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AskReddit/d78z7fx
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513dap
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What is the most amazing photo you have ever taken?
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An empty high-school auditorium, dark, except for the illuminated stage. Point of view is facing stage from stage left, with the seats as the backdrop. A teenage romance. She's lying face-down under the spotlight, he's kneeling next to her caressing her back. I popped in and took a quit shot while they were none the wiser, I always had a camera with me. It's not visually amazing, but it is very sweet. She'd gotten pregnant and the child went up for adoption, and it is a strange feeling that somewhere there's a teenager on the cusp of adulthood and I have this picture of his or her birth parents. Maybe some day.
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AskReddit/cag62gx
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1g2pz7
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Do you trust the government authorities at the federal, state, and local level, (local level includes police)?
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Every government is different, and during elections crooks and good people alike can get elected. Good and bad people can get hired as police, civil service workers, etc. You have to judge each one on its own merits. You can't generalize ALL government authorities.
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AskReddit/c58imk9
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vxok7
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What unusual thoughts do you have while doing an everyday activity?
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I have that same thought whenever I drive down I-5 to go to work. When I'm riding with someone, I imagine what would happen if I just jumped out and started rolling. Outside the car a lot of sexual thoughts
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AskReddit/cx5kfsb
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3teyk7
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What was your first thought when you woke up this morning?
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Later on, when they had all said "Good-bye" and "Thank-you" to Christopher Robin, Pooh and Piglet walked home thoughtfully together in the golden evening, and for a long time they were silent. "When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.
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explainlikeimfive/dta29s7
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7t5v1c
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How do rockets move through space if there's nothing to push against?
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They move by pushing rocket fuel out. Essentially the fuel is what the rocket is pushing "against" in order to move. If you were in space, you could propel yourself in one direction by throwing a rock in the opposite direction. It's the same idea.
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askscience/c2kngrd
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kivnw
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Which materials (metals, plastics, etc) are the best/safest for holding consumable liquids (water, coffee, alcohol, etc)?
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I would tend to say ceramics would probably be the best, but need to worry about the glazes. They are made from incredibly common materials (dirt), are very stable, and more eco-friendly. They are, however heavier than the other materials and you can't make an air-tight seal under normal circumstances.
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AskReddit/d5avn58
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4soig2
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What is a job that people don't realize how much work you actually do?
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I'm a teacher. I put in about 60-80 unpaid hours of overtime per month. I hate it when people talk about how easy my job is, how nice it must be to have summers off, etc. They have no idea how hard my job is, and how little I'm paid for it.
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explainlikeimfive/cj7jr1v
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2bpbff
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If large corporations aren't paying their taxes, why do we still get taxed on their products?
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Sales tax is separate from the corporate income tax. The sales tax is applied at the register and then the store sends that to the state. Then, in an unrelated event, the corporation pays taxes on their income (which they make from selling the product to stores, not when the store sells the product to you).
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AskReddit/d2uqp5h
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4i2c1e
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What's the creepiest place you've come across when off the beaten track?
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I was in Bordeaux, France walking along whatever the main giant river is that flows through the city. I got relatively far away from the "downtown" and it started getting dingier and I started seeing lots more evidence of homeless people, ie. an abandoned camp, clothes and food garbage. Then, I get to what may have been sort of the outskirts of the city and there is really tall grass, like person-height grass and I suddenly notice a group of people. They're all standing ahead, off to the side of the path in the tall, tall grass. There are two men facing each other and they're jumping up and down. There is a crowd surrounding them and the crowd is jumping, but a little less so. All I could hear was deafening traffic sounds from above me on the bridges and roads surrounding the river. I swiftly turned around and got out of there. Perhaps I was just witnessing a small dance competition, or perhaps I was witnessing a small dance competition that, had I interrupted it or even walked by it, might've gotten me beaten up and robbed. Who knows what it was, but I spoke little French and didn't care to find out. Perhaps not creepy, but definitely vexing.
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AskReddit/cj5p1pn
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2bio04
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If someone you care about is depressed, do you shower then with love or give them space, and how?
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I can only speak from personal experience, so this may not be the same for everyone. Being showered with love was great because it reminded me that I'm important to people and kept me from doing anything seriously harmful to myself. But it also made me feel kind of guilty because I couldn't just "snap out of it" and be happy for them. So I'd say find a middle ground, don't go overboard but let them know that you care for them and encourage them to get help. Always be there to listen and don't freak out if they tell you things that are a little bit scary. The thing is, most people aren't depressed because they don't feel loved, there's much more at play. So while showing them you care is important, it isn't a panacea.
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AskReddit/d52rtzi
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4roijr
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What's a great music album and a sample song that you find people don't know?
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There's this really cool new album I've been listening to recently, It's from this really small band called Darude and they have this song called "Sandstorm". Anyway the album by them called "Before the storm" is really awesome
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AskReddit/eqd6z69
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by623r
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What was the happiest moment in your life?
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My happiest moment in my life was simply being the very first member of my family in 5 generations to graduate high school and go to university. My parents, grandparents, and extended family (aunts, uncles, cousins etc.) cheering madly as I walked across the stage to get my diploma. I think of that moment when life gives me a kick to the stomach. Nothing extreme or crazy but just the sheer pride radiating from them lifts my soul.
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explainlikeimfive/crx5lmk
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38qsz0
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Where does the saying that cats have 9 lives come from?
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Pagan numerology guides positive outcomes from arrangements of 9. Freya's link to cats and the undercurrents luck surrounding our life threads gives this additional credence.
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Ask_Politics/caa7e71
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1fh29c
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What are the most important fundamental political questions facing our world today?
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The biggest question for me is how globalization and the emergence of capitalism as the unquestioned worldwide economic model is going to affect the power of the state generally, and how it will affect nations that have strong social welfare programs that are dependent on high levels of taxation. Can a European, or even American model survive in a world that embraces global capital and has endless opportunities to race to the bottom? Will an increasingly disenfranchised middle and working class demand a stronger government to provide services? Can money be effectively hidden (in ways that make current tax evasion look minuscule) so that governments do not have resources to fight corporate power? Will increased trade promote peace as presented in the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention? That and climate change.
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AskReddit/cxx7tsv
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3wlxln
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What are some of the most interesting, beautiful, grim, run-down or scary places to explore using Google Streetview?
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I actually sometimes just use Google Maps to study spatial and transportation design of cities. Some highway interchanges are just works of art. And it's interesting to see what axes cities developed along and why they might have developed like that.
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askscience/e2g4qn1
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8z4fs1
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Does split brain lead to split consciousness?
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A “split brain” is not really 100% split: we use the term to describe patients who, for one reason or another (usually surgery), have lost the functionality of the Corpus Callosum. The Corpus Callisum is a dense bundle of neurons in the middle of the brain that is the primary structure responsible for coordinating and spreading activity between the left and right hemispheres, which is why we remove it in epileptic patients: it prevents seizure activity from taking over the entire brain. The brain has a few other auxiliary connections between the hemispheres, however, called the Commissures. In the absence of the CC, these structures are apparently able to keep some semblance of hemispherical coordination intact. There are a few other phenomenon that can influence things, since, as you can imagine, neuroscience has exceptions to every rule, but in general it’s safe to say that split-brain patients still have some communication between their hemispheres.
