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AskReddit/di3k6nl
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6dlcd8
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What's the scariest PG rated movie?
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Raiders of the Lost Ark. Back in the 80's there was a time when WAY more was allowed in PG movies. Demon-induced face melting, for instance, is frowned upon now.
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AskReddit/exgzm46
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cstsct
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What dipping sauce do you get for your chicken nuggets?
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One sweet and sour and one barbecue. Then I dip a nugget in both sauces The mixture makes a really delicous sauce. It is sweet but also has that kick of barbeque. It is similar to McDonalds szechuan sauce!
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AskReddit/e8hme6u
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9rkpib
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What’s your favorite conspiracy theory, and why?
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I often enjoy low-key conspiracy theories, not the big stuff like 9/11 was a hoax or lizard people, but minor stuff that might actually be true. It is suggested that Barack Obama never stopped smoking, as he claimed to after becoming the President, he just never did in public and instructed White House staff to never talk about it. The best evidence I've seen is comparison pictures of his teeth, he's clearly using professional teeth whitening products, and his teeth continue to show signs of yellowing from cigarettes throughout his presidency. Kleenex tissue boxes are designed to release tissue dust into the air, irritating the nose, increasing mucous production and facilitating the need for more Kleenex tissue. Just like chapstick contains a drying agent that makes your lips even more dry, requiring you to use more chapstick. The "truth" anti-smoking campaign is funded by Phillip Morris - this isn't a conspiracy theory, they're actually required to fund anti-smoking PSAs. The conspiracy is that they design the PSAs with reverse psychology to encourage people to smoke and retain existing smokers. All of these messages like "you can never quit" "you're hooked for life" isn't mean to deter anyone from starting, it's to discourage smokers from even trying to quit. Some of them that portray smoking as glamorous and fun, then juxtapose it with something awful, well the second part doesn't really register and it's basically a cigarette ad for young people.
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askscience/c7jixtj
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155i4k
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How large would the universe be if there was no empty space between protons, neutrons, and electrons?
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In the primordial, young, small, hot universe, there weren't protons and neutrons at all. Nucleosysnthesis didn't occur until there was enough space to have them around. So the question is sort of ill posed. Expect varying answers.
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AskReddit/cvlze7z
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3n99jb
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What number do you hate?
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/19. It's ugly, a prime number, you're still technically a teenager even though you are a legal adult, you're out of free school and off to expensive school while working a dead end job to try and make ends meet, and you can't drink your sorrows away.
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explainlikeimfive/cdho64f
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1qy49q
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How is physical energy turned into electricity?
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Energy can be converted into different forms. Falling water has /kinetic energy/, which is anything that has mass and is moving. When it hits the water wheel, the kinetic energy is converted into /mechanical energy/, which is a push force that pushes the wheel around in a circle. Finally, the rotating shaft connected to the wheel is wrapped in wire and put inside a permanent magnet. When wire moves through a magnetic field, it generates /electrical energy/, current, electricity.
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askscience/dq0krql
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7drga7
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Can birds of the same species, (for example pigeons in the cities) share the exact same facial geometry(phenotype) unlike humans (distance between eyes, nose shape, forehead curvature etc) regardless of their feather color and spots?
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This really comes down to your definition of 'unique'. Even if the faces seem identical to us and even other pigeons, there will at least be differences on the microscopic scale. This is just the nature of how animals develop and grow, even if genetically identical they cannot develop so precisely on a celluar and molecular level, to be identical in every regard.
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AskReddit/eu2k9zj
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cehjxs
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What’s fun at first but sucks after a few hours?
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Game grinding. Games like Warframe, Star Trek Online and Dauntless require more than 200 hours of farming to get decent equips and resources, you think it's something fun to do until the 50th or 70th hour, then it gets really boring, really fast
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AskReddit/d2gypvr
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4gf12s
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What's the best unverified story you've heard about a former classmate's life after graduating high school?
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My friend tells me a girl in his graduating class started a strict juicing diet of Welch's grape juice. Many were trying to convince her that this is just plain wrong, but some in her class would support her. She eventually got diabetes, but it didn't stop there. She is now blind.
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AskReddit/db750nw
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5ick44
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What job or profession is more difficult than is perceived in popular opinion?
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My bet would be that most jobs/professions are more difficult than outsiders perceive. Things always seem easier when we're not the ones doing them and we usually only see 10% or less of what's actually going on in a job. Because of that, be patient with people who are working and please don't ever tell a teacher "It must be great getting all that time off!"
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AskReddit/ea8ee66
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9ze6pa
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Should governments give an unconditional national living wage to its unemployed/low paid citizens, and why?
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No. Because if we do that more people (in my opinion) will feel that there is no need for them to work. Say if I’m make $1000 a week working 60 hours and you’re making say $700 a week working 25-30 hours , or not working and giving you more free time to spend doing things that you’d like. What incentive does that give me to actually work? And if I see you working less I’m more inclined to work so the government would get less tax from me which would lower how much you get making it an endless cycle. I mean capitalism sucks so much but there isn’t an actually better solution out there at the moment. People are greedy and greed drives innovation and innovation drives advancement.
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askscience/c41h17b
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qyifo
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If you could somehow inject light into a jar with a 100% reflective interior, would it ever get full?
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No, the jar would never get "full". Photons are bosons, which obey Bose-Einstein statistics. They don't obey the Pauli exclusion principle, and so you can pack as many photons in a jar as you want without violating the laws of physics.
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AskReddit/cd8vo2i
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1q3oth
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If the US Post Office goes out of business, how will we get bills?
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The US Post Office cannot go out of business without Congressional approval as it is the only Constitutionally mandated postal service - we'd have to change the Constitution or have a Congressional mandate to remove the monopoly.
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AskReddit/danlnp3
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5fwj8d
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What kind of music do you like ?
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Most kinds of metal, but power metal is my favorite; lots of bluegrass, celtic folk stuff, instrumental music with fiddles; romantic and baroque era and/or style.
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AskReddit/dzl1irq
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8m5vlq
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What was the first video game you every played, and do you still have the same feeling about it now?
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Mario for the nintendo. Yea, it makes me feel really nostalgic. It was a big deal to own a system in the 80s. It was really expensive! My dad would constantly steal the controller from us and make us watch him play. Apparently we would die all the time and it annoyed my dad. hahah (we were about 4 and 6 years old)
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AskReddit/d7ku8wq
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52j4yi
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Which 2 movie "universes", if combined into a larger connected Cinematic Universe, would be really interesting?
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Interesting? well Pacific Rim and Godzilla would be a dream come true but it wouldn't be an "Interesting" combo (I mean giant robots vs giant monsters has been done A LOT) I reckon a truly involving and complicated movie could be made if we mashed the Blade Runner universe with Starship Troopers. I am going to cheat here and say that the Starship troopers universe is the one from the books even though its very different from the movie. It would be great to see if this new cinematic universe could explore the ideas of Citizenship and civic duty whilst also getting into what counts as living and what is human. There could be a really cool discussion about synths being citizens and what that meant if thinking machines could be deemed worth to make choices that controlled the fate of human society.
