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AskReddit/d4x0dko
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4qz5vf
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What accomplishment that you're proud of do your parents not know about/showed no interest in?
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My wife and kids. I have an amazing wife and two great kids. My parents do know know them at all. Due entirely to me choosing to not be part of my parents religion after I grew up. I am fully shunned and they are not allowed to talk to me, and by extension do not know my wife and kids. So due to a decision to get baptized at 13 and then leave the religion at 20, my entire family shuns all of us. For those curious, the religion was Jehovah's Witness.
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AskReddit/edryhwd
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aeqtyb
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What's the cutest thing you've ever caught your SO doing?
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Once I had to borrow my Bf’s laptop as mine was damaged and I had to do some work. I found a file on his desktop labeled with my name so I asked him about it while opening it simultaneously. He face turned bright red as it opened and it was a draft of the message he wrote in the first birthday card he ever gave me. Apparently, he wrote several drafts and edited the small paragraph he wrote in my birthday card. He’s done many cute and sweet things but this is one of the moments that really stuck with me. We were probably dating for less than a month before that birthday so the fact that he tried so hard to perfect something as simple as a birthday card really warmed my heart.
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explainlikeimfive/d1o4igw
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4d6h2u
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Why is The Wall by Pink Floyd considered an important album in rock history?
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The Wall is a big concept album by a very big band, which presented it's concept - both musically and theatrically (i.e., on tours) - in a very specific and very clear way, and went on to spawn a movie. It was also one of the nails in the coffin of Pink Floyd as a band. Many don't consider it to be a "real" Pink Floyd album at all. Frankly, it's not really that much of an "important rock album". It's not even considered the most important Pink Floyd album - neither to rock, nor for the band.
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explainlikeimfive/dle6tqh
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6snyay
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Would a nearby supernova destroy all life on Earth, or only on the side facing the shockwave at the time it crosses our system?
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It depends on how close it is. We have historical records of several close supernovas but are yet to observe one with scientific instruments. And all life on Earth are yet to be destroyed. In any case a supernova is an event that happens over several days so most of the Earth will be able to observe it at some point. Depending on the location in the sky it might not be observable from the polar regions.
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AskReddit/c9nkt6r
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1d73a8
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What did people in the past predict about the 21st century which ended up to be true?
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In 1909 E.M. Forster predicted a vast interconnected machine with glowing plates that let you see people's faces on the other side of the world and instantly send messages. I've always thought that was pretty neat.
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explainlikeimfive/cjckxas
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2c4x5h
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Why can't cross breeds produce offspring?
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Taken straight from my Biology notes! Offspring of different species, or hybrids as we like to call them, are not always infertile. Sterility is nature's way of protecting the gene pool. This sterility is called a post-zygotic reproductive isolating mechanism. There's essentially three different types: (1) Hybrid inviability, (2) hybrid sterility, and (3) hybrid breakdown. 1) In the case of hybrid inviability, the zygote or embryo that is formed as a result of fertilization between two different species is usually aborted within the body, by the body. Basically the body recognizes what it's created and it sends a big NOPE signal, preventing the zygote from reaching full maturity. 2) Hybrid sterility really says it all. Mules, cross-bred between a donkey and a horse, are USUALLY sterile. When they are not, the third mechanism comes into play, which is hybrid breakdown. 3) Hybrid breakdown essentially means that the first generation, or f1, may be fertile; however the next generation, let's call that f2, will either be sterile or may suffer from development/maturation issues, specific health problems (like in the many breeds of dogs), or will die at a younger age preventing any and all possibilities of reproducing. As far as natural selection goes, these mechanisms that isolate species from reproducing with one another are extremely convenient. Preventing hybrids from reproducing and speciating further allows the current species to thrive within their niche without having a "look-a-like" to compete with (either sexually or for resources). To answer your question specifically: A lion and a tiger mate, creating a tigon. These tigons, given the mechanisms above, will either a) never mature from a zygote, b) be sterile even if they reach full maturity, or c) if a tigon can mate with another tigon and create offspring, that offspring has an even higher chance of being sterile/unhealthy.
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AskReddit/dh3kidi
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693zwm
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Why Do You Or Why Don't You Like Anime?
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I tried. I really did. Anime is like its own genre. It has many sub genres where people will say "well you haven't watched an anime like this", or "You need to watch one like that", but I dislike the anime genre itself. Every character acts in a particularly theatrical way, but in a way very unlike western theatre. I find that form of acting cringe-inducing and I can't take it seriously.
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AskReddit/d11wvas
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4amw92
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What is something you tried that was way better than you thought it would be?
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Live Action Role playing. Two of my friends go to them in the UK a couple of times a year and have spent hundreds on their outfits and weaponry. They gave me an Estoc replica and helped me make armour out of cardboard. I thought it was going to be like incredibly dull and awkward. But I had a great time! I drank mead and danced with a tavern wench to some great songs (a bard rocked his lute) and fought with honour! And that's how I went from Jad, to Jadaknight!
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askscience/ek508tq
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b9fwt1
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Why are depleted uranium penetrators "self sharpening"?
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I work on similar self sharpening materials, and it's typically due to the way the material deforms. If it has very little plasticity,it can form shear bands. These can form into a crack, and happen at very specific angles. If your material is brittle enough, and fails the right way, the edges of the fracture surface can get very sharp. Think of how glass or obsidian fracture.
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AskReddit/e4uidar
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9acuej
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How clean is your home, and how does it correlate with how clean your car is?
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My apartment stays pretty clean. My car looks like I live out of it. I always toss things in the backseat and forget they’re there. And if something ends up in the trunk, it’s there forever.
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AskReddit/c8d2koa
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18a4d1
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What body part do you wash first in the shower?
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shampoo hair rinse out shampoo condition hair (leave conditioner in to set) wash face (leave face wash on to set) wash essentials (under arms, private areas, feet) shave rush and wash the rest of my body because the hot water is running out rinse off body (along with face wash and conditioner) in what is now ice cold water. Arch my back while rinsing out hair to keep it from the cold water, nearly fall and hit my head on the faucet In that order.
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AskReddit/dixogsv
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6hehv5
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What ad annoyed you enough to vow never to buy the product advertised?
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I'll never buy Tin Cup Whiskey because the ad is stupid. A bunch of guy free climb a mountain and when they get to the top, they crack open a bottle of whiskey and get trashed. Seriously, the top of a mountain is one of the worst places to get drunk.
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AskReddit/cwvslpn
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3sbqrh
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What is a conspiracy theory that you think is true?
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I don't completely think it's true, but that if it were true I wouldn't be surprised. The theory that Donald Trump is a Clinton plant to destabilize the Republican primary. He donated tons of money to her back in the day and his campaign so far is so weird that I have a hard time believing that it's real.
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askscience/clxh4wj
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2lqui7
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Why is the atomic mass of say, Chlorine-35 known to be about 34.96885 amu, if both one proton and one neutron weigh more than 1 amu?
