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How to Screw It Up as a Landlord: a Case Study with Chicago’s Residential Landlord Tenant Ordinance
The CRLTO Protects You from Bad Landlords This is the story of what happened to me in the back half of 2024. My landlord attempted to remove illegally from my new apartment, and it backfired quite badly. August: a Regrettable Introduction So, I had just moved into an apartment in Uptown. After lugging all my…
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How to Actually Use a Word Processor
A Guide to Making Documents that They Never Taught in School Whether it’s Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or LibreOffice, everyone will use word-processing software at some point. The simple what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) interfaces allow people to start writing their thoughts right away. However, hidden above, below, and on either side of the blank page is a…
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I asked Chat-GPT to Review a Book and the Results were Horrible
I conducted an experiment with Chat-GPT Pro today. I took an incomplete manuscript for a book (approximately 100 pages, double-spaced), and uploaded the *.docx file to Chat-GPT. Then, I gave it simple instructions: give me a chapter-by-chapter feedback and analysis. The results were bad.
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I joined a bunch of landlord groups to subtly manipulate them into being better people
A riveting tale of potentially sociopath behavior for the greater good.
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How to successfully turn a hobby into a new Business™
A guide for making a hobby into an actual Business™. Covers legal structures, some record keeping, getting taxes set up, etc.
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This Is The Worst Housing Market In History
Those same people who refuse to sell their home now because it would be silly for them to trade a 3% interest mortgage for a 7% one, are also the same people who want to keep their own homes worth inflated. Which doesn’t sound that bad on its face, but it’s what’s driving the current…