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Is this AI assisted writing? It's so weird to me to have the numbers embedded in 'list form' within a paragraph (as in your first paragraph). Or is that a punctuation style borrowed from another country, or was this auto translated, or dictated? What's you process here? Just curious, it may just...

Aren't most foreign students from Mercosur countries? I thought it was trivial for them to become residents. Or would you make it free only for citizens? I personally don't think the free universities are the cause of the failed economy, but on Reddit there was a spate of anti-university posts...

In the period Argentina has gone from economic powerhouse to 'quilombo', China has gone the opposite way. I thought they'd restrict informal employment and tax evasion but...it seems 50% of China's economy is informal too? That surprised me.

I noticed the timing on that as well.

" In Honduras, ZEDEs are being developed as privately managed, chartered areas with their own laws, police, and courts, backed by figures like Thiel" Seems like Thiel bought a $12.5M mansion in the fancy part of Palermo. Normally that would indicate a desire to stick around, but if you're...

I'm not rich enough for this route (jaja) but it seems the bid to find a company to administer the operation is kind of... well, left to die by the side of the road? This article is above my head in terms of legaleze (and bureaucratic -eze), but it sounds like the government can't even manage...

So why doesn't Edesur (or whoever) do anything about it? Are they not for profit companies?

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...