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AskReddit/c7s1cg2
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162a1c
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What are your worst sibling-favouritism stories?
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Not really sibling favouritism because I'm an only child, but there's definitely grandchild favouritism. My grandparents never had a good relationship with my dad (their son), so I was never treated equally to the seven other grandchildren. They all got $50 for their birthdays last year, I got $20. No significant reason for this (i.e ages, I have both older and younger cousins). I've never been asked out to a movie/lunch with the grandparents, where my other cousins do this at least once a month. It goes on and on.
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AskReddit/c4sjw0f
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u5mvl
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What are the origins of your biggest fears?
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I have a crippling fear of frogs. How did it happen? Well, I was walking home (just a few blocks away). One of my shoes had broken, so I was walking with one foot with a shoe and another without it. There was this dead frog on the sidewalk, still standing up, flies surrounding it. I didn't see it and my bare foot crunched (read: crunched) into the back of the frog. I withdrew my foot and saw the frog had a big hole in its back and my foot had frog guts all over it. So yeah. TL;DR: Frogs suck.
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AskReddit/ew07zwk
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cm62rd
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What is it like to lose a fight?
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Imagine this. There is this kid that's been bullying you since the 1st grade. You are now in 6th grade and he won't leave you alone, calling you gay among other things. You're fed up with it and finally snap. Now, you know how to fight, it isn't your first scuffle. But you're too pumped up on adrenaline to remember this is a kid who is three times you're size, who's also had their fair share of fights. You are quicker, so you get the first few hits, going for the neck, you aren't playing around. That's exactly when this kid places one solid punch to your temple. You go down. You get kicked repeatedly and spat on. Then you are left there, bleeding and in pain. Later, it turns out that kid claims that you had a weapon and were trying to attack him, so he had no choice, he had to defend himself, and his friends back him up. Now you are physically and emotionally destroyed, and no one believes the abuse you had been dealing with for five years. This was the first time I truly lost a fight. I felt like there was no tomorrow. I was finished. Suicide was hanging around in my mind, nothing mattered anymore. That is what it feels like to truly lose a fight.
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AskReddit/c3t4no7
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pxyg0
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Is it possible to strike back against Hollywood by insisting that companies notorious for "Hollywood accounting" be audited?
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no. 'hollywood accounting' refers to a system of determining profit/loss on a film, and is laid out in the contract with actors/workers/etc. it has no relation to a company's 'books'. so a company could have the craziest hollywood accounting imaginable, but their books could still be in perfect accordance with GAAP but anyways, i think most groups directly responsible for film making are not public companies, so they can do their books however they want to an example of hwood accounting: i could stipulate in the contract with an actor that one of the expenses deducted from gross receipts, in order to determine profit, will be the cost of a new yacht, to be purchased in my name, and solely for my personal use. this would obviously lower profitability of the film, but would have no impact on the company's income statement for the year, as its not a company expense, and therefore would never hit the company's books
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AskReddit/cjoyqpr
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2dffdk
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What decision are you having a hard time making?
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The big one. Mortgage - marriage - children. About to lose our rented house so it's crunch time. Hang on to the old life, or accept the inevitable responsibility of family. Fortunately, the old life allows me to bury my head in the proverbial sand. So this decision is going away until someone makes me answer it.
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AskReddit/cbwqdci
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1l87ca
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If you were famous, how would you deal with the paparazzi?
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Deal with them? C'mon! I would love them fallowing me around, taking my photos, I would pose, make funny faces, shout random stuff, put my self in the center of attention, always something new and cool for the press. You know how they say, when you want to become famous you do everything to get in spotlight, but when you become famous you start wearing black shades and start hiding from paparazzi's. Well I wouldn't hide, ever! I would enjoy fame, public interest in me and paparazzi all the time. I totally would!
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AskReddit/do936hd
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75ucax
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What is the hardest thing you have ever done?
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Transition. Realizing your trans is one thing but.it’s truly ghastly when you realize all you’re likely to lose if you actually transition.it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done and I’m not even to my endgame yet. I’ve lost a lot and I’m not yet done losing. Hopefully I gain my life as my authentic self, in time.
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AskReddit/emrnhhs
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blv7na
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What have you seen that nobody believes?
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The future. Happened only once but this one time I was talking to this girl and started having deja vu. But for some reason this time it was like actually remembered this event perfectly to the point where I knew what this girl was going to say next. I then looked at her and she said it. I don’t remember what she even said but I never forgot that and no one believes me.
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AskHistorians/cr2ojce
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359p1x
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Is there an example of a democratic country having a communist revolution?
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San Marino which is a small micro-nation within Italy. They democratically elected a Communist party which served from 1945 to 1957. They were the first and to my knowledge the only country to democratically elect a Communist regime into power in the world. The party was the Sammarinese Communist party they only got about a quarter of the popular vote but ruled the nation in a parliamentary style coalition government with the Sanmarinese Socialist party. Also San Marino is considered by some to be one of the oldest republic's in the world it goes all the way back to the Roman days.
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AskReddit/c4jzesj
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t6hk0
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What examples of bad parenting have you seen lately?
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I see bad parenting every single day when I have students with no school supplies, who haven't done their homework, etc. I have bee trying to reach bad parents all year long in an attempt to get their kids to succeed, but who have refused to return a single call because "they're your problem while they're at school". I see it every single day.
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askscience/drx9b06
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7ml89a
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In any given animal cell, are there multiple endoplasmic reticula or is there only one reticulum?
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The only cell that came to mind when I read the question is muscle fibers. Muscle fibers are formed by several cells fusing and so they have several nuclei when mature. The smooth ER in muscle fibers forms a structure called the sarcoplasmatic reticulum that is important for muscle contraction. I couldn't find any sources answering whether the sarcoplasmatic reticuli from different nuclei fuse together though so I don't know if it ends up as one continuous SR or several, seperated SR.
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explainlikeimfive/cee3mlj
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1u3e6s
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Why is genetically modified food cheaper than organic food?
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I'm little better than a 5yo in this area myself but the goal of most GM foods is to reduce loss (pests and disease) and increase yield (bigger crops ). Lower losses and higher yields = MOAR STUFF when it comes time to load the truck. This usually equates to lower prices per unit. The question I think you are asking is ' why is organic more expensive than the regular stuff'? The regular stuff is cheaper to make and most of it comes from huge commercial farms. Economy of scale = lower prices. Most of the organic stuff comes from smaller family ops and it just costs more to produce. Plus what I said above - you lose a percentage to disease and pests in organic that you might not on the big GMO farms.
