😁😁I don't think I got the numbers right, but I Was trying to channel Oscar

So you can give the dollar back to mommy and daddy but guess what next time your gonna ask them for money to make a lemonade stand they are only gonna give you $4. 'cause that's what they think it costs to supply the stand.

So what you wanna do is spend the dollar on something now so that your parents think it costs $5 to supply the lemonade stand

It’s extra. The term is typically associated with budgets, whether a business or government. If the government spends less than it brings in with tax revenue and fees, it runs a surplus (instead of a defective when it spends more than it takes in). A business department gets an annual budget to spend for salaries, equipment, supplies, vendors, etc and if they don’t spend it all then they have a budget surplus. You’ll often see people responsible for a budget avoid a surplus because it is likely to lead to a smaller budget in subsequent years.

A surplus is any resource or asset — farm goods, manufactured products, money, oil and other natural resources, land, or anything else that normally has value — above what is useable. It’s a problem for a seller in a market economy because it either can’t be sold at all or has to be sold at a loss.

It’s a good thing for a consumer who has excess assets that can be sold, invested, or saved for future use. It’s a good thing for companies, too, if we are talking about excess profits that can be distributed to owners and shareholders, invested in growth, or saved for future use.

So a surplus is not inherently good or bad. It depends on the nature of the surplus and the business of the person or company that accumulates it.

Governments set a budget for each year estimating what service they need and can afford, they also set out how much the government need to borrow and the rate of tax to balance out the budget. In some years you may get a sudden unexpected increase in tax revenues which means the government has more money coming in than they were expecting to spend, the difference is the surplus, which can be used to pay off government debt or increase spending.

Your parents give you $5 to get supplies for your lemonade stand.

It only costs $4 to buy everything you need. You have $1 remaining after buying what you need, and that remaining amount is a surplus

The budget was $5, the cost was $4, the surplus is the remainder

It's "more than we need". For example, you need one bag of rice to survive the winter, and in Fall you collected 1.5 bags of rice. So you ended up with a 0.5 bag of rice sulprus. Same concept applies on a big scale in economy when goverment expected to collect this much money from taxes and trade, but ended up with more money than planned.

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Wouldn't that be lovely though!

It is not like the body announces "yeah I am going to be a nice warm 38 degrees for afew hours now" It can spike and get really dangerous.

Or if you touched a dandelion and then licked your finger

Yes, bases will react with lipids to create soaps.

This is why bases are actually more dangerous than acids, because they turn the fats of your cell membranes into soaps in an appropriately named chemical reaction called saponification

Fevers are in theory useful but in practice dont make that much of a difference to the course of most illness.

Most fevers can be left untreated, as it is rare for the body to generate a fever high enough to be harmful.

However, fever is very uncomfortable, and can interfere with other things that are important to healing - hydration being the big one - lots of folks, especially kids, will throw up and have trouble drinking when they have a fever, so bringing the fever down can help with a vital part of staying alive.

Treat fever if the symptoms of the fever itself are troublesome, otherwise generally fine to let it do its thing.

Generally bitter. From what I’ve read, bitter taste appears to be an evolution-driven reaction to avoiding poisonous substances. There are a number (not sure what percentage though) of naturally occurring alkaline substances that are toxic to us.

It's also worth adding that people often put over emphasis on fever. It's generally also safe to let them ride unless it goes over 105 F, 41.5 C in which case it's getting close to being harmful, but suppressing also doesn't seem to have all that much of an effect on the course of the illness. It is possible that in severe illness before the development of modern medicine it was medically advantageous, but we now have better tools than fever to treat such things like antibiotics or other drugs depending on the illness.

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Well, if providers can't be expected to know, then certainly the burden shouldn't be shifted onto the patient. Ideally the whole thing would be overhauled with a focus on medical outcomes and not profits.

It's not inappropriate treatment. You can't expect every MD, Nurse practitioner and Physician's assistant to know every clinical pathway for every insurance provider.

Recently I had a colonoscopy. The MD ordered a prep that wasn't covered by my insurance but it did cover an older less expensive option. The pharmacy simply had to contact the MD and get the order changed.

Oh, how come ? Would you happen to have a source for that, apart from the TrustMeBro News Network? 😄

Take a teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate, dissolve in a cup of water, taste. It tastes bland, somewhat bitter and mineraly. You have tasted it every time you thought a glass of water tastes “hard” or “flat”.

The math doesn't check out

Made me chuckle 😂

Usually bitter, although it is not as universal as acidic foods tasting sour. Many types of plants produce alkaline compounds to prevent being eaten and these are usually very bitter. If you have ever had a baked good with too much baking soda you may have also noticed a bitter flavour.