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AskReddit/c2cp2yp
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jjstp
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How do I tell if my work is tracking what I do on the computer?
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If they are a company with any brains and more than 6 or 7 computers (an IT department) than it is likely. OR if your company is large enough to have an HR department, it is likely. Case Law in Ontario would support the employer in most cases in regards to them using the tracking against you too for theft of time if you do it regularly. I have defended people who have been terminated thus and only 3 or 4 were we able to get their jobs back. Most of the time because the person was also captured leaving early in parking garage gate audits and phone tracking; they were noted using the phone for personal reasons for extended periods during many of their works days. BUT, they are unlikely to terminate you without giving you a warning and a chance to change your behaviour first. More than you asked for, but it just kinda jumped into the keyboard.
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askscience/cukq4x9
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3ixs98
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If gravity is the weakest fundamental force, how is it able to have a noticeable impact across such greater distances?
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Gravity acts on mass (actually energy and momentum, but let's keep it Newtonian), which is always positive, while all other forces act on charges, which cancel out on average. Let us keep in mind that the gravitational field scales as 1/r^2 for large distance. An astronomical object such as a planet, star, galaxy, etc. is electrically neutral, so the electromagnetic force has no strong impact over long distances. An electrically charged object would carry an em. field that goes to far distance as 1/r^2, like gravity, but with an electrically neutral object, the field goes as 1/r^3 at most (these are magnetic fields, or higher multipole electric fields due to inhomogeneous charge distributions). Since for astronomical scales r, 1/r^2 >> 1/r^3, gravity dominates electromagnetism. For the strong force and colour charge, the same basic argument applies, except that due to short-scale confinement, colour-neutral particles appear already at the level of hadrons (protons and neutrons in everyday matter). Therefore, there is no inhomogeneity in the distribution of colour charge above the length scale of a hadron. The resulting force field decays exponentially over the length scale of an atomic nucleus (because the effective interaction is mediated by the massive pions). So the strong force is a lot weaker than the EM force still, since it decays as exp(-r / r_nucleus) instead of 1/r^3. The weak force inherently decays exponentially with distance (which is equivalent to say that the mediating boson is massive). The length scale over which this exponential decays is about 600 times shorter than that of the strong interaction (because the W and Z bosons are about 600 times heavier than the charged and neutral pions). Therefore, the weak force must be still a LOT weaker than the strong force on astronomical scales, because it decays over distances about 1/600 the size of an atomic nucleus.
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AskReddit/dw3ydpl
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86cidv
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What bands/artists dislike a famous song of theirs so much that they no longer perform it?
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I know that Styx doesn't perform "Babe" anymore (Tommy Shaw forced Dennis DeYoung to put that electric guitar solo in the middle because otherwise he wouldn't be featured on the song - plus, the band pretty much loathed the hit) nor do they perform any songs from "Kilroy Was Here," including "Mr. Roboto."
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AskReddit/e09ltqq
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8pa5fu
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What's the most physically demanding thing you've ever done?
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I forget what they were called, but during high school football we had a punishment for missing practice/ weightlifting without notice during the summer. You start off at one corner of the endzone on the outside of the football field. From there you travel along the outside of the field until you've looped back to the starting point. One "rep" was a full lap. Each unexcused absence meant you owed two reps. The punishments were administered after weightlifting and a full practice. Here's how one rep basically went: Coach blows the whistle, and you enter a dead sprint. Coach blows his whistle, and you dive onto your stomach. You crawl while prone until he blows the whistle again. Repeat this until you've reached the next corner of your lap. At the corner, coach blows his whistle, and you start doing pushups. Coach blows his whistle, you stop doing pushups, roll forward, and start doing situps. Repeat this process until you reach the next corner. Repeat steps 1-6 to complete one rep. I missed one weightlifting session due to oversleeping. I was absolutely dead after the first rep. I vomited halfway through the second rep, and had to lie down for almost 45 minutes when I finished. One player, who was easily one of the best players on the team and on track for a full ride scholarship, missed 10 practices and 10 weightlifting sessions due to an impromptu trip home to Mexico. He quit the team after his third rep.
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AskReddit/cgd5lbf
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21htu0
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Why is it socially unacceptable for individuals to solve disputes through violence, yet it is socially acceptable for individuals to join armies to solve government disputes through violence?
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The weight of authority, I would guess. We're willing to say "These people in charge know when it's important to use violence, even if we don't trust the average person to do so." Of course, the government is made up of average people, but I think the collective weight makes people take it more seriously, even if we probably shouldn't.
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explainlikeimfive/dyist9o
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8hcoa9
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What is happening in your body when your “blood runs cold”, ie., you narrowly avoided an accident and you can feel a chill traveling through your body?
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The general consensus seems to be that it's a holdover from when we actually had enough hair to "puff up" like cats do when they feel threatened. These days we get goosebumps and our hair stands on end, the other function of which is actually to help us conserve heat. so one theory suggests that our association of that physiological response with being cold leads us to feel "chills" when the same thing happens because we're freaking out. Not a scientist by any means, that's just what I could gather from a little reading about something I've often wondered about too. Hope that helps!
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AskReddit/e8ceujm
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9qwxfk
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Where’s the best place to trim your fingernails besides in the shower?
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What kind of monster trims their fingernails in the shower? You're just asking for nail clipper rust, and you're wasting water. Do it over the sink or over a wastebin like a normal person.
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explainlikeimfive/cubww23
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3hz3jd
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Why can quicksilver and scarlet witch be used in marvel movies from two different intellectual property owners, such as x-men and the Avengers?
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Quicksilver and Scarlett Witch are mutants, but they have also been a part of The Avengers team pretty much since its beginning. Fox have the rights for the X-men, but Marvel has the rights for The Avengers, and Quicksilver and Scarlett kinda fall in the middle, which gives both companies the right to use them - as long as Fox doesn't mention The Avengers, and Marvel doesn't mention mutants.
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AskReddit/d3at17u
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4jz57h
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Why doesn't restaurants just pay their wait staff a fair wage instead of burdening the customer with tipping?
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Actually, a lot of waiting staff themselves don't want to be salaried. They are actually making way more than the minimum wage in any decently busy restaurant over a flat paycheck. Also, it's much fairer meritocracy to the waiters; if you are good at what you do and sociable to the customers, you make a bigger lion's share of pay at the end of the day.
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explainlikeimfive/cuoqxjl
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3je80x
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What is the route from R&D to the market for medicine?
