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State/City General Funds Spent on Migrants since 2023: $1.8B 1,800,000,000 Lotta zeroes…money that could kept us in the black. Chicago Local Funds | $220M Cook County |$70M Federal/State Grants | $143M Unspecified/Other |$267M

The making of iconic HBO’s 1982 intro and the final result is still mind-blowing.

@JaguarRoper @BenjiBacker Alfalfa is grown here because we allow it for corporate profit. They aren’t allowed to grow such a water intensive crop in Saudi.

@BenjiBacker First, according to who? I was aware of Saudi alfalfa sales ( but not the others) and I believe the State Land Department cancelled their leases a year or two ago, if I am not mistaken. Second, can you name a higher and better use of water than growing food?

The Southwest is running out of water, and 80% of Arizona's water goes to agriculture...not homes. Arizona ships a MILLION homes worth of water (via alfalfa alone) to China, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE every year. The West needs many different solutions, but this madness must end

@CrainsChicago Used to meet Mike on the Bike for party favors there in the early 00’s. Such fun times after the closing bell.

Rivers restaurant in CME Center to close after 30 years #Echobox=1774457690" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">chicagobusiness.com/restaurants/cc…

Illinoisans—if you haven’t seen this documentary on Chicago’s Violence Intervention (CVI) programs yet, it’s worth the watch. 😮

Nobody is explaining what’s really happening between Iran and Israel This 5 minutes explanation might change how you see world politics Pro Jiang

The dad stood is ground and refused to back down. We need MUCH more of this. REPOST and amplify his voice! #thinblueline #Lawenforcement

Julian PERFORMS Ancient Meditation practice and his response is surprising... Dr. K walks Julian through the Yogic Ashram (1-4 ) practice. WAIT UNTIL END... @HealthyGamerGG

@chicagobars @BellsBrewery Ah, memories driving to wherever I could find Solson, which i will always think of as this beers' name.

Undisclosed location. Drinking (one of) first @BellsBrewery Oberon drafts on 2026. #FreePlug

Robert Sapolsky on how to strengthen your frontal cortex the same way you strengthen a muscle: practice resisting temptation repeatedly until willpower becomes effortless.

BEAT THE DEVIL (2002) The full 10-minute BMW short film featuring: James Brown, Clive Owen, Danny Trejo, Gary Oldman and the controlled chaos filmmaking of director Tony Scott. A frenzied visual and sonic assault that was further embraced two years later in MAN ON FIRE. ❤️

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The opening of X2: X-Men United (2003). Nightcrawler moving through the White House like a blur, bamf after bamf, and the whole sequence just doesn’t let up.

Amanda Peet is a great writer. Her complicated and devastating-sounding season for The @NewYorker: newyorker.com/culture/the-we…

Take your card number and starting from the second-to-last digit, double every second digit moving left. If doubling a digit produces a number greater than nine, subtract nine from the result. Then add all the digits together, the doubled ones and the untouched ones. If the total is divisible by ten, the number is valid. If it isn’t, the number is mathematically impossible as a card number and the form rejects it on the spot. This is the Luhn algorithm written in 1954 by a computer scientist at IBM named Hans Peter Luhn. It still runs inside every payment form on the internet today. And it turns out that valid card numbers are not random. They follow this mathematical rule, and any number that breaks it is immediately disqualified without ever touching a bank’s systems. No server contacted. No database checked. No network request made. The validation happens entirely on your device, in milliseconds. The first six digits do additional work before the Luhn check even runs. They are called the Issuer Identification Number; the first digit identifies the card network (4 means Visa, 5 means Mastercard, 3 means Amex), and the following digits identify the specific bank that issued the card. This is why payment forms show you the Visa or Mastercard logo the moment you type the first digit. No server needed. The network is encoded in the number itself. The last digit of every card number is called the check digit it exists for no other purpose than to make the entire number pass the Luhn algorithm. When a bank generates a new card number, it calculates what the last digit must be to make the sequence valid, then stamps it on the card. It is a built-in mathematical fingerprint.

Carl Jung was not playing around

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

Pewdiepie reveals how to break free from the algorithm “A lot of this is going to sound crazy but you’ve gotta hear me out, it’s a step by step process. I’m not saying you should do all of it but you should try some of it” “Step 1 is creating friction. I put all social media and attention hungry apps in a second profile and I can’t understate how much this changed my life. Those 5-6 seconds it takes to switch profiles stops me every time and makes me think, is this what I want to be doing?” “The second thing I did was self hosting. The effect that had on me is I’m not the product anymore. The things I use are mine and because they’re not free, I’m not paying with my privacy. I think the main difference is ads and news don’t reach me” “Next thing I did was disable Shorts, I like YouTube but I hate how Shorts is everywhere I can’t escape it” “Then I unfollowed everyone. You don’t have to do this, this is definitely a me thing, I just got really fed up” “Next, get a DNS blocker. You can remove ads completely, most of it won’t even reach your device” “I think you owe it to yourself to take some time today and start building your tech fence” “These tech companies don’t care about you, so you’ve got to care about yourself. The cheat code is building some friction and filtering out the noise, that’s your defence and your cure”

@MaximallyCenter @omgTrex22 @Awake_IL I don’t even understand how someone could say this. I mean, Pritzker backed her. Is that not enough let alone her lack of policy beyond hating Trump? I hate Trump too, but that won’t fix shit.

@omgTrex22 @Awake_IL Lol she unquestionably is.

🚨 ILLINOIS PRIMARY NIGHT: WOKE PROGRESSIVES GOT ANNIHILATED! - Far-left influencer Kat Abughazaleh demolished in IL-9 - Tech progressive Junaid Ahmed wiped out in IL-8 - Kina Collins (extreme left) loses IL-7 - Joey Ruzevich loses IL-6 - Robert Peters loses IL-2 - Wesam Shahed loses Cook County Commissioner Dist. 6 Illinois rejected radical leftists in almost every primary race!