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AskHistorians/chlbk0e
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25vyl7
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How far could human civilization conceivably have evolved in the deep dark past, and been wiped out, without there being any surviving evidence of it?
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All human civilizations (that we are aware of) leave some sort of impact on the landscape. So there in turn are three basic questions that archaeologists and anthropologists must answer in order to find that trace of a lost culture. 1) What sort of evidence has the culture left behind? Monumental architecture is hard to miss, but what if the culture built primarily with wood? Did the culture use metal or stone tools? Has oral history survived beyond the decline of said culture? Think Germanic Baltic cultures, Pacific Northwest First Nations, as examples. 2) How fast has the landscape changed? Pompeii and Thera were buried under dozens of feet of ash. There may even be settlements under the Black Sea. There is research underway (going off Charles Mann's 1491) uncovering ancient settlements under the Amazon canopy using ground penetrating radar. Those latter two examples may be as close as we get to "discovering" lost cultures unknown to us. 3) What are we looking for? This is big and is related to number one. While the archaeologists of the late 19th and 20th century were transfixed by Minoan and Egyptian architecture, the far more ancient Danubian and Ukraine agricultural cultures were almost totally unknown. It took a while for archaeology to advance and start looking seriously at the small potatoes: clam shell deposits, slash-and-burn activity, holes in the ground which may have contained wooden posts. Science caught up to with radio-carbon dating and GPR. Who knows what we might be looking for and with what in fifty years. I hope this answers your question or at least provides better insight.
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askscience/c2vntcl
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lu0j0
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If you cut your lips off and didn't open your mouth until they had healed, would they heal together?
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Well, I know it has been answered but, I figure if its anything like this situation it would indeed happen as you say. I have heard of a similar situation from the grandfather. While he was in a war, (I am unsure as of which I was told this story when I was young) He knew of men who had their palms slit, fingertips cut off, and hands bound in a fist. This would cause their hands to heal together and eventually their finger nails would grow out of the back of their hands.
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AskReddit/c191dvy
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elmae
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What are your favorite opening credits to a movie?
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I've always been partial to Apocalypse Now's total lack of opening or closing credits. In fact - the only mention of the title of the movie is in graffiti scrawled on a wall in Kurtz's camp. According to the commentary the title of the movie had to appear in the movie for copyright reasons - but Coppola insisted on no credits.
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AskReddit/du1g308
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7wm6za
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What is it that keeps you going in life ?
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My faith. John 3:16 says "God so loved the world that he gave his only son, and whoever believes in him will not die but have eternal life." We are all loved more than we can imagine, and if we can show that love to others, each one of us can make the world a better place. Beyond that, I don't enjoy my job, but I know that it's necessary in order to have other things in life like a home and a family. My fiancee and I are planning our wedding and I'm beyond excited for my future with her. And beyond that, the world is a beautiful, amazing place, and I haven't even scratched the surface of what I'd like to see. There's so much to experience that I want to do yet.
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AskReddit/cylgfzx
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3zei5x
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Who will die in Game of Thrones (season 6) this year, 2016 Predictions?
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Pure guesses here: Tommen Baratheon, a couple of people on the wall such as Ser Alliser, Roose or Ramsay Bolton, Grey Worm, Daario, depending on whether they include a book plotline at some point or not then Brienne. Jorah I'm kind of 50/50 on, but I am pretty sure he won't be alive at the end either way. I also am torn on Trystane Martell, if he wasn't the only heir to Dorne then I'd expect him to die next season.
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AskReddit/cv5nfou
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3lel0p
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What is the root/driving force behind the Christian-Republican explosion of terrible ideas which is essentially pushing them into a new dark ages?
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First and foremost, I would say FOX News. Follow that closely with all the angry Right-wing Talkers on radio. These two forces have guided the development of an entirely separate culture in the Right wing community. They reject facts because they "don't believe" them.science especially. They are very angry and very afraid. They don't know exactly why but they know they are. Most of these people know WHAT they believe but not WHY they believe it. Try it, ask one to tell you why the US Military (largest and most powerful in the World) needs to be "rebuilt". Watch them babble. And the reason they don't know why they believe things is they have stopped thinking or questioning the tenets of Right-wing Political Correctness. I don't think we are talking "new dark ages" here (unless these clowns actually gain enough power to control the government totally). It is more an urge to species extinction. They can't adapt. They hate change above all things. And, since Obama was elected they have had an absolute obsession with slavish adherence to the Party line. No question, no variation, no thought is allowed. Frankly, I won't miss them when the last one is gone.
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askscience/d37t3qj
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4jm7me
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How the Schwarzschild Radius Formula was found ?
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Schwarzschild looked for a spherically symmetric solution of Einstein's equations; in other words, he was looking for the gravitational field of a spherical object like a star or a planet. What he found was the Schwarzschild metric, the general-relativistic version of F=-GMm/r^(2). Intriguingly, the Schwarzschild metric 'broke down' at a radius 2GM/c^(2). This was no problem for stars or planets, because his solution was only valid outside those objects, and their radii are larger than their Schwarzschild radii. But if an object were smaller than its Schwarzschild radius, then something 'bad' would happen. In fact, nothing 'bad' happens until you hit the singularity at r=0, but at r=2GM/c^(2) Schwarzschild's choice of coordinates became invalid. That was (in retrospect) a sign of the event horizon appearing, although it takes some more work to show it.
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explainlikeimfive/dq9q27o
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7f64b9
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How come mouth guards are only meant to be worn for your upper teeth?
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Only your lower jaw actually moves. The upper jaw is fixed. So when you get hit in the face, your lower jaw smashes into your upper jaw. If there were to be something hard on the lower teeth, they would hit the upper teeth really hard and actually make the damage worse. Only putting guards on the upper teeth prevents this from happening and cushions the blow better.
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askscience/c2cm13y
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jjeys
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How can Hubble observe the necklace nebula from a distance of 15,000 light years if it's only 10,000 years old?
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That's somewhat poorly worded by the NASA site, though it's very common to put things in these terms. They mean 10,000 years ago as observed by us, meaning 25,000 years ago. I almost always refer to things that I observe in the present tense though technically they did of course happen a long time ago. Nearly all observational astronomers pick up this habit, thanks for pointing it out, we should be reminded to be careful about this when reporting discoveries to those who might not be aware of it!
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AskReddit/c60pa2j
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z1oe9
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What stupid things have your doctors done, making you question their intelligence?
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I went to the doctor to follow up with a stubbed toe. After the doctor finished taking the dressing off, and I started to get my things ready he said, "Whoa now, I can still fondle you and what not so you get your monies worth." I think he meant a regular check-up.
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AskReddit/e95vwod
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9up2a6
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What to do in Paris for one day ?
