Holiday Morals

[milk11]

 Hooray! January! The holidays are over! How were yours? Mine were pretty great, to be honest. In addition to a sweet vacation, I learned a lot of deep and important lessons, which I will now dispense.

A) Fog is weird.

If you were to rank bad weather like you rank D&D monsters (as I so often do), slick icy roads would be like a lvl 12+ dragon. Snow a

Comments

[xirax]

After reading this article about gifts I am still not sure why buying a bad gift hurts the economy, since you are spending money either way.

[milk11]

The podcast has more info than the article, but doesn't go into the fine details. I'm no economist, but the gist is - the reason capitalism works is because we exchange items that have value (like dollars) for items we consider to be of more value to us (like a new toaster), and everybody wins. But if you buy a toaster without needing a toaster, the toaster company gets money and makes a profit, but you are poorer (since you value the toaster less than the cash). This is a net loss for the economy. The number of dollars and toasters stays the same, but the value they represent has gone down.

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[anonymous]

Nice one! If I could write like this I would be well chuffed. The more I read articles of such quality as this (which is rare), the more I think there might be a future for the Net. Keep it up, as it were.

[lance_vader]

Fog in the Bay Area can easily get upwards of CR 7. And wind alone gets to CR 4. No rain, snow, or ice to speak of, though.

But I did see a couple of rainstorms in Houston that must have been CR 20. They summoned floods just by advancing, and they gave everything total concealment. The whole city just stayed home those days.