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explainlikeimfive/cwp9yhw
3rm7d2
How does water extinguish fire?
It doesn't ALWAYS extinguish fire, but it does work for the most common fires like wood and paper. For those things, how they burn is important to the answer. In them, the heat breaks down the tissues in the organic material into gases that can then burn, and it's those burning gases that cause the flame. Then, when there's largely just carbon left, you get smoldering embers that make that nice glow at the bottom of a dying campfire. Fire needs three things to work: heat, oxygen, and fuel. Take away any of the three and you lose your fire. Water can stop the first two. Water flashes to steam on contact with something hot, robbing it of its heat. It also immediately cools any embers and forms a layer that cuts oxygen off to the part of the fire in its embers. Once the flame is gone, the embers that have enough heat to possibly restart it get cooled, soaked, and cut off from oxygen. It won't work on gas or grease fires though because those chemicals can explosively splash around or float to the top rather than get covered with the water. And some nasty chemicals burn on contact with water. So for those you have other fire extinguishers that use carbon dioxide to replace the oxygen, or powders or foam to smother the fuel.
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AskReddit/d7z765f
5465nd
What are some facts people should know before moving out of their parents house?
Don't try to have the same quality of life as you did when you lived with your parents. I know this depends on your situation, but chances are they had their lives figured out and were able to live comfortably within their means. They had years of experience and knew what they could/couldn't afford. Don't try to keep up with them. You don't have the same experience as them. Start small and work your way up.
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AskReddit/ee6ua3z
agkpcb
As women, what the you prefer as gift for valentine's day ?
Flowers, always flowers. I love to get flowers at any time. No other gift is necessary. No need to go mad with a load of pink rubbish that will be forgotten the day after. And women in relationships should give their SO a gift too. What's with the guys doing all the buying?! It's a two way street this Valentine business.
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AskReddit/d45bxd5
4nncej
What's the stupidest way you've injured yourself?
Where do I even start? The countless times I've tried to pirouette for effect only to twist my ankle. Taking apart a battery by pulling the casing apart with some pliers. Trying to make a magnet by holding the bare wire onto the battery without gloves (still can't feel half of that hand) Probably my crowning achievement was putting a small hole in my hand from doing the knife song with a spoon.
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AskReddit/d9hp1np
5amze1
What are some cool or otherwise interesting jobs that don't require a "traditional" college degree?
Well, while it typically is viewed as requiring a college degree, I've been a software engineer for over 20 years, with the last decade in the video game biz and I didn't have one. There are many IT positions where certifications are much more important than degrees. And of course, there's a universe of entrepreneurial opportunities that don't need a degree. But degrees are different from learning and education. There's no job where that is optional.
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AskReddit/cmdm0nt
2nhfb6
What do you collect and since when have you been collecting them?
I've been collecting bottle caps since I was around 7 or so. Started being bored at a campsite and picking up beer caps. Now I have over 1000 (maybe even a couple hundred more) different types of caps from over 100 different countries from around the world. Every continent except Antarctica.
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AskReddit/ckfxro2
2g5wyw
Would Ray Rice have been suspended/fired if he had attacked a man?
The man would have pressed charges since he's not in a sort of sad relationship with Ray Rice. Of course he wouldn't have been in quite the same situation in the first place. Domestic Abuse is a weaseley evil snake.
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explainlikeimfive/dcw550a
5q47qu
How is it that people of Reddit and 4chan can have reasonable debates about political topics, but when members of both communities get on Facebook the dialogue falls apart?
What parts of /pol/ and The_Donald and r/literally_every_post_is_anti_trump are you browsing where people are having calm and level headed political discussion? Sure it happens occasionally around here, but I wouldn't say it's the norm. 75 phantom downvotes is the norm. Facebook puts a face to the name instead of some anonymous username so that may alter the tone of discourse one way or the other.
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AskReddit/c8c6gog
1872eo
What is your favorite APP?
I love Wattpad! It's an online community where people share their stories and you can give feedback, fan/follow your favorite writers, and even write stories of your own. I really like it because you can post a chapter at a time and have other people give feedback. They also have a new part on the app that let's you write and publish new stories from your phone. Overall it's great:)
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AskReddit/elnbnln
bgtco5
What is the strangest feeling you have ever experienced?
One time I went to sneeze but my body just kinda stopped the sneeze in the middle of it. It wasn’t even a “feel like you’re going to sneeze but you don’t” feeling, it was like “the sneeze has been initiated, go into the elbow now.” So it was like an “ach-“ with no “choo”. It felt weird because the sneeze feeling completely disappeared and it felt like my nose got plugged up for like one second exactly��
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AskReddit/cnqipje
2skftd
What was the worst 10 minutes in history?
The first ten minutes of China's Shaanxi earthquake in 1556. Probably the most densely concentrated human suffering in any 10 minute period so far in history. Over 820,000 deaths in one place.
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AskReddit/ds011on
7n9dpb
Why does narcissism get worse with more attractive people?
I don't know that it gets worse, narcissism can manifest with anyone. I think maybe it's more pronounced due to the bubble, things tend to be easier for a person due to being attractive and thus they may be unaware of how life is for most folks.
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AskReddit/e3j1qr7
94877p
What do you collect?
Beer coasters. I love beer, but collecting bottles would take up too much space, while coasters often look really cool and I'm hoping one day I'll arrange them nicely and decorate something (like a wall) in my kitchen with them.
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AskReddit/dn0p8r3
7061ov
Why has Hey Jealousy held up so well after all these years?
There are many songs that hold up, but I think you'll find that the sonic quality of well-produced songs of the 90s is virtually indistinguishable from well-produced songs today. I believe this is largely because of CDs. The early days of recording suffered from (relatively) shoddy recording equipment, mediums (tape, vinyl) and reproduction (home/car audio). Even catchy songs from the early days of recording are hard to listen to today. Enter CD technology in the 90s. By then, both recording and reproduction technology was incredible compared to just a few years before. The effective bit rate for CD audio is massive, even when compared to typical MP3 formats. So a well-produced recording from the 90s still sounds great today. Catchy songs from that era stand up incredibly well.
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explainlikeimfive/de55dhs
5vv8j8
How does Sweden get things done if they have 6 hour work days, 25 vacation days per year, etc?
It's been shown that the longer and harder someone is made to work, the less work they actually get done, because they get tired and work slower, get sick more easily, miss days, etc. If you let people rest more often and take time off, they become far more productive.
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explainlikeimfive/e6qaseg
9j8vrx
Will running 21km in a single day equate to the same amount of calories burnt as running 3km a day for a week?