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Breakfast: sit down for a croissant and coffee or grab a crepe if you're in a hurry. Morning: Art. With only one day I'd suggest the Musee d'Orsay, as it's much more manageable than the Louvre, but if there's particular pieces or exhibits at the Louvre you want to see go there. Lunch: there's hundreds of great cafes, especially once you get a block or two off of the main "touristy" streets. Pick one that suits your tastes and budget, but save some money to splurge on a nice dinner. Afternoon: Notre Dame and the Latin Quarter. Seeing the most famous church in Paris won't take all afternoon. (If it's not your thing you could do the Eiffel tower instead, but thats about as interesting as being on the top floor of a tall building). Notre Dame is a short walk from the Latin Quarter, a fun community with eclectic shopping and excellent options for dinner. Dinner: plan to sit at your table for ~3 hours, enjoying several courses and glasses of wine with your traveling partners.
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AskReddit/eup6hyh
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ch3yya
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Where’s the last place you want to run into an old friend?
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Firstly, id have to make friends, then strain the relationship with weirdness, become estranged, wait 6 months and then 'run' into them while they're getting a glass of water in the middle of the night.
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askscience/et6oilp
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c9ig6j
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Why do things become ‘breakable’ when frozen?
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Things are ductile and malleable, because their atomic structure is such that its atoms may slide past one another without breaking their atomic bonds. So when a stress is applied to a ductile object, the atoms shift and the object deforms rather than shattering. Now when an object is frozen, the atoms are locked into place and cannot slide pass each other. When a stress is applied to this brittle object, the stress is concentrated to a smaller area and breaks the atomic bonds holding the object together.
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AskReddit/d0fers0
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47sxv3
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What is the most idiotic thing you've done lately?
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I jumped off the stage at the end of a karaoke song and stomped down, spraining three ligaments in my knee. I've been stuck at home out of work for two weeks already, and the doctor says two more best case scenario. I didn't even time it right with the end of the song.
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askscience/c633278
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zax8c
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If you pour a layer of oil on top of water in an open container, will it keep the water from evaporating?
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Plumbers use this method, using mineral oil, to keep unused traps from evaporating and releasing sewer gas into the room. (as a temporary seal until permanent sealing can be done)
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AskReddit/cogha8q
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2vcsik
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How do you brew loose tea?
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Tea fiend here. Can you let us know what type of tea it is? Different teas need different brewing techniques. Some varieties should be steeped for just a few seconds in 70 degree (celcius) water, others need a couple of minutes in boiling water and everything inbetween. Regarding the process: Traditionally people just put the tea in, steep, pour into a second container before pouring into the drinking cup, this controls the time of brewing and hence the flavour. Leaving the water soaking in the leaves too long will make the tea go bitter without a doubt. The filter is optional, high quality teas sink to the bottom and the eating the leaves is a good part of the experience of consuming some green teas.
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AskReddit/elhu011
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bg2gso
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What's the most disgusting thing that has ever been in your mouth?
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I was at a mall in Georgia and went into a candy store to browse. I saw what I thought was a watermelon lollipop; the wrapper looked like a water melon at least. So I purchased it and popped it in my mouth and it was the nastiest thing I have ever tasted. I still don't know what flavour it was. Like a trooper. I internalized my disgust, exclaimed "omg this tastes amazing" and passed it off to my cousin. She had the same reaction I did to this horrid candy, ask my why I would do that to her, and threw it away.
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AskReddit/cknwa8o
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2gzejf
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If you could replace one actor in a bad movie to make it a good movie, who would be the replacement and why?
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I would replace the chick who gets her head cut off while being banged doggy-style in "Serbian Film" with Justin Bieber. I just think seeing that would make a lot of peoples' day
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explainlikeimfive/dzdeuej
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8l7d64
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Why did English not split into distinct dialects/sublanguages like other Eurasian languages?
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American English and Australian English are both distinct dialects from UK English. And there are sub dialects within UK English such as Cockney, Scots that you point out, and a few other regional dialects. Infact American English is able to broke down into sub dialects too such as North Eastern, Southern, Southwestern, Midwestern, West Coast, etc. The various dialects of Chinese are often not actual dialects. They are fully independent languages that were united by a common written language forced upon people by Imperial China. So the written symbol for "rice" is the same in all the languages even if the words are different. Though it does have some that are traditional dialects too.
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AskReddit/cah193h
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1g5xr9
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Which historical figure do you feel a deep personal connection to?
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Thoreau. Not the hermit stuff. Not the curmudgeon stuff. Not the 'simplify' thing. People make very big mistakes often misunderstanding these things. More the John Brown stuff and the willingness to live your life according to your beliefs. To pare away everything else. sort of a self distillation and a deep rooted resistance to dogma and a drive to question everything. Particularly yourself. What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Are you, and man as a species, better off because of it? The man was, in my mind, one of the foremost thinkers in American history - and more than this - endeavored to live what he learned. And did it without the slightest hint of pontificating or prescribing to anyone besides reminding us that if we feel uneasy about our lot in life - we can change it through action in body and mind and lead a more satisfying, fruitful, enriching life.
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explainlikeimfive/c7ho8tj
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14ynrp
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Why do humans only have one hair color, but other mammals, like my dog, have more than one hair colors?
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Hair colour in mammals is created my two different pigments, a red-yellow colour (pheomelanin) and a brown-black colour (eumelanin). The amounts and ratios of the two colours inside the hair determine the final colour of each individual strand of hair. Each hair follicle operates individually, therefore you do get variation in colour between each hair on your head, even if it is very subtle. Your genes determine what colour the hairs on your head will be. In the case of some dogs it determines certain patterns of different colours, just like how some people will have a large stripe of white hair although the rest of their hair be remain brown.
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AskReddit/cso0wg8
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3bojfy
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What's the kinkiest thing you've ever done and how did you feel about it?
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Participating in a TPE (Master/slave) relationship for two years. Being responsible for someone else's welfare and making a significant number of their decisions is intoxicating. I enjoyed it immensely, but we had a lot of other things in common besides the kinks. It was a fun relationship all around. I'm still very fond of the person, though we've since parted ways.
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AskReddit/cyhzaak
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3yzc78
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Have you sometimes wondered if everyone sees colors differently, while still being able to agree with others about what color a certain object is, because each person thinks that that color is called that, while others would have said otherwise if they could actually see what that person saw?
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I'm still wondering who decided orange was going to be named orange? I mean carrots have the same color why don't we call it carrot? Hmm. Now that there is a nice shade of carrot
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AskReddit/cmd195s
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2nf26q
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How do you respond when someone tells you that you cannot empathize with black culture?
