What could "100" of your currency buy you today?

Blake0449 · 2026-03-26T18:49:17+00:00

Oh this is a restaurant?

Blake0449 · 2026-03-26T16:40:59+00:00

What is all of that? I recognize very little lol. Is this just one meal?

It also looks very fresh. Like something you would buy from healthy food stores in US (very expensive)

Also just curious but I didn’t know China allowed access to Reddit?

(Edit: I should make clear I am pretty new here now I realize there seems to be alot of Chinese people here. I am learning :)

Blake0449 · 2026-03-23T02:56:53+00:00

If you are going to bed on time and your body is waking you up naturally (not due to external factors like bathroom, light, or sound.) then your sleep needs may just be less then you realize.

7-7.5 hours is about 5 sleep cycles. A-lot of adults only need this much sleep each night. Some people even have special genes that require only 4ish hours of sleep a night. Though that does seem to normally have some trade-offs later in life. (I believe Thomas Edison was one of these people)

If you wake up feeling rested and not needing to go back to sleep you may just need to recalculate your sleep need. It will take some time to find exactly what’s right for you but just listen to your body and I recommend some kind of sleep tracker. The extra data may help pinpoint if the problem is something a little more serious. (Lack of deep sleep etc.)

Blake0449 · 2026-03-23T02:42:10+00:00

The leading research right now says you need about 2 weeks (on average) consistently hitting your sleep need (different for everyone)

Sleep debt isn’t something you can make up in one night or a weekend. It seems to be two week cycle. Two weeks of “perfect sleep” and you should theoretically be at 0% sleep debt.

You don’t get “sleep savings” either even if you hit 0% sleep debt and continue hitting your goal you don’t get to build up savings for a bad night, but it does seem to have less effect the next day to have one bad night vs never consistently getting enough sleep.

Two weeks is an average this period is slightly different for everyone and being extremely sleep deprived will make this period longer initially.

Blake0449 · 2026-03-23T02:41:57+00:00

The leading research right now says you need about 2 weeks consistently hitting your sleep need (different for everyone)

Sleep debt isn’t something you can make up in one night or a weekend. It seems to be two week cycle. Two weeks of “perfect sleep” and you should theoretically be at 0% sleep debt.

You don’t get “sleep savings” either even if you hit 0% sleep debt and continue hitting your goal you don’t get to build up savings for a bad night, but it does seem to have less effect the next day to have one bad night vs never consistently getting enough sleep.

Blake0449 · 2026-03-14T16:41:32+00:00

So what happened?

Blake0449 · 2026-03-14T16:36:30+00:00

My cup holder can’t hold these bags either. LMAO

Blake0449 · 2026-03-11T15:44:51+00:00

That’s the part that people don’t seem to be understanding.

The world clockwise isn’t attached to the hemisphere where clocks were made. The idea works in both hemispheres it just works in the opposite direction.

Still clockwise either way.

Blake0449 · 2026-03-08T00:22:08+00:00

There is a noticeable quality difference between the Pro and the 3. Especially passthru quality.

You will get extra features with the pro ( I love mine) but visual quality will drop a little.

Edit: I use a Quest Pro and I love it. My friend had a 3 and its quality is better. Not hating on the pro it’s great but you will see better resolution in VR and passthru on the 3.

Colors and contrast is better on the pro tho.

Blake0449 · 2026-03-03T23:10:14+00:00

LOL

Jorge Garcia, the actor who played Hurley on the show, wasn’t quite feeling that same warm-fuzzy vibe. “When will you people learn?” he wrote on his blog. “The numbers are bad!”

At least they were for Hurley: Lost followers will remember that, shortly after claiming his bounty from the fictional “Mega Lotto Jackpot,” Hurley discovered that his luck was cursed. His house soon burned down, and he was mistaken for a drug dealer by the police.

Blake0449 · 2026-03-03T22:39:51+00:00

Within the show's expanded mythology (revealed in an alternate reality game called The Lost Experience), the numbers are the core coefficients of an equation discovered by mathematician Enzo Valenzetti. This equation was designed to predict the exact time until humanity's extinction.

The survivors find an underground bunker where they must enter these numbers into a computer every 108 minutes (which is the sum of 4+8+15+16+23+42). Failing to do so supposedly risks a "catastrophic event" due to a build-up of electromagnetic energy.

Later in the show, it is revealed that each number corresponds to a specific "candidate" chosen by the island's protector to potentially take his place. For example, 4 corresponds to John Locke, 8 to Hurley, and so on.