I read the concept a few years back. The analogy is mine for sake of ELI5. Exercise is sort of like a 401k with employee matching. That is, the first 30 minutes of exercise burns a particular amount of calories (your contribution) but you also get a higher metabolism for ~24 hours (employer matching). Any amount of exercise past that is still a benefit in burning calories, but reduced efficiency (no extra metabolism added) To be honest, I don't know if this is completely true, but I ran for a few years, 3-4 miles a day 3-4 times a week and I lost 60 lbs. Didn't change what I ate, but reduced portion size and upped frequency of small meals.
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AskReddit/cg6j28x
20tdtg
If you could watch a highlight reel of your life to date, what memory would definitely be included?
In a Hans Zimmer 'Time' style moment, you'd see meeting my dog as a pup at age 3 and then holding his paw as he passed at age 18. It'd be sad but would go great in a highlight reel.
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AskReddit/c1jjr3c
fyccd
What's a cool idea/invention you've thought of?
I invented a cylindrical plastic device that held guitar cables in place. One piece would be locked onto the the guitar, via the out port nut, and one snapped into the cable jack, after you unscrewed the shield a lil bit. Then, the two pieces locked together with a twist, via tongue-in-groove plastic. No more running the cable through your guitar strap, causing shorts. I never had the money for a prototype, but I presented it to that company for inventors that advertised so much in the 90s on TV. I ordered a six pack of Digitech guitar pedals once (with stomp box case) and returned every suggestion card with my suggestion for a Death Metal pedal. (I was in high school.) The next year, they released one. I know, not me. I take full credit. I also submitted the idea for "The Locator" to an "invention company." A button stuck to the wall, and a little speaker stuck to the TV remote control or keychain. Hit the button, and the remote would beep until you found it. I never submitted this to anyone, but it turned up in WalMart soon thereafter and was called, "The Locator." I know its a coincidence, but I take full credit.
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askscience/c2bt8x4
jg3jz
Is it possible for Astronomical objects to be moving so fast/far away from our point of view, that we cannot see or detect them?
It's not possible for them to be "moving" fast enough, per se, but it is possible for the space between two points to be expanding sufficiently fast that the distance between those two points is increasing faster than light can travel from one to the other, thus making it impossible to see/detect one of the points if you are located at the other. Does that make sense?
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askscience/cx59le5
3tcpk6
Do metals have a glass transition temperature?
Metals soften as they approach their melting temperature because the increased thermal energy assists dislocation motion. And a metal behaves like a liquid while it is plastically deforming. So you the steel can be in a solid state but be soft enough to stretch or indent, and when you're doing that stretching the steel will behave as a liquid (plastic deformation is also called plastic flow). On a somewhat related note, metals do experience something that's like a glass transition in that above a certain temperature they will fail differently. This is called the ductile-to-brittle transition temperature. If you cool a material down, generally speaking, its strength increases. But the fracture toughness simultaneously decreases. At room temperature, most metals are ductile - they can be bent without shattering. But get them cold enough and they will shatter instead of deforming, just as a piece of glass or a ceramic does.
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AskHistorians/dybbiw2
8gcwrl
Why is Hiroshima a safe place to live while Chernobyl still isn’t?
The most dangerous radioactive byproducts of nuclear reactors and bombs are fission products, and they are produced in proportion to the amount of energy produced by the fissioning device. The bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945 released 15 kilotons (63 terajoules) of energy, and thus an equivalent amount of radioactive fallout. Let's take a look at the RBMK-1000 reactor that exploded in the Chernobyl disaster. Those reactors are designed to produce 1000 megawatts (1 gigawatt) of electrical power, doing so by producing 3500 megawatts of thermal energy from fission reactions. Reactor number 4 at Chernobyl had been completed in 1983 and so it was in operation for approximately 3 years at the time it exploded. During that time it generated around 10.5 gigawatt-years of energy from fission reactions, or about 1.2 million terajoules. So you can see immediately that Chernobyl reactor number 4 contained at least 10,000 times the quantity of longer lived dangerous radioactive isotopes (fallout) than the Little Boy atomic bomb produced. Additionally there are the dynamics of the situation. The Hiroshima bomb was an airburst, when the bomb went off it vaporized itself and deposited its energy into the nearby atmosphere, and it was primarily the energy (not the bomb fragments) which unleashed destructive power on the city. The vaporized fallout from the bomb mostly rose into the upper atmosphere on the rising hot air from the bomb blast and was dispersed into the stratosphere and then mixed into the atmosphere as a whole. What fallout did come back down soon after the blast had been vaporized so it was subsequently washed away by rains and significantly diluted over a fairly short period of time. Compare this to the Chernobyl disaster. The reactor was blown apart and then was on fire for some time. This meant that large chunks and ash particles containing radioactive material were distributed around the nearby area. The danger in the exclusion zone is that you will run across one of these "hot bits" and either ingest it or breath it in, where it will do tremendous damage to you. Because these bits and pieces are things like dust, ash, and chunks of material they don't wash away so they are not substantially diluted or dispersed by the passage of time. If, perchance, you scrape off all of the surface material in the Chernobyl exclusion area and feed it into a massive ultra high temperature incinerator then you could render the area safe for habitation at the cost of very minutely ticking up the amount of background radiation experienced by everyone on Earth. As a side note, these events also occurred at very different points along the timeline of consciousness concerning the hazards of radioactivity. Post-war 1945 Japan had a much different approach to radioactive hazards than the Soviet Union in the 1980s. A city that was destroyed by a nuclear bomb today would probably not be so cavalierly rebuilt and re-inhabited without extensive testing and remediation efforts as necessary, but in 1945 that wasn't really an option or a thought.
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AskReddit/eyefcxd
cwrqhw
What's the biggest Deja vu you've ever gotten?
I think a penta deja vu. Idk what it was but I was like lmao I got a deja vu, then I got a deja vu of getting a deja vu, then I got a deja vu of getting a deja vu in my deja vu, then repeat 3 more times
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AskReddit/chacp94
24sz3t
Why can't reporters be sued for false advertising when they put misleading titles in their articles?
For one thing, the reporters don't usually write their own headlines. That's the sub-editor's job. How much are you going to sue for? The cost of buying the paper? It doesn't really seem worthwhile. If you find that a paper uses misleading headlines to trick you into buying their product, buy a different one next time. A reputable one, perhaps.
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AskReddit/e0n78ic
8qz0cg
What's the most overrated television programme?
