I think that’s a very simplistic view. Argentina had 300% inflation in 2024. It was 30% when US bailed them out. Argentina got the bailout because their currency fell. Peso fell because Milei’s party lost local elections and investors lost confidence. For me this shows that Milei’s strategy was very risky and the situation was volatile. Previous governments didn’t have risky strategies and the inflation hit 300%… Most analyst say the bailout wasn’t urgent and it was more about politics than economy. Trump wanted to show that he will support Milei and help him politically. We don’t know what would to Argentina’s economy without the bailout. Saying that lowering inflation and poverty is meaningless because of some political play by Trump is dishonest.

What data are you looking at?

(I said it’s down, not “under control”)

It’s news because it shows who’s winning this war. It’s only part of the story of course but it’s an important part.

I think it was a line of credit and it they already paid off this debt.

I’m not an economist so I don’t know the details but I know he froze pensions when the inflation was still high so pensioners in practice saw lower pensions. He also cut funding to food banks so people relying on them got hit. Inflation affects everyone in the country so I imagine when it went down salaries caught up with prices for a lot of people taking them above poverty levels. Donkey meat is only a sing of red meat prices going up which may just mean that a lot of meat is being exported which brings money to the country. I’m not saying that’s what happening, just that it’s possible to see lower pensions and donkey meat while people are being lifted out of poverty.

What’s dishonest about it? He did lower inflation and poverty but the way he did it, including help from US, is controversial. He did need help from Trump to do it but he is exactly the guy that could get help from Trump. What if a leftist leader secured help from Europe to save his reforms? Would that also mean their reforms were bad? I also think they already paid their debt to US which help their reputation and makes other investments possible.

Absolutely. Everyone was expecting the corruption but I think most people didn’t expect any of the right decisions. No one knows what will happen long term but so far things went surprisingly well. Or course all the suffering he caused is terrible but at least for now there’s something to show for it.

This is of course extremely biased meme. The reality is that so far Milei achieved a lot of what he planned for. The main issue in Argentina was huge inflation and out of control public spending. Both ruling parties were unable to address this for years so people got fed up and elected Milei as a kind of protest leader (“politicians can’t help us so fuck it, let the whole thing just collapse”). Just how tired of constant economic crisis running for decades everyone was is another story.

So Milei won and did what the previous governments didn’t want to do: cut spending. He got inflation under control by sacrificing big chunks of society. Old people got screwed, poor people got screwed but so far his plan of “short time suffering to achieve long term stability” seems to be working. Inflation is down, poverty is down, foreign investment and trade looks good. The question is no longer if Milei’s reforms will collapse the economy or not (they didn’t) but if the reforms will work long term or if the improvements will be short lived and not worth all the suffering it caused.

Like most people here I hoped that Milei’s politics will explode in his face and we’ll have a clear proof that the ideas sold by right wing populists are bullshit but it didn’t happen. The jury is still out on Argentina but anyway, each country is different and even if it will work there long term it doesn’t mean guys with crazy hair are good for the economy (as we can see globally now).

In Spain many towns have some tiny local ISP that offers fiber. My town (population 30k) has two local ISPs. I can get 10Gbit for 30 euros/month. Even remote villages have fiber.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJVbBXf2wlY

He later wrote that song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRJZfwDgNTM

This guy won an Oscar BTW.

Aboslutely, but chwinsta could tottaly be in polish dictionary. Sounds like some type of animal feed based on beetroot.

I’m Polish and I’m hesitating about Hwinsta.

Flight of the Conchords had a song about it.

Adding more fantasy to the echo chamber will help for sure.

I’m looking at doing something similar and I was looking at Yunohost but I think it doesn’t use any containers, just installs all the apps straight in the system. Which I didn’t like. I like the idea of separating apps. Can anyone confirm this?

After some digging I’ve decided to use https://cosmos-cloud.io/ which supports more apps (even lemmy) and uses containers. So my plan is to have a private VM, public VM and run cosmos in each.

Does it really matter if you disable Yunohost ports that are not exposed to the internet? You expose 80, 443 and VPN on the router and that’s it. Then I’m planning to run Caddy on OpenWRT to redirect traffic to internal ports.

Trump is nervous because he’s a psycho who needs constant validation and humiliation in midterms can damage his image of beloved leader.

His agenda is fine. All the institutions are already dismantled. DOGE already fired everyone that can be fired, they got the budget they wanted, billionaires got their tax cuts. What will democrats do with the majority? Republicans will filibuster everything, Trump will not sign anything they will pass. Will they provoke another shutdown? Remember how the last one ended? Democrats folded. The midterms will not change Democratic leadership. You can cling on to technicalities but the midterms will not Budapest anything because the system is completely different.

Still these votes are for Parliament/MPs on the ballot, not the prime minister directly, aren’t they. Yes, parties will campaign with a certain perdon as prime minister in mind, but that position is not directly elected, is it?

Technically yes, people vote for MPs but PM is running the government by selecting ministers and prioritizing the legislation and this is how he gets elected. There’s a great focus placed on the party leaders in the campaign and the person tagged to be the PM has huge impact on how people vote. The party can change him (and sometimes they do) but it’s still very important during the campaign.

In US on the other hand the midterms do not serve to elect on confirm party leadership in any way. Party leaders have job to do but they will not be running the government if their party wins.

Trump can only rule by executive orders because the other institutions let him and majd no fuss. Things would get a whole lot mire diffucult for him if the majority in the legislative actually did make a fuss about it.

The supreme court lets him. The legislative has nothing to do with it. Democratic leaders can make a fuss about things now but they don’t because they are useless. They will be as useless when they are majority. Of course you should vote for democrats now because humiliating Trump will be great for everyone but this will not fix the country the way elections in Hungary can. Those elections are not equivalent in any way.

I’m very good at translating idiot speak and even I don’t get it. He’s declining fast.

So what bibliography did it provide to prove that the chats are not private?

Aisle Bail Coil Deal Eel Feel Grill Hill Ill Jail Kill Lay Mill Nil Oil Pill Quill Real Seal Till Until Veal Will Xylophone Yell Zeal

would work so much better.