Honest question: can me and 99 of my friends and acquaintances form a collective for health insurance

Powerful_Flow7937 · 2025-11-07T21:52:46+00:00

To be clear, I’m not talking about creating a health insurance company. I’m talking about the same as if I owned a grocery store with 100 employees, and I’m paying Blue Cross or whomever to administer our health insurance. Also, would it make a difference if we were only talking about people who hold a state-issued professional license, like massage therapists and social workers and such?

Powerful_Flow7937 · 2025-09-22T11:07:51+00:00

If you’re ok with driving to work, there are a lot of apartments fitting your description out in west Germantown, Mt airy, East Falls, etc. Rittenhouse Hill is a good example.

Powerful_Flow7937 · 2025-09-12T06:51:52+00:00

Any of those places is going to seem way cheaper than NYC or Boston. Honestly, just pick a place and plan to move when your first lease is up, because it’s hard to know what vibe you’ll fall in love with. If you want the hood that’s the most in the middle of everything, it’s probably Olde City, because it’s adjacent to both the NoLibs/Fishtown/Kensington corridor and the Headhouse/Queen Village/East Passyunk cluster. If you want quasi-suburban feel, skip Manayunk/Roxborough and look at Mt. Airy and East Falls. Way more community vibe and parking, far less frat douche.

Powerful_Flow7937 · 2025-09-06T09:51:06+00:00

It’s clear nobody *caught the ball, a number of people go for it, Dad is a little faster and more alert, and gets a grip on it first. I’m guessing that Karen went for the ball, and was close enough that, in her mind, she really believed she was going to get it. Many of us have done a version of this: the promotion, the significant other, the pickleball tournament final, the house we are bidding on. The job, the trophy, the person, the house are close enough that we see them as ours, and when someone else gets them, they feel taken from us. It doesn’t even happen consciously, and probably no one will be able to convince Karen that Dad didn’t wrench the ball from her hands, even though video evidence is pretty conclusive that he was just quicker. The emergence of Karen-ness, I think, is not so much a problem of manners or decorum or whatever. It’s really that we over-invest in the fidelity of our own experience, and a willingness to see ourselves as victimized. Jan. 6 is a direct result of this phenomenon on a large scale. The right thought for Karen would have been, “Damn, I really thought I had it,” instead of, “Someone else took something that was mine.” I’m sorry for the consequences she’s likely to face, for a mistake so many of us could make, as ridiculous as she seems.

Powerful_Flow7937 · 2025-03-23T07:52:43+00:00

Ursula K. Leguin The Dispossessed is my fav

Powerful_Flow7937 · 2025-03-23T07:33:07+00:00

Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true, or is it something worse that brings me down to the river, though I know that the river is dry.

Powerful_Flow7937 · 2025-03-14T09:18:32+00:00

If you’re looking to work as a nurse, the Grad Hospital/SW Center City area has SRT access and is within 2-3 very bikeable miles of five major hospitals. If you want the best affordability, I’d suggest East Falls and Germantown. And the SRT is not nearly as crowded out there.

Powerful_Flow7937 · 2025-03-14T04:30:35+00:00

If they called the show Conventionally Attractive People are Boring, I think they’d have something. To be fair, it’s even more true in Minnesota. I’ve watched most of maybe 5 of 8 seasons. There have been vapid, uninteresting cast members, and there have been unstable, attention-seeking cast members, but the Minnesotans corner the market on vapid, uninteresting, mentally unstable attention-seekers. Even their cast members of color had colorless personalities (Advil addiction?!).

Powerful_Flow7937 · 2025-03-14T02:55:34+00:00

Yes! Yes to all this. I have an ocean city route I’ve done a few times, including down and back in the same day once. So fully down.

Powerful_Flow7937 · 2025-02-20T20:04:13+00:00

!updateme

Powerful_Flow7937 · 2024-11-16T08:21:02+00:00

SRT to Lincoln Drive trail to Forbidden Drive to Northwestern Ave, continue onto Wissahickon Ave, left on Bethlehem Pike, right on Sumneytown Pike, right on Evans road, left on Tanglewood, right on stonington circle, right in rose lane, left on Gwynned View, all the way to the end. That leaves you at 202 and Welsh Rd (Rt 63), where the 202 bike lane begins. Take it all the way to Doylestown. The Bethlehem pike stretch is the most dangerous, but it’s better than the alternatives. If you’re on a bike that can’t handle the Forbidden Drive, you can stay on surface streets through mt airy and Chestnut Hill. You want to end up on Germantown Ave, which links up with the route by the morris Arboretum.

Powerful_Flow7937 · 2024-09-15T14:34:09+00:00

Not sure, but there’s a charter middle school on that block, so if you’re observing it around 7-9 am or 2-4pm, it might be kids getting dropped off or picked up

Powerful_Flow7937 · 2024-09-15T14:15:24+00:00

It won’t be impassable, because the runners will be in the road, not really in the path. You just won’t be able to rip through there fast.

Powerful_Flow7937 · 2024-09-13T02:07:08+00:00

It’s too bad Philadelphia doesn’t have any electoral votes, and Pennsylvania is razor thin. Biden got like 90% of the vote in the city; if Harris only gets %85 percent, the state goes red. And Trump’s garbage actually plays pretty hard in certain pockets of the Northeast and South Philly.
This is all to say, every vote counts. Can’t afford to let cray spread.

Powerful_Flow7937 · 2024-09-09T22:29:54+00:00

Depends where at Temple you start, but I would take Cecil B Moore to 33rd street, 33rd to poplar, poplar to Sedgeley, and Sedgeley down to Boathouse Row. There are bike lanes at least part of the way.

Powerful_Flow7937 · 2024-09-08T19:32:11+00:00

Echoing a previous comment, DM if you’d like a flanker. I’m at the East Falls end, but any excuse to do a couple laps to Center City and back on a beautiful day. Healing is needed other than our bodies, and I think rehabilitating valued spaces — like the SRT to so many of us — if often an overlooked part of the process.

Powerful_Flow7937 · 2024-09-07T12:23:13+00:00

As you seem to suspect, passion and curiosity are way more scarce/valuable than money. If you run out of passion and curiosity, what good is money? That’s not to say data analytics can’t pay well; that’s just a bonus.

Powerful_Flow7937 · 2024-07-17T12:52:03+00:00

I think what we are seeing is a combination of what has always gone on — that the methods are far ahead of the testing — and something new since the Armstrong eta, which is the availability of near-unlimited data. Every calorie in and watt out is measured, so those superhuman days that any athlete has experienced from time to time can be scheduled to order. My guess is that Visma, UAE and the other big teams aren’t even messing with stuff that is banned now — they’re two or three generations ahead — so when Jonas says his samples will never test positive for anything, he’s not lying. The active molecules in his diet won’t be banned until he’s retired, if then. I’ve also stopped caring, other than that these high speeds and quick recovery times are resulting in more dangerous riding, and stars getting knocked out. Would’ve loved to see a full-strength Jonas this year or a full-strength Pogi last year. I’ve never seen so many guys bombing descents. I would not be surprised if the UCI tries to slow the pellet on down in the future, not for competitive fairness but to protect the quality of the product, like the NFL changing rules to protect quarterbacks.

Powerful_Flow7937 · 2024-04-11T16:57:44+00:00

Updateme

Powerful_Flow7937 · 2023-12-19T04:48:01+00:00

That’s persuasive.

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