What about that shitload of money his buddy trump gave him? Wasn’t that 40 billion?
Less than $900 per person.
you are using the word billion incorrectly, a billion is a million million, and it was 20 thousand millons, not 40.
In English, “billion” means " a thousand million". “un billón” in Spanish is “a trillion” in English
Why the hell are people posting this BS now.
That’s the British usage of the word. Possibly elsewhere, but when the US uses that word we refer to 1000 × a million. Still entirely uncertain as to how that linguistic difference came about.
Literally no English squeaking country uses the British long scale anymore. It was nonsensical and problematic. The US short scale has been adopted as the English standard in every country on earth for the purpose of English measurement.
So if a country even if their native language is not English. When using English for official reasons uses the short scale. It’s only when using non English languages does the old long scale get used. Which is mostly a relic of British imperialism.
Even then a number of countries have started using us short scale even in their native language.
Us short scale is simpler and more understandable. It’s the same reason countries use metric. It makes more sense.
The Brits use short scale nowadays like every English speaking country.
In Canada we see US billion sometimes. It gets confusing.
For which use case? Is the billion = a million million standard, or is the thousand million standard?
Also how did we end up with two standards of such a basic numerical name?
English->English
French->American
Due to US market size, theirs is becoming more standard.
Ok, see I knew French and Latin used the 1000 of the previous magnitude word is the next magnitude word, I wasn’t sure if that was standard or not. Seems that it is the Brits who changed things.
Possibly because Americans were so keen to call themselves billionaires they lowered the requirement.
Similar to how they pronounce “Aluminium” the same as “Platinum” to make it sound like a precious metal.
This isn’t a criticism. If I’m being kind the real reason is that less separation between “million” and “billion” is functionally more useful, as well as aspirational.
We spell that word aluminum, not aluminium. That’s why we pronounce it that way. Why we spell it differently? No clue.
Also it’s not just a billion. A trillion is a thousand billion on this side of the pond, and has been since well before any Americans were even close to being billionaires. We just use a smaller standard for counting, but that’s also the standard French and Latin used, so I don’t think it has anything to do with us.
In part it was because it was named out of standard through a misunderstanding but then it wasn’t corrected…
You spell it differently so that you can pronounce it differently, as I say, to make it sound like a rare and valuable metal.
It is pure marketing.
Aluminium used to be hard to obtain. It was a rare metal and then some smart bastard worked out how to extract it using electrolysis and it became as common as dirt.
Some people had invested heavily in it as a precious metal and overnight their investment was worthless, so hence the reluctance to rebrand.
Nobody thinks aluminum is a rare and valuable metal.
In the mid-1800s aluminium was more expensive than gold.
Ok, I can see that. There are a couple of State Capitol Buildings whose domes are covered in Aluminum Leaf, which would now be called aluminum foil, and I have square yards of the stuff in my kitchen and garage. At the time they were built aluminum was still difficult to get, less than two decades after they were built electrolysis guy did his thing, lol.
I knew that at one point King Louis the somethingth or other, had a full set of aluminumware to serve extremely important guests with. Like not just cutlery, plates, saucers, bowls, cups and goblets. The less distinguished guests had to eat and drink out of platinum, gold, or (gasp) silver.
I didn’t know that about King Louis (n) … That’s a great fact!
Funfact the British USE to say that word the way Americans do now. Then changed later. Americans way of say aluminum is actually the original and accurate way that the British invented.
Why y’all changed is beyond me. We are using it the way YOU wanted us to originally.
Same with the word soccer. The Brits invented it, and then changed their minds and now go around telling people its football, not soccer. Motherfuckers, this is your fault!
It’s ten thousand lakh actually, or a hundred crore.
Quit throwing these fake Star Trek currencies around!
I think it was a line of credit and it they already paid off this debt.
He is a Catholic, converted to Judaism, and fully Zionist. Most likely he funnel that money back to trump through deals with Israel.
Maybe his dogs gave him bad financial advice
https://time.com/6337474/javier-milei-argentina-president-cloned-dogs-advice/
Love how people keep choosing right wing policies.
Propaganda is a powerful drug
And the cheating, there is so much cheating.
It was the previous left wing governments that ruined the country economically and who are responsible for the crazy inflation and corruption, but ok
That isn’t true (unless you just arbitrarily zoom into a point in time that fits your narrative - and refuse to see the bigger picture esp. wrt USA). And more importantly, it is not a counter-argument to what the other commenter said.