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AskReddit/dfc5a9p
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616o2b
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What is the highest-rated post or comment you have ever made?
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Like all of my top rated comments are from the askReddit submission "Name a thing that can't be used as a murder weapon. Other Redditors, how would you use that object as a weapon?" I guess I'm really good at thinking of ways for a thing to be deadly? My top comment, in response to "hair": "it's like two feet long and one end is caught in something you swallow, but it's still attached to your head and now one end of it is down your throat, so your whole throat closes up and you suffocate. source - I have super long hair. note - drowning because of long hair is a legitimate possibility, it makes a thick, heavy seal and sticks to your face."
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AskReddit/d31tzcn
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4ix0mb
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Why is it that locations for failed strip mall pizza/Chinese/etc restaurants always seem to be replaced with other restaurants of the same kind?
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My guess is that, on paper, the location is great for that type of business. Plus, the building already has all the necessary equipment. The fundamental attribution error likely plays a hefty role in this, also: the business didn't fail because the environment is bad, it failed because the previous owner didn't know what he was doing. But I know what I'm doing, and I can't fail!
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AskReddit/cj99iyt
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2buxpf
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What movie made you cry the most?
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"Platoon" I didn't cry during the movie, but afterwards. I saw the movie on its opening night. We stayed until the credits stopped rolling because the music was beautiful and sometimes it's fun to just digest a movie at way. We stood up to leave and noticed four couples interspersed throughout the theater. Each of them was a late 30s or early 40s male with their wife or girlfriend. Each of the four couples was doing exactly the same thing. Each man was sobbing in gut wrenching agony and the woman was kneeling or bending over next to them trying to console them. My friend and I realized that the men were exactly the age that Vietnam vets would be. I sat back down in my seat and cried also. Oliver Stone is magnificent and I could only hope that he reads this post someday as a reward for his grand effort to produce such a realistic and heart-wrenching movie. As I sat there in the movie theater crying, I became an ardent pacifist and completely gave up my aspirations to join the US military.
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AskReddit/c2f21gv
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jtt2n
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Why don't we assign kids homework that will actually contribute to society?
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the last thing i want my 7 year old to do is complete something useful for a company, if i wanted that I would send him off to asia to make me shoes. You want kids to be more engaged and see the value of their work? its called being a good parent.
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AskReddit/elk0fqj
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bgcxsu
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What is the most stupid rules in your school?
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I'm no longer at the school in question, but a friend of mine told be that, just before she graduated, they implemented a rule where people of any gender could not be closer than about 4-6 inches, otherwise it was considered PMA. IE, hugging, linking arms, holding hands, and generally just being close and friendly with another was considered PMA and could get you in trouble.
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AskReddit/e0og8n9
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8r4y52
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What would you do if someone was being bullied in front of you while everyone is just watching it?
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Shout FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! I've stopped people getting bullied on a number of occasions, I don't know why but I'm the sort of person who stops and helps people even though I generally despise other people. I just can't stand to see someone needing help and others just walking by, it's disgusting.
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AskHistorians/cdi6exx
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1qzy67
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Have any of you Historians had experience with graduate school (MA) outside of the United States?
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Not all of us are American, but I have had experience with European graduate programs. A lot of universities, particularly at the graduate level, offer courses in English, but it really depends where you are looking to apply. The Central European University, located in Budapest, offers courses and MA programs almost exclusively in the English language. Some schools, Leiden University in the Netherlands for example, offer one-year MA programs with very specific areas of study. These include "political culture and national identities" among many others. Most schools will also offer a MPhil option (2-year research degree), which allows students to conduct larger researches and this is ideal if you hope to earn a PhD later. Although the pattern is beginning to change, most history seminars in German universities teach in the German language. I would highly recommend taking intensive language training, if you already have not. That way your options of taking a MA in Europe are wider. Language acquisition is also integral to sound research in the archives.
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AskReddit/e8zqkt7
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9twmdl
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What are your funny experiences with people who thought words meant something different to what they actually meant?
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I thought jack off meant to be lazy for the day kinda like slack off. 2006 my brother and I are in our room he's on the computer I'm on our xbox playing WWE. I look him in the eyes and say wanna jack off and play WWE with me? I learned something new that day & we both had a really good laugh.
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AskReddit/dytudu4
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8iqp31
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Should Colleges get rid of majors and just go back to teaching a wide range of subjects, why or why not?
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I think all majors should also encompass a large range of subjects. So both. Also get rid of some of the gen ed classes. I had twelve years of english classes do I really need another one? Do I really need to learn a foreign language? maybe instead I could love something about engineering
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AskReddit/esd35j4
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c7586p
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What's your weird Barber shop experience?
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This is my first post and I would like to share my awkward experience at a Barber shop run by Chinese people in Torrance, CA. I took my brother's suggestion and decided to give it a try. When I arrived at that place, I came to know that none of them Speak English. The cashier understands a bit and she just points out at the price menu and I had to pick one. So I picked Men's haircut and sat on the bench, waiting for my turn. Although they have twenty chairs,there were only two barbers handling the customers. I was assigned to a Lady Barber and I sat behind her chair. On other chair next to hers, the other barber was tending to an Old Caucasian guy. Somehow my eyes drifted and we made an eye contact. He looked like he was in his 80's and he was smiling at me. That felt good and I reciprocated the same. Then it was my turn to sit and he turned his head and kept the same smile. It felt weird but I was getting ready to get my haircut. Another old guy came to pick him up. When the haircut's done, the second guy paid for the services and was helping his friend out of the chair. All this time the old guy is still looking at me with the same smiling face. He was not getting up and the second guy was too weak to lift him up. Then the short Barber decided to join in. Both of them tried to lift him and they're able to get the smiling guy on his feet. They let him him go for one second and he fell forward on his knees and his face landed on the bench. And somehow we still have the eye contact and his smile didn't leave his face. I tried to get up from my chair and help him but the Barber lady has already tied a sheet around me and doesn't want to waste anymore time as she had many customers waiting. I tried to say something and she yelled something in Chinese. I'm an introvert, so that yelling of her worked like a charm and I shut my mouth. The second old guy called for an ambulance. Within 5 mins, I could see cops and paramedics. From the discussion they had, I've come to known that these old guys were neighbors. Since the smiling guy had no one to take care of, the other guy always helps him with these things. But he knows nothing about the medical history of this smiling guy. I felt sad hearing that but I couldn't move because I don't want her to yell again. Paramedics did what they had to and there I was witnessing everything and getting my hair cut at the same time. That old guy's eyes were still looking at me until he was taken into the ambulance. All the people gathered there were either tensed or were praying for him. But not me and my barber, she's just playing with scissors on my head and I was sitting there like a loser. Then after they left, I felt relieved for him and was hoping for a peaceful haircut, only to get ruined by making another eye contact with the young Asian guy waiting for his turn, he gave a judgemental disgusting look as if I didn't care about what happened. But I did care, I just couldn't show it. ��
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AskHistorians/d8f26jx
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55yvw7
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How did women deal with periods in medieval times?
