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Troy Queef posted:https://twitter.com/NickHausenWx/status/1653095543977959434?s=20 Yeah its bad down here, so dry. Just one tractor out in the middle of a field was kicking up a plume of dust so bad I put the a/c on recycle, and the wind is nuts.
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I'm wondering if the farmers have any liability here. Seems something got hosed up. Just unimaginable.
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May 2, 2023 04:51
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I saw a video last night that said 6 dead 30 injured from the zero visibility driving conditions in that dust.
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May 2, 2023 14:37
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Central Illinois farmers rediscovering the Dust Bowl. Soil erosion? What's that?
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May 2, 2023 16:38
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FuturePastNow posted:Central Illinois farmers rediscovering the Dust Bowl. Soil erosion? What's that? Oh every last of them loves to brag about their 'black gold' and how the soil of central Illinois is the most productive in the world. You'd think you'd want to hang onto something so drat valuable, not let 10% of it blow to Indiana every winter, but nope, cover crops are a waste of money and tilling is my god given right.
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May 2, 2023 23:01
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This is just pharmacy gossip but I heard two people that died were so disfigured they couldn't identify them.
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May 2, 2023 23:34
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The FDA really needs to start taking a stronger stance on tilling, pesticides, herbicides, and fertilization on farms. We can do better, but we just keep looking the other way as we lose topsoil and dump fertilizer into the ocean.
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Lammasu posted:This is just pharmacy gossip but I heard two people that died were so disfigured they couldn't identify them. https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/police-ask-for-help-identifying-2-victims-killed-in-illinois-dust-storm-pile-up/3132098/ This is unfortunately looking as if it is true. Very horrific.
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May 2, 2023 23:48
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Bird in a Blender posted:The FDA really needs to start taking a stronger stance on tilling, pesticides, herbicides, and fertilization on farms. We can do better, but we just keep looking the other way as we lose topsoil and dump fertilizer into the ocean. Maybe the subsidies they get should have some more conditions attached
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Bird in a Blender posted:The FDA really needs to start taking a stronger stance on tilling, pesticides, herbicides, and fertilization on farms. We can do better, but we just keep looking the other way as we lose topsoil and dump fertilizer into the ocean. Well, considering SCOTUS is about to say regulation by the Executive branch is unconstitutional… 
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Lammasu posted:This is just pharmacy gossip but I heard two people that died were so disfigured they couldn't identify them. drat what’s in that dust
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Rod Hoofhearted posted:Well, considering SCOTUS is about to say regulation by the Executive branch is unconstitutional… Nuclear power gonna get LIT with no NRC breathing down their necks!
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Badger of Basra posted:drat what’s in that dust Nanites
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May 3, 2023 01:05
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NomChompsky posted:https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/police-ask-for-help-identifying-2-victims-killed-in-illinois-dust-storm-pile-up/3132098/ Jesus. quote:Police could not release much on the victims, but did say one was believed to have been found in a blue Chrysler 300 and another was in a Hyundai Kia, though the color was not known.
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May 3, 2023 01:44
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FuturePastNow posted:Maybe the subsidies they get should have some more conditions attached As if Monsanto wouldn't pay $1.25 on the dollar to replace
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May 3, 2023 02:21
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Hm. One of those Hyundai Kias.
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May 3, 2023 02:39
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Oracle posted:Oh every last of them loves to brag about their 'black gold' and how the soil of central Illinois is the most productive in the world. You'd think you'd want to hang onto something so drat valuable, not let 10% of it blow to Indiana every winter, but nope, cover crops are a waste of money and tilling is my god given right. I've been hearing about dirt moving out of state but I didn't realize it was literally dirt
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May 3, 2023 03:07
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Forrest on Fire posted:I've been hearing about dirt moving out of state but I didn't realize it was literally dirt Ken Griffin's been gone for months dude, all those tax dollars he (didn't) pay, gone, like tears in rain.
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May 3, 2023 04:42
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Oracle posted:Ken Griffin's been gone for months dude, all those tax dollars he (didn't) pay, gone, like tears in rain. Gonna be real funny as Florida turns against the business community to see how he whines. I will quite enjoy him getting his comeuppance.
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May 3, 2023 04:47
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Djarum posted:Gonna be real funny as Florida turns against the business community to see how he whines. I will quite enjoy him getting his comeuppance. He won't get poo poo, they love him, he bankrolls their vanity campaigns and doesn't like 'woke.'
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May 3, 2023 04:52
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Oracle posted:He won't get poo poo, they love him, he bankrolls their vanity campaigns and doesn't like 'woke.' They used to love Disney as well. We’re seeing how well that is going now. The Leopard Ate My Face Party won’t ever stop claiming more
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May 3, 2023 06:19
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Surprised no one mentioned that the ComEd people were found guilty. I'm happy to be surprised by the verdict, but then again, it's probably easy to find a bunch of Illinoisans who want to stick it to lobbyists and politicians. I think Madigan's trial is next year.
