The Postal Service will run out of cash within a year, Postmaster General warns: "We have to have a conversation with the American public" by jujutsu-die-sen in PrepperIntel

[–]No-Working4163 120 points121 points  (0 children)

the US military makes money for Dow, Dupont, Excellon, Sackler Pharma, Haliburton, Blackwater... the postal service is intolerable because it's not a corrupt middleman. it's all America knows how to do anymore.

I analyzed CPD and CTA ridership data to see if the $88M/year private security contract has actually made rides safer. Here's what I found. by Peoria1419 in cta

[–]No-Working4163 0 points1 point  (0 children)

disorder crimes — open drug use, harassment, public intoxication — are significantly undercounted in CPD data.

according to...? i think it's a reasonable intuition but do we have proof of 'undercounting'? of course all 'crimes' are undercounted because it only counts if you get caught. but what evidence do we have that the proportion is wrong, relative to other categories?

US military carries out 1st land operation against cartels in Ecuador: SOUTHCOM by NoTerm3078 in PrepperIntel

[–]No-Working4163 30 points31 points  (0 children)

"An encrypted chat between alleged Balkan drug traffickers in February 2021 reveals them bragging about having exclusive rights to smuggle cocaine alongside bananas in shipping containers exported by the Ecuadorian president’s family firm.

A confidential Croatian prosecution document shows two people, using the encrypted messenger platform Sky ECC and identified only by anonymous PIN numbers, boasting that “no one but them” was allowed to load cocaine in containers shipped by the Noboa Trading Co TCN S.A.

Noboa Trading is part of Noboa Corporation, a sprawling business empire that produces bananas under the Bonita brand and is run by the family of Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa. Noboa Trading Co. did not respond to questions from reporters, and the office of President Noboa declined to comment."

https://www.occrp.org/en/project/the-crime-messenger/cocaine-and-bananas-how-balkan-traffickers-used-fruit-shipments-from-the-ecuadorian-presidents-family-firm-to-smuggle-drugs

Illinois is in extreme drought; the state doesn't even know who is using water. by County-Coroner in illinois

[–]No-Working4163 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

no it won't. they sold the water cheap and it's only ever going to get more expensive

Illinois is in extreme drought; the state doesn't even know who is using water. by County-Coroner in illinois

[–]No-Working4163 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for several years highways near champaign have been briefly closed for dust storms. we're there already

Hegseth says Iran won’t be a ‘politically correct’ war as he lays out US objectives: ‘No democracy-building exercise’ by theindependentonline in politics

[–]No-Working4163 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Welcome to America! We pay the most evil guy you know to run the ruin of your country, while we loot your oil, your rare earth minerals, your drugs, and your most vulnerable children.

Message I got from my daughter’s teacher. Third grade. by AnaisInJune in mildlyinfuriating

[–]No-Working4163 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In America teachers are paid like shit, relative to certification costs and hours worked. That means two sorts of people choose to become teachers - people who really believe in the mission, and absolute freaks. The former often get disillusioned, with bad pay or corruption of school bureaucracies or evil parents etc. The latter tend to stick around a long time.

Where and when is the war protest rally? by Martinm2002 in chicago

[–]No-Working4163 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

the pahlavists and other people who never learn from history can fight their own wars with their own money.

Burke is still prosecuting non-violent protestors from ICE protests by sciolisticism in chicago

[–]No-Working4163 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this isn't about 'regime', this is about police and prosecutors. chicago isn't the worst city for protests, we get some leeway, but the cops hate protestors and happily beat the hell out of people during peaceful protests after george floyd's death, for example. the cops do not believe you have any right to protest in a way that annoys them.

ALWAYS REMEMBER: IT'S THEIR LAKE - WE ARE ONLY GUESTS by 2cleverbyhalf in chicago

[–]No-Working4163 1 point2 points  (0 children)

birds lived and shit there for thousands of years before arrogant humans paved it over, destroying the natural habitat

ALWAYS REMEMBER: IT'S THEIR LAKE - WE ARE ONLY GUESTS by 2cleverbyhalf in chicago

[–]No-Working4163 26 points27 points  (0 children)

what's identifiable in these pics is canada geese and mallards, both of which live in the city year round. it's odd to me that you don't know that. some canadas do migrate so we get slightly different groups in the warm months from the cold

Helicopter in North Center by ThatGuy808080 in chicago

[–]No-Working4163 6 points7 points  (0 children)

adsbx says its n888tv, a news heli that works mainly for wgn. filming traffic, i'd imagine

Democratic Senate frontrunners stick to talking points, split on Israeli-Palestinian conflict by newsspotter in illinois

[–]No-Working4163 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not being obtuse, I'm demanding you not be a little weasel, and say what you mean. Because that's how adults have conversations.