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Usually, first comes testing on rodents to determine estimate effective dosages and lethal dosages. Then similar testing is performed on primates because their bodies are much more similar to humans. Next, depending on the success and hopefully lack of negative side effects, you move on to the first stage of clinical trials using a small number of humans. After that you run larger clinical trials to determine safety and efficacy at a scale large enough to be statistically significant. Assuming these are all successful you submit all of this data from r&d and your clinical trials to the FDA and hope for approval. The FDA reviews all the provided data, determines whether it is effective enough/safe enough, and whether enough data was provided. If they are not satisfied they'll reject it and the drug company can either collect more data, alter the formulation or abandon the proposed drug altogether. If approved it then begins to be marketed - doctors will need to be convinced it is better than other similar medications and patients will need to learn of it too.
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AskReddit/clr97tz
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2l40kj
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What's the one tv show you wished you'd started watching sooner?
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American Horror Story and Breaking bad. I started watching AHS in the 4th season and Breaking Bad when it was already finished. The only reason I never got into them was that I had a bizarre mentality that they must be bad due to the huge audience. I was so wrong, and I regret adopting that pseudo-hipster mentality.
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AskReddit/e49zci4
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97pe39
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What should people take more seriously?
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Steam. People think to themselves, "Well, it's just extra-hot water, and I've gotten burned with boiling water before, it hurts, but it's not that bad.And besides, I put my hand over the steam coming out of my pot all the time, and I'm fine!" No. No no no no no. Water has a temperature barrier of 212 degrees. After that, it turns into vapor. Steam has no such limitations. Short of turning into plasma at such a high temperature it's infeasible on Earth outside the center of a lightning bolt, steam will simply keep climbing in temperature while looking pretty much the same. That steam you put your hand over coming out of the pot is only bearable because it's steam from a pot of water that's just barely boiling and is very dispersed. Steam from a pot that's been on for a long time or that's coming through a confined hole can easily burn skin right down to the nerves.
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explainlikeimfive/cnk715h
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2rxers
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How can someone be convicted on terror charges and then released and not be expected to do something similar or worse again?
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A combination of factors: it is unjust to imprison someone for life simply because they may commit a crime again in the future, and it would be prohibitively expensive and time-consuming to surveil every released criminal full-time.
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askscience/cg68e0s
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20rvrx
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If wetness normally reduces friction between two surfaces, how can I pick apart a plastic garbage bag easier with wet fingers?
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the water creates an air tight seal which allows your finger to suction pull on things. when there's lot of water it acts as lubrication, getting in between things, pushing them apart and reducing contact and thus friction
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AskReddit/ds5rc9k
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7nyuif
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What fictional villain do you think deserved to win?
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Brain from Pinky & the Brain. I'm pretty sure Pinky (while announcing to the public) stated that Brain only wants to improve the way this flawed world works and have things based on logic and not politics or money or anything (I don't remember it exactly, I last saw it years ago, but I remember it was a Christmas special and that was Pinky's Christmas wish - to have Brain succeed because Pinky knew he deserved to)
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AskReddit/cqyw28t
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34x1td
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What have humans lost due to the accessibility of the internet?
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It hasn't been lost yet it's in serious decline, but the feel of flipping through a dictionary to look up a word, or turning the page of a newspaper, searching for a book in a store, etc. Mostly anything that was written in a physical form, and now you have the web.
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AskReddit/ejw919b
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b83wuv
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What's a good movie cliche?
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I personally think almost every movie cliche is good. If you take something classic and change it the way it is the same and also something new, then it isnt bad. For example the cliche of "haunted house" and "possessed human" in horror movies is soooo old but one of my favourite directors James Wan used these clichees and created one of my favorite movies "Conjuring" while also taking a new spin at some things
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AskReddit/c2gvmvl
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k1v6a
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Is it possible for a member of an LLC to force a dissolution of the entire company?
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No. You have 1/4 say in the operation of the company. They can overrule you each and every time. They do, of course, have to give you your share of profits, if any, but you can't do anything as a minority member. If they want you out, they need to buy you out. Why not take the money and leave?
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explainlikeimfive/dc0si9m
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5m4m6v
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Why do the Oscars award movies from the previous year?
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They're held around the end of February. If they held Oscar's 2017, awarding only movies from 2017, they would only have two months of movies to award. Then, when February 2018 came around, they would miss the other 10 months of films of 2017 because they could only focus on films released in 2018 (a 2 month span)
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AskReddit/crx09aa
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38qbsw
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What's the most mind-blowing thing on Earth?
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Us. The probability of us existing is so small it's fascinating and yet here we are. We have evolved so much from our ancestors and completely changed the planet to suit our needs. We have yet to find anything like us because the variables needed for our existence is so slim. We may never find anything as mind blowing as we are.
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AskReddit/ebo2738
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a5o7l8
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What are your suggestions for a clear improvement to a classic movie?
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This is hard. This question is really hard. A "classic" movie, unless you're talking the sort of horrible classic like "The Room", is a classic because it got everything right. I guess maybe if I look at stuff that doesn't age well, the ending space/warp travel bit of "2001: A Space Odyssey" went on way, way too long from our current day perspective. But, such a minor flaw compared to the rest, and the stunning prediction of the future that this movie painted. by all the giant floating space baby gods, that was one visionary epic of a film.
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AskReddit/cnkfm4j
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2rye5i
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What characteristics in a woman determines whether you think she will or won't be good in bed?
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someone outspoken, curses a lot, probably smokes (weed at least), enthusiastic, likes to dance, is physically active - keeps fit. Also being a little crazy. seems the crazy ones are always good in bed.
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AskReddit/cp98jyx
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2yga0n
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If you won 500 Million dollars today, what would you buy tomorrow?
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I'd get a financial advisor and a lawyer first. I'd take about half of the money and pay off my immediate family's debts, and give them about 2 million each to play with. 500k to all of my close friends. Buy myself a house, a car, and take the remainder of it and invest in static investments and live off of the interest for the rest of my life. 250 million with a return of 5% annually, should return 10 million per year.
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AskReddit/cuo0h1m
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3jcd6k
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What are the wisest words someone has told you that have changed the way you think?
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IdK about wisest but that Worldwide Wes quote in Bill Simmons twitter profile has certainly changed how I party. I stopped chasing the night, when the party is over it´s over, when I´m tired I´m tired. I don´t have to prove that I can party until dawn and I missing nothing if I leave earlier. Stop chasing the night you guys! There will be another one.
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AskHistorians/cdsiu4b
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1rzexc
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Was there ever any internal East / West tension or conflict in Russia?
