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.

https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/01/22/hundreds-of-south-and-west-side-properties-for-sale-amid-legal-fight-against-citys-worst-landowner/

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."

Here's what I did. I called my congressional representative (R) hoping to leave a message but instead his staff picked up. I awkwardly stumbled my way through why I think Elon Musk is insanity. Could tell the sweet little republican staffer hated her life so much as she said, "I'll pass that along." :) I also called my senators and complained again.

Finally, and my personal fave thing I did today, I rolled down my car windows on the way back from school drop off and BLARED the FDT rap by YG & Nippsey Hussle. I made one VT girl's day when she smiled at me because of the song and then I literally yelled "frick Donald Trump" at the top of my lungs. She started laughing in her car. I also made quite an impression on a car full of frat bros who probably voted for him.

Viva la revolución, Dramatards.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Virginia/comments/1ihjqfg/what_one_tiny_stupid_thing_are_you_doing_to_fight/

Burgers why are you like this?

Congrats to Mexico voters! 🇲🇽

*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

— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) February 3, 2025

Blackface trusted the bean yenta to team up on Donald and he got fricked

She's kinda based for it tbh

The r here stands for r-slurred btw

https://www.vice.com/en/article/us-senator-wants-americans-who-use-deepseek-thrown-in-prison/

!codecels

!aichads

Enter BetDefinitely a transwoman. I feel it in my bones. - 28 bets

Enter BetTerrible driving? 100% biofoid. - 288 bets

Enter BetOnly a moid could be that stupid. - 29 bets

Enter BetWe'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"

!bets

closed

This is 100% home grown photoshop no AI which is why it kinda sucks

there is nothing else implied though

!illuminati !schizomaxxxers

@WeihnachtenSalvador

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

RFK Jr putting Methylene Blue in his water while flying is prime we’re so back.

MB while flying
- Mitigates any radiation burden
- Protects against oxidative stress
- Anti viral so you don’t catch a cold
- Boosts autophagy if fasting on flight

Also that dose I don’t recommend,… pic.twitter.com/nVsVuk0oEf

— Vance 🌞⚡️ (@VanceE) February 5, 2025

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

worst i've ever seen it is it just edgier /r/politics now or something

The USAid programs were weaponized against people and politicians who weren’t woke.

The Biden team spent US taxpayer money to support left wing programs and candidates around the world.

Conservatives around the world were targeted.

Romania is the latest example.… https://t.co/cmPqYojRzs

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) February 3, 2025

Will we ever get our elections back? Or at least hold new ones? Nobody knows Bur EU is determined to follow our steps for some reason

it begins anew!

Lmao, she must just either guess-timate her calories or not include drinks lol

Everyne in the thread talks about how they are totally the 0.01% of the population that doesn't follow thermodynamics

I am desperate for sleep, honey

!animalposters !cats

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 on….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 — my guess is that they were just happy to have something that worked at all. The guy's been keeping this going like this…I mean…I had no idea…I've never seen…." 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 records…they'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 failed…" 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 okay…. It's okay now…But this guy…He's been keeping this together for 23 years…"

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 mean…he'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.

I'll find as it shows up.

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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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.

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!

The boys are integrating into the house very well! Goodbye, baby jail!

!animalposters !cats

america “joking” 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