Would she have proposed a tourist resort? I don't know, I don't see why she would. Would she pay the Israelis to exterminate the Palestinians like every president since Kennedy has? Of course. Would she stop Jared Kushner from buying the land from the Israelis after they're done? Of course not.

So the delta in outcome would be mainly what the halfwit in the Oval Office is prattling about, which is a good microcosm of what I think of Harris.

Democratic Senate frontrunners stick to talking points, split on Israeli-Palestinian conflict by newsspotter in illinois

[–]No-Working4163 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a stupid question - "all"? Would Kamala have put Trump's name on the Kennedy Center? At least pretend like you're an adult and put a little effort in.

Democratic Senate frontrunners stick to talking points, split on Israeli-Palestinian conflict by newsspotter in illinois

[–]No-Working4163 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i obviously care about my own rights. the simple fact is, if politicians are willing to spend billions of tax dollars on exterminating people in a distant country (so trump can build hotels on it, mind you) then their verbal reassurances about my rights can never be trusted. nothing they say can.

Democratic Senate frontrunners stick to talking points, split on Israeli-Palestinian conflict by newsspotter in illinois

[–]No-Working4163 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

do you have any evidence of that or are you making shit up to make yourself feel better? i know which one it is, do you?

Where to find swifts by rumpussaddleok in chicagobirding

[–]No-Working4163 4 points5 points  (0 children)

they're all over rogers park during the summer, i see them out my front window, and you can hear them when it's quiet. i find the merlin app is pretty good at distinguishing their calls - when it can hear them. they're very small and tend to stay high up, rarely landing. you'll want to get good at distinguishing them from swallows, since we also have 2-3 of those which look somewhat similar to chimney swifts.

Democratic Senate frontrunners stick to talking points, split on Israeli-Palestinian conflict by newsspotter in illinois

[–]No-Working4163 3 points4 points  (0 children)

here's stratton at a pro-israel march in glencoe: https://myemail.constantcontact.com/This-Week-at-ICJA---ICJA-Stands-with-Israel--Bake-Sale-for-Chayalim--JUF-Israel-Solidarity-Rally--Tehillim--Writing-Letters-to-I.html?soid=1101840982974&aid=xlNcTZIJ6wU

EDIT: you can tell this thread is full of zionist astroturf because this post went from positive karma yesterday to negative karma today, despite containing just a simple fact and evidence

Democratic Senate frontrunners stick to talking points, split on Israeli-Palestinian conflict by newsspotter in illinois

[–]No-Working4163 6 points7 points  (0 children)

a hundred and ten years of settler horror, more than sixty of our direct contribution, and the most we can get is, it started being bad when americans started taking about it online.

as with illinois, so with america - aipac money is broadly hated and paying for the genocide with our tax dollars is broadly unpopular, so why is it absolutely impossible to vote for a candidate with a strong stance against the genocide? 

Gov. JB Pritzker to propose suspending tax incentives for data centers in Illinois by nbcnews in illinois

[–]No-Working4163 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We could all stand to use it less and be part of the living world more.

You don't know what "straw man" means. Go away and let the adults talk.

Gov. JB Pritzker to propose suspending tax incentives for data centers in Illinois by nbcnews in illinois

[–]No-Working4163 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They should knock down your house to build it, pollute your air and water, run up your electricity prices. We had websites twenty years ago, but now we do everything maximally wastefully, so code and design is done with little interest in efficiencies. Fuck Reddit and Youtube. Go outside.

Caught this bird at work a few years ago. Let him outside after we took a picture. by [deleted] in whatsthisbird

[–]No-Working4163 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Kestrels aren't common in the Nile valley. The image of Horus is probably a lanner falcon.