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If I may ask an add-on question, my wife and other friends tell me that UTIs (Urinary Tract Infections) are relatively common among women even today, when standards of hygiene in the West are historically high. How on earth did women cope with these in the past? Sorry if this comes across as creepy.
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AskReddit/cdwvo4q
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1sety0
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What has been the most soul crushing moment of your life thus far?
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When I was 13, my mom kicked me out of the house to live with my dad 100 miles away. 3 weeks later she put the house we were living in up for sale (it was in her name and within her legal right to do so, despite the fact that my father had been paying the mortgage and associated bills since the divorce). My dad was driving a cab at the time and there was no way he could afford to buy or even rent a house for us. At 13, it was soul crushing to see him break down and cry in front of me. I stayed up that whole night to make sure that he didn't kill himself.
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askscience/dq5k2rf
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7eh945
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What determines the 'size' of a subatomic particle?
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Point particles don't have a size in the classical sense. Don't think of them as billiard balls.think of them as diffuse clouds that gradually peter out after a certain distance. When you see a size listed for point particles, this is just an approximation for the distance over which the particle exerts some arbitrary amount of influence.
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AskHistorians/ch6fdg5
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24eu80
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What currency would have been used in Rome, in 896 AD?
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There is no universal currency in pre-modern societies, and what uniformity there was broke down with the fall of the western Empire. The literal gold standard of coinage in the Mediterranean basin and beyond was the Byzantine solidus, which was originally of very high quality (~95% purity). For all of late Antiquity, wealth of any larger scale was calculated by the solidus. The solidus was primarily minted in Byzantium, but there are some examples of western imitations into the sixth century. Most of the western economy was based on silver coinage. Silver coins of various types and purity were minted by whatever local potentate could afford to do so. In either case, the ability to mint coins was a sign of authority, and the ability to mint gold coins was a sign of imperial authority. For example, Charlemagne re-started the minting of gold coins to legitimize his imperial claims. Bronze and copper-alloy coins died out in the west in the late 6th century and did not reappear in force until the second millennium. So, to answer your question, it's most likely that you would have found mostly have been silver with some copper-alloy. Very wealthy persons might have used gold in some circumstances. See: Brown, Peter. Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2012. Naismith, Rory. “Gold Coinage and Its Use in the Post-Roman West.” Speculum 89, no. 02 (April 2014): 273–306. doi:10.1017/S0038713413004533.
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AskReddit/dl9h8ma
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6s293j
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What's the most selfish act you've seen in public?
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The night of the election. HRC didn't even face her Supporters. Instead she had Podesta send them home and told them they were gonna fight to win. 20 minutes later she called Trump and conceded. She should've shown up.
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explainlikeimfive/e02isvr
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8od7j6
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How are some plastics immune to strong acids whereas significantly stronger materials will get melted through easily?
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It's to do with the chemistry of how acids work. Basically acids give up protons to other chemicals which changes the nature of whatever atom receives the proton. Materials that are resistant to acids are less prone to receiving those protons.
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explainlikeimfive/cimtl37
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29o48a
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What is Vector Marketing, why is it illegal, and why do so many people get sucked into it if it is universally known as a bad thing?
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I don't think it's illegal, and it's not technically a scam either. Just a little shady. They recruit students to be direct sales independent contractors, essentially selling knives to their friends and family. It's probably seen as a bad thing because it's exploiting the relationships of young people to shill for knives while the sellers typically get very little in return. So Vector sells their product, doesn't have to really pay anyone to sell them and takes advantage of people that need the money.
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AskHistorians/cfp534j
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1yyqs7
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In the Prose Edda, why did Odin kick the dwarf Litr onto Thor's funeral pyre?
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It was Þór (Thor) who kicked the dwarf Litur on Baldur's funeral pyre. Litur slid infront of Þór and, because Þór was so melancholic because of Baldur's death of the jötunn Hyrokkin's behavior, Þór kicked Litur into the fire after having laid fire to the ship. Source: Snorra-Edda in front of me
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AskReddit/c10w4ay
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dkgew
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When is it socially acceptable to use a wheelchair?
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It's acceptable for you to use a wheelchair anytime you want. you are the one with the problem and know what you can and can't do. If the wheelchair makes your life more enjoyable. use it. Just don't go parking in those handicap spots without a sticker or license plate allowing it. and stay away from Segways, they have a tendency to not do well near cliffs.
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AskReddit/cup7nkt
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3jhhth
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How do you keep your mind sharp when you don't have a particularly stimulating job?
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Simply read whatever you can get your hands on. I find philosophical and mathematical books to be the most stimulating as I can't just read through it without thinking. Practice a new skill, be it origami, woodworking, or electronics. Do something that involves a little problem-solving skill.
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AskReddit/ddnjmao
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5tmcis
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How do people feel after rejecting someone?
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Rejection is unpleasant for both parties. It seems easy when you're the one being rejected, but that's all an illusion. What if they don't take the hint? How do you politely tell someone you don't like them? What if you are friends and you just want it to be like it was? What if they're persistent, and you have to keep breaking their heart over and over again? When rejecting someone, people feel guilt.
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AskReddit/cjnsc8g
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2db0ou
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What is your opinion on marriage/engagement when the couple has been together just one year/a little under?
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I don't really care about anyone else's relationship. If it works for you, great. Not my place to judge, really. A year or so can be faster, but it's not whirlwind style or anything. It also depends on so many factors, including age-- if the couple is 20, it's probably not going to work out as well as if the couple is 30 or something. Studies have shown though that couples who are together more than 3 (I think?) years before marriage are more likely to divorce.
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askscience/clndz97
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2koyq2
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Do waves of voltage move through electrons in a conductor at the speed of light?
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By "waves of voltage" I assume you are referring to waves or fluctuations in the electromagnetic potential. Strictly speaking, the phrase "waves of voltage" does not make sense since a voltage is a difference in electromagnetic potential between two points in a circuit. The voltage can oscillate, but the waves that propagate as a result are waves in the EM potential (or equivalently, waves in the EM field). EM waves in a conductor travel at a speed that is on the order of the speed of light in vacuum, but it will always be a little less. EM waves can only travel exactly at the speed of light in vacuum if they are in vacuum and if they are not confined. When traveling in a material, an EM wave couples to the charges in the material in a way that tends to slow down the wave. Also, simply confining a wave tends to slow it down. For instance, if you have a hollow waveguide with a vacuum inside, but highly reflective walls so that the EM is forces to travel along the waveguide, the speed of this wave will be less than the speed of light in vacuum, even though it is traveling through vacuum. But the speed of EM waves in a conductor is indeed very close to the speed of light in vacuum, which is very fast. Note that EM waves can take on many shapes and are not always sine waves. If you have a DC circuit that is off and you turn it on, the act of turning on the DC circuit causes the EM field in the wire to go from zero to some number at the starting point. This change in the EM field constitutes a fluctuation, which then propagates through the circuit as a wave. So even in DC circuits, you really have EM waves.
