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Literally DAYS after getting married (audacity ) and therefore securing an income, mediocre Physics youtuber contracted a fake illness called 'Long COVID', which has no medical basis in reality.
She very much enjoyed the free money and attention being rained over her in volumes that were far greater than they ever were when she was making videos about hecking science.
However, this career move seems to have dried up since Fresh competition has now shown up on the scene and is drawing the attention of her simps.
Though her years of living out the female fantasy of being a waking corpse are behind her, the reality of having wasted several fertile years on a grift may dawn on her soon.
What causes a sufferer of 'Long COVID' to suddenly recover with no apparent changes to treatment? Are there any other diseases that suddenly go into remission with no impetus? It's one of the many mysteries about the female body that doctors must investigate, like why PCOS magically stops existing when you lose 20lbs. We'll just never know.
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Chicago LandStacy Suzie Wilson owns 800 vacant lots in Chicago, and the city has fined her $15M for trash that other people have dumped on the properties.
Vacant land is cheap (one property in question cost $3k) and has low property taxes. A real estate company in cahoots with a friendly assessor could buy up vacant land for cheap, have it appraised at its max value, and use that as collateral against more profitable investments. (There's no evidence Wilson did this, just a reason why you might buy 800 empty lots). You might also just flip them later for more.
It's a common scam in Chicago to get someone to pay you to haul off some trash, then drive around the corner and dump it on the ground. Tires are even better for this because you can claim a "hazmat disposal fee" of $25/tire and then just push it off your truck somewhere.
But the city requires you to maintain all properties you own, and will fine you for "harboring rats" which means basically having a pile of anything on your property.
Now, as far as I can tell, there are no actual tenants who have been wronged, just angry neighbors, but you know how Reddit hates Persons of Land. Redditors and other rentoids are calling for jail or worse.
THE PUNCHLINE: She formed a company in North Dakota to manage the properties called FCOC (Frick the City of Chicago).
Comments from Block Club's instagram post:
https://instagram.com/reel/DFVsjF_P1_A/
"How is one person able to own 812 properties in just a few neighborhoods in the city, that's insane"
Yeah the government should tell you how much of any one thing you should own.
"You know what would be great for all these lots. Not just to put buildings on them but to make small Parks."
The rent is too high! Also, limit the supply of housing.
https://instagram.com/p/DFImltvubhk/
"These type of families have been a burden on Black families for a long time."
Black families want vacant lots?
"PRISON. She & her sister should be in prison for doing what they've done to these areas. And it is NO surprise that they chose these locations to let their properties go to heck. It shld be illegal to own this many possibly residential properties, particularly so concentratedly."
Prison for not picking up old tires someone else dumped on your land.
"I hope these properties go to people who can take care of them and rebuild communities."
Nope they are being sold to corporate landlords only, for development.
"the way this sale is structured individual buyers will not be allowed to purchase/bid on properties. Only corporate/foreign investors can surmount the requirements."
"White privilege and Chicago lack of accountability"
No way to talk about a PoL
"Suburbanites buy these properties to devalue black communities by driving property values down while property taxes go up. Gentrification."
Yeah, she bought those empty lots and racked up those fines to OWN Black communities.
"lynching lanlords all 25"
Democrats do love a lynching
"How did they get to own 800 in a city they don't live in? amerikkka the criminal enterprise country allows it is how."
I mean, she lives in the west suburbs. The kkk was in the original post, not an rdrama substitution.
https://old.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/1cdzijf/suzie_b_wilson_king_of_rats/
"At what point does this become criminal instead of civil?" "
"415 ILCS 5/21, prohibits the open dumping of waste. Section 55(a) of the Act, 415 ILCS 5/55 (a), prohibits open dumping of used or waste tires.
It is criminal. There is a statute on the books making it crime, so it's a criminal offense."
Well, yeah, if you're the one that dumped the trash.
"She should be in jail. Don't pay your tickets, go to jail. "
ABOLISH PRISONS! ALSO JAIL PEOPLE FOR LITTERING!
"Hope she gets cancer."
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I had a small role in recruiting this man. He'd spent the last ten years leading engineering teams on a consumer product you've probably used, and he's just arrived in DC to work with the federal government. He started on Monday, and it's now Thursday night. I run into him at an event. He arrives late, and looks shellshocked.
