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MrWedge18 t1_jefb864 wrote

Absolutely. That business can then transfer it to someone else for goods and services, aka use like any other money. It's out there in the wider economy behaving like normal money.

So for governments to take on debt without completely fucking over their economies, the money can't be just poofed into existence. It must come from already existing money. The US, for example, borrows money from people by selling treasury bonds. Basically, promises to return the money plus interest over x years.

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Senrabekim t1_jefb50z wrote

This is a good start to thinking about fight physics, another thing from physics that you have to think about while training are Newton's laws of motion. The third comes up a lot for a strike.

If two bodies exert forces on each other, these forces have the same magnitude but opposite directions.

So I need my body to be a wall at the moment of impact, any give in me is less force that they have to take. So if I throw a hook, and do it with just my arm, and my feet arent set, my core and ass arent fully engaged and/or my legs are wobbly, then Im going to move and that will lessen the impact on my opponent.

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Morsigil t1_jefaz7e wrote

I decided to look into this. The answer seems to be maybe there is a bit more sugar, but it's probably more likely they taste sweeter because they're bred to be less bitter/sour rather than increasing their sugar content, which is quite hard to do. Go to the link to James Wong's Twitter post near the end of the article to get his (above) take.

https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/08/26/fruit-much-higher-sugar-it-used-be-14243#:~:text=And%2C%20yup%2C%20the%20%E2%80%9Cmodern,been%20a%2054%25%20sugar%20increase.

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Mammoth-Mud-9609 t1_jef9659 wrote

We generally don't, but some measures of inflation are useful under certain circumstances for measuring things which don't have a seasonal fluctuation like food. If a particular crop has recently been harvested the price for that food will drop, but that isn't really significant to a general measure of inflation.

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ZacQuicksilver t1_jef8z75 wrote

Asterisk: sliding scale

The more pulp and other fruit matter in a juice, the less this is a problem. Clear juice is the worst - and in some cases, can be as bad as soda (especially if there is sugar added). Juice with pulp is better; and smoothies made from the entire fruit is only marginally worse than eating the fruit straight.

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drblah1 t1_jef8uid wrote

That's a reason why real estate may be excluded. All this stuff is tracked however, and things like food and energy may or may not be included in certain numbers as well. Energy can be affected by things like wars, natural and unnatural disasters and shutdowns, while food is subject to extreme weather, diseases, fuel costs etc. However you want to count it though, all these things either directly or indirectly affect the cost of everything else eventually.

The things affecting a family of 5 and the things affecting someone running a business are very different, so various tracking methods and numbers are used.

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mmmmmmBacon12345 t1_jef8pw1 wrote

Generally they look at both and publish both

Food and Energy are generally impacted by different factors than consumer goods, but a spike in one of those two could mask the behavior in consumer goods so most inflation charts actually look at 4 things

All items

Food

Energy

All items not including food and energy

If food costs start to climb 9.5% due to a specific set of circumstances but the rest of things are only growing at 5.5% then how much is inflation impacting people? It depends what percentage of their budget is food. The standard weighting for "All items" has inflation at 6% but that really masks the impact that high food costs have on lower incomes and the less significant impact they have on higher incomes.

Its also important to track energy separate because energy costs feed into other goods. If electricity costs increase 10% then that cost gets passed forward in the cost of other products since they now cost more to make so its important to be able to see it as both an input cost and as an end impact on the prices

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