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AskReddit/e0ir9rm
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8qfb3h
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How does learning that someone can play the piano or guitar change your perception of them, if at all?
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As a guitarist and vocalist myself there are alot of things I can tell about someone when I hear they can play. One, the learning curve to get "good" is immense, so it shows a degree of passion and dedication if they are actually decent. Two, I know we will get along talking about music cause we're both passionate about it. It's actually a big part of my dating criteria because aside from getting on here and working music is all I do.
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explainlikeimfive/cf80gz7
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1x4fm7
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What would happen if Zimmerman kills DMX in the boxing match?
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If Zimmerman were to kill DMX, a ton of people would say he is too dangerous, etc etc. If DMX were to kill Zimmerman, it would be looked at as a savage act of revenge and probably turn into a bigger mess.
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AskReddit/dse6i51
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7p38pt
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What are the greatest facts which are "contrary to popular belief"?
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Contrary to popular belief, the days to not get shorter in the winter and longer in the summer. The first day of winter is the shortest day of the year so the days are getting longer in the winter. And vice versa for summer.
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AskReddit/c5vv0e2
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yihc3
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What's the worst thing you've ever been walked in on doing?
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The brother of my girlfriend at the time walked in on me fingering and eating her out. He stared at me awkwardly for what felt like ten minutes. What made it awkward was that he stared at me for ten minutes.
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AskReddit/dh0poi6
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68rat2
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What is the most cringe worthy moment you have ever witnessed?
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Every time I would log on Facebook and see the most cringe worthy flirting on photos posted by girls. Or on attention seeking shares about how men should treat women, or whatever. One guy, who looked like he was 5'3" and the biggest dweeb ever, wrote something to the effect of, "If you were my girl, this would never be a problem," in response to a post about guys treating a girl right. I was regularly sleeping with that girl at the time (FWB type situation), and we would regularly laugh at the way people would desperately seek her attention.
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explainlikeimfive/e8nixg2
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9sazfu
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How much stronger are human teeth (specifically molars) than glass?
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It depends what property you are talking about, individual teeth, and impurities in the glass. For your example of biting on glass: Glass has a compressive strength of 1000MPa, while teeth has a compressive strength of 300-400MPa. If you bite down on glass and keep applying pressure, your teeth would break first. However humans only have a bite strength of 25MPa, you are never going to bite hard enough to shatter your teeth. Teeth enamel have a hardness or 5 on the Mohs scale, while glass is 5.5. If you scratch teeth against glass, the teeth would wear down first before glass, but just barely. It could go the other way depending on the quality of enamel/glass. Tooth dentin has an ultimate tensile strength of 61.6 MPa, compared to glass at 33 MPa. You can pull on teeth harder than glass before it breaks, so teeth is stronger against stretching forces.
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AskReddit/d9ip4k2
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5arjta
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What is the best example of an actor adopting your native country's (or region's) accent for a role in a movie?
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Sebastian Stan in Civil War during the scene were he was hiding and trying to lay low. While technically he didn't adopted my language seeing how is also his native one, he nailed a specific regional accent that had me burst out laughing at the cinema.
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AskReddit/dp3yree
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79qd24
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How would you feel about a law in the US banning special interest groups from lobbying congress or contributing in any way to their election campaigns?
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I would agree to a ban on campaign contributions, but not a ban on lobbying. Boeing or McDonalds or Halliburton do have opinions on the running of our government and the regulations they are subject to. Their voices should be heard. The problem we now experience is that their voices are heard to the exclusion of other voices. Silencing them in return is not a more just arrangement than the current order.
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AskReddit/eaokfiz
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a1ca8w
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What are some of the pros and cons of making a Linkedin profile - how much does it boost your chances of getting a decent job?
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I use LinkedIn a lot for recruiting. Passive candidates don’t apply to openings, but they can be lured in. If I can’t find you, I can’t hire you! So yes, build a profile. Plus, it’s a plus if we know some of the same people.
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AskHistorians/dbqwqce
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5ku6xr
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Why did British colonists view miscegenation with natives so much more negatively than Portuguese colonists did?
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This answer is maybe a bit tangential to you question, as it focused on Brazil (and the European and African population thereof), but I hope it helps! A significant portion of modern Brazil's population is mixed race, usually European descended and African descended. When the Portuguese settled Brazil, it was primarily single men who colonized the area and not, as in English colonized sections of North American, families. As a result, European men married and had children with native and African slave women. This practice of intermarriage was justified (really after the fact, in the late 19th-early 20th centuries; originally it was done out of necessity) via the concept of racial whitening, known in Brazil as Branqueamento. Essentially what branqueamiento did was assert genetic Darwinism: white genes were superior to black or native genes, and thus, over time, the black genes would stop being passed on, resulting in progressively whiter children over generations. This idea of racial relations was fundamentally different from that of the English and the Americans, first out of necessity and then out of racial "science." These are two of the reasons why Brazil's population is significantly mixed-race compared to the US, which, for most of its history, was colonized by families and which developed a different set of scientific racial stereotypes.
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AskReddit/eqi0iad
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byidxi
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If you've ever had an encounter with a skin walker, what happened and if you saw it, what did it look like?
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Oh, just last week. It was at a party, just after I met a vampire and his pet ghost. Skin walker named Dave had a few too many and trying to hit on Krampus (the German Christmas demon thing). Then he was slain by an elf. Ah, what a riot that was.
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explainlikeimfive/d88jcvm
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558zl3
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Why was the native american code during WW2 so hard to break?
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Languages are organized in families. English is part of the Indo-European family, so almost all European languages are from that family. There are lots of loanwords too. The Native American languages were from their own family, so the linguists in Germany and Japan didn't have experience with them. Also, since pretty much everyone who spoke the language lived in a small geographic area inside the US, that made it even harder for other countries to study it. Without the ability to study these languages in context, it's almost impossible to decipher the words, and then what the codes mean.
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explainlikeimfive/e9jygj1
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9wdkgl
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How does your body know what time to wake up before an alarm sounds?
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The body has a natural day cycle called the circadian rhythm. Day(light)/night(dark) periods and hormones cause the circadian rhythm to change. One example of hormones causing it to change is why teenagers stay up later and wake up later. An example of day/night changes is when traveling to a different time zone and your sleep schedule slowly adjusts through a few day to a few weeks. The circadian rhythm can also be seen for meals. If you always feed your pets at a certain time, then they may try to remind you as if to say "hey it's food o'clock, you always feed me now, where's the food"
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AskReddit/dhl9mmp
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6bbjos
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What first world problem annoys you the most?
