The National Day Golden Week sparked one of the largest seasonal surges in consumer mobility and commercial transport in the world. #China360 #China #Economy #Business #GoldenWeek #Travel #Consumption #Tourism lnkd.in/p/gCAckmPY

"They reported that study participants consistently modified their cannabis intake based upon the strength of the product they were consuming."
#MedicalMariuana #MedicalCannabis #Marijuana #Cannabis #Patient #Consumption #Titrate #Titration #Strength

Romania’s retail sales up 0.9% y/y in August, driven by stronger fuel and non-food sales: Figures point to a tentative stabilisation in private consumption more than a year after Romania's VAT rate increase. Bne IntelliNews #Romania #RetailSales #Economy #Consumption #BusinessNews

The National Day Golden Week sparked one of the largest seasonal surges in consumer mobility and commercial transport anywhere in the world. #China360 #China #Economy #Business #GoldenWeek #Travel #Consumption #Tourism

Running requires nothing. Humans evolved to do it for free. The $50 billion industry that now surrounds it sells something quite different from the activity itself — and most runners are buying it.
#consumption #culture #fitness #identity #running
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Our economy is addicted to #energy since it used to be #cheap and abundant. The #growth of energy #consumption would have been #fossil too, if #renewables weren’t so abundant/cheap too. We only need to match our consumption to it’s production #profile!

Estimates suggest that the planned increase in the tobacco tax is projected to reduce the volume of cigarettes sold in Germany by approximately 25 percent. This... https://news.osna.fm/?p=66648 | #news #aims #boost #cigarette #consumption

(You are one of those fish. No plot twist.)

#profit #capitalism #money #greed #consumption #overconsumption #overfishing #ecocide #ecosystemcollapse

Paradox is reworking the economy of Hearts of Iron 4: energy becomes a FULL-FLEDGED resource, while coal is just a way to boost its production.

Every region gets a power plant whose output depends on local terrain, a sort of merged...

#SteamAndEpic #Coal #FULLFLEDGED #Consumption #Paradox #Regular

Everyone knows the hotel minibar is overpriced. Everyone knows the alternatives are cheaper. And then, at midnight in a hotel room, most people open it anyway. The psychology of a perfectly designed bad decision.
#behavior #consumption #economy #hotel #Psychology
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Conspicuous #Consumption

Picture Storm: A Call for Works About Image Overload - Cincinnati, OH - $1,000 award. Deadline: Oct 18

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#JuriedArtExhibits #JuriedArtExhibitions #CallForArtists #CallForArt #consumerism #consumption #cincinnati

"If we say hypothetically that consumption leads production — which it does not, but let us assume — then what we are consuming globally is a huge amount of pollutants and premature human death. That is the major item of #consumption."

Full price, you wouldn't have looked twice. Thirty percent off, you added it immediately. The discount didn't reduce the price. It created the wanting.
#behavior #consumption #habits #money #Psychology
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