The current state of this country has me panicking. I'm having panic attacks left and right. : confession 
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You should get a spine and have it installed. It's wayyy too early to panic, because a lot more of this shit is coming. If you think it's bad now, you've got another thing coming.
I am overjoyed that someone is finally starting to weed out the financial corruption we have been enduring all these years. I don't see why this would make you panicky. We should all be happy we finally have a real leader at the helm.
Worried? I'm ecstatic AF! This is exactly what I voted for!
However, I can see why you're having issues.
1. You and your party has no power. You have been rendered impotent
2. You're weak AF
How to solve this? Get off the Internet. Go do something active, man or woman the frick up!
Then leave.
Yea heaven forbid Americans complain about American things on an American app supported by an American company. [-6]
You should see a therapist. This isn't remotely a bad period of time compared to historical standards
Edit for the downmarseyrs: you need to bear in mind that a lot of people lived through decades where nuclear war seemed like a lot more than a hypothetical possibility.
Everything is finally getting better.
I feel you and totally relate. If you want a friend to mutually lean on for support during this insane time, please feel free to message me. [-25]
Shut upppppppp
It's NOT you. The average person is under-reacting because they don't want it messing up their routine or taking their crumbs.
The government is objectively being dismantled and people should not just be acting like it's BAU.
Eventually this is going to trickle down on all of us and not just the immigrants and government workers.
I didn't care about your guys election choices until your leader started threatening my country here in Canada every other day with erasing it off the face of the Earth.
I'm feeling anxious aswell . [-6]
Another USAID worker chiming in [🤣]
You're the problem.
Get off the internet. The real world is not the one that exists in your mind, and places like reddit only serve to convince you that they are.
Would you rather find joy or justify misery?
If you're honest about that answer, it will reveal everything you need to know about your direction in life.
Yeah shit is really bad. These people telling you that what is going on is good is either gaslamping you or just dumb as frick.
You have to mentally check out some. Being hyper aware won't get much accomplished. You have to take a step back. Grieve whatever loss it is in stride.
Don't let anyone gaslamp you into trying to tell you that removing environmental protections, deleting our data, setting up a literal concentration camp, subverting the constitution, etc are good things. They are not.
It's hard to control panic attacks and I don't know the best way to subvert them. Know you aren't alone. You care about other people and don't let anyone try and take that from you. Let your voice be heard if you can.
The current regime is NOT on the right side of history. Most of them know it too.
This is what I imagine every redditor is like in real life as I read all the seething going on here the last couple months
I am putting on my blinders and taking solace in that the US thought it wise to train me in violence.
I won't go full radical unless someone questions my kid's citizenship.
I do seem to be in a state like I was in the Army, where I am comfortable and ready to respond with deadly force. I've never really experienced that so casually before. [-8]
If this isn't bait, you need to get mental help. Your team didn't win, thats how our government works. Try again in 4 years. But to be this affected by an election isn't a normal reaction
I accepted myself as trans a little over a year ago. Started hrt maybe 6 or more months ago.
I cry almost every other day on the way home from work since the inauguration. I'm terrified, and filled with hopelessness and anger.
Edit: to those who REALLY think I'm overreacting, look at and read the executive orders around trans people. Look at what he's doing to the CDC. Look at the people who lost care already, who can't get their passports back.
If you still don't believe it's bad, kindly frick right off yeah? [-3]
I think some level of concern is okay, but it should not make it impossible for you to function in day to day life. Like others said, I would seek out therapy. You make what you can out of it because life can't stop.
id seek therapy. Im significantly less than happy but calling out of work out of fear is a little extreme
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/r/GuyCry is a place for men to cry, including 40 year old virgins crying about not having s*x. Joe Truax, the meth head Reddit scammer, is in rehab (again) for his meth addiction so he got a bunch of jannies to oversee the sub. Well, he got unironically two FtM 
s, one MtF , and the rest are cishet females who want to totally just help men and be in their space.
Recently, the jannies decided that "tough love" is not good for men crying It resulted in lots of bans as the men (real) thought it was stupid.
The jannies have a new rule. The new rule is no suggesting prostitution or being a passport bro. Also, no bitching about Western women.. Too bad 40 year old virgins. You need to just keep trying with b-words who will never have s*x with you.
The men (real) are pretty pissed and the jannies are banning and deleting comments asking why women (real) are invading their space and making rules.
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oh you’re non-binary? that’s interesting…
— stepfanie tyler (@wildbarestepf) February 11, 2025
computers operate on a binary system—every piece of technology you use runs on 1s and 0s
DNA is built on base pairs—adenine only pairs with thymine, cytosine only pairs with guanine
electrical circuits are binary—on or off, current…
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Will Apple update their map as well?