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Having a refrigerator full of food but not wanting any of it to eat. So you grab the $500 smart phone and place a $20 order for pizza, soda, and wings. The pizza arrives and you tip the pizza guy a few bucks but only do it out of courtesy. You then proceed to sit down and flip through hundreds of channels that you pay for and deem nothing watchable. So you power on your expensive gaming device load up twitch and watch people play a game you already own. Slice after slice until the pizza that could feed a family of 4 you don't even eat the crust you just throw it away. You aren't even watching the tv. You're on your phone on reddit talking about the worst first world problems.
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askscience/d0ogur1
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48yj40
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What is the physical process behind nuclear receptor down regulation?
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This particular method of down regulation doesn't involve nuclear receptors at all. I think that is the source of your confusion. Do you understand the reason for this type of down regulation? It is to cause negative feedback in the response to what ever hormone is binding with cells. Let's look at the insulin example. You blood sugar levels spike after a large meal. In response to this, your pancreas releases insulin into your blood. This binds to receptors on the cell membrane of your liver and muscle cells, and is taken into the cell via endocytosis. From here the hormone causes a cascade of further signals inside the cell, which cause the cell to take up and store more glucose as glycogen, but that is irrelevant in this question. The rate at which the cells produce insulin receptors is constant. When there is a large amount of insulin in the blood, the receptors are bonded to and used up quicker than they are produced. If your cells have less receptors on their cell membrane, then that cells response to insulin is going to be limited, isn't it? If there is less receptors, there is less insulin getting into the cell, and causing a slower uptake of glucose. So why does this happen? This negative feedback system for insulin (hormone) sensitivity allows your body to release a large amount of insulin to quickly address a large spike in blood glucose levels. Without this negative feedback, your blood sugar levels would be overcompensated, they would go from a spike all the way past optimal into a crash. Then they would be risen again by a surge of Glucagon, and the same would happen, our blood sugar level would surpass optimal, and go from a crash into a spike again. This oscillation of sugar levels would continue like an oscillating coil spring. What the negative feedback of hormonal sensitivity does is act as a dampener on the response. It allows our body to very quickly reduce blood sugar levels, but as glucose is taken up by liver/muscle cells, their response to insulin is regulated/desensitised, and the drop in blood sugar level decelerates. When blood glucose is at normal levels, and insulin/glucagon levels have returned to normal, then the constant rate of receptor transcription in our cells will replenish insulin sensitivity to normal levels. Is this more clear?
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AskReddit/e3g3g54
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93ulcr
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What's the weirdest thing you found when you moved into a new house or apartment?
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I moved into an old farmhouse once and it had a lot of weird contents. Most notably was the living room light fixture had black light bulbs and in the basement there was a makeshift cot and some children's underwear.
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explainlikeimfive/cc56q0p
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1m239w
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What is the cause that makes you feel like your stomach drops when you are really nervous/stressed?
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Adrenaline ! Fight or flight. your heart is racing & produces blood faster than usual which makes your blood pressure go up & then alll of the blood is restricted to your stomach & causes the adrenaline to be released. That's why people often breathe into a paper bag to relieve anxiety in an attempt to even out the blood flow.
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AskReddit/cuo0i7z
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3jcd81
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What is your opinion on baby beauty pageants?
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i knew about toddler beauty pageants, didnt know they did those with babies too (unless you dont mean literal babies omg) if the kids are old enough to understand whats going on, whoever is responsible for getting them there is gonna probably mess them up. if theyre not old enough, then i guess its harmless but, imo, still pretty ridiculous
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AskReddit/d0uhm14
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49sjob
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What do you do for fun?
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try to get the top voted comment on a front page post on reddit i have gotten the top comment and i have got in early on a front page post but as of yet not both at once i have turned it into a hobby . and hobbies are fun right . right guys ?
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AskReddit/doaph81
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761zqj
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What gets better with age?
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Shortbread. One year my dad forgot he made a batch of shortbread the year prior and when he made one for the current Christmas season at the time was surprised to find the batch from the year prior still in the tin. He tried a piece and much to his surprise the year of aging gave it a much richer and bolder flavor.
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explainlikeimfive/clr4nbx
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2l3lln
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Could a citizen go to college in the United States, with a big student loan and then leave the country and never repay it?
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Yes, you can simply not pay the loan back, they can come and try to get you to pay it back but if you're out of the country its a bit hard, logistically and legally. Good luck ever getting a loan again though, as you've clearly shown lenders you have no intention of paying them back
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AskReddit/cd2gxp3
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1phv92
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What is the best senior prank done in your school?
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At my school a few years ago the seniors released thousands of crickets onto the campus and they got absolutely everywhere. Now, several years later we still have lots of crickets everywhere around our school. It turns out they multiply.
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AskReddit/do9yd8s
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75yunx
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What shows were you not allowed to watch as a kid?
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Well my dad watched CSI and law and order and I’d always watch it with him but when I’d go to school and talk about it people got concerning so I was banned from watching them which sucked because I loved those shows
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AskReddit/e47m7kv
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97egc7
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What is the worst name someone you know has given their child?
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My friends family named their youngest son Blade. Its not the worst but quite possibly the best. My friend also named his son 'Atreyu' after the band. He said that he immediately regretted naming him that after their latest album following the birth and today has claimed to have named him after the character in 'The Neverending Story'.
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AskHistorians/deohfpn
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5yaajx
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Would the family of a auxiliary soldier serving in the roman army be supported in any way if he died in the field ?
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Depends on the time period. In the Middle Republic, the answer was no. Not even the auxiliary soldier himself got citizenship regularly. We hear of anecdotes of exceptional auxiliary soldiers being granted citizenship for their deeds by generals (for instance, Marius; see Cicero Balb. 46; Valerius Max. 5.2.8). This practice continued into the Imperial period, but again ONLY for auxiliary soldiers who had distinguished themselves as exceptional. This award of citizenship had nothing to do with any wife or kids, take note. If the guy died, and that death wasn't the pinnacle of heroic sacrifice, then the family of the deceased were out of luck. And note that being left destitute due to war was incredibly common even in the 20th century, much less in the ancient period. From the time of the emperor Claudius, that changed: auxiliary soldiers "of good character" (so again, only the "good" ones) were awarded the right of conubium, which granted citizenship to them and to any informal marriages the soldier might have. The kids were then automatically citizens (presumably only the ones born after the right of conubium was granted). These awards were regularly recorded on bronze documents called diplomata, some of which survive. For reasons we don't understand, from the time of the Emperor Trajan onward, there was another change: from that time, only the kids of the auxiliary were given citizenship who were born after the soldier's discharge (so any kids he fathered while in the service remained illegitimate).
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explainlikeimfive/eppff56
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bvijsz
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How does the keto diet work?
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Your body relies on different types of sugar to do most of the stuff necessary to keep you alive. The easiest way for your body to get those sugars is through carbohydrates like bread, potatoes and sweets. You store the extra as fat, which your body can also convert into sugar if it has to, but if there are carbohydrates available it'll use those first. The idea behind a keto diet is that by not eating sugar and starches, you're forcing your body to burn off it's fat reserves. Macros refer to macronutrients, the three main categories of food. Protein like meat or beans, used to build and maintain muscle, carbohydrates like sugar, rice, wheat or potatoes which provide quick access to energy and fats like butter or oils which can help distribute nutrients through the body and act as a kind of storage system for energy like I mentioned. There's no single perfect way to eat since your diet depends on your goals. A marathon runner wants a lot of carbohydrates and might even have a hard time keeping weight on while someone trying to gain muscle will want to make sure to get a lot of protein after working out.