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The largest territorial expansion towards Asia was initiated under Ivan IV and the conquest of Siberia. While the territorial gains were absolutely massive, the conquered population was actually very small. It took hundreds of years to turn the small outposts that were built as points to collect tribute and launch raids into towns and eventually cities. It was more of a colonizing process than a conquest, so the majority of the population is now ethnically Russian, which means that there's no ethnic tension to speak of. The ethnic tension that you hear about now comes from the conquests of southern Caucasus and Central Asia that didn't take place until the 19th century. While Central Asia is politically independent for the most part, Southern Caucasus (Daghestan, Ingushetia, Chechnya) are still part of Russia, but this is more north-south than east/west. As far as books on Russian history, there's not just a single book. You can't take a 1000 years of history and just sum it up nice and neat. Even the US is only 237 years old, but it was hard enough to put it all in one book. With Russia, you have at least 4 times that - the history of Kievan Rus', the waxing and waning on the various principalities and city-states, the Mongol conquests, the consolidation into a single entity, the expansion, the wars in the West and South, the Empire and all the crazy European stuff for 200 years, and only then do we get to the fairly brief in the grand scheme of things, but extraordinarily eventful 20th century, where you have thousands of books devoted to a single war. Pick a spot and we'll find you something good to read.
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AskReddit/dflrc4m
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62do49
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What's the most unexpected sexy moment that happen at your work?
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There was a new girl in the office, young, pretty, University gap-year student I guess. Anyway, it was a small office, just the one shared toilet cubicle. I went in there one afternoon for a pee but must have forgotten to flip the latch on the door. As I started the sweet release I heard the door go and turned my head around in surprise that someone had come in behind me. It was the new girl. Slightly embarrassed I apologised, expecting her to quickly retreat out. She didn't. She pulled the door closed and stood behind me whilst my stream slowly stuttered to a nervous halt. I then shook, turned around, mumbled another apology and shuffle-squeezed past her and made my way out of the door, avoiding eye contact the whole time. I remember frustratedly thinking "what's her problem?" It was probably a couple of years before I realised what the situation was and what could have been. That was my once-in-a-lifetime "sexy" moment.
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AskReddit/eig0mgf
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b0or3d
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What in your opinion are Americas most iconic TV shows of all time?
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The Simpsons was a Global hit, and a cultural icon of the 90s (even if it is a shell of what it used to be now). It changed the media landscape, and a lot of incredibly popular shows nowadays very likely were only made possible by the success of The Simpsons. It's the longest running sitcom in television history. It's got my vote
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AskReddit/ddcngxo
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5s5x95
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What's the most strange/interesting thing about your dreams?
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I dream of places that I've only been to in previous dreams. I remember things that happen from previous dreams only while dreaming. It's like a visit my own dream world
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AskReddit/e0ybtx5
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8schdv
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If you had to learn a foreign language without taking a class in a foreign country, what technique would you do to learn it?
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I like switching my language on applications I use after having used them a bit. You know the controls but now they're labeled with new words. Also date someone from that culture/speaks the desired language. Duolingo is useful for a quick introduction/baseline. It's a useful supplement. Disney movies have been translated into many languages. Pretty easy to understand the plot and learn some new words. A large part of learning a new language is developing the ability to distinguish between words, sounds, phrases, and intonations. So you've gotta immerse yourself in said language (can be any number of things, but gotta make sure a native speaker is talking).
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AskReddit/d569ma4
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4s3rez
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Should death row inmates be allowed to be organ donors?
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Could they be considered? Doesn't recent jail time exclude people from being blood donors due to preponderance of hepatitis amongst inmate population? Is the screening for organ donors similar to the screening for blood donation?
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AskReddit/djbmwd0
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6j3np5
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What's your favorite piece of useless trivia?
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Shoelaces are mentioned at least twelve times in the Bible. Got this from a podcast 'no such thing as a fish' where some of the QI researchers get together every week and talk about their favourite fact that they found out about that week. It's awesome if you like trivia.
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AskReddit/clt2t8x
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2lavkj
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Is there anything good about being a newly single 36 year old father of 2?
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Wow. i was in your exact same spot when I was 36, I'm 50 now. I also have 2 kids, they were 7 and 3 at the time, 20 and 16 now. The good news is its survivable. I'm closer to my kids than I think I would have been otherwise. Dating is doable, but I aint gonna lie, its hard. The upside is most women you'll meet will be in the same boat as you. Focus on your kids. Let go of any bitterness you may have toward your ex, It'll be for your kids best interest. Make sure you take time for yourself.
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AskReddit/c7w8e4e
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16i2at
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Has anyone been able to change their sleep position?
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I used to only be able to sleep on my side, but I recently figured out a way to sleep on my back. I sort of bend my knees up and put a pillow under then and it actually is pretty comfy. Good luck. Any reason you want to change?
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AskReddit/c8x1m9n
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1afzgy
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How was your first date?
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What I would call my first date occured in College with the fourth/fifth-ish girl I had ever made out with. But I liked her so the day after the drunken making out I called her and said hey let's get dinner. I remember it because I had apparently never asked a girl out before! Apparently the obvious place to go was this awful Greek restaurant in the downtown. But we had a good time I think after that we went back to campus and hung out with my friends. It was a very small college town.
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AskReddit/c85k06t
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17hmqj
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When was the first time that your own or another belief system sparked questions or doubt in your mind?
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I remember being in Sunday school when I was about 10. After praying, a much younger girl said something along the lines of, "Catholics pray to Mary." The Sunday school teacher said, "Yes, but we don't pray to Mary, do we?" The girl just put her head down and we moved on. It was at that moment I realized that questions were discouraged, and if there were any, why did that book have the answers and the other books didn't? Why would people pray differently from one another? I had nothing but questions and doubts after that day.
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AskReddit/dxl42m2
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8d8jrk
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What tips would you give someone moving to a new house?
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Thoroughly clean it/ disinfect surfaces/ steam clean before moving in. Much easier to clean an empty house than navigate around piled up boxes and furniture. Oh, and change the locks if its not new construction.
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AskReddit/e91hy3a
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9u4nj6
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What's the biggest bullet you've ever dodged?
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When my ex-wife filed for divorce, she did so without actually being serious about it. She had it in her mind that this would shake me up and get me to suck up to her. When she did, we'd been married for nine years. I had to pay spousal support for 4.5 years (half the duration of the marriage). The bullet I dodged: if we'd stayed married for one more year, I would still be paying spousal support until one of us died or she remarried. As it was, she remarried the month the spousal support ran out. If there was no end date to the spousal support, she would not be married today. The funny thing is, she's been married for nine years and seven months now. I know she won't divorce this one within the next five months, but I'm curious to see how long she sticks with him after the 10-year mark.
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explainlikeimfive/ce1phi5
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1svpko
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Why gambling is illegal in some places?