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AskReddit/egwnzj1
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astwdq
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What’s the best way you quit a terrible job?
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Got a job offer for double the wage, offered the business owner an opportunity to match the wages (He & I are the sole employees), he refused, two weeks was put in. The following week he shows up for the 100th time two hours late, meaning I'm two hours late picking up my kids. I quit on the spot.
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explainlikeimfive/dbl9v2u
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5k46di
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Do animals such as Deer undergo psychological problems after being mated with by another animal they do not like?
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Animals lack the intellectual capacity to think along those lines, and herd animals like deer don't pair bond. It doesn't really make sense to think in terms of them "not liking" one another, or being sexually abused. Mating season starts, hormones kick in, various courtship behaviors kick in, and they mate. They don't have the same sorts of memories that humans do, and won't specifically remember that they mated or whom they mated with. If the mating was somehow traumatic, it might leave an impression that would lead the deer more leery in the future. But that is a fair cry from what a human victim of sexual abuse would experience.
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AskReddit/dz02aiq
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8jhxs9
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What is the greatest science fiction book that you ever read in your life?
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Altered Carbon. The concept (a future where human consciousness is digitized and can be uploaded to a new body when the old one dies) is very interesting and the author does a tremendous job of exploring what kinds of implications that would have in the world and what it says about people, and does it while telling a great noir style detective story. Honorable mention goes to Asimov's connected Robot, Empire, and Foundation serieses. Also American Gods is probably my favorite book and is sometimes categorized as sci fi, though I wouldn't categorize it as such.
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AskReddit/e9uqyz2
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9xs2ba
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What was your "rock bottom" and how did you overcome?
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Rock bottom was when I was spiraling down with an diagnosed mental illness and beginning to feel the effects of the trauma for a sexual assault I endured (I ignored it) and was drinking heavily and spiraling out of control. I was a functioning alcoholic (still went to work and school, was a mom, I was 24 at the time) I had earlier in the night when walking back from class (went to class drunk) and threw myself into oncoming traffic. A homeless man saw the whole thing and saved me from getting really really hurt. He walked me home, then I sat by a dumpster and had this moment of clarity where my life could go into one of two directions. I could continue on this path and end up furthering my addiction and fueling my suicidal thoughts, or I could get help and be a good mother to the daughter that I love so dearly. I'm so happy I got help.
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explainlikeimfive/dj17zpd
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6hum5p
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Why is the 1-2-3 on the top row of a phone keypad but on the bottom row of a calculator?
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the first phones with an actual keypad used it to match the old rotary phones, which had the lowest number first. calculators existed before that, and had already established the 7-8-9 on the top row
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AskReddit/c0biux0
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95tsb
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What made you register an account on Reddit?
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I had been a lurker without an account for almost 9 months, I believe. I went home to my parent's house over winter break from college. They live in the absolute middle of nowhere. The post office doesn't deliver to our house; we don't even live in a town, just a county. This is made even worse by the fact that they didn't move there until I had moved out; this means that even in the closest town (of 5,000 people) I don't know a soul. Needless to say, I was bored out of my mind. I tried everything: I built a giant model of Fallout 3 out of legos; I took an old computer apart; I read a lot. I just couldn't shake the boredom. In a desperate attempt for some intellectual stimulation, or really anything to do, I got a Reddit account, and started commenting. I then realized the wonders I had been missing out on, and here I am today.
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AskReddit/celp88u
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1uu6ka
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What's the biggest responsibility you've ever been trusted with, and was it earned or unearned?
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I got to drive a convertible Ferrari 458 for a day, my dad's friend owns a dealership. I guess it was earned because he hasn't ever seen me do anything irresponsible, however more than a couple laws were broken on the road that day.
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AskReddit/dium3rd
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6h10q9
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What's the dumbest thing a foreigner asked about your country?
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We had German exchange students stay at our high school once. They were shocked to find that we have actual sit-down, non-fast food restaurants in America. I thought that was the dumbest thing ever. Lol But then when uninformed 16-year-old me asked them which side of the road they drove on, they looked at me like I had two heads.
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AskReddit/ediotdd
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adll5m
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Why is 80's music so good?
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There are a few reasons. The production was technically advanced. The sound quality of recordings took a huge leap at the end of the seventies so the eighties music was just better quality. The bass was cleaner, the high notes were purer, the sound was just crisper and of a higher quality. Improvements have come since then, but most of us can't hear the technical difference between a 2019 recording and a 1983 recording, but almost all of us could tell the difference between a 1983 recording and a 1975 recording. The switch from AM to FM made the sound quality even better for those of us listening over the airwaves. The New Wave artists focused on making good music, not on being stars. The celebrity obsessed American artists were chasing the dream of stardom but the English artists were trying to craft quality music. It shows, and the English acts outsold their American counterparts considerably, Michael Jackson being the exception. Finally, the introduction of the synthesizer into rock music was huge. Gary Numan led the way with 1979's Cars and everybody else joined in. It opened up new sounds and new emotions that bands hadn't been able to reach before that. Combine it all together and you've got eighties music. It was the right combination of technical excellence, talented artists reaching for a certain sound instead of a certain status, and the versatility of the synth.
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AskReddit/c1fvjxi
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fgz1b
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Is it just me, or did Baby Boomers ruin the country their parents gave them, and are now leaving the younger generations to pick up the pieces?
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I blame them more for not recognizing the status of our country and refusing to acknowledge steps now need to be taken to fix it. They grew up in a time where you could get out of high school, find a decent job, work your way up and make it. Many of them enjoyed pensions, benefits, expanding social programs and in general better working conditions than the younger generations will ever experience. A time when you could work at a factory, not be mandated to work 60 hours a week, make a living wage, have money left over to send your kids to college and actually be able to take pride in your job. We don't have this. Our manufacturing base was sold out to the lowest bidder with poor trade agreements with developing nations that undercut the wage of normal worker here. Even the "cushy" jobs of today barely hold a candle to the jobs back then. Look at what a GE or IBM engineer would enjoy in benefits, pension, or what have you. Now they get crappier benefits, longer work hours, no pension and a complete lack of loyalty from the company: they're expendable. Education costs have sky rocketed, food costs are rising, wages have remained generally stagnant or shrunk as time has gone on, a minimum wage in 1980 is better than what it is today due to inflation. Many of them scream socialism, communism or whatever ism they've been told to hate for the week, yet when the time comes they'll gladly accept their medicare/medicaid/social security, because by god they deserve it after paying into it, don't they? Even though they'll get much more out of it than they ever paid into it for the most part. Yet you say the American dream is dying, if you have the gall to point out that we have decaying infrastructure, a destroyed manufacturing base, a decimated middle class, stagnant wages, skyrocketing costs on everything, poor regulation in our financial markets, two wars fed by fear, a broken political system, or any of the other problems we're going to be facing for the rest of our lives you're somehow the enemy. So yes, they did do it, it wasn't done on purpose, but it was done, and in the name of cold hard cash, and honestly that doesn't bother me, what bothers me is that they still vote more on fear, archaic values, and what's best for them rather than to look towards the future.
