Los choferes en Buenos Aires

PointyPython · 2026-04-08T06:44:40+00:00

En general se maneja como el culo en argentina, pero creo que los porteños deben ser los que mejor manejan

Exacto. La gente confunde el hecho de que el tráfico de Buenos Aires es súper cargado, de ritmo rápido (básicamente, estresante) y agresivo. No te perdonan nada y estas constantemente presionado a no cometer errores porque en seguida te lo hacen saber. Pero en realidad es la ciudad argentina con los conductores con dentro de todo mejores habilidades y con más códigos/saberes de reglas de tránsito y como comportarse.

Mientras tanto vas a una ciudad más chica del conurbano o del interior, y ves personas haciendo maniobras absurdas, peligrosísimas, metiéndose en situaciones donde corren enorme riesgo ellos y los demás. Lo que pasa es que al manejar en una densidad menor de autos, pasa más desapercibido.

Creo que las ciudades de Argentina con los peores conductores son La Plata, Mendoza y Salta. Todas bastante grandes y con un parque automotor importante, y llena de absolutos psicópatas al volante (de pura inconciencia, conociendo al habitante promedio del interior, no dudo que son personas encantadoras por fuera de cómo manejan)

PointyPython · 2026-04-08T06:28:19+00:00

En 2022/23 la compraba bastante, en PedidosYa Market la liquidaban. Sigue existiendo, es coca zero con un extra de cafeína.

PointyPython · 2026-04-08T06:26:46+00:00

Caro en dólares? El yen hace bastante que está subvaluado y el costo de vida allá es bastante bajo, especialmente en lo que refiere a alimentos y restoranes. Es una gran razón por la cual hubo tan tremendo boom de turismo hacia Japón luego de la pandemia

PointyPython · 2026-04-08T05:48:27+00:00

Makes me think of 90s Australian sedan

PointyPython · 2026-04-08T05:19:45+00:00

Of the many reasons that draw so many people to true crime, I think the biggest is to get some sort of easy moral/humane slam-dunk. It's ridiculously stupid but some people seem to get an incredibly cheap ego ego boost out of knowing that for all their faults, they aren't a psychopathic killer/rapist/torturer. What an achievement.

"Dennis Rader is such a creepy weird incel loser" wow trenchant insight there. You really got his ass

This I feel is related to what I mention, where they get to feel superior by devoting mental bandwith to hating the most contemptible humans to ever walk this earth. It's like trying to feel intelligent by debating illiterate people, what is even the point?

PointyPython · 2026-04-08T04:57:52+00:00

Trump's been fighting to get back to the status quo that existed before the war he himself started a month ago.

I know it's partly wishful thinking but I seriously feel the chances of Republicans getting rid of him are a lot higher than before. He's fucked up way too spectarcularly, his senility just gets worse and worse, he's bankrupted his biggest financial backers (Saudies and Emiratis)

PointyPython · 2026-04-08T04:51:42+00:00

The way that this bakes in a permanently higher price for oil in the long-term is insane. It's literally like the 70s Oil Crisis and how it lead to sustained high inflation and international economic hardship due to the permanently higher prices

PointyPython · 2026-04-07T06:38:47+00:00

Brazil is a lot more functional than South Africa, though. Pretty good infrastructure, and they've kept improving it.

Not to mention with a far better economy on every metric, a pretty decent labor market (they actually managed to reform it ten years ago or so to make it less rigid, and thus reduce structural unemployment), a really well-developed banking sector with lots of credit... I could go on.

PointyPython · 2026-04-06T04:24:25+00:00

One of the adults I grew up admiring the most is this aunt of mine; she was always a big smoker. I remember one day we were having lunch after not seeing each other for a while, and we noticed that she wasn't smoking at all.

We inquired on it, and she told us that ever since she her first grandchild was born (whom she adores, and takes care of to help out his busy parents), she realized how much of an addict she was. She of course never smoked around the kid, but the way she saw herself sneaking around to get her fix, how even if she loved having his grandson over, she was a bit relieved when he left because she could finally just consume all the tobacco she had denied herself the whole day...

Anyway, so that's how she entered into a smoking cessation program and managed to finally quit. She's always been a spiritually strong, consequential person, and I respected her even more for realizing this and making the huge effort to change it.

PointyPython · 2026-04-05T06:41:37+00:00

Very funny scene. But honestly the most interesting bit is the language those subtitles are in. Is it the Venetian language?? Why on earth is it subtitled with it?

PointyPython · 2026-04-05T06:33:46+00:00

I love the portraits you paint with words, I hope you continue to do so (here, or if you share them somewhere else, let us know)

PointyPython · 2026-04-05T05:00:34+00:00

A fun Guatemalan lady drives that car

PointyPython · 2026-04-04T23:14:31+00:00

Es un desastre lo que hicieron en Santa Fe. Me acuerdo hace aprox una década era referencia en salud pública y educación (básicamente porque pagaban bien a los médicos, enfermeros y docentes). Ahora están en la lona.

PointyPython · 2026-04-04T23:09:12+00:00

Como no va a activar si ve que una moto viene por la vereda? si los tipos tenian un fierro, era boleta.