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The reason is that a stable nucleus has less rest energy than its separated constituents (in relativity, the rest energy of a system is its mass). You have to spend energy to separate the protons and neutrons inside a nucleus, and that energy is what makes for the difference in mass.
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AskReddit/cmie0f6
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2nznzf
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How would you spend $5 million?
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This is a much harder question than the $50 million since $5 million isn't enough to live like Kanye for the rest of your life. I think I'd still pay off mine and families' mortgages. Set up a nice retirement for myself and college funds for my kids, nephews and nieces. After that, my normal paycheck would feel like I was king of the world. My husband could still start his own business, as with $50 million, and we'd upgrade our cars. But we probably wouldn't move to a house by the river.
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AskReddit/exmlz1o
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ctpsxh
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For college students specifically, what is an effective way to make some extra money?
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Go to your school and ask if they have open jobs. A lot of schools have tutoring and TA positions available. Tutoring is great, because generally people don't show up, so you can bring work and get it done, while getting paid. You could also try to get a job at a desk (if your school has an it department or gym or something) same as tutoring, people don't usually need help, so you can do your school work while you work. If your school has computer labs, they probably hire students (lab techs) to keep them clean during the day. Consists of pushing I'm chairs, making sure printers have paper, etc. Hope this helps you
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explainlikeimfive/dpygdae
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7dktee
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Why is the century number (eg 16th century being 1500s) more than the year number?
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Because we started counting centuries at 0. Year 1 was in the first century, 101 in the second, 701 in the 8th, 2001 in the twenty first. EDIT: added word “centuries” for clarity
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AskReddit/dx1ozdb
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8auqty
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What do you think about men opening doors for women?
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It’s like when your aunt offers you another slice of tres leches cake but you’re full. It’s very kind of her and you don’t want to turn down her off because she did it for you. But at the same time you feel kinda bad taking it because it isn’t necessary. Like I’m not gonna force a gun to your head if you don’t open this door. It’s a kind gesture and if they do or don’t do it is fine by me.
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AskReddit/dg3fv89
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64n0w8
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What product/service do you hate using, but there's no better alternative?
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Internet service providers, cable providers, tv channels, airlines, health insurance companies, monsanto. Much of the products and services most americans use are really from the same dozen or so companies. We have this falsified choice and free market in this country but it is neither free nor really a market. It's choosing between Subsidiary A or Subisidary B of the same company.
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AskReddit/cbhdpri
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1jqltm
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What secret if exposed will destroy the friendship between you and your best friend?
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Well my husband is my best friend so the secret that would probably destroy us is that when I had "the talk" with our daughter I told her to come to me if she needed help getting birth control and never mention it to her father. He wanted me to give her an abstinence till marriage speech.
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AskReddit/cxgruk0
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3upu17
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To those who have no siblings, what is your daily life like?
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I'm the youngest of 10 if you count my step siblings. I think my daily life would be the exact same except I wouldn't text them occasionally. That's just the daily work day boring life days though. Did you want to hear from adults or teenagers who still live at home?
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AskReddit/d1klwcw
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4cqtf0
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What's the most absurd thing that the Bible says to be true?
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The bible is absurd from the start. In Genesis god makes light on the "1st day", but doesn't make the sun or stars till the "4th day"
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AskReddit/em2gmd2
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bir2m6
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What can we do as individuals to make the world a better place?
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Don't try to make the world better. Try to make your little corner of the world better. That's been my goal for years. So very few of us are actually equipped to do something beneficial on a large scale. I can't end poverty or cure cancer or make printer ink less expensive. But I can help my neighbor down the street, I can support local fundraisers, I can pick up trash that I pass by on the street, I can volunteer with a local service organization. If we all did this, maybe the world would benefit from all our tiny corners being benefitted.
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explainlikeimfive/cqcx7cw
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32n7oa
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What do the Irish mean when they reference "The Cause" and why are there tensions between the north and south?
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(After typing this out I realised I've mostly written about Northern Ireland but it contained information that was related to your question so I've edited it a bit and hopefully someone else can fill in more.) Tensions between Northern Ireland (which is part of the UK) and Ireland (which is a republic that occupies most of the island), and between the two main communities within Northern Ireland, have existed because the population of Northern Ireland has been slightly different to the rest of the island. I'd say that tension is more between the NI communities than directly North-South though. Unionists and loyalists, who are mostly Protestants and make up a small majority of the population of NI (used to be about ~70% in the 1970s, dropped to ~45% now), generally want Northern Ireland to remain within the United Kingdom. They are more likely to see themselves as part of the British nation, and less likely to want to be a minority in a Catholic-dominated Republic of Ireland. Irish nationalists and republicans, who are mostly Catholics and make up a large minority (used to be ~30% in the 1970s, risen to about ~40% now), generally want it to leave the United Kingdom and join a united Ireland. They are more likely to see themselves as purely Irish, and artificially separated from the South. Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom because the unionist population wanted to remain with it, rather than join the rest of Ireland when it became independent. There was a possibility of civil war if the unionist areas were forced to become part of Ireland and the British government felt it had to allow Northern Ireland to remain part of the UK. Cabinet papers from the Irish government from as late as 1974 also indicate it expected civil war in the event of union (which the Irish Army was not equipped for). For its part, Ireland was strongly aggrieved at this partitioning at independence as it felt this was a continuation of British imperialism and a foreign power on their soil. Indeed, the protestant community in the north can trace roots back to settlers from Great Britain sent to colonise the area in the 16th Century. A lot of actions by the UK are widely disliked, including the brutal massacres of Oliver Cromwell, the distribution of food during the Potato Famines and the installment of loyalist, often foreign (i.e. British) landowners. After partitioning, different groups rose to fight for their vision for Northern Ireland. Violence made the situation more polarised, with the particular involvement of paramilitaries such as the Ulster Defence Force (unionist) and Irish Republican Army (nationalist), and regular forces of the British Army. All three sides did terrible things to the public and each other, including bombings and the murders of civilians. The division of the island was a strong source of contention for many years, though the 1998 Good Friday [Peace] Agreement helped sort out a lot of issues and the UK and Ireland have agreed to let the issue be resolved through self-determination - as long as as a majority of the people want to be part of the UK, it will be, and as soon as a majority of the people want to be part of Ireland, it will be. People are also free to get British and Irish passports and to vote for a specially-balanced Northern Irish government, and there is closer cooperation between all groups and governments. Even today though there is no simple solution that leaves the NI population happy as a whole. The situation's a lot better than it used to be these days but there is still tension - for example in 2013 there were big protests after the Belfast Council voted to lessen the number of days the British flag would be flown. And the Cause is a term that can be used by either unionists or nationalists to refer to the fight for their preferred goal.
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AskReddit/ey2nvh9
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cv91fl
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What advice would you give to a socially awkward 18-year-old starting college tomorrow?
