Yes, but the ozone is supposed to just get the smell out. Hopefully no one thinks it’d be fun to smoke next to an ozone generator.

The only really effective thing is ozone, as has already been posted, though an ozone generator in the living quarters comes with its own gotchas such as ozone being corrosive and harmful to your respiratory system.

Apart from that, we used to get the smell out of hair and clothes with a hairdryer set to hot. I’m not sure how you could apply that knowledge to an entire room, but there’s probably no harm in trying.

Having said that, if your roommate carries such a strong smell, does he really smoke outside, or does he just sorta-kinda stand in the half-open doorway and call this outside?

Cue the people cheering who still have at least 500 rolls left in their basement from last time.

Your guess is as good as mine. 🤷‍♂️ You know how the things politicians say before the elections and the things they do afterwards don’t necessarily have a lot in common, so I guess it remains exciting.

From what I hear the answer is no. The current opposition party (JxC) started supporting him when it was clear that their candidate couldn’t win against the incumbent party’s candidate (Sergio Massa, the current minister of economy), but they say they plan to vote against some of Milei’s more radical ideas.
What actually happens, and how many of his ideas Milei will actually try to get through parliament, remains to be seen.

Jack Russell mix
hound/husky mix

Aww, never a dull moment with that combination, I imagine. But I bet they are good girls. Give them my warmest regards and some head skritchins!

I know, right? Consider this though: Argentina’s biggest problem right now is the economy, and his opponent in the presidential race was the current finance minister, who one could argue has already given a quite impressive demonstration of his incompetence. “Four more years of the same” simply isn’t a realistic option. Milei’s plans for the economy on the other hand could be worth a try.

I suspect he’s a bit of a calculated risk to many - some of his ideas might actually be good for the economy (not the selling babies part obviously), and his more, uhm, controversial ideas are highly likely to be blocked by parliament. In that aspect he might be the kind of healing shock that the country needs.

So far we know that he appears to have toned down his rhetoric a bit since his victory, and that the other party supporting him plans to ‘keep him in check’ in parliament. Let’s see how that turns out.

They seem like a dynamic duo. Are they different in size or is that just the perspective? How old are they?

Whoever said you can’t hold on to happiness has never hugged a dog.

For maximum happiness, train yourself not to be bothered by being woken up by the sound of retching right next to your pillow.

Here’s my stray - is it legitimate to make this a dog pic thread?

I don’t think most people actually voted for him - it’s more like he was the lesser of two evils. Now consider what that says about the other candidate.

It could be worse really. At least the people who watch NASCAR for the crashes are gonna have four very entertaining years ahead of them.

It sadly is. Thank you.

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I wasn’t aware of the CloudFlare thing, thanks. Though I’d trust them more than Google or Meta, I share your reservations. Looking at how big a part of the web they serve, there’s already way too much power in too few hands anyway.

I don’t know Don’t Starve and have only played ONI for a short while, so the other answers are probably more helpful that mine, but at its core the game is about managing (and obtaining) limited resources. You start out inside an asteroid with a limited amount of oxygen and food and need to build a sustainable environment from there.

Silly fun also seems to be a big part of the game - one of the character stats (they’re called duplicants in the game) is the reaction to stress, and apparently one of mine is an ‘ugly crier’ and another one a ‘binge eater’. Two appear to have a crush on each other and spend the day avoiding work and exchanging heart symbols whenever I’m not watching.

As for the game itself - yes, I find it very overwhelming. There are short tutorials on how to navigate the map etc. and a lot of stats, but not an awful lot of info on strategy or what exactly is expected of you. So far it’s still fun though.

That app was revolutionary for its time and a true life-saver. (For the young ones: at a time where mobile networks were still really, really slow, Opera’s technology would load the requested web page on its server farm, parse it, strip out the unnecessary stuff and send it to your phone in a highly compressed form. It basically enabled you to surf ‘normal’ web pages without overloading your phone and with load times measured in seconds instead of minutes.)

ISTR news/discussions where several shady companies were said to want to buy Opera for that technology, for the simple fact that everything you did on Opera Mobile was at some point processed on Opera’s servers in unencrypted form. I dread the day where Google or Meta start offering such a service.

Long-time Opera user here (I paid for Opera 5 - yes, that long ago). Opera was a truly visionary browser up to version 7 or so based on its own Presto engine, but nowadays it’s just another Chrome clone with dubious features IMHO.

Opera’s successor in spirit is probably Vivaldi. I use it as my standard browser on Windows and Android and am very very happy.

Metro 2033 Redux. Bought it a while ago when it was on sale on Steam and didn’t enjoy it much as it was incredibly hard and the performance was sluggish. Gave it another try this week with the new graphics card and now it’s actually a great cross between fighting, strategy and adventure.

Each chapter of the story has its own world, rich in details and atmosphere, often with several ways to advance and uncover new parts of the story. The controls take some getting used to - most keys do two different things depending on how long you press them - but once you get the hang of it, it all makes a lot of sense. The graphics are very well done and organic, and the engine chugs along at a steady 60fps at 4k and full settings on my Ryzen 5700X and RTX 4060 even during intense fighting out in the open. What more could one ask for?

My only gripe is that there’s no save button. The game will silently auto-save at certain points in the story, and when you die or exit the game you can restore to that last checkpoint (and only then will you discover where in the story that is). Everything after that point is lost.

Aw man, having to quit when you can already smell the finish line is extra mean. I hope you were still able to finish your courses, even if it had to be elsewhere. But…! Spectacularly belated congratulations for the happy couple! If the festivities were in Buenos Aires it must have been quite an event.

This probably also gives you a unique insider view of the country from the outside, the culture and the people. I would imagine it to be quite interesting to get you talking over a good Merlot (or a still water if you prefer) and some empanadas (make mine jamón y queso).

Save for a short one-day stop between flights in September, we’ve last been in Buenos Aires around New Year 2019/2020. It is an impressive city in many aspects. My sister-in-law who is a cop accompanied us. Even then, we were advised to leave La Boca before 5 pm. I’m not sure I’d want to go there at all in the current climate, even though it was one of the more enjoyable and pretty parts of town. But then again, everywhere I go there’s that huge imaginary billboard hovering above my head that says “Gringo with money who’s unfamiliar with how things work here” in huge letters. Or maybe I’m just slightly paranoid.

I remain hopeful but doubtful that the people will eventually pick up on this and change tactics.

Same here. I’m not going to hold my breath though - I personally know too many people who voted for Fernandez/Kirchner even though the Kirchner clan is arguably the apex of corruption and directly responsible for one of the worst bankruptcies in the country’s history… just because they were unhappy with Macri’s budget cuts (which funny enough were way less far-reaching than what Milei wants to do) and Kirchner double-pinky promised to do better this time.

I’m not going to pretend to have the answer to all (or even most) questions. It’s just insert adjective for ‘argh!!!’ here to watch a country with such natural riches and resources so skillfully flush itself further and further down the crapper. But I’m going to have to agree with your assessment and there’s probably not much that can be done from outside the country.

On the upside: thanks to Western Union basing its exchange rates on the dólar blue, supporting my niece’s studies now costs five times less than what it cost two years ago, so there’s that!

I went to grad school in Buenos Aires and lived there for about 5 years

This is a bit off-topic and just personal curiosity: what made you choose Argentina, resp. Buenos Aires? Do you know somebody there, did you want to see the city/country, or is it just the logical choice where you’re from?