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Historically, gambling has often be associated with organized crime such as money laundering, so the government has an incentive to limit opportunities for criminals to organize themselves and exploit the system through gambling loopholes. In some places, gambling is also not considered to be victimless because people who suffer from gambling addictions usually cause significant (financial) harm to their families and children, such as by gambling away money needed to pay for food and shelter. Thus, some of the reasoning behind banning gambling is that it may protect others (especially children) from the harm resulting from their family member's gambling addiction. Gambling is also sometimes considered illegal because, for instance, a Casino is not selling a product or service, but rather is merely selling the chance to win money. Also the chance of winning is often misrepresented to the buyer, giving them unrealistic expectations of the possibility of achieving wealth. I.e. Casino games are rigged in favor of the house so that gamblers will almost certainly lose money the vast majority of the time and win only occasionally. Yet, despite the odds of winning money over the long-term being incredibly small, Casinos market themselves in such ways as to make at appear as though there is a genuinely fair chance of winning lots of money.
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AskReddit/cqlcsi6
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33j135
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What's your hobby and what stereotype about it annoys you the most?
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My hobby is collecting old video games. The stereotype is that it acts as some kind of a virginity shield. But as long as I keep my shelves clean I've never dated a girl who cared. Girls do care that you keep your house clean.
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askscience/c2vzodq
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lvssz
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Is it possible to convert energy from gravity into electricity?
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Gravity is not a form of energy. It is a field. Like a magnetic field or an electric field. The type of energy you're probably thinking of is potential energy. And yes, potential energy is converted into electricity every day! You might recall this is how hydroelectric power plants work; i.e. dams.
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AskReddit/e8fskuk
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9rccza
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What mistakes do you think your grandparents made when raising your parents?
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My grandmother got a fairly large inheritance from her parents when they died. For a couple years, my mother, aunt and uncle basically lived like royalty. They had a massive house, a luxury car, full time servants, fancy clothes, went on luxury vacations, and basically had anything they wanted. Problem was, there was not enough money coming in to sustain this lifestyle, and after only 2-3 years, all the money was gone, everything had to be sold and they went back to living lower-middle class lives. Uncle and aunt seemed to have come out of this okay, but I fully blame my mother's gigantic ego, insane sense of entitlement and generally thinking the world needs to bend over backwards and serve her on the fact that she was a rich little girl for a few years that had actual servants waiting on her every whim.
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AskReddit/et3u3wt
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c9x3m4
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What’s the most crazy thing you experienced at a family reunion?
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Our entire extended family all lived in a very large cabin in Colorado for 3 days for a reunion. Every night these drunk mid 20s people would leave the doors open and a bear came in every night and wrecked everything. Our whole family ended up having to pay the company who owned the cabin upwards of $500,000 in total
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AskReddit/ed23t79
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abpet8
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What is the strangest/funniest thing you’ve seen while in a doctors/hospital waiting room?
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While was waiting in the emergency room one time I saw a guy with two young kids walk in. One was probably 3-4 while the other was maybe more like 2. The two year old apparently hurt itself (which is the reason why they came in) but the 3/4 year old was throwing a tantrum. He didn’t like the fact that he wasn’t getting as much attention cause he didn’t get hurt so he started falling over a lot, either to hurt himself or to act hurt, I couldn’t tell. But he just kept faceplanting and fake crying and then getting up running after his dad when his dad would walk away, and then continue to faceplant and fake cry. I’m sure it was a headache to the dad but it was moderately amusing for everyone else.
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AskReddit/dub633n
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7xu5yu
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What would you do to lose weight?
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I would eat clean with one cheat day a week (IIFYM), only drink water, consume about 2000 calories a day (1300 if you're a woman), go on a low carb diet or the keto diet, and start doing HIIT (high intensity interval training) about 4 or 5 times a week. You will lose weight like nobody's business.
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AskReddit/cfextoy
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1xv8ta
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As schoolchildren, did you have to recite allegiance pledges to anything "unusual"?
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I'm Dutch and noone has ever asked me to pledge allegiance to anything. Because that's what we fought for and we won. We don't pledge allegiance to either the Spanish king* or the Catholic Church. *the anthem doesn't count
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explainlikeimfive/cdk2o2r
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1r6i3j
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How do silencers silence bullets?
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First, They aren't called "silencers" as the attachment does not silence the sound. Those Hollywood silencers are fake, when firing a real suppressed weapon, the noise is merely reduced or made to sound like something else. Now for whats happening inside a supresser, when you fire a bullet there is a lot of very fast moving gas that is produced. The suppresser slows down and expands these gasses inside of chambers so that they are not as loud as they normally would be.
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explainlikeimfive/devs3v4
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5z6ti4
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How do different shapes of glasses affect the alcoholic beverage taste?
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The shape of the glass affects how your mouth and nose (eyes to an extent) interact with the beverage. A very wide glass will allow your whole nose to enter the glass as you sip it, the aroma adds to and complements the taste. A very narrow glass like a champagne flute reduces surface area which keeps the bubbly bubbles from gassing out before you can drink it. Other glasses like a Brandy snifter allow to you swirl the beverage without spilling it, the swirling allows the aroma to release but the narrow lip of the glass traps most of it in the glass, so you can get your nose right in there. Some glasses have stems to keep your body heat out of the beverages while other glasses encourage the handling to warm the drink inside. Certain beer glasses have wider tops which allows the head to form and remain which contributes to aroma and protects the beer below from reacting with the oxygen in the air. Beer stiens have a handle so the beer stays cold. There's are many more examples but this covers some basic reasons for shapes. As an experiment try your favourite drink in various glasses and see if you notice the subtle effects.
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AskReddit/dw9qunx
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872k6n
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What's something your parents told you as a kid that turned out to be a flat-out lie?
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My parents and grandparents were pros at this. Here are some lies they told me - You can tell if a newborn kitten is a boy or a girl because under their tail is a B or a G. If you swallow your gum,it will stay in your stomach for seven years. IF you keep making tha face, it will get stuck like that forever. Every grain in rice is a year of bad luck
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AskReddit/didyhxi
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6exzr9
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Which Youtube channel/series really helped get your mind off of things during a tough time in your life?
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TheRadBrad got me through some incredibly tough times. When I'm stressed out I get that anxious feeling constantly and it makes it hard to just chill out sometimes but watching Brad play games helps me to relax. His best series is probably The Last Of Us!
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AskReddit/crix8qe
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371p6a
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Do you believe humanity will have figured out a way to migrate to another planet in another solar system before the sun turns into a red giant and destroys Earth?