Cool story bro.
Unfortunately this isn’t a left or right thing…as the last decades of leadership there have been socialist left wing.
Corruption is corruption, and Argentina is filled with it.
Cool story bro
2001 meme, time to update your catch phrases, bra
and twice? sad
also, there’s no story… not even an appropriate meme. do better
Insightful critique, thank you.
Perhaps because they’re the only ones that have a chance of working.
Everything “works” for someone.
Oh youre just brain damaged then.
if you still eat meat, what’s the difference?
Thats fucked up, yo. Like, being vegetarian is super fuckin’ easy.
Not that my family will ever understand what being a vegetarian means. (“So, what, you don’t eat any meat? At all? . . . What . . What if you go to McDonald’s? I mean - heh -what are ya gonna order?!? Haha.” x 30 years)
Yeah plant a garden and wait for it to grow. It’s that fuckin easy./s
I get you have a chip on your shoulder but if it were that easy to get something to eat they wouldn’t be eating their beasts of burden. You know the animal that they probably rely on to till the fucking ground for crops and carry heavy loads.
Wait, you think farmers in Argentina are using donkeys to plow their fields instead of tractors?
Congratulations, you just posted the dumbest comment on the site this week
In the midst of the escalation of prices, the proposal arose to market donkey meat, sold for about 7,500 pesos per kilo. Butcher Gonzalo Moreira, from Buenos Aires, described the effects of the crisis on the sector. “We are facing a major recession. I don’t know a merchant who isn’t going through difficulties. The sector is under a lot of pressure, even without major price variations. Everything is paid by card, pushed forward,” he told Radio 750.
It is industrial production and sale of donkey meat pushed by flesh merchants in cities like Buenos Aires, not poor rural smallholders eating their own donkeys for survival.
Your interpretation of this is ignorant and frankly kind of racist. You think most Argentinians are destitute subsistence farmers plowing their fields with donkeys? Get a grip.
Also I 1000% promise you that vegetables are significantly cheaper to obtain than fucking donkey meat. This is just butchers trying to stay in business. Making lame, ignorant excuses for industrial animal agriculture is gross.
any meat? at all? what about fish?
I don’t know why so many people think fish is vegetarian, but as someone who doesn’t eat any seafood it is one of my biggest pet peeves. It sneaks its way into fucking everything. Caesar salads, kimchi, most Thai food, bahn mis, you name it
Can’t say I’ve ever had that problem, but I didn’t t eat those foods you listed even before going vegetarian
Do you know about fish sauce? It’s the only thing that makes most SE Asian food difficult to verify as vegetarian.
Well, I don’t eat any SE Asian food 🤷
Caesar salads and kimchi has always been made with a little seafood though. The anchovies is what makes it a Caesar dressing, and lots of kimchi recipes have those tiny shrimps or at the very least some type of shrimp paste in them, and are heavily seasoned with fish sauce.
Fish sauce is a huge staple of Asian cuisines in general, so this stuff you’re complaining about ‘sneaking in’ has always been there. You sound like a crazy person to me, complaining about these foods having seafood in them.
I purposefully have examples of dishes that tend to have it. The problem is that they’re often unlabeled/misrepresented at restaurants, especially when fish-less versions of those foods do commonly exist. I always ask with Asian or Italian cuisines, but waiters don’t always know for certain. The slightest trace of seafood tastes like low tide to me.
Ah yeah, I get your point now. That is annoying. Restaurants should know exactly what they’re serving people and be up front about it.
I personally am a practicing carnivore, I accept and understand those who aren’t, and yet I have no fucking clue why some think fish is “better” meat. I think it must be some christian holdover, scraping for moral superiority.
Nothing but meat at all? You must have to eat a bunch of organs eh. Gotta keep them vitamins up.
I don’t know why so many people think fish is vegetarian
It isn’t. But it’s relatively common to be vegetarian + fish. And historically fish didn’t really count as meat which is why Christians were allowed to eat it during pre-Easter “fasting”.
I’m sorry you’re being served fish and other water animals as “vegetarian”, that’s fucked up.
But it’s relatively common to be vegetarian + fish.
“pescatarian”. Not vegetarian.
vegetarian + fish
no it is not, vegetarian+fish is oxymoron. vegetarian means you don’t eat meat. not eating pork and beef does not make you vegetarian.
