Let’s add some whimsy - phone/glasses have to be making this sound the whole time you’re recording youtu.be/Q7AXIrHzl_A

& a lot of large employers self-insure & basically just use insurance companies to manage care bc they want lower rates & would rather they get any investment income from the capital & I have a really hard time imagining 3rd party insurance plans being able to do the same, so already < competitive

This is what happened to the giraffes so very possible- we are just lucky McQueen didn’t evolve a long neck

We need to buy a lot of those lakefront saunas and sell people on the unique mineral properties of a Lake Michigan cool plunge and a traditional herbal infusion (Malort)

So maybe a push to allow flexing funds for that purpose over another round of ‘pilot studies’ - wards that couldn’t afford it might push for city wide at some point given the huge difference in ward sq mileage

Was wondering- could an alder flex menu funds to contract out sidewalk shoveling? probably only feasible in smaller wards but could be an interesting angle to build support

grocery stores after work & on the weekends are one of the few places I ever really feel the density of the far north side - public transit at rush hour is the other

I wonder what a future plowshares movement looks like

Big Joel: Why Conservative Comedy is Funny Actually

High concentration of witches

How much summer tourist money could we print with a little scenic trolley up the northside beaches from downtown (that is also a highly functional commuter rail year round)

That would be the perfect Bluesky feature - a labeler for individual posts indicating such info

got the Midwestern pluralization treatment in our house too - “does anyone want Chupoltees?’

Yeah - we’re a 100+ year old self-managed co-op of 30 units & we have pretty good contacts but my fantasy is some kind of union of other far northside co-ops to bid out services- just a lot a lot of cats to heard

Should start a company that allows co-ops and condos to band together to bid out these kinds of things - snow, taxes, legal - it would be nice to have actual bargaining power

Gotta have you own bottle to bring! I got so bummed after 2x where I couldn’t get “I’m not really a waitress“ that it now comes with me whenever I treat myself to a pedicure

PACE vanpooling expanded for the entire Chicagoland area where NITA owns the automated van would be cool and could open up things like reverse commuting - could also be used to coordinate pooled trips to the airports or at least to Jefferson Park

It’s really a bummer to watch neighbors with walkers and canes have to walk at a crawl’s pace because we only prioritize car traffic during the winter - I hope to grow old in this city and can only hope my future self is treated with more dignity than we treat elders now

The people yearn for chicory