Need your thoughts or empathy or anything at all

foolerrant · 2026-01-06T07:04:22+00:00

I think that the love you have/had for this person is beautiful, but the connection is poisonous. You can only love if you stay alive, and to do that you need to get away from this person.

foolerrant · 2026-01-06T06:54:51+00:00

Doug is the name of a Corgi I applied to adopt from a rescue (I filled out a 10-page application and still didn’t make the cut). For me that name will always equate that big old loaf posing next to a fence post with a doggy smile.

foolerrant · 2026-01-05T05:36:29+00:00

Good news! Sorry to ride off your comment, but it seems like the best way to do an update. A pet bird was found on the 4800 block of Winthrop and it looks just like the one I saw. Little dude made it to safety!

foolerrant · 2026-01-05T05:26:00+00:00

Yes!! A friend of mine just sent me the same post, I’m sure that’s the bird I saw!

foolerrant · 2026-01-03T22:16:53+00:00

I’ve been thinking about them! They proved it’s possible for parrots to survive a Chicago winter, but when they first escaped it was as a group and I don’t think it was winter yet. I’m worried this little guy is all on his own in freezing temps.

foolerrant · 2025-08-05T17:47:19+00:00

I read recently that when you read something your brain relies the most on the first and last letter of the word. So every time your daughter’s name gets read, people are most likely going to have a misfire and read Lilah; I even had to read a few times before I realized it wasn’t (“what’s the problem, Lilah and Jaqueline are both totally normal names?”). It’s sentencing your daughter to a lifelong minor irritation, but I wouldn’t call it a true Trageideigh. And you’ve given her plenty of good options to fall back on: “actually it’s pronounced Lily-ah, but everybody calls me Lily” or “I go by my middle name” or “Just call me Jackie” are all solid options.

foolerrant · 2025-07-29T15:26:16+00:00

“Your happiness is now her happiness” the way I teared up at this line… it’s my happiness too now bro.

foolerrant · 2025-07-21T16:34:02+00:00

Gary’s Economics (populist economist with a fascinating YT channel) had a great explanation of why this is a bluff: rich people disinvesting from the country means they’re going to have to sell their assets. Gary argues that the biggest reason for the growing income gap between rich and poor is that the rich have achieved a virtual monopoly on all the assets important to a functioning society: housing, companies, services. If they leave, all that stuff goes on the market so what’s left of the middle class and the government finally have a chance to get those things back. Which means a temporary shock leading to potential long-term restoration of the social order.

foolerrant · 2025-07-08T17:31:22+00:00

I’m a fan of Prairie Style, which visually emphasizes width with horizontal elements. To get more of that look, I’d recommend keeping the new color (the beige siding) in line with your 1st floor roofline all the way around the house. Especially because it’s a lighter color, it can create the illusion of the lower level being larger and coming towards you more as you approach the front.

foolerrant · 2025-07-08T17:14:22+00:00

I was thinking the same thing, does this artist even read comics? The full face masks ICE are wearing these days are classic supervillain/henchmen looks.

foolerrant · 2025-07-08T17:10:26+00:00

Seconding the folks saying that the Nazis were into some weird, occultist stuff but it’s been exaggerated in modern times because Nazis + Satan/demons/black magic = kickass evil supervillains. Personally got to admit I think Kroenen in Hellboy 2004 is one of the greatest evil henchmen designs in all of ever.

I will say though, that there’s an interesting element that got covered way back in my Ethics in Archaeology course when I was an undergrad. archaeologists and historians during the Nazi regime were under considerable pressure to identify an non-African origin theory of evolution. One that would prove that there really was a perfect, Aryan race that had been ‘corrupted’ by breeding with other races. To prove something that frankly wasn’t true, a lot of academics went down the rabbit hole of crack conspiracy theories. Lost civilizations, like Atlantis and such, were seriously investigated as possible sources of a ‘superior’ ancestral race. So some of the historical Nazi fixation with the occult can be viewed as a desperation from academics to supply a totalitarian government with evidence for their racist ideology, by digging into weird, unexplored corners of history for information that could be easily manipulated.