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It's probably mostly this person saying that because you have not had personal experience with anti-black prejudice, you are not the authority on what happens, and should probably listen to what people who have experienced it have to say and follow their lead in this case. You can empathize all you want, but it's similar to if someone you know has been a soldier and seen the atrocities of war. You cannot know exactly how it is, you can only listen and imagine, and try to do something to keep it from happening again.
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explainlikeimfive/djd1w3a
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6jbnl8
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Why does paper become transparent when oil is spilled on it?
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Due to the fact that the refractive index of the oil spilled is similar to that of the fibers of the paper, when paper absorbs the oil, more light is able to more readily pass through the paper and give the paper a translucent quality.
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AskReddit/ebklnh7
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a58g12
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Why are breakfast foods accepted as a viable meal for lunch/dinner, but lunch/dinner foods questionable when had for breakfast?
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Possibly because breakfast foods use to vary drastically in terms of the number of calories and the overall amount of food from what we eat today. Up until a few decades ago a good breakfast was seen as a very light meal, but then a bacon selling company realized it wasn't selling enough bacon to stay afloat and managed to get everyone on board with the idea of a "hearty" (aka much larger) breakfast being much healthier and probably the most important meal of the day. My guess is that because of this change people started seeing breakfast as a viable meal for dinner, but the stigma/tradition of having dinner for breakfast (or at least fresh dinner, leftovers are cool with most people) never really changed for whatever reason.
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AskHistorians/ci85mah
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287h6e
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Why did so many Roman emperors adopt their successors?
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Unfortunately, the answer is pretty boring: a lack of natural heirs. Perhaps due to strict monogamy alongside a fairly low upper class birthrate--not to mention assassinations and the like--natural born heirs reaching majority was relatively rare. In fact, Vespasian and Marcus Aurelius are the only emperors of the Early Imperial period who were succeeded by natural sons. It is possible that this situation made the Roman court relatively harmonious compared to, say, the Chinese or Ottoman courts, where multiple wives and their families schemed for position, or later European courts, where there was enormous pressure to produce a male heir and the rules of succession were complex and highly disputable. But I am not sure how far I can push that.
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AskReddit/e902jha
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9tygp5
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What can you eat with peanut butter?
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It's really easy to make peanut sauce from peanut butter, plus hot water, soy sauce, ginger, green onions, or whatever else you want. I eat it with grilled chicken or on noodles.
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AskReddit/ck0xf5w
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2emqvi
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What made you go military?
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When I was 17, my dad had told me on multiple occasions I wouldn't be getting any help from my parents to go to college. I barely graduated high school and was arrested for possession with intent to distribute. This was most likely going to lead to me being kicked out. I signed up for the Navy and my charges were dropped. 10 years later, I think it was the best decision I've ever made.
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AskReddit/ct0slbu
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3d01e6
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If a dating site was able to match people together using their browser history, how successful do you think it would be?
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Matching people based on their browsing history would likely work well, given enough data. I work in Ad Tech, an industry that has been doing the matching part for years. It works well because of many technical details, but the two big relevant ones here are clustering and logistic regression. Clustering is cool because you can take all of the sites that everyone visits, watch how they do it, and make inferences about how the sites can be grouped together based on interest, without knowing anything about the content of the site. For example, Reddit, Slashdot, and HN might make it into the same cluster because a bunch of people browse them back-to-back on their mobile devices on their lunch hours. Clustering can also be used on people, and one of the ways to do this is logistic regression. Imagine making a huge spreadsheet where there's a column for each site/interest cluster from above, and each row is a person. For each intersecting cell, add a checkmark if the person has history interacting with the cluster (above some minimum threshold). LR is a binary classifier: given a bunch of yes/no checkmarks, what is the probability of getting another checkmark in this particular column? In this case, the column might signal dating compatibility. In ad tech we use this to figure out the best ads to show you. It works ridiculously well: if we see a ton of sites about fitness in your history then suddenly we see you searching for travel destinations, we're more likely to show you ads like "come hike this trail" than "come relax on this beach", which we might show you if we have figured out that you have a half dozen kids. It's a bit of a stretch to assume that a low MSE (mean standard error, think: how different are these two things) between two people's browsing history would make them perfect matches, but based on what we know about getting people to buy things, it's not a huge stretch. PSA: If this stuff creeps you out, search for "ad choices opt out". Most ad tech companies are above board operations: if you say you don't want to be behaviorally tracked, they honor it. And if you're going to do so, take time to understand how that opt out works. (It's cookie based. So you need to do it in all browsers you use. This includes things that you might not think of as browsers, like the pseudo-browser you get when you click a link in Facebook mobile.)
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AskReddit/dqi5vjl
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7gd7ae
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What is your least favorite Christmas tradition that your family does?
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When I was little, we used to have a cat that my mum absolutely adored but I hated. She instantly grew attached to it and would occasionally give it some of our leftovers. The cats favorite was steak. So every Christmas dinner she would cook steak just for the cat which annoyed me and my dad as we aren’t very big meat eaters. The cat passed away about 10 years ago but she still cooks steak every Christmas
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AskReddit/dovdsu8
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78ogzj
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How will gaming be different in 10 years time?
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10 years? I'm going to go with studios using a Kickstarter-esque platform for games. I'd say a Lot of publishers are going to fade as time goes on, and More things like Senua and Pillars of Eternity happening. I'm going to bet that a Lot more companies are going to try to spin off their individual game selling service like U-play and Origin, but I think most of them are going to not be very profitable.
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AskReddit/c0up90c
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crj98
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Has anyone ever thought about how often OnStar operators have to listen to the last whimpers of people dying in a car crash?
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There was a comment from a Redditor EMT driver a while ago, saying that the worst part of the job was telling people that they'd be OK as they lay dying in the ambulance with absolutely no chance of recovery.
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explainlikeimfive/cik3h5o
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29ef0l
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When I am driving 60mph in my car and notice there is a fly in there, is the fly flying 60 mph?
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Good question, sir! Let's look at this at the fly's point-of-view. I am flying inside a car that is moving at 60 mph. Is that guy sitting down at 60mph as well?
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askscience/exdm6z3
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cs4wp5
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What exactly is happening when ground is left fallow?
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Many crops are heavy consumers of nitrates (soluble nitrogen). When only these plants are grown, they slowly deplete the nitrogen in the soil. There are two main ways to replenish nitrates, fertilizer and nitrogen fixing plants. These plants, such as alfalfa covert nitrogen in the air into soluble nitrogen. When a field is left to foul, lots of these nitrogen fixing plants can take hold and correct the nutrient balance in the soil.