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AskReddit/cip0vbc
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29vzvo
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Can you prove that you exist ?
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It depends on what story you consider for defining existence. If you consider that experiences obtained through senses defines existence, then one can prove that he or she exists by touching you. On the other hand, you can believe in story that everything is imaginary and is the result of your mind. In that case, apart from your consciousness, everything you remember or think about yourself also happens to be part of your imagination. Now, if you believe in the existence of everything that you know about yourself, then everyone around you has to exist as well. For example, in your dream, everything that you dream about including yourself is nothing but part of your imagination, and in that context, everything including you exists as well. Some people think that the question of what exists and what does not is not a valid question. They accept that everything exist but only within a given context. Outside that context, it doesn't. A living person exist in context of location and time, but after his death he does not exist. Thus, apart from the fact that something exist for any given context, any individual existence is always temporary.
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AskReddit/dwo7zxg
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88z9wa
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What tactics do you use to form an opinion?
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Opinion should be the result of thought, not an excuse from it. Your tactics should include a clear and open mind, research into both sides of an argument, and a whole lot of careful, deliberate, critical thinking. Logic, even when it leads you to some uncomfortable conclusions, ought to be your tactic. Clear your mind, arm yourself with facts, and then think about the issue rationally.
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AskReddit/cnvo9at
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2t4aqa
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What's it like being +20 but only looking like you're 14-15?
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Well I'm almost 27 now, and I still look 16. Sure I dress and act a lot more like an adult these days. but I'm still constantly carded, I've been pulled over for looking too young, sometimes when people come by my house they ask for my parents, I own a business so it was originally very difficult to be taken seriously. I was once giving a short meeting with a potential client showing them my product and explaining why my company would be the better choice, when one of the men stopped me and asked if I was even old enough to vote. My girlfriend is 26 and she is pregnant, when she told her family it was at a family member's wedding and many of her family members were angry with us because they assumed I was still in high school. I had to go out of my way on that one and really put myself out there so I didn't seem so young to everyone. Looking so young used to have a pretty big impact on my self esteem in my early 20s. It used to really hold me back in business and relationships, but over time my personality changed to be more like "if you aren't taking this seriously - you're wasting both of our time"
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AskReddit/dv5vd3p
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81xcr4
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What was the lowest point of your life, and how did you bounce back ?
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Currently in the midst of that point. 8 year relationship dumped down the drain against my will - GF cheated on me. Messy business. Was with her from 16-23, so that complicates things, in that all my hobbies, likes, activities, and "habits" formed around living with / loving / being with her. How am I going to bounce back? Focus on myself. Do the things I love and am passionate about. Keep going to school and focusing on academics. And relying on my family for support - I'm incredibly lucky to have them around. And remind myself every day that no matter how much I love her, and thought we were soulmates -- no one deserves to be cheated on twice in 3 years. She had a second chance and blew it.
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AskReddit/d9u619b
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5c77a1
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What are some ways to overcome social anxiety?
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Take a vacation by yourself. A lot of people with social anxiety are constantly worrying about the comfort of those around them. As such, they lose sight of what makes them happy and comfortable. I went to the beach alone years ago and was at a total loss for what to do when i got there. I ended up going to Walmart and buying a bota bag and filling it with cheap wine. I walked along the shore and drank from my bota and fell asleep in the sand. The next morning i went straight to the bay and put a line in the water. I fished for 12 hours until I bent over my tackle box and almost passed out. I drove myself to a Chinese buffet and gorged on wonton soup and asparagus - bizarre, but totally what I wanted!
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AskReddit/dc0t8tu
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5m4pte
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What's your strange/creepy neighbor story?
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There is a dude who lives across the street from me who has blue-grey skin, always wears these giant AM/FM bright yellow headphones, walks hunched over with his chin touching his chest, leaves for.somewhere. several times a day carrying these giant tote bags, presumably to the train, but comes back shortly. The bags seem equally full both ways. But that's not even the strange part. The strange part is we have seen him angrily weed-eat his lawn down to dirt and rock, and violently beat up his mailbox. I swear this is a true story and I am not making this up in any way.
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AskReddit/egqw45o
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as0lw9
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What are the best ways to forgive people who hurt you, but aren’t even sorry?
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I think that. it depends on the situation and relationship. But ultimately, if someone is always hurting you, you should walk away and find people who lift your spirits, not demean you or make you feel bad. If they aren't sorry, communicate that what they say bothers you. If they don't stop and just keep doing the same thing, then maybe it is best for you to cease spending time with them. Limit your interaction with them.
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AskReddit/e158vtu
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8t6yz1
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If you could go back in time to listen to the speaking of an ancient language, what would it be?
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As a linguist, there come to mind lots of extinct languages we have barely any record of that could settle some interesting questions. anything from the Hurro-Urartian language family would be fantastic, including Kassitic, which may or may not be related to it Dacian, Thracian Gutian Hattic Iberian the indigenous (pre-Indo-European) languages of Europe the PIE dialect continuum, of course Sumerian. We can read Sumerian, but phonologists would be very interested in actually hearing it, since it has such a large number of homophones. One theory is that it was tonal, but, no evidence. We'd also like to know if it had any relatives. It's so old that even if it isn't an isolated language, any relation to another language would be well obscured. Let me just also point out you don't have to time travel to hear any of the other language suggestions here accurately, except for PIE.
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AskReddit/c5qdtsz
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xx8gz
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Is it unfair that girls get free admission to many places, while men have to pay full price?
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I don't know where you live, but here in Minnesota it is now illegal for such things. Bars now have loopholes around "ladies night". Like wear a dress get in free. Or offer specials with ladies night. Guys drink free 6-6:30, girls all night. Things like that. That was about a year ago. I think the law is still active. To lazy to look it up.
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askscience/c4k171a
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t68lq
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Do we have left/right hand dominant hearing?
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Once sound stimulation gets past cranial nerve 8 and into the brain stem it is dispersed bilaterally to both sides of the cerebral cortex. (unlike general motor or sensory stimulation, where one side of the cerebral cortex correlates to the opposite side of the body.) So I would say sidedness in hearing unlikely. HOWEVER, language process centers (Wernicke & Broca's areas) are generally always found on the Left hemisphere of right handeded people and a majority of left handed people also have them on the left but a good portion of left-handers have it on the right. So in that regard, maybe you're on to something. Wernicke is responsible for comprehension of language and choosing the correct word for the correct image, etc. and Broca's area is responsible for word formation and coordinate mouth/tongue movement. So. yea. these are the facts not sure if this stoked the fire or put it out. Sorry.
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AskHistorians/d8xmoaj
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580cu8
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How were sacked cities 'restarted'?