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Nothing that you would listen to. Honestly, it's a cycle as old as time. Older people gave me advice when I was young. I didn't really listen or care. Now that I'm older, I find myself giving the exact same advice to younger people, and I see them not really caring. It will happen to them, and the next generation, ad nauseum. This isn't said in disgust or anger. It's just a fact. Life is the best teacher, but a lot of times, you don't realize the lessons it has taught you until you are too old to use it.
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AskReddit/d6b4iiv
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4wzahj
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What was your family nickname?
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Loo, short for Oompa Loompa. I once made the mistake of using self-tanner before a family photo and came out neon orange. When you're under 5 feet and orange, is there really any other nickname?
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AskReddit/e628bnw
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9g8dc4
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Why are dipping sauces for chips so expensive?
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Because anyone will drop $2 for chips, but to eat without dip is criminal. With the demand for dip high because the price of chips are low they can shoot the prices up without any worry.
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AskReddit/duqoxpl
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7ztpg6
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If you could live in one video game world for the rest of your life, what would it be and why?
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None. All of them are limited worlds that wont grow like their habitants. If they act like our own world then Rune Factory? All of other choices if they dont involve respawn are freaking creepy to live in.
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AskReddit/did3tf4
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6eul9x
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Are there really supporters of the Trump decision to leave the Paris Agreement, and how is it justified?
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The money the US sends to third world countries, can be better spent inside the US. The Paris agreements are nothing more than a few handshakes and virtue signals to eachother. There are no hard targets or consequenses if a country does not comply.
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explainlikeimfive/e59ftsh
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9cbh68
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Why is it that when I'm boiling pasta with a lid on the pot there is foam trying to escape, but it goes down as soon as I take the lid out?
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When cooking pasta the boiling water will start to bubble because of the steam that is created in boiling the water, the starch that is released into the water by the pasta causes the foamy look. When you take off the lid, the steam that caused the bubbles can escape so the bubbles lower.
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askscience/do3h7rn
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752uyp
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Could a planet theoretically orbit a single star in a binary star system?
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It depends on how far away the stars are. No matter what, there'll be two gravitational pulls on the planet at all times. One from the close star and one from the far star. If they're in perfect harmony with each other, meaning that they all aline in a line at the same time, the planet will eventually get sucked into the close star due to overlapping gravity. At least that's how my brain tells me.
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explainlikeimfive/cc6pb0d
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1m831l
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What are the MUST KNOWS about bank accounts and the differences between each of them?
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Checking accounts do not generally pay interest, but they allow you to move money in and out fairly easily. Savings accounts usually pay interest (not much) but may be more restrictive or require a minimum balance. Unless you have a special deal (sometime students can get free checking), many accounts will have a fee or a minimum balance associated with them. Sometimes a bank will waive the fee or balance if you apply for a credit card through them. The details vary among banks so you should go to a bank or it's website to see what they offer. Also, don't be afraid to talk to a banker about your questions. They want your business and will be more than happy to answer your questions.
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AskHistorians/c7neqrs
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15l1a8
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Is there any substantial evidence to the claim that President James Buchanan was gay?
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Short answer: No. Generally speaking, the "evidence" for President Buchanan being gay comes in a few forms - 1) The fact that he remained a bachelor his whole life. He was engaged for a time, but his fiancee broke the engagement and soon died. He did not seem to give her great affection, but that alone is not evidence enough to say he didn't like women at all. 2) His friendship with another bachelor, William R. King. This is the relationship that is most used as evidence of his romantic proclivities. The two men lived together for many years and were apparently quite close. King died before Buchanan was elected President, and many of the letters between the two were destroyed. The destruction of the letters may come off as suspicious, but suspicion is not evidence. It very well could be that the two men were just close platonic friends. We just don't know.
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AskReddit/coxjt9t
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2x7b01
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What compels a person to just keep driving after hitting a dog with their car?
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Probably fear. I have hit a pet before and I did stop and offer to take the dog to an emergency veterinarian. The owner subsequently said "no, he'll be fine". Many people likely fear the confrontation or convince themselves it wasn't an actual pet. Regardless of the driver's motivation I am very sorry for your loss and wish you and your family the best.
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explainlikeimfive/dgk1xac
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66oh6k
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When someone driving has a heart attack and crashes their vehicle, how do they sometimes know they died instantly from the heart attack and not from the crash itself?
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This is the job of the medical examiner- to do an autopsy to determine the cause of death. Examination of the heart will tell if a heart attack took place. Other things provide more clues- for example blood loss stops when the heart stops pumping, so a lack of bleeding means the heart had already stopped pumping before the injuries occurred.
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AskReddit/etv2ll0
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cdnesi
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What is the absolute WORST or disappointing movie/tv-show adaptation of a book that you have ever seen?
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I actually never really have read a book before a movie also not after I only see the movies just because I want to be entertained I know ready player 1 was a book i saw the movie but this one was actually very good I mostly don’t really have an opinion on “it needs to be like how the book does it” if it entertains me then it’s good
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AskReddit/cytvosx
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40g05h
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Do you feel like a leader or a follower?
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I'm a really good follower. In group situations I like to find someone I think would be a good leader and sort of nudge them towards leadership of whatever we're doing. From there I usually just do whatever they say and occasionally give my input on stuff. I was the leader of a lot of stuff in high school, I was okay at it but I really didn't like the pressure. So I've found I'm more appreciated when I encourage someone else to take charge and simply act like a really well-functioning cog in the machine.
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explainlikeimfive/csudjms
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3cczd8
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Why can people live in Hiroshima now, but not in Chernobyl?
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Chernobyl was a huge burning reactor, Hiroshima was hit by a bomb dropped out of a plane. It did a lot of damage, but the radioactive material was considerably less. Chernobyl released about 400 times as much contamination into the atmosphere. The contamination from the bomb was started in the atmosphere and resulted in less surface contamination. The radionuclides also tend towards shorter half-lives than the contamination at Chernobyl. That being said, wildlife is thriving within the exclusion zone, and someone potentially could live at Chernobyl, but it's generally considered unsafe due to the degree of radiation exposure, and illegal.
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AskReddit/ecy3vwg
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ab7lwm
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What’s the furthest you’ve ever had to turn around on a trip after you or someone you were with forgot something?
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What inspired this post: I just moved to a new city about 3 hours away. Borrowed my dad’s truck and had a friend help me move a bunch of furniture for a day trip. Got about halfway there when I realized I didn’t have the keys to the new apartment. We decided NOT to turn around and luckily a neighbor was able to open up a communal door and I was able to store the stuff in the basement for a few days until I came back. Not sure what plan B would have been.
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askscience/d5z3rcu
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4vk4wu
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Why is Venus hotter than Mercury?