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We don't actually have anywhere near that long. The Earth currently occupies a "habitable" zone of distance from the sun, at our sun's current output. The sun will continue to get hotter and hotter as it ages. Thus, long before red giant (in fact, about 500 million years from now), the Earth will leave the habitable zone and get much, much too hot to live on. Our oceans won't exactly boil away, so much as water vapor in our atmosphere will ionize and the hydrogen will slowly drift off into space. The oceans will do what they always do - slowly evaporate - and the amount of rain coming back just won't equal the amount leaving them, year after year, century after century, millennium after millennium. That said - half a billion years counts as roughly six times the entirety of human history, or around a hundred times as long as we've grasped the concept of metallurgy, and we've already managed to escape our own solar system (albeit not in person - yet) just in the past half century. If we have any chance of making it off this mud-ball alive, I have absolutely no doubt we can do it by then. Now, whether or not we can last that long without destroying ourselves. I don't know that I'd bet on that particular outcome.
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AskReddit/cxttu62
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3w625u
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What pickup line is guaranteed 100% of the time to NOT work?
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Trick question, any pickup line will work if the guy is hot enough. The success rate of a pickup line is directly correlated with how attractive the person is who's saying it.
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AskReddit/d98f785
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59g896
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What's your most frightening local urban legend?
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A guy called Moses. He dresses in absolutely absurd clothes, 6 foot 4 with dredlocks, often wears a massive felt tophat, of which he has an infinite variety. In actuality a really nice guy who hangs around town and tries to start odd rambling conversations with strangers. The legend is that he acts how he does as a cover-up for his actual persona as a serial killer, which is frightening because the simple-minded friendliness he approaches people with could be construed as something sinister. This is a bit of a cruel legend though, since he's actually just a mentally handicapped guy who is non-aggressive so they let him out of his care home regularly.
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explainlikeimfive/eqw26rk
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bzrl12
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In a given location, is relative cloud cover a product of temperature, a symptom, or completely independent?
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Trees have to regulate their temperatures just like other living things, and one way they stay cool is by allowing some of their stored water to evaporate, a little like how humans sweat. That can form clouds over forested areas. ​ I think one can see the opposite, too, although maybe not in your hypothetical place. In Central America the deforestation of the Yucatan peninsula is obvious now and it's easy to spot the deforested/savannah areas in Ventusky through their lack of cloud cover and noticably higher temperatures (example: Peten, Guatemala). ​ Therefore both temperature and relative cloud cover can be dependent upon the presence of a forest.
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AskReddit/c952gp8
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1badyt
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What is the least intelligent thing you have heard anyone say after watching a movie?
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this is the first i could think of. the scene in spider-man 1 where peter parker is testing his webbing for the first time was filmed less than a block away from my house. after my brother and i finished watching the movie he ran into one of his friends. the friend asked him, "did you see anyone we know from the neighborhood in that shot?" i thought it was stupid because the location was closed off to the general public while filming was done.
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AskReddit/df4dv2g
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608j9l
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Has political correctness seriously adversely affected academic and political discussion, and if so what should be done to correct this?
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Political correctness has weight. It should. When words are used with malice, there should be consequences. Unfortunately, some folks who lack the ability to discern malice from comedy or frankness or caring have hijacked what they believe to be damaging no matter what. Zero tolerance is zero leadership. And that goes for PC too.
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AskReddit/du5ktta
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7x5665
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What have you had since college?
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I had a good pair of desktop speakers with a nice subwoofer that I bought on the cheap. Very good quality. I got them with my new PC I got for my final year in college, and they're still my main speakers with my current rig. They've gone strong for almost 12 years now.
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AskReddit/chdzrt3
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255v39
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Would an ant die if dropped from certain amount a feet?
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No. An ant's terminal velocity is well below the speed required to kill it. Let's consider "ants" of various sizes, all the same shape, all the same density per cubic cm. If you double the length, width, and thickness of said "ant", you will multiply it's frontal area by four, but multiply its mass by eight. So wind resistance, which is proportional to the frontal area, goes up with the square of the length; mass goes up with the cube of the length. So the bigger it is, the better it is at pushing air out of the way and falling fast. The tinier it is, the more air will slow it down. Ants are very tiny. If you dropped an ant and something like a mouse from any considerable height, the mouse would keep on speeding up long after the ant had reached terminal velocity. The ant will be fine when it lands. I've heard that even frogs survive falls at terminal velocity. They sort of go whap, sit there for a while, then hop off. Don't try this at home if you're a frog.
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explainlikeimfive/ekf7w0h
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bazmb8
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Why do criminals smuggle illegal weapons instead of making counterfeits?
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You're saying why not just open a gun-making factory? It takes a fair amount of skill to make good ones, and there's a risk of getting caught (especially as you have specialty materials and machines delivered), but some people do it.
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AskReddit/es0h3d8
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c59tbb
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What book would you base your new cult on?
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Harry Potter. Already has a legion of dedicated fans. Can hold elaborate ceremonies based on events in books (ex. Sorting). Then can assign positions to more loyal followers based on government in the books. Use various techniques other cults have used to deceive people into thinking my magic is stronger than everyone elses.
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AskReddit/eoo1dwp
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bsl6r4
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If you were given the choice to betray your country and live peacefully as a traitor in another nation or to defend your country but risk being jailed/taken hostage by enemy forces, which would you do?
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Depends on what they’re fighting over. If the blame or wrongness is equal on both sides I’m defecting. I’m not attached to my country in the slightest might as well live a peaceful life
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askscience/cqfnk5v
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32x33j
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How do animals like hamsters and snakes avoid the effects of inbreeding, while other animals and people can't?
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Let's think about an example to illustrate this point: inbred mice. There are inbred stains of mice that are used for laboratory experiments. Every single mouse of the same strain has the exact same genome--it's like having infinite identical twins. How do these exist? They were created by experimenters. The experimenters started with several pairs of mice and just kept inbreeding them over and over and over. So pair #1 created strain #1, pair #2 created strain #2, etc. After several generations, some strains (which were now small populations) died off due to mutations that already existed in the founders that were now highly prevalent. However, some strains were fine because the individual founders didn't have many nasty mutations lurking in their genomes. In those surviving populations, some of the individuals died off but the healthy ones remained, bred, and established the inbred population. The same thinking applies to your question. Inbreeding is bad because mutations that already exist in the family become more prevalent in their descendents. For those hamsters, the ones that accumulated mutations have already died off, leaving only the healthy hamsters behind.
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AskReddit/cpqo01o
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30acai
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What made you quit smoking?
