I had a roommate who strictly ate using the method of teeth on fork. I cringe just thinking about it. He also chewed with his mouth open and talked while he chewed. Worst year of my life. Teeth on cutlery is just awful, I don’t know why anyone would do it willingly.

Despite what it may seem, most countries do not have infinite debt. In fact, the number of countries in the world that have a fiat currency in their control is very limited.

Greece is a good example of this. No country in the EU has direct control over the Euro. So no country is permitted to just print their way out of debt unaccounted for. So when the Greek economy was crashing and the rest of the EU was strong their currency didn't devalue with their economy causing a crisis where they could not pay bills.

The US tends to be a bit of an outlier in the world in terms of currency. Since US currency is traded all over the world it's not entirely dependent on the US economy to maintain its value. This allows Congress to authorize printing a lot more currency than they might be able to because a very high amount of US currency is being traded between other countries. That doesn't mean the US has no upward limit (a debt ceiling) for how much they can spend. But it does mean that ceiling is a lot higher than most countries.

But for most countries in the world the more debt that you have, the more devalued your currency is, and the less debt you have the more value it will have (assuming all things stay the same). When a country like Britain is weighing spending their primary concern is devaluing their currency too much and making the costs of importing goods too expensive for its residents.

Sometimes this is known as the Devaluation Spiral. You print more money to pay for more things and the value of your currency goes down. So the next year in order to maintain spending you have to print even more money to pay for more things... and the value of your currency goes down. And the next year in order to maintain current spending you have to print even more money to pay for things.

And you don't want that.

As for why the UK doesn't spend more money on healthcare, it's because the people in power prioritize other spending.

>To get a single-cell battery to spit out 3V, we'd need to find new battery chemistry -- new substances that would spit out 3V.

Lithium-ion cells have entered the chat

Yeah, on second thought I don't think these are serious enough crimes that he'd consider fleeing the country and he's enough of a narcissist to think he can beat anything they throw at him.

If it was a murder charge or something that might see him bankrupt and in prison the rest of his life that would be a different story.

If it starts going badly for him I bet you anything he runs for Russia and takes asylum, though.

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I think you're falling into the old trap of hoping for a single metric to perfectly sum up a complex situation. As is often the case, no single number does that. The price changes of everything get tracked and analyzed and used for various purposes. Looking at different areas separately can tell you different things. You can go look up how houses, food, and gas prices have changed - nobody is concealing this information from you. But if you want a number that perfectly summarizes inflation, you're simply looking for something that does not and can not exist. Inflation is complex and happens for different things at different rates.

So, yeah, some metrics exclude some things so that they can better see the other things. That doesn't mean that the excluded things don't matter, it means that whatever metric you're looking at just doesn't include those things. If you want to see an inflation rate including those things, look at an index that includes them.

The NHS is failing because the money that is supposed to be funding it isn’t actually going into the healthcare. The government hates the NHS and loves private companies. Why do you think every other infrastructure in the UK is private? The conservatives are funded by the people who own these companies.

Trust me, if you get a government in that does fund it properly, it will recover.

I agree that the reason grand jury has such a high indictment rare is definitely related to the fact they probably won't call for grand jury without evidence to cause a high indictment rate.

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Because the more money they print the less value it has. Eventually you'll be better off cutting up your money to wear as a paper hat because it will be worthless. That's what happened in VZ. They also ate the animals out of the zoo.

They report both.

In the case of Food/Energy, they're often very volatile, so sometimes it's useful to subtract them out. Basically, they're very 'noisy'- you'll have big jumps up and down depending on supply/demand, but that can obscure the actual trend. For example, you might have a spike in energy prices one month because a bunch of oil rigs were down, but they'll be back up and running next month. So it doesn't necessarily tell you anything useful to include that one month spike. When you subtract off Food/Energy, this is "core" CPI. But there is also 'normal' CPI which does include Food/Energy.

In the case of housing, those are considered assets. CPI measures consumption. They do include the 'consumption' part of housing, basically measuring what you would've paid in rent. So they try to basically split the consumption part (which is counted) from the asset part (not counted)

I had this question when I went through my finance class. The way the prof explained it to me is that typically company’s that pay dividends do so in a recurring fashion, so the stock price has it figured in - I.e if the company pays a $1 per share dividend every quarter, they effectively are announcing another $1 dividend immediately after they pay the current one, so the stock never drops.

> very specialised single use.

You mean coin cells. CRxxxx coin cells are all single use Li-MnO2.

We have their avian descendants to look at, as well as other large animals. That gives us a reasonable idea of the pitch/volume a dinosaur might have.

But it is important to remember that there is no guarantee. The things you see in a fossil are not even close to the whole picture.

In addition, that inertia isn't always a good thing on part of the person getting hit.