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Venus's extremely thick atmosphere insulates it. Mercury, on the other hand, has no atmosphere and so the planet can cool itself by emitting infrared radiation. Venus's atmosphere is the densest of any rocky body in the Solar System. In fact, the mass of the atmosphere alone is almost as much as Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt. It is composed mainly of carbon dioxide, which absorbs infrared radiation and thus acts as a greenhouse gas. The atmosphere is circulating rapidly and keeps the planet pretty evenly heated.
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explainlikeimfive/cf557ki
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1wsvhk
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Do women who have a heavy period get pregnant easier because their womb "builds a better nest" than women who have a light period?
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No. The lining of the uterus that's shed during a period is where the fertilized egg would implant. But it doesn't affect the release of the egg, the fertilization by the sperm, and the ability to implant and "stick". I'm not sure about how menstruation might correlate to, say, miscarriage rates. But the ability to get pregnant should be totally unrelated to "flow". (As stated previously, a regular cycle is the better indicator).
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AskReddit/cxvcs8c
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3wdqll
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Why does it seem as though single people with children end up in a relationship with another single person who has children rather than a single person with no kids?
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When you are single without a kid you are not a parent. If you start a relationship with a person with a kid now you are a de facto parent. Many single people don't want or aren't ready to be a parent. where as if both are parents then this is a common bond. Then there is the whole raising another persons kid, the added monetary cost of this relationship, and dealing with their ex all the time. That is a lot to deal with with early stage it might just want it to be a casual booty call.
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explainlikeimfive/cjua1x3
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2dybgd
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How does the scientific "study" industry (if you can even call it an industry) actually work?
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It's called the scientific community. The way it is supposed to work, is that a scientist, or group of scientists, will conduct a study, and then write a paper summarizing what they did and what the results are. This study will then be peer-reviewed by other members in that particular field of the scientific community (if your research is in biochemistry, your paper gets reviewed by other people in the biochemistry field. Ecologists don't review biochemistry papers). If this paper is approved by the majority of the peer reviews, it gets published in a science journal (Nature is a well-known biology scientific journal) and further peer reviews. The peer reviews are looking to see if you followed the scientific method, how conclusive your results were, whether your data is reproducible. If you actually follow the system, it works very well. However, the system is not always followed. When you see articles, or advertisements that claim that some "study" found X, you should take it with a grain of salt (especially with advertisements). These studies are really only valid if they have been published. Otherwise, they're just hypotheses, not studies. My advice is to look at the source of the study. If it links to a scientific journal, it's probably OK. Otherwise, it's just speculation. Did you have something particular that is troubling you?
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explainlikeimfive/clhdzy4
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2k2vzz
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How is it possible that a guy like Mike Tyson can go from having a net worth of $300 million dollars to barely making a living today?
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People with a huge net worth get in a habit of living a life of luxury. Spending thousands daily. There is no limit to money. If you do not take the steps necessary to budget and invest properly while you have it. The money flow stops, but your spending habits and way of life rarely stops. NFL football players are a great example. They earn enough while playing to last their entire life but once they retire a lot turn up broke because the money flow stopped.
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AskReddit/c3oqy7u
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pemys
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Why are teen shooting victims always straight A students?
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Simple selection bias. Headlines aren't going to mention if poor students didn't do well in school, and instead will focus on other positive qualities to remember the victim by. Therefore, the only headlines that discuss victims' grades will be about good grades.
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AskReddit/cmntj3u
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2ojyvr
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What was the worst food that you forced yourself to eat, as to not offend your host?
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Christmas pudding. I am an American, who was visiting family in London. We had a traditional English Christmas dinner complete with homemade Christmas pudding at the end. This was when I learned that the word "pudding" means something else across the pond. It tasted like moldy bread drenched in fermented figs that had been scraped off of a sidewalk. I forced myself to eat the whole thing despite being nauseated. I spent the next several hours in pain on the bathroom floor, only getting up to vomit so hard even my bowels were empty by the end of it.
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AskReddit/d57u7m8
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4sawk0
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How did your parents screw you up?
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Overprotective parents raise the best liars. Religion was forced onto me at a very young age and that's the reason I still reject it. However, I keep up a facade around my mother so she thinks I'm a perfect godchild. The crippling reality is that she knows close to absolutely nothing about me.
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AskReddit/ck1lbqk
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2ep2qt
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What was your town/high school prank?
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This one has been done in many places and my school's probably wasn't the first, but the first time I heard about it was in reference to my school. The story goes that back when this city was a farm town, the seniors released 3 pigs into the school. Painted onto each pig was a number. There was pig 1, pig 2, and pig 4. They searched and searched, but could not find pig 3.
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AskReddit/db2r1c2
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5hsnn4
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What rule exists because of you?
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The rule doesn't exist because of me but it had to be revised. The rule was: A hot work permit must be obtained before any process that generates heat or sparks is carried out. I work on ship and onboard you must fill out a hot work permit before carrying out certain work usually welding or grinding, the paper work takes about 20 minutes to fill out and get signed. The permit is basically a singed bit of paper to show that you carried out all of the necessary safety checks before works starts in case anything goes wrong. I found that rule was a bit vague and so I started filling out permits for turning on lights and told the cook that he needed one before he could use his ovens. I even convinced the cadet to fill one out before he could use the tumble dryer so that I could put my clothes in before him. It all stopped when I had a twenty minute argument with the Captain that he couldn't take of his woolly jumper as the static may cause sparks. The rule was revised to: A hot work permit must be obtained for work that generates heat or sparks that may lead to a fire under reasonable conditions.
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explainlikeimfive/e7y8goj
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9p168t
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What are the rules in the music industry that govern how one artist’s song can be covered by another?
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You pay a royalty - you can either ask permission beforehand and negotiate a rate, or just do it and pay the standard rate. Recording royalties are based on sales, while performance royalties are usually covered by a performance fee to ASCAP. Royalties go to the songwriter(s), not the band, because the band might have been covering someone else's material in the first place (for example, Elvis Presley didn't write any of his own songs).
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explainlikeimfive/c2upvlz
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lpzul
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What causes that feeling in your stomach when you ride a roller coaster?
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Actually this is not due to weightlessness. Think about the how you are connected to everything when on a roller coaster. Your organs sit in your body, your body is held to the car by some restraining device, and the car is held to the track by some wheel mechanism. Going over a hill, the downward angle of the track "pulls" (gravity!) the car down, which then pulls your body down, which then pulls your organs down. The feeling you get in this situation (and going through a trough as well) is due to a lag time between your body moving and your organs moving. Your body is going one direction while your organs are going a slightly different direction. You can feel this effect whenever your body accelerates, and its strength will depend on how quickly the acceleration happens. In skydiving, you fall for long enough to reach a "terminal velocity" (you stop accelerating), at which point you feel "weightless." edit: the letters
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AskReddit/cr9y5m9
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3620d7
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What elaborate prank would you pull if you were filthy rich?
