I'm honestly sort of suspicious of this report. I wouldn't be surprised if the information is misrepresented or outright fabricated.

You probably wouldn't even get that far honestly. Normal people don't really have a chance in these sorts of cases.

Like, per person, or split evenly between them?

It's terrible the amount of trash left up on those mountains. Like, look at recent pictures of Everest. It's basically a landfill at this point

Of course, I did figure that at least some folks would get their own, but the growth is much higher than I was expecting. It's also a death knell of sorts that will start a feeding frenzy for other streaming services I think though. In a few years, it may not be an option for ANY service to share passwords.

That's pretty neat. I like the looks of those soldiers.

It could be said that those agencies did do those things, but those things wouldn't even have been a thing if it hadn't been for them.

Without the FDA, rats would still probably be shitting all over our meat and dairy products, and thalidomide would still be everwhere. If it weren't for the CDC, we probably wouldn't have gotten rid of Small Pox or Pollio (edit: until anti-vaxers), and many millions more would have died of Covid than already did. The FCC... I'll get back to you on that.

As for military bloat, for sure. I'm confident most of it is just to pad defense contractors pockets, and to grease political palms. I think we should protect Ukraine, since they were invaded by a power long hostile to the US, and to the world's stability as a whole. As for the Middle East, I agree with you there. The US has caused so much destruction, murdering hundreds of thousands of civilians, upturning entire countries, and for what? Oil and racism. Even the excuse of 9/11 is a sham since we didn't even attack the people that actually did it, and instead allied with them. Because, once again, oil.

The best possible choice for a purging is probably the NSA and the NRA.

Oh yeah, I also forgot to say thanks! I think they may be my favorite project to date.

They were designed to make things better than they were, but they also make things harder to make things better than they are currently. And sometimes actively try to make it worse because, once they exist, they become subject to the interests and whims of capitalists.

I have definitely considered getting them printed for that purpose, for myself or to sell! If you are interested, you can DM me and we can see if we can work something out!

Oh that's nice!

It's looking good so far, yeah! I'll probably post it tonight or tomorrow!

It's looking pretty good!

In this case, it still does. In many other cities, equivalent neighborhoods were occasionally entirely uprooted. In Chicago, they essentially built a wall around it instead. I made another one with Hawaii, where almost everything even tangentially related to China, including all private and personal property, all land, even names, were nationalized.

By "deal with petroleum pollution products" I don't necessarily mean that it was meant to reduce pollution, but that it happened to do so. The microbes may have been made to reclaim or produce oil, which was an extremely hot commodity. China attacked Alaska for the stuff, and the US attacked mainland China too. Of course, the Dregs may have also been partially developed as a weapon, as most things were in the setting. Perhaps to act as a pest that consume and degrade enemy resources.

The BoS in the region is generally more collaborative than those of either the West or East, working with the local population quite equitably despite their typical dogmatic nature. There are also several rogue groups of soldiers left behind after the main BoS forces left for the East. They arrived in the city with a fleet of Airships, and only a few made it out. One Airship, the Argos, was destroyed nortwest of the Chicago Loop, by the USS Cradley. A few others were destroyed by AA weapons at O'Hare. The only one that managed to get to East Coast was the Prydwen, and that's because it was built at Adam's Airforce Base in Maryland. This left many soldiers stranded. A few of them became bandits essentially. Some deserted to the Enclave, however well that might have turned out. And others went AWOL.

The Faithful of Thoria are known to be quite reserved with radiation compared to the rather cultish Children of Atom. The Thorians prefer to hoard radiohazards rather than spread them. So, they've collected nuclear waste from all over the region and piled it up in the Crater. They actually have a deal with Stickney to take the radioactive junk they filter out of the water. They do the same with other nuclear tech too, such as x-ray machines, radiotherapy machines, NMR, nuclear weapons, etc. As a whole though, they're tolerated, though the BoS dislikes having to deal with them.

The Enclave has a rather dominant position in the city, with control of several covert facilities, some of them functional, as well as the USS Crowdley. The BoS did manage to severely damage the ship, causing its beaching, but it's presumably not completely derelict. The Enclave in Chicago never got ahold of their leadership on the West Coast, so they're going along with their current plans of securing all assets they can in Chicago. Which is why they were able to give the BoS a good run for their money. They've managed to eek out a presence on the surface though, where they continue to skirmish with the Brotherhood frequently.

In this setting, I figure Chicago maintained some level of its past industry, with the Union Stockyards still being in use, or at least a new refurbished version of them. There's also a major Post Office Department ground facility in the city, which serves to connect many offices around the state. Many of the settlers and raiders around the city are descendants of these individuals. But also for the national guardsman who were left in control of what was left of the city when the Army remnants bailed. Eventually, the attrition rate became so much that they gave up.

Thank you! There's more to come soon!

I prefer prose personally, but I'll occasionally slip in some fancy stuff for a bit of razzle dazzle.

However, reading it, it's pretty close to what I made! That's neat! I suppose I could easily stretch my version to include it.

Per person of course

That's really nice! But my shuffle-walking butt would trip on it every morning I'm sure!