Yes, when I check Apple Maps in 1 week, the Gulf of Mexico will be relabeled "Gulf of America" - 131 bets
No, it will still say "Gulf of Mexico" - 33 bets
Some other third thing, like both labels on the map. - 39 bets
It will say "Gulf of @Bussy-boy" - 7 bets
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Wikipedia's "talk" page on the Gulf of Mexico/America/Cuba/Florida has been in an uproar the past few weeks because of 
's EO to change its name. Some highlights:
If the international groups such as the United Nations group of experts on geographical names (meeting in April), the International Maritime Organisation and the International Hydrographic Organization opt-in to recognising the U.S. owned portion of the gulf as the Gulf of America, then I agree that we should concede to the name. Somejeff (talk) 05:12, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
To both sides of this "question", this entire discussion is moot, since the moment Donald Trump leaves office the next President of the United States will immediately reverse the name-change order. The Gulf of Mexico will remain The Gulf of Mexico so long as modern human society endures. Looneybunny (talk) 22:30, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
We should call it the Gulf of the Olmecs since they were there first 
Google just announced there changing it on their maps Bamaboi445 (talk) 23:01, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
Google is not Wikipedia. Accuratelibrarian (talk) 02:00, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
You had no problem with President Obama changing the name from Mount McKinley to Denali it's over if that's what president Trump wants that's what he gets you can still go on to Google maps and this nonsense on here Wikipedia and I still got to hear the same bullshit if it's good for the goose it's good for the gander it changes and it needs to be changed now today not yesterday because you don't like trump it don't matter I voted for Obama I voted for that change I didn't like that Mount McKinley got changed him out Denali but because I voted for it happened it going to happen fight it love it leave it it does not matter it's changing and we're not going to stop until it does 65.102.184.179 (talk) 10:07, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
In case editors don't realize, usage of this name has already begun: "an area of low pressure moving across the Gulf of America, interacting with Arctic air, will bring widespread impactful winter weather to North Florida, etc." StAnselm (talk) 04:25, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
That "source" is from the POLICTICAL OFFICE of a well-known extremist right-wing supporter of Donald Trump. It is not a reliable, nor independent source, and therefore should be discounted Looneybunny (talk) 22:37, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
I don't see why a mention would be a problem considering the fact that American schools (and media) will soon be teaching it as the Gulf of America. Jstewart2007 (talk) 04:09, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
Also, the moment Donald Trump leaves office the next President of the United States, (who will, considering recent events, most assuredly be a Democrat), will reverse the order, and the "Gulf of America" will vanish as quickly as it appeared, just another example of exactly why Donald Trump was the worst pick for President in American history. Looneybunny (talk) 22:35, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
This Looneybunny person has posted similar comments on multiple reply chains even if it is questionably relevant
Seriously, how long are the admins going to drag their feet on an official government change? Regardless of whether people like it or not the Government of the U.S. as well as major state and private institutions will refer to it as the Gulf of America going forward unless the change is reversed. The title of the article doesn't have to change but the intro to the page should at the very least include "also known as the Gulf of America in the United States" and there should be a new page on the dispute itself like the pages for the disputes around names of the Persian Gulf and Sea of Japan respectively, instead of relegating it to two clearly tacked paragraphs at the end of the etymology section. No one else outside of the Koreas calls the Sea of Japan the "East Sea" but the article intro still recognizes the dispute's existence, why isn't this any different? Syracuse58 (talk) 00:10, 11 February 2025 (UTC)
Because it's Drumpf silliness and not something that has to be indulged here. Among all the other reasons given. Acalamari 02:54, 11 February 2025 (UTC)
I think we're going to be stuck fielding whatabouts from the people who erroneously believe that the United States should be allowed to rewrite reality like O'Brien from 1984 for a very long time if we don't start aggressively clerking this page. An RfC generally has a shelf-life of minimum six months. Can we please have a moratorium on discussions of American nicknames for the Gulf of Mexico for the next six months so that we have the clarity of consensus necessary to clerk these repetitive arguments promptly? Simonm223 (talk) 14:57, 11 February 2025 (UTC)
The nonsense is from those fighting so hard to pretend like the American government doesn't have the authority to name things. It's hilarious to see how quickly Wikipedians tripped over themselves to change Mount McKinley to Denali, and how hard they're ignoring the same arguments to change it back, same with this page. Ortizesp (talk) 15:20, 11 February 2025 (UTC)
Funnily enough, although both the Gulf of Mexico and Denali name change were part of the same EO, Denali's wikipedia page intro has already been changed to include the tagline "Denali, federally designated as Mount McKinley"
Oppose, see the example of Clingmans Dome, which was changed by Wikipedia the very same day Biden changed it. Funnily, all these scruples about COMMONNAME and all those "voices of concern" were nowhere to be seen. XavierItzm (talk) 01:13, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
This is a comment for the RFC that isn't open right now. Comparing a relatively obscure mountain in Tennessee to an internationally important body of water isn't doing this argument any favors, politically motivated or otherwise. Departure– (talk) 01:57, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
We should rename the Atlantic Ocean to the American Ocean so that people stop worrying about the gulf name change since then it wouldn't be as big of a deal.