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I've had back/leg problems since I was 17. I was 24 at the time and had only been a legit smoker for maybe 2 years. I wanted to get back in shape and not have to deal with the pain day in and day out while at work. So I quit smoking because I felt it would be counterproductive to my work outs
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AskReddit/e01ce48
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8o7zta
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What is the best lie you once told someone and that they are still believing?
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When I was younger, I once told my little sister (8 years my junior) that I watched the moon landing live. My little sister is now 16 and still thinks the moon landing was in 1999 and that I watched it. She has never, ever looked it up and has never been corrected. Even some of her friends believe it.
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explainlikeimfive/d4yahs5
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4r4r47
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Why are most military bases in the south?
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Cheap land. Military bases require a lot of space, and the Southern US isn't nearly as densely populated as the Northeast. There are a lot of AF bases out in Wyoming and the Dakotas for much the same reason.
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explainlikeimfive/dll47oj
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6ti55u
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Why do we use the color red for stop, yellow for caution/slow, and green for go?
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I know the answer to this, I just cant explain it that well because its been a while since I have heard the reason. Basically the red light that travels from the light can travel the farthest due to its longer wavelength. This means it is easier to see from farther away, even if its shady/cloudy/foggy, etc. Green is the complimentary color to red so it makes the most sense. Also, another reason would be because red indicates danger, and demands attention, like blood. Where green is a cooler color. Both of these combined make lights what they are today ^Please ^don't ^hurt ^me ^this ^is ^my ^first ^ELI5 ^explanation
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AskReddit/cra1cpv
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362d4x
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What do you know about your parents that you will NEVER tell them?
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UGH one time, I was trying to be sneaky and scare my parents early in the morning by crawling through their bathroom window. Well, they were up already and they were doing things that people in love do and I just crawled backwards back out the window like I was never there, it was terrible STILL terrible to think about. I saw my mom later and her hair was all frazzled and it was just so disgusting.
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AskReddit/cke33h4
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2fz1u8
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What stories have you written?
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I've written stories about time and space, cosmic dances of planets and their suns, princesses and dragons, love and loss, beginnings and ends, journeys taken and others abandoned, life and death, and sometimes these are all in the same story.
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explainlikeimfive/cxn2ikv
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3vfllb
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Why does the media spend so much time covering the question of whether or not Jeb Bush can rise in the polls, but doesn't extend nearly that level of coverage to other non popular contestants?
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Jeb Bush is considered (generally) the primary establishment candidate, which means he's expected to have significant political clout with the republican party. Alternatively, he's also a Bush, which means he's entangled in a lot of familial controversy, 'Bush Dynasty' 'Can George Bush's brother win after his unpopularity?' sort of stuff. Both attract interest, which the media wants in order to get paid.
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AskReddit/dq1hkok
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7dzxky
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What is the most interesting street name in your city/town?
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I know of 2 towns that are basically 1 small city. Each one has a 1st Street. 1st ave and Fir st. To make it even more confusing each one has a east and west version! So 12 roads all with almost identical names. Talk about confusing.
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AskReddit/dhk162d
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6b5xiy
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What is the strangest thing that scared you as a kid?
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When I was little, I, for some reason, was convinced that the Pillsbury Dough Boy had turned into the white glove from Hamburger Helper. The possibility that I would never see the Dough Boy again scared me, because I liked seeing him in the commercials. I really don't know why I thought this.
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AskReddit/em1qhew
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binq1o
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What is a conspiracy theory that nobody knows?
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All existing conspiracy theories have been set up by a secret society of shady manipulators to distract us from the one real conspiracy. For obvious reasons I can't give you any details.
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askscience/c4nmajq
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tlds1
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How can mirrors see some things that are "out of their view"?
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If the mirror was mounted flat on the wall, then you should not be able to see a reflection of the wall in the mirror. There are no angles which would allow that to be possible. My guess was that the mirror was angled slightly down which made it seem like it was reflecting things that it shouldn't have been.
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AskReddit/cuf40s5
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3ic1rl
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What TV show did you give up on and why?
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Heroes, and I'm not going to give the reboot a chance either. I know the writers strike was involved but that show is why I have trust issues. It went from 10/10 to batshit/crazy in what felt like no time at all.
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AskReddit/d68i3q8
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4wn5p8
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What is the coolest, tangible, piece of history that you own?
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I have the guidon (military banner/pennant) my unit flew in Iraq from Jan-Dec 2006. It is not uncommon, although possibly not entirely legal, for commanders to keep the unit guidon upon relinquishing command and replace it with a new one. By regulation, guidons that have seen wartime service are considered tangible pieces of military history and are to be turned in to the Army Institute of Heraldry (TIOH) when the unit itself is deactivated, which mine was after my command tour due to a massive reorganization of the Army's structure. However, the regulation (AR 840-10, fyi) does not specify a timeframe for turning it in. Accordingly, I have directed in my will that upon my death the guidon is to be shipped to TIOH, and not a day before. They can have it when someone can pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
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explainlikeimfive/e26zdcm
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8xqozi
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Why do you get nauseous when you wake up super early?
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This was the bane of my existence throughout my childhood (especially high school) but now as a young adult (I'll be 26 next week) it is mostly gone. I'll try to list some of the reasons I think caused it and I will also list what I think helped fixed it. I am not a health professional so this is all off the top of my head. Causes: Fluctuating Sleep Schedule: Like most teenagers, I loved staying up late at night. I am still guilty of staying up way past my "I'm definitely going to bed in 20 min" time. On the weekdays I would get by on 5-7 hours of sleep while on the weekends I would sleep like 8-12 hours (sometimes longer) and I would go to bed at like 4-6 in the morning and wake up at like 2 in the afternoon. On the weekdays, every morning, I'd be nauseous - like clockwork - my alarm goes off, my stomach starts turning, my mouth gets acidic, I hate the world and anyone who claims to be a "morning person". On the weekends, however, no such sickness. Since then, I've gotten a full-time job which has dwindled this hugely skewed sleep schedule to the point where I wake up at around the same time regardless of weekday or weekend and I no longer feel sick in the morning. So a steady sleep schedule has helped. Lack of Diet/Exercise: I'm not the worlds fittest person. My work and my home-life consist of a LOT of sitting and sitting and sitting. I will try to get into an exercise regiment only to go back on it in 36 hours. Pair that with an "eat what I want when I want" diet and you get a formula for a generally unhealthy person. When I was younger (and had the nausea issue in question), I always ate fatty/greasy foods with plenty of sugar to go with it REALLY late at night. I did this both on weekdays when I had school and on weekends which I know wasn't good for me. I barely drank water so my hydration level was shot, too. I think this is one of the biggest contributes and the key to almost eliminating your problem solely if corrected. Depression/Anxiety: Throughout my teens and to this day, I've struggled with depression and anxiety. This is one of those things you can treat but can be nearly impossible to cure. I think my mental health is the reason I still struggle with nausea in the morning (and sometimes throughout the day) even though it isn't as bad as it used to be. Sometimes that unshakable sense of dread when you don't want to deal with people and work and just go back to sleep and start fresh but you can't really induces a physical response. This is what I think people who hate mornings are. Which I am guilty of being. My depression also keeps me from eating very much. I NEVER finish my plate. I get made fun of a lot as the person who "never eats" and my girlfriend pointed out to me that it might be because of my depression and I think she nailed it. This feeds the "Lack of Diet/Exercise" issue. In my own life, just fixing one of the above with efforts at correcting the others has mostly gotten rid of my problem. Again, this is not a fix-all, but it HAS helped me. I also know this can all sound like a cliché, but lifestyle has a lot to do with it, I think. *ALSO* these symptoms COULD be a sign of an underlying health issue so seeing a doctor really is the best answer you'll get but it doesn't hurt to try some things first. If anyone (preferably a health expert) can make a more accurate explanation than I have, please do so.