An often overlooked factor in how damaged you get is the amount of force it takes to overcome inertia. Hit a smaller person in the body, they go flying without breaking ribs because the amount of force necessary to knock them over is less than what's required to break ribs. Hit a bigger person, and their body has to soak more impact before movement occurs. Depending on the size difference and the amount of tissue padding the larger person has, there is a wide range of potential outcomes.

This combines unfavorably with the kinetic force equation, as velocity has more effect on force than mass. Smaller object moving faster = more penetration, which is bad for the person getting hit. It's far more likely to break ribs/jaws/orbitals/teeth as the smaller bits will fail before inertia is overcome.

Training helps with this, as you learn when to strike for maximum effect. It's counterintuitive due to the desire to avoid pain, but it's best to hit someone that is coming straight at you (who is usually swinging for your face) because you're adding their mass & velocity to your own. Hitting someone that's retreating reduces the force of your strikes. Think of the difference between a head-on collision and getting rear ended by someone going 50 when you're going 35.

For example: putting strong kicks into someone my size is usually less useful than putting them into someone larger than me. I have to time my kick so the person my size is advancing into the strike, giving me more force to overcome (and therefore more force I can put into them before they start changing direction) which directly translates into damage inflicted. With a larger opponent, I can deliver a full-force kick to the abdomen and they will fold like an omlette before they go flying because all the energy of my kick went straight into their body instead of getting wasted.

There are limits to how much a country can borrow. No one knows exactly how much that is because it varies by country and circumstances. When a country can’t borrow any more you get what happened to Greece a decade ago where they had to balance the budget suddenly and the economy melted down.

Your previous prime minister tried to push through tax cuts that the market thought would cause the deficit to be too high and they had to back off from those plans and get a new prime minister.

Sugar is actually good for your body as long as it doesn't get too much at once. The problem with processed sugar is it gives your body too much sugar at once, and it doesn't give you the other things your body needs.

Your body's main source of energy is a type of sugar called glucose. Glucose is like fuel for your body's gas tank. There are many different kinds of sugar, but your body turns them all into glucose. Then your body uses the glucose as fuel for everything from thinking to moving. Our bodies slowly turn a lot of other food into glucose too, which is why things like bread and rice still give us energy even though they're not sweet.

Because our bodies need sugar, they try to make us eat lots of it. They do this by telling us sugar tastes sweet and good. This is why we like sweet things - it's how our body convinces us to eat the sugar we need for energy.

But sugar isn't the only thing our bodies need. Just like a car also needs oil, your body needs other nutrients, like protein, fiber, vitamins, and of course water. Your body can't taste all of these things, but in nature we would get all of these things anyway just by eating and drinking what we can find when we're hungry or thirsty.

In nature, fruit is one of the foods with the most sugar, and this is part of why it's good for us. Before we invented processed sugar, people loved fruit because they thought it was so sweet. Fruit has a lot of other things our bodies need too, like fiber, water, and vitamins. So when we eat fruit, we get the sugar we need, but also a lot of other things our bodies also need.

Processed sugar is actually made by taking the sugar from fruits and leaving the other good stuff behind. This make processed sugar very sweet, and a powerful source of energy. But because it doesn't have all the good stuff, it's not nearly as good for you as fruit. If all you ate was processed sugar, you'd die because you wouldn't get any of the other stuff your body needs.

Also, getting enough energy from food isn't as big a problem for most people these days like it was when we all lived in nature. In fact, a lot of people get too much energy. When you eat processed sugar, you get way more energy than with fruit, because the sugar's not mixed in with other things. Your body turns the extra energy it doesn't need into fat. This can cause health problems if there's too much.

And because processed sugar isn't mixed in with a whole lot of other food, your body always gets a huge amount of it all at once. This is hard on your body, because it has to suddenly work really hard to turn all of that sugar into glucose all at once. Over time, this can cause things like diabetes. With fruit, your body gets the sugar more slowly. It's like how when just a little bit of gas burns in a car engine, it makes your car move, but if you light a lot of gas on fire suddenly, it can explode.

You mean there's a better way??

Or you could step up the voltage to 3V (or 5V or whatever you need) internally. But these days you can probably get stuff like Bluetooth/wifi chipsets that can run on very low voltage for exactly this kind of usage.

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Sometimes it baffles me why more people don't use illustrations or pictures to explain things.

I mean… if there was really widespread demand for it, you could make something AA-cell sized that is actually two smaller 1.5V cells stacked in series. That’s basically what a 9V battery is, it’s six little 1.5V cells packaged up.

But most things that want 3V or more have enough space to hold two or more AA or AAA cells. So there just hasn’t really been enough demand to make a new widespread size+voltage format for consumer usage.

I saw another label that said 19 grams of sugar per apple. So there is variability. At any rate, even 3.5 apples is not “enormous” in my book.