KombatWombat

This is one possible answer to the Fermi paradox.

I think a tendency for intelligent life to destroy itself would make it more rare than it already is, but doesn't do enough to account for the unlikelihood of never encountering it. Once a species is spread across more than one planet, I would think it would be very unlikely for an extinction event to wipe all of it out before some survivors can bounce back. So all you would need is one or more civilizations beating the odds up to that point to become basically unstoppable.

Also, intelligent life might frequently kill itself off, but that doesn't mean intelligence is a disadvantage to long term survival. The vast majority of unintelligent species also go extinct. It's more that reaching stability is quite hard, with or without intelligence.

Oh, good point. I should pay attention to what I'm reading.

Who is they? There are plenty of polling orgs tracking the president's approval rating. Here's a graph that shows various survey results for literally every day since his inauguration.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html

Budgets are useful tools, but they really should be temporary. If you have a major change in income or expenses, it can warrant monitoring for a while. But once you've reached a point of financial stability, you will know what you can afford already. Setting up auto pay on regular bills, putting balance alerts on your accounts, and just acting your wage makes it pretty easy.

But honestly, what you can afford is just a hard cap on what you should be spending. You should be living below your means already so you can build up investments to retire on. Then unexpected expenses are easily handled by scratching something off your emergency fund. And windfalls mean you can reach your financial independence goals that much faster. Until then, you don't have to live as if you're destitute, but just be frugal.

Seriously, the amount of people living paycheck to paycheck is horrifying. If you are one of them, you should be alarmed. Things aren't going to get cheaper, and wages are going to struggle to keep up. And at a certain point, you won't be able to work. So you have to remember that your future self is a dependent for your current self.

If you haven't planned much, here's a helpful priority pipeline for how to work towards financial security. I stole it from one of the finance subreddits. It assumes you're in the US for the tax-privileged efficiency stuff, but the gist is just keep putting your money in the most important/efficient buckets until they're full, then move on to the next.

My friends' discord has pinned messages for things like mod lists and server connections that we would still use years later. More public groups for things like fan communities probably have plenty of rules and instructions that are displayed to new users. They could be linked as a shared file to download, but having it easily viewable in-client is a legitimate use case.

Isn't that good though? I also have a fairly high income and live in a high income country. Compared to people in poorer countries, we would be the upper class living very charmed lives. In fact, the US poverty line is at $15,000 in annual income, or just over $40 a day. But someone making this much would be richer than 83% of the world. People in less privileged countries should have better access to well-paying jobs to help mitigate the disparity.

No, that's a breach of the privacy for the father and child. An alleged father can already refuse to accept the legal responsibility for a child. A court could demand that they take a paternity test or accept responsibility, but that would still be that person's choice.

That's the general outline for the story relevant quests, but at least in some games you can read the flavor description for the optional ones and it would be something like a spoiled princess wanting a new dress made from the monster hide.

What should happen is that some people shift to continued support, and some move to a new project. If a company really needs workers only for a short time, they should hire contractors who can then move to something else afterwards. Treating employees as disposable like this is not just super disrespectful, it's also a poor use of resources strategically.

False accusations should have strong punishments, but that doesn't mean every accusation should result in either the accuser or the accused being punished. Not being able to prove someone is telling the truth does not mean you can prove they are lying, especially when the confidence threshold is proof beyond reasonable doubt.

I personally think that false accusations should theoretically be covered already as perjury and libel, but I don't think that actually happens often.

Covid definitely had a strong immediate negative impact on kids' education, but the trend of children struggling more in school over time is older than that. Until recent decades, there was an observed increase in children's IQ over later generations, called the Flynn effect. Children were on average expected to be 3-5 points higher in measured IQ than those born a decade earlier. But we have reversed that trend after peaking somewhere around the 80s. There are likely a lot of contributing factors, but they should all be environmental rather than genetic. So hopefully later generations will be able to reverse the trend again and support their kids' development in ways their own parents had neglected.

That's rough. I hope you are able to find something more flexible.