When I say overrated, I mean it's very good but it's far from perfect. So that being said. Breaking Bad. By god is it a good show, but as someone who literally started it day one and would watch it on my iPod Video, people forget just how much the first three seasons would slog on. It's really just because the last season ended so insanely that it's regarded as "flawless television," but there's a few questionable episodes and it had a lot of dead space at the start. Edit: fight me
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explainlikeimfive/c6ph7rv
11tng2
Why does the English language have a different word for prepared meat and the animal it comes from?
It comes from when England was invaded and conquered by the Normans from France in 1066. Being from France the Normans spoke French while the rest of the country being English spoke English. The English were mostly poor and did not eat a lot of meat though they did raise the animals. The Normans being the conquerers had more money and ate the meat but did not raise it. So we ended up having English names for the animals like cows and sheep, and French names for the meat like boeuf, and mutton. The French names eventually became the words we use today.
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AskReddit/cvixmnu
3mwovi
What do you do better drunk?
I fight really well when I'm drunk. When I'm sober not so much, but when I'm drunk I feel like the green dude off of street fighter and I just turn into a tornado of teeth and fingernails.
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explainlikeimfive/d421zv0
4n9tet
What are the differences between the CIA, FBI, NRO and NSA?
The TL;DR of this is basically the FBI tries to find you after you commit a crime, the CIA and NSA try to prevent the crime from happening. The CIA does it by sending a guy to spy on you and the NSA does it by reading your email, and the NRO basically just keeps spy satellites in the air. The FBI is a federal police agency, working much like local or state police on big crimes like felonies, serial killers, and such. They are, more or less, just police officers. Their jurisdiction is mainly domestic, meaning that they don't spend much time overseas. If they are working abroad it is with the permission of whatever country they are in. The CIA is more focused on Intelligence gathering (That's what the I stands for.) In the most basic terms, the CIA is where American spies come from. They focus more on anti terrorism and homeland security than traditional crime. Their jurisdiction is almost completely foreign, meaning they rarely work on US soil. The NSA is a lot like the CIA, in that their goal is to collect intelligence for the purpose of homeland security, but whereas the CIA uses spies and actual humans to collect information, the NSA uses digital data. Wiretaps, monitoring emails, and breaking enemy encryption. The NRO is more logistical in nature, with it's main focus being to provide surveillance support for these other agencies.
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AskReddit/dn12w6q
707pby
What was the luckiest moment of your life?
Probably when I was able to save my aunt's life. We were crossing a street and a car was coming. We had plenty of time to cross but halfway crossing, my aunt stepped in a pothole and twisted her ankle badly. She fell but I caught her and grabbed her. I didn't lose my pace so I just grabbed her and ran to the other side and the car missed us by inches. It was scary but I feel lucky I was able to save her and push us out of danger so quickly
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AskReddit/crr0uj8
37zexx
What scent is smelled the most by the human race?
It would be a scent we don't register. The brain filters out constant feeds of information like clothes or the taste of your mouth. I imagine the smell of humans or the smell of nostrils would be what we smell so often that it is actually filtered out.
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askscience/es9iw64
c6dj8l
Why are interplanetary slingshots using the sun impossible?
Using a planet to slingshot is like grabbing onto a car bumper to gain some speed while on a skateboard. Trying to use the Sun would be like holding onto the ground to try to gain speed. The Earth is moving, but not relative to your worldspace, so you’d just sit there.
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AskReddit/c5p7mop
xsl4y
Is there any reasonable justification to prohibit citizens recording police officers while they are performing their official duties?
There are a few arguments I've heard. Not so much to stop the taping, but may be necessary to ask the photographer to move away. The requested distance may be more than the photographer thinks is reasonable. An officer may want more space if they are dealing with people they think may turn violent, or if a forming crowd might get out of hand. Or, possibly if the photographer is creating a distraction during a possibly dangerous situation, such as by trying to interview the officers, suspects or other people involved while the situation has not been brought under control. I've many posted videos where the photographer is actively harassing the police while they are trying to work. In this case the police may feel it's necessary to remove the photographer for reasons other then their taping.
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askscience/cgt7cqp
233sd8
When you're stepping into a shower, why does the mist of water on the periphery feel colder than the actual stream of water?
Because it is! The mist at the edge of the flow is aersolized into small droplets, which have comparatively very high surface areas compared to their volumes. This increased surface area allows for improved heat transfer to the surrounding air, which is typically at a cooler temperature than the stream of water from the shower. As you move towards the center of the stream, the efficiency of the heat transfer decreases, and the water stream retains it's heat better, thus feeling warmer.
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AskReddit/egc5k9k
apyrhz
What was the most real and intense dream you ever had?
Being stuck in a lucid dream warps. I "woke up" four times until I actually got back into reality. You can't read anything, people just smile at you and it seems like they don't hear you, you can't call yourself on phone or even make yourself to smash a wall with your hand so you can wake up. Those are the just intense, no matter if you see anything bad or not.
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AskReddit/cg5fwpi
20p3s2
What is the largest design flaw in your house/home?
The apartment I'm in is well-designed, but some of the places I've lived in in the past. Room that held the fuse box for the entire house had no power outlets in it. None whatsoever. The rest of the basement had the original cloth wiring from the 1940s, two-prong unpolarized, no ground. (Edit - oh, and six-foot loft bed plus 6' 6" ceilings equals fun contortionist times getting to sleep. The first week I was there I asked the landlord if she'd been hearing loud bumps on her floor in the morning; she said yes and I explained it was me waking up in the morning and trying to sit up. Also the ceiling leaked. In the basement.) One of two illegal suites with baseboard heaters controlled by thermostat located in legal suite. Also my bedroom was underneath their kitchen, a three-generation family with three kids and their hours were 4.30 am to midnight and I could hear cereal rolling across the floor. A central vacuum was installed, but they didn't put any insulation over the pipe where it went through the attic. The temperature change caused condensation to form inside the pipe, which trapped dust until it was blocked solid. and since the pipe was glued together it would all have to be ripped out and reinstalled, and home insurance wouldn't cover the faulty installation. We had to go buy another vacuum cleaner again.
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AskReddit/cc7h3i0
1mayp4
What would do if you were given an exact clone of yourself for 24 hours?
I wouldn't like it. It would freak me out. And since it is me, my clone would be freaked out too. I'd tell it to go rob places while I hung out with public cameras. It would be strange seeing how you would react knowing you only had 24 hours left on Earth.
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askscience/ejhx52x
b5tuze
Why do wet paper towels pick up dust better than dry paper towels?