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Probably the same as all the other filthy rich people. Maintain the capatalist system which makes my money earn far more money in a day without lifting a finger than you can earn in a lifetime.
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askscience/dtopdbq
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7usjtp
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Could there be life in oceans deep under the crust?
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These "oceans" are a misnomer. There are not oceans deep under the surface. There is a vast amount of "water" in the mantle of the Earth, but it is in the form of hydrous minerals. These are just minerals with Hydrogen and Oxygen in them - not literally water. And only as a very small % of the elements in mantle minerals. This is still important because it is why volcanic activity releases water (H and O are combined into water as the mineral melts and erupts), which helps offset water lost by metamorphism of oceanic rock which is later subducted into the mantle. It is also important because even though H and O are a small % of the elements in mantle minerals, the mantle is vast, so it adds up to a lot. Which is why it was reported a while back that "oceans" worth of water was under the surface. And by especially egregious misrepresentations of science by some news outlets, that literal oceans were beneath the surface. Hydrous minerals can't be used as a water substitute by life as far as we are aware, and combined with other problems life would face at those depths, it is pretty reasonable to assume there isn't any.
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AskReddit/dydhpg1
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8gozo2
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What movies would you give 10/10 to?
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First of all I think there is little value in these threads where people just comment the name of a movie without any further commentary or justification. It just becomes a reddit poll and all the same movies get upvoted. For me, a 10/10 movie is Kickass (which I know is liked by reddit but I don’t think it’s rated this highly). I would never argue it is better than a lot of other movies but my first time watching it was one of the most enjoyable experience I’ve had at the movies. I thought it was a super hero spoof movie going in so I was pleasantly surprised as the plot developed. It had a good amount of humour and action but the climax of the movie (kryptonite scene with Adiago in D) and how I wasn’t anticipating anything like that made it a 10/10. First time I experienced frisson watching a movie and it was intense. I now watch it once a year on my birthday!
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explainlikeimfive/ecadcem
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a8g2mx
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How does a human manage to die if they slit open their wrists but doesn’t when they lose their whole arm?
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Yeah this all depends on context. If there is no intervention, you will die from either. If you are planning to cut off your arm, like a surgery amputation, they apply a tourniquet to cut off blood flow to the area. There is a certain way that if you slit your wrist it can be very hard to repair, which is why it's so dangerous, but most of the time with intervention you will be okay.
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askscience/di4gesn
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6dojba
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What is so special about 1/360th of a circle that makes it a unit a measurement?
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It's unknown when the convention of using 360 divisions of a full circle became widely adopted. It seems to be an ancient one. The concept is mentioned a few times in the Indian Rigveda texts, which date to around 3100-3500 years before present. There's debate whether the idea appeared first in India and then was transmitted to Mesopotamia, or vice versa. It's plausible to think that the need to measure angles in a repeatable way first came about in the practice of astronomy, before it would have been applied to things like geometry or building construction. So, 360 is roughly equal to the number of days in the year, while still being divisible by a large number of potential factors. The position of stars at dawn would therefore advance by 365.24 / 360 = 1.015 degrees each day. Pretty close to 1 degree. Or equivalently, the movement of the position of the sun relative to the stars in the night sky. Some early calendars used 360 days in the year. The Sumerians made use of a Base 60 numbering/counting system around 5000 years before present, and this was passed down to later civilizations in the middle East, such as the Babylonians, Egyptians, and classical Greeks. The earliest forms of trigonometry made use of equilateral triangles, whose corners correspond to 60 degrees. So, placing 6 equilateral triangles in a hexagonal rosette creates a full circle of 6*60 = 360 degrees. In the case of base 60, it's easily mentally divisible by 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, and 30. This would be useful even if you're totally illiterate, but wanting to trade a bunch of items at market.
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askscience/c6mq8u4
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11idfs
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Does irreducible complexity have any merits at all?
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So far, no. No one has found an irreducibly complex system. Using irreducible complexity is an argument from ignorance. You are basically saying, "I can't think of a way this complex system could have evolved, therefore it could not have evolved." It's about as arrogant as you can get.
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explainlikeimfive/d2pvrga
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4hir7k
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How do the flashing lights, alarms and gates at train crossings know when to start and stop when trains pass by?
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They run a small electric current down the rails. When the train is coming the axles of the train cause act like a short between the rails which causes the behavior of that current to change. The crossing guards can detect this change. Because the nature of the change is a function of how far away the train is from the crossing a smart crossing can figure out how far away the train is, and how fast it's moving, and use that to figure out when it needs to close & open the gate.
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AskReddit/dt1t8my
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7s3ulw
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How has your musical taste evolved/changed over time?
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I use to ride the tropical house techno wave but it quickly changed to hip hop and r&b. Some Lil Pump or Roy Woods does the trick.
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explainlikeimfive/ddi93t3
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5sw0cy
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Why do companies post job vacancies that are already planned to be filled internally or even not at all?
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Many large companies require a very precise policy be followed when hiring someone. This generally requires publicly posting the position, accepting resumes, and quite often even interviewing a minimum number of candidates (often at least three). They require hiring managers to jump through these hoops for a few reasons 1) It forces the manager to document every step of the process and ensures they're doing their due diligence to hire the best candidate instead of whoever's convenient. 2) It makes it much harder to hire someone unqualified, especially due to favoritism or bribery (If you collect 5 resumes for a position and the one you hire is by far the worst, that will raise a red flag with HR) 3) It protects the company from liability (if someone tries to sue claiming unfair hiring procedures, these requirements and documentation much it much harder for the plaintiff to win that law suit.)
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AskReddit/eb6qnj7
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a3j85f
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What is the difference between cultural anthropology and stereotyping?
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Cultural anthropology looks at a culture and identifies similarities and differences in social practices amongst groups of different cultures. Stereotyping looks at the individual and makes assumptions about them based on a small bit of information (could be visual or cultural). For example a researcher travels to India and observed that culturally, they have a lot of people who participate in arranged marriage when compared to a lot of other countries. They also observe that a lot of people use chilli in their food and that there are a lot of Hindus. This is cultural anthropology. Comparatively, a person in America meets a person who says they are from India. The American person assumes they have an arranged marriage, eat chilli and are Hindu purely based on this information. That’s stereotyping.
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AskReddit/cav61cj
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1hk8k2
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What's your proudest skill learned as a child with no adult help?
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Awesome question, OP! I learned multiplication with no adult help when I realized that the our 4 x 6 grid of VHS tapes was 24, which equalled the same amount I put in my calculator when I pushed 4*6. Edit: I re-read this realizing there might be some confusion. Here's a better rewritten version: I learned multiplication with no adult help when I realized that the our 4 x 6 grid of VHS tapes was 24, which equalled the same amount my calculator displayed when I pushed 4*6.
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askscience/c8ws772
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1aeyaf
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Why is the ocean so salty?