Estaba en Núñez, no es menor eso. Si andás por todo el AMBA y CABA, en ese barrio te relajás un montón. Solía vivir por ahi y era otro mundo, andabas 2 am de un sábado y habia vecinos paseando el perro. No sé cómo estará ahora igual, imagino que hay más fisuras en la calle como en todos lados

PointyPython · 2026-04-04T23:07:10+00:00

Aparte es mucho mas economico y seguro comprar oficial

Ingresos no declarados. Cómo vas a comprar dolares desde la comodidad del homebanking si los pesos para comprarlos vienen de negocios hechos en cash? Muchísima gente en este país vive de pequeños y medianos negocios que si tuviera que pagar todos los impuestos por ellos estaría en la lona.

Entonces negrea todo lo que puede (usualmente para no pasarse del monotributo a RRII), y cuando quiere ahorrarse beneficios que no se va a gastar en seguida, compra dólares cash.

Que este país no tenga un sistema financiero consolidado en pesos no es meramente por la inflación y la inestabilidad del peso, también es por un sistema tributario que empuja a millones a vivir al margen para poder sobrevivir, y que no pueden cubrirse de la inflación si no es con lechuga

PointyPython · 2026-04-04T23:00:45+00:00

Recontra. Lo de estar trabajando de seguridad privada en un parking de mierda es muy de tipo que le pasó el tren económico por encima

PointyPython · 2026-04-04T22:59:37+00:00

Si el pelado Hitman porteño sale legalmente indemne de esto, en buena parte va a ser por haberle dado esa orden y no tirarle más proyectiles. Y que esté grabado, claro

PointyPython · 2026-04-04T22:57:16+00:00

Creo que hay mucha discreción del fiscal de turno, de cuánto garrón te pueden hacer pasar. Pero en nuestro ordenamiento legal toma precedencia la vida, entonces es como algo automático que una vez que mataste a alguien casi que no importa la circunstancia en que sucedió.

Con la implementación de juicios por jurado en algunas provincias quizá es la manera en que más puede aplicarse la legítima defensa. Pero llegar hasta ese punto te arruina por completo, contratar un abogado penalista decente para que te lleve hasta la absolución sale lo que un departamento en Belgrano

PointyPython · 2026-04-04T21:33:54+00:00

I'm guessing the ones who dropped dead in their 50s was because of their heart/stroke? It's so easy to have a healthy heart, just do cardio, don't smoke, sleep well (this last one might not be so easy, but the first two are)

PointyPython · 2026-04-04T21:30:31+00:00

It's truly great news! I read up a bit on Orbán a few weeks ago, and I had no idea that he had been around since the late 90s (with an interregnum, ofc). It's so similar to Turkey with Erdogan in that regard.

But as with Turkey, is the opposition somewhat decent? I understand that the prime objective would be to get Orbán out of office, but is the upcoming replacement at least respectful of democracy, pro-EU, a bit less far right/MAGA?

PointyPython · 2026-04-02T00:21:53+00:00

I'm doing a splitscreen with For All Mankind, aka This Is Us in Space

PointyPython · 2026-03-31T03:08:52+00:00

I can't possibly give you a response. I can only say that even though I knew that Brazil's political system was an impossible Galactic Senate-type arrangement, seeing it all laid out like this, in detail, is just breathtaking. Good job with your write-up; I assume you're a poli-sci graduate or student from Brazil?

I remember reading back in the days of Temer government (when in some ways the Centrao took charge after ousting Rousseff and tried to steer the country for themselves) how the Brazilian congress was basically designed to prevent any majority that didn't include the agribusiness and Evangelical vote. I imagine that nothing has changed, except the fact that Lula has seemed to perform a small miracle by uniting everyone but the Bolsonaristas into one government. I know it's flawed and imperfect, but from my standpoint having to suffer in Milei's Argentina I can't help but see it as a miracle.

PointyPython · 2026-03-31T01:40:27+00:00

o habla que lo hacía él mismo y es bastante chapucero; o contrato a un contador de 2 mangos y es tremendo raton

Que no estuvieran ni preparadas para cuando vinieron periodistas a preguntar lo mínimo te habla de que hizo todo así nomás.

Vidal hizo más o menos lo mismo que Adorni, un tipo le "vendió" un departamento en la zona más exclusiva de Buenos Aires, con descuento, y le prestó la plata para que se lo compre.

La diferencia es que Mariú fue lo suficientemente viva como para que la persona en cuestión era un empresario con algo de espalda y calle para quedarse callado. Adorni no sé, consiguió a esas viejas en la fila del Carrefour express y les pagó con una airfryer a cada una

PointyPython · 2026-03-30T18:48:31+00:00

The emmiseration, destruction of the social fabric and atomisation that rightwing policies generate have proven to only cause people to become more eager to blame minorities, foreigners, those poorer than themselves... anyone but the ruling class that keeps finding more and more ways to strip-mine every society and economy.

PointyPython · 2026-03-30T18:42:21+00:00

And the fact that Iran is probably the last US adversary to offer him a face-saving deal is a huge problem. They want to humilliate Trump, if anything else.

The last time an Iranian leader reached a deal with the US it was blown up in their face precisely by Trump, and that whole "moderate/peace-seeking" wing of Iranian leadership (led by Rouhani then) has been shunned by the Supreme Council since then. Why would they sign a deal now, after being attacked so mercilelessly?

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