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AskReddit/ebp3cik
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a5tkup
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If you had to give a million dollars to one charity, which one would it be and why?
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to be honest, I would give lots of it to Wikipedia. I don’t know whether they are a “charity”, but the recording and sharing of knowledge is something that I completely agree with. I also think that they have a very “light” corporate, unlike lots of major charities.
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AskReddit/c5n6asb
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xkntx
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Why are actors / actresses so highly paid, as opposed to more 'essential' professionals like doctors?
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1) Entertainment is also "essential" to society. 2) An actor/actress' work can be enjoyed by millions for a small fee, whereas professionals have to pick and choose clients based on their limited time and resources.
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AskReddit/dr1lc2t
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7iv643
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What are the books that you would recommend which changed your life?
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How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn. The book is about a Welsh Mining town over many years. It really helped me understand, as a young 16 year old boy, what hard working people go through. I started my work life with this book in mind and it really helped set perspective for me that has lasted all these years. I’m 45 now.
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askscience/cpaj3r2
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2ygiww
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Is the movement of a cat's tail autonomous for balance or more actively controlled?
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Not sure if you really mean autonomous, since the tail itself has no control. Maybe you mean subconscious vs conscious? Since its used for balance I would be surprised if cats had to consciously control their tails. I think it would be similar to many of the things that humans do subconsciously for balance like shifting arms.
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AskReddit/ex1sne2
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cr1q81
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How do you think the world would react to undeniable proof of extraterrestrial life?
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With the ever popular science fiction, and countless conspiracist I think it would be widely accepted. In fact I bet it is widely accepted that there is so form of extraterrestrial life out there. Would be interesting to see a nation or even global poll on this.
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explainlikeimfive/deqxvqs
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5yjsrj
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How does creatine work for improving physical fitness?
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It's not so much physical fitness as it is endurance. Creatine as a molecule is used to store phosphate molecules readily availible for ATP regeneration from ADP in a more stable form (ATP readily hydrolizes on its own over a short period of time, whereas creatine is somewhat stable). Increasing the amount of creatine in your body increases this "ATP buffer" you have before your cells have to resort to starting to burn glucose and degrading it into lactate via fermentation for a simple example, without creatine muscles would have ATP stores for about 5 seconds of muscle contraction, and then you'd have to start burning glucose to regenerate the ATP, which takes some time
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AskReddit/e7j0ixx
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9n21xu
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What common misconception do people have about sexual harassment?
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That it's criminal. In the US, sexual harassment is a civil offense meaning you can sue someone over it, but there's no criminal charge of sexual harassment. Some forms of sexual harassment might also be criminal offenses like rape or lewdness, but most sexual harassment is not criminal conduct.
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AskReddit/cwcx8j2
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3q84fe
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Have you ever directly saved a life, and how?
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A man was drunk driving on the wrong side of the highway in my home town. I was the only other person on the road at that time, and he was coming straight at me mobbing about 110MPH. I swerved, did a couple donuts and landed in the median. Had I not moved, we would have both died--no question. I directly saved my own life, and his inadvertently. Context: During the trial we discovered he was trying to commit suicide, and wanted to take out as many people as he could. So he was charged with two counts of attempted murder, and 5 counts of assault.
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explainlikeimfive/dgbfsr1
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65mdv5
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What exactly is a watt of electricity?
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A joule is a measure of energy. For comparison, it takes about 4 joules to heat one gram of water by one degree Celsius. A joule per second is equal to one watt of energy. 5 joules per second equals 5 watts. Another equation for watts in electricity is voltage times current.
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AskReddit/ds116zg
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7ndnbr
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What is the best way to make rice less boring?
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Beef/ chicken stock Turn it into spanish rice Soy Sauce Make it into pudding Roll it up with some fish and make homemade sushi Make rice pancakes Throw it into a soup Throw it uncooked at newlyweds Add a pinch of salt while making it, then cover it in teriyaki sauce. Go white. Eat it with ketchup or tomato soup. Make Curry.
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askscience/couji81
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2wt6vf
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How do you read/interpret nested quantifiers?
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The use of quantifiers is to make ideas precise and proofs easy. The first example says that: > There is a positive real number y such that every positive number is greater than or equal to y. Well, we can rephrase that to > There is a positive real number y such that y is less than or equal to every positive real number. But that is still a little clunky, so > There is a positive real number y such that y is less than every other positive real number. And finally, > There is a smallest positive real number. Which is clearly false. Edit: But if we started out with the final phrasing, a rigorous proof might be more difficult to formulate. With the first phrasing, we can respond 'Oh you say that's true for every x? Well, I've found a way to give you just a single one of those x's that is between 0 and y, so you're wrong.' (Sometimes math is confrontational.) Like anything else in math, you need practice and exposure to develop intuition. As von Neumann said 'Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.' This might seem pessimistic, but how much, for example, do you understand about riding a bike? I'd wager not all that much, but you have fallen off a bike at least a few times when you began. Constantly falling off the bike is what learning math is all about. Try creating examples of your own, or slightly changing examples you are given. A few examples: > There exists y in (0, 1) such that for all x in (0, 1), x is greater than or equal to y. > There exists y in [0, 1) such that for all x in [0,1), x is greater than or equal to y. > For all a,b in R such that a is less than b, there exists y in (a, b) such that for all x in (a, b), x is greater than or equal to y. > For all a,b in R such that a is less than b, there exists y in [a, b) such that for all x in [a, b), x is greater than or equal to y.
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AskReddit/dmguqc3
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6xlunl
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How should we design cities to withstand extreme weather event?
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Coastal cities, especially those often prone to hurricanes, should construct buildings with more curves or domes. More wind resistance and less likely to suffer damage. Windows should be made of tempered glass that can withstand up to 3,000 ppp. Likewise, automatic shutters should be installed that can be lowered in the instant you're warned to prepare for a hurricane. This should be required not just on commercial buildings or multi-residential buildings, but even single family residential buildings (houses) as well. Military-grade or some other high-grade metal shutters that can be pulled to and locked into place. Streets and sidewalks should be fitted with special valves that release under the water pressure when so many inches of flood water remain. The valves could be connected to the existing sewer systems. Existing manhole covers could be replaced by these valves. They would need to experience enough pressure from several feet of water in order to open up; a standard car or even 16-wheeler semi shouldn't be able to apply enough pressure to open up a valve; only 2 feet or more of water. As for evacuation routes, all major highways should have all lanes reversed to one-way-out. The state of Florida has this in effect. If the governor has ordered an evacuation, all major highways leading into the affected cities become one-way, and that's OUT. Any highways with north/southbound lanes all become northbound-only lanes. East/Westbound lanes become all westbound lanes. I believe the states of Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina have this same law into effect. Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and any other states along the coasts should have this in effect. Neighboring, landlocked states should honor this as well, up to at least 10-15 miles within their side of the state line.