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You are completely mostly right. Salt exists in large deposits all across the globe. As water travels across the land, it picks up salt and other minerals and deposits them in the ocean. When the water evaporates from the ocean, it leaves the salt and minerals behind. Over billions of years, the oceans became salty. Good deduction on your part! Edit: See posts by others below.
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askscience/chuzf65
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26v9cw
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How does spacetime support the spherical Oort cloud?
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The Oort Cloud hasn't been directly observed yet. We infer its existence from the presence of long-period comets, but we haven't yet confirmed observationally that it's there. As Weed_O_Whirler said, the rubber-sheet analogy is limited, in part because it's a 2-dimensional analogy for something that's happening in 3 dimensions.
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AskReddit/cy2t3rq
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3x9zkp
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What's the worst part of winter?
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I used to live in Minnesota and most people there agree the worst part of winter is the part after new years day. No more holidays. Just weather so cold your nuts retreat inside your body every time you step out the door and months of depression
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AskReddit/eq4u4kx
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bxay12
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If a soccer team with perfect offense played a team with perfect defense, who would win?
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The team with perfect offense, you can defend perfect but depending on the scenario on the pitch there can be a way to break it down. But if the the team with perfect defense isn’t as good offensively they’ll still find it hard to score goals even if the other team isn’t as good at defending. Just my 2 cents
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AskReddit/dfawggy
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6119tn
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What's one thing about the industry you work in that should be public knowledge, but isn't?
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Maybe not "public" knowledge, but "(should be) common" knowledge. Passwords are super easy to break if it's a word, your name, some date that's associated with anything you ever put online. Making a password like dsjio2830jkjw is incomparably more secure. TL;DR AI type search algorithms are going to find your typically used sequence of characters and just mash each against each other to see what you used. Jsmith112, jsmith112, jsmith122, it's going to run a billion of variations of that in a matter of seconds.
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AskReddit/cazi3aw
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1hzk6o
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Where was the worst place you've ever thrown up?
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My class took a trip to Washington DC my eighth-grade year and we took these huge charter buses with bathrooms in them. When we were coming back from DC (A 13 hour drive) a kid started to feel sick and ran over to the bathroom. When he gets in there he hurls everywhere in the bathroom. He didn't even get it in the toilet, it was terrible. But the worst part was the puke started dripping through the bathroom door and started to flow to all of our seats. We had to breathe in the smell of puke for 10 more hours after that. It twas a terrible experience.
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AskReddit/dge5zwz
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65yiru
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What are some skills that are not too late to learn for someone in their 30s that can be helpful in life?
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Basic auto mechanic skills. A jack, couple jack stands, and $150 tool kit will cover 90% of the stuff you can do. Changing your own oil, replacing the starter, flushing transmission, etc. can save you a fortune in your lifetime.
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AskReddit/dtajaqk
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7t7kc6
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What's the most unsettling thing you have learned about someone you know?
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My cousin is a serial child abuser (12/13yr old girls) and has been to prison on 3 separate occasions for it. I absolutely loathe that I'm related to him. I learned about it from the front page of a newspaper after he abducted a 12 year old girl and went on a high speed chase with the cops.
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AskReddit/dgsbhip
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67q334
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What do you think about the pledge of allegiance being said in schools every day?
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My kid is five years old. Every single day they start off with the pledge of allegiance. It actually makes me super uncomfortable, but can't quite explain WHY. Anybody I have talked to in person makes me feel like a terrible person. It just seems very early to be instilling nationalism in her. She doesn't understand what she is saying, or why. I'm just hoping some people have some insights on this topic.
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explainlikeimfive/c5nzerp
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xnrzq
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Why did people live to several hundred years of age prior to the flood?
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Well, what kind of answer would you like? Basic Christian theology says that Adam was in the garden and able to eat of the tree of life, which kept him living. The original sin of eating the fruit he had been forbidden to eat (that of the tree of knowledge of good and evil) led to his being cast out from the garden. Not only did he no longer have access to the tree of life, but the impact of this sin on his spiritual nature meant that he and all his descendants would become degraded from their more perfect nature in the garden. Thus, they lived oldest at first, and gradually for shorter and shorter periods of time as generations came and went. On the other hand: there is no scientific evidence that any human being has ever lived longer than around 123 years, and the ages of certain old people in the Bible shouldn't be taken as fact.
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AskReddit/c1shlxz
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h4es3
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What is the most inappropriate or outrageous thing, you've overheard a teacher say?
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So, my history teacher was one of the most awesome teachers ever back in high school. I had the privilege of having him two years in a row. One day, we needed tissues. So he calls me and this other girl, Haley, up to his desk. He says (Mind you, he said a bunch of things, but I digress) to Haley "I need you to go to the Nurse's office to secure us a box of tissues" He looks at me and says "I need you to go with her in case she falls in the line of duty".
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AskReddit/e71ussb
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9kuggs
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What historical figure should not be looked up to?
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Its changing recently - but the three Reddit love to bring it up are, Christopher Columbus and Mother Teresa, and Gandhi. But instead of a list we should try to look at these historical figures in a different perspective that reflected their time and the contribution they had - good or bad. But for me, Mao ZeDong. A lot of family friends, and people i met from China hold him very highly and bought the propaganda and refuse to even discuss his life in any critical light.
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AskReddit/eeekd2q
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ahhe77
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What is the reason for people thinking the earth is flat?
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Religion is the main driving force. If you watch any of the videos of people attending the flat earth conventions they are very preachy and have a fair amount of religious claims.
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AskReddit/cjrwt7c
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2dpy0e
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Why does Nickelback get so much hate?
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They are the Taylor Swift of rock/metal. Taylor Swift gets a lot of hate because she tried to present herself as a country singer, but really sang top 40 pop music. She's not country enough for country fans and too country for people who hate country. Nickelback is the same way. They're a pop band now, who tries to be something they're not.
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explainlikeimfive/cjqaxav
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2dk913
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How do shows like Scare Tactics and Punked avoid lawsuits and other legal situations?
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It's fake. All of reality TV is, if you watch the credits you can see them list the writers. Even the ones that seem the most "real" will have slapstick writers that toss in jokes here and there. Reality TV is a person portraying themselves in real life vs a character, but with extra commentary, jokes and fake situations.
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AskHistorians/cc5zaz6
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1m5fkz
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Why were the Allied tanks so much weaker than the Axis tanks durning World War II?
