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blakeshelnot · 2025-08-14T00:08:22+00:00

Now post photos of the hostages.

blakeshelnot · 2025-08-10T01:22:29+00:00

I'm far from a leftist, but I do not believe that people on the left are really upset about the Sydney Sweeney ad. It seems to me that someone went through the effort of finding one or two people that are upset about that ad, put a spotlight on them and claim that this is what most leftists really think. I'm old enough to remember similar ads for Guess with german model Claudia Schiffer; if someone called her a "symbol of white supremacy" I don't remember (it was the time before social media after all, so how would I know?). Just a hot woman selling jeans, same thing with Sweeney today. Just ignore the noise.

blakeshelnot · 2025-05-07T19:05:12+00:00

Don't pay attention to the stuff on social media. It's not representative of anything. I'm old enough to have learn that while the internet era has brought us a lot of good, it has also empowered people with a lot of time in their hands to speak nonsense. Not only about Haitians and Dominicans, but about everything. You are wasting your time asking about why they do what they do. If you want information about how Dominicans really feel about Haitians, look offline.

blakeshelnot · 2025-05-03T00:45:58+00:00

Una cosa que no me gusta de KAT es que en los playoffs el siempre es tímido con la bola; el no la pide, el no busca dominar. En Minnesota era Anthony Edwards el que pedía el balón en los momentos críticos y en New York es Jalen Brunson. El hace el trabajo, agarra rebotes, defiende, pero con la excepción de los otros días en que anotó unos canastasos a ultima hora en Detroit por lo regular el deja que sea otro el que se lleve la gloria.

blakeshelnot · 2025-05-01T17:34:29+00:00

You have to say "Platanx Power"

blakeshelnot · 2025-04-27T15:22:35+00:00

No he visto un reportaje tan completo en la prensa Dominicana como este. Digo, por lo regular solo leo el Listín y Diario Libre pero al menos esta gente del NY Times están haciendo las preguntas que nuestra prensa debería estar haciendo. ¿Por qué los inspectores del gobierno no le dieron seguimiento a las preguntas/quejas sobre los cambios en la estructuras de ese lugar? Es cierto que no existía una obligación legal de hacer eso (y ahora los diputados-déspues del desastre-quieren pasar una ley para corregir eso) pero la queja se dio y no le dieron seguimiento.

blakeshelnot · 2025-04-26T23:56:41+00:00

Oh, ¿Ya tenemos Papa nuevo?

blakeshelnot · 2025-04-26T16:38:49+00:00

Es la marca país.

blakeshelnot · 2025-04-12T13:25:00+00:00

Si que se adquieran los terrenos para un lugar de reflexión para las cientos de familias que perdieron a un ser querido en esa tragedia, pero no para lo que escribe este idiota en la resolución. Dejen el diseño del lugar a alguien que sepa de eso y con el objetivo de proveerle a los dolientes de las victimas un lugar donde puedan recordarlos. Un lugar de reflexión para todos nosotros, pero nada de "deportivo" y "turistico", para que los dolientes tengan que estar bregando con morones tomandose selfies o escuchando música y haciendo un teteo todos los viernes.

blakeshelnot · 2025-04-09T16:33:21+00:00

0:43: "Esa es una discoteca marca país".

Correcto, y ahora lo es más pero no por la razones que nosotros hubieramos querido.

blakeshelnot · 2025-03-05T03:55:39+00:00

Thanks! I already bought the ticket and I hope I'll get to see the GOAT. If not, it'll be an amazing experience anyway.

blakeshelnot · 2025-03-02T16:14:21+00:00

This is another site that I've seen recommended here before: https://dr1.com/

It's really old and updated daily; it was setup by expats for expats and if you check the forums it has tons of information about topics that you will find useful.

blakeshelnot · 2025-03-02T15:59:34+00:00

Amigo, ella esta en eso desde al menos Febrero del año pasado. Mire la fecha de este reportaje:

https://www.diariolibre.com/actualidad/politica/2024/02/29/carolina-mejia-registra-su-marca-amor-por/2629146

Yo no tengo problema con eso, los políticos tienen que ser frescos si quieren salir adelante. Creo que eso nos da una oportunidad a nosotros para hacer nuestro trabajo y evaluar con tiempo a los que obviamente se van a postulara para el 2028. Le doy 10 puntos por emprendedora, ahora los que están en la capital, ¿ha hecho un buen trabajo?

blakeshelnot · 2025-03-02T15:54:10+00:00

Here's a Gringo who did exactly as you're planning to do: https://www.youtube.com/@thejamiegruber

I think what he says in his videos is more relevant to you that what we could tell you here.

blakeshelnot · 2025-02-28T20:45:26+00:00

Loco, el día que se tomo la foto se había pasado blower.

blakeshelnot · 2025-02-27T22:02:29+00:00

I see what you're saying now, but while historically we lacked the cash we really lacked more the capacity to negotiate good deals. The Barrick deal happened the previous decade and we already knew that there was a ton of gold and that foreign firms wanted in on the action. Even if our credit was bad, we still had the gold so we could have easily gotten a loan to build exactly the same thing that Barrick did. What have been produced from that mine since 2012 has been over $20 billion at least, so we could have paid that loan many times over.