Strong Support It is important to address the elephant in the room here: There is a strong liberal bias on Wikipedia. By comparison, the Obama administration changed the name of Mount McKinley to Denali in 2015, and the Wikipedia editors were almost tripping over themselves trying to make the name change from Mount McKinley to Denali. I understand that the Gulf of Mexico is a different case in that the Gulf of Mexico is not entirely within the borders of the United States, as Denali/Mount McKinley is, but I think that at the very least the president's executive order must warrant changing the title to: "Gulf of Mexico, officially the Gulf of America in the United States." To me, any opposition to simply noting that it is officially called the Gulf of America in the U.S. is bald-faced activism protesting the name change more than it is actually rooted in reason, evidence, and consistency across articles. U.S. Federal Agencies will henceforth be referring to it as the Gulf of America. If someone sees the name Gulf of America on a U.S. Federal map and enters it into Wikipedia, they'll need to scroll down to the middle of the page and read a paragraph buried in the article containing irrelevant information such as a comedian Stephen Colbert's comments on the name to try to make sense of why they're seeing Gulf of America on a map. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia designed to transmit information; activism and bias should be discouraged. (For evidence of such activism and bias, just look at the opposing comments above describing this as a "stunt"; yet no one ever described Obama's name change from McKinley to Denali as a "stunt." Such opposing positions are not rooted in reason, only bias and activism.) Ambrosiaster (talk) 18:48, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
This really is the essence of false balance. "We shouldn't call something Trump does a stunt, unless we can also describe something unrelated that Obama did as a stunt." (We can unpack the facts if you like, but this isn't the Denali page; it's the Gulf of Mexico page.) Things can be qualitatively different from each other. Describing different things with different terms isn't bias, it's analysis. And sometimes the analysis can quite validly (if informally) be 'yeah, that's a stunt'. Biden claiming to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment was also a stunt. GenevieveDEon (talk) 19:17, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
NB: The above user is currently blocked from editing in the main space, as a sanction for having edit warred on the Gulf of Mexico article. GenevieveDEon (talk) 19:26, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
Correct. And the editors who were warring to include comments from comedian Stephen Colbert and to revert the changes with even more frequency than me were not temporarily blocked from editing. Further evidence of bias and activism. Thanks for pointing that out. Ambrosiaster (talk) 19:31, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
That's an interesting linguistic tic you've got there, always pairing "bias and activism". GenevieveDEon (talk) 19:33, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
Still waiting on that analysis you alluded to in your prior post. Ambrosiaster (talk) 19:34, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
Nope. I mentioned that it's possible, which it is. I'm not here to perform for you; your own biases are showing. GenevieveDEon (talk) 19:37, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
Figured that would be your response. Ambrosiaster (talk) 19:39, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
Support in a way its very similar to Deadnaming if the federal government wants it to be Gulf of America then that is what it should be called. Did we have this type of vote when Ellen Page changed her bame to Elliot? I know its not a human but it still applies here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fruitloop11 (talk • contribs) 14:22, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
You mean his name'. And no it's not, because Eliot Page is the leading authority on what his own name is - it's within his power to choose it, and he did. He is, in fact, the individual affected. Neither the President of the USA, nor the US government generally, are the Gulf of Mexico, nor do they own or control it. It's international waters, and it is beyond the power of any arm of the US government to change its name unilaterally - even in common usage within the USA, never mind globally. GenevieveDEon (talk) 15:20, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
You are so terrified, I can tell your hands start shaking every time you type. The fact is it WILL be changed you need to stop harassing all support voters. Imagine if someone was allowed to harass you while you voted Harris, which you 100% did. Even another user has warned you to stop Fruitloop11 (talk) 15:33, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
Please refrain from personal attacks. You are wrong about my voting, for a reason that should be apparent upon reflection. GenevieveDEon (talk) 16:05, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
I'm literally about to report you for harassment. the admins will see user:Wildfireupdateman giving you a warning and the harassment you made against User:Ambrosiaster user:AnotherWeatherEditor and many others. and no, I will not call Ellen Page Elliot Page until you stop bothering people. Fruitloop11 (talk) 16:19, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
You are welcome to try. GenevieveDEon (talk) 16:26, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
Wikipedia Jannies hid this one in spoilered text simply titled "Enough."