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explainlikeimfive/c9xchtt
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1e6kze
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What is the difference between a progressive and a liberal?
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The first thing you should understand is that Americans use the word "liberal" wrong. It really has nothing to do with being "left wing" and in many cases can be more accurately applied to the American right. It means literally "free" but in context usually means free market economics and free speech. Progressive more accurately describes the American left. Progressive means a redistribution from the privileged to the poor. This doesn't just mean wealth, but also other social equality measures.
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AskReddit/c9nzv4w
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1d8t2i
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Why such hostility towards Internet Explorer?
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When a developer/designer makes a website, they get certain features and designs looking and acting the\ way they expect them to. They will test on Chrome, and everything will work fine. They'll throw it on Firefox, which will have a few minor positioning issues, but everything is easily fixed. On Internet Explorer, entire web applications just won't work. IE is consistently the last browser to observe popular web standards, causing a headache for the developers and robbing a high number of users from the internet experience they should otherwise be enjoying. People who always use IE won't have an issue - they'll just think that's the way the internet is. And that is the crime.
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AskReddit/dhz9erj
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6d2ja7
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What's your opinion on Gender and Non-binary genders?
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It doesn't matter to me until there are laws that force one to change the way you speak to accommodate everyone. Note: I am not for going out and blatantly offending someone or making them feel uncomfortable, but it is a slippery slope when government tries to create legislation to guide the way we speak and what words we use for something that is so open (new genders seem to be added all the time).
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AskReddit/c28t1d8
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j3cyi
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Why is it that when a pair of headphones starts to die it's always the left side that goes first?
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Which headphone do you move to listen to someone who interrupts whatever you were listening to? I know for me it is always the one on the left that gets moved for me, and my left side always goes out. If that is what you do it probably is just a repeated stress problem that the wires can't handle over time and they destroy their connection.
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askscience/c3vkthb
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q8gxh
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When you open the microwave, why isn't it hot inside after cooking for a while?
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The air around the food will be warm as a result of conducted heat from your food, as well as air molecules in the air. However when you open the microwave, this warmth is quickly dissipated into the room. An oven, on the other hand, has an enormous heat capacity due to its size and metal structure. When opened, infrared radiation from the metal frame warms your face and hands, along with some warmth from the greater amount of hot air.
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AskReddit/evkf02n
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ck8nj6
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What are some jokes that wouldn't make any sense if they were translated to English?
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Ex: why was 6 afraid of 7? Because 7 8 9 (Eight = ate) Ex. In France, one egg is usually enough (Un oeuf) If these jokes were translated into German, Spanish, or some other language, they wouldn't make any sense!
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explainlikeimfive/cwzvjmq
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3srp08
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What would happen if the west abandoned the middle east?
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Leaving the middle east alone entirely would extremely hard. It would involve stopping buying oil from there. (There is oil in other places, but oil being fungible would make it hard to stop financing this indirectly) It would involve stopping selling weapons there. (Saudi Arabia for example is the greatest arms importer in the world.) It would involve sending any sort of aid into the middle east including to Israel. It would involve stopping tourist from going there. It would involve stopping western companies from investing there or doing business with the people there. It would involve stopping exporting good there. It would involve stopping the locals from investing in business in the west. It would involve stopping all trade with and through that region. It would be more or less impossible. Any halfway measures that only partly stopped interfering there but continued to directly or indirectly giving money and weapons and power to certain parties would still be interfering. At this point stopping interfering altogether would destabilize the whole place even more and lead to many million of refugees trying to leave the place as civil war breaks out all over the place. Abandoning the middle east would not work and would not actually win help the situation.
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askscience/d3d3fc1
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4k80kt
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When I crack two eggs together, why does only one of them break?
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Firstly, you want to be talking about strength, not about hardness. Hardness is resistance to scratches; strength is the ability to withstand force without breaking. Why is one egg stronger than the other? There are a few possible reasons: Maybe one egg is made of a slightly stronger eggshell material than the other. I don't know the exact structure of eggshell, but there's a protein matrix in there that contributes to strength, and one egg may happen to have a stronger protein web holding its shell together than another egg. One egg may be slightly thicker than the other. Even if they're the exact same material, a thicker chunk of stuff will have a lower stress level than a thinner chunk under the same force. So the thicker chunk will withstand more force before breaking. Eggs aren't spherical. And on a curved surface of varying curvature, where you input the force makes a lot of difference. The same egg will see a lower stress level if you hit it on the point rather than on the side. So if you crack the point of one egg against the side of another, the side-crack one will break first.
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explainlikeimfive/cn02nti
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2pu2xh
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Why do so many Americans blame Obama for practically everything?
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American "politics" has become more about making opponents look bad than yourself good. The major political parties in the U.S. are the Democrats and the Republicans, the Republicans try and make the Democrats look bad and the Democrats try and make the republicans look bad. Obama is a very popular Democrat and his character and actions are seen by many as representational of the entire Democratic party. By blaming Obama for problems, they are hoping to gain political advantage over the Democrats; I.E. "Look how BAD the democrats are, our side is clearly the GOOD one, vote for us." This only really works because there are only two viable political parties in national politics in the U.S. The sad part is, really complex issues that have major impacts on the lives of millions are are boiled down to and decided by this "THEY BAD, WE CLEARLY NOT AS BAD" fight. edit: words
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AskReddit/dd5am7j
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5r8sua
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What's something you envy?
