xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@taylan @anemone @waifu @coolboymew @urchin Real average salary (converted from ARS to USD or EUR) is up about 300% compared to 2023 in the public sector and 400-600% in the private sector.

Poverty is down almost 15 points interannually. Indigence is halved. Food welfare for children is still standing, as are basic unemployement benefits, with the added advantage of now having a hotline to report welfare hostage situations, which were extremely common during the previous administrations (to the point there are leftist leaders on trial for offering welfare checks in exchange for sex). Welfare debit cards are also now being adjusted to prevent the money being spent in stuff like alcohol and cigarettes.

Child poverty statistics are extremely skewed because the previous welfare system benefitted individuals with many children, so welfare leeches would have many children to reap checks well above average wages. It should not be measured by "which % of children are poor" but rather "which % of families with children are poor", which would give a much clearer picture of poverty in the country with much better numbers.

All numbers have improved since Milei took office. The numbers were abyssmal in the first few months because the previous adminstration was so unbelievably awful that Milei inherited a country at the verge of complete collapse. Massa was the de-facto president for one year and he caused the real exchange rate to rocket from 1USD=300ARS to 1USD=1250ARS with barely any wage updating. He also spent 15 billion dollars of state money on his campaign. Meanwhile the champion of feminism president Fernandez was busy punching his wife and playing the guitar.

It's an unfathomable waste of money, considering in 2016 Trump spent 300 million on a campaign for the USA (319 million people) and Massa spent 15 billion in a country with 45 million people.

Argentina's debt was of roughly 450 billion dollars when Milei took office. The only non-left wing administration over the last 25 years was infinitely criticized for taking 45 billion debt to mantain wages and state expenses. The other >400 billion were all the peronists.

The fact that the country didn't explode in january is nothing short of a miracle. And now the currency is stable, real GDP is increasing, wages are starting to outpace inflation and unemployement keeps going down.

No sane person can possibly say Milei's first year at the helm of Argentina has been anything but exceptionally good, and no one who has even the most basic level of political and economical understanding can blame the economic situation of his first few months on him, since policy has long term rather than immediate effect.

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@ArdainianRight Parents need to be willing to kill those who harm their children.

Mostr Bridge is still under attack by people trying to suppress the free exchange of information online.

The USPS is good for nothing. I had a package delivered on the 24th. Another package was supposed to be delivered on the 26th but they claimed the address is inaccessible and blocked redelivery requests. I submitted a help ticket and was told the package would be delivered today. It was not. Additionally, the USPS retaliated by holding another package that was scheduled for today, claiming it was "at the customer request". We made no such request. I hope the USPS is privatized. They're garbage and need to be hammered like the ugly as nail sticking up that they are.

@guresuke classical government bullshit anyways

Hi guys, how is the first day of 2025 going?

The thing I like about January 1: Public Domain Day. https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/
Read to see what books, films, and characters can now be used by anybody. #PublicDomainDay #copyright #intellectualproperty #publicdomain

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welcome to costco i love you

"We printed too much money we need to import cheap labor to control inflation" has sawdust in the bread vibes.

How about just stop printing money?

Meta is now using AI-generated profiles to drive up “engagement” on Facebook and Instagram.

Now why would they do this?

Well, for one thing, organic engagement on both those platforms is dead—and it’s been dead for awhile. And now they’re stuck in a loop where influencers aren’t talking to people—they’re talking to algorithms.

So what about the 98% of users who aren’t influencers? Well, most of their content gets stuck in a void with no engagement. And this drives down satisfaction. Why post your breakfast to Instagram if no one sees it?

Therefore, Meta needs to build the illusion of engagement to satiate that need for connection. And Zuckerberg assumes most people will be satisfied with bot interaction.

But what I suspect is that this will lead to a diminishment of trust on those platforms.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/meta-ai-users-facebook-instagram-1235221430/

can we *not* base the cyberpunk future where we have to hack our toasters and ovens and shit on the world's most half-baked computer?

how about a nice PIC microcontroller instead