Thank you. This user's engagement certainly veers more on mud-slinging than it does on civil discourse in my opinion as well: (1) She told me I have a linguistic tic and (2) She tried to undermine my position by claiming that I had a very temporary ban for an edit war. She is free to reason through it, but she is mostly engaging in name-calling and attempting to shame the support voters. Ambrosiaster (talk) 16:37, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
I knew before I posted she was going to reply to me, so I was on the defense. I think anyone will see this person isn't using the discussion board the way it is intended. It's all about bullying someone who doesn't have the views as you. Fruitloop11 (talk) 16:49, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
This strikes me as in line with Facebook's actions of lightening censorship and Twitter's actions of existing past 2022 of trying to be in line with the new Trump government because if I'm not mistaken they're facing a pretty serious federal anti-trust lawsuit. What shows up in Google maps does not necessarily reflect what is in common usage. Departure– (talk) 01:24, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
You do understand that this is merely a question of entering in the lead ", officially Gulf of America in the United States," not to change the title wholesale. As pointed out earlier, the moment that the Obama admin changed the name Mt McKinley to Denali, liberal Wikipedia editors changed it forthwith and added the hashtag #ThanksObama! Common usage was moot at that time because everyone knows that the common used term was Mount McKinley, not Denali. But now all of a sudden common usage returns to the forefront. Ambrosiaster (talk) 04:18, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
In sum, stop treating common usage as a dispositive factor. It was not dispositive for Mount McKinley, and in that case, the entire article name was changed—a much more drastic measure than is being proposed here. Ambrosiaster (talk) 04:20, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
Wikipedia:No personal attacks: "Comment on content, not on the contributor." Better read up the policy. Also WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. Gotitbro (talk) 04:58, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
I hope that is not directed at me. Defining someone who posted #ThanksObama in the edit line of the Denali article as a liberal is a personal attack? Read the link I shared above: While redirecting the Mt McKinley article to Denali, an editor inserted the political line into the edit #ThanksObama. That to me is far less neutral and inappropriate than me defining such an individual as a liberal. Certainly a conservative didn't write #ThanksObama. No one was attacked personally here. Ambrosiaster (talk) 06:13, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
Is Ambrosiaster Wikipedia's biggest 
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Bonus: The Denali Wikipedia talk page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Denali
Opppose (changing the name back to McKinley on the website) per WP:COMMONNAME and WP:CRYSTAL. This move request is premature and entirely based on a political maneuver that likely is not going to affect the common nomenclature of the mountain. Its status among governmental figures is not relevant to the article's name. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 15:19, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
In the above discussions, it's been made clear that both are common names. If "McKinley" is the name that the government and Associated Press are going to use, it should be given precedence as the title. Derpytoucan (talk) 18:02, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
Are the majority of reliable sources going to follow the federal government and the Associated Press? Is every publication that adopts the AP stylebook going to discard Denali completely? It's too soon to tell, and we shouldn't react on the spur of the moment. XOR'easter (talk) 20:03, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
How many times is the goalpost of "well not ALL RS call it McKinley" going to be moved over the next four years? There's already a precedent that's been set when the article was renamed in 2015. If McKinley is a common name, and its the name that the federal government and Associated Press are going to be using, it should be the article's title. I'm fine with waiting until the Secretary of the Interior has actually made the name change official, and perhaps seeing how other RS call the mountain when reporting on that event, but implying that we need to wait any longer to rename the article is absurd, especially given the aforementioned instant renaming in 2015.Derpytoucan (talk) 21:31, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
Stop WP:BLUDGEONing the discussion. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 23:53, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
I don't see this as bludgeoning. @Derpytoucan makes a good point. anikom15 (talk) 03:13, 26 January 2025 (UTC)
Repeatedly replying to multiple commenters is textbook BLUDGEON. — The Hand That Feeds You:Bite 13:22, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
Talk about projection because that's exactly what you're doing. Esotericmadman (talk) 13:33, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
Bonus bonus: The edit page for the Gulf of Mexico webpage:
106 edits in the last 24 hours alone
I've always believed that Wikipedia is a goldmine for drama and petty squabbles between self-centered know-it-alls, but I usually can't care to look into it because I find the layout of their website atrocious.
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Background: The enshittification of Argentina
This could be an effortpost purely on its own but I leave that task to our great friends from the southern hemisphere.
Argentina's July 9, 1989, Independence Day was historical for two opposing reasons. For the first time since 1928, a democratically elected president had been succeeded by another elected one—leaving aside the Peronista reelection in 1952. But this much-longed-for event happened amid feared, raving hyperinflation. (Nothing new ever happens). Stepping down was Raul Alfonsin, who had become president on December 10, 1983 following a violent military government that had taken power with a coup on March 1976, the SIXTH since 1930. 
Even though Argentina had been ridden with inflation for several decades, it still became more chaotic (proving no matter how shitty you think your positions are, it can still get shittier when it comes to economics) after a mega-devaluation and mega-tariff shock in June 1975 by the Minister of Economy Celestino Rodrigo, which infamously became known as the Rodrigazo. (Dude Spanish LeMayo)
Nine months later, after the coup, the military immediately tried to tame inflation with traditional IMF counter-cyclical measures, but to no avail. From the so-called hilariously named Rodrigazo, the country would live under what became known as a "high-inflation regime": verging on a 100 percent year rate of minimum inflation, but in most years, well over that level.
Note that In these situations, inflation almost becomes an index exchange 
That is, there would be inflation because investors have priced it in already, as in inflation in future because inflation in past.
Pic rel: you walk into Argentina's Central Bank
So in 1978, the Argentinian government, fresh from the high off of winning the FIFA WC, introduced their most radical plan till date: la tablita
La Tablita ("the little chart") was a 1978 stabilization policy, a pre-gradual devaluation scale schedule combined with an external opening of financial and trade sectors. In the prevailing abundant, low-cost, international credit environment, large amounts of capital entered the country, pressing the national peso down, checking inflation, and cheapening imports.
Unfortunately, God hates Argentina and the retards who run Argentina hate the country even more.
@nuclearshill be like
Despite bringing down inflation, La Tablita was far from ending it. Hence, the peso appreciation became considerable, damaging domestic industrial goods.
On top of that, the foundations of this pyramid scheme, however, were highly frail. It depended on the continuous availability of cheap dollar credit in international markets, something challenging to happen. Thus speculation against the peso grew. Spurred on by higher dollar rates and made possible by financial openness, many external and internal investors thrived on this terms of a "financial bicycle."
To avoid the abrupt end of La Tablita, the government itself took external debt—mainly through state-owned companies—and made them available to speculative private agents or tried to gain their confidence by increasing the stock of international reserves.