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One of the most famous example of a sacked city being rebuilt to and beyond its former grandeur would be the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, and its reconstruction under Mehmed the Conqueror. The city itself had already been thoroughly sacked during the events of the Fourth Crusade, something to the tune of 900,000 marks or 3.6 million hyperpyra (1). By the time of the conquest of Mehmed in 1453 the city of Constantinople was a shadow of its former self with the majority of the city being abandoned, so much so that the city of Constantinople was closer to Thirteen villages behind a massive wall, from a population of over 1 million in the twelfth century the population had declined to somewhere around one hundred thousand (2). The state of the city itself, not necessarily the people, before the conquest was miserable. After the siege of the city the Muslim army took the customary 3 days of looting. This only happened to cities that resisted conquest. The Sultan took care to make sure that the city was not unduly damaged during the looting, and the looting itself only lasted for two of the three days, but, “At first they could not believe the defense of finished. They slew everyone they met in the streets, men, women and children without discrimination. The blood ran in rivers down the steep streets from the heights of Pera towards the Golden Horn.” (3) While this is undoubtedly literary exaggeration the death toll on the populace was great and those that weren’t killed were taken into slavery. Suffice to say the Sultan had to rebuild the city from what was essentially a smoking crater the Sultan himself said “What a city we have given over to plunder and destruction”. (4) One of the first measures the Sultan took in the re-population of the city was to establish the ethnic Greeks into self-governing communities called millets and settled them in certain quarters of the city so as to better control the remains of Christianity in the city. This was normal and at this point in time conquered Christian cities expected this. For true re-population he invited Turks from all over his empire to settle in Constantinople, one of the enticements was government assistance in the construction of shops and houses within the city (5). The remaining Greeks were encouraged to stay through similar rebuilding programs and promised security. Families were also forcibly brought to Constantinople; these were 5 thousand family brought from the city of Trebizond after its conquest, particularly masons were brought to aid in the reconstruction of the city. The Sultan also encouraged Jewish and Armenian settlement in the city in hopes of revitalizing the city’s finances (6). Before the Sultans death in 1481 the city was restored to its former glory and beyond. Comes from A History of the Byzantine State and society 2-6 Come from Runciman's 1453: the Fall of Constantinople which details the reconstruction of the city
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AskReddit/exfvyry
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cslfrc
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What was the heaviest thing you ever carried?
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A friend of mine and I carried a Ford 5.0 / 302 engine from a pallet to an engine stand. We'd stripped the heads, oil pan, crank shaft, intake manifold, and pistons and it still weighed a ton.
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AskReddit/errwngh
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c3lw8m
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What are the fastest way to sleep?
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Honestly, the best way I find to go to sleep fast, is get on a routine. go to bed at the same time everyday, and wake up so that by the time you hit that time, you're just tired enough to fall asleep.
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askscience/crybdxw
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38ul8d
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How does a phone knows which electromagnetic wave it has to read amongst the millions of signals floating through the air?
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The most important part is that it filter out all but a specific frequency which is the carrier frequency of the base station. This is possible because we have specified the use of every electromagnetic frequency. The first step is actually to sweep over the possible carrier frequencies one at a time, checking to see if there's any base station nearby transmitting there. If such a frequency is found, the phone will typically look for a specific pattern unique to the protocol (GSM being he most common) if that sequence if found the phone can begin reading information about the carrier, such as what operator it belongs to etc. if it's the right operator and the signal is strong the phone will keep listening to that specific frequency.
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AskReddit/crg21i3
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36pwxr
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If aliens exist, why wouldn't they want to talk to us?
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Assuming they are super advanced species. Leaps and bounds ahead of us. Maybe they just straight up are not interested. Do you want to talk to a spider? or a rock bass? or any other "lower species" aside from pets or animals that people consider cool (lions, sharks etc) most people would not be all that interested. Maybe Aliens are the same
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AskReddit/eeqgf9h
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aiu2lr
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What games for the PS2 did you really enjoy playing?
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Radiata stories and Suikoden. Both games have a wide variety of characters to collect like 100 each and you can create some pretty good teams. Also Suikoden v was pretty awesome, you could have land and ship battles
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AskReddit/ercjpz0
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c1dvmu
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What is something that you glad you did not pick up from your parents?
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I'm super glad I didn't pick up my mom's illegal behavior and emotional manipulation. I picked up almost everything from my dad though, but there's not a lot of negative except stupid jokes.
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AskReddit/c0suff6
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ciotx
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What's the most absurd fear you've had, that actually turned out to be legitimate?
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When I was younger, I would always worry about spiders hiding in the flaucet of the bathtub or on a showerhead. Eventually I stopped worrying about it, until one time when I turned on the shower (while standing in front of it because I was hardcore) and a wolf spider that had apparently been crawling across the front of the head was propelled by a stream of water directly onto my junk. Now I never turn on a shower unless I'm standing out of the line of fire.
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Ask_Politics/efxuche
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ao33vb
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Do former Presidents get secret service protection even if they are convicted of a crime?
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There's no way a former president could be thrown into a regular jail along with murderers and rapists. It would cause so much disruption within the prison and the ex-president's safety would be at extreme risk. At the very least they'd be with while-collar criminals. I imagine the ex-president's safety would be the responsibility of the prison authorities for the duration of their sentence, and then secret service protection would resume upon release. As much as some people would like to see a criminal ex-president assaulted in prison, the punishment of a prison sentence is deprivation of liberty, not anything else that might go on in there. Likewise, once they've served the sentence they don't deserve to be put at risk in public. It also demeans the office of president to have an elected former-president in danger because their secret service protection has been withdrawn, even if the individual is not a good person.
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explainlikeimfive/d0cq7zs
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47ge62
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Why is it ethically wrong to "de-extinct" ancient animals, specifically of Woolly Mammoths and Dodo Birds?
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Two issues: Finding an appropriate surrogate mother (else the mammoth or dodo would die in vitro) Reconstructing a complete representation of DNA (frozen DNA isn't complete, it's in bits and pieces) I don't think we're at the level where we can have an ethical discussion on de-extincting just yet; there are still many scientific hurdles to take care of.
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askscience/cc0ylq3
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1lncep
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Why are tornados predominantly a North American phenomenon?
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Nowhere else on Earth do these three ingredients exist in the same place: A large air current that passes over a long and high altitude mountain range (consistently drying the air). A large, warm, dry, flat, and unforested continental area (keeping the insulated ground warmer than the air - which creates an energy potential). A large, warm, and moist air current colliding with the first (creating the abrupt updraft that triggers the tornado). The Rocky Mountains, Gulf of Mexico, and Great Plains come together to give us this very unique phenomenon. Obviously, tornadoes can happen during any storm, almost anywhere, but in the US, the above forces are so large and so consistent that we get hundreds of tornadoes per year, some of which are quite strong. If you think about other large mountain ranges, large warm flat plains, and large moist air currents, you will see that none of them occur in the same place, except in the US.
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AskReddit/dyp5voe
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8i68qk
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When you encounter a dying animal do you let it die slowly and naturally, or do you put it out of its misery out of mercy?
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When I was ten I came across a dying possum so I stomped it to death Man I don’t think you should do it cause dying animals have a lot of fight in them left and will try to attack you. The possum gave me a nasty scar on my leg even though he was gasping for air just a minute before.
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askscience/c0ztwyg
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dfihn
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Is there a limit to the size of a star?