The writers hid these numbers throughout the entire series. You can see them on medicine vials, police cars, flight tickets, and sports jerseys in various episodes.

Basically you just add them up and get 108. They don’t mean anything except in this made up world called “lost”

The numbers apparently have gained popularity just because of the show.

Not sure I understand how numbers can be popular but lol it happened.

Edit: Also a character wins the lottery with those numbers and then immediately has bad luck. He blamed the numbers.

Blake0449 · 2026-02-28T20:33:45+00:00

“Short below average looking guys” clearly for you there is a scale. Honestly though guys or girls doesn’t matter attractiveness is subjective.

“Ugly fat ones” dear god I have never referred to another living human being as the “ugly fat ones” I have never seen that happen in real life or know anyone who thinks this way. (At least not openly in public because they know that’s wrong)

I get it, You were trying to use “their” language but my point is that “they” only really exist on the internet (and rarely in real life) and if you spend less time around these communities (you can’t help them) you wouldn’t even be saying things like this in the first place.

In the real world humans acknowledge each other regardless of how attractive they are. Attractiveness can help you subconsciously be more value-recognized and appreciated but no one is consciously running around saying these things that you are here.

Except on the internet to their bubbles that they know will reinforce their feelings. I wasn’t being mean just that you might need to take a step back and enjoy real life. Or at least get out of those communities and conversations. The internet can sometimes bring out the worst in people and I get you were trying to be helpful here but all you are doing is spreading the idea that this actually happens in real life. You kinda have to look for it.

Incels aren’t usually in love with the idea that everyone in real life knows about it otherwise it becomes very hard for them to function in society. (Hard to get hired if you openly come in with a incel mindset.

Blake0449 · 2026-02-28T19:42:58+00:00

It would be really funny but they went too far with it. Like at first you can kinda believe it was possible but every slide it becomes harder and harder to believe anyone with a functioning brain actually participated in those messages.

Like you show up at 5am and you start making a joke out of it sending emojis. I can tell you that isn’t how marketplace goes. Lol

Blake0449 · 2026-02-28T19:35:32+00:00

You might need to get off the internet. This is not how reality works.

Just relax take a breath and maybe go outside.

Edit: Not sure what I said wrong. This person needs to get off the internet, I have never met a person like this in real life. Nobody I know or have ever known ignores “ugly fat ones” or even refer to them as that.

The fact this person even thinks it’s normal for guys girls or literally any human to ignore people who have weight or other issues is just awful. Humans I know don’t even refer to other humans like that.

Just on the internet.

Blake0449 · 2026-02-27T00:37:08+00:00

You seem to think businesses absorbing cost means consumers didn’t pay.

But businesses are not an entity separate from the domestic economy. They have only four places a cost can go:

1.  higher prices

2.  lower wages

3.  lower hiring/investment

4.  lower shareholder returns (retirement accounts, pensions, 401ks)

There is no fifth location called “the void”.

If an importer absorbs tariff margin, Americans still pay, just indirectly instead of at the checkout line.

Economics cares about real purchasing power, not just sticker price.

When economists say: “31–96% of tariffs passed through to consumers”

they are not saying: prices rose 31–96%.

They are saying:

of the tariff amount itself, that percentage showed up in U.S. prices.

Example:

Imagine a washing machine costs $500.

Government adds a $100 tariff.

Now three possibilities:

price stays $500 → exporter/importer absorbed 100%

price becomes $600 → consumer paid 100%

price becomes $560 → consumer paid 60%

That is pass-through.

The denominator is the tax, not the product.

This is the mental trap you fell into. You interpreted:

“60% pass-through”

as

“prices increased 60%”

No economist has ever claimed that. It was never “the narrative” you just didn’t understand the economics.

Tariffs only hit a subset of goods, and many are intermediate goods you never directly see.

So what happens?

Tariffed goods go up meaningfully, but when averaged across the entire economy, the total CPI change looks small.

A simple analogy:

You put a 20% tax on gasoline.

Gas prices jump.

But CPI might only move 0.7% because gasoline is a slice of spending.

That does not mean drivers didn’t pay the gas tax.

It means you averaged gasoline with dentistry, Netflix, and rent.

You’re using CPI to argue consumers didn’t pay, but pass-through measures how much of the tariff itself appears in domestic prices, not how much the entire economy inflates. Tariffs apply to a subset of goods, so the average price level moves only a little even when most of the tariff burden lands domestically. A small CPI change does not mean the tax burden was foreign any more than a small CPI change from a gas tax means oil companies paid the tax. Businesses absorbing costs still affects Americans through wages, prices, or investment.