I generally avoid Asian restaurants that don’t specifically advertise as vegan or Buddhist because I’ve received authentic food that was definitely riddled with fish sauce or some form of shrimp even though the staff reassured me it was ‘veggie safe’.
I don’t blame them, a lot of the food is preprepared and I’m the 1 in 100 weirdo that is asking for their most popular dish with all the delicious stuff removed.
I once got an order of pad Thai (no fish sauce, no meat, no egg) that was just oily noodles and cilantro. They even left off the peanuts, probably to be on the safe side allergy wise. I have that soap gene so the cilantro was nearly overpowering.
If I hadn’t been on a date I would have just paid the bill and given the leftovers to the crazy woman that sings to pigeons down the street.
I’m not even vegetarian, seafood is one of the only things I don’t eat, but I’ve learned I can’t even trust “vegetarian” options at Asian places. I’m super cautious around Italian food as well. Unfortunately they’re among my partner’s favorite cuisines so we end up at them often
I’m not a fan of seaweed either, which is often the vegetarian option. It tastes like low tide to me.
*sigh* yes, i get that too. Still. After 30 years.
How much does donkey meat go for, $40,000,000,000?
Argentinians making the sacrifice to prove what most of us knew already.
Anarcho capitalism is fucking stupid.It’s also not Anarcho, that word is thrown in there as a marketing term. Like using “fresh” to describe donkey meat.
What Argentina had before was pretty bad as well.
lol, haughty vegetarians telling poor motherfuckers that they should just not eat meat.
Listen, you assholes: If these people are eating the donkeys it’s out of desperation. They don’t WANT to eat their donkey, they are starving if they do that.
In the midst of the escalation of prices, the proposal arose to market donkey meat, sold for about 7,500 pesos per kilo. Butcher Gonzalo Moreira, from Buenos Aires, described the effects of the crisis on the sector. “We are facing a major recession. I don’t know a merchant who isn’t going through difficulties. The sector is under a lot of pressure, even without major price variations. Everything is paid by card, pushed forward,” he told Radio 750.
It is industrial production and sale of donkey meat pushed by flesh merchants in cities like Buenos Aires, not poor rural smallholders eating their own donkeys for survival.
Your interpretation of this is ignorant and frankly kind of racist. You think most Argentinians are destitute subsistence farmers plowing there fields with donkeys? Get a grip.
Also I 1000% promise you that vegetables are significantly cheaper to obtain than fucking donkey meat. This is just butchers trying to stay in business.
They should at least eat the straw man first…
Donkey meat is delicious tho
Getting to vs having to.
Here in the states, we will soon be eating Rats-a-Roni, pigeon parmigiana, and weeds for fiber.
Anyone who thought the capitalist in bed with Washington and even Musk was gonna do anything good for anyone besides himself and whoever makes him richer is seriously detached from the world/intellectually challenged.
Isn’t Argentina a major producer of beef? Are they exporting most of it instead of selling it domestically because exporting brings in more money?
there’s a meat monopoly, few companies decide where most of the production goes
Ah so the Irish potato famine, Indian famine caused by the East India company, or Holodomor sort of thing where it is better economically for the eliet to let the locals starve and sell all the food abroad type of thing I see.
Yes, ripe for revolt
Literally forcing people to eat ass to own the libs.
Hahaha
If there’s one thing I learned in China, there’s always dogs in the kennels. Outside of China that is. You have to be fast to get abandoned dogs in China.
10 usd for a pack of grinded meat, while salaries start at 330
10 usd for a pack of grinded meat,
That’s a pretty large pack.
https://www.selinawamucii.com/insights/prices/argentina/beef/
I don’t like Milei at all but this thread is full of misinformation. I live in Argentina and literally no one is eating “donkey meat”. I don’t think that something butcher shops sell here. At least I haven’t seen it in my entire life.
Also, 1kg of grinded meat is about $6.7 USD with the dolar at $1400ARS/1 USD. Source. Not to mention that pretty much any butcher shop and supermarket has bank discounts between 20 and 30% on specific week days, so it can cost even less than that.
330…per what period? Depending on the length, it starts at “bad” and starts moving toward “apocalyptic.”
Hopefully it’s per hour. If so, we should all move to Argentina! After some more questions about the nature of this “grinded meat”. I bet I could get the price on cockroach meat pretty low.
Imma guess monthly
