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> Can you imagine a venue refusing entry to former clients 2% of the time just because they’ve “improved their experience”? This reminds me almost precisely of the dynamics of pro …

Yeah, also the fact that most venues take a cut of merch sales really dampens the idea that buying merch directly from artists is the best way to put money in their pocket. I even …

I was reading an interview with the band "Agriculture" recently and they had a really interesting take on this. From this interview https://www.treblezine.com/agriculture-interview…

Sure, when you compare a "nice suburb" to a "rough area" of the city you'll come to such conclusions. But if the city you lived in is anything like mine, that disorder you experien…

This music video perfectly captures the essence of 16-inch softball. I believe Serengeti still plays in a Chicago 16-inch league to this day.

One of the most recent inter-city routes to open, the Borealis service between Chicago and St. Paul, far surpassed expected ridership levels in its first year servicing 212K passen…

Literally had the same experience this past weekend driving out to the Chicago suburbs. Doesn't matter if general traffic is going 15 over, you're still going to have a handful of …

I'm glad you mentioned Genesis because they're the subject of one of my favorite samples. OutKast's famous track "SpottieOttieDopaliscious" contains a sample from Genesis's "Dancin…

My personal favorite is a provider that opted to have a separate endpoint for refesh tokens rather than following the spec and using the token endpoint with a refesh token grant ty…

The author of this article lives in La Grange which is a relatively wealthy Chicago Suburb (this is public information on her Twitter profile). Using those same 2019 FBI crime stat…

This is precisely what I do and it's great. Built myself a workstation desktop last year that I wanted to access remotely via an older laptop and it's worked beautifully, even when…

When my then 4 month-old was hospitalized with RSV last year, the medical staff told us the main issue with RSV in very young children (under 6 months) is that their respiratory sy…

My favorite thing about the touchscreen on the used car I bought 2 years ago is how the lower third of the screen no longer accepts any input. Given that many important buttons and…

It's easy to imagine how Twitter can be worse because you can just look at Facebook.

The pandemic really helped me confirm that I prefer the office. I always sought to establish a clear distinction between my work life and home life and the enforced work from home …

Yep, I remember that post as well. Was described as "Do-nothing scripting" and I've applied the concept as well. Original Article: https://blog.danslimmon.com/2019/07/15/do-nothing…

Presumably you don't park all of these cars at your residence. If so, I can imagine that factors into your difficulty in finding rentals.

I think there's merit to deliberately teaching concepts like analyzing the source of a particular news story. Coincidentally, it was an AP Euro course I took at my Illinois Highsch…

The problem with aggregators like this is they themselves have their own implicit bias in how they define the boundaries of the left and right. While sites like The Federalist and …

I agree 100%. I think hip-hop in particular makes it very easy to trace these relations with it's heavy use of samples and collaboration. For example, Common's Album "Be" is the al…

Is there a reason you chose a link to the Media Research Center for the polling on healthcare rather than the poll itself[1]? The Media Research Center (MRC) is unapologetically op…