That’s interesting, growing up, I had always been under the impression that rural children would be healthier because of lack of pollution. I didn’t know there was a height advantage.

That’s a great idea.

I don’t know why it isn’t a cultural thing where new parents can shadow or work with veteran parents in some way. It seems kind of obvious for infants, but really it makes sense to have knowledge sharing all the way to college graduation.

‘I’m nursing a newborn and the baby doesn’t take a bottle yet. Can I put this off 6 months?‘

I guess it depends. Is it the best I’ve ever seen at Philly? No. Is it the worst? Also no.

Did I get some new ideas for gardening this year? Yes. I might do a tropical garden theme in my yard this year, so they had some fun exhibits on that that gave me some ideas. Did I like the vendors? Yes, there seemed to be a good variety. I’m more into plants and seeds myself.

Do you like to look at all the competition exhibits? I do. I don’t know how the judges come to their conclusions sometimes but I enjoy trying to guess. Do you like orchids? I am. There were an incredible number of them on display at the entrance.

If you don’t enjoy these things, then give it a pass. If you do, you’ll have a good time.

True. But 3m allows you to maintain a lifestyle at a certain level indefinitely as well as buy other financial products so you can pass your wealth to your children via life insurance or pay for long term care. It’s also the level at which you can start to do rich people money shenanigans.

Sometimes it’s not the biggest thing. I have a kid with autism. Highest on my list was where his best friend was going. It took so long to make that friend that I wasn’t taking chances. 10/10 would make the same choice again. It doesn’t really matter how good the school is on paper if your kid is sad all the time because he can’t make friends.

Lol, what do you get for perfect attendance? A piece of paper saying perfect attendance? My kids principal said there were 2 reasons for perfect attendance: mom was a teacher and mom was done.

What is a ding on the record even mean? Back in the day they would hold you back, but now?

How a school does depends on a number of factors, including selectivity and the quality of teachers. If there’s nothing special about either of those, don’t be shocked when you get the same bell curve on the other end.

Parents choose private and charter schools for a variety of reasons even knowing this. Safety, religion, curriculum, access to certain courses, common views, volunteering, politics and drama (or lack of it), social class, summer classes, class size, sports and other proxies for parental input and control are all a consideration.

Some parents today just want more control and certainty over what’s going on in their kids education than previous generations.

You probably need to put something in to protect farmland, otherwise you end up like NJ, where you can’t make a profit and have to sell it to build homes or solar farms or something that isn’t a farm.

But why do you think it hurts redevelopment?

If you don’t mind, what do you mean by uniformly assessed?

Right, so you’d be taxing the land more and the building less. Which is the opposite of what you usually see - put on an addition, your taxes go up.

In most places, where you tax on improvements, the cheapest option might be to sit on an empty lot or dead building because as soon as you put something on it, your taxes go up. That might be risky in a low population area where you might not be able to get staff or customers. But tax the land, then you don’t have as much risk involved.

I think it’s moving taxes not reducing them. So the landowner sitting on a dead factory needs to pay taxes on it, so they’d be more likely to either build something or sell it to someone who will build something.

Great series. I hope they make another season.

Maybe, but first check the water. Then the air.

Because they aren’t businesses that generate income. Money that you give to a church goes to a specific function - the food bank it runs, the roof and electricity, church services, the outreach program, staff to answer the phone and run the place, the local hospice, schools.

Tax them and they have to generate income, and that would mean taking a lot of money that would normally be given to one of its functions - the church food bank, for example, and give it to a government. That’s the opposite of what you’d want to do from a government standpoint.

Just in case anyone gets on here thinking that this is a new idea or a safe place to donate, I’m going to point you to point people to the actual St Vincent de Paul society website here.

If you think you need services you can find your local chapter- there are 6 in Pennsylvania. Or, you can call the nearest Catholic Church and leave a message and the on call volunteer will get back to you. The society is a national organization run by volunteers who help with anything from keeping your lights on, navigating local social services and housing assistance, to helping those released from prison. They can visit you at your residence or wherever you are. The services available varies by chapter based on local need. You can volunteer or donate using that link knowing that it’s an official charity.

Are you working with the actual St Vincent de Paul charity? Because they already are an established charity doing such work in PA and nationally. You can donate to them online already and get services by calling your local Catholic Church. If you want to help them, you should volunteer through that organization.

It sounds like you would be diverting money from the actual organization leveraging the name.

Don’t do that. Because it sounds like fraud.

This isn’t about Philly. It’s about Delaware not being able to manage even a tiny city.

Why, they can’t even manage Wilmington,

That explains some of the bridge traffic. Delaware is mostly agricultural, except up in Wilmington and near the Base in Dover. I’ve heard of people commuting to NYC, which I think is crazy, but you can get something very affordable and still get into Philly in an hour. Which means you can have a cheaper cost of living and a higher paying salary if that’s what you want to do.

Actually, I think you make a good point. If you think about understanding conversations and stories and problems like this, you need a model understanding of what it is that you are talking about to even begin to make an accurate assumption about what the prediction of the next state will be. - we make an incredible number of assumptions from our own experience when we make those internal models. How do we know if air friction is important to this problem?

Not likely happening especially as people are already using drones with weapons. Only difference between that and a dog is the dog is slower.