How's it going? He's struggling to put words together. I'm worried. "I just left the office. I think everything's going to be okay." What is he talking about? "For the first day and a half, nothing. Then it was 'go to this agency and help them with this thing. It needs to go live on Thursday and there's a problem.' Yes, there was a problem. The data the service relied onโฆ.I've never seen a database like that. Ever." What do you mean? "1993. The guy couldn't find any other way to make it work. The vendors would have taken too long even if someone could justify the budget. So he just hacked it at nights and over weekends. Used whatever he could find and taught himself how to use it. The machine is ancient. The software has just been running since then. I'm amazed he managed to keep it running this long. It's a miracle. Either no one knew, or no one cared โ my guess is that they were just happy to have something that worked at all. The guy's been keeping this going like thisโฆI meanโฆI had no ideaโฆI've never seenโฆ." He's shaking his head and looking past me.
What happened? "First we just had to make sure we could get the data out somehow, make sure we had a copy. I mean, these recordsโฆthey're the only copy. The whole system relies on this. People rely on this. To help real people. People who need help. If it had failedโฆ" He really is in shock.
"I'd just never seen anything like this. I was afraid if I even touched it, it would all go poof. We got it out. It's okayโฆ. It's okay nowโฆBut this guyโฆHe's been keeping this together for 23 yearsโฆ"
For a minute, I worry that he's angry. And that he might be angry at me for encouraging him to take this job. But I look in his eyes and it's not anger, it's awe. Respect. Admiration and gratitude for a public servant who has achieved the impossible. Made things work in spite of the rules, not because of them. "He made it work. He's the only guy who can run it. He knows it wouldn't work without him so he's deferred his retirement. I meanโฆhe's extraordinary."
Extraordinary. A Silicon Valley technologist, the kind of person we champion as a savior of government, thinks that a career civil servant beyond retirement age with sorely outdated technical skills is extraordinary.
That career civil servant's name is Jed. The system he started building in the 1980s and maintained for decades before my friend came along was called VACOLS, the Veterans Appeals Control and Locator System. It started out serving just 400 users, and expanded to 17,000 across multiple parts of the VA system. Logic Magazine later interviewed him, and the backstory is well worth a read.
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worst i've ever seen it is it just edgier /r/politics now or something
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Congrats to Mexico voters! ๐ฒ๐ฝ
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) February 3, 2025
*MEXICAN PRESIDENT SHEINBAUM SAYS HAD A GOOD CONVERSATION WITH TRUMP
*WILL DEPLOY 10,000 NATIONAL GUARD IMMEIDATLEY TO BORDER TO AVOID TRAFFICKING OF DRUGS TO U.S.
*TARIFFS DELAYED FOR A MONTH https://t.co/qJ4oI08guG
Blackface trusted the bean yenta to team up on Donald and he got fricked
She's kinda based for it tbh
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Definitely a transwoman. I feel it in my bones. - 28 bets
Terrible driving? 100% biofoid. - 288 bets
Only a moid could be that stupid. - 29 bets
We'll never know (wins if we don't find out who the pilot was before 2026) - 8 bets
Send me the article when we find out, and don't yap at me if we already know who the pilot is because:
A. That just means the bet is literally free money.
B. I don't watch the news.
C. It's almost midnight. Go to bed.
D. :marseysassy:
!remindme 24 hours "close the helipcotper"
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The past two nights I've been stuck around liberals that have stared into the abyss for too long. They claim that scared idiots like conservatives like simple answers. Yet the simple answer they cling to for their election lose is that America is racist and sexist.
Never mind the fact that compared to Biden, Kamala got 6 million less votes. Trump only went up by 3 million votes compared to his last presidential rub. The fact of the matter is no one liked her. She has a history of being unpopular.
They say that Trump is holding onto power so he doesn't go to prison. That makes zero sense because he could give himself a blanket pardon just like Biden gave his family.
I really wish these people weren't in so many of my social circles. I need to find ways to meet more regular people
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A Statement from U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Edward R. Martin Jr. pic.twitter.com/XlEmzSlbBq
— U.S. Attorney DC (@USAO_DC) February 3, 2025
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I am desperate for sleep, honey
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I'll find as it shows up.
