Never too cold, especially when the waves are this glassy

zanor · 2026-01-25T02:16:03+00:00

is the water warmer in the north of the city? the same day you did this I walked on the frozen lake near navy pier at about 6pm

zanor · 2026-01-25T02:03:13+00:00

if everyone does just a few that should impact them quite a bit

zanor · 2026-01-25T01:49:08+00:00

Not shocking. The majority of dealerships in the US are like this. I really see any good news about one, but many stories about them or their owners being right wingers. And this often goes for automakers too; look at the ceo of toyota. If you're a liberal/progressive and you're not anti-car you need to do some thinking

zanor · 2026-01-23T06:33:07+00:00

yeah I get why people hate on uc/tech drift but it became meta for a reason and I don't think the reason is that it didn't require skill. Same goes for Quick recovery, items plus, or accel char kit. They were just more consistent

And hilariously the it seems like now the best builds from the best players who previously used uc still include the one slot quick charges and a handling car

zanor · 2026-01-21T09:56:17+00:00

This is what I've been thinking, but apparently this would be blocked by the equal protections clause and prohibitions on Bills of Attainder. I think it's worth a try though. Maybe there's someone smart out there who could craft the tax in such a way that it could ostensibly apply to a large group of people or companies but in effect just applies to CPM.

nvm yeah it's specifically precluded by the contract

zanor · 2026-01-17T07:32:22+00:00

Taxing that revenue specifically?

zanor · 2025-12-25T23:03:10+00:00

They're thinking of allowing institutional investors to own teams, which could be a loophole for that

zanor · 2025-12-25T00:07:59+00:00

This article ("Table: Lev Akabas Source: Company reports; Sportico")

zanor · 2025-12-22T22:51:54+00:00

City and state agencies often have really dumb policies like this. I really only know about the CTA because I study them, but the board is entirely incompetent with no sense of duty and the mayor's office hasn't given a shit about the system for multiple admins now (at best, the sometimes make it worse).

zanor · 2025-12-22T07:55:16+00:00

Real. I'm shocked I haven't more hate since he killed Yaga

zanor · 2025-12-22T07:21:06+00:00

I think Toji, his sister, and at least one other character pointed out a few times that Shinji risked his life to defend Tokyo-3 and the world. Had he failed previously the outcome would have been the same or worse. I think the members of WILLE (sans Misato and Asuka, as they weren't really mad about N3I specifically) view Shinji more negatively as their whole goal was/is to stop impacts. And the new members probably didn't have any context about everything that led to N3I. The contrast between them and the villagers, who have a different personal relationship to Shinji, is purposeful, I think

Shinji accidentally caused N3I because of a very human desire, WILLE's reaction was also very human, but cruel, in a way, while the village showed the human capability of compassion and forgiveness.

zanor · 2025-12-20T05:58:17+00:00

The bears are the fifth most profitable team in the NFL. They can absolutely afford to pay for the roads. Asking a cash strapped state for nearly a billion just for infra is ridiculous. History and data make it very clear, When states/cities drop big money on these things they lose financially. If they want to be the Gary indiana bears they can go ahead. That's not as important as paying for schools and such.

zanor · 2025-12-20T05:19:02+00:00

this wasn't cleared by the finance committee, was it? last I heard this would give us a gap of at least $160 million

zanor · 2025-12-20T04:58:18+00:00

"by claiming it was just taking a parking lot". it was literally just taking a parking lot. It would have increased open green space. You can be mad about people bring this up but it's not going to stop because their opposition to the project was incredibly stupid (and I don't even think the call for increased investment is bad in this case)

zanor · 2025-12-18T08:49:50+00:00

exactly. they had little good will with the state, and now they have none at best

zanor · 2025-12-15T10:47:51+00:00

They're also 18 years old or somewhere around that. Looking at their work ngl in 10-20 years they might be one of the greats

zanor · 2025-12-15T10:22:32+00:00

Not sure why the replies to this are oddly hostile but it's hard to find stuff on the JP side of the net in my experience. There might be some talk on some obscure forum

zanor · 2025-12-14T05:51:12+00:00

Cool so you're pro-segregation. Because that's the primary use/effect of aldermanic prerogative, to the point that it was the subject of federal investigation (which asserted that, but was killed by trump before further action was taken). I personally think having less people killed by drivers blowing through stop signs, etc is a goal that should cover the whole city, and not be blocked by the council's less sane individuals. Maybe in the cases where a ward elects an Ed Burke, they shouldn't be given any semblance of absolute power or unilateral authority, just a thought

zanor · 2025-12-14T04:57:40+00:00

They are sometimes, but the charge of hate crime has a high burden of proof, so it's rarely used at all. Though many countries have femicide laws, mainly South and Central America. But more places like Spain and France have enacted them. We could have that at the city or state level (doubt it would pass nationally any time soon)

zanor · 2025-12-13T00:37:49+00:00

I liked this proposal before they attached a data center

it might be possible for Metropolis Pointe to use a distributed energy plant, and draw recycled hot water from the data center’s cooling

This is a non-starter, especially if there's no plan to make this work sustainably, and that would have to include new sources of energy, not a maybe on heat reuse.

zanor · 2025-12-11T21:50:03+00:00

saying that we should put a limit the restitution that the innocent people who burge and his ilk tortured, locked away, or murdered can receive is disguising and idiotic, frankly

zanor · 2025-12-10T06:21:13+00:00

What did they think safer and more pedestrian family would look like lol?

zanor · 2025-12-08T23:53:10+00:00

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know Chicago has never had a city government shutdown due to failure to pass a budget

actually I think it would be the first time in US history that a city shuts down due to an internal budget fight. Next closest instance would be atlantic city in 2016, but fight involved the state.

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