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AskReddit/evnzuom
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ckjsd5
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What’s the point of a life sentence in prison when most people who get it walk out on parole?
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you are granted parole by a parole board that weighs your crime, your remorse, and your likelihood of re offending. Its not like you are truly free. You are on parole. You have to report to a parole officer. You have to do random drug checks. You have to maintain employment. You screw up in any way at all and you are right back in prison serving out the rest of your sentence.LIFE.
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AskReddit/cl2dfrs
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2ii6qk
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What is your best bee/wasp story?
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When I was growing up we had a sweet, old lady neighbor that would always let us play in her backyard. She talked to my family about some noises and smells she had in her house. My dad went to check it out and it turned out she had thousands of bees living in her home. Honey was actually dripping from her walls. My dad called some people and eventually got the bees relocated. This story could bee more entertaining, but that's all I got.
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AskReddit/e415x8c
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96kli0
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What helps the most when dealing with a parent with cancer?
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My mom had breast cancer when I was in middle school & my dad worked extra shifts so I was her caretaker. Just do your best to go about daily life like school in my case as best you can to prove to the parent you'll be independent/fine in case they aren't around someday. Made my mom feel at peace & she survived anyway. Good luck
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AskReddit/c3y01lm
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qj57v
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How would we protect ourselves if we knew an asteroid was approaching to make impact?
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It all depends on the nature of the asteroid itself. Particularly with regards to its size. There are various programs in effect at this point that are trying to track and record Near Earth Objects, but nothing with regards to dealing with an imminent threat. If an asteroid was on course towards our planet, then it would be interesting to see if it could be stopped or diverted. Either through bombing it into dust, or changing its course using targeted detonations or spacecraft. Various individuals and groups have called for plans to be made for this scenario, but it seems that money is better spent on building bigger bombs.
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explainlikeimfive/d6lwnfg
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4y8uzo
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How do services such as 'Bongo' in the UK know any details about a person, and are they even real?
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From their FAQ: >HOW DOES BONGO WORK? >BONGO works thanks to a number of intelligent human researchers and a very sophisticated software application with a huge database. So officially, they say it's a mixture of human researchers and a software application. Presumably they are collecting info from social media, publications, etc You'd be shocked how much info the average person puts out there. I'm sure they're looking at who you have Liked on facebook and then tracking if that person has Liked your photos and that kind of stuff.
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AskReddit/edkk6xp
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adw3cp
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What weird food combinations do you really enjoy?
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Garlic cheese bread + chocolate pudding. French fries + vanilla ice cream powerful combinations of sweet and savory
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AskReddit/dj39m7o
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6i390i
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Why is there so much animosity towards Jewish people all throughout history?
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I think it has something to do with both them being there to be an easy scapegoat for governments and people, but also how in many cases where countries/peoples have fallen on hard times, Jewish diasporas tend to have gotten off relatively well compared to the rest of their "host" country
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AskReddit/eq8x62h
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bxpu9i
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In Rock Paper scissors, what is your go to move?
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A friend and I would play to decide unimportant stuff all the time, and I did 100% scissors. She would call me out, I would deny that I had a pattern, and she felt great about beating me all the time. One day we were finally playing to decide something I cared about (I forget what), and I threw the most important paper of my RPS career.
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AskReddit/djpifzb
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6kx9qj
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What is the worst feeling in the world?
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The morning after a tragedy. You wake up slowly and at first all you register is that your warm and pleasantly sleepy, the world is still a good place. Then you remember the previous day and your stomach drops and you lose your breath. That abrupt departure from contentment to abject horror is the worst feeling in the world.
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AskReddit/d1alg44
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4bn2tt
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Why are other Middle East countries not taking in refugees rather than European countries?
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A lot of them are. The majority of refugees are going to Muslim/Middle Eastern countries (mainly Iraq, Turkey, and Jordan). They face a lot less issues around assimilation in these countries so we hear a lot less about it.
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AskReddit/encl3h9
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bo52fl
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What game do you and your family/friends play where the rules are made up and the points don’t matter?
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My boyfriend and I play Maryland while we drive on the interstate. Whenever we see someone driving like a d-bag we guess what state their plates are from. If you guess Maryland and you’re right you get 10 points; if you’re wrong you lose 20. If you see someone from Maryland driving more safely than those around them you get 5 points.
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Ask_Politics/ciuefbs
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2adt1a
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Are there any states where immigration has markedly benefited the community?
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Isn't your whole United States thing a country full of descendents of immigrants? Everything the US has achieved on the world stage happened because someone immigrated to America from somewhere else in the world. (Obvious exception being native Americans) It really makes me wonder why your country is so harsh on immigration when your whole scociety was built by it.
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explainlikeimfive/eess522
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aj4xcg
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Why can't I record video sources by plugging them into my Graphics Card?
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Pretty simple - graphics cards are output only. They just lack the hardware on the card for them to be inputs. It would obviously be possible to place the capture hardware on a normal video card, but I am just not sure why you would do that (as opposed to having a separate dedicated capture card). The demand for this would probably be non existant too, as most people dont want to capture, and having that hardware on the video card would inherently raise its price.
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explainlikeimfive/de2jek5
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5vjemt
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How does GPS work in space?
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GPS works exactly the same in space as on earth: the receiver (for example your phone) compares the time delay between the different satellites and, using the known orbits of the satellites, calculates its own position. This process is called multilateration. That said, you do need a special GPS receiver in space: consumer GPS receivers have hardcoded altitude and velocity limits to prevent them from being used in ballistic missile targeting systems.
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AskReddit/cem6yzu
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1uvyk7
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What's your favourite movie of all time?
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Transformers: The Movie (1986 version, not the Mikey Bay crash-bang-wallop childhood-raping clusterfucks) Pure childhood nostalgia for me. I will watch that film any time of day or night lol
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explainlikeimfive/cedqpie
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1u22pb
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Why do humans see faces in every day objects?
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Because the human brain is programmed to see the "base model" or the minimum amount of lines/shapes needed to see a face. The evolutionary psychology "just so" theory is that even if we identify things that aren't faces, at least we are less likely to miss faces. That are either friends or possible enemies in dense forest. The biological model for this has to do with infancy. Think of what you think a typical grey alien looks like. For the first few months thats all that a baby processes of your face and because most babies spend a lot of time looking at other humans, usually mothers fathers etc. Because its such an intense focus for so long when we see similar shapes in other objects our brain fills in the gaps. Like babies learned to do when thier eyes began to process more
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AskReddit/df31jsl
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602s6m
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How to become more aware of scams and stuff and protect yourself from getting taken advantage of?