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I believe the limit is around 150 solar masses for stars formed in the last 10 billion years. I know there is one exception to this but that was recently discovered and IMO has a very good chance of being downgraded in mass. I am not really sure exactly what the reason for this limit is. I know a fair portion of it comes from the Eddington Luminosity (you can look it up on wiki), which is essentially the point where radiation pressure (pushing outward) is equal to gravity (pushing inward). Once that point is overcome, the star is blown at least partially apart as radiation pressure exceeds gravity. I also know that stars which formed early in the universe, when the metal (in astronomy, that means anything other than hydrogen and helium, which is what the universe started with after about the first second) content was very low, are thought to be far more massive than the sun because of low metal content. They have never been observed so it's not confirmed, but it's thought by many astronomers that masses were typically in hundreds of solar masses. These old stars are called population III stars, you can also look this up. Why low metal = large mass, I do not know yet. /senior majoring in astro
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AskReddit/dah65sa
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5f3cx8
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What's the gateway drug for your hobby?
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Indie perfume addict here. My gateway drug was Solstice Scents. Now I consistently smell like marshmallows, library coffee shops, autumn hayrides in apple orchards, or bonfires. It all smells so delicious.
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AskReddit/c8cueke
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189lab
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Has anyone joined the military to pay off student loans?
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I didn't have student loans coming in, but I did have a few credit cards maxed out. There is a credit act available to those who have debt prior to joining. It brings the interest rate close to zero once you join. All you have to do is mail your credit companies the act along with proof that you joined and they will work with you. I managed to pay off about five thousand within the span of 4-5 months. note that I put most of my paychecks to paying off my cards as I was in boot camp and a/c school during that time.
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explainlikeimfive/ec2howq
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a7e6g2
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Why animals naturally know how and when to mate, where as we are educated or we learn about it from external sources?
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Animals know how and when to mate due to instinct-driven impulses in their brains that are triggered by pheromones released in estrus, or when the female indicates through hormonal and physical changes that she is ready to mate. Humans have pheromones as well but the human sense of smell isn't as strong as that of most other animals and thus hormonal changes are usually the easier way to tell when (regardless of financial or mental stability) it's time to mate.
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AskReddit/ddt35y4
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5ub7yd
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What is a good comeback when a guy tells me to go make him a sandwich?
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Make a sandwich and eat it in front of him. Do this every time he does this, even if he's just joking. When he says please, reward him with a sandwich only half the time (the other half, make it for yourself). Start playing with it from here on out. See what you can get him to do, over time, to earn that sandwich and be a good boy!
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AskReddit/cugcj5r
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3ih7t7
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What is something that you believe or do that is probably "on the wrong side of history"?
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Eating meat. I am definitely not going to stop because I 100% love meat, but I believe the moral vegetarian/vegan movement is ethically on the right side of history, and that over generations more and more people will convert. I think eventually (maybe in my lifetime?) people who eat meat will be considered backwards and immoral.
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AskReddit/ehvitc0
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axr84i
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What little known app do you highly recommend?
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Slowly - it's basically a letter writing app, but it has some magic in it - feels different when you have to wait several hours till you receive a message/till your penpal receives your message. Would recommend to anyone, it's interesting experience and definetly worth a try.
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explainlikeimfive/cfaxpqw
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1xfs9y
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Why don't people in places like North Korea start a revolution and overthrow their government?
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Let's pretend you want to start a revolution. How do you do that? As soon as you tell your best friend, there's already a decent chance he informs on you and you just disappear in the middle of the night -in N Korea, this probably means most of your family, your friends, and their families disappear too. But let's assume that he doesn't say anything. To organize a large enough group, you each have to tell people and try to get them onboard. And every time you do, you run the risk of State Security finding out and the lot of you vanishing into the camps. There's a reason that it's so hard to organise a rebellion in a totalitarian society. You pretty much need to already be a high ranking military officer with a lot of people who owe you, respect you, and trust you. And that in turn means that State Security is already nervous about you. The only other thing that is likely to work is a breakdown in order that snowballs, and dicatorships tend to watch out carefully for this sort of thing. Look at China's reaction to Tiananmen Square - after watching things get out of hand in Eastern Europe and the USSR, they decided that the best thing to do was to send in tanks and machine gun the crowds, while making massive rounds of arrests over the rest of the country. Problem solved. It's extremely difficult to pull such a thing off, and generally requires that the government either completely screw up or stop paying serious attention to what is going on.
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AskReddit/dtw5r2r
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7vymey
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What is a happy sounding song with lyrics that are actually depressing/sad?
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"Paranoid" by Black Sabbath is a heavy, hard-rocking song. But the lyrics are about a man who is depressed after breaking up with his woman, and he's telling people not to make fun of him for being so unhappy.
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AskReddit/e0txca4
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8rsyhb
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Who was your worst teacher and what did they do to deserve that title?
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Worst as far as terrible person: my middle school English teacher verbally abused kids in front of the entire class for minor wrong doings. And when I say verbally abused, I mean he literally made several kids break down in tears after yelling at them for honest mistakes like not following or misunderstanding directions on the homework. Worst teacher as far as being a terrible teacher: my history teacher in high school very rarely lectured. He put notes on the board every single day and the class wrote them down in silence. It didn’t matter anyways because the tests were always completion grades. I literally never reread the notes I took because it didn’t matter what your answers were on the test. He just looked to see if you wrote answers. I can remember two days specifically when he got up in front of the class and spoke, but that’s it.
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explainlikeimfive/cdo6tym
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1rkour
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Why do employers have to offer health insurance to their employees?
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They don't, but it's very common. During WWII, the government instituted wage freezes as part of the war economy, so companies offered potential employees various benefits in order to help hire good workers. One of the big benefits offered was health insurance. For better or worse (probably worse), it sort of stuck, and health insurance via employment became pretty standard since then. It even became subsidized, because the government offers various tax breaks to companies that provide health insurance to their employees. One result of this has been that the health insurance marketplace for individuals has been a huge mess. Very complicated and very expensive. The ACA attempts to try and make the marketplace work better for individuals, but it's still in its early days and it's hard to say how well it will work in the long term. tl:dr; Companies don't legally have to offer health insurance to their workers, but it's often an important part of appealing to good employees.
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explainlikeimfive/d5u2zyz
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4uytob
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How did officials determine the DNC email leaks were from Russian hackers?
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the unpopular truth, especially on ELI5 who probably has a lot of users not watching daily unfolding of events: They didn't. The media is simply reporting what the government tells them. The government tells them "we have growing certainty the Russians are behind this" and the media goes and reports it. There is no evidence. We are supposed to believe it because someone said so. Anything like that presented without evidence is often a lie if not extremely misleading at best. I would bet anything that it's just a story intended to divert accountability from the DNC.
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AskReddit/d12dsi4
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4apb2t
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Which of the 50 U.S. states has the most state pride?
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It hasn't been said yet, but South Carolina. They are the only state to secede twice, and about one third of the population would be willing to do it again. And you see their tree and crecent moon everywhere down there. Also, I'm active duty military. I've met someone from all 50 states. They totally beat out Texas with state pride.
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AskReddit/da85vt6
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5dxezm
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What are common mistakes people make that ruin their lives?