Good question. There are multiple interactions going on here. Some of it is fluid dynamics, which can be better explained by someone more versed in physics than I am. But basically it gives the dust a solvent to float in and be transported. Some of it is chemistry. Water is strongly polar, providing plenty of ionic, hydrogen bonding, dipole, and other interactions which increase how much other molecules within the dust "like" the water and will be attracted to it compared to the surface it's currently on. This helps keep the dust with the water when the water moves. A dry paper towel doesn't provide either of those.
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AskReddit/djuxqhi
6lmi2f
If you could immigrate to any country of your choosing (assume no fees or legal process), where would you move and why?
I'm a citizen of Greece, Canada, and the US- which means I'm a citizen of the EU and British Commonwealth, which means I can live in 88 different countries. And yet, I choose to live in the US. As bad as things are here, due to the nature of my work, it is VERY hard for me to uproot and move to another country, plus I like being around my immediate family. Trust me though, I am often tempted to move to Toronto, or a Greek Island, and will likely do so within my lifetime.
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AskReddit/dnnmjxz
734c39
What's your favorite book to recommend to someone?
The Johannes Cabal books. Very funny, very well written. It's about a necromancer of some little infamy, and the adventures (read: satanic contracts, plots of political intruigue, and senseless murder all wrapped in delightful British wit) that he finds himself in. Each book is almost written in a different fantasy sub-genre, from steampunk noir to Lovecraftian horror. Plus there are dozens of short stories as well, and the author is a super nice guy. I've recommended the books to a ton of people, and they've all loved them.
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askscience/c76st94
13skxc
How do we KNOW that most antimatter was annihilated quickly after the Big Bang?
If there were pockets of matter and antimatter they would have annihilated in the early universe when everything was jammed in close together. Even if they survived that period, we would see a gamma ray signature from electron-positron annihilation at the boundaries, and we definitely don't see that.
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explainlikeimfive/cdgvvyd
1qvcq2
Why do American citizens pay property taxes every year, even though we paid taxes when we purchased the property?
Property taxes pay for much of a city's infrastructure and public services like the fire department, police department, and public schools. Why they levy these every year is probably because a one-time payment wouldn't cover those services that citizens have access to every year. Is it fair to put this burden on homeowners and property owners? Maybe. Homeowners have more property that can be protected by a fire department, more possessions to be protected by a police department, and are more likely to have children in public schools than an average 20-year old so it makes sense to put the burden on them. They use the services more often (even if some of the 'use' is only having it available if we ever need it) so they should pay more for those services. It's the same with cars that need to be registered every year instead of only the year in which they change ownership - those fees pay for services that vehicle owners use.
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AskHistorians/eo6z5pd
bqpajt
What would the average person in the 16th/17th/18th century have had to read in their home?
It really depended. I'm going to talk about China, because I'm like the Jon Snow of European urban history. In China, if you were literate, there were certainly vernacular novels and books that would have been consumable - even to the partially literate. High/full literacy even in late imperial China was exceedingly rare, especially for a country as large as China, but there were definitely varying levels of literacy and you didn't need to have the vast, expansive knowledge of literary Chinese a classically educated man of letters would have had to read a simple book. Feng Menglong published his anthologies of vernacular works during the early 17th century, and these pieces for example, would have been accessible to merchants and the like, along with many other works of vernacular Chinese by a variety of other authors, such as MuDan Ting. There were other books intended for the general population as well. Almanacs and “special use books” were popular genres, like texts on traditional Chinese herbal medicine. The almanacs of the period were also sort of general guides which would encompass things ranging from crop planting cycles to geomantic principles. Non-academic encyclopedias were also published. Wen Zhenheng wrote a rather comprehensive encyclopedia on how best to decorate your home, and how to adhere to the 'literati' aesthetic best, and his Treatise on Superfluous Things would have been designed specifically for more ordinary people; as a matter of fact, members of the actual elite would have frowned upon such a work as it was a rather vulgar thing to do, explain how to decorate your house to a gentleman. After all, what gentleman doesn't already have refined tastes in interior design? In the Chinese south, there was an extremely vibrant culture of book publishing and creation, and these printing boutiques would have churned out large quantities of common-consumption books, ranging from the upright classics, to almanacs and obscene fiction works for the common folk to enjoy. If you are interested, I highly recommend you check out Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China. ​ Edit: If desired, I can pull some specific examples of these sort of 'vulgar' vernacular texts.
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AskReddit/c31g2bm
mjcdu
What do you Want for Christmas?
Skyrim. We just bought a house, and my daughter's birthday is Dec. 17. So down payment + birthday/Christmas=broke. It's all worth it though, it's her first birthday this year so I'm going all out (as much as I can)!
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AskReddit/d3gsjx1
4kps0r
Who are some people you admire even though society says they're not good role models?
Miley Cyrus. I have no interest in her music, and even less interest in celebrity culture, but her outrageous antics are a very obvious middle finger to the sensibilities of every person who believes that entertainers are obligated to be role models for children. Plus, whether I like her music or not, she is clearly very talented and quite intelligent.
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AskReddit/chhbf6s
25hwbn
How is/was your day?
I finished my second to last day of law school. I'm supposed to be preparing to examine a medical expert tomorrow morning, but I'm drinking bud light platinum and trolling reddit instead. Thanks for asking.
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AskReddit/dgn7785
672fvl
What is the most scared you have ever been and why?
Suicidal crisis. Rough time at work, my then bf stepping up his emotional abuse, and the antidepressants I was on sending me spiraling. I was alone, uncontrollably crying and shaking, holding a bottle of pills in one hand, and car keys in the other. Impulsively planned to down the bottle of pills then send my car over the cliffs nearby. Tried ignoring everything that was telling me to do it, had my hand on the door a few times, sat in the car for a minute, nearly turned the ignition, lots of pacing and hyperventilating. When it became clear I was losing the fight I got scared and called Lifeline. They very quickly sent police and ambulance, but once I knew help was coming, I fell out of crisis mode and was just inconsolable. Got taken to the hospital and checked out, went through mandatory post-crisis counselling, changed meds. I'm okay now. If it ever happens again I just hope I manage to call for help before losing control.
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explainlikeimfive/cavbxah
1hkz06
Why don't celebrities sue gossip magazines and tabloids for defamation?
Celebrities would have to prove that any false defamation was made willingly and maliciously in order to have any case. As a result the standard to bring a charge is very high and not worth litigation.
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askscience/dc6d54o
5mu0q5
What is the highest and lowest temperature that the human body can remain in direct contact with, without any damage?
