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Konner recommended SE Asia; presumably Vietnam, Laos, Kampuchea or Thailand.

Whether it's Amazon or some similarly rapacious Chinese subsidized facsimile, this is the end game which is coming whether anyone likes it or not: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons-plans-to-replace-workers-with-robots.html Thus, the statement recently issued by Max...

Well President Trump, thanks for the 2.8% 2026 SSA COLA. Considering the 11.6% Medicare B increases, you might have found a better use for the $20 ($40?) billion thrown down a rathole to help the Argies.

Sergio, that there are rigorous schools in Argentina producing great minds is indisputable. The Balseiro Institute in Bariloche has given the world one of the most brilliant and respected contemporary theoretical physicists, Dr. Juan Maldacena; who now teaches at Princeton. Listening to him...

The Ivy League is competitive unless you are a legacy admission (George Bush / Ted Kennedy) or a DEI admission (Barack & Michelle Obama).

The porteños were going pretty fast this afternoon through the Juramento Subte turnstiles without paying.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/bessent-confirms-economic-stabilization-deal-with-argentina Archived version It will be interesting to see how far (how much) the U.S. is willing to go to help Milei. At least it seems, currently, to be a close-ended pact; until late Sunday...

Sergio, the reason why many foreign students came here for higher education was because the education was free; which many Brasileños told me. I'm glad that this is no longer the case, as far as I understand.

"I’m a bit confused..." Yes, you are. Your analysis is incorrect. Raúl Alfonsín was the president when I first came here.

Un I was repeating a trope that a friend here always teases me with.

My two nieces went to the Lincoln school. Both learned to think critically through their curriculum and both learned to think independently through the medium of complex team projects. "Here's the task. You figure it out." This engendered teamwork and problem solving. The curriculum is...

Highly educated? Compared to whom? When folks ask me about the lay of the land here, I just reply that "In Buenos Aires, the men look at the men and the women look at their psychiatrists. And together they look at their tattoo 'artists'."

Precisely. Like carpetbaggers to Dixie following the U.S. Civil War. And when the dollar empanadas disappear, it's Katie bar the door, because my oh my how they begin to squeal. It was / is worse in Ecuador though. To the point that Ecuadorians began to verbally accost them in the street...

Trump and Bessant are shrewd negotiators, with the $20 billion swap not being purely altruistic. https://www.zerohedge.com/food/trump-worked-magic-beef-deal-likely-argentina-cattle-futures-surge-most-1978 Everyone goes home happy.

For what it's worth, less that ten minutes ago I called Social Security's toll-free line (800) 772-1213 and requested that rather than wait on hold for an agent, that someone from SSA would call my Google Voice (USA) number here in Argentina. The call was returned in less than a minute. Great...

You don't read about it because it's not a good idea.

Bear in mind that the active alkoloid in coca leaves is (unprocessed) cocaine which is an anesthetic, as is another of the component alkoloids, cinnamoylcocaine. Dried coca leaves are brittle with mildly sharp edges and sharp stems. If you don't grind the leaves and remove the stems and twigs...

DW, I called SSA in the USA at no cost via Google Voice. Then I did other work (for over two hours) while waiting and listening to elevator music + IVR. Which is fine since the live agent straightened everything out. Just budget your time and put the phone on speaker. They'll eventually answer...

I asked them for help with SSA as well. They didn't even have enough professional courtesy to respond. I also asked them for help as requested by another federal agency and again, twice they did not even have the consideration to respond. They do as little as possible. I look forward to the...

"I find this "standard practice" of cash-only a disgusting habit worthy of the lowliest mafia bookie." +1,000