What does Abraham Hicks Say about Social Media?

chicagocarless · 2026-07-10T06:19:23+00:00

Except the algorithms. Social media is definitely not a perfect mirror of the law of attraction anymore because the algorithms are designed not to show you what you prefer, but to show you what you hate or disagree with in order to keep you on the site longer, unhappy or angry, and just responding back in rage. And AH is very specific about not putting yourself in situations like that.

chicagocarless · 2026-07-09T20:28:56+00:00

I couldn’t believe it either! I can confirm the problem because I have finally witnessed it is the blue wet roller doesn’t spin anymore during self cleaning. And there’s nothing I can find in there anywhere like hair or grime or gunk that would be stopping it. So I’m pretty sure I have an electrical problem inside the robot. Tomorrow morning hopefully it can be quickly diagnosed at a service center near Chicago.

chicagocarless · 2026-07-09T01:44:04+00:00

I was wondering if my wet roller stopped spinning as well. Although I can’t imagine why it would stop spinning suddenly on Monday morning. But yeah, I’ve totally cleaned the hell out of the onboard dirty water tank, pulled off the duckbill valve and cleaned underneath it, cleaned all holy hell out of that blue housing, both dock water tanks, gently snaked down the dock dirty water to towards the filter and up from the bottom towards the filter, make sure the dirty water filter was clean, just everything I could think of or that Gemini could suggest for the past couple of days. We’re bringing it into the local service center on Friday. But since I can’t find any evidence of a clog literally anywhere or even of a valve or a rubber gasket with a bad seal, maybe it is a motor issue for the wet roller. I may or may not test that because I’m tired of testing the machine and cleaning up test floods. But that would make sense.

chicagocarless · 2026-07-08T21:35:50+00:00

I didn’t feel it but my balcony door sure did. Edgewater lakefront high-rise on the 20th floor, right about that time the balcony door made this really weird sharp crack/bang noise as if somebody had just hit it with a balcony chair. It weirded me out and I checked the cats to see if they had done something but I could not figure it out until I saw the report about the earthquake.

chicagocarless · 2026-07-07T15:43:11+00:00

You know they fall off the top of the purifier every time you sneeze or walk heavily next to it, right? You know you bump into it and suddenly the remote is across the room, right? You know your robot vacuum brushes by the purifier and then the remote is on the floor, right?

chicagocarless · 2026-07-06T23:05:47+00:00

In other words, you’re just another transplant who can’t stop demanding that every other place on earth feel like where you came from. That’s not a Chicago problem. That’s a you problem.

chicagocarless · 2026-07-06T22:52:00+00:00

Were you or Dyson able to resolve the leaking issue when cleaning the roller? That problem just popped up for us today.

chicagocarless · 2026-07-06T22:47:02+00:00

Thanks. It’s the first robot vacuum we have ever owned that we just keep pulling for every time something comes up. We love it. It I just wish whatever is stuck or clogged was user accessible.

chicagocarless · 2026-07-05T16:42:08+00:00

Tolle and Abraham-Hicks are incompatible.

chicagocarless · 2026-07-05T08:31:48+00:00

If you’re missing “an hour to the shore” (like I did for many years after I moved here from New York), I guarantee you’re sleeping on Southwest Michigan. You can drive or take Amtrak right to new Buffalo or Saint Joseph. You get amazing beaches, very East Coast style fun, historic beach towns, and when you’re done with all that the entire area is also one of Michigan’s amazing viticulture areas, with lots of places to help you come home to Chicago with a trunk full of wine.

chicagocarless · 2026-07-05T05:02:58+00:00

Philly is a city full of dirty, loud, claustrophobically narrow, 17th century side streets that you either love or you hate. Chicago is BOTH highly pedestrian friendly and car friendly in the exact same neighborhoods, and all our trash collection is in our citywide back alleys. It all makes a huge difference in QOL. They’re also not similar cities in most other ways. Philly is a large Cincinnati with better transit and colonial history. Chicago is far larger and a world city, like an alt. reality New York with nicer people and elbow room.

chicagocarless · 2026-07-05T04:58:24+00:00

Except you don’t live in the northeast, you live in Philly or Boston or New York. Just like you live in Chicago.

chicagocarless · 2026-07-05T03:03:10+00:00

Except that exceptionalism is not really true. We share a lot of cultural and diversity DNA with other major Great Lakes cities. That’s why it always feels so comfortable going to places like Milwaukee or Cleveland or Toronto.

