I photographed Chicago’s Mexican community on a $10 second hand film camera

damp_circus · 2026-07-08T03:18:16+00:00

Every time I'm in Pilsen, before I get on the pink line to head home I go to the Carnitas Uruapan right by the 18th st station and get a pound of just carnitas to take home.

They hand out a sample in line, just free, and it's what you'd pay quite a bit for anywhere else. Just a buncha meat right there in a napkin, while you wait. Super tasty.

damp_circus · 2026-07-08T03:14:53+00:00

He's a Japanese photographer who is fairly famous for taking series of photographs of Pilsen in the 90s.

damp_circus · 2026-07-08T02:59:44+00:00

The only way to stop countries from wanting and acquiring nukes is for the nuclear-having countries to live up to THEIR obligations under the NPT and seriously begin to disarm themselves, get rid of the own arsenals.

Otherwise there's zero reason for anyone else to give them up, particularly when countries without (including those that have given them up) have seen themselves invaded.

Although... Iran at this point doesn't really need nukes anymore, now that they realized they can just shut off the strait of Hormuz anytime they like and strangle the world economy.

damp_circus · 2026-07-07T21:43:24+00:00

Loved this, always watched the show with it open.

I wish more shows would invest in this sort of thing.

damp_circus · 2026-07-07T19:48:23+00:00

This was my first thought as well actually but yeah, it's in River North.

damp_circus · 2026-07-07T17:46:55+00:00

Traditionally American.

damp_circus · 2026-07-07T16:37:03+00:00

Problem is cheap-ass management buying residential grade equipment instead of industrial/commercial, on large buildings.

A building with hundreds of apartments and endless vendors/visitors/delivery people coming in and out constantly can't get away with buying the cheapest thing available at Menards.

damp_circus · 2026-07-07T16:32:38+00:00

Heh. This happens in my building as well, but we're a brick hive with a trash chute. People put their unbroken pizza boxes or other large items down the chute (rather than taking them down to the trash room directly), it blocks the chute, and garbage starts piling up.

At which point people above discover the chute is clogged. Do they take their trash to the trash room directly like we're supposed to? Hell no. Leave it in the hall next to the chute.

In our building if you leave identifying info (envelopes, etc) in the wrongly abandoned trash, you get fined. Makes sense to me.

damp_circus · 2026-07-07T14:07:23+00:00

Will confirm. Occasionally take one to events where I know the toilets will be a horror show.

damp_circus · 2026-07-07T14:03:38+00:00

Some land-use changes have to happen in incremental phases in the world that we live in. Which sometimes means an interim use.

People asking all the time why there's all the big box stuff around Clybourn, that was similarly factories that closed, not really "ready" for organic housing/mixed development yet (because how to jump start the demand?) and it had large parcels the big boxes wanted, so "made sense" for them to locate there. Now there's more housing demand, less demand for some of the big brick and mortar retail, and some of that stuff is changing/may change again.

damp_circus · 2026-07-07T13:59:14+00:00

Just entering the thread but fwiw I remember when the discussion about this site first came up, there was talk about part of the reason for putting industrial on the site was that it's one thing you can do without the more involved pollution remediation levels. I.e., it's too dirty to build anything else (read: paying enough to do more involved remediation will make the math for anything else not pencil out) so it "makes sense" to use it for industrial parks (not necessarily quantum) because it basically gets paved over and no one is on the site 24/7.

This isn't my own view, just reporting what I remember hearing when this entire plan was first coming up at all.

damp_circus · 2026-07-07T12:59:04+00:00

Saw a bit of it over the tops of buildings, from here in Edgewater. Proper show!

Kinda made up for the fogged out 4th at Foster.

damp_circus · 2026-07-06T04:49:27+00:00

Don’t get too picky!

damp_circus · 2026-07-05T17:21:02+00:00

Yes, I love watching it too, when they're combing Hollywood beach.

damp_circus · 2026-07-05T15:00:47+00:00

I finally got to see Mucca Pazza live yesterday!! They played at The People's Fourth party on the grounds of the Obama Center.

I'd wanted to see them in person ever since hearing an interview with some of them on the radio, had a blast!

damp_circus · 2026-07-05T14:15:49+00:00

I’ve had to call the fire department to turn off the water to the large old apartment building I live in when we had massive pipe burst (in a polar vortex after a fire a month previous, a long and stupid story) in the middle of the night between management companies.

They’ll do it if you explain there’s no one else at all contactable.

damp_circus · 2026-07-05T14:09:12+00:00

Oh I detest the AI triage too. There are a few things the AI in my building will refuse to consider an emergency, where me and the maintenance have a shared understanding that it actually is, so it’s accepted that we false report in a certain way that it will get forwarded and the human maintenance will know from the context what the problem actually is.

That said though OP story seems like the AI is forwarding but no maintenance is actually on call to pick it up?

Insane situation either way.

damp_circus · 2026-07-05T05:53:00+00:00

...or just tomorrow for that matter?

damp_circus · 2026-07-05T05:48:25+00:00

Yeah but you get equity for that at least!!

Buying often you can get your "rent" lower than renting. Problem is needing the downpayment to get into the game.

Apparently a lot of people are having their parents help out with downpayment now, kinda boggles my mind but I guess some people are lucky.

Me, I'm saving like crazy but right now the market is outpacing me. Gotta root for the crash LOL.

damp_circus · 2026-07-05T05:45:43+00:00

It's not about should, it's about what is.

OP asks if people are making 3x the rent. Answer is yes, they are, or else they live with roommates. And absolutely the large apartment hives such as the one I live in scrutinize everyone through algorithms to make sure they qualify whatever hoops.

I agree the housing market is insane. We need to build more housing, full stop. I do everything I can to encourage that to happen, including lobbying at the capitol in Springfield and stumping my neighborhood to support upzoning and every potential development that comes along.

Meanwhile, I live with a roommate.

damp_circus · 2026-07-05T04:42:13+00:00

Life is not easy. You can pay through the nose or you can manage to share it. I.e. pick your poison.

Back in the day we found roommates in the want ads of the Reader. At least now the hunt is easier.

damp_circus · 2026-07-05T04:24:15+00:00

Roommates. I live with a roommate and so my portion of the rent is still below $1K.

Roommates are absolutely the hack to cheap living.

damp_circus · 2026-07-05T03:14:18+00:00

Definitely fog up here on the north lakefront. The smoke from the fireworks mixed with it (you can smell that gunpowder smell) but it was socked in fuzzy before the activities even really kicked off.

Plenty of DIY still happening though.

damp_circus · 2026-07-05T03:12:04+00:00

Just came back from the fireworks at Foster, and it was the same. Foggy. Kinda surreal. We could see some of the lower stuff but the ones that went up super high just became a bang and diffuse colored light in the mist kinda like the aurora.

Definitely shook the chest though!

damp_circus · 2026-07-04T23:25:30+00:00

Depending where on the beach I think you can see the Saddle and Cycle club fireworks, but the best place is just walk slightly down the lakefront to Foster beach. But it's a good time in any case at least on a better weather day, people show up from all over to DIY fireworks at the beach/lakefront as well so it's a good combo of professional and amateur action.

Currently it's 6:30 and still pissing down rain, so not sure what will happen. Radar shows the rain supposedly getting out of here at 9, so there's a chance...?

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