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Homelessness is caused by poverty and poverty is caused by inequality. And inequality is a massive, world-wide problem, period. And as economists such as Thomas Piketty have pointed out: inequality doesn't end happily when enough people get pissed. While waiting for the end, I've found that in...

FYI. Fox News is officially on record, by its own admission last week, of lying repeatedly and purposefully. It's like Rupert said: it's all about the money. Fox News is by its own admission not a news organization, so I wouldn't credit anything it had to report about the last presidental...

along with humor.

The historical origin of the word "lynch" is unclear. The word is generally considered to be American in origin and may have appeared as early as the American revolution (cf. OED). In the earliest period of its use the word seems to have been used to describe a variety of extra-legal...

The Herald's website shows an edition of the paper for Feb. 2, 1912. If you look in the third column the news of the day there's the news that the former President of Ecuador, Eloy Alfaro had, on January 28th, had been dragged from jail by an angry mob. The BA Herald reported that he was...

If you enter 360 ars as your expeniture on the Visa site, you'll see you'll be charged approx 1 USD. If you enter 1USD and ask how many ars you get, the answer is approx 199. So, Visa and presumablely MC are exchanging Ars to USD at a rate of 350 ars to 1 USD, and exchanging USD to ars at the...

thank you, you're right! i was converting from 1 usd to ars, which uses the official rate. But as you say, entering 380 or so ars returns 1USD.

As of this hour both Visa and MC are returning the official rate of 195. It may have something to do with this cryptic comment on one website "Update (Feb 2023): Travelers have reported Visa returning to the official rate abruptly after a loophole was discovered internationally for purchases...

As of this minute, the VISA app for figuring exchange rates works fine: https://www.visa.co.uk/support/consumer/travel-support/exchange-rate-calculator.html. The rate quoted is 326 pesos to the dollar. At my bank, USAA, any change posts to my account at the much lower, of course, official...