Because if nobody deals with the infrastructure to handle storm water it all just winds up in our basements? Honestly it seems like a great use of government spending to me.
But PA already mandates that local governments follow certain guidelines to handle storm water, what this bill seems to be about is wether or not certain tax exempt entities including the state government itself can still be charged to support this.
How do you define ending the world? What mechanism do you expect to cause this?
Honestly I feel like this kind of belief causes more harm than good. People act like some day in 20 years the sky is going to fall and we’re all going to suddenly perish. I’d argue the actual likely outcome while better from a utilitarian perspective is more horrifying on a personal level.
Idk, there was an expansion released like a month back so it’s probably experiencing a spike in popularity.
Also if you don’t know I’m alluding to the fake season names it uses which are portmanteaus of real month names. Decebuary, Aprimay etc
Rimworld months
I always thought the Chinese Room argument was kinda silly. It’s predicated on the idea that humans have some unique capacity to understand the world that can’t be replicated by a syntactic system, but there is no attempt made to actually define this capacity.
The whole argument depends on our intuition that we think and know things in a way inanimate objects don’t. In other words, it’s a tautology to draw the conclusion that computers can’t think from the premise that computers can’t think.
I increasingly feel like the best (though imperfect) solution that has a realistic chance of happening is just to make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy. This would provide people with huge loans and no job prospects a way out while avoiding giving free money to well paid professionals who don’t really need it. It would also incentivize schools to invest tuition dollars in ways to actually help graduates find employment rather than flashy facilities to bring in freshmen.
Poor students would have a harder time finding loans to go to expensive schools but it seems increasingly like elite colleges aren’t much better than public colleges anyway.
Dude what? Bears don’t give a shit about you. Unless you charge the bear it’s going to be fine.
Yeah people really do like to pretend putting pocket change into savings will somehow add up to a 7 figure nest egg.
For context: $400 per year for 35 years (making some assumptions about your age) with 8% average market return (probably optimistic tbh) and you wind up with a whopping $84k to retire on
So yeah, shits fucked
I think that people don’t really understand what it means when they claim they have no plans to retire. My in-laws are always saying things like “I’ll work until I die” while they take out debt to go on vacations but they recently brought up that we should make sure to get an extra bedroom for them if/when we buy a house. The disconnect is infuriating.
Don’t give them any ideas