The Arabs coming out to nuke Argentina in the ass 
After the 1979 Volcker shock because of the Arab oil embargo crisis, that raised dollar interest rates, the mounting dollar debt cycle became explosive. The dollar shortage led to a run on banks and a financial crisis in 1980, which the government had to save with rediscounts. The government established an official guarantee on deposits and, in February 1981, abandoned the Tablita schedule. Following an exceptional 10 percent devaluation of the peso, a new monthly devaluation chart was announced— greater than the original one, but insignificant in view of the accumulated appreciation in the exchange rate. In March 1981, it ended any kind of Tablita scheme and a new 30 percent devaluation was applied.
Absolute Acceleration 
After years of making new deals (with the US; mercosur, with the IMF) and failing to keep any of the promises they made and finally coming to terms with its thirdworldness, in April 1988, the government declared a moratorium on the service of foreign debt. This led to losing the support of the IMF. Hence, the only resource of fresh dollars left was the World Bank. (aka 3rd world support).
The Spring Plan launched just months before the 1989 election, was a stabilization program conceived with the modest purpose of avoiding the hyperinflationary outburst before the presidential election in May 1989. Without being able to adjust tariffs because of their inflationary effects and without being able to tax, the government made a price agreement with the leading companies, which resulted in the reduction of the value-added tax from 18 percent to 15 percent, which led to a 0.5% drop off in GDP. In mere months.
However, the election itself was the main factor of instability. The three leading presidential candidates (including Eduardo Angeloz, from the official party) called for the exchange rate liberalization. Peronist Carlos Menem, 
who widely led the polls, defied any justification of restraint, stating that it would interrupt external payments for 3 to 5 years, cut taxes 50 percent and give out a salariazo (100 percent increase in wages), among other populist and nationalist measures. Thus, exchange rate and fiscal instability are combined with political uncertainty. In retrospect, the only chance of The Spring Plan to reach its goal resided in the remote chance of a reversal of election polls in favor of the official candidate. Otherwise, with a foreseeable triumph of the opposing candidate, announcing a populist and nationalist platform, an abrupt run of funds to the dollar was unavoidable.
Fearing the inevitable the World Bank withdrew its support in January 1989.
The consumer price index, around 7 percent per month during the last quarter of 1988, doubled in March 1989 and again in April. Two months later, it was out of control.
Menem won in the midst of all this pandemonium. The handover of command was planned for December, but the outlook for the next five months was chaotic. Hence, the succession was brought forward for July 8.
The failed attempts to privatize several companies, the continuous erosion of public income due to inflation, the freezing of wages with high unemployment that intensified social discontent, with some goods-shortage, additional power cuts due to droughts that affected the hydroelectric plants, and the appearance of looting in Greater Buenos Aires, all combined to fuel the severe crisis.
With the change of government, inflation fell rapidly, but only momentarily. Amid prices still going out of control, a temporal confiscation of bank deposits was made, forcedly exchanging them with government treasury bonds (the Bonex plan). After two further hyperinflationary outbreaks between 1990 and 1991, new economic minister Domingo Cavallo could finally curb rising inflation with a radical currency board-style convertibility of the Argentinian peso (rebranded as The Austral in the mid 80s) 
to the American dollar.
The Uruguay Angle
What is an Uruguay?
Like all normal Americans, I had zero knowledge where Uruguay was, how much does one Uruguayan foid cost etc important questions before I started reading about them. Looking at them, few of us would envy them.
As Menem's Argentina was finally realizing its retarded policies, like Menem's Argentina during the 1990s, Uruguay had embarked upon a full-scale liberalization of its economy through liberalization of the capital and current account on the balance of payments. Uruguay's banking system was based on local private-owned banks, foreign banks, and large public banks.
During the 1990s, the Uruguayan economy performed relatively well; by the decade's end, it was a middle-income country with a per-capita income of US$6000. In 1999 the Uruguayan economy suffered a significant economic recession that resulted in multiple implications for the country's fiscal debt, the debt-to-GDP ratio, and the profitability and liquidity of the banking sector.
The twin devaluation of the Brazilian and Argentinian currency near Y2K hit the competitive position of Uruguay's exports and led to a currency appreciation. Like any other 3rdworldie, it immediately set conditions to terminate the exchange rate commitment of the Uruguayan currency that had helped stabilize the public debt during the 1990s. As a result of the 1999 prolonged recession, it was registered first as a major fiscal crisis, recession-triggered revenue reductions led the government deficit to surge from 38 percent of GDP in 1998 to 58 percent of GDP by 2001. By 2001 the public sector debt amounted to roughly US$107 billion.
This consecutively increased the country's dependence on foreign capital and investors: the deepening of the public deficit caused by the fiscal crisis forced Uruguay to issue foreign currency-denominated bonds and debt certificates to finance the Uruguayan debt. 
By December 2001, both liabilities and assets of the Uruguayan banks were highly dollarized. (Nearly 83% of public debt was in foreign currency). For reference if the US had that problem today, that would mean nearly 31 Trillion Dollars of debt in Chinese/Japanese/Euro currencies.