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Without disagreeing with anything PzKW said, I'd like to add this: Deliberate choice by the US army in order to have better logistics. The Americans had two medium tank models (Grant so short a time it hardly counts and Sherman) from 1941-45 the Russians had one (T34). The Germans had five medium and heavy tanks (Pz III, IV, Panthers, Tigers, King Tigers) This meant that Americans and Russians had a lot easier time standardizing all their production and logistics. Allied armored divisions only had to keep one tank supplied, and all mechanics and personnel could be trained to maintain Shermans. Additionally, a standard sized tank meant you could build landing craft and shipping accordingly. Americans declined to produce a heavy tank, and were slow in producing the M-26 Pershing because of shipping considerations. Also Tank quality doesn't matter as much as you might think in affecting overall attrition rates I'd like to emphasize that Tanks do not fight only with other Tanks in an unchanging battlespace, in the way that fighter aircraft did in WWII. Tanks have to perform many roles in and the prevailing doctrine for all WWII armies by 1941 was combined arms (infantry, tank, artillery) teams. This means that Tanks suffer losses in supporting infantry, from mines, from artillery fire, from enemy infantry, in cities at point blank range, from enemy aircraft and mechanical failure. In many, many situations a Tiger and a Sherman aren't significantly tactically different, even though at mid to long range a Sherman would be hopelessly outmatched in a "fair fight". Basically, fair fights are rare compared to all the other things that can kill a tank. The Germans proved this in 1941 by inflicting terrible losses on Russian T34s while they used mainly Pz IIIs, and the Americans proved this by having favorable attrition rates in 1944 while they used Shermans against Panthers and Tigers. Edit: I'm omitting US light tanks and Russian heavies, since their numbers were small compared to mediums tanks.
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AskReddit/dixk7f0
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6hdqbo
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Who is the most interesting person alive?
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I've found 21 Savage is a very interesting dude. I think he's the Snoop Dog type dude of the future. What I mean is, he's going to have enormous cross over appeal, and make the full journey from "the realest dude in the rap game" to "honorary white person".
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AskReddit/chcmxf8
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25188j
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What is a story you've always wanted to tell but can never find the right thread?
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Well I haven't always wanted to tell this story since it only happened today but I feel like telling it anyway. So Today I was doing some filming in a church for a short film, and one of the actresses had gotten changed in the upper level where some chairs and stuff were stored. She stayed in costume on her way to the next set and ended up leaving her usual clothes in the storage room so i found them on our final sweep. Her Jeans and shirt were resting on top of a bag that had some shoes inside so I just shoved her clothes inside and took them to our next set. Hours later when Filming was over she got changed and handed me the bag back. So I told her that I thought it was hers and she said it wasn't. So i basically stole a bag and a pair of shoes from a german speaking lutheran church.
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AskReddit/c7h3a8d
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14whxj
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Why do I have a vague longing to live in a post-apocalyptic landscape?
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If you watch a lot of the TV shows and read books, they make it seem better than it would probably be. Most likely? You will die. Everyone you know will die. Very few people would even live in a post-apocalyptic world at first, but you won't be one of them.
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AskReddit/c38twkl
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ng6gk
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How can I avoid getting constant nightmares every night?
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Have you tried sleeping with a pet or stuffed animal or something? I know it sounds kinda childish but when my girlfriend sleeps alone (read: without me or her cat) she has very vivid nightmares. Also I really hope you can find something to help, it can be rough not sleeping well.
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AskReddit/dm6et9k
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6w965w
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What is a confession from your childhood that you never told your parents?
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I was sexually assaulted when I was a kid, but I can't remember by who but I remember trying to reenact it with other kids, and I remember going to several doctors for my leechinskilrirosis I was so ashamed of it I never told them and I tried to cover it because I didn't want them to be mad at me. And I even tried to touch my little cousin because I didn't understand that what happened to me wasn't normal, and when I was in an abusive relationship in high school my boyfriend at the time was so manipulative he would make me do sexual favors with him and the worst part is at the time he convinced me I wanted to do it. And I always felt so used and empty after but I believed that doing those things would prevent him from leaving me.
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askscience/c29cww9
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j5nfd
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Can someone give me a simple explanation of how an aircraft is able to achieve lift?
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The simplest accurate explanation is just to directly apply Newton's laws of motion: If there is a lift force pushing the aircraft up, it is because the aircraft is pushing the air down. If you want to know why or how the air is pushed down, then we need to introduce a few new concepts. If we try to work out the fluid mechanics using only the most basic boundary condition (that the air can't pass through a solid), we get a problem: no lift at all. To account for lift we have to introduce something called circulation. As well as going past the aerofoil, the air is also circulating around. It's only when you add in circulation that you get air moving faster over the top and slower underneath. But we haven't yet justified this circulation physically. It could mathematically take any value, while still keeping to the basic laws of fluid mechanics. How much circulation is there? Here is where the incorrect "Equal Transit Time" theory comes in. It asserts that the correct amount of circulation is that which reunites particles which have taken the top and bottom route. There is no reason that this should be the case, air molecules have no particular desire to be reunited with old friends. A better theory about how much circulation exists is the Kutta Condition: >A body with a sharp trailing edge which is moving through a fluid will create about itself a circulation of sufficient strength to hold the rear stagnation point at the trailing edge. This matches with experimental data. If you want to know precisely why the Kutta condition is true then you'll have to ask, this is getting too long already. In Conclusion: Lift is entirely due to air being forced down. Air is forced down because there is circulation around the aerofoil The amount of circulation is determined by the Kutta Condition.
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AskReddit/dg37szd
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64m3e3
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What is the most awkward dating story you have?
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Met a woman on a dating app and it seemed that our interests lined up pretty well. I am outdoorsy and active and it seemed like she was too. We meet for lunch and she instantly seemed disappointed. I'm not sure why, my photos were recent and my profile even contained a few physical dimensions. It turned out that she wasn't as active as she suggested and was distracted. So a little after our food arrives I told her that she didn't seem interested and that it would be cool if she decided to just pay for her stuff now and leave, which she did. She apologized profusely and stuff and I told her that I wasn't mad and wished her success. Then I had a delicious lunch in peace.
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AskReddit/ds8pq3l
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7odq5l
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What's one of the worst things your parents did to you?
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Abandoned me to be raised by my grandparents. My grandparents are wonderful people but I was left with a lot of emotional issues over my parents. Especially since my mother decided to start a new family while pretending I didn't exist!
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AskReddit/e67ytjg
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9gz9th
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What are the different ways an individual acts around ugly people and good looking people?
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I believe that depends on the confidence level of that person. Low Confidence - they may avoid or shy away from the good looking/attractive person. And be more susceptible to approaching the ugly person. High confidence - they are likely to approach the good looking attractive person with little to no hesitation. They are also more likely to avoid ugly people and consider them not worth their time. However confidence in the good looking and ugly people can play a role. Ugly people with high confidence usually try harder to look good and some people gravitate towards the confidence, the effort or both. On the flipside good looking people with low confidence will put less effort into themselves effectively making them invisible to people who should otherwise find them attractive.
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AskReddit/c7prn2d
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15tudy
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In your opinion, what is wrong with today's society?