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It's very childish, but I envy people who are able to do things the way they "were supposed to". I couldn't celebrate my 16th birthday like my friends could because of family issues. I couldn't celebrate my 18th birthday because I was put in a hospital by my abusive boyfriend. I had to graduate early (which can be good in its own way) in order to get away from him. I wasn't able to have a wedding, which I really wanted. I wasn't able to have a honeymoon either. I wasn't able to celebrate my 21st birthday. I envy people being able to do things the way they are "supposed" to be done. It's childish, but I really do.
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AskReddit/dq6s4ma
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7eqoof
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What is an illness or disorder that most people dismiss as being fake or made-up?
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Misophonia. I straight up can't be a in a quiet room with people chewing. I will explode. And the number of people who seem to think this is fake us almost as many as the surprising amount of people who suffer from it.
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AskReddit/ewfju0x
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co35je
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What do you think of your smile?
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I’m always conscious of my smile. Last time I smiled they told me I looked weird which kind of hurt my confidence since I already had low self esteem which that didn’t help much. That’s why I don’t smile to people much unless I’m alone so no one will judge me or in this case, my smile. I lost my smile. (Points if someone gets this reference but I highly doubt it.)
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AskReddit/euf4901
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cg792t
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What's the worst movie you've ever watched and why was it so bad?
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Mr. Magoriums Wonder Emporium was the only movie I ever walked out on but that was because I was young and wasn't going to sit through it. Now that I have watched it in the last 5 years, I can still say it is boring and I want to leave the room everytime I watch it
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AskReddit/credyw1
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36ij9d
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What CAN'T your parents ever find out about you?
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Well it's not that they CAN'T ever find it out, but I'd much rather they never found out that I don't believe in their religion any more. It'd absolutely crush both my mom and dad to know that. They'd worry about me, they'd get overly upset, they'd try to talk to me about it all the time and change my viewpoint. I'm an adult and it's easy enough to live my life without them ever knowing what my beliefs are. It's a lot easier this way.
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AskReddit/dgx2044
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68avn9
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What's the funniest thing you've seen happen?
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About 6 years ago I was the passenger in the car with my grandfather and we were sitting at a red light on a hill going down. We had our windows open because it was a really nice day, suddenly we heard "Wooooooooooo! Yeeeaaaahh!" coming from behind us. We both turned in our seats and saw a very old looking man in a wheel chair flying down the hill on the sidewalk with his arms up in the air, occasionally reaching down to push his wheels for more momentum. Then a woman who appeared to be in her 50's came into view and she was yelling "Stop this right now George! This is not funny!" while attempting to chase him. The light turned green so we just continued to go, I do not know what happened to Geoge after that.
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AskReddit/dtu84j1
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7vq3qu
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What is your oldest memory?
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One of my oldest memories is of standing in the supermarket checkout line with my mother and watching the Hershey bar that she was going to buy for me somehow sliding under the conveyer belt and disappearing. I will forever remember the disbelief and horror that I felt at that moment. My mother, on the other hand, doesn't remember this at all.
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AskReddit/c3osmmj
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pex1t
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What's the most ridiculous thing that you've ever convinced someone was true?
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I have a huge list for this, probably the best would be convincing the majority of my school that a kid had been eaten and killed by a crocodile when we were about 17. This becomes ridiculous when I reveal that this was in the UK and he had only been gone for about three hours. People cried and sent his family sympathy cards.
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AskReddit/elyqu38
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bi851u
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What is the worst/most brutal way you have ever been dumped by a crush/lover?
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Got dumped by my ex by phone call; from another state on her way out of the country for 3 months, while I was buying her engagement ring. Luckily they let me cancel that order real quick. Spent a long time in the bottle from that one.
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explainlikeimfive/cmecxyw
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2nk3fq
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Why are the Ming vases so valuable?
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The ming dynasty went from 1368 to 1644 - meaning that an original Ming dynasty vase is at least a little over 360 years old. And that's delicate, super thin porcelain. That's why they are so expensive - because they survived that long without breaking. That didn't happen often as in fact there aren't that many authentic Ming vases. Most are fake.
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AskReddit/cn7237a
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2qkyf8
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Can someone with teens (or who had teens), girls in particular, please tell me how you survived those years?
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I survived by (1) remembering that it's only temporary, and (2) remembering how I was at that age. Times are so much harder now for teens.for all of us, I guess. But especially hard for teens. You've already done the hard work of bringing them this far. Just endure as best you can. Keep your eyes on that light at the end of the tunnel. Even though sometimes it reveals another tunnel.
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AskReddit/eyg6ohi
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cwx8ht
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What is the scariest thing you’ve seen on the dark web?
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Once clicked through a link and ended up on a Dark Web version of Wikipedia. Maybe not traditionally scary. But the fact some people have taken time out of their day to write comprehensive articles on specific exploited children is just wow.
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explainlikeimfive/ebarq3n
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a41j62
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How does polymorphic code work?
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Imagine a living Rubik's Cube whose function is to keep you from solving it. Whenever you try to solve it, it changes itself to make it more difficult. When you make one move, it makes another move, just to prevent you from solving it. This is basically what polymorphic code is: a program that changes itself while maintaining it's function. In this case, if the Rubik's Cube were a program, its function would be to keep you from solving it. It will constantly change just to keep you from solving it until you solve it.
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AskReddit/d7bw7eb
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51h3ol
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What movie scared you the most when you were a kid?
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saw The Birds on TV when I was about 7. Scared me so much wouldn't go to the bathroom without 2 grownups - 1 wasn't enough. Made for TV movies - "Let's Scare Jessica to Death" and the Tiki Doll one with Karen Black. Halloween and Friday the 13th - saw when they first came out and I'm already a nervous wreck- don't need jump scares to push me over the edge.
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askscience/em3do1d
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bitws9
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What differentiates fruits from vegetables scientifically?
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The question assumes that both terms exist scientifically, which isn't true. Vegetable is a culinary category, not a scientific one. Fruit is both with varying definitions. Botanically, a fruit is the ovary of a lower and includes many things that would not be seen as fruits to a chef such as bean pods, corn kernels, and that kind of thing. From a culinary standpoint, fruit is less well defined but is more or less sweet plant parts, so rhubarb would be a fruit despite not being an ovary while some botanical fruits, such as tomatoes, are considered vegetables because they aren't sweet.
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AskReddit/e1m2ih3
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8vb2f5
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What is a country you would like to visit that might seem unconventional?
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Albania and Kosovo. I work with a large group of Kosovars who came to the US around 20 years ago as refugees. They now feel safe enough to take their families back in the summer months to visit and the pics they post of the country are beautiful.
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