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  1. 4 minutes ago, Helobious said:

    For fucksake, it’s the same road. If you’re driving on one it’ll turn into the other one at some point depending on the direction. I wish the whole thing was a parkway. Also the parkway part starts at NW Military, not Lockhill. Looks like I know the city better than you even though I’ve been here shorter. 
     

     

    That's not true but I understand your confusion. The speed limit doesn't rise on Wurzbach until after NW Military. Wurzbach used to end at Lockhill Selma until the early 00's.

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  2. 2 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Been seeing the commercials for the new Sapphire lounges.  Is this their answer to the crappy Premier lounge card they've always had?  Are they actually making a run at the better lounges or should I expect more of the same?

    I went to the one in the Boston airport and it was super nice.  Was quite spacious and they had plenty of drink and food options. I've done quite a few Priority Pass lounges and the Sapphire lounge felt like a step up from those. They do have a "terrace" at AUS aka an outside lounge. Feels like that would be a miserable experience during the summer.

  3. On 1/30/2024 at 10:29 AM, Napoleon said:

     

    3) “Dolar Blue

     

    This little custom means that you could get 1.5x to 2.5x the official exchange rate… but some credit cards have started giving the street rate and a new president took power in December and it is all quite confusing.

    Was just in Argentina last November and I believe every foreign credit card gives the "street" rate now. The rate though is close but not exactly the blue dollar rate. Blue dollar rate was 900 per dollar when I first got there but moved up to 950 per dollar two weeks later by the time I left. The credit card rate was about 850 per dollar and it stayed constant pretty much the entire trip. As said earlier, they take a lot off if the dollar is ripped. 

     

    Just looked online and the dollar is even higher there now. Holy shit!

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  4. Btw went to Buenos Aires a couple of weeks ago and there’s a legit craft beer scene there. Like, if you’re in a hip area, like Palermo, you’ll see bars everywhere with a large tap selection. They’re about ten years behind the US though. Like you won’t see crazy stuff like you see in the US like bourbon barrel aged brownie batter stout or hazy ipa with azacca & Apollo. Most of the time you’ll just see simple stuff like Baltic Porter, IPA or Scottish ale. I liked everything I tried. Apparently there’s a town called Bariloche in the Patagonia region which is known as their craft beer capital.

    Best brewery I went to in BA was one called Strange Brewing. Had a sour that was flavored with feijoa (pineapple guava). cfb80dc84326471b43445768fa916d33.jpg

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  5. Going in February with my gf and parents. My Dad's a big meat and potatoes guy and this trip is primarily for his bday. Already have my eyes set on Four Charles. Are there any other meat centric places people recommend in Manhattan? Would rather not venture all the way out to Brooklyn for Peter Luger's.

  6. On 11/19/2023 at 11:39 PM, tx 3 putt said:

    The vp …

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    She's pure evil, 100000 times worse than Milei. Milei is just an Argentinian Ron Paul. She, on the other hand, is a sympathizer for the military junta dictatorship that kidnapped and killed thousands of Argentinians during the Dirty War. Her father was a military officer who was part of this junta and she has spent her entire career starting an disinformation campaign insinuating that most of the victims never existed and the ones that have been proven to exist were terrorists.

    https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-09-25/victoria-villarruel-javier-mileis-running-mate-who-vindicates-the-dictatorship-and-opposes-abortion-and-gay-marriage.html

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    Villarruel is seeking the support of the conservative base for her favorite culture war: dynamiting the consensus on crimes against humanity perpetrated by the most-recent dictatorship (1976-1983) and changing the story about the political violence that took place in the 1970s. This fight is centered on language. In her speeches, she rejects “the dictatorship of a single way of thinking” and “the dictatorship of minorities” – and she avoids applying the term to the regime that governed Argentina from March of 1976 until December of 1983. Instead, she refers to it as a de-facto government. “What happened in Argentina was an internal armed conflict, a low-intensity war,” the candidate said at the beginning of 2021, in a discussion about the 1970s that she uploaded to social media. For the legislator, the story told in schools and universities is “partial and distorted,” because it silences the violence carried out by guerrilla organizations, such as the ERP and Montoneros, which were aligned with former president and military strongman Juan Domingo Perón. She also considers the figure of 30,000 missing adults and children – calculated by human rights organizations such as the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo – to be “a myth.”

     

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    Villarruel often attacks these organizations and their leaders, who are symbols of the fight for human rights in Argentina. Last week, she verbally attacked the president of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto: “The truth is that Carlotto has been a quite sinister character for our country, because – with her kind, granny-like appearance – the reality is that she has justified terrorism.”

    Estela Carlotto’s daughter, Laura, was a member of the Peronist University Youth when she was kidnapped in November of 1977. She was three months pregnant at the time. The military detained her in a clandestine detention center, until she went into labor on June 28, 1978. She gave birth while handcuffed on a stretcher at the Military Hospital. The newborn was taken from her and given up for adoption. Laura was murdered two months later and her son grew up in a family that raised him as their own. He did not learn about his true identity until 2014.

    “Of course you may feel pain for the death of her daughter… but [Carlotto] doesn’t mention that her daughter was a Montoneros combatant. You could say that everything about Carlotto is an example of the great hypocrisy of the left,” Villarruel sniffed.

     

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