Alan Johnson

Package delivery exhibit with a lift and a screen that animates when packages are dropped into the machine

This children's museum has a simulated package delivery thing my kids love

Damn, maybe they actually do yearn for the mines

Downtown Pittsburgh, from the North Shore

Good morning, Pittsburgh!

Fort Duquesne Bridge at night, with downtown Pittsburgh in the background

Hello, Pittsburgh!

Much of PBS will survive, as CPB was a minority of its budget. But it's still a huge blow. It will be hardest outside the big markets. What's going on is truly despicable.

Screenshot of text from Harvard's website: What Does Harvard Cost? Harvard costs what your family can afford. We make sure of that. $100,000 family income and below, with typical assets: Free Financial aid covers all billed expenses, including tuition, fees, food, housing, and more, including a $2,000 start-up grant (first year), health insurance (if needed), travel costs between campus and home, winter gear, event fees, and other activities, and a $2,000 launch grant (junior year) to help students prepare for post-Harvard life. $200,000 family income and below, with typical assets: Free Tuition Plus Financial aid covers the full cost of tuition, plus. In addition to tuition, students qualify for financial aid to cover additional costs, such as fees, food, and housing, based on their individual financial circumstances. ...continues on.

In the case of many Ivies, the only people paying the sticker price were international students and rich kids. For years, American students upper middle class on down have been guaranteed a debt-free education.

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The Cubs winning the World Series on November 2, 2016. As a Cubs fan, this was an ecstatic night.

I should have known that it meant something had fractured in the space-time continuum. The errors in reality went from fun to terrifying pretty quickly from there.

What elected Democrat has expressed any opinion on this?

I wanna tell Instagram commenters that everything can't really be diabolical

It's funny as hell to read that thread since my sister's childhood friend is Chaz's granddaughter. She didn't brag about it, so I didn't know she was fam to Ebert until after he died.

A windmill ate his mom how could you be so insensitive

Most recent: crushing it at a musical theater camp recital. When I was their age, I had crippling performance fright, so it's so cool to see them doing great and having fun

Thank you!

My older kids are finally starting to get old enough to do things that would be hard for me, and it is a major leap in parenting joy

That's wild. What's are the barriers to entry?

Hegseth breathing a little easier

Hulk Hogan's passing is a tough break for President Trump's bench of potential cabinet replacements

The idea of a state with subordinated ethnicities is even more the norm. I'm American, and I live in a country where the indigenous people were forced off their lands multiple times and to this day are allocated only marginal land in reservations.

It doesn't sound insane because it's the norm. I didn't realize until my late 30s that the concept of the ethnostate is only as old as the French revolution.

Has there ever been a CEO who's so vocal about how bad his product is going to be for society?

Kafkaesque. And especially infuriating when people's health/life depends on it.

If I hate my employer-provided health insurer, I'm pretty much shit out of luck.

The result is a fairly efficient, very competitive market, very much unlike health.

I totally believe you. For-profit health insurance seems like an awful industry. I'm really speaking about property & casualty, like home and auto, which is very different. It's very standardized, straightforward to shop for, and you can switch carriers at any time.

Regulation is a critical part of making this all work, so that there are competitive, transparent markets with lower barriers to entry, low switching costs and standards.

Improvements in underwriting reduce cross-subsidy and adverse selection, which hurt low risk policyholders, by making high risk policyholder pay their fair share.

Efficiency can be improved to lower costs, which either improves unit profitability, or allows for lower prices and better competitiveness. The latter is good for policyholders.

I disagree with that last statement. At least in property & casualty. Unless you think all for-profit companies are inherently predatory, I don't see why it's different from any other industry.

He's a very smart dude and has a magnetic personality. Marc Maron had a great interview with him.

But holy crap does he also have a self-destructive streak.

Barely a year ago, I couldn't even find Bluey merch