Nota scientist, but I like this question. Have you heard of a wetsuit? It's a skin-tight bathing suit divers wear to stay warm in very cold water. The way it works is by trapping water against your body. Your body's natural heat then warms the water, after which you lose very little heat to the water around you. This makes sense if you think of windchill - the wind is (usually) the same temperature as the rest of the air, but it makes you colder because the air heated by your body is replaced by colder air. The reason I'm talking about trapping body heat is because most materials will either conduct or light on fire. I don't know of any that do both, but feel free to correct me. Metal, for example, gives off lots of heat and is very difficult to melt. Wood, on the other hand, is a good insulator, but ignites if you heat it too much. I'm going to answer your question as if we're dealing with metal, so we don't have to worry about setting things on fire. The answer then depends: is the temperature remaining constant, is there a heater or refrigerator involved, or is the heat gradually dispersing? If the temperature's being held constant, it doesn't really matter if it's metal or not, over time the heat transfered will still hurt you. So, the temperature range is what's livable for humans: about 40 Celsius on the high side and whatever temp you get frostbite on the low side, I'll guess -10 Celcuis (don't quote me) If the temperature's not being held constant, it's just whatever temp would normally burn you.
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AskReddit/ci16p3f
27i7ye
What is the creepiest thing your pet has done?
I have four dogs, so four times the creepiness. 1st dog– He has skin infections that he scratches and chews on. He also makes creepy demonic sounds while doing this. Pretty creepy to hear in the middle of the night. 2nd dog– She is a big border collie mix who loves sitting at the top of the stairs when it's dark. So you go to the staircase and see these creepy eyes on a big shadow looking thing. Pretty creepy. 3rd dog– She is a small papillon. As we all know small dogs bark a lot. So she'll just look into an empty room and start barking like she does when someone's there. 4th dog– He is 3rd dogs brother. This little guy isn't as creepy as the other ones. But he's like dog 2 and 3 combined. He loves to stare at people creepily and bark when nothing's there. Edit: Formatting
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AskReddit/c2hu9ms
k6e91
What was the most you were able to talk down a dealer for a car?
I only buy used cars from dealers with the certification and warranty. Because I know what the dealer likely paid for the car using websites like autotrader.com and kbb.com (kelleys blue book), I start with that number and make them justify every dollar over that for things like certification, add-ons, profit, etc. Buying a one year old car will get you a huge discount from the new price and then you can bargain down even further. The last car I bought was a year old with 10K miles and I paid $10K less the New sticker price or about 1/3 off of new.
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AskReddit/d6l00dn
4y3vmd
What Urban Legend gives you the creeps despite it being more than likely fake?
Have no proof this is an urban legend, however I have no proof that it is real either. It gives me the creeps either way. A friend of a friend knows a judge that works in Geneva (Switzerland). She once asked the judge what the weirdest case is that he had worked on / dealt with. This is the story that creeps me out. A lady went to a bar to meet up with an old friend. The lady was in her late twenties. After waiting for her friend at the bar for over an hour, she decides to leave and go home. Just as she is about to leave a gentleman approaches her and they start chatting. It appears they have a lot in common, she decides to have a few drinks with him. After a few drinks she decides it is now really time to go and she informs the man of this, at this point he asks if they could share a taxi, she agrees and they share a taxi. In the taxi they start to kiss each other and when they arrive at his destination, he asks if she would like to join him for one last drink. She declines. Later in the week she develops a rash and decides to go see her doctor. Her doctor performs some tests and whilst she awaits the results, the police knock on her door. It seems that the rash is from a specific source. The rash is spread from corpses to humans and the police are interested to know where she came into contact with corpses. She re-traces all of her steps for the last few weeks and the police investigate all potential transfers, including the stranger that she kissed. Turns out he had a few bodies in his flat and she was an intended victim.
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AskReddit/c8d0z5u
18acnq
What little things make your day better?
I love when I am walking to the bus stop and the birds are singing and the sun is shining. Another thing that makes my day is when I witness people doing good deeds for other people.
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AskReddit/dwan3zf
876pph
What's a common misconception people have about a healthy food or product?
People think they sacrifice taste with healthy food, this is probably one of the worst. You can achieve healthy consumption & taste it just requires more effort than sitting in the drive thru & taking it home
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AskReddit/elf2pr2
bfogmv
What's a thing you've always wanted to do, but couldn't, because of money?
I always wanted to go to a bouldering gym; I could learn to climb and get really fit. But a membership is like $95 a month, and climbing shoes are super expensive. So instead I just watch YouTube videos of competitions.
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AskReddit/ei7rmqz
azh8kc
What is the best way to go about making a resume?
The best way to make a resume is by stealing better ones. Post a Craigslist ad for the job you want as an employer, have resumes and cover letters sent to bogus email and sift through the gold mine of best practices. Good luck.
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AskReddit/cybfgoh
3y8bpb
What has been the most captivating non-fiction book you have read?
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. It's a memoir about her life growing up with very dysfunctional parents, moving around to avoid legal troubles and getting into all sorts of crazy situations. The author is an amazing storyteller and describes growing up in extreme poverty with mentally ill parents in a way that makes you feel her and her siblings' pain. It's hard to do it justice with a summary, but it's one of the best books I've ever read. 10/10
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AskReddit/dhjsxv7
6b52id
Do you work out your whole body at once 4 times a week, or do you do a 5 day split?
My exercise is integrated into my daily routine so I kind of exercise every day. I bike to work, take the stairs instead of the lift and walk every where. When I feel like it I do yoga once a week and/or go for a run.
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explainlikeimfive/daslumo
5gitbj
If the cells in our body are completely replaced every few years, how do tattoos stay on the body?
Essentially, when someone gets a tattoo, ink is injected deep into the skin. It goes below the epidermis, which is the layer of skin where cells are constantly growing and sloughing off, and into the dermis, where things are more stable. Cells do get replaced in the dermis, but dead cells are not sloughed off like in the epidermis. Rather, the remnants of dead cells are eaten up by other cells. In other words, what's in the dermis will stay there unless removed by cells. Tattoo ink cannot be eaten or broken down by the body's cells, so it will sit in the dermis forever.
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AskHistorians/cndnkvy
2r8cz7
How did the Roman invasion Britain actually plan out?