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Ignoring their health until it's a serious issue that's really hard to turn around. It's generally a whole bunch of little choices that add up to a low quality of life: Gaining a few extra pounds and then a few more; avoiding exercise; eating a cruddy diet; drinking too much; smoking. Then the person gets diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, heart disease or COPD and it's incredibly hard to make the necessary changes to live life to its fullest.
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AskReddit/emg3o64
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bkeh4y
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What are your thoughts on the gun laws in your area?
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I live surrounded by hunters with lots of guns and never once felt unsafe. Gun safety is basically taught from childhood here and there's almost zero gun violence in this particular area of Illinois. Go a little bit north into East St.Louis and that goes out the window. We don't have the worst gun laws ever, but there's definitely always room for improvement.
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AskReddit/c1iuam1
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fv3dt
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Why do people hate on bottled tap water more than bottled spring water?
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I think people hate on bottled water in general. It's generally a scam and that's frustrating for people. I know someone who drinks only bottled water despite having access to some of the best tap water available anywhere. This person pays more for crappier water because they think tap is dirty. I think that's the other side of it. Why do people hate on tap water?
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AskReddit/cv1k8hp
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3kxcz3
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Who would you bring back for 1 final movie?
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Sean Connery Either to reprise a James Bond role (an old Bond would be pretty awesome, especially if they did the thing where James Bond is just a code name and they had Daniel Craig and Connery talking to one another about the trade) or as Indianna Jone's father to help get that franchise back on track (if they insist on making a 5th movie)
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AskReddit/ebj55sf
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a50rxe
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What was the scariest/creepiest experience you had/witnessed working night shift?
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This isn’t creepy more strange. I was working nights at a hotel and went out for a smoke I was standing there when I hear the strangest noise coming from behind me. It wasn’t people footsteps but it was something coming closer. I turned around and didn’t see anything. A couple seconds later I looked down at my feet and a huge armadillo was right next to my feet just taking a stroll.
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explainlikeimfive/cvgyaf7
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3mpjur
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Why doesn't everyone hate the printing of new money, shouldn't we all hate the theft through inflation?
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A small amount of inflation is usually considered economically beneficial because it encourages investment. If you have too much inflation, it's bad because people don't trust in money since it loses its value too easily. No inflation/deflation is bad since it encourages people to hoard money. If your money is getting more valuable the longer you hold on to it, why spend it or invest it? A small amount of inflation is good because money keeps its value for a decent amount of time, but it will eventually lose its value so you have to do something to keep up. That something is usually investment. An individual with a lot of cash might might be slightly hurt by inflation over stagnation/deflation, but probably not very much and the economic stimulation provided by low inflation will likely make that person better off overall. Also, someone is going to get that new money and the person who does isn't going to be upset.
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AskHistorians/cazjjz3
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1hzf6c
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Was "how many angels could dance on the head of a pin" really representative of Scholasticism?
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There is no evidence that scholastic theologians ever debated this question. The earliest reference to it in English is from 1638 in Williams Chillingworth’s The Religion of Protestants: A Safe Way to Salvation: > . . . as if, forsooth, because they dispute not eternally . . . . whether a million of angels may not sit upon a needle's point—because they fill not their brains with notions that signify nothing, to the utter extermination of all reason and common sense, and spend not an age in weaving and unweaving subtle cobwebs, fitter to catch flies than souls, therefore they have no deep knowledge in the acroamatical [abstruse] part of learning. But I have too much honoured the poorness of this detraction to take notice of it. Perhaps the nearest approximation of the question comes from Thomas Aquinas who raised the question (in the Summa Theologica) whether several angels could occupy the same place. This was part of his larger consideration of the nature of angels, conceived as immaterial beings. (I forget where in the Summa this is). No philosopher here, but I assume the answer would be that, since they are immaterial, there could be unlimited angels at a single earthly point. But he's working from the metaphysical assumptions of Aristotle, whose subtleties are beyond me. You can find more in R. James Long, "Of Angles and Pinheads: The Contributions of the Early Oxford Masters to the Doctrine of Spiritual Matter," Franciscan Studies 55 (1998), 237-252.
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explainlikeimfive/ckrhbpn
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2hclqp
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What were the main differences between apartheid in South Africa and segregation in the US?
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In the US, segregation was based on the legal principle of "separate but equal". Blacks technically had the same rights as whites, they just had separate places to exercise them. In South Africa, there was no notion of having the same rights, they very much did not have certain rights, like the right to vote or the right to travel freely or live where they wanted to.
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AskReddit/edzeer1
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afkqhw
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What are some fun, original alcohol games ?
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Its been ions since I've played this. But when I was a kid we would play a game called Kings. From what I recall their where a bunch of cards on a table and we would all take our turns picking one up. If a car was a '4' you would have to say something you never did and if others around you did that you would have to drink. All the numbers on the cards meant different things. I remember it was a lot of fun and we played it all the time
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AskReddit/cpjh95i
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2zj5li
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What would be the worst job if you were constantly drunk?
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I used to work at a gas station in the middle of nowhere with one other guy. It was just the two of us from 11pm to 7am every night. We drank every night and it was still the worst job ever.
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AskReddit/e1a8nct
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8ttucx
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What are you very good at, but hate doing?
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I was a good swimmer growing up. My parents still have stacks of medals and ribbons from back in those days. The issue was that I absolutely despised doing it. All the people on the team were really mean and excluded me from everything. I didn't like how repetitive it was. I hated 2 out of the 4 coaches I had. Quitting the team was one of the most cathartic things I've ever done.
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AskReddit/cyrsdge
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40653n
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What's the worst decision you've ever made that you don't regret?
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To quit a very secure and well paying job that I hated. Hated the company. Hated the people I worked with. Hated driving to it. Several times on the way home the thought "well I could just ease over into oncoming traffic" went through my mind. Hated it. Worst decision: it was not a good time to quit career wise. Don't regret: shook off the dark cloud from the last job. got right physically and mentally. took a new job I like making just as much.
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askscience/clcwam9
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2jl704
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Why is glass such a good compound to store most chemicals in?
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Glass (silicon dioxide, SiO2) is resistant to most chemical reactions at room temperature, is transparent, and is very cheap. The surface of glass can be affected by the pH of the substance inside, but it generally won't dissolve into solution. Plastics (polymers) can react with other organics or dissolve into them, can be oxidised (broken up), etc. Metals, metal oxides, etc are generally too reactive, may be opaque, and also more expensive.
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AskReddit/ccjlcop
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1nl6t9
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What are some unknown, but helpful keyboard shortcuts?
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The shift key inverts the function of common keyboard shortcuts. So when backspace is history back in a browser, shift-backspace is history forward. Ctrl-tab cycles through tabs (Firefox), Ctrl-shift-tab cycles through them the other way.
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AskReddit/dtz9nz5
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7wcjpt
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How did you get over a broken heart?
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Certainly time. It's been a few years since the break now. However it's been beaten, stood on, tarred and feathered and otherwise abused by the same person since. Situations come up from time to time where she is unavoidable. My heart may not be broken, but it's blackened, and mentally it's a massive hit each time she has a go. No I'm not with her anymore. She's the one who ended it and moved on lightning fast like I never existed.
