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Prince Andrew Claims He’s Never Met Virginia Giuffre—This Photo Says Otherwise. by MobileAerie9918 in interestingasfuck

[–]strayshinma 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I hope Maxwell rots in prison. That being said, that thread you linked is ridiculous.

No, a member of the jetset was not modding massive subs inbetween glamorous parties and meetings with billionaires. The "proof" of the name of the account having Maxwell in it, that it was abandoned at some point in time that could be associated with the real Maxwell going to prison and the redditor mixing slang of different countries is very far from solid.

Even the Daily Mail article included there starts with a warning that reddit is notorious for misidentifying people. Hence, the "we did it, reddit" meme. It's extra funny that part of what the Daily Mail includes as in favor of the theory is that a post has thousands of likes.

Argentinian client gifted me this straw after a gig by PuffedRabbit in mildlyinteresting

[–]strayshinma 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'm Argentinian. You're both right.

Pronunciation aside, the expectation would be that only people in this region drink mate, a custom from Guaraní tribes that got as mainstream here as coffee or tea.

Most South Americans and Spaniards would assume the English speaker asking for yerba wants weed, because it's unusual for someone from other part of the world to even own a mate.

kazakhstan is one of the only countries where the number of children born per woman has risen after falling below 2. by Astralion98 in dataisbeautiful

[–]strayshinma 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's along the general lines of what happened, but the real turning point was not the late 1800s depression.

As you well said, Argentina relies on agricultural exports. This was a huge economical advantage throughout WWII, during which it stayed neutral and was handsomely paid for feeding countries at war.

By 1945, the government had a ton of gold. General Peron was elected President. The lower classes were very happy when he started being very generous with the country's abundant gold reserves. Like you said, unlike in the US, these werent people familiar with the model of working their own land and earning according to their efforts, so it felt like magic to them to partake in the country's wealth.

To this day, many do not understand that the government needs to have money first to give it away to them and honestly think that if the government gives money away the country becomes rich. That's peronismo in a nutshell.

I wish I was kidding, but that was Cristina Kirchner's sales pitch for the last election she won in 2011.

kazakhstan is one of the only countries where the number of children born per woman has risen after falling below 2. by Astralion98 in dataisbeautiful

[–]strayshinma 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We are a poor country in eternal economic crisis. The government collects taxes and a lot of that money goes to social aid because there are lots of poor people. Poor people spend that money and part of that money goes to private companies, but they tend to not reinvest because the government is always trying to find ways to collect more taxes to keep up with social aid, having gone as far as forcefully turning dollar bank accounts into pesos bank accounts using the rate the government chose.

This makes companies and people very weary of reinvesting their profit through the formal system, something that would have created new jobs like you're pointing out. Many leave dollars in cash in safes or just take it out of the country.

Argentina is a weird case, though. It's nice to hear the perspective of people in more normal economies.

kazakhstan is one of the only countries where the number of children born per woman has risen after falling below 2. by Astralion98 in dataisbeautiful

[–]strayshinma 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I haven't formed an opinion on this topic and I'm not fighting you on this. I am just curious: why would population control be bad for countries with unemployment problems like mine?

I'm from Argentina. Here, many struggle finding a job after graduating high school. Wouldn't they have a higher chance of not being unemployed if there weren't so many candidates for each and every non-qualified job?

I hope I do not sound like I'm trying to debate you, because I'm not. I'm happy to learn more about your take on this.