Money or currency is a way to represent value

It is a medium of exchange

Could your boss pay you in cows? Could you take those cows and trade them for a car? Yes but this would be difficult.

So if your boss gave you a cow voucher “money” and you could trade that for a car, then you wouldn’t have to lug the cows around.

It facilitates trade

Why a US dollar, or another currency, has value is a whole other question

You have to turn debt into debit and then flip everything to get credit. It’s simple.

You’re assuming people who are forced to buy into the suburban hell have a choice.

If a person had a choice between a 100k house in a suburban hell or a 100k house in secluded heaven. That they pick the suburban hell.

Have you seen the housing market in the US?

It’s also funny how “Suburban” meaning has changed. It’s supposed to be non-urban.

But with these “suburban” neighborhoods in cities. It has basically became a word for a neighborhood with houses built next to each other and less about where it’s located.

Suburbs use to be an inexpensive option as opposed to urban living.

Highly recommend going to see it in person. Pictures can’t do it justice.

It’s like the grand canyon. You can look at pictures but being there to actually see the scale is a different experience.

It’s honestly mind blowing

I have been on this planet for a while and I have only seen the night sky like the last picture driving through Texas in the middle of nowhere.

Power going out in a city isn’t enough to stop the light population from surrounding areas. It would have to be the only city around for miles and it would have to be a full power loss.

I would say most people have never came close to seeing an uncountable amount of stars in the sky.

I live in a medium sized city that is 30 minutes from a large city. I can count like a dozen stars in the sky. If we lose power the sky doesn’t magically change to look like it was in Texas. Honestly, I don’t remember it changing at all.

The idea was as she got older he wouldn’t date younger than her current age. Weird and creepy but not the weird and creepy way you think.

“In 3 years when you’re 20 I won’t be dating an 18-year-old.”

This was in 2006

Trump married Melenia in 2005

So imagine saying this after being married to your wife for a year.

Here’s another quote of him saying he has no age limit only to back track and then “weaved” to bring up another senator’s folly to divert attention on what he almost just let get confirmed.

Things got a little weird after co-host Robin Quivers asked Trump if he had “an age limit.”

Trump fumbled a bit at the response.

“If I— No, no, I have no age— I mean, I have an age li—” Trump said, while Quivers asked him “the upper bracket” of his limit.

You don’t trust the guy that made a promise to his 17 year old daughter that he’d never date younger than her?

And not only make that promise but went on Howard Stern and openly told the world about it?

It’s bizarre. Like just that one comment is enough to make me not want to stand up for the guy.

I get that

I wouldn’t buy diamonds or gold hoping they increase in price just as much as I wouldn’t buy bitcoin to do the same.

If you offered me 1USD in Gold, Diamond, or Bitcoin.

I would take the gold. It has the most intrinsic value.

The probably that gold hits 0USD is less than bitcoin hitting 0USD.

The only reason you’d take bitcoin is if you think that it has a higher ceiling. Intrinsic value is the floor. But that is gambling

But if that was all we used it for, the price of gold would be a tine fraction of what it is

That’s intrinsic value.

Gold and diamonds have intrinsic value

Gold is needed for computer parts, and diamonds are used for cutting

They are more than just shiny

Their value will “never” hit 0 (Bitcoin would be worthless without gold for computers)

Yes, we could find substitutes in the future, but for the substances to not be useful somehow is so low and would have to be an apocalyptic scenario. And in an apocalypse, gold could even be worth more.

Thought of something else. Your water heater stays on 24/7.

The only hot water I use in the morning before I go to work is to wash my hands.

If I don’t get home until let’s say 5. I’d need to wash my hands some more but I don’t need hot water until I take my shower at 9.

So really I would be keeping 80 gallons of water hot for 23.5 hrs so I can use ~30 gallons in 15 minutes.

It’s only keeping it at ~120°-140°F (~50°C) compared to 210° (99°C) of the instant hot water tank.

I have a tankless water heater so that’s not a problem for me, but seems crazy thinking about it now.

Which leads me to my next thought. I wonder if they make tankless under sink hot water dispensers?

I’m talking about an instant hot water dispenser which can put out 210°F or 99°C almost instantly.

You have three main ways to heat water for something like tea.