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Society seem to think everyone's opinions are as valid as anyone else's despite the circumstances and personal expertise. This is why we have scientific experts backed with evidence arguing with people who only have their personal beliefs on an issue. but instead of the weaker argument being shown to be flawed, it just turns into "one person's opinion against anothers". This may have always been around but what makes it worse for this generation is that the internet has allowed people to retreat back to like minded people so that flawed opinions not only never get denounced, they flourish in a sort of organized ignorance. Discussion and debate seem to no longer leads anywhere due to this.
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AskReddit/cnj0nui
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2rt4rh
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Why do so many American men find Asian women attractive, but far less American women find Asian men attractive?
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>far less American women find Asian men attractive? It's not that American women don't find Asian men attractive, they just don't fetishize them the way American men fetishize Asian women, so it doesn't stand out as much. American women definitely find Asian men attractive.
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explainlikeimfive/cfhh3ru
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1y5cm9
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Why do most people hate to hear their own voices on audio recordings?
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When you hear your own voice the sound travels through your jaw. Therefore the sound you hear as "you" isn't quite what you actually sound like. Hearing your actual voice via recording just seems unsettling or "wrong" because, to you, that's not what you should sound like. Photos and video have a similar effect; you usually see yourself in a mirror so to you your mirror image is normal. Seeing a photo or video shows you the right way around, this is why some people think they never look good/right on film.
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AskReddit/d06t48c
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46ov0h
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How do you feel about Sci-Fi/Fantasy compared to other genres?
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I think they're probably the easiest genres to write since you can BS anything with "with our fantastic machine we can fly" or "I cast and bring __ back from the dead." Those kind of plot devices kind of cheapen things for me.
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AskReddit/c2uk0d2
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lpict
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Which movies are actually markedly better than the book on which they are based?
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The one I always say is American Psycho. The book is good overall, and it has some nice stylistic flourishes, but it lacks the immediacy, high tension, and laser-beam focus of the film. Part of it, I think, is that a horrific critique of an image obsessed era (the eighties) just lends itself better to an image based medium (film), than it does to a written medium.
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explainlikeimfive/cpe6h7g
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2yypft
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Why are buttons usually on the right side of a shirt or jacket?
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Supposedly because back in the day women had maids dress for them while men usually button their own shirts (in reality they still have butlers to help with other clothes though). In addition men's jackets often have a pocket inside the lapel, so putting buttons on the right enables you to reach straight into the pocket with your right hand.
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AskReddit/dev4hyn
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5z3zsu
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What is the most disappointing movie you have watched?
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Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I loved all the others, I grew up watching them. absolutely hated everything about that one. Aliens? Really? Shia LaBeouf? It was all so badly put together, no thought, just yeah we can put him in the hat, give him the whip and it won't matter, they'll love it and . money in the bank! I really was disappointed!
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AskReddit/cdjomgh
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1r57m0
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What university degree do you have, and what job position do you now hold?
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Economics. I have a research analyst position at an Internet company. The position is completely unrelated to my major, but I did take a bunch of stat courses in college and I've had a few math based internships, so not entirely out there. Edit: I graduated in May and landed the job in October, exactly 5 months to the day after graduation. My last job ended in December, so I had technically been unemployed for 10 months.
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AskReddit/dmi2yxd
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6xrxfb
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Why do we still use coins with nearly negligible value, like pennies and Nickels?
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I actually wish we rounded all cash payments to the nearest quarter. (Credit cards would still be the exact price. ) Get rid of pennies, nickles, and dimes. I know going to dollar and two dollar coins like Canada would actually save taxpayer money, but I hate carrying around coins (in case you couldn't tell by now, ha ha). I also wished Americans would use $2 dollar bills instead of saving them thinking they're worth something.
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AskReddit/eh6g5wq
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au92tk
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What do we take for granted until it's gone?
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The ability to wake up every day and only worry be that of our homework is not done or I have to go to school when I would rather stay at home. as a child these are the worst things in your life but as you grow older and the issues change into those that are more complex that is when we realise that those years at school are the ones that we took for granted.
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AskReddit/dd09jre
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5qlqba
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Why is there no fence being built by the Canadian boarder too?
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Ok let's put it this way the Mexican border has hundreds of illegal immigrants each year nit just from Mexico's but also from central American. This sounds racist but the truth is Mexico a developing country and has many poor people trying to find a better life and there are lots of drug cartel. The canada USA border is the longest border in the world and take into consideration that canada and USA are each others best trading partners, friends, and also allies for several decades. A wall isn't necessary because they trust Canadians not to cross the border illegally, and it is also too long. Still, areas near crossings are fenced. There is also many symbolic purposes to not building a wall between the two.
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explainlikeimfive/dzwonyb
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8nmmv9
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How did K-Pop become so popular?
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There are actually a number of good documentaries on this exact subject. It's easy to say it's catchy, crowd pleasing, the idols meticulously guard their images, etc but the simplest, (maybe too simple) answer is: 1) It's highly corporate and there exists a large, well supported infrastructure for identifying, developing, marketing, selling, and supporting various K-pop groups. Much like European soccer has infrastructure and developmental leagues decades ahead of their American counterparts, the Korean idol industry is very well developed. 2) The government actively supports the industry. It's not just music, locally produced movies and television are also very popular outside of Korea and the government considers this cultural influence a very important part of their soft power in Asian and abroad. Korea has a population somewhere between Myanmar and Kenya, but in Esports, television, movies, music,etc it punches well above its weight. This isn't an accident. Somewhat relevant to this: I always find discussions of cultural appropriation, getting upset about kimonos, sushi, qipaos etc mildly ridiculous. Somewhere in Seoul entire departments filled with middle aged bureaucrats are trying their damndest to get Americans (and Chinese, and Japanese, and anyone else) to eat more Kimchi, watch Korean cartoons, read Korean comics, watch Kpop videos buy Kpop music, dress in Korean clothes, anything to make non Koreans appreciate Korean culture. Simultaneously their relatives (at least a few of them) in America are getting upset because white people are making Kalbi inauthentically. It's. Ugh.
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AskReddit/dv6bd9b
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81zgib
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How do you feel about having to take a road test for driving again upon turning 65?
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I think it's a great idea. My grandma turned 70 last year and she's been in four accidents in the last year and a half. She lives in the middle of nowhere and it snows a lot. She was traveling (in the summer) to go visit her sister who lives about 45 minutes away. She barely gets out of the town she lives in and hits some drain thing that's in the yard somehow and her car is out of commission for close to a month. Then she takes one of my cousins (who just got his license) to take her to the city nearby and then she drives home. She doesn't like taking the high way so she takes back roads, but they're icy. She starts sliding down and her "breaks wouldn't stop" and clips someone's car who is waiting at the bottom. Then in the rental car she is driving home and she has an insanely huge garage and she drives too far into it and hits the table denting the rental car. THEN she's at the local drug store, is backing out and someone clips her. She was deemed at fault. My uncle is taking her keys away from her (she doesn't know it yet -- her car is still getting worked on). She doesn't want to lose the ability, but at this point she can't afford the insurance.
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