On the liability side, liquid foreign currency deposits amounted to 90 percent of total deposits, of which 47 percent were deposits by non-residents. On the asset side, about 75 percent of total loans were denominated in foreign currencies. By the time the crisis began, the two largest public banks (Banco de la Republica Oriental del Uruguay (BROU) and Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay (BHU)) (ching chong names, just remember BROU and BHU) lay in critical financial condition because their ratio of non-performing loans to total loans was on average 39.1 percent, compared to 5.6 percent for the private banks. 
This chicanery along with growing share of total debt financed through issuing debt certificates abroad and in foreign currencies made the country and its banking sector extremely vulnerable to external shocks.
This came in the form of an Argentine shock
Throughout the postwar decades, Brazil and Argentina were the main trading partners of Uruguay. Argentina, even more than Brazil, was tied to the direction of the Uruguayan economy. As was the case with the early 1980s crisis, any time Argentina abandoned its price stabilization plan, the GDP of Uruguay contracted substantially. In contrast, any time Buenos Aires GDP declined, Uruguay's GDP grew modestly. (Exports needed, latina foids, if one fails, the other has to step up)
As the banking sectors of the two countries became interdependent. In particular, Argentinean savers and investment companies placed large amounts of funds with Uruguayan private and publicly owned banks. (Argentinians trusted their government so little, they were willing to invest in a tiny ass country, so much so that in time they became that country's main creditor 
) The Uruguayan banks had become safe financial outlets for Argentinean savers. By the end of 2001, 45 percent of Uruguay's total deposits came from Argentinean investors.
Not only this, buy at the time, the two national public banks (BROU & BHU. Remember them? This is them now. Feel old yet?) were owned by Argentinean financial groups. How you call something that is neither nationalized nor publicly owned a national public bank beats me. But that's how definitions work in Uruguay. And these were not the only banks to have their shit rocked. All the largest Uruguayan banks were primarily exposed to either Buenos Aires' public debt or the largest Argentinean banking groups.
In December 2001, the Argentinean authorities approved capital controls and deposit freezes on Argentine nationals. This decision, coupled with the termination of Buenos Aires' currency pegging 
to the US dollar, prompted many Argentinean investors to withdraw funds from Uruguay, thus plummeting its financial sectors into a liquidity crisis. The two largest private banks of Uruguay, Banco de Galicia Uruguay and Banco Comercial, were hit the most by capital outflows. Banco de Galicia Uruguay, then the second largest Uruguayan bank by assets, was a subsidiary of Banco de Galicia, the largest Argentinean group. (Just sell the entire nation to Argentina faggots)
As its banking activities revolved by and large around taking deposits from Argentinean banks and companies and lending to the same type of clients, the freeze of deposits and the enforcement of capital controls hit Banco de Galicia Uruguay, which suddenly suffered from a liquidity crisis. This led the Central Bank of Uruguay to suspend its activities in February 2002. As much as Banco Galicia, Banco Comercial, the largest private bank of Uruguay, was overexposed to Argentine's borrowers: it held a large amount of the Argentinian government's public debt. It was a significant creditor to Grupo Banco General de Negocio, a leading financial holding in Argentina. In 2002, this two-fold overcommitment to Argentina was the leading cause of the liquidity crisis that shook Banco Comercial that year.
Banco is a funny word NGL
By March, 12 percent of total bank deposits had been withdrawn, mostly by non-residents. This downward sloping trend continued even after the implementation of measures by the government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to forestall the liquidity crisis. By May 2002, 18 percent more deposits had been withdrawn; this time, non-resident withdrawals were paired with money cashed by residents from public banks.
Why should Argentinians have all the fun?
- some Uruguayan(before jumping off a bridge after seeing an Argentinian doing it)
This faggotry reached its crisis point in July when the run on dollar deposits was coupled with a rush to cash local currency deposits. By mid-summer, most private banks had become insolvent; on the other hand, the public banks, though liquidity support provided by the IMF amounted to US$1,1221 million as of August 2002, suffered from significant liquidity imbalances and extremely precarious balance sheets.
In July, Uruguay's foreign currency reserves, which by December 2001 amounted to US$3.1 billion, reached the lowest level ever of US$650
$650
The crisis that erupted in 2002 had striking side effects on the Uruguayan currency, foreign exchange reserves, and the country's capability to service the public debt. Rather than merely affecting the liquidity position of Uruguayan private banks, massive capital outflows reduced the country's foreign exchange reserves.
Assuming the country's international reserves as of December 2001 as a benchmark, by the second half of 2002 they had declined by 80 percent. This decline in international reserves jeopardized the exchange rate commitment and, thus, the likelihood of servicing the public debt. (the only part that any government cares about beyond optics) This trajectory of the financial crisis led the Uruguayan authorities in July 2002 to halt the exchange rate commitment and to approve a 27 percent currency devaluation that led exports to temporarily bounce back by the end of 2002. But devaluation has a downside in terms of debt sustainability. 
The termination of the Uruguayan exchange rate commitment and its devaluation set the national debt to unsustainable limits.
The recurring deposit withdrawals that started in the first half of 2002 led to a credit crunch that triggered systematic curtailing of credit by private banks to the non-banking sector. During that year, banking credit to the non-financial sector contracted by 37 percent. Consecutively the GDP contracted by about 10%.
