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So how is it that only 10% pays their bills? Are they 'behind on the payment' of an official account, getting subsidies from the government, or splicing a public line somehow? That seems like something the electric company would look into, if it concerned them. When I say 'small potatoes', I'm...

"An Ipsos poll in 2025 found that just 4 percent of respondents in Argentina cited immigration control among their top three concerns, much lower than the 17 percent figure globally." I meet so many people with a nephew in new York or a son in Madrid, etc.. I can't find the graph at the moment...

I asked my spanish teacher years back about the guys who sleep on mattresses, and how neighbors here don't throw them out (which is different than what would happen if a property owner found a mattress on their property in the USA). She said that not all of those guys are homeless, some of them...

Looks like transportation will be affected BIGLY! It's against the Labor Reform Bill, of course. https://viapais.com.ar/informacion-general/paro-general-19-febrero-pasara-transporte-publico_0_bnIm2zHPZ5.html

'Crowds on Demand' is a company that provides exactly what its name implies, but it they're mostly hired by companies for specific ballot measures (splitting California into 6 states, funding charter schools) and 'hype' PR stunts. The owner said in one interview you only need a fake camera crew...

It's interesting to me that the 'paid protester' claim (both here and in the USA) is always against the Left. When people protested in support of Trump at the Capitol, no one accused them of being paid. Or when Milei has his little concerts, no one says people are there for free beer. Trump and...

Okay so I tried to find it online, but limited success. Is there 'personal bankruptcy' here to wipe the slate clean? It seems 'bad credit' is less of a punishment, with high interest rates and not a lot of mortgages; what ultimately happens?

Can't you just mute the thread or remove your comment if you're getting notifications? There's plenty of threads I don't read. Milei is starting his own version of ICE, and half of us are 'in process' of immigration, it's not irrelevant. All the people making border runs as 'fake tourists' or...

Haha, I was posting about Michigan at the exact moment. That was crazy.

It sounds like you haven't seen the multiple videos of the incident? The victim had his arms restrained by the multiple masked ICE agents, he had already been pepper sprayed at close range, and was on his hands and knees, being bashed in the face repeatedly with a metal spray canister... at this...

ICE seems to be hiring just about any warm body, as shown by Laura Jedeed's undercover reporting:

It sounds like Schumer was mocking Trump's claim he could 'bring democracy to Venezuela', which didn't happen in the first term. Similar to Trump's 2024 campaign promise to bring peace to Ukraine within a day of taking office. The Dems wanted Maduro out, but not via the method we're seeing...

I see people online talking about the future of the petrodollar and the new BRICS currency (the "Unit" which name makes me 😬), and the USA wanting to bust up a growing alliance between Vla and China for defense reasons. That all strikes me as complicated but likely. Call me a kuku but this...

I'm kind of surprised people are willing to go along with this.

Sounds like the "special account" method works better than actually renting a property out. I'm still in limbo after more than six months, plus the added hassle of leases and deeds getting updates and translation. It's the hard way. They haven't even looked at my file, and I don't blame them...

What are we to make of this? Do we suspect this was a special case or are they generally getting more prickly? https://www.montevideo.com.uy/Noticias/Tiktoker-volvio-a-Uruguay-y-se-entero-de-que-no-podia-reingresar-a-Argentina-por-que-uc947056

Sew you there!

Slightly off topic but doesn't the government have some bills coming due in January? Loans and bonds or something? I was under the impression Bessent would just bail them out until the tab reaches $20B.

My father's partner had to permanently hide his guns when his Alzheimer's started ramping up. She only told us after he died how afraid she was. He would see strangers that weren't there around sundown. I remember as a curious child coming across his pistol in a drawer; rifles and shotguns were...

I wish it weren't true, but I think that ship has sailed. Some of the most popular stories in the news are jubilados defending their houses against robbers, even shooting them in the back as they flee. There's so much mockery of the left on social media, and part of it is probably bots; but...