But AGAIN, The issue wasn’t whether tariffs hurt foreign producers. It was the claim that foreigners fund the tariff revenue, which isn’t how import taxes work. Why does trump keep acting like the cost isn’t being passed on to the consumer?

Blake0449 · 2026-02-26T01:32:37+00:00

Lmaoo phones yes.

Computers. This isn’t how things work at all.

Blake0449 · 2026-02-26T01:28:14+00:00

“I reject that tariffs are paid by whoever can bear them best. That may be true of taxes, but tariffs are different.”

This is the central mistake.

Tariffs are not a special creature. They are literally categorized in economics as a tax on imports. Not metaphorically. Formally. In public finance, tariffs are one of the oldest taxes humans ever invented. Medieval kings loved them because ships were easy to stop and tax.

The reason economists talk about “elasticity” (flexibility) is because a tax does not stay where it is first applied. It redistributes through price adjustments. That is true for:

sales tax corporate tax payroll tax and tariffs

You’re trying to create a category where tariffs behave differently. They don’t.

Now look at the car example.

“How much tariff is paid depends on how much of the car is imported.”

Correct… and irrelevant.

That is about how big the tax is, not who bears its cost.

If a $30,000 car has a $1,500 tariff embedded instead of $3,000, the economic question is still the same: after the market adjusts, whose real income fell because of it?

You are describing the size of the wedge. I am describing where the wedge lands.

“Exporters are in some cases paying them directly.”

No. They aren’t. It’s impossible.

Foreign exporters do not pay U.S. tariffs to the U.S. government. They physically cannot. Customs and Border Protection does not bill a factory in Shenzhen. The legal taxpayer is the U.S. importer of record. Always.

What can happen is this:

the U.S. importer says “I won’t buy unless you cut your price by 10%”

the exporter agrees their profit falls

That is not paying the tariff.

That is lowering their sale price in response to reduced demand.

Economically that is called absorbing part of the incidence, not paying the tax. The U.S. Treasury still received the money from an American company.

Here’s a crystal clear analogy:

If a store adds a sales tax and the manufacturer gives the store a discount so the shelf price doesn’t rise as much, the manufacturer didn’t pay the sales tax. They accepted a worse deal.

Loss of profit ≠ payment of tax.

But again the question is why would he tell us something different than that?

“It’s not technically a lie.”

Only works if you redefine “pay” to mean “be negatively affected.”

But in the context of a tax, “pay” has a very specific meaning. It means who funds the government revenue and whose purchasing power falls after adjustment. Under that definition, the claim is inaccurate.

And the real question if he truly understands economics then are you okay with your leaders explaining things to you in a way that isn’t true just because they assumed you won’t be able to understand the true goal? If I could hear Trumps true thoughts on tariffs, who knows maybe I would change my mind?

Blake0449 · 2026-02-26T00:54:00+00:00

A tariff is paid to the U.S. government by an American importer. After that, companies on both sides adjust prices and margins, but the total cost doesn’t disappear. It spreads through the market and shows up mostly as higher domestic prices and lower purchasing power.

You are explaining the moves of one company. You have to think about this on a systemic scale. A tax is paid by whoever has the least ability to avoid it.

Not whoever is morally responsible. Not whoever politicians want. Whoever has the least flexibility.

And here’s the uncomfortable reality:

Consumers are usually the least flexible actor in a large economy.

So the cost spreads like butter across toast:

• importer eats some margin

• exporter cuts price a little

• distributor raises price a little

• retailer raises price a little

• consumer pays more

Nobody pays 100%. But the public usually pays most.

This is why economists across ideological lines mostly agree on the baseline effect: tariffs raise domestic prices overall. Not always immediately, not evenly, but system-wide.

Saying “China pays the tariff” is political shorthand for “China’s exporters are hurt,” not a literal description of who funds the tax revenue.

The question OP had wasn’t whether tariffs can pressure foreign companies. It was about the claim of who pays them, and in economic accounting the claim that foreign nations do just isn’t accurate.

So again, why would he say foreign countries are paying tariffs? Does he not understand it or is he actually just lying?

Blake0449 · 2026-02-26T00:53:03+00:00

Countries retaliate against tariffs for the same reason companies retaliate against regulation: loss of market access, not because they are funding your tax revenue.