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Something new is coming to the shops. โก๏ธ๐โก๏ธ officialsonichu.com/collections/... www.etsy.com/shop/Officia...
— CPU Jesus Christ Chan Sonichu Prime (@cpujcwcsprime.bsky.social) 2025-02-04T17:18:03.180Z
Chris' handlers still haven't figured out how to use the bluesky block features yet like they do on . Probably because nobody actually uses bluesky. Weens barely even try even though chris officially switched there to fight drumpv and elmo or whatever.
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This is going to have hilariously predictable consequences.
Prices will fall for things we produce & prices will climb for things we don't. When Trump had a much smaller trade war in 2018 the price of corn fell by 20% over 2 months because countervailing tarrifs and it wasn't until Rona that they recovered.
Futures started pricing this in on Friday (all grains were down, meat was up) but Monday is going to be fun. Anyone who owns a farm in the US and isn't a corp who can hedge this is fricked.
First consumer price to see movement is going to be onions as they don't have a futures market. Anything that's harvest to supermarket in days-weeks will be next, anything that gets sprayed with water/is refrigerated.
We are also going to see next week if congress are going to hide in the corner while their authority is being usurped or not. POTUS doesn't have authority to do tarrifs like this absent a declaration of war.
Edit: Canada have already announced countervailing tarrifs. https://globalnews.ca/news/10992959/donald-trump-tariffs-canada-feb-1/ waiting for the schedule and hoping they are troll enough to stick 100% on Teslas for the lulz.
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Holy shit it is bleak. There are three Harry Potter books in there and two Hunger Games books in there in the top 10 best books.
Then you compare it to the best books of the 20th century ( still one harry potter book in there in top 10 but they are still doing way better than the 21st century.
How did the quality of the "greatest" works fall down so quickly. It is like humanity has forgotten how to write anything with any depth anymore and it is all at the level of quality of teenage story writing.
Is it simply over for the writing genre as a whole or is it that the best quality writing is actually no longer being recognized as the best because it didn't sell enough copies nor got enough appreciation from writing critics, or is it that there is a complete disconnect between what the average person considers enjoyable writing and what is considered actually good high brow writing?
I think it is a shift in medium where all the people looking for depth and high quality in their literary works moved on to movies and video games instead and all who are still hanging around the writing genre are those who will pick a random niche and the general books based on lowest common denominator which is teenage angst or teenage wonderment slop.
What this means is that the writing genre is going to keep going further down in quality over time and we need to look at the possible extinction of reading one day if everything turns out to be possible to be done by video because people are clearly getting worse at appreciating literature while getting a whole lot better at their expectations and appreciation of better video entertainment content.
Conclusion:
In terms of ease of entry into the writing department this is the easiest time period. In terms of making money from it, likely one of the harder time periods. We can expect the quality of writing meant for general audiences to have reached the lowest floor and never rise above it again this generation. The Zoom zooms are too r-slurred when it comes to quality writing in just a book.
Also if you still read Harry Potter books, READ ANOTHER BOOK!
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america โjokingโ about invading canada is kind of like if a man and a woman were alone on a yacht and he joked about raping her
— zinnia (village retard) (@zinniaa_3) February 5, 2025
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I'm trans and I'm going to rpe you. I'm gonna call up all my goons and we're going to break into your house and rpe you until you're gaped far enough to fit a fire hydrant in there.
Should I call the fricking fbi, b-word?