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explainlikeimfive/cg0ea03
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2073dn
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Would you still get a cold sore if that part of your body was removed?
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The virus would still be in you. It is a type of herpes. You are correct in that it lays dormant in your body. It stays dormant in your central nervous system (Brain, spinal cord, nerves) I really doubt you want to remove any or all of those systems.
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AskReddit/ewa3i61
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cnfyi4
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How far have you gone to save money?
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Not exactly about saving money. But one time I was doing driving lessons with my dad and he made me turn back and pull over. He then proceeded just to pick up a coin he saw lying on the road. I hope the 10 cents he found was enough to cover the extra petrol we used to turn back
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AskReddit/cndjkht
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2r8w5f
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What is the most surprising change you witnessed in a classmate at your first high school reunion?
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Not at my high school reunion, but several years after high school I found a girl I'd gone to school with and I was seriously SHOCKED to realize it was the same girl. In high school, she was your typical Orange-County ditz girl: fake tan, acrylic nails, bleach blonde hair, dumb as a rock and dressed in her designer Abercrombie bullshit. But years after graduating, she was completely bald, had sworn off makeup and typical beauty products, and was living in a yurt in the Santa Cruz Mountains selling her paintings for money while practicing meditation and a straight-edge lifestyle. So bizarre, but hey, if it makes you happy.
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AskReddit/edep6ex
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ad8wqf
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What random act of kindness did you receive that changed how you live your life today?
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I saw an ex boyfriend give all the money in his wallet to a man with a story that his wife was in the hospital and he needed gas money. We were gonna use that money to eat at the restaurant we were heading into. He said “if he was lying that’s on him. If he was telling the truth, I’m glad. Either way, I did my part.” And that level of grace has changed me.
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AskReddit/cq9e5np
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32ai7j
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What helps you keep calm/relaxed?
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So here's what I tell myself. There are two types of problems; those that you can fix, and those that you can not. If you have a problem that you can not control or fix in any way, there is no point in worrying about it, because it won't get anything done. If you have a problem that you can fix, there is no point in worrying about it, because you can fix it. Then go fix the problem. I don't live perfectly by this, but whenever I remember it, it helps.
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explainlikeimfive/c2i7mrj
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k82vg
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Why do i not get the full amount from my hard drive?
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ELI5: Imagine that you have a box in your room with a whole bunch of books in it. Every time you want that book about "Tommy the Train" you have to go through all the books in the box to find it. Sometimes it's on top, sometimes you have to go through everything. Imagine instead that you've got all your books stored on a shelf. They're all lined up with the titles reading the same direction so you don't have to tilt your head back and forth a zillion times to read the titles. It would be much easier to find Tommy the Train this way because it's organized. But the bookshelf takes up a whole wall of your room. Imagine now that you've got a LOT of books, and there's a special "index" notebook that keeps track of where every book is on each shelf. Now, to find Tommy the Train, you just look in the notebook and it tells you which shelf on the bookshelf, and where on the shelf that book is. The shelves and the notebook take up space in your room, but it makes it faster and easier to find the book you want. On a hard drive, some of the space that is taken up, before you ever even put a file on it, comes from the hard drive's "bookshelves" (file structure), and notebook (directory).
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explainlikeimfive/dsd3dpt
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7ox9n7
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How do ships and ferries float on a certain level regardless of the distribution and addition of the weight to it?
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Reiterating Clockwork-God’s correct response and then adding something extra. Most ships are fitted with something called ballast tanks. These Ballast tanks can be manually or automatically filled with water to let the ship sink (called negative buoyancy) and then pumped full of air to help the ship float (positive buoyancy) So there’s something called Archimede’s Principle. This states (paraphrased) that for an object to float, it needs force equal to the weight of whatever’s being displaced. So when a ship is floating in the ocean, it will need to fill its ballast tanks with enough water to offset the amount of ocean that a massive ship is displacing. Also, some Ballast Tanks are split into two compartments. A “Side 1” and Side 2” these compartments allow for a variable water to be in each to control a ships “List” or left-to-right motion. Then there are forward and aft ballast tanks to help control a ship’s “Trim” or upwards and downwards motion. There’s another type, that I’ve always called Auxilliary Tanks, not sure of the official name, that are located on the sides of the boat. For longer vessels, the ballast tanks located on the forward and aft ends of the boat are not enough to help control the ships list or trim. So tanks are added to the sides that can have water moved to or from them to help better control and ship’s trim and list.
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AskReddit/cdna5vq
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1rhfoq
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What advice has stuck with you the most over the years?
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My older brother told me this 2 years ago when I was planning to buy a new phone: "Dont buy useless stuff, invest on things that matters which will profit you in the future".
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askscience/cubpw2d
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3hx17x
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What equations in general relativity / cosmological models entail the known expansion rate of the early universe?
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I'm not sure what the specific passage means; there seems to be some mistakes/grammar problems. In any case: the relevant coupled equations are the Friedmann equations, derived from the Einstein Field Equations assuming the Copernican principle the equations of state for the content, including dark energy, matter, radiation, and the inflaton the inflaton equation of motion (i.e., the potential) Together they form ΛCDM + inflation. He seems to be talking about the problem of flatness, you might want to read up on that.
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explainlikeimfive/c94d0gq
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1b7otc
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What makes a bomb nuclear, and what happens when they go off?
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Normal bombs get their energy from chemical reactions. They're kind of like fire, only faster and more violent. Nuclear bombs get their energy from nuclear reactions, which are a lot more energetic, but a lot harder to start and maintain.
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AskReddit/dda9am8
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5rus14
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Is there such a thing as selling an idea for a book, like people do with movies and tv shows?
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Definitely. Before investing time (which equates to money) and effort in writing a several hundred page book, authors (especially ones who have sold books before) will submit an overview or summary to a publisher. The publisher will either reject the idea, or agree to pay X amount of money (plus Y% of book sales) to the author. In exchange, the author has to provide the book by a certain deadline. Often there will be intermediate deadlines (ie you get 25% of the agreed upon X if you submit the first 5 chapters to us by this earlier deadline, then the next 25% when you submit the next 10 chapters by this next deadline, etc). If the author is new, or relatively unknown, they will usually get a much stricter deal. They may be required to submit writing samples before even getting a contract, then have much more strict and frequent deadlines along the way. I imagine famous authors (like Stephen King, John Grisham, etc) can pretty much set the terms of the contract as they want. They probably won't be subjected to nearly as many deadlines, and will get a lot more money for their work.
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askscience/cgyiudb
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23mqbv
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Why don't antibiotics kill our mitochondria?