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askscience/d89e0g3
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55blce
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Is there an element/compound that is denser as a gas than it is as a solid?
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No but there's a few that are denser as liquids. Water is the obvious example, but bismuth, and silicates often are too. Because we know ice floats we don't realise that its actually quite unusual. Its also very important that for example, the crust of the earth floats on the liquid mantle!
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askscience/cbzjvvr
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1lhzeb
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Is there a difference in life expectancy between women who have children and women who (are fertile but) choose not to have children?
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How are you going to identify fertile but nulliparous women? I can't think of any way. I agree with the authors that the childless women would likely have confounding bias as nulliparity is a recognised risk factor for a number of diseases (especially gynecological). And I too would be interested in the answer to your question, but I really think it impossible to identify
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AskReddit/cfe6djx
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1xs8ep
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Who is the most bizarre teacher/professor you've ever had?
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So, when I was a freshmen in college (at least I think it was that year) I had this english class with a friend of mine. Now, normally, I cannot stand English class. I don't mind writing essays and working on spelling, grammar, syntax, etc. but when it comes to reading books, I'd rather choose my own reading list. So anyways, I have this professor and let's just call him Professor Clinton. This guy, was by far the most bizarre, but still fairly interesting, professor that I would have in my four years at this institution. Professor Clinton would, in the middle of lectures, start to make a joke and before he got to the punchline he would start to laugh. Not that bizarre, right? Except when he laughed he would laugh really loud and then all noise would suddenly stop and he'd put his hand up to his chest and his upper body would be rocking back and forth at the hips. It was so abrupt that is sounded like he had just been punched in the stomach or was having a heartattack (I'm not sure if those two are similar enough for this example to make sense, but that's the best I can do) or something of the sort. At first, my friend and I were a little bit scared and were wondering if he was okay. After the third or fourth time, we stopped getting so startled and instead we began to laugh at the absurdity of it. Big mistake. Sometimes Professor Clinton's jokes were actually pretty funny but when we laughed at his joke, or at his laugh, he would laugh even harder. That was about the time we started to worry for his health, once more. Now, Professor Clinton was a very smart guy and as soon as he took a second to calm down (and stop making us worry that he was going to keel over in the middle of class), he was very insightful and said a lot of things that made me think very carefully about the reading. It was a class that I actually looked forward to, unlike most of the other classes I took that semester. Some weeks after half the semester had passed, I go in for class one day and some new guy is there as a substitute. He tells us that Professor Clinton was hurt and he will be out for some unknown period of time. I'm a little concerned, but this guy seems nice enough and he eventually becomes one of my favorite professor at my school. So some number of weeks pass and eventually we get Professor Clinton back. He has to take it easy, so I'm there just hoping he doesn't tell any jokes. Professor Clinton tells us that he was on a ladder picking apples off a tree for his wife and that he fell. And he jokingly says something like "Ah, my wife's trying to kill me." Of course, he laughs and I'm worried again. This guy isn't clinging on to the last threads of life, or anything, but I'm worried he might be if he doesn't calm down soon. I guess that was his way of dealing with being in pain, and hopefully his way of showing us that he was okay.
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AskReddit/epocpxi
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bv9nrp
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What will you never fully recover from?
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Apparently I won't ever fully recover from my first relationship. It's 19 years later, I'm married to someone else with a beautiful baby girl, but I still have PTSD type symptoms from that relationship.
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AskReddit/cfqi5fj
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1z3ubj
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What is the creepiest thing that has ever happened to you?
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Just hiking, stump shooting with my bow once, when I came through an area of dense cedars where nothing grew under them and all you could see was dead branches. I noticed it was suddenly almost silent. No birds, no bugs, no grasshoppers clicking. I thought "that's funny!" The next second for some reason I SPOOKED! I just had this deep, serious feeling of dread and terror. No reason. No noise or movement or anything I was thinking that made me nervous. Zero to terrified in one second. Like the rush of fear you get as a kid when a big dog comes after you, but nothing was there. I boogied up the hill where the timber opened up a bit and the feeling left. That's it. Nothing happened. But it's hard to describe how scared I was for a out 30 seconds. So real, so panicky - scared. I've had a panic attack since than and this was very different. I found a cougar den and got chased by a pack of roaming farm dogs that same day. This was worse and different. Inexplicable horror move level scared over nothing in a place I'm generally very comfortable. I had camped out alone in the desert that night, no prob. I think it was a wendigo or something.
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AskReddit/evkk54m
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ck92aa
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Why does time move slow as a kid but fast as an adult?
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I think it’s because everything is new. Your mind slows down to process it. Once you get older and you fall into a repetitious state, your mind no longer has to process new material. That’s why the drive back is always faster than the initial drive.
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AskReddit/c11uj62
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dp2et
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Would you rather be Blind or Deaf?
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I'm deaf already, and I've pondered this question for a long time. I think it would be so much more difficult for me to navigate the world if I couldn't see what was around me. Then again, I don't know about any aural cues one could pick up on but to me it's just inconceivable to me. Going blind is my biggest fear in life. EDIT: Just want to add, I was born deaf and am profound. There is no chance of my hearing improving, but I do listen to music by feeling the bass while driving. It works out very well and I perceive music in ways most people don't.
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AskReddit/eshzbo4
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c7wwkn
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If there was a civil war at school and all the subjects decided to fight each other, what subject would you side with and what alliances would be made?
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I would side with History, and make an alliance with Social Studies, then attack Science because it would be the most dangerous enemy. Then I'd kill Social Studies and create a new society with the newly-cowed subjects.
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explainlikeimfive/cg9qhvk
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215awh
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What is celiac disease and why is everyone going gluten Free?
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Celiac disease is a genetic condition where the body can't handle gluten, and it causes a range of symptoms. It's a real condition that affects perhaps up to 1% of the population. The current fad for avoiding gluten among non-Celiac patients is another matter though, and is based on spurious notions of how gluten is bad for you, causes X or Y to happen, and how your health will in some nebulous manner improve if you avoid it. It's a fad diet, and will probably go away soon enough as most such things do, to be replaced with something else.
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askscience/c33tzvt
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mtu8r
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How can we get rid of the Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch?
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Not even worth considering at the moment. The amount of effort to remove plastic from the garbage patch is much, much greater than the amount of effort required to prevent the same amount of plastic from entering the patch. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Buy and use green bags, use paper instead of plastic, reuse and recycle drink bottles. Only when we have taken all the easy steps to reduce how much plastic is entering, should we even consider removing plastic from it.
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explainlikeimfive/cn4cfve
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2qairg
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How Do American ISPs Not Violate Antitrust Law?
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Antitrust law is using your dominant position in one industry to suppress competition in another. It doesn't make it illegal to be ruthless. In the U.S., most high speed Internet is provided by the same company that ran the physical wire to the building. If you live in a town with (for example) Cabletown as the major high speed ISP, it will be very hard for another company to offer a competitive product because they will have to run a cable. There is currently no requirement that Cabletown lease their physical line to another company. And Cabletown is well within its rights to argue against a city allowing another company to lay cable in their back yard. It's slimy, but not illegal.