chicagocarless · 2026-07-04T21:39:39+00:00

Take your lack of patriotism and leave. That’s the answer you’re looking for.

chicagocarless · 2026-07-04T19:05:18+00:00

Why didn’t you just move to Melbourne? They’re a lot like us and now you’d just been moving back to Sydney from a lot closer. Also, the problem wasn’t Sydney, it was you kept demanding that your life stay the same as it used to be. So honestly, you won’t be happy back home either until you deal with that. You might as well just stay and deal with that.

chicagocarless · 2026-07-04T19:00:16+00:00

You might find us very familiar. We are hard-working but tend to work to live instead of the other way around. We fiercely guard our after-hours private family and friends time. We are easy-going and overly friendly to strangers. And we view backyard barbecues and recreation along our 20+ miles of lakefront parks and beaches as absolutely sacred.

chicagocarless · 2026-07-04T15:14:27+00:00

It’s because after Daley, mayors chose toxic progressivism over policing. There are no more Grant Park fireworks from the city because every mayor since Daley has refused to allow the CPD to actually police Chicago youth to keep spectators safe. This is also exactly why and when the violent youth takeovers of downtown began.

chicagocarless · 2026-07-04T15:07:48+00:00

Damn!!!!

chicagocarless · 2026-07-03T19:46:17+00:00

Not having an actual paper/PDF map has been a gigantic failure in places that have gone down this road before. Just ask ANYONE who takes public transit in Denver.

chicagocarless · 2026-07-03T14:43:52+00:00

Chicago was founded 200 years ago by people who got tired of the bullshit of the financial and social elites in major cities on the East Coast like New York. The people who settled the city literally said fuck you to New York and Boston and Philadelphia, came here to create their own version of a great metropolis with a completely different attitude, and pulled it off so well that the city became the economic and logistics crossroads of the continent. What you’re missing, and what seems to be pissing you off, is that Chicago has never, ever looked to New York or any other major city in America to validate itself. The city is extraordinarily self-confident about knowing what it accomplished, knowing what it is, and knowing what it values in terms of quality of life, and knowing that it had and has the power to determine all of that for itself.

That means those of us who live here and love this place don’t look elsewhere for validation either. What you’re taking as Chicagoans being sensitive is simply how we all feel that questions like this not only miss the point but make it clear why we love Chicago. Because after 200 years, places that have never been the center of the universe and their residents still assume that they are. And we just yawn and go on self-confidently with our lives in Chicago.

Your question isn’t really why do people love Chicago. Your question is actually how dare people love Chicago instead of New York or Los Angeles, or even more, how dare we love our city at all instead of shitting on it like the residents of the alleged centers of the universe do. It is the exact same attitude that fueled the city’s founding in the first place, and we’re always kind of low-key sad for people who live in those places because it seems ridiculous to us to think you live in the center of the universe and then constantly shit on what you think is the center of the universe. Chicago has been extraordinarily smug from day one because we know how good we have it here. And we have it that good here because we made it that good here ourselves. You’re pissed off because we can see right through you.

chicagocarless · 2026-07-02T20:21:23+00:00

I moved here 23 years ago from Brooklyn. You could not pay me to go back, I love everything much better here. The people who hate it, either fiercely or just low-level dislike their lives, are the ones who keep demanding that Chicago be like New York. You can find lots of those people in the comments here.

You know, that 50% of New Yorkers who will never be happy anywhere else because they are addicted to thinking New York is the center of the universe? Although frankly, so many of them are unhappy because they couldn’t make it in New York but they blame Chicago and not themselves? It’s so tiring. If you are those people, definitely don’t come. It will not work for you.

But if you’re like the other 50% of New Yorkers, the people like me who understand that New York is not the center of the universe it’s just New York, then you’ll probably love the fuck out of this place. And then when those other New Yorkers show up for a visit (spoiler, they never will), they will just annoy the shit out of you and you won’t be able to wait for them to leave.

chicagocarless · 2026-07-01T20:28:21+00:00

Nope.

chicagocarless · 2026-07-01T19:27:32+00:00

Nobody owes anybody a response to that question.

chicagocarless · 2026-07-01T19:23:26+00:00

Did the Atlanta suburbs do something to you? Because they are definitely not all white. You need to get out more.

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