Caesar's invasion of Britain (which he wrote about in the Gallic Wars) was a disaster. He set out late in the campaigning season, with almost no intelligence. He sent one ship to scout, but it didn't even make landing. The British blocked his first attempt to land, and second - Caesar says because he was not using shallow draft ships appropriate to the Mediterranean but instead deep-draft ships appropriate to ocean travel. The result was Caesar got as close as he could, and had his regular legionaries wade ashore against British opposition, and they did not like this idea and almost wouldn't do it. Caesar's cavalry was coming across separately and got scattered across the channel by a storm. Caesar's own ships got caught in a storm and he lost a bunch of them - partly through ignorance of tides. Short on supplies he sent foragers, who got themselves ambushed; without a cavalry he had no good response for Celtic chariots, and ended up negotiating a peace and went home. The next year he went back with more than twice as many soldiers (5 legions instead of 2 and 2000 horse); a better idea of where to find a suitable landing, better sailing conditions, and established a beach head easily enough. This time the skirmishing tactics of the Celts were not as effective. Caesar lost his fleet in a storm - again. While repairing his ships the two sides fell into a kind of stalemate; Britons couldn't get inside Caesar's fort, and Caesar couldn't pursue the skirmishers effectively. In the end, the British alliance collapsed because of politics, and Caesar needed to go back to Gaul to deal with a famine and revolt there, so they negotiated a peace and Caesar took off. This is basically a summary of BG 4 and 5; I skipped a lot of the geography and ethnographic stuff. The Brits managed to confine Caesar as long as they only harassed foragers; Caesar needs to forage to feed his army. There were a couple of times Caesar managed to catch some of his enemies, when they came too near the fort for instance, but otherwise it didn't go well at all. I don't know as much about Claudius' invasion. Simply by his success it must have gone better.
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AskReddit/efv3n7n
anpdfv
What game have you spent the most hours playing?
Kerbal Space Program. Over 2K hours. Ridiculous, I know, but getting those little bastards stuck on a remote rock in space, then launching (multiple) rescue missions is addicting.
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AskReddit/d1y4yaq
4e9alr
What's a lie someone told you that backfired?
She told me they needed to leave work immediately because she had to go to an emergency funeral because a family member was so upset about the funeral that she couldn't get anybody to cover for her that they died and so she had to leave in the middle of her shift to go to the emergency funeral and the texts she received telling her about this emergency were automatically deleted by her phone because she had one of those phones that automatically deleted all texts. She ended up being fired.
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AskReddit/e05wil9
8ot8sb
How has a hairdresser messed up your hair the most?
I have curly hair, around 3A for those who've seen that curly hair chart. I told the hairdresser that I wanted my hair a little under my chin when dry. She cut it to under my chin while wet. The result was my hair looking like a little poofy afro for a while.
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AskReddit/dlti6qc
6ul5oa
Why can't they design ATM machines in such a way that would stop criminals from putting card skimmers on them?
Card skimmers aren't that difficult to pick out though. Just when you go to the atm, grab the part you'd insert your card into and give it a firm wiggle/pull. If it comes out, then call the police because you found a card skimmer. If it doesn't budge at all in the slightest bit, then it's safe
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AskReddit/ds1aufr
7nf6vr
What do you think will be the next great innovation, to change the world to the same degree that the internet has?
Battery storage. The only reason we have an energy crisis right now is our battery storage hasn't advanced by much. If we made a breakthrough on battery storage, we would literally change the world overnight. Green energy grids would be able to collect and store the vast majority of their energy, electric cars would gain lightyears of efficiency overnight, Electronics would be more efficient, Energy systems for space travel would be possible (think battery systems for Mars/Moon colonies) That would be the next big leap.
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AskReddit/dmzhgpm
6zztum
What does Reddit get wrong about women?
Many redditors call them females. While women are female, they aren't females. We have specific words for female human -- women and girls. If you say "a female" you could be talking about an ocelot or a salamander or a lab specimen. And no, saying females instead of women doesn't make you sound smarter.
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AskReddit/cndonfy
2r9daj
What are the best questions to ask on a first date?
Depends on how well you know the person. If you go out with a friend, classmate, or coworker who you've known for some time and talk to regularly then just converse like you normally do (obviously it feels like there is some more pressure when you're on a date, but try not to think about it). If it's someone you barely know or just met try to ask engaging questions about their hobbies, work, goals, travels, and other such things.
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AskReddit/cqlhlsi
33jj3h
What movie or scene in a movie can you NEVER watch due to a fear you have?
I absolutely hate jump scares. It's even worse when you know its coming. I started watching The Blair Witch Project. There was about to be a jump scare and I so scared that I paused the movie and haven't touched it since. It is now eternally frozen on that part when they first stay and the woods and hear something on probably the first night. Nobody has even seen the creature yet. It could be a rabbit in the bushes but it looks like I will never know.
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AskReddit/dqv0zm8
7hzwtl
What is the best decision you've made whilst intoxicated?
Well, I don't know what strain it was- though I entirely blame it, but one time in my early 20's, stoned off my gourd, I cleaned my entire home spotless- I'm talking even organized the junk drawer, something I've never bothered with sober.
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askscience/cc68kkh
1m67xx
Are there any viable, cost effective alternatives to cyanide mining?
Yes, there are plenty. Chlorine, Bromine, Iodine, Thiocyanate, Thiourea, and Thiosulphate are all possible alternatives. Unfortunately, none of theses are "non-toxic", they are just somewhat less toxic than cyanide, and none of them work as well, and most are more expensive. The reason cyanide continues to the popular choice is because it's highly effective and fairly cheap - especially in countries that don't have as strict of regulations regarding its use and transportation.
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explainlikeimfive/dbcu3jo
5j2j8n
Why aren't full service gas stations more common across America?
Because employees cost a huge amount of money. Why would a company spend the money when consumers appear generally smart enough to manage the task by themselves? Accidents are highly rare compared to the amount of cars that go through stations.
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AskReddit/c9gs4od
1cidvi
For those who have their Tonsils removed as teens/adults, what helped you get through the recovery period?
I had them removed in my 20's. There are times during the recovery period where it might get very painful. Make sure you stay on your pain meds even if you don't feel pain for as long as your doctor prescribes. The worst pain is when the medicine has worn off, but your new dose hasn't started working yet. And get lots of popsicles, the cold feels good.
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AskReddit/dtt2hjb
7vkn71
What game has left you feeling empty inside?
Playing the very last game of the Mass Effect trilogy. Not just because of the game play, but the characters were so endearing. A little piece of my heart was broken after I finished it and realized there would be no more adventures with FemShep and the crew. Especially playing the DLC where they had the party, it hit me right in the feels that unless I played the games again, this would be one of the last times the crew would all be together. Stupid as it sounds my heart hurt after all that.
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AskReddit/cglbhm6
22byrq
Who actually switches off their phones and other electronic devices before take-off and landing?
I put my phone on airplane mode simply to save battery, since you won't get a signal at 30,000 feet, and your phone will kill itself trying to find one. From my understanding, a single cell phone won't really effect a plane, but if you have an entire flight worth of passengers playing on their phones, it could potentially have an affect on the communication systems of the plane, which is bad, m'kay.
