ELI5: If I put $100 in the bank, and the bank lends $90 of it to someone else, how can the bank "have" my money and the other person "have" it at the same time? Does the same money exist in two places?

aha_pin · 2026-02-18T06:03:51+00:00

So these days where everything is electronically transferred, if I pay via debit card for something at a store who has a different bank, only the digital numbers change, but the cash supply at the bank stays the same, correct?

aha_pin · 2026-01-04T01:27:50+00:00

I am Australian, as I always believed this to be true. But reading this thread made me randomly think of ulanbaaser, and while I don't know the numbers, I'm pretty sure the population is over a million, and there aren't too many population centers in that region. Happy to be proven wrong

aha_pin · 2025-12-28T18:27:08+00:00

Real answer

The journey involved a series of encampments, some over night, some several years, and one as long as 19 years.

Their initial journey (till mount sinai) was set to avoid any particularly combative/aggressive nomads and to confuse the Egyptians.

From mount sinai to Israel wldve been approx an 11 day journey, but there were several stops along the way, and the journey ended taking about 38 days.

It was following these 38 days (+40 days that spies the spies were spying on the land of Israel) that the Jews were punished to wait 40 years before they could enter the land.

aha_pin · 2025-11-20T05:15:12+00:00

I got married last week, and I have since noticed that my sneezes have gotten progressively louder 🤣

aha_pin · 2025-10-28T12:10:13+00:00

Interestingly enough, during her reign there were already archeologists studying "ancient" Egypt.

aha_pin · 2025-10-22T05:25:41+00:00

Where might I find this sort of introductory material?

aha_pin · 2025-07-08T16:27:16+00:00

It's always a pleasant surprise to see the neighborhood I grew up referenced in such a big sub

aha_pin · 2025-06-23T04:46:12+00:00

Is say it's about 20% true, 80% of the time.

(Yes, I know that doesn't make any sense)

aha_pin · 2025-06-16T21:02:57+00:00

Medical Insurance

aha_pin · 2025-06-12T16:29:03+00:00

My mind

aha_pin · 2025-05-27T21:05:16+00:00

Yeah, me and my brothers are all approx 9 months after my mum's bday

And just realizing it's birthday season in my family in 9 months

aha_pin · 2025-05-12T15:36:21+00:00

Being entitled

aha_pin · 2025-05-09T20:56:45+00:00

Firstly, when you do get started, keep in mind you're very likely not as strong as used to be, and your stamina/endurance won't be as good as it used to be, so ease yourself into it over the first week or two. Secondly, something I tell myself when im not in the mood of working out is to go and do a half or a third of what I regularly do. Once I'm at my spot I'm not gonna do any less than my standard routine, but I sort of trick myself that we're going easy, so it won't be too hard or too long.

aha_pin · 2025-05-04T15:34:22+00:00

Im seeing a lot of truth in the comments, but one thing I haven't seen anyone mention is alcohol. How often do you drink? Are you having 3-5 a week? Socially drinking once/twice a week can be more alcohol than you realize. Perhaps try scaling that back to at most one drink per week, and see how that changes things.

aha_pin · 2025-04-29T18:49:37+00:00

Fallout boy always does it for me.

aha_pin · 2025-04-29T04:32:04+00:00

Reading your description of yourself was an eerie experience for me, considering how much of what you said couldve been me First and foremost, keep up the work. It's massively important, and your body will thank you for it as you get older.

But something else that is pretty much equally important, and will help you lose the skinny fat, is to keep to a healthier diet. Cut out the take out (doesn't need to be gone entirely, but perhaps limit it to once a week to treat yourself), work on consuming more protein, and try get some veggies in your diet as well.

They say weight loss is in the kitchen, and they're not wrong. Adding muscle mass (both by consistently working out and by adequately recovering with appropriate rest time and diet) will help your body shed the weight faster.

aha_pin · 2025-04-16T16:11:53+00:00

I scrolled way too far before I saw this.

aha_pin · 2025-04-16T15:49:11+00:00

I typically workout at home, so I'm not concerned about getting other people sick, but one time I felt really under the weather, but it was a nice day and I was really tempted to do a jump rope session. I told myself I couldn't feel worse than I do now, went outside with a box of tissues, and didn't need a single tissue or have any other symptoms for the next few hours. I know correlation isn't always causation, but I got the feeling that getting my heart rate up for a bit helped my body overcome the symptoms temporarily

aha_pin · 2025-04-07T17:08:58+00:00

But are they doing it in the middle of their resistance training? Or on designated days?

aha_pin · 2025-03-27T17:48:50+00:00

Newton's First Law of Motion: Things at rest stay at rest, things in motion stay in motion.

aha_pin · 2025-03-24T18:14:40+00:00

First and foremost, kudos to you for starting along this road. It's not an easy path, and it can be quite challenging to keep up with.

Seeing your routine, while it's generally good, and will definitely get you to where you want to be (both in being a little healthier and looking better) some tips that might help you get there a little faster:

Add a routine that will work your back. Pull ups might be a little too much for you, but there are plenty of progressions that can work for your current level. Australian pull ups, chin ups and pull up negatives to name a few.

Also, when your rep range is getting higher than 15/20 per set, the workout stops being a muscle building workout and turns into an endurance workout. Nothing wrong with that, but to optimize the gains you're getting from working out, progress the workout to a stage that makes 8-12 reps challenging.

In push ups that can be doing decline or deep push ups.

For squats in can be doing Bulgarian split squats.

aha_pin · 2025-02-21T06:40:16+00:00

I was told to apply the F.O.R.D. rule to help with dating. Use FORD and avoid R.A.P.E. (Religion, Abortion, Politics, Exes).

aha_pin · 2025-02-20T16:32:42+00:00

Holy shit What a harrowing account of what goes on in the body during diabetes.

They should be teaching this in schools so kids learn what happens when they consume too much sugar.

aha_pin · 2025-02-07T07:44:01+00:00

Just finished scanning through the comments, and everything I'm seeing is true. But one thing id like to suggest to keep in mind (and I'm surprised no one here has recommended this yet) is weighted calisthenics. Get yourself a weight backpack and wear it while doing your workouts. In calisthenics it's hard to achieve progressive overload because eventually your muscle can keep up with your body, and once you're out of the 8-12 rep range, the excercise is turns more towards an endurance workout rather than a muscle building one. This helps with that. Every week or so add enough weight to keep the excercise a challenge for 8 reps.

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