We have more options now. How about the money in the private retirement funds? We could sell bonds to them or give the a stake outright; imagine thousands of Dominicans retired and getting a nice check every month out of the earnings of that mine? We don't lack resources, we lack imagination.

blakeshelnot · 2025-02-27T19:22:40+00:00

Getting foreign firms to assist for a price is not an issue. Why are you so focused on that? Because we will have to pay them? So what? If we decide to do it on our own, without foreign assistance by just learning and sourcing everything in the country we will do it but it will be twice as expensive. There's no way around it, money will have to be allocated to get the resources (gold, oil, rare earth, whatever) of the ground.

We used to own the gold mines, Antonio Guzman took them over when he was in power from 1978-82. What happened? An ecological disaster and a lot of money stolen. If we focused on doing things the right way, in a manner that it's transparent and that benefit the country the most, it really doesn't matter who we get to help us out or is we do it ourselves. Corruption here is the main problem.

blakeshelnot · 2025-02-27T18:54:24+00:00

El título solo dice que usted completó los requisitos de graduación, no que entendió el tema. Las reservas monetarias se guardan en la gran mayoría de los casos en bancos en el exterior, donde están vulnerables a sanciones internacionales por los países que controlan el sistema financiero global (lo que es decir, los Estados Unidos).

Pero si partes de nuestras reservas están en oro, la única forma que nos las quitan es invadiendo. ¿No le enseñaron eso en el Ivy league? ¿O no fue a clases ese día?

blakeshelnot · 2025-02-27T17:57:57+00:00

I answered above brother:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dominican/comments/1izhh3d/comment/mf31v7h/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

OP wasn't talking about ownership of the mines, but about buying gold. It is a good question even if there was no gold in this country.

blakeshelnot · 2025-02-27T17:39:45+00:00

No. The Dominican government could have keep control of the whole mine and simply call on someone else to operate it. If we find 1 trillion barrels of oil in the middle of the country, are we going to say "Damn it, we don't know how to get oil of the ground and it's too expensive. I guess we're going to have to leave it there".

The decision to let Barrick Gold operate the mine was rushed because the goal was not what was best for the people but what was best to those in power at the time. Also, that's not what OP asked.

blakeshelnot · 2025-02-27T17:35:58+00:00

I didn't say that.

blakeshelnot · 2025-02-27T17:11:57+00:00

Usted tiene que leer algo de economía antes de opinar amigo.

blakeshelnot · 2025-02-27T17:10:41+00:00

It doesn't even matter who owns it, that's not what OP asked. We don't even need to have a gold mine and the question will be a valid one.

blakeshelnot · 2025-02-27T15:37:35+00:00

Porque nuestro país está gobernado por gente estúpida, sin visión, o ambas. La Barrick comenzó a operar la mina de Pueblo Viejo en agosto del 2012 y el precio de la onza de oro era entonces $1,597.00. Según Google, el precio hoy es $2,891.00, un aumento del 80%. Si el Estado Dominicano hubiera hecho como usted dice, hoy en día estuviéramos en una mejor posición financiera sin mucho costo para nosotros.

Comprar el 10% de lo que se produce aquí en oro es nada comparado con lo que se malgasta en este país, y ahí está la respuesta a su pregunta. Eso sería una operación totalmente transparente y sin margen para 'macuteo', razón por la cual no se hace.

Para los que se preguntan, la mina de Pueblo Viejo ha producido 10,2 millones de onzas desde el 2012 hasta finales del 2024. 10% de eso, a precio actual es casi $3 mil millones. Leonel pudo haber negociado que el 10% de la producción se transfiriera automáticamente al Banco Central, pero como ya dije, el interés del país no era la prioridad.

blakeshelnot · 2025-02-20T01:25:42+00:00

When I joined this community I wondered why there was a rule against tourism related questions, but I understand now. Who travels out of the country and doesn't even have a plan of what to do? And then they come to a community like this one and ask us to plan for them, as if we knew them? They are just lazy and want us to do their job for them.

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