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AskReddit/ck340z1
2etv1k
How do you think this Russia/Ukraine conflict will end?
It will end in a dual-state partition. We are talking about Slavic ethnic divisions, which historically result in Balkanization. The parallel with events in Bosnia is startling: A mixed ethnic state declares independence (Ukraine, Bosnia). The minority in that state claim to fear government-backed reprisals against them even though none are apparent (Russian separatists, Bosnian Serbs). The minority group appeals to the "home country" for arms, intelligence and support (Russia, Serbia). The minority group digs in and uses the wealth and firepower of their large benefactor to grab ground and re-draw the map to their advantage. Ethnic differences are used as an excuse to engage in acts of ethnic cleansing and murder, despite the fact that both groups are nearly identical and are being misled by powers who couldn't care less about ethnic differences. When the bloodshed reaches a level of outrage, the West will intervene and draw up a partition between the two states, with the hope of unification put on indefinite hold. In five years we will see a "Russian Ukraine" republic with its own currency and government. How much death and destruction will occur between now and then, I have no idea.
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AskReddit/egm648c
arc8vi
If you were president of the United States and could declare a National Emergency for anything you wanted, what would be your emergency?
Death of opportunity rover, I would declare emergency and adjust the budget to increase NASA’s budget. Send some astronauts to mars ASAP to check if my buddy is ok.
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AskReddit/dwee1he
87oc11
What is the strangest thing you've ever found while cleaning your own house?
Not me, but my boyfriend. He found a child's hip bone/other small bones under his stairs he was renovating. He lives in a two hundred year old house, one of the owners decades ago was a doctor and his one office was in his house. My bf brought the bones to the police and that's was it. The picture of the bones are haunting.
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AskReddit/e736my9
9l0rwj
What are the sexiest and least sexy names you've heard?
I new a boy of mixed race heritage who grew up in south africa and lived in france for a few years. By time I met him he had a unique combination of accents and name. His name as he's say it was sounded "Low chin pour vert" which to me at 12 sounded like lotion pervert. And Lotion pervert he would always be. He hated how much he liked that nickname. I'm pretty sure as an adult that is a unsexy or sexy name. I've no idea which. I guess that's up to you. Mind you the sexiest flat out was a French girl called Jessica. I don't know her second name and don't care. She'd do this thing before speaking where she would nearly smile and then bite her bottom lip. As if to fight it back. Then she'd wiggle her torso from hip to shoulder, raising her hands with the motion. A little awkward almost dance. And she'd begin to gesture wildly with every syllable. Contradicting the shy imagine with open expressive movement. She pronounced her name Jessie Kah and the breath on the end hung in the air like my attention did on her. She had a soft voice and dragged the end of Jessie out. Almost sounding like Je'Sea when she was happy. And whenever you'd call her she'd curl her shoulders in and rest her chin in palms and wait for you speak without ever acknowledging you'd heard. I'd oft forget I'd called her and turn to find her eyes and smile waiting for me with a shy look about them. She was like poetry with blonde highlights and skinny jeans.
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AskReddit/droaxta
7lqymw
Do you prefer hot or cold weather and why?
Hot! Being cold means having to wear so many layers and feeling like a big fat marshmallow. Being hot you can get away with wearing basically nothing and lying outside with some juice all day!
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AskReddit/c3igs66
omvt3
What were your parents going to name you?
My parents thought I was going to be a girl. they were going to name me after an arabian princess named Saili? (not sure of the spelling.) funny thing is we're not arabian. we're cuban. I ended up being a boy so they went and called me Frank
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explainlikeimfive/cav5ups
1hkcee
Why are some cakes "upside-down cakes". is it too late to help right them?
It has to do with the way they are made. An upside down cake, let's use pineapple upside down cake for example, is made like this: pour caramel in the bottom of the cake pan, then put pineapple on top of that, then put cherries in the middle. (at least, this is how my grandmother does it, i'm not sure about yours). Top that with the cake batter, and bake it. When it is done, you flip it over onto a plate, so the pineapple is on top and the cake on the bottom. the cake is made and baked upside down from how it normally looks, and you flip it upside down to serve it. normal cakes aren't flipped like that. you just bake it and yes, you flip it to get it out of the pan but you don't just leave it like that. upside down cakes need to be flipped!
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AskReddit/eggrgc3
aqkfep
What was the one invention in human history that single-handedly freed humanity the most amount of spare time in total?
If were talking cumulative time saved then definitely the mainstream adaptation of agriculture. It single highhandedly changed civilization from roving hunter gathers spending most of everyone's time moving and following food to sedentary towns/ villages and cities where only a fraction of the population is needed to feed everyone. Also it has a huge time head start, and there for a cumulative advantage to everything else.
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AskReddit/co7tcf3
2uf5aq
Why do fans make us feel cooler if they don't cool air?
By blowing air around, the fan makes it easier for the air to evaporate sweat from your skin, which is how you eliminate body heat. The more evaporation, the cooler you feel. Same thing as wind chill.
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AskReddit/c0bqxp6
97zxt
Why don't people accept that mental illness is just as real and devastating as physical illness?
People don't recognize mental illness as damaging and devastating because it isn't tangible. I have never broken my leg, but if I look at someone and see their bone sticking out of their leg, I will definitely understand how much pain they are in. If someone tells me they are depressed, I don't really have a yardstick to understand what they are going though. It isn't possible to immediately diagnose their condition, like a broken leg would be, so people are automatically skeptical of it. Furthermore, it is only recently that they were even recognized and accepted; it will be a while before people understand the real consequences of mental illness.
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explainlikeimfive/ccxpuoa
1p1amb
Why do people sleep better with background noise (like white noise or a fan)?
The brain craves sensory input to process, so when it''s completely quiet your brain starts straining to find information to process - either through your imagination or through the smallest little sounds it can pick up. White noise allows the brain to focus on something without actually generating much stimulation, thereby allowing you to get to sleep.
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AskReddit/cdha3kr
1qwsgg
What is the most shocking NSFL video you've seen that you wish didn't exist?
The video of captive troops in eastern europe being executed by hacking at there necks with dull knifes. One by one they slowly cut away at their necks and it took way to long for them to finish the job. The pain and dispair in the victims eyes made me feel sick. You can find it on live leak but it really is nsfl.
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AskReddit/cfq1s51
1z1sdi
What sounds like it would be legal, but is actually illegal?
