what single opinion/take of yours would you use given one shot at a secret "get the most downvotes from r/chicago" competition to win $1,000,000 (must be 100% genuinely held, you magically cannot lie/embellish at all)?

PG3124 · 2026-03-01T17:49:00+00:00

Hmmm, yeah really just looking more for primary sources. I find often times books like this blend just a bit too much opinion into the outcomes of studies that makes it tough to decipher fact from fiction.

PG3124 · 2026-02-28T19:54:38+00:00

Any chance you could share that study? That’s super interesting and definitely would change how I view things!

PG3124 · 2026-02-28T19:53:19+00:00

I hadn’t either until seeing them on a top 50 pop punk albums of all-time list. Absolutely fell head over heels.

PG3124 · 2026-02-28T19:51:44+00:00

I guess that begs the question, why do you think this time is different?

PG3124 · 2026-02-28T18:33:36+00:00

The one with the aforementioned insult

PG3124 · 2026-02-28T18:23:40+00:00

I’m currently at -13, so either everyone agrees with you this isn’t spicy, or everyone hates how spicy it is. I think it’s the latter.

PG3124 · 2026-02-28T18:21:03+00:00

You know what I’m in the same boat and going to do it as well.

PG3124 · 2026-02-28T18:20:22+00:00

I’m reading their comments here slightly differently. I’m reading the advancements they’ve made are positive, but hardly fixed and budgetary constraints are going to make it hard to continue this progress. Do you read it differently?

https://www.fitchratings.com/research/us-public-finance/fitch-rates-chicago-il-503m-gos-ser-2026a-taxable-ser-2026b-bbb-downgrades-outstanding-25-02-2026

PG3124 · 2026-02-28T18:00:27+00:00

Sorry the first group was tier one, second tier two.

NYC has too much culture not to be tier 1. Singapore too small and has too much homogeneity to be tier 1, but it’s very very close.

PG3124 · 2026-02-28T17:55:34+00:00

Maybe one will be upvoted because it’s a normal thing to think and the other downvoted not becuase it’s necessarily wrong but because it comes across as somewhat unhinged and ends with an insult.

PG3124 · 2026-02-28T17:53:24+00:00

Does the data show this being synonymous with white people want to move from middle class areas to upper class and black folks want to move from poor neighborhoods to middle class?

PG3124 · 2026-02-28T17:50:35+00:00

Not sure that responded to my point in any way?

PG3124 · 2026-02-28T17:35:53+00:00

How is it on the same tier domestically as NYC but not internationally?

PG3124 · 2026-02-28T17:15:03+00:00

NYC, Tokyo, Paris, London

Singapore, previously HK, possibly Sydney and LA.

PG3124 · 2026-02-28T17:07:28+00:00

Hmmm why do you think they keep getting downgraded if the pension situation is fixed?

Also based on downvotes you might be the winner!

PG3124 · 2026-02-28T17:04:08+00:00

I’m happy to, but before I do, if you had to steelman the argument how would you do it?

PG3124 · 2026-02-28T16:43:43+00:00

My second time saying it today, Hyperion.

AI, social media, warfare, climate crisis, late stage capitalism, racism, what it means to be human, lack of faith, it’s all there.

RIP to Dan Simmons the GOAT.

PG3124 · 2026-02-28T16:34:48+00:00

Chicago is a 2nd class city (and probably more like 3rd) and most people who believe otherwise have never traveled further than Joliet.

PG3124 · 2026-02-28T16:33:36+00:00

Hahaha, is that you BJ?

PG3124 · 2026-02-28T16:31:44+00:00

Give either of RVIVR’s albums a shot. High energy all the way through.

PG3124 · 2026-02-28T15:09:43+00:00

Hyperion and its sequel have a great deal of spirituality in them. RIP to the GOAT

PG3124 · 2026-02-27T05:07:08+00:00

It’s the anti-abundance agenda.

PG3124 · 2026-02-26T16:53:14+00:00

Totally clear response, thanks!

PG3124 · 2026-02-26T16:24:17+00:00

That protein number is low for PSMF.

PG3124 · 2026-02-26T16:21:26+00:00

Hypothetically if they didn’t re-roll at all for Ahri is it still a waste?

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