True, I prefer Matrix. My homies use Element.

Chinese companies including bytedance

I wish there wasn’t such a heavy tech focus. Common problem with a lot of the alternatives, the early adopters get on but they only want to talk about tech!

Forcing employees to work any number of hours

Full stop. What is the point of all this automation if it doesn’t make our lives better? 40 hours 5 days a week is no way to live life.

I don’t personally have an opinion on this but some Chicagoans have very strong opinions one way or the other:

“Dibs” refers to the practice of holding a shoveled-out parking space after a heavy snowfall by putting chairs, laundry baskets, or other items in the street to mark the claimed space.

I hate leaf blowers.

• Gas leaf blowers should be banned.
• Leaf blowers should be banned.
• Noise should be banned.

Blowing leaves is the most Sisyphean suburban American homeowner false task imaginable.

My tongue in cheek way of saying Lake Michigan

Oh there’s so many

• Giant fresh water ocean
• Low CoL for a city
• Most convenient airport (in the world)
• Architecture If I had to pick one thing I guess it’d be the CoL to arts and culture ratio.