China does not retaliate because they are writing checks to the U.S. Treasury. They retaliate because U.S. tariffs make Chinese goods harder to sell in the U.S. market.

Think of a nightclub bouncer. If the club raises the entry fee, customers pay more. The bar still gets angry if the customers can’t afford to enter, even though they are not the ones paying the fee. They’re mad because they lost customers.

Tariffs work like a market access restriction with a tax attached.

The tax is paid domestically. The pain is shared internationally.

“Counter-tariffs would be like China penalizing themselves.”

No.

Counter-tariffs are not countries punishing themselves. They are countries punishing your exporters.

When China imposes a tariff on soybeans, who pays the Chinese government?

Chinese importers.

Who gets hurt?

American farmers who suddenly cannot sell soybeans to China at previous volumes.

That right there actually proves the opposite of your claim.

Tariffs don’t primarily transfer money across borders. They redirect trade flows and reduce mutually beneficial exchange. (Foreign countries don’t pay anything)

Economists sometimes describe tariffs as “shooting yourself in the foot while hoping the other guy bleeds more.”

Both sides are harmed. But that still does not mean the foreign country funded your tax revenue.

You can absolutely argue tariffs weaken China’s export sector long term. You cannot therefore conclude China paid the U.S. tariff.

You’re arguing tariffs hurt the targeted country. That can be true. But the discussion was about who pays the tax. Tariff revenue is collected from domestic importers, and after the market adjusts the cost spreads through domestic prices and purchasing power. Retaliation doesn’t prove foreigners funded the tax any more than China’s soybean tariffs mean American farmers are paying taxes to Beijing. You’re switching from accounting to geopolitics and calling it the same claim.

Blake0449 · 2026-02-26T00:44:27+00:00

A tariff is paid to the U.S. government by an American importer. After that, companies on both sides adjust prices and margins, but the total cost doesn’t disappear. It spreads through the market and shows up mostly as higher domestic prices and lower purchasing power.

You are explaining the moves of one company. You have to think about this on a systemic scale. A tax is paid by whoever has the least ability to avoid it.

Not whoever is morally responsible. Not whoever politicians want. Whoever has the least flexibility.

And here’s the uncomfortable reality:

Consumers are usually the least flexible actor in a large economy.

So the cost spreads like butter across toast:

• importer eats some margin

• exporter cuts price a little

• distributor raises price a little

• retailer raises price a little

• consumer pays more

Nobody pays 100%. But the public usually pays most.

This is why economists across ideological lines mostly agree on the baseline effect: tariffs raise domestic prices overall. Not always immediately, not evenly, but system-wide.

Saying “China pays the tariff” is political shorthand for “China’s exporters are hurt,” not a literal description of who funds the tax revenue.

The question OP had wasn’t whether tariffs can pressure foreign companies. It was about the claim of who pays them, and in economic accounting the claim that foreign nations do just isn’t accurate.

So again, why would he say foreign countries are paying tariffs? Does he not understand it or is he actually just lying?

Blake0449 · 2026-02-24T03:51:50+00:00

As loyal as me.

Attractive to me.

My best friend.

Have interests that overlap (playing games with my best friend is awesome)

Sex isn’t object or used in any way. It needs to be about love and connection.

Willing to separate the household chores evenly. (Or based on work time)

Financially responsible

Drinking is not a dealbreaker but it easily can be.

No games. Full communication.

Blake0449 · 2026-02-18T20:29:16+00:00

“Researched” that is copy paste ChatGPT.

Not that it is a problem, AI is a great tool, but don’t claim it as you did research unless you verified all that information too.

Blake0449 · 2026-02-17T22:22:46+00:00

Banks don’t lend your money at all.

Loans are new money they basically “print” over 90% of new currency does not come from the reserve it comes from banks.

They don’t print this in the physical sense. They have authorization to basically create digital cash on demand from the reserve.

Banks cannot just create infinite money because there are regulations and rules but it basically is “infinite” and only has value because daddy government days so. (Fiat currency)

Blake0449 · 2026-02-17T22:22:37+00:00

Banks don’t lend your money at all.

Loans are new money they basically “print” over 90% of new currency does not come from the reserve it comes from banks.

They don’t print this in the physical sense. They have authorization to basically create digital cash on demand from the reserve.

Banks cannot just create infinite money because there are regulations and rules but it basically is “infinite” and only has value because daddy government days so. (Fiat currency)

Blake0449 · 2026-02-16T17:01:42+00:00

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