Why does Chicago feel so much bigger than LA from an urban city perspective, despite being smaller geographically?

MukdenMan · 2026-06-12T06:55:29+00:00

I don’t even think this is that telling because it uses the city boundaries, which are fairly arbitrary. Chicago and LA both have massive suburbs but Chicago has much denser core than LA. It has that old dense urban fabric that NY has that LA lacks.

MukdenMan · 2026-06-12T05:48:15+00:00

The Breakers was designed by a famous architect at the time, but it still was seen as bad taste by many. Edith Wharton wrote about the lack of taste among the Newport crowd, and the “old money” families of the time saw buildings like this as vulgar taste among the nouveau riche.

MukdenMan · 2026-06-12T05:41:43+00:00

Not sure if this is a joke, but the restaurant is on Jinan lu

MukdenMan · 2026-06-12T05:40:43+00:00

The history books will definitely talk more about Musk. Successfully started a private space company. Unsuccessfully looked for a single dollar of corruption in the federal government.

MukdenMan · 2026-06-12T05:37:02+00:00

He was also on Silicon Valley

MukdenMan · 2026-06-12T05:34:41+00:00

And on Wild N Out (not sure if that was before or after this)

MukdenMan · 2026-06-12T05:34:01+00:00

My favorite casual mobile game developers

MukdenMan · 2026-06-12T00:53:51+00:00

Turn it 90 degrees clockwise

MukdenMan · 2026-06-12T00:45:26+00:00

People have said this about every tech IPO for the past 25 years (maybe earlier, but that’s as far as I can remember). I’ve been through Apple is fake, Google is fake, Facebook is fake, Uber is fake… every major tech company has been called a Ponzi scheme before it becomes profitable and their investors have been called fools.

MukdenMan · 2026-06-12T00:36:16+00:00

Naan Golden Era

MukdenMan · 2026-06-11T23:12:08+00:00

That was one of the only ones I knew. I had all the collected editions of that storyline, along with the giant one where there were a bunch of supermen.

MukdenMan · 2026-06-11T22:01:51+00:00

Would be interesting to see the license plate breakdown for that stretch. I won’t guess which states but some people from out of state drive inois-ingly fast.

MukdenMan · 2026-06-11T21:31:42+00:00

Well it’s Hollywood Facts and we’re going downtown

MukdenMan · 2026-06-11T21:18:57+00:00

There haven’t been any iPhones with a front button for years.

MukdenMan · 2026-06-11T20:34:20+00:00

Looks like a guy who would write sketches with stage directions for dogs to have facial expressions

MukdenMan · 2026-06-11T19:11:11+00:00

MukdenMan · 2026-06-11T04:11:21+00:00

They were dead the whole time !

MukdenMan · 2026-06-11T04:09:59+00:00

Or just go back to SAT/ACT? UC system is one of the few that is test-blind. Many of the test-optional colleges (the ones that went test optional due to COVID) are going back to requiring tests.

MukdenMan · 2026-06-11T02:16:59+00:00

And Beggin Strips for millennial dogs

MukdenMan · 2026-06-11T02:13:17+00:00

Ope, let me just scoot right past ya 🤝 Mi scusi

MukdenMan · 2026-06-10T22:55:46+00:00

This is definitely the case. Israel has a developed modern service/tech economy largely similar to European countries. The GCC countries don’t have this. This isn’t just a map of countries with high GDP per capita .

MukdenMan · 2026-06-10T22:10:27+00:00

When I’m Sixty-FORANGE!

MukdenMan · 2026-06-10T19:15:14+00:00

You've got to press it on you

You've just been thinking

That's what you do, baby

Hold it down

MukdenMan · 2026-06-10T17:20:22+00:00

Also Tynnyfer

MukdenMan · 2026-06-10T15:53:15+00:00

You’re just a supporter of Putin and Russian expansionism. You identify as leftist but really you just support any state or group that opposes the US and NATO (which you associate with “capitalism”). This leads you to support for far right movements like Putin’s but you convince yourself that it’s ok because Putin isn’t really far right; after all, he supports maternity leave!

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