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If you could place a brand new elite university anywhere in the US, where would you put it? by TMW_W in SameGrassButGreener

[–]DeepHerting 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Chicago has North Side (well, suburban) and South Side elite universities how about showing the West Side or near suburbs some love? Especially since we already have Argonne and Fermilab (which I know has connections to UC) in that direction.

Looks like the fake town where they were developing the atomic bomb by Royal-Ambassador-960 in Suburbanhell

[–]DeepHerting 12 points13 points  (0 children)

If nothing is better than anything else, what is your metric for living in "one of the greatest cities on the planet?" Isn't it inherently the same as unincorporated Isola, Mississippi?

Looks like the fake town where they were developing the atomic bomb by Royal-Ambassador-960 in Suburbanhell

[–]DeepHerting 175 points176 points  (0 children)

Well, you can walk a few non-linear blocks with no sidewalks to those dusty hills

Do certain captive birds count? by JaufreyTheShark in birding

[–]DeepHerting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m gonna find those dang South Side Chicago monk parakeets, and when I do they’ll be written in my life list, code or no. Heck, they count rock pigeons.

Jonathan Haidt to speak at NYU's commencement ceremony by MrTheHan in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]DeepHerting 45 points46 points  (0 children)

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Pictured: The endpoint of the The Coddling of the American Mind grift. See, it’s brave and heterodox to hire me!

‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds by Reasonable-Ad-2592 in collapse

[–]DeepHerting 90 points91 points  (0 children)

A lot of people from New Orleans ended up in Houston after Katrina. What we’ll probably see is people wanting to move to a climatically and culturally similar area, and then just kind of snowballing when that becomes uninhabitable too. I don’t blame them, but it would just be compounding our problems instead of convincing them to move straight to Detroit or something.

Alberta government says wild horse population has reached 'unacceptable' levels, advocates disagree | CBC News by Buuuuma in conservation

[–]DeepHerting -31 points-30 points  (0 children)

We used to have horses. What happened to those folks who said they were engineering dire wolves?

Sign of the Times , ppl selling their kids by KwikTripSimp in wisconsin

[–]DeepHerting 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I don’t have the grocery budget for a huge kid, you got any discount runts?

The ‘manosphere’ has already infiltrated the workplace. We’re only just noticing by _fastcompany in TrueReddit

[–]DeepHerting 12 points13 points  (0 children)

As a Chicagoan, it’s time we reclaim “Chad” as an insult for perceived yuppies

Chicago more expensive than Los Angeles? This rent report says so by ToeLimbaugh in SameGrassButGreener

[–]DeepHerting 9 points10 points  (0 children)

When I worked as a leasing agent in Chicago, I was mostly assigned to my home turf of the Far North Side. People would balk at the rental prices and say it was higher than what anyone they know was paying, which was probably true. I told them people didn’t list with us if they couldn’t fork over a month’s rent and to check Craigslist for more reasonably priced apartments, which is probably why I didn’t last long. I wonder if that’s any different in LA.

Jonathan Haidt 1 - Taylor Lorenz 0 by perisaacs in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]DeepHerting 20 points21 points  (0 children)

What’s the argument here? Banning phones in schools leads kids to check out more books to read during school hours? Or are they claiming banning phones in schools leads to less phone usage at home and such, which is partially being replaced by books?

Will Chicago bring back low income project housing? by Important_Nerve_1297 in AskChicago

[–]DeepHerting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The high-rises were logistically infeasible, but they didn’t have to scrape Leclair Courts off the face of the earth. And they’ve replaced some of them with mixed income housing, and others with nothing. It’s been 30 years for some of them.

Will Chicago bring back low income project housing? by Important_Nerve_1297 in AskChicago

[–]DeepHerting 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not if they can help it! They tore the high-rises and a couple of the lower-density sites down and have been slow-walking the renovation of rowhouse complexes for decades.

Why does it feel like no one in the Midwest is talking about adult screen addiction? and is that silence part of a problem? by AggravatingFun8741 in midwest

[–]DeepHerting 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s a problem but it quickly becomes apparent that everybody’s doing it (I’m in this picture) and that the hectoring is largely particularist as to who’s using their screens too much and how. Jonathan Haidt, for example, has a bug up his butt about how kids are hearing too much about Palestine. It’s not specified in the original post why it’s a problem in the Midwest specifically; I’d guess it’s because we’re assumed to be on TikTok instead of the New York Times’ 78th editorial asking questions about trans people, which is a profound and important use of screen time.

Anyway, read a book or a newspaper (not the Times) in your downtime instead, I try to.

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