In Canada, selling marijuana seeds is big business because Canadians collect and catalog them like rare postage stamps. And just like postage stamps, it is fully legal to buy, sell and trade them, but you don't want to get them wet. Canadian doctors are also highly trained botanists, which is why you cannot grow seeds from your collection without their permission. The Canadian government is looking at expanding doctor's notes to include the sprouting of sweet peas and azelias. As far as I know, these are the only seeds that are legal to buy, but illegal to sprout.
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AskReddit/c8319lj
177xk2
Why do people in extramarital affairs often lie and try to stay with their spouse instead of just divorcing them?
I think it could be a number of reasons: 1.That they just love the whole idea of cheating 2.They could not bear to hurt their spouse by telling them/asking for a divorce 3.For the Children's sake?
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AskReddit/ea8mgqx
9zf0jc
What are some small, inexpensive ways to make a new house seem much more inviting?
Decorate it with normal daily use products snd stuff. Like some beautiful lamps can be made with soft drinks bottles and you can also use coffee mugs as hanging decorating lights near shady areas. I saw this somewhere and this looked so inviting and beautiful. Get white paints done as a background with blend of various colors in the front and use various daily life objects to add color and effect!
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explainlikeimfive/d43c6um
4neza8
Why do cans of compressed gas get cold when you let the air out?
It's all to do with the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature. Keeping it very simple compressing something, raising the pressure, also raises the temperature (or uses heat energy to change the fluids state, so the gas turns into a liquid as it's compressed into the can). With rapid discharge from the canister, the pressure and volume contained inside is dropping and so the temperature drops with it also. This causes condensing and then freezing of the moisture in the air surrounding the canister. This is a very rough and generalised idea of what is going on but I hope it gives you a good enough answer.
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AskReddit/e7y8sng
9p0y3l
What was the worst thing to happen to you that actually turned out to be the best thing to happen to you?
Was working at one place but wasn't making enough money. Tried for new job at new place - didn't get hired. Cried and felt stuck and semi hopeless. Three weeks later I learned about a new gig that I never would have heard about if I had quit this current company. Got hired for the new job and moved and lived on a tropical island, traveled on many weeks off, made tons of money, met my husband.my whole world turned into great stuff.
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AskReddit/dgsgf02
67qodh
What is thought language of bilingual people?
My gf is from Norway, and I'm from England. She says she thinks in the same language as the country she's in, like her brain just adapts to her surroundings. Simply put, she thinks in English when she's with me in England, but she thinks in Norwegian when she's in Norway.
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askscience/doo5870
77lnx2
Can insects hear sounds?
I don’t know specifics but they use a tympanal organ. It’s somewhat similar to our ear, but of course much smaller. They vary a ton in different insects, so it’s hard to give an exact answer on those details you were looking for. Also the organs can be almost anywhere on the insect. Sometimes they also sense vibrations with their antenna that can also act similar to ears.
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explainlikeimfive/czlwfgw
43y4c0
Why, when you've just managed to calm and soothe a baby, do they suddenly irritate themselves into staying awake?
There is an underlying discomfort somewhere. So many children are now the first ones and parents are learning. Three hours of screaming was enough to really get your baby upset even if there was nothing before. Keep feeding. Keep it clean. Learn the rocking soothing motions. Take turns. Get grand parents to help. It will get better until the teen years. You are learning there will never be a full nights sleep for a long time. You will be very grateful when long naps happen.
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AskReddit/dkaz0o1
6nogtg
What type of movies do you miss?
Muscle and testosterone grindhouse action movies starring the meatiest meatheads possible with blood and guts splattering the screen to excess. Machete was like an oasis in the large desert of fun-deprived modern action flicks.
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explainlikeimfive/cregmae
36jdud
What makes "smart meters" so controversial?
Read the Wikipedia page for more info, the overview states: > Some groups have expressed concerns regarding the cost, health, fire risk, security and privacy effects of smart meters and the remote controllable "kill switch" that is included with most of them. Many of these concerns regard wireless-only smart meters with no home energy monitoring or control or safety features. Metering-only solutions, while popular with utilities because they fit existing business models and have cheap up-front capital costs, often result in such "backlash". Often the entire smart grid and smart building concept is discredited in part by confusion about the difference between home control and home area network technology and AMI. The attorneys general of both Illinois and Connecticut have stated that they do not believe smart meters provide any financial benefit to consumers, however, the cost of the installation of the new system will be absorbed by those customers.
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AskReddit/cog7jrk
2vbpz0
What is the worst way, someone you knew, died?
After high school, this guy I knew stepped in front of a train and got splattered all over the place. His parents refused to accept that it was a suicide and successfully lobbied the city to build a pedestrian underpass.
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Ask_Politics/coinjdx
2vkkcn
Would the Keystone XL pipeline bring greater energy security to the United States?
To actually answer your question without political bias, no it would add any security. The oil that would in theory be transported by the pipeline is already coming down via other routes. The pipeline only reduces the transportation and logistics cost for TransCanada.
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AskReddit/dcfajtt
5nxkb8
What is your favorite video game weapon of all time?
Gauss Rifle, from Fallout 3. I once sniped a Radscorpion so hard with that thing that the Radscorpion left the render range and de-rezzed. Easily my favorite sniper rifle in any game. 2nd place: Bound Bow, Skyrim (yes, I like Bethesda games). I got 2 toons to lvl 50 with that thing. Broken. 3rd place: Laser Musket, FO4 (yes, I like sniping), just for the sound it makes when it goes off. BRRAAOOOOWW
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AskReddit/exzvfjw
cux1x8
What is/was the worst case of littering you've seen?
Not the worst in terms of amount or type of litter, but I once saw a guy spend a good 30 seconds trying to balance an empty coffee cup on a door handle, because I assume he thought it's not litter if it's not on the ground. (Also, there was a trash can 10 feet away).
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explainlikeimfive/cgr6elb
22vv62
Why do paper cuts hurt so much?
When the skin is opened by a paper cut, some nerve endings are exposed, just like any other cut. However, most paper cuts happen on the fingers, which are more sensitive to touch and therefore have more nerves. Adding on to this, during a normal cut, blood that flows out of the cut covers up those nerves, reducing the exposure of the nerves to oxygen. Paper cuts, which are usually shallow, don't cause bleeding, making the pain feel much worse because of contact to the air. Hope this explained it.
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AskReddit/ea2oc5u
9yndcg
What's the best thing you've ever won in a contest/giveaway?
When I was in high school, I used to listen to a radio show on BBC (Wright around the world). One week, I entered a contest to tell what I was supposed to be doing at the time the show was aired. I didn't quite win but was the runner-up. They sent me a blue BBC t-shirt. I was so proud of it.
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