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It's just common sense. Don't go with anything that sounds odd or to good to be true. If it's a call like IRS scams, the IRS usually never calls, but send mail. You can verify these types of calls anyway by hanging up and calling the normal number to see if its real.
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AskReddit/eglhvrh
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ar8fg2
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What’s your “I don’t get paid enough for this” moment?
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I worked at a gym and was given a task to cut the locks off of unpaid lockers. I didn't finish before people started coming in and a woman came in to the locker room right when I was cutting her lock. She started screaming at me that I was racist, then emailed the VP of the gym about the HORRIBLE thing I did to her. After this happened the GM called me in to his office and said he was going to put me on a week's paid leave. I said fine, but I'm never cutting locks again and I refuse to interact with that member ever again. Thankfully they recognized she was nuts, so they agreed.
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AskReddit/cv4d26w
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3l9haq
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What band brings out all your life emotions?
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Collective Soul reminds me of early childhood. Specifically the song "December". It just brings me back to the 90s and all of the sights, sounds, smells etc. of that time in my life. I usually get emotional to a certain degree when I hear it.
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explainlikeimfive/d6e5hgr
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4xbtrq
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What are the differences in antibiotics that are designed for different varieties of infection (viral, fungal, bacterial, etc.) ?
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Antibiotics are only for treating bacterial infections. That's literally what the word means. If you're looking at treating fungal infections, you need an antifungal. If you're looking to treat a viral infection, you need an antiviral. They're all completely different drugs.
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AskReddit/excxdjg
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cs6wmr
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What was it like living in a hoarder house?
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I come from a family of hoarders. My parents are divorced and the parent that I lived with was not the hoarder, but I spent weekends at the hoarder house. Entire rooms filled with junk. It's impossible to clean because there's no place to put anything and you're not allowed to throw anything away. Everything smells like mold. It's embarrassing to have friends over. I still can't visit that house without getting irrationally angry. Why are you keeping a stack of empty egg cartons!? Are you really worried that you might need 20 egg cartons someday? Are you preparing for an egg carton emergency!? I'm so afraid of becoming a hoarder that I don't want to keep anything. I'm always giving things away and then having to rebuy them when I realize I still needed them. One of the most anxiety-inducing things a person can do is tell me I have a lot of something. "Wow you have a lot of shoes!" "You have a lot of records!" etc
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AskReddit/c980rtd
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1bmiev
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Can i Get sued for making and selling Tshirts using an image i created from a photo ?
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I don't think so. That "Hope" Obama poster, which was originally an AP photo, was declared art by a judge. It was felt that the artist transformed the original image enough to make it something else.
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askscience/cc8fuw2
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1mdddu
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Why do things look darker when they get wet?
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The reason materials often look darker when wet is that there is decreased back-scattering of light towards the observer. Materials such as clothing and paper and made of fibers with air spaces in between (pavement also has an irregular surface with many air spaces). According to Fresnel's equations, at each material-air interface, reflection occurs. These equations state that the amount of reflection depends on the relative refractive indices of the substances at the interface; a greater difference results in more reflection. Since there are myriad such interfaces, and the fibers/micro-crystals are not perfectly ordered, diffuse reflection occurs. This reflected/back-scattered light makes the object appear bright, since it is sent back towards the observer. However, when the material is wet, the air-material interface is replaced by a water-material interface. Since the refractive indices are closer for the water-material pair than air-material pair, according to Fresnel's equations, less light is reflected at each interface. Thus, the object appears darker, since more light is transmitted and less is back-scattered towards the observer. This phenomenon is also why it is easier to see through wet paper or clothing. Edit: clarified Fresnel's equations
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explainlikeimfive/c5f1zwm
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wog5t
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How does BoltBus stay in business charging $1 fares?
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The $1 tickets can be difficult to get sometimes, especially for high demand routes. If I want DC to NYC, I have to get that ticket around a month early. I think BoltBus strives on customers buying tickets within a closer window and paying full price.
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AskReddit/ecpb27b
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aa5uke
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How does one haggle car prices at a dealership?
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Don't haggle! Tell them you are interested in 2 or 3 different cars (at different dealerships) and that you will buy from whomever gives you the best deal, as money is ultimately the bottom line factor for you. Tell them they have ONE chance to give you their absolute best price on the car you want and that you refuse to haggle. If the price isn't right, walk away. Shop at the end of the month and/or end of the year. You'll get a better price on an 'older' model used car.
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AskReddit/d7onhfd
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52zinf
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Which widely hated fictional character would you argue isn't actually that bad?
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Ron Weasley. Maybe not as widely hated as some, but it's common to see people bashing him and debating about how he doesn't "deserve" Hermione, as he is lazy, incompetent etc. A lot of Ron's lines in the films were given to Hermione, which is a big factor in people's opinions of him. To be fair, he is a bit of an asshat at times (Fourth year and then when he leaves them in the tent in the last book) but while there aren't many excuses there are multiple reasons for him acting like this. Family pressure with six siblings, the Locket horcrux etc. And what teenage boy doesn't make a few mistakes in his life?
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AskReddit/caqliy5
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1h3wvb
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If you had the learning powers shown in The Matrix (can instantly download the knowledge/ability) for one skill/subject, what would you choose and why?
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how to live in the mid-late 1800s because every single skill you could need to know in life would be covered. From medical to survial to manners etc. It's knowledge lost in todays world. How many of you could honestly go without running water, electricity, etc for more than a couple of days. No more cars, no more run to the store every 5 minutes. serious back to the old west living.
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AskReddit/cfajbvz
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1xe5mz
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What do you think is the worst way to die?
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Not worst, but I always felt like the whole concept of drowning is very sad. You don't expect it, you die alone, you were just unlucky and the whole thing is amazingly stupid. Talking about pain, I'd name being boiled alive - as I remember Mongolians did this.
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AskReddit/cx7wo9t
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3toozd
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Will Socialism happen eventually?
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Pure socialism already happened and did not do very well. Bernie Sanders style Democratic Socialism (or Social Democracy as it's called in Europe) happens all over the place and is doing extremely well. Most of Europe are social democracies.
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AskReddit/e2vezma
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914obr
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In your opinion, what’s the biggest or most impactful inequality between men and women today?
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I know this is gonna come off as meninisty but the fact that Men are told from a young age that they should not feel emotions save for anger is a big problem. It leads to many mental health issues that manifest into higher homicide and domestic abuse rates as well as suicide rates. There's a reason all of these mass murderers running amok in the US are men. Its a big problem.
