas cuts staff, routes ahead of possible sale

    After reading this and the Medicus thing I'm thinking of writing a book I'm going to call Intro to Argentine Business Administration: Penny Wise and Pound Foolish - The Buenos Aires Method
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    Footwear manufacturing plant shutdown represents 360 layoffs

    "Reduce prices? Nah, we'd rather fold as a business" seems to be the Argentine model
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    Medicus freezes its rates after losing thousands of members

    Wait... let me get this straight: they've bled 25K members due jacking rates up way above of inflation, so they're freezing cuotas for a year, BUT this offer is available to new members only? Incredible, whatever MBA mills they have here need to be shutdown, I didn't think it was possible to run...
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    You can now pay for Subte with cards and mobile phones

    I paid via Google Pay (international visa card) it let me through but then didn't charge me. I've yet to try a physical card, but I see people usinng their debit and credit cards without issue all the time. I'm waiting for the Subte to support the digital SUBE card. The busses take the digital...
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    MAGA comes to Argentina :(

    Victoria Villarruel (Pelotuda de la Nación Argentina) gave Cometierra the Streisand Effect; as soon as she and the LLA trolls started talking about it (and falsely claiming it was mandatory reading or part of the sex education curriculum in Provincia) the publisher had to order reprints because...
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    Where to go for a week in Jan close to BA?

    For what it's worth, I was reading last night that La Nacion confirmed what we all suspected: Brazil is much cheaper than the coast in Argentina. I've been lucky to visit several places within Argentina and nearby, considering the time of year I'd avoid the North and Iguazu, maybe head south to...
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    I just got a bunch of 20k notes from Western Union

    We got some from WU a few weeks ago, no issues paying with them. Sorta yellow/beige; they look better in person than the BCRA info page
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    Happy New Year!

    Well, we all owe you a debt of thanks for putting up with us which I'm sure isn't easy, and I also assume for paying for the site's hosting and maintaining it since I don't think I've ever seen an ad, so thank you for all that you do too! After some delays with the PJN I'm finally naturalizing...
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    Ordering stuff from abroad

    You can delegate someone to do it, I've had my husband pickup stuff for me previously while I was at work, but you'll need access to the account to do so, so that's the first step
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    Ordering stuff from abroad

    I got a hold of them relatively easily via this form https://www.correoargentino.com.ar/atencion-al-cliente/contacto but I'd wait until the 6th to message them. Like so many websites and government run portals here it being broken doesn't surprise me.
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    Ordering stuff from abroad

    Yup, USPS ---> Correo Argentina, and unfortunately not, the only way to save on outrageous courier fees and brokerage would be using a company like Aerobox; you'd get it delivered in the US to their warehouse in Miami USPS, and then they bring it here, no Correo Argentina. And sure...
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    Ordering stuff from abroad

    Folks are confusing things once again: there are two import regimes, one, the puerta a puerta system via Correo Argentina, the other, the private courier system. The only change has been the private courier system, which is active now. You can import up to 3 of the same item, up to 50KG total...
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    Argentina’s poor hit hard by Milei’s ‘chainsaw’ measures

    Ask not for whom the chainsaw revs, it revs for thee
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    Is it possible to find a truly remote US job from Buenos Aires?

    Obligatory I'm not a lawyer/accountant: Legal Answers Note: What the law says, and what the reality is are two different things. What does the law say about these types of jobs? They're technically illegal (for the employers) in Argentina, because they are a dependency relationship masked as...
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    Western Union money transfer

    1,143.25 now
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    Furniture, Electronics, and Small Appliances for Sale

    Hi Everyone! I'm moving to a new apartment and have several items available for sale such as furniture, electronics, small appliances, that don't suit the new apartment, or that I'm looking to sell to help cover the cost of moving/paying some bills. If any of these items are of interest to...
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