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Fcrate:
Well, I have 3 trees outside, that I leave to the neighborhood kids, and I have 2 trees that are right outside my window, and they yield about 5-7 kg daily, of which I eat at least 1 kg and sometimes a lot more. And these are the sweetest fruit I've ever tasted, if you wait until they're ripe enough to almost fall by themselves. As a comparison: I tried eating some cookies right after I finished enjoying a handful of juicy, succulent, tasty berries that burst in my mouth as soon as they hit my tongue, and the cookies tasted bland and sugarless.
So, as far as I could tell from your earlier posts, education (even at a university level) in Argentina is excellent. Good job trying to protect it. Private education is good in the short term, but in the long run, it's quite destructive to society. Once you have to pay for it on an individual level, it becomes a business, and the prices will be over-inflated to the point where only the elite will be able to afford it, thus raising the prices in certain areas (medicine/law/engineering, etc).
I'm sorry, did you say that you had an inflation rate of 100% in one year? :O
Dina:
All right then. Enjoy them!
Yes, Argentina traditionally had an excellent education. It got worse in the last few decades for several reasons, but university remained really good, with some careers between the best in the world. And without any cost for the students (except for post-graduates, some special courses, things like that). We also have private universities, some of them good, some of them bad.
And yes, the last year was completely awful in terms of inflation but there are some palliative measures (like raising the salaries, tax cuts, etc). Inflation is getting slightly better but palliative are worse with this government, so it is very, very difficult to live. Our salary ends long before the end of the month. But I have to tell you, this is not the worst inflation I lived. We have an hyper inflation in the 90s and other bad moments along the years.
Fcrate:
Education is the first thing to go. As it's a long term investment, with no precise calculable returns, governments tend to start cutting corners there. In our case, some of our universities were ranked in the top 20 in the world up to the 90s. Some cuts later, in basic and university education, and we started feeling the effects around 2010. People who wanted to work in the US/Europe started having to go to a remedial year of courses to equate their level with the locals. 5 years later, it became 2 years of remedials.
About the inflation, well, 100% sucks, which I know from experience. Our local currency has lost half its value against the USD every year for 5 years straight now. Which is a nightmare, because every piece of technology and most animal feed is imported here, so everything goes up and down exactly with the dollar.
Dina:
Yes, that is why we are so afraid about our university. It is terrible.
Well, inflation is going down now and they opened importations, so it is possible that prices stop raising or even reduced. But industry is probably going down too. *sigh*. Well, that is enough about real world policy. Today is a lazy Saturday and I plan to enjoy it.
Regenbogen:
Hi, weird.
Sorry, I was busy. But I am OK.
We are watching the Eurovision Song Contest. There are some good songs, but also a lot of stuff that feels like you've already known it before. Some ballads, some disco music,...
And it must be extremely hot in Sweden: most performers don't have much clothing on their bodies, even the men, lol.
Just wanted to share a cool one from Ireland. I'll vote for them.
https://www.eurovision.de/videos/2024/Irland-Bambie-Thug-Doomsday-Blue-Erstes-ESC-Halbfinale-2024,irland1100.html
Edit: Switzerland won. Ireland is number 6.
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