Thanks for this! I have another question based on what u/ejpierle said above. Now that we all agreed on marbles as the currency to trade for toys, what happens to toy trades if I create or aka print more marbles?

I've seen it on a couple of hospital forms.

Impossible. You would be dead

Funny they didn’t give you propranolol for stage fright. Not a benzo either

About 50mg

It moves a very little. It moves so very little that it isn't measurable because even if you are unbelievably morbidly obese your mass is insignificant compared to that of the Earth.

Let's say you weigh a health 100kg. The Earth has 60,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times your mass.

Obligatory XKCD reference.

They fluctuate, affect people differently (e.g. people who live in social housing, or own their home outright, aren't affected much by housing costs as they're largely insulated from them) and measure different things. Housing, particularly bounces around like a looney disproportionately to everything else and yet if you're retired or don't have a mortgage, it might not affect you whatsoever.

In the UK, the government publish CPI (general consumer prices), CPIH (consumer prices including housing costs) and RPI (retail prices of a bunch of selected items) for this reason.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices

Anyone with a brain should pick a point at which they knew their salary, and plot their salary against the various indices to see how much they should be pitching for at their next pay review.

(A quick and dirty way:

Say you were earning £10,000 in Feb 2022 when the CPIH was 109.4 and want to know what you should be earning in Feb 2023 when the CPIH is 126.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/timeseries/l522/mm23

Divide 10,000 by 109.4, multiply by 126. You should be earning £11,517 now - JUST TO BREAK EVEN. Anything less than that and you've taken a paycut in the last two years, because everything else got more expensive.)

How much lorazepam did you have?

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If countries only buy oil in dollars they need to get dollar from somewhere. They need to sell something else and get paid in dollars.

This is and advantage if you have dollars.

Furthermore since the price of both dollars and oils goes up and down all the time, you don't wan to exchange your own currency or sell stuff for dollars at a bad time.

You wan to get dollars while they are cheap and use them later when you can buy oil with those dollars cheaply.

This requires you to keep a certain amount of dollars in reserve.

Dollars that you don't actually use to do anything with them but keep nonetheless available to you if you need it.

This all adds up to people need dollars much more than they would otherwise.

Supply and demand happens and since so many people have a demand for dollars you can add more supply without making it worth less.

It is all much more complicated than that, but it all adds up to a huge advantage for the US and the people in the US who have money.

The Dollar being used for oil transactions provides a degree of confidence and stability in the currency without being explicily tied to the value of a commodity.

This allows the US to engage in flexible monitary policy without running as much of a risk of severe inflation or deflatation, as even if the dollar loses some value, people will not be prone to quickly dump all of their dollars in favor of some other currency.

Well, imagine you and your friends like to play a game where you trade toys with each other. If everyone agrees to use marbles as the currency for this game, it becomes easier to trade toys because you all know how much marbles are worth.

Now, imagine that many countries around the world trade oil with each other. They also need a currency that they all agree is worth something, so they can trade oil easily. For a long time, they agreed to use the US dollar as the currency for trading oil. This means that when countries buy or sell oil, they use US dollars to do it.

In fairness a lot of the time have to advocate for people to sign a DNR. There are so many patients who we would rather not work on because essentially we would leave them in a worse state than if they just arrested.

You got a source for this? Because I can't find one. I don't think the US has any say over whether Nigeria can buy oil from Saudi Arabia in US dollars. If Nigeria holds US dollars that it obtained legally, I don't see any way that the US can stop them from using them from purchasing good and service from anyone who will accept them as payment.

The real answer is that as long as the USD is the reference currency of commerce around the world that other currencies base their value on, the US can continue to print money without it greatly affecting its value. That's why we work so hard to make sure that the USD is what everyone uses...

Bzds can cause apnea and cardiovascular collapse. It just happens more often to critically ill patients which have a lower drug distribution volume and other contributing factors. However, in young healthy people without any prior disease history really shows how high doses the body can process and then metabolize before shutting off vital functions.

But trust me, there are indeed patients who have been butchered with midazzle!

I work in the medical field, for reference.

And if you're rich enough and they think they might be able to squeeze some of that out of you, you may get to actually talk to the representative directly.

I did not say there are none, only that almost all of them are random and won't be there in another of the same species of object.

> A nice illustration of the pattern is how seeds are distributed in sunflowers.

That is literally what I mentioned as the only potentially correct occurrence!

We just say no further diaylsis I don't think we have a acronym or a form, and we're a renal ward

They have a ceiling effect that is theorized to occur because of how they work on the GABA receptor (the receptor that is responsible for its mechanism of action). They are thought to work similarly to many other anesthetics such as propofol however their effect has a dose ceiling. I disagree that it is hard to die from OD, if you have the right comorbidities or are using them along with other drugs such as alcohol it is very easy to OD.

I’m a drummer. I batter things. I don’t have enough brain cells to understand all this technical stuff.

Well said

Per Google it’s Clonazolam, some kind of super benzo.

I saw my PCP for anxiety during presentations. I was set to give a full day presentation to about 100 people I didn’t know. I was doing it only because our vp of marketing liked my look and presentation ability. Needless to say my two year hiatus from the subject did not help.

My dr gave me klonopin. Only take if anxious. Lol. Well those things worked too well. 6 months later I was eating them like candy. Serious problems and memory impairment. I remember visiting a customer in a complicated office park with my boss. I literally could not remember each morning how to get there. It was bad. I knew I had a problem.

The detox is deadly like alcohol.

Usually some aide to the cobgressman will answer and take your call. They will then make a note of the issue you called about and whether you are calling in support of opposition to some specific thing.

These notes will be summed up and briefed to the congressman as a group:

• 36 people called in support of the bill banning booty shorts

• 55 people called in opposition of the bill banning booty shorts

• 23 people called expressing their love and/or hatred of you, the president, and Smokey the Bear.

*Note: Above examples are deliberately absurd and not intended to imply anyone's opinion on booty shorts or Smokey the Bear

How much the affects the decisions of the congressman are difficult to determine with certainty, but telephone and writing campaigns from constituents have been cited as the reason for a given congressman's vote, and many congresmen will refrain from sponsoring or voting for bills if the believe it will result in hostile backlash, so there does appear to be some effect if there are enough people calling and writing about the same issue in one direction. This also likely varies wildly by the specific congressman

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