Accurate, if even a bit softer than how it really is.
I never felt unsafe in my west side Chicago community until the Black Hawks started doing daily intimidation runs. Until they abducted community members who were out working one day, gone the next.
I used to push a wagon with side pockets full of bubbles, snacks, and toys. Now there’s fewer toys to make room for gas masks for kids and adults.
Chicago is a tough town. People here are doing an amazing job restraining themselves and others. I’ve heard on more than one occasion people in crowds reminding one another to not give them reason to pull in the Guard.
This will likely not be the case forever.
More people need to see what’s happening here. This is not sustainable; generational harm is being inflicted on those directly targeted and those who seethe with anger and have to explain to kids why their friends aren’t around anymore.
Electric car. Horn keeps failing. $15 part, $900 to do the work. Why? Because to get to the horn, the entire front end of the car has to be disassembled, including the hood, bumper, fenders, you name it.
My fuel car’s horn assembly is easily accessed through the engine bay with a single bolt to remove it.
Efficiencies in one area seem to have led to extraordinarily difficult repair abilities elsewhere.
I won’t even go into how the air filters are replaced — but it starts with removing the dashboard…
EDP can be great if you can meet their required year over year growth requirement and if your spend is high enough to make the discounts (which are variable and negotiated often at a product offering level, not blanket) offset the required top-shelf support contract. For smaller orgs even at the $1-2M/mo level, it can often be a risk not worth taking vs other cost savings mechanisms and locating high-egress use cases elsewhere.
Egress bandwidth pricing has been the sacred cow money firehose forever, despite transit costs continuing to shrink.