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May 3, 2023 14:14
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Bird in a Blender posted:Surprised no one mentioned that the ComEd people were found guilty. I'm happy to be surprised by the verdict, but then again, it's probably easy to find a bunch of Illinoisans who want to stick it to lobbyists and politicians. I think Madigan's trial is next year. Yup, Madigan gets his next year. Every news report on the ComEd 4 trial had the line that Madigan’s trial is scheduled for next year.
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May 3, 2023 16:29
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Lammasu posted:I heard Lightfoot just declared a state of emergency. How bad are things up there? The death squads roam the street freely. We all sit huddled and scared under our beds. It’s a nothing burger. Lori I think is just trying to cause as much trouble as possible on the way out the door.
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May 10, 2023 04:33
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About the migrants? Yeah poo poo sucks the city is trying and failing to find places to put them.
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May 10, 2023 04:34
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Lammasu posted:I heard Lightfoot just declared a state of emergency. How bad are things up there? I mean, I'm in the 'burbs but . . . she did a what now?
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May 10, 2023 05:38
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Lightfoot's awful, but it's probably required to open up more spaces to house the refugees and apply for state and federal funding.
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The X-man cometh posted:Lightfoot's awful, but it's probably required to open up more spaces to house the refugees and apply for state and federal funding. it's this. https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/0...national-guard/
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Yes, this has nothing to do with violence, and is all about the migrants that are being bused here from Texas and Florida. Chicago and NYC are both scrambling to find places to put people because we're not set up to take in a flood of migrants. FL and TX at least get border patrol money, and have some sort of set up for housing, although it's pretty lovely at the time being, but I don't think we're getting any help from the feds right now. The city has been putting them in abandoned schools on the southside and southside aldermen and some neighborhood groups are getting pissed about it. Sadly, these are the best places to put migrants because it's the area with the most unused city owned property. The idea is to try and spread them out to other areas though, and also we need to find places that can actual house human beings with enough bathrooms and kitchens.
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Zarin posted:I mean, I'm in the 'burbs but . . . she did a what now? Lightfoot declared a state of emergency because southern states are again shipping asylum seekers north to blue areas. Obviously, since we're not on the border we're not prepared for this and declaring a state of emergency is bureaucratic step one in getting additional resources.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Yes, this has nothing to do with violence, and is all about the migrants that are being bused here from Texas and Florida. Chicago and NYC are both scrambling to find places to put people because we're not set up to take in a flood of migrants. FL and TX at least get border patrol money, and have some sort of set up for housing, although it's pretty lovely at the time being, but I don't think we're getting any help from the feds right now. They've also been housing some migrants at police stations. Maria Hadden, the 49th-ward alder (far north; Rogers Park), is pushing for a mass housing center in a central location like Navy Pier or McCormick Place with the reasoning that coordinating services would be easier & less disruptive to neighborhoods. But the optics of migrant "settlements" aren't great, as Biden has learned, and it's pretty NIMBY to reject neighborhood shelters for migrants.
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I don’t understand why anyone has an issue with empty schools being used. I’d rather them being used as migrant shelters than sitting empty and falling into disrepair. The  NIMBY brain is something else.
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Djarum posted:I don’t understand why anyone has an issue with empty schools being used. I’d rather them being used as migrant shelters than sitting empty and falling into disrepair. They're not empty tho, even when school lets out there's summer school and summer programs for the schools. And they're still going to be here in August, probably.
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I thought by "empty schools" people meant the dozens of schools that Rahm closed for good as mayor but yet haven't been sold off to private developers.
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Willa Rogers posted:I thought by "empty schools" people meant the dozens of schools that Rahm closed for good as mayor but yet haven't been sold off to private developers. oh, that makes more sense. They might be mothballed, but yeah if they're literally empty use 'em.
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Willa Rogers posted:I thought by "empty schools" people meant the dozens of schools that Rahm closed for good as mayor but yet haven't been sold off to private developers. Yeah that is exactly what they are. Closed schools that haven’t been sold off. The majority of them are on the Southside because developers aren’t itching to build in those neighborhoods.
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In which case I can kind of see the neighborhood folks getting a tad salty about it, given that their children were then forced to travel greater distances to get to school after Rahm's closings, and given the historic tension between minority communities.
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May 10, 2023 17:17
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If states like Texas and Florida are going to set up human trafficking operations to Chicago, it seems like the Feds should provide the city with funding for it.
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Niwrad posted:If states like Texas and Florida are going to set up human trafficking operations to Chicago, it seems like the Feds should provide the city with funding for it. Maybe divert all that money that those states get for the border and give it to where they are trafficking them to. So it ends up costing them money to be stupid and racist.
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