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AskReddit/ekfevhs
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bb0beq
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What was your favorite kids show growing up and why?
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Scooby doo because I love the background music and the sound effects, the plans these kids came up with were always silly and random and they always had the equipment to carry out the plan “trap”. Lastly, they always caught the bad guy which I loved because I love a satisfying ending
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explainlikeimfive/csdkszc
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3ajnts
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Who are all these US Presidential candidates?
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The only two major Democratic candidates are Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. However Clinton has a large lead of Sanders and is much more likely to become the nomination. The Republican party has a huge number of candidates and many of them are basically the same. Some of the more notable ones are Rand Paul who has very different foreign policy and government surveillance views then the rest of the Republicans. Jeb Bush is a major candidate as well, but he is the brother of George Bush which will be one of the major obstacles for him. Marco Rubio is another major candidate who is younger then the rest of the field. The other Republican candidates are slight variation of each other, if you want to more detail on them you should probably google them.
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AskReddit/cfbqne2
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1xikb7
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How long did it take for you and your SO to say you loved each other?
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He told me after about 3 months of dating by saying "dont get mad but i think maybe i might love you" and i replied "no, you dont". A month later i realized i accidentally loved him back and burst out crying when i said it. He laughed and responded 'dont worry i wont tell anyone' That was 6 years ago. We're married now (:
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explainlikeimfive/d7i50wa
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528bih
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What is the history behind the United States of today being much more religious than most other western countries?
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The United States has a competitive free market in religion. In most other Western nations, a state religion exists. This makes religions in the U.S. more aggressively pro-consumer rather than merely traditional institutions the population begrudgingly tolerates.
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AskReddit/ckdzv1k
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2fyq1q
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What disgusting habit did somebody tell you about that you immediately started doing yourself?
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My sister told me about this habit that my brother-in-law has that disgusts her. Anytime he is down with a nose/chest/throat cold, he takes an empty plastic drink bottle and carries it around with him. He uses this bottle to spit his snot, mucus and lung butter into rather than using a kleenex. Partly out of curiosity and partly because my sister said it was gross, I started doing the same thing. It's demonstrably better than using kleenex for blowing your nose. No irritation, less pressure on the sinuses, just snort and spit, all day. No more swallowing those hard earned lung cookies after coughing them up either, they go right in the bottle. You need to change the bottle out once a day or it starts to smell, but this is by far the best way to deal with the snotty nuisance of having a cold.
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Ask_Politics/e9a4hly
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9v80ps
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How feasible is it for the USA to split into 2 countries?
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1) We do not want to be split in to two countries. 2) Political divides are urban vs. rural, not state vs. state. So splitting the country apart to solve ideological divides isn't feasible. 3) The main factors that result in political divide such as media consumption, race, class, education, and cultural differences, ideological segregation, and of course, the urban rural divide cannot be solved by making one right-wing country and one left-wing country. Instead what happens is after these countries implement a bunch of things they agree on, they'll go right back to partisanship. In the conservative country it would be right vs. far right and in the liberal country it would be left vs. far left. Political homogeneity is unattainable.
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askscience/cugcz6q
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3igsk1
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Is there feasible, truly green energy?
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I think what you're really asking is, "is there a way to power a civilization without affecting the natural world in any way", and the answer is plainly "no". There's no free lunch for energy. It has to come from something, and inevitably that means something has to change. One of the biggest failings of "green" thought, is to fail to recognize the difference in scale in the negative consequences of different forms of power. In other words yes, hydro or solar or wind or nuclear have negative impacts associated with their construction and/or operation, but these impacts are local/regional. The fact that they let us burn less fossil fuels is globally beneficial.
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explainlikeimfive/cz2rq9v
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41jetg
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Why do people like to romanticize monarchies, but then look at dictatorships in the worst light possible?
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There is no difference between an absolute monarchy and a dictatorship. Almost all surviving monarchies are Constitutional Monarchies with a firm democratic presence, where the monarch is little more than a figurehead or spiritual leader. If you mean 'why do we romanticize them in literature', it's a simpler answer. The very worst people to place in charge of a country are the people who desire power. In romanticist literature, there is someone who does not desire power but upon whom power is thrust - a Good King, or Prince, or even Princess. We like fictional Kings and Queens for the same reason that we like our superheroes to be the products of accident or birth. We view ambition with contempt, and want to believe that only those who do not desire power are fit to wield it.
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AskReddit/cj1zn18
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2b55qg
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What's your favorite dark humor joke?
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What do you call an Ethiopian with a dog? A vegetarian. What is black and sits at the top of the stairs smoking? Stephen Hawking after a house fire. What do you tell a woman with two black eyes? Nothing, you told her twice. Why did lady Diana cross the road? Because she wasnt wearing her seat belt. What is osama bin ladens favorite chocolate bar? (7/7 joke) Double Decker. Whats the difference between a bag of cocaine and eric claptons son? Eric wouldn't let a bag of cocaine fall out the balcony window. (not a sick joke) What is pink and wrinkly and hangs out your PJ's? your mum.
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explainlikeimfive/chv4dy4
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26vvj9
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What causes a stiff neck while sleeping?
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The soreness is a sign of real stiffness in muscles. There are a ton of possible causes to this, but the primary ones are: Inactivity. You didn't move for a while so the muscle grew stiff, causing pain/soreness when you use it as it destiffens. Conversely, overactivity. This is most commonly seen in soreness after exercise. Dietary issues. Stiffness can be brought on by imbalance in chemicals necessary to muscle function, such as Calcium or Magnesium. Ask your doctor before you start taking any supplements. At the end though, it all comes down to proper chemical balance in the muscle tissue. In my understanding, the real pain in a stiff muscle happens when it becomes stiff at an angle that's not its "rest" state. For example, your neck should be aligned with your spine, and if it became stiff at another angle than that, the constant tension on a stiff muscle will cause discomfort. If your only muscle stiffness issue is this, you probably want to work on your pillows/headrests to make sure you're adequately supporting your head at night. You may be using too many pillows (holding it too high) or too few (it's bent to the side if you're a side-sleeper). As always, talk to your doctor.
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AskReddit/ce4ozzh
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1t64at
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What's the best car you ever had?
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First new car that I ever had 1972 Datsun (later Nissan) 1200 hatchback. It would run all day at 95 mph and get over 40 mpg. There wasn't anything on it that I could not repair myself. I had to learn how to tune it up and repair it because the dealers shops would screw up the mileage by tuning to factory specs and charged a fortune for simple procedures.
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