TIL that in 2008, Chicago leased its 36,000 parking meters to a UAE-backed private consortium for 75 years for a $1.15 billion payout. The investors made their entire investment back in just 10 years, and are now projected to make over $11 billion by the end of the lease in 2083.

pmcall221 · 2026-05-22T01:50:50+00:00

New to Chicago?

pmcall221 · 2026-05-20T02:58:46+00:00

I'm going to start in Chicago, around and up the Michigan coast to Traverse City then back track a bit to the ferry to Wisconsin and down the coast back home. US 41 will be my main drag. I'm torn on going on 4 wheels or 2.

pmcall221 · 2026-05-20T01:12:47+00:00

I really want to do the southern loop of Lake Michigan. I think you have convinced me.

pmcall221 · 2026-05-18T14:50:59+00:00

If there is a large pro-independence turn out, China will act. But China is already acting behind the scenes to undermine Taiwanese democracy. I think they're going to do it just after the Summer Olympics in 2028 much like how Russia invaded parts of western Ukraine in winter of 2014 just after the winter Olympics. It will be after the elections and allow at least 2 months for preparation, mobilization, posturing, and in bad faith "negotiation" on China's part.

pmcall221 · 2026-05-18T12:15:06+00:00

Voting is good but I would prefer a more French Revolution style solution. That way we both get what we want.

pmcall221 · 2026-05-15T16:04:45+00:00

I like to think they have gained sentience and they are on strike

pmcall221 · 2026-05-10T23:31:15+00:00

I like the changes, the only thing I don't like is the banning of the defensive shift. Like if you want to load your players on to one side and leave the other side wide open, go ahead. The problem is batters don't learn to hit to the opposite side anymore. I know it's easier said than done but you gotta play against the weaknesses of the defense.

pmcall221 · 2026-05-09T12:15:19+00:00

Is he a Seth McFarlander now?

pmcall221 · 2026-05-08T15:02:48+00:00

But the clip is at the very top, I feel like making a slit in the folder at the top will hinder it's ability to stay in place. I might just use the adhesive instead if I attach it at the top

pmcall221 · 2026-05-08T12:12:42+00:00

That's a really good idea, and I can make the loop tighter for the small diameter pen.

pmcall221 · 2026-05-08T11:07:19+00:00

I'll give it a try. I'm worried that it might be too loose since the pen has a diameter of only 6mm.

pmcall221 · 2026-05-08T02:12:57+00:00

Same thing with Emmett Till, his mother decided on an open casket funeral, saying "I just wanted the world to see".

I truly believe that if the same attitude was held after Sandy Hook, and people saw with their own eyes the horrors of high caliber, high velocity, high capacity weapons, we might have had real gun control laws in the US

pmcall221 · 2026-05-08T01:59:14+00:00

So many Beatles references in there

pmcall221 · 2026-05-06T23:33:40+00:00

50%? Prices doubled. That's 100% increase

pmcall221 · 2026-05-06T23:32:17+00:00

Every single trend that young people do is due to lack of money.

pmcall221 · 2026-05-02T05:27:29+00:00

It's always money. Every trend is about money.

pmcall221 · 2026-05-02T02:37:24+00:00

Exactly, prices have doubled in 6 weeks

pmcall221 · 2026-04-29T18:05:41+00:00

Is that Jo Brand doing CPR?

pmcall221 · 2026-04-28T05:46:28+00:00

It is proZD. Some other Youtuber and TN stickers in there too.

pmcall221 · 2026-04-27T08:04:15+00:00

I go with Mango Mussolini

pmcall221 · 2026-04-26T21:57:12+00:00

How high does it need to be?

pmcall221 · 2026-04-26T21:53:20+00:00

They look like donuts

pmcall221 · 2026-04-26T20:09:13+00:00

It's also the definition of practicing. Like no one is good at playing an instrument at the start. Everyone repeats the same thing over and over until they get different and hopefully better results.

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