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Some actually do. Antibiotics can cause mitochondrial dysfunction, we just have enough of a functional reserve to be able to handle it. Many do cause oxidative stress and damage though. As for why they don't kill all of them, there are many reasons: Most Antibiotics don't penetrate cells very well to get to the mitochondria. We have proteins (Like P-Glycoprotein) that pump drugs out of cells to prevent them from damaging our own cells They lack some of the structures antibiotics target, such as a thicker outer peptidoglycan cell wall
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explainlikeimfive/euabe2o
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cfgl9w
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Why don’t you have to split white and coloured clothing in laundry anymore?
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You do. Coloured fabrics can bleed the first times you wash them, and discolour whites. If everything in the machine is old and washed several times, no worries, mix them. Bit with new clothes, always separate, even one new sock can really ruin your day.
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askscience/cl6u8lw
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2iyzr2
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How do doctors know which antibiotic to prescribe?
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Doctors know which antibiotics to prescribe because medical lab specialists perform a series of tests (eg. a serology test checks the patient's blood for antibodies against a specific strain of pathogen). Lab workers use complex but linear test schematics to narrow down what the infection could be. These tests are performed based on patient history. Large studies have been performed, and continue to be performed, to figure out what dose of which antibiotic is the most effective for each classified infection. Aiding in drug choice is the fact that microbiologists have a thorough understanding of cellular function in microbes, and how each drug disrupts those functions.
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AskReddit/c0l0gto
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b56mt
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What are you proud of, that you probably ought not be?
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What's funny about threads like this is if I post what I was originally going to post, I'd get downvoted to oblivion, because it's existentially a question that you can't answer properly. I could say that I can burp the entire guitar solo from The End by The Beatles, which would be true, but I have a good reason to be proud of that. I could also say that I've been extorting my room mates for between 20-50 dollars worth of bill money between the four of them every month which would get me downvoted, but would be honest. Hey we can't all be Admirable like Churchill.
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AskReddit/c1lifju
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g7n94
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How can one enjoy eating raw oysters on the half-shell?
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For novices of eating ray oysters, I suggest you use an oyster fork to dunk the oyster in ketchup or cocktail sauce and put it on a cracker. The cracker gives a bit of a balance of texture. When you're ready, you can start to dip them in the sauce and just eat it straight.
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AskReddit/e9sl33m
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9xicnz
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What do you think about having an "open phone" policy within a serious long-term relationship?
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If by open phone you mean no password or know them I'm guessing. My husband and I know each others passwords and have nothing to hide. Also useful incase of some freak accident we can save the memories stored on the phones or important things saved.
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explainlikeimfive/cff9our
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1xwm2k
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Why is snow white?
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Snow is white because the light is white. The tiny crystal structure of snow scatters light every direction instead of just letting it pass through in one direction. It's all about reflection and refraction.
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explainlikeimfive/cyfxiah
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3yr9be
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Is super glue (cyanoacrylate) truly safe to use on small cuts?
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I assume you mean from the cyanoacrylate going into your blood, which the answer is no. Cyanoacrylate becomes inert in the presence of water. If you pour a large amount on the cut the prolonged exposure to the fumes can cause damage to your nose and eyes - nothing more than mild irritation though, so I guess don't use more than necissary. But just a dap on an open cut is fine - it seems like a lot of effort to me but it won't harm you, make sure you put some antiseptic on first though.
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AskReddit/e0994og
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8p89fm
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What are signs that a news article might be fake news?
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It's from Fox News. No but really, what do you mean by fake news? Outright fabrication? If it's not one of the major news sources, that's a good first bet. If it's not covered by any other sources, that's a really good bet. Do you mean dishonest or misleading? Then yeah, Fox News can be assumed if not corroborated by other sources. In general though you should be checking multiple sources anyways and asking critical questions while reading in the first place. I enjoy when a story has links to the evidence for their claims but when I click those links they don't bring me to an actual source.
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explainlikeimfive/dx9w6a0
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8bv12i
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Why is it that searching for files the contents in files I have saved to my PC takes forever (even after indexing), while searching through the contents I have in cloud storage is almost instant?
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On your computer, you are searching through every file on the drive, and only a small percentage of those are documents. A file search on the PC has to sort through all the documents, all the files that run the operating system, all the files that run every game and word processor and spreadsheet program, all the hardware drivers, etc. Your cloud storage search limits itself to just the documents there. The cloud servers are also much more powerful than your home computer.
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AskReddit/eb3efeq
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a34oqf
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Why are you atheist?
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Grew up Christian, before the internet. I always lived in a Christian bubble, so asking for the actual atheist stance or thoughts was bound to raise a few eyebrows. Went to college in the Bible Belt. The thing that made me start doubting was seeing the behavior of the Christians around me. A load of people seemed very cool with how cruel their god was. Sure, they disagreed with me, putting a healthy spin on things, but it was enough to question. Then I read the Bible. It's a decent story about a wretched god. Taking a fresh look at it, and reading a lot of atheist literature (it became available in college: God Delusion, God is Not Great, the YouTube clips of "AtheistExperience", AronRa, Thunderfoot [before he became obsessed with opposing feminism]) it became clear that if the christian god did exist, it was a terrible monster that should be opposed. (I could go on at length, but that's a different post.) So I became an athiest because it was the moral/ethical thing to do. I backed it up with improving my knowledge of science and philosophy, and it became the responsible and intellectually honest thing to do.
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explainlikeimfive/dcs9fgw
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5pm1r1
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Can a person agree to anything with their signature ?
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In the US, to be valid a contract must be legal (can't enforce a contract on an illegal drug sale), made in good faith (can't sneak "and a million dollars" into the fine print) and must give both parties something of value. Contracts that fail to do that are not enforceable. > is any writing with a persons signature at the bottom considered a legal document that can be challenged in court? Nope. A signature does not make a contract legal or binding. A contract exists because two people agree to something. A signature is merely evidence an agreement has been made. You can enforce a contract without a signature, and you can invalidate a signed contract.
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AskReddit/cag0ng9
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1g24xj
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What is your weirdest sleeping ritual/ trick against insomnia?
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I have very specific sleeping conditions. I must have a fan going, preferably onto my face. Mostly because I can't stand silence when I try to fall asleep, and the light breeze is very calming. I also like to leave the TV on (muted, and with a sleep timer) when I go to sleep. I like the flickery lights. It drives my boyfriend crazy because when I sleep over at his house I've actually brought my fan before because I really can't sleep without it, even if it's cold outside. Also, I turn my head to the side and wrap the covers around my head so only my face is poking out. I've done this for over 10 years, it's just the way I like to sleep.
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Ask_Politics/ca3hiy7
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1esu17
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Where do Indian Tribes sat within United States' political system?