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Coming soon! pic.twitter.com/BETCBf4s3N
— Gunther Eaglemanโข (@GuntherEagleman) February 5, 2025
โ Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) February 5, 2025
The Trump Resort, Gaza in 2030 pic.twitter.com/8ERR1Nyiz5
โ Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) February 5, 2025
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โ Hashem (@HashemAllMighty) February 5, 2025
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Thoughts? pic.twitter.com/5zn6HMLSJd
โ Jews Fight Back ๐บ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ฑ (@JewsFightBack) February 5, 2025
Think bigger pic.twitter.com/vxZJpXvxEq
โ Kitty Surprise (@KittySurprise1) February 5, 2025
Confetti was needed ๐ pic.twitter.com/H5TP1H2AIE
โ Caั ะee โก๏ธ๐ชถ (@CatShoshanna) February 5, 2025
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Top Drama
Relative Drama (takes into account the size of the subreddit)
Score | Post | Subreddit | Ratio | Comments |
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๐ค๐ค๐๐๐ | Trump Becomes First Fascist In History To Reduce Size Of Government | /r/babylonbee (40K) | 64% | 2483 |
๐ค๐๐๐๐ | Most of the Republicans I know have now come to their senses | /r/OptimistsUnite (192K) | 62% | 7098 |
๐ค๐๐๐๐ | Any pro-trump businesses? | /r/thousandoaks (6K) | 55% | 135 |
๐ค๐๐๐๐ | Nobody is Illegal Protest in Redding! | /r/Redding (13K) | 60% | 300 |
๐ค๐๐๐๐ | What are the pro-trump/maga businesses here? | /r/Fairbanks (15K) | 51% | 131 |
๐ค๐๐๐๐ | What can we do in Green Bay to protest? | /r/GreenBay (19K) | 51% | 157 |
๐ค๐๐๐๐ | Does Matt power it to the audience to be completely transparent? | /r/fansofcriticalrole (19K) | 50% | 148 |
๐ค๐๐๐๐ | ICE in Roanoke. What are we doing about it? | /r/roanoke (27K) | 52% | 213 |
๐ค๐๐๐๐ | Looking for queer/trans community | /r/westernmass (7K) | 49% | 38 |
๐ค๐๐๐๐ | Protest in Downtown Chattanooga โ Justice for Immigrants Now! | /r/Chattanooga (89K) | 57% | 563 |
autodrama: returning jobs to dramneurodivergents. Ping HeyMoon if there are any problems or you have a suggestion
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The embargo for reviews of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has lifted. We don't have a review on the site here at Polygon. This is not an editorial decision; we had hoped to review the game. On Jan. 2, Polygon requested a code for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 from Warhorse Studios, the studio behind the game, and received no response. On Jan. 7, we reached out to the PR firm working with Warhorse, who told us they were "not able to provide access. We'll let you know if this changes." We reached out to parent company Plaion on Jan. 9 as well โ no response. On Jan. 10, we saw our peers publishing early previews for the game. We re-upped our request and were again told we would not be given access.
This was very unusual. But this was the situation that transpired with Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. It can be difficult to tell when a studio's decision to withhold a code from a publication is intentional and personal. That's due in part to the fact that the process for getting advance review codes is about as rote and administrative as it gets. Sometimes, PR firms working for studios send us codes unsolicited in hopes we'll cover the game in question. Other times, we request codes from the game's representatives ourselves, several weeks ahead of the release date, and we get those codes when and if they are available.
As part of our final request for code on Jan. 10, Polygon's editor-in-chief Chris Plante contacted Plaion and Warhorse's PR firm to get a comment as to why we were denied advance access to the game. He stressed in his message that our hope is that this decision wasn't due to any personal bias against Polygon, nor motivated by any of our previous coverage of games made by Warhorse or any other. In short, we wanted to know: Was Polygon being blacklisted?
On Jan. 10, we did receive a response to this request stating that we could get one code for the game on launch day, Feb. 4. We did not receive any clarification as to how this decision was made. Nor did we receive the requested clarification on why the developers of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 declined to provide Polygon access to the game.
Because we will not receive access to this game until its public release, our review is nonetheless forthcoming but will not be published in time for its release date. We look forward to telling you more about this game in the weeks to come.
KIA Gloats
And now, for the why. From Charlie Hall's review (12 February 2018)
"The game is also not without its controversies. Warhorse is a team of more than 150 people, but the game's creative director has gone out of his way to rationalize his support of G*merGate, a loosely knit hate group that has devoted time to harassing women, people of color and journ*lists in the past. So outspoken is the studio's leadership on cultural issues that they have found it necessary to work with a German outlet to publish anti-fascist, anti-sexist and anti-racist statements prior to their game's launch."
Thank you for that completely unnecessary bank-shot that turned a poor review into a politically motivated hit piece. And you wonder why they weren't lining up for more of that?
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