bluGill

We are reasonably confident that mathematical limitations apply to both the inner and outer universe. However they don’t understand the mathematical limitations enough to understand how little they matter. Pi is pi everywhere - that doesn’t change anything.

There are truths we can’t prove true - again it doesn’t say anything about all the other trues we can prove.

Trains are still expensive - they just have enough users that the amnortized cost is cheap.

not in 6/8 or 2/2 - both are useful. You can not reduce fractions as time signatures are not fractions even thouth they appear that way.

Paychack to paycheck is about your spending. Until you get well over a million per year you will find more to spend your money on than you make. Odds are if you look hard you can find someone make less than you who still manages to live.

the above isn’t all bad. You should save for a rainy day and retirement - but not too much. You can’t take it with you when you die (a few religions disagree - if you believe in one disregaurd this) so you should plan to spend it all before die. You don’t know how long you will live so try to spend most of your paycheck.

there is nothing wrong with wanting more. you have already got good advice about college. just be prepared it won’t suddenly make you have more than you spend, that requires a different life change.

Good transit is always expensive. Where the money comes from can be hidden from the end users, but it is always expensive. If you only look at the fares it might seem that good transit is cheap, but that is just because the costs have been moved elsewhere - a political question that has nothing to do with transit.

Good transit means you can get a lot of places (there are a lot of routes, with good transfers), and you don’t have to wait (meaning there are a lot of vehicles). That costs a lot of money no matter where you are.

However if you look at it a differently - your alternatives are either worse or more expensive.

Your share of the cheapest car (meaning 10 years old and you do all the maintenance yourself) is still going to be more that a great transit network. Most people live in a “family” situation so you could save money if you went down to one car/truck for those random things transit cannot do and use transit for everything, but this is only possible if you have great transit such that for more people this is a reasonable option.

A bike (ebike) is cheaper, but you can get much less distance in a reasonable amount of time. (or at least should be able to - many bad transit systems are slower than a bike!).

Walking is very cheap, but you cannot get very far in a reasonable amount of time and so it is limiting.

When I was in germany a few years ago I’m sure I came off as a monolingual person - none of the people tried to speak spanish to me though to they have no idea I can - and I didn’t get any much needed practice.