1 Boil on stove top

2 Electric Kettle

2.5 Electric Kettle with larger tank and dispenser (Zojirushi)

3 Instant hot water faucet with heater tank under cabinet

*Microwaving water can be very dangerous

My opinion is while opinion 3 is the most costly, it is super nice and convenient if you use it often.

I’ll add this too:

You can get a filter for the dispenser. Pure drinking water and hot water while reducing scale buildup.

I don’t have a filter on mine and I have never done any descaling or maintenance on it in 7+ years other than cleaning the faucet like I would any other faucet.

Pro:

• Instant hot water on tap 24/7 (Instant cool drinking water 24/7)
• Able to easily filter water
• Unlimited water (No refilling unit)

Con:

• Extra electricity

$30 extra a year?

Like would you pay $2.50-$5 monthly subscription for unlimited instant hot/cold filtered water on tap whenever you want it? (above $2.50 would be for cold and filter if you choose those options instead of just hot. Since I assume cold takes more energy and you have to replace filters)

Doesn’t make sense for everyone, and you do have to think about the upfront cost. You can get a tank for ~150, then the faucet can be ~50 to whatever you want to pay.

So maybe if your Zojirushi ever breaks. I enjoy my Zojirushi bread maker a ton.

So it seems like it can only be a gain to turn it off for certain spells. And that is intuitively obvious, too: turning something off should save energy.

Cars get better mileage on the highway than on city roads. Drive an hour, stop, drive an hour, stop, drive an hour. It is less efficient than driving 3 hours nonstop. The more stops the more inefficient.

The under sink heaters are designed to keep water hot 24/7. I would image it is better insulated than the Zojirushi. The water is stored in a container that basically heats it up from every side. Some kettles like the one in the video have heating elements inside the water which is more efficient than just a hot bottom plate. Under sink heater has a hot plate on all sides of it’s box.

From my experience, I’ve had one my entire life and couldn’t go back. I would expect at least 7-10 years from one. One in my current house is 7+ years old and works exactly the same as the day I installed it. Never turned it off once.

You should look into getting a hot/cold water dispenser for your sink. Easy to DIY install.

They consume ~40w per hour. Where I live it is 15 cents per kwh. That’s .006 per hour, .15 per day, or 55 dollars per year.

Instant hot/cold water whenever you want it is nice.

Starting from room temperature water to near boiling takes a ton of energy. I don’t know if keeping it hot for 8 hours takes more electricity than starting it back up in the morning.

But you’re probably paying half the $55 in electricity right now for the Zojirushi.

Id pay $25 dollars a year to have instant hot and cold water (even filtered if you wanted) on tap 24/7. Especially if I were like you and used it multiple times a day.

You only need a 120v outlet.

Rapeseed (Brassica napus subsp. napus), also known as rape and oilseed rape and canola, is a bright-yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae (mustard or cabbage family), cultivated mainly for its oil-rich seed, which naturally contains appreciable amounts of mildly toxic erucic acid.[2] The term “canola” denotes a group of rapeseed cultivars that were bred to have very low levels of erucic acid and which are especially prized for use as human and animal food. Rapeseed is the third-largest source of vegetable oil and the second-largest source of protein meal in the world.[3][4]

Brassica napus subsp. napus is the proper name. Everything else is slang and not worth arguing about.

We call it Sunflower Oil

We call it Rapeseed Oil

Not Rape Seed Oil

Rapeseed

Would be similar to other plant names like Daisy, Rose, Iris, Poppy, Lily, Holly, Petunia

You didn’t read the article.

Trump is saying if he takes away Elon’s subsidies, Elon would be forced to pack up and go home.

Not that he would physically deport him.

It’s a misleading title

This is part of common core math

Making Tens (and Hundreds): Composing and decomposing: Students learn to break down numbers to make friendly numbers like 10 or 100, which are easier to add. Example: To add 8 + 5, they might see that 8 needs 2 to make 10. They could take 2 from the 5, leaving 3. Then, they add 8 + 2 = 10, and 10 + 3 = 13.

They are teaching new students this

2.3 billion dollars in physical currency

21.8 trillion dollars in total currency

8.5 trillion dollars in debt owned by foreign countries

36 trillion dollars in debt total

Foreign entities are promised half the current total supply of USD

Oh it would be an absolute mess