How the crisis was contained
Since the beginning, the crisis appeared to be a matter of liquidity shortage affecting a limited section of the banking system. Therefore, liquidity assistance to either the largest private banks of Uruguay or the foreign-owned banking institutions, as well as the public banks, represented an unfinished line of economic intervention by the Central Bank of Uruguay, the government, and the IMF, the three leading institutions that came to the rescue. Amidst a further deepening of the banking liquidity crisis in early summer, in July 2002 a new financial facility was established, the Fondo para la Fortificacion del Sistema Bancario, which amounted to US$2.5 billion.
it's okay little fella, here's some change. Keep it 
Notwithstanding the scale of this fund in July, both foreign exchange reserves and the liquidity of private banks got worse. On July 30, this Fondo's financial operations were suspended and a bank holiday began.
Crisista time? More like fiesta time 
Shortly after the removal of the bank holiday on August 5, 2002, a run on deposits began again. Amidst this seemingly neverending crisis, the government approved a law that, by combining an effort by the state finance with financial assistance provided by three leading international economic institutions—the IMF, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)—focused on both protecting dollar-denominated deposits in the country and initiating a suspension of the operations of the three largest private banks that paved the way for their restructuring or liquidation.
total banco destruction 
The new law made provision for having the BROU absorb all the foreign currency deposits and time deposits held at BHU and for suspending the operations of Banco Comercial, Banco de Montevideo-Caja Obrera, and Banco de Credito. In addition, it set conditions for their restructuring or liquidation in the future. By the beginning of fall 2002, this set of measures led to a decline in total withdrawals and a resurgence of deposits by residents, which by 2005 had returned to their July 2002 level. During the fall of 2002 and 2003, the second set of crisis management measures was undertaken to restructure public banks' debt and strengthen the structure of banking regulation and supervision in Uruguay, which was historically not well structured.
A selected number of loans by BROU, which throughout 2002 had lost roughly 66 percent of total deposits, were absorbed by a newly created state entity, while the bank's lending operations were redirected to peso-denominated operations. A credit risk-management mechanism was established to reduce non-performing loans. The BHU, whose dollar-denominated deposits accounted for 77 percent of total deposits while 94 percent of total loans were peso-denominated, was severely rocked by the peso's devaluation. The bank was radically restructured by the Ley del Fortalecimiento del Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay in December 2002, limiting its banking operation to housing saving plans and issuing of a limited number of mortgages, but prevented the BHU from taking deposits.
Concerning the private banks, the three largest institutions were liquidated. The Banco Comercial and Banco Montevideo Caja Obrera were placed under liquidation, and a new financial institution, Nuevo Banco Comercial, was established. The purpose of this new institution was to issue Certificates of Deposits to finance the acquisition of the assets of the two banks under liquidation.
Concerning the Banco de Credito, the third largest private bank, the government recapitalized it several times and then, in February 2003, placed it under liquidation.
This taking a chainsaw action on the financial side of the banking crisis was paired with legislative initiatives to strengthen the supervisory and regulatory system charged with presiding over the national banking system.
Another law was passed to strengthen the Central Bank of Uruguay so as to not leave it as toothless as the Argentinian beggar asylum of a CB.
That new law imposed new requirements on banking activities that included higher reserve requirements for deposits by non-resident investors, several rules to reduce foreign exchange risks and improve lending-decision making by national banks, and compulsory disclosure by banks of relevant financial information about their borrowers' credit solvency.
By the end of 2002, the liquidity crisis that hit the banking system had triggered a contraction of total bank deposits by residents by about 46 percent and a reduction of total deposits by foreign investors of 65 percent. As a result of the crisis, the country's GDP declined by 11 percent, whereas total public sector debt grew by 26 percent.
In this situation, many international investors (read US, nobody except the US government and investors knew about Uruguay outside Latin America) envisaged the possibility of a sovereign default in the wake of what happened in Argentina.
But credit (kek) where credit's due. The financial measures adopted to restructure and liquidate the banking system, coupled with several regulatory and supervisory initiatives aimed at preventing the country from future crises triggered by external shocks, placed the country on track to full recovery and prevented Uruguay from suffering terrible consequences in terms of inflation and deficit.
By 2003 GDP had risen by over 12 percent, inflation had declined to 10 percent, the financial system's deposits had regained US$800 million, and the primary surplus had once again soared to 4.1%.
Moral of the story - To this day the Uruguayan CB still has certain capital controls on investors from Argentina that it has not placed on anyone else.
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Taking a jab at President Trump for giving the Gulf of America a proper name.
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FIRED after LEAKING… the existence of Grok 3?
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I resigned from xAI tonight.
— Benjamin De Kraker (@BenjaminDEKR) February 12, 2025
It makes me very sad, but was the right thing to do -- and here's why.
xAI told me I either had to delete the post quoted below, or face being fired.
After reviewing everything and thinking a lot, I've decided that I'm not going to delete the post… https://t.co/8egdL0c8gc
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Ewer, 28, showed an unhealthy interest in her student that was noticed almost "immediately" after she started working at Brady Exploration School in August 2023, the DA Office's investigation revealed.