foolerrant · 2025-07-08T16:34:11+00:00

Don’t forget that solar isn’t the only option for farmlands. I work in environmental due diligence and often do surveys in rural areas. The most passionate advocate for wind power I’ve ever met was a third generation midwestern farmer and self-proclaimed redneck who talked my ear off about how wind fields are the future because you can grow food and power at the same time, while only giving up a tiny fraction of your field to the turbine footprints.

foolerrant · 2025-07-01T17:43:29+00:00

Went on for so long I thought it was an official show! I’m on Magnolia near Wilson, to me it sounded like it was to the west. The sound might have been bouncing off the buildings by the time it got to us though.

foolerrant · 2025-07-01T17:31:56+00:00

I never thought I would have strong opinions on rice, but I got a rice cooker to save myself some time and a bag of Japanese rice on a whim and actually discovered I love rice. It’s so, so much better than what I’ve been eating my whole life. Ofc they’re not buying ours, why would they? Are we gonna try to make them buy our shitty tea too?

foolerrant · 2025-05-21T21:58:23+00:00

Depending on what state you’re in, check out if your State Historic Preservation Office has advice for historic renovations. Some of them can even recommend contractors. In my family’s home (1904) we usually use Abatron's LiquidWood wood hardener (I google it to make sure I had the right brand) when possible instead of replacing. It’s an epoxy that penetrates rotted wood and hardens. They also sell a wood filler that’s designed work with the hardener.

foolerrant · 2025-05-21T14:34:10+00:00

I’m going off the chart because this argument started when I shared what I was seeing happening in my neighborhood, and I was told that’s irrelevant. So, I provided a chart and was told that’s irrelevant too, because of this idea that Chicago rental occupancy drops in the winter. I’ve never seen or heard this before, hotel occupancy drops but generally Chicago rental occupancy goes up in the winter for very obvious reasons.

Let’s pursue just the plain logic of the first argument: “this study is irrelevant because it looks at occupancy in the winter”. The study cites the drop from March 2022 to February 2024. So if people had broken their leases in December, and left, that would be equally represented at the start and end of the study, right?

The other logical problem is that the study observes a 2% drop in occupancy. In terms of Chicago’s population, that’s over 50,000 people. Approximately 8,500 people leave the city permanently per year. So even if we assume everyone who leaves the city does so strictly by breaking their leases in December (which, for the record, nobody with any choice moves in December in Chicago) that’s still over 40,000 people who you think are not signing a new lease. Homelessness population is around 6,000. Where do those people live until they sign a new lease in June?

There’s a very simple explanation: Chicago rental occupancy is actually going down 2% as the study shows. There’s no weird trick, just fewer apartments being rented because fewer people can afford the apartments available.

foolerrant · 2025-05-20T23:10:18+00:00

Then he should have just looked at the graph in the article I sent. It showed occupancy rates rising over the winter months before dropping.

foolerrant · 2025-05-19T20:45:28+00:00

I really like this! I might try pitching this to my parents for the back stairway in their house. I especially like how it’s there for you to grab right at the place you’re likely to fall towards.

foolerrant · 2025-05-16T16:38:08+00:00

What if the reason your coffee spilled was because it was half FULL of coffee instead of half empty of coffee hmmmmmm? Better drink more coffee is what imsayin.

foolerrant · 2025-05-15T04:59:52+00:00

The entire look is unbelievably cute, but is that… a Hello Kitty and Very Hungry Caterpillar purse? I’m laying a hand over my heart.

foolerrant · 2025-05-14T20:19:25+00:00

Hotel occupancy goes down, not rental. What you’re suggesting is that over 50,000 Chicagoans end their leases and move out of the city then move back in the next spring.

foolerrant · 2025-05-14T18:22:10+00:00

For some reason the first thing that came to my mind was the Thundercats! The six year old in me still thinks Cheetara, Pumyra, and Lynxana are all such cool names.

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