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AskReddit/d20u9q2
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4ek7ug
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If you could read one Wikipedia article from the year 2100, what would it be?
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The history of the 21st century Edit: assuming I'm reading that article now, today in 2016. Then I can alter to future to my liking by knowing what will happen. And by alter the future to my liking, I mean make tons of money. You can call me Biff.
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AskReddit/dbqjoj0
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5ktqpi
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Why are cars in Japan boxier than cars in the States?
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Believe it's something to do with the way car size is regulated over there, anything over X dimensions is considered not a compact car / city car, and with their huge population that's not ideal, so larger cars have a heavy tax on them; making them less desirable.
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AskReddit/dm54lnu
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6w2rmc
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What is your favorite line from any TV show?
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This thread's responses are more like "easily recognizable one-liners that you can quote and people will go YEAH!" than it is "best TV quotes ever". My pick would be a quote from Doctor Who. If it wasn't so long, I'd try and get a tattoo of it. Pulled straight from IMDB (emphasis mine): >The Doctor: [Pointing to frozen Abigail Pettigrew] Who's she? >Kazran Sardick: Nobody important. >The Doctor: Nobody important? Blimey, that's amazing. You know that in nine hundred years of time and space and I've never met anybody who wasn't important before. It just shows so clearly how much the Doctor values each and every human being, and how much we should strive to do the same.
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AskReddit/c8hhz0b
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18s7ja
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Why do I keep dying while saving people in my dreams as of recent?
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Fine, I'll bite. First, you need to identify the reason why you are having these dreams. Are they a reaction to an event/change in your emotional life? Something that made you suddenly dream of these masochistic self-sacrificial scenarios? Or is it that you usually have dreams like this, but something has changed over the past week that made your sleep more shallow/worse, which, in turn, led to you remembering your dreams more? The distinction is important, as this is either a thought that has only recently been provoked by an external stimulus or it is a long-standing deeply subconscious issue that has surfaced only because of a temporarily reduced quality of sleep.
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AskReddit/ckr8h8h
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2hbz18
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How would you change the rules of any sport to make it more interesting?
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change the rules of football (soccer), so that the goalie can use their hands in BOTH 18 yard boxes. also, when one goalie has the ball, the other goalie can tackle them. EDIT: Goalies can now tackle each other whenever they want
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AskReddit/d62cbd2
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4vy252
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Is bread bad for you?
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Depends what you're counting. If you're counting carbs, then yes, bread is bad. If you're counting calories, it's not so bad. The type of bread you get is important, in my opinion. Store brand white bread has like 20 ingredients. I don't know what they all do, but I know that getting bread from the farmers' market that only has 4 or 5 ingredients seems to positively affect my poops, and that's what it's really all about, isn't it?
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AskReddit/egp1uo4
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arpngh
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What is something you started doing ironically, but now can’t seem to stop doing?
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A friend I had used to laugh like a snake, instead of a normal laugh, all you would hear is the last half of someone saying "es" so all you would hear is "ssss sss sss ssss sss" I thought it was annoying, started doing it to mock him, now I find that I do it on occasion as well without realizing it until i finish the laugh.
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askscience/cfdnd2k
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1xpyna
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When a house makes "settling" sounds, I.E. pops and groans, what are we actually hearing?
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I am not an expert in this field, but I will try to answer this properly since no one else has answered. A house is made out of different material. Each material contracts and expands different amounts and at different rates as a function of temperature. So when a house overall cools, certain parts contract faster and more than other parts. Parts that are linked structurally and becoming different sizes relative to each other will therefore build up strain. Eventually the strain is strong enough to overcome friction and cause a part to suddenly shift ever so slightly in a way that relieves strain. Sudden movement leads to vibrations and therefore sound (think clapping your hands). It is similar to an earthquake: stress builds up in the ground until it overcomes the forces keeping every thing in place and you get a sudden shifting of mass. Other things besides non-symmetric thermal expansion/contraction can also cause stress in structural members, such as wind, heavy loads on the flooring, or even just you walking around.
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AskReddit/diezdtb
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6f2zo1
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Which country has the most beautiful women and which country has the most beautiful men?
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Beautiful Women = Eastern Europe I'm American by the way, I don't find many beautiful women here and the fact that I'm from California (Which is supposed to be filled with so many beautiful women from all nations)
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AskReddit/c3t0qxu
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pxccy
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If somebody told you that you could stop working (without the worry of money) and focus on one hobby, what would it be?
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Assuming I had access to money, I'd love to open an R&D firm. I want to start a corporation that makes epic discoveries for cheap. First on the list. better solar power and a cure for cancer. If not that, and it has to be a hobby. well I guess it would be teaching. I really would want to be a professor and teach about various subjects (including a class on basic life skills). This could also make a good youtube channel.
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explainlikeimfive/cms86dk
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2p0jjj
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Why do a lot of full-screen applications on Windows have so much trouble with minimization?
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When a game goes fullscreen it is granted something exclusive access to the relevant graphics resources. This allows it to perform better as it doesn't have to think about resource sharing, or competing with other applications for the resources. However when you alt-tab you revoke the exclusive privilege, which means tons of stuff loaded into graphical memory or associated with your exclusive access gets invalidated. When your program is maximized again it needs to re-acquire all these resources again. In many ways from a technical perspective it is akin to starting the game again, except you have to keep track of what is already loaded and take into account exactly what state the game was in. Even good games will often take a few seconds to re-acquire these resources, but they will do it correctly. In some games the resources that needs to be re-acquired and those that don't are tightly intertwined in code, and therefore things go wrong if not everything is done very carefully. If not thought about carefully from the beginning it can be a hard problem to solve 3 months prior to release, and often is not given top priority. It shouldn't happen these days, but it does. Skyrim is a well-known example of a pretty buggy game (especially at the beginning), and this is just one of the issues it had.
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askscience/c4nvx0l
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tmimp
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Does rubbing a stubbed toe actually ease the pain, or does it just mask the pain with other sensations until it fades naturally?
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This is actually explained by the 'gate control theory' of pain sensation. Basically, pain is transmitted by different nerve fibers than pressure sensation (A-delta and C fibers instead of A-beta). When you stimulate the touch fibers, they actually inhibit the pain neuron in the spinal cord (that is receiving signal from peripheral sensory afferent fibers). Thus, adding a sensation of pressure can help reduce pain sensation. This gets a bit more complex at higher levels of pain, because then the C fibers will inhibit the inhibitory action of the A-beta fibers, thus resulting in override and transmission of pain signals.
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AskReddit/e84s7k1
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9pwg24
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What would you invent if there where no constraints on reality and the laws of space and time?
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Have you ever seen an old photograph of and area that you know well and are intrigued by how it’s changed? I would invent a device that would allow you to look into the past of your geographical location. For example if I wanted to see what the buildings in my neighborhood looked like in 1892 I’d set it to that date and point the device to my surroundings. It would work sort of like Snapchat filters do. You could set it to gif mode and it would show the changes from that time up till the present. A more realistic option would be a database of photographs where you could put in the locations and see said archives.
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