In November 2023, after the boy hinted at an improper relationship with Ewer in a classroom assignment that another teacher saw, authorities at the school contacted the Lakewood Police Department.
They soon uncovered evidence of a disturbing sexual relationship between the pair, including explicit text messages and signs that drugs, guns and alcohol had been introduced, per prosecutors.
Thousands upon thousands upon thousands" of messages were sent by Ewer to her student and vice versa, with references to many sexual encounters, according to prosecutors.
Ewer introduced the teenager to illegal and deadly drugs including fentanyl, First Judicial District Attorney's Office Special Victims Prosecutor Brynn Chase told her sentencing hearing.
She also attempted to get the boy to bring a gun to their sexual encounters as well as shoot a fellow faculty member in their school, the sentencing hearing heard.
Ewer told the boy "to bring the gun to school and shoot another faculty member in the leg," Chase said at the hearing.
Average dimwit American (aka teacher's) understanding of firearm usage
Ewer was sentenced to four years in jail on January 31, after pleading guilty last November to sexual assault on a child and contributed to the delinquency of a minor, both felonies, a month before her trial was due to start.
"I'm really sorry; this will never happen again," she said, as per the office.
Probably because nobody will let you around the 'tarded kids anymore
Before her brief spell there, Ewer had worked at several Jefferson County public schools in various roles, including teaching assistant, paraprofessional, and school nurse, since 2015.
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@SCUM !historychads decided to just go ahead and make a post.
Despite Japan being closed to outsiders during the Edo period between 1603 to 1868, they still had some idea of the outside world. One interesting case was what they knew about the fledgling country of America. The following is a collection of different pages from a book about America's history called Osanaetoki Bankokubanashi written in 1861. After doing some digging it seems like this book was in earnest, it believed what it had written, taking its sources from two other books about America.
Here is George Washington (with bow and arrow) pictured alongside the Goddess of America. 
Here is Christopher Columbus (seated at center) reporting his discovery of America to Queen Isabella of Spain.
Now it's the American Revolution. Here is George Washington defending his wife "Carol" from a British official named "Asura" (same characters as the Buddhist deity).
And here is Washington's "second-in-command" John Adams battling an enormous snake.
Here is Washington and his wife "Carol" meeting an extremely youthful Benjamin Franklin, who has an impressive squat. 
Here's the incredibly jacked Benjamin Franklin firing a cannon that he holds in his bare hands, while John Adams directs him where to fire.
And here is George Washington straight-up punching a tiger. 
Best buds John Adams and Ben Franklin must have had a falling out, because John Adams fires an arrow at Ben and then rides away like a cowardly little b-word. Of course Ben Franklin is a total badass, so he just stands there and lets the arrow fly by without even flinching. 
During a calmer moment, John Adams is just chillin' in the countryside, having a quiet picnic with his elderly mother...
But then! While John Adams is too obsessed with the food and drink, a huge snake comes along and eats his mom! 
Maybe the snake was a child of that other snake John Adams killed, or maybe it was sent by Ben Franklin as part of their feud?
Here is Washington leading his army from behind in a carriage. The American flag has no stars, only stripes, and the author seems very impressed that the carriage has not one but TWO horses.
Meanwhile, John Adams wants to get revenge on the snake that ate his Mom 
, so he goes to ask a magical mountain fairy for help!
The mountain fairy does Adams a solid, and summons a gigantic eagle!
Together, John Adams and the eagle kill the enormous snake that ate his Mom. The power of teamwork!!! 
So that's it, really interesting blend between a modern idea like the US and more mythical storytelling. Reads a lot like tales of Alexander the Great or of bible characters like David. Cool illustrations too. There are more pages, but I can't find any translation, despite them looking very interesting. Here's the whole book: https://archive.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/bunko11/bunko11_a0380/bunko11_a0380_0002/bunko11_a0380_0002.html
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I remember going to WiE hours with my homework and they couldn't help me with a vectors problem. Maybe they are better in CS?
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Apparently the correct answer to someone not knowing how to turn off a computer should be "so true queen 💅" and not "lol".
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Trans woman becomes worse at CS once she starts taking more estrogen. If she stayed as a masculine trans dude she'd probably be a monster.
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance II's Pan Ptacek has hit up transvestite streamer Gilticus.
(According to the streamer)
The actor who played Pan in the game came across Zhenya's cosplay and wrote in a private message expressing his gratitude for her playing the game. A little later, he wrote more, "I don't remember ever seeing such a beautiful woman before." When people started writing to him saying that "such a beautiful woman" wasn't a woman at all, he replied that he didn't care about that and wasn't going to retract what he said
Trans WOMAN in question
Dirty sly chasing in progress revealed by streamer neo-egirl
https://m.twitch.tv/gilticus/clip/ColdbloodedEvilSlothImGlitch-PvCuq8vuXGg9p2aN
https://m.twitch.tv/gilticus/clip/FrozenSuperKumquatHoneyBadger-WNXTT1VeICknKXZF
https://m.twitch.tv/gilticus/clip/CreativeProtectiveRedpandaBudStar-d9Fu4vQzvv_H0Cbw
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or they just tolerated each other because the heat pad was better than everywhere else
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