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To start things off, I think it's important to distinguish between tribal groups and tribal land. Tribal groups are simply groups of people that share a similar heritage (both genetically and culturally). These groups often function as a kind of collective business group (corporation) that works to make and spend money to preserve their cultural heritage and land. These groups often live on Tribal land, AKA Indian reservations. The reservations are technically government land under the Dept. of the Interior that has been set aside for Native American groups to use and inhabit. Native American groups are free to buy property outside of their reservations, but that land is not subject to all building codes/laws that aren't enforced on reservations. Now, onto your questions: Let's take this one at a time: >Is the fact that Indian tribes are sovereign nations a political fiction? It varies from who you talk to, but I'd say that they are far from being sovereign nations. At least in California, they are subject to a lot of the taxes that regular land owners are. On top of that, the state or country has the right to build and maintain roads as they deem necessary (within reason) within tribal lands. Also, I'm sure U.S. military and federal law enforcement could enter or pass through tribal lands without (most) people batting an eye. If we actually removed or invaded tribal land, I'm sure it would be a big deal, but the rest of the world wouldn't think we were declaring war on another country. >What are the actual relations between tribes and states? Are they theoretically equal within political hierarchy? Remember that tribes are under the Dept. of the Interior, so they answer (mostly) to the fed, and not the state. States can leverage taxes on things like Indian casinos, but that's about it. >Is the modern relationship between Federal government and tribes more similar to foederati of ancient Roman Republic or closer to colonial protectorates? Definitely closer to colonial protectorates. They depend on the US government for protection from invading armies (insert snarky comment about colonization here), and often times for money, infrastructure, and other foodstuffs. >If the tribes are sovereign nations could they secede from the United States? If I recall correctly, various tribes have tried to do this a couple of times. Most of the time everybody just ignores it, and it all blows over. I suppose if they were actually serious about it, it would be treated as a rebellion, and dealt with as such - something which would not end well for the seceding tribe. Keep in mind I'm typing all this off the top of my head, remembering stuff from a Native American class I took a year ago, so my info probably isn't 100% spot-on. Also, I live in an area that's got a lot of Native American groups that frequently clash with the local towns, county, and college students.
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AskReddit/cod4h3o
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2uznzj
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Where abouts in the world are you from and what do you know about Ireland?
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Norway, You have a very cool celtic history with mythological creatures as banshee's and leprechauns. The shamrock is your national flower (The luck of the irish) and your accent is one of the prettiest english accents spoken. Your tavern music, or folkmusic is some of the most appreciated all around the world. Notable artists: The Dubliners U2 The Pogues (not really from Ireland) +1 for Guinness and Tullamore Dew EDIT: Added more
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AskReddit/dfbpssh
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614vpd
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How does one transition from being a 20some living with their parents, to being an 'adult' with a not food/retail job?
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Get a job that's not a food/retail job, save money, and move out. You can probably check your local community college for 2 year programs like EMS or accounting if you're interested in that sort of thing, but really there are jobs that will hire you right now. Sales/insurance, call centers, tax preparers, janitorial, truck driver, general labor (mover, painter, warehouse, post office, etc) maybe an auto shop will take you. Just gotta look out for it.
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explainlikeimfive/cqyywtz
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34xhyj
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What does declaring Bankruptcy mean?
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It's an official and legally binding statement that means, "I'm broke, and I can't pay my debts". When you declare bankruptcy, you generally go to court, and the court looks at your finances and your assets, then it demands your creditors to forgive some amount of debt, and it demands you to sell some of your assets to pay off the rest of it, you take a big hit on your credit, and then you can start again.
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AskReddit/eb2i7kz
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a314r1
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What happened after you quit that job that really needed you?
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My boss begged me to stay, couldn't take the abuse anymore, my boss cried and offered me more money, wasn't worth it. I left and in the year I've been gone they had hired already 4 people in my place, no one stayed, the boss is a piece of work. To top it off my boss made an appointment at my moms work to ask her to talk to me and tell me i needed to come back, my mom politely said no i deserved better, cant believe they asked my mom to talk to me, I'm 26 not 12
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AskReddit/c235dj2
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ieoma
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What are high school reunions REALLY like?
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I just went to my five year reunion, and it was interesting to see everyone snap back into their former social circles. The jocks were in one corner comparing their successful careers as gasoline dispensers, the cheerleaders were in one corner comparing c-section scars, the gothic kids were in another corner trying to one-up each other on how many times they've tried to kill themselves since high school, and all of the unpopular kids drove up in their Acuras and Infinitis and had academic conversations on how entire anthropological studies could be conducted on high school reunions.
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AskReddit/dfhh1a9
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61ukk1
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If you could live in any fictional world where would it be, what about that world makes you happy, what will you do there, and where would your place be in its society?
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Oh I'd live in Harry Potter's world. They need some good teachers and apparently the evil people of that world are kind of idiots, so there's that as a plus too. A good grounding in science mixed with magic will probably take care of all of my needs in the world, plus as a wizard it's not exactly like there's a lot I'm not allowed to get away with anyway. My actual place in society. either a teacher or just an "average" wizard who doesn't make much of a splash in the wizarding world, but is comfortably a multimillionaire in the muggle world and happily living a life of hedonistic fun with the muggles.
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AskReddit/c7nqkzk
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15mbfq
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If you could control the actions of 1 famous person for 1 hour, who would it be and what would you make them do?
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I'd make Kanye make me a famous rapper. With his skills and my natural ability (I'm white, after all) it couldn't take more than an hour. Edit: I live in Chicago, so this is extra feasible.
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AskReddit/cb2fm4c
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1ia0w7
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What is the best advice your parents ever gave you?
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When I was on exchange over seas for a year. I was so homesick and I missed my boyfriend, so I told my parents I was coming home about 8 months into my exchange. My dad straight up told me, 'no'. He said that in the scheme of my life I would not regret having stayed an extra four months in a foreign country, but that it was very likely I'd regret it if I didn't. He was absolutely right.
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AskReddit/cp1tnqr
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2xo4cn
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What's the most food you've ever eaten in one day?
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I went to a restaurant offering an Asian buffet, the second day after I decided to quit smokeing. I don't know how much I ate, but I was with people who wanted basically spend the whole day there. I was basically eating nonstop for hours. I was not able to move for two days. Somehow I didn't vomit. Some ragerts.
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explainlikeimfive/eiow4uk
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b1xte5
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How were movies and TV shows edited and then copied for mass production before computers were capable of doing this for us?
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Movies used film until quite recently. Many of the 2018 blockbusters were still shot on film and not digital cameras. To edit film you used a special editing table that allowed you to view the rolls of films as you cut the film with a cutting blade and taped them together with scotch tape. To duplicate a film (which you often had to do after editing as the film were more tape then film) you would run a film over an undeveloped film and then shine a light through it to expose the undeveloped film. You could then develop this film and distribute it to the movies. The same rolls of films (and posters) used to be sent from movie theater to movie theater often going through three different movie theaters before being shipped overseas to international theaters as the films were expensive. ​ TV needed fresher content and did not require the high resolution of the movies as TV was low resolution anyway. They could use film as well of course. However they did a lot of things live and then later on using magnetic tape. The tape can be played on one machine and then recorded on another. Expensive machines could do this in fast forward as well.
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