Is he also carrying the mental workload for the household? It's nonzero with 2 adults, but playdates and school events multiply it by 3 just for one kid.

I distinctly recall many of the older generations yelling at millennials to stop getting the new iPhone every year if they want to buy a house.

One could argue that if that is the result of the dental care, they are the worst walrus dentist

RIP Biscuit we miss you

All the controllers hired in 1981-83 are past the mandatory retirement age of 56 now, and are long gone. Then there were several hiring freezes, with smaller clusters of hirings in between. The ones retiring now have been eligible for some time, but have college to pay for or just love the job.

Retired ATC here. Those signs came out with every shutdown. It's nice that they made the public aware of the problem, but disheartening, too. They reminded us that we didn't have any concrete skills that would easily transfer to other jobs, so we were stuck working on the "promise" of back pay.

I helped build this set for my high schooler's production of Animal Farm, which happens next weekend.

The number of Representatives was capped in the 1920s, so as the population growth of larger states kept outpacing the sparser states, the influence of the latter grew. If we removed the cap and let every 600k population get one rep, the House would work more as designed.

Australia has so much solar power they are giving it away free

This sounds good, but too good. It reads like what we wish a trump supporter would say. They won't call it the Epstein Shutdown, for example. They don't see poor children as innocent and deserving of basic needs. It's fantasy fiction.