I've tested recently a very "refined" ipTV service that for the price of a single "mainstream" subscription "aggregates" all the newest content of all services + TV + Non Subscription services Movies, they provide simple to use apps for all Smart TV platforms, OS and phones, great user experience, 1 single account and app for everything.
Clearly all this is illegal but in a way, removes the direct legal risk of downloading stuff yourself, I got the feeling these type of offers will start to grow a lot soon, sadly we know this type of services will never be legal.
I mean, alternative services I tested required to download and install some very fishy feeling apps or browser plugins, the whole experience to setup was not user friendly, not the case here, very nice and functional app directly from the official app stores.
Also very smooth payment options from crypto to regular bank debits (Non US / EU locations).
My Nikon DSLR (and lens) rarely leave the bag in the last few years, my compromise was to get a middle-of-the-pack fixed lens camera, a Fujifim X20, that is compact enough that I can just drop in my backpack and always have around in case i think the cell phone camera doesn't cut it but that stills allows for some "manual" tinkering if wanted.
true that, and I wonder, based on the little info I've about employment in the US, it's so expensive to fire someone once you realize they are not a good fit?
Even in my country (Arg), that has huge amounts of protections to workers, the first 3 months are consider trial, so you can fire someone without additional cost of the payed salaries.
Most workers in the US are under the "at will" regime: they can be let go at any time in theory. In practice, companies (especially big ones) usually try to "build a case" to justify the move.
call me old fashion, but dinner (which is the only meal I have at home) is more than just the process to put energy into the body, it's a family ritual that provides additional value via the cohesion and collaboration required by the family members to make it happen, and this ritual starts when, after work the family members got to go out of their way home to personally select the best products they can find, which they will bring home, this part is annoying, but is part of the whole thing.
And for the days when we don't want to cook, or want something different, meal delivery is super effective.
These offering are in a middle ground with just a little value as a novelty.
I'm from that region in Argentina, my state is called Misiones (Misions) because is the area where those where concentrated, the missing piece is that it was heavily populated by European migrants in 3 waves: beginning of 19 century, post WWI and post WWII; the same happened on the Paraguay and Brazil neighboring areas, this lead to a rapid development of the whole region, which continues today.
Now, sadly, most of that development didn't include the guarani tribes that today still live in poverty.
The only aspect that seems to remain in guarani culture from those times is music, playing guitar & violin, everything else, construction, writing, etc, is gone, this includes religion.
Hi from Buenos Aires! The population of the zone has a mixed ancestry. There are a lot of small details that still survive, like the mate. Also, there are a lot of small details in the language of the zone, the pronunciation is slightly different (or very different, it's difficult to understand some of the people), there are many loaned words and expressions.
I'm not sure about the religion, but my family is from Jujuy (the part of Argentina near Bolivia) and most of the people there is officially Catholic but there is a lot of mix with the prehispanic religions, so I guess that in Misiones there is a lot of mix of with the guarani religion. (Actually, the official Catholic religion has a lot of loaned parts from the previous European religions.)
> The only aspect that seems to remain in guarani culture from those times is music, playing guitar & violin...
Those are both European instruments. There might be Guarani themes or styles mixed in, but those are not traditional (pre-European) instruments. Likely even the style of music is extremely heavily influenced by the colonists if the “traditional” instruments are now European.
Colonization doesn’t leave a lot of indigenous culture intact.
- U$D goes a long way, specially now after the latest devaluation, and if your income is in dollars, you are mostly not affected by inflation.
- Big English speaking crowd in Buenos Aires in particular.
- Intellectual community: there is a good ecosystem of startups at this moment plus one of the biggest universities in South America: Universidad de Buenos Aires
- It's easy to establish yourself legally: is quite easy to get your temporary resident status, just do the paperwork and you are set.
- a bunch of pluses: quite cosmopolitan city with a lot of cultural activities, lots of diversity.
- the food :P
Cons
- economic crisis: actually, this could be a pro if you have U$D, we locals are used to this kinda of stuff but for some people this can be a bit scary.
- Buenos Aires is a big city and can be a bit chaotic.
The American Dream is a middle class lifestyle. Post-World War II America saw a vibrant middle class. Post 9-11/Great Recession America has replaced its vibrant middle class with the ‘gig economy’
The “vibrant middle class” has been in decline since the 1980s and was basically gone by 9/11. The "gig economy” didn't replace it, it maybe nibbled around the edges of the stable working class.
The gig economy is how the world worked prior to World War 2.
Prior to the Great Depression, 90%+ of the US population was independent workers.
It's been a very short period in human history where lifetime employment, sitting still in one job for 30+ years, became fashionable.
It only became fashionable when the US government saw an opening to conquer the world, but needed to insure they didn't drop the ball, and tried to institute workers rights and the like, in a very hacky way, at that.
There's really no reason it has to look at all like it has to live a fulfilling life of creative output.
The whole dream of acquiring a stash of capital to free oneself from the daily grind seems largely illusory to anyone under the age of 50, thanks to many other things but the gig economy (IMO, the gig economy itself being a reaction to shitty office life conditions; the people are saying FU to oatmeal cubes, and staring a screen, being hassled by coworkers to do their job for them.)
A modern hunting-gathering lifestyle has been shown to promote positive moods on life as well.
Perhaps the notion of corralling the masses into "problem solver" groups (corporations) focused on some billionaires "problems" (not enough billions) isn't a sustainable model given inherent features of human biology and desire for free agency.
If you think about it, it's really just paid servitude to a rich master. Not really the American notion of freedom given history.
