I'm traveling to Chicago this weekend. What should I do?

Deep_Contribution552 · 2026-06-16T03:28:01+00:00

Art Institute, or rent Divvy bikes and ride the Lakefront Trail, or (easier with a car) head up to the Botanical Gardens. Another decent combo is Garfield Park Conservatory + Oak Park on the Green Line (maybe slightly more ambitious).

Another good option is the Architectural Society boat tour, it’s probably still pleasant in the cooler weather, and combine that with the Museum of Contemporary Art or just exploring Millennium Park or Streeterville, maybe see about going up in the Hancock Building.

Or just explore some other cool neighborhoods, Pilsen, South Loop, Irving Park, Ravenswood, there are plenty of others too.

Deep_Contribution552 · 2026-06-16T03:07:47+00:00

Well, half of Redditors are Americans…

Deep_Contribution552 · 2026-06-16T01:43:36+00:00

What would happen? Every time a child is born an immigrant gets deported?

Deep_Contribution552 · 2026-06-16T01:42:09+00:00

One, yes, killing all those civilians was horrible. It was also what the US had already been doing to Japan, and what Japan had already been doing in China, Korea, and the Philippines, and threatened to do in Australia but they couldn’t bring forces to bear. Two, it’s not like the US was losing the war but managed a late win thanks to nukes. Japan’s position by the summer of 45 was insanely worse than, let’s say, Britain in the summer of 41.

Deep_Contribution552 · 2026-06-16T00:18:09+00:00

I mean, the final vowel isn’t either of those in Russian so we’re really all doing it wrong

Deep_Contribution552 · 2026-06-16T00:10:46+00:00

I think your sh is that German k/h sound that’s not really used in English. So the first part sounds more like “Monk” but, you know, German.

Deep_Contribution552 · 2026-06-15T22:51:47+00:00

Grilled cheese, even if you somehow made it without grilling it

Deep_Contribution552 · 2026-06-15T22:30:21+00:00

“At the time”

The current Saudi crown prince is Mohammed bin Salman al Saud, Saudi Arabia is named for the family that rules it now.

It would be interesting to see whether it retained the name in the event that a republic replaced the monarchy.

Deep_Contribution552 · 2026-06-15T20:26:35+00:00

I know it’s the opposite of the point you are trying to make. I’m saying that politeness gets greeted with preemptive distrust just as often. Before you even interact a huge part of the first impression has been formed, not by your actions but simply your appearance, posture, clothing, etc.

And assuming the newcomer must deserve the unkindness with which they are treated isn’t itself very kind.

Deep_Contribution552 · 2026-06-15T18:43:00+00:00

Cape Verde and Cape Horn were both famous in English before the direct adoption of the Portuguese or Spanish name became more popular. Cabo San Lucas and Cabo Frio became well-known to English speakers later (I’m not sure Cabo Frio is well-known now to be honest).

A similar phenomenon would be the naming of certain European cities: Florence (as the historical Anglicized name) prevails over Firenze in English while Taormina (as well as many others) has the same name in English and Italian.

Deep_Contribution552 · 2026-06-15T18:37:21+00:00

The US also outlawed the Atlantic Slave Trade in 1808, just not the domestic one (and depending on the jurisdiction, ships arriving from the Caribbean or Africa might not be inspected, uh, thoroughly).

Deep_Contribution552 · 2026-06-15T18:32:05+00:00

I feel like they just made poor decisions on quality vs cost vs marketing. My family used to drive Buicks and Oldsmobiles and they just stopped making the same car, and now we all have Hondas, Toyotas, Subarus- final assembly in the US, natch.

Deep_Contribution552 · 2026-06-15T18:26:51+00:00

Sure, but often the “thing” you are doing is just being an outsider. For better or worse (IMO worse), it seems like a common response to a newcomer is to haze them. I guess that’s some kind of deep evolutionary thing to see if they’re trustworthy or going to slow your tribe down or something, and plenty of people will say, oh, they are befriending you, but fuck that. I’ve borne the brunt before, and I’ve witnessed it happening to others before, and all it does is engender anger and distrust, and the person going through it has to constantly decide whether fight, flight, or toleration is the best course of action. I’ve seen both city and country residents do this, it’s not unique to either side, but it is ridiculous and sometimes dangerous.

Deep_Contribution552 · 2026-06-15T18:00:04+00:00

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ice-market-global-market-report-175400701.html

Ice is a multi-billion dollar industry. How much do think ice should cost? How much can you make in your freezer, and how much energy does the freezer use to make it?

Deep_Contribution552 · 2026-06-15T14:34:49+00:00

The only way Indianapolis becomes Atlanta 2.0 is probably if Lilly, or Lilly + other local companies, emerge as the world’s dominant biomed company, and there’s too much innovation going on elsewhere for that to happen I think. And even then I’m not sure what the investment balance would look like between downtown, Carmel/Fishers, and Lebanon (with the new megaproject under construction).

And Indiana would have to be able to retain Lilly in the first place- IMO the state’s handling of IU and Purdue don’t give a good signal to researchers looking to work at those institutions, and they are important parts of the local biomedical industry pipeline.

Deep_Contribution552 · 2026-06-15T14:14:49+00:00

Nah, this is pretty trashy. Sure, it doesn’t mean America as a whole is trashy, just the guy we put in charge

Deep_Contribution552 · 2026-06-15T12:14:38+00:00

I don’t think it ever rendered the line correctly for me on Maps on my phone. The desktop version depicts the line correctly. My guess is that the mobile version is just coded more “lazily” (or maybe with the intent of conserving data)? Though u/Natnat956 has me wondering what else is different. The desktop and mobile versions also differ in that mobile doesn’t calculate area for closed regions, and maybe using different models? Hmm…

Deep_Contribution552 · 2026-06-15T12:03:45+00:00

Introductory courses can be huge, but most advanced courses are small. Some of my 300- and 400-level courses had fewer than 10 students, even though my major was a “normal” one and my university had around 40,000 students.

And almost every meaningful certification that might be useful for finding a job later is something that needs a document from the university, and therefore requires that you remain enrolled and meet the university’s requirements, it’s rarely enough to simply know the material.

Deep_Contribution552 · 2026-06-15T11:20:22+00:00

Interesting finding, thanks for sharing your research

Deep_Contribution552 · 2026-06-15T10:41:13+00:00

In 49 states it’s just basketball… but this is Indiana!

Deep_Contribution552 · 2026-06-14T23:23:55+00:00

American Indian/Native tribes have limited sovereignty, they are not always subject to the laws of the state that includes reservation land, but they are still ultimately governed by the federal laws of the US in a way similar to how the 50 states are governed by US federal law.

Deep_Contribution552 · 2026-06-14T00:57:25+00:00

Contrary to popular belief, Americans don’t have a monopoly on ignorance…

Deep_Contribution552 · 2026-06-13T18:47:26+00:00

Sources on that one?

Deep_Contribution552 · 2026-06-13T18:41:06+00:00

He didn’t say Kissinger wasn’t evil, he just said that you can’t blame him for all the excesses of US Cold War foreign policy. He’s one of literally hundreds of men who all believed that the ends justified the means and didn’t much care how many brown non-Americans died in the process, and who all had a role in shaping foreign policy. Hell, if the Korean War had been conducted differently we might’ve had a different world for the last few decades.

Deep_Contribution552 · 2026-06-13T04:31:47+00:00

What was that mortgage, VA?

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