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AskReddit/d92ux5m
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58s2mk
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How do dogs know if you are laughing at them or with them?
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Sometimes when I give our dog a haircut, I end up making her look goofy which makes me laugh at her. My wife says that's mean, but I don't think the dog knows what laughing means. What do you think? Do dogs feel bad when we laugh at them?
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AskReddit/e8sg12h
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9sz7uu
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What are some disadvantages or ugly side of sports in general?
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Professionals in high impact sports like football, boxing, UFC, etc end up with brain injuries or other injuries at a much earlier age, like in their 30s or early 40s, and despite possibly making millions playing professionally, they typically run out of money quickly in retirement because of their lavish lifestyle.
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Ask_Politics/d4hqnwh
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4p2xfl
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Why is Bernie Sanders campaign still in full swing?
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It isn't. It just isn't suspended and he made it clear he wouldn't. Hillary supporters aren't even annoyed anymore since the president felt comfortable endorsing and Bernie's campaign has made it clear they will endorse.
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AskReddit/er1eqh6
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c044e8
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What’s an utterly useless skill that you know?
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Ok, so here's my story. I live in Australia, and over here we what we call Vegemite. I have eaten this stuff since I was only a few months old. Around 2 years ago I learnt the secret method to eating it by the spoon. What you do is, you fill your mouth with butter, rim your mouth with butter for every spoon. Spoon of butter, spoon of Vegemite. I can eat a whole jar of Vegemite around the size of two soda cans. I have practiced the skill thinking I might need it someday, only to use it once at a party. That is my useless skill.
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AskReddit/dloewem
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6ty27f
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What is a good, daily habit to stay fit?
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Maintaining a healthy mix of your food groups. Morning; Grain, dairy and carbs Lunch; Fruits and vegetables Dinner; Meat Occasional cheat day Plus; make a daily routine of upper body and lower body for the next day. Of course with a rest day in the mix. Once you follow something for awhile, it generally becomes a habit. You'll feel great after doing this.
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askscience/co7uzfc
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2ueuuk
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Why can't you tie an "anti-knot"?
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When you untie something you are already tying a knot. Weaving a string through this loop to unravel it, etc. In the case of a shoelace knot, you actually start an antiknot (which we call a bite) by having the end of the string go back the way it came. When you untie a knot, you are doing the exact opposite of what you did to tie it.
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askscience/e56kcc0
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9ba3pj
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Does an increase in dietary cholesterol increase blood cholesterol levels?
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Dietary cholesterol can slightly increase blood cholesterol levels in a person with "normal" cholesterol metabolism. However, one of the main challenges in doing these types of associational studies in nutrition is collinearity. Foods that tend to be high in cholesterol tend to also be high in other components as well (like saturated fats) and low in others (like potentially fiber). Just purely looking at statistical associations, you may see that increased dietary cholesterol is associated with increased blood cholesterol levels. But the question is whether the dietary cholesterol is directly underlying the change in biology and that answer is that saturated fat consumption is likely more biologically relevant.
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AskReddit/derdgok
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5yna8f
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If you knew you that having a child carried a 25-50% chance of passing on an uncomfortable and ultimately fatal genetic disease, what effect would that have on your decision?
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I do know that I have a greater than 50% chance of passing a potentially fatal genetic defect to my kids. Even if they don't get it, the odds aren't great that I'd live to see them graduate high school. .so I had myself sterilized, which works out nicely because I also hate children.
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AskReddit/c6pgyc0
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11tliv
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Does anyone know what the typical cost is for an ER visit and stitches WITH insurance?
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Also - depends upon the "Evaluation and Management Level," and this is based upon a lot of factors. Even better, each hospital has it's own criteria to determine the factors counted. Stitches are a bit easier, but they can depend upon the "layers" involved, and length of wound repaired. And finally, and potentially most confusing, both the "Facility" and the "Professional" sides can charge - so you will receive two bills. The answer isn't as straight-forward as you were perhaps hoping. Source: I identify the Chargeable activities performed for ER visits for a living.
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explainlikeimfive/d9s6n7v
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5bxz9c
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How are there closed captioning for live TV?
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I had a job interview once for a company that does exactly this. (I was offered the job but I turned it down because the pay sucked) The idea is something like this: An employee sits at desk watching the content that needs to be captioned, and they speak the words into a headset microphone that is attached to a computer. Tricky because you have to talk and listen simultaneously. The software understands the employee's voice and adapts to their cadence. If the software gets it wrong, the employee can make quick edits via typing. So the question is, why not just point the microphone at the TV speaker? Answer: The software is adapted to the employee's voice. Since my interview, I find myself reciting back the dialogue or monologue of whomever is talking on TV or radio. I did well during the interview, but it's harder than you might think.
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AskReddit/eruftd1
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c3zqpk
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What songs are you tired of hearing covers of?
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Bad Guy by Billie Eilish. I used to like Bad Guy, but when Amosdoll (a guy on Youtube who makes piano tutorials and covers) started making Bad Guy on every single thing he could think of, it was annoying. (Sooner or later he just might make Bad Guy on a bad guy)
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AskReddit/esho71q
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c7u835
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What is the quickest way to get rid of a henna tattoo?
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Henna works by staining the top most layer of your skin. Your skin naturally "sheds" (probably the wrong word lol). Sugar scrubs, then soaking for a bit in warm water and then lotion, is what ill usually use. Its not immediate but it goes off a lot quicker. Also lots of washing (for example, if its on your hand, wash your hands more often). Ive heard of olive oil + salt as well. Allow the olive oil to soak in the skin, like 5-10 minutes, then rub the area down with some salt.
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AskReddit/eetipkt
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aj7tol
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What movie scene makes you cry every time?
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You died on a Saturday morning. And I had you placed here under our tree. And I had that house of your father's bulldozed to the ground. Momma always said dyin' was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. Little Forrest, he's doing just fine. About to start school again soon. I make his breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. I make sure he combs his hair and brushes his teeth every day. Teaching him how to play ping-pong. He's really good. We fish a lot. And every night, we read a book. He's so smart, Jenny. You'd be so proud of him. I am. He, uh, wrote a letter, and he says I can't read it. I'm not supposed to, so I'll just leave it here for you. Jenny, I don't know if Momma was right or if, if it's Lieutenant Dan. I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it's both. Maybe both is happening at the same time. I miss you, Jenny. If there's anything you need, I won't be far away.
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askscience/c4zsejv
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uytmh
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Why don't power plants use salt water when producing electricity via steam to also produce drinking water?
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It's theoretically possible, but it creates a maintenance nightmare. As rockguitardude said, salt is very corrosive. Along with that, with the volume of water that passes through a steam generator the salt that's left behind would have to be scraped out very regularly (~daily), which consumes manpower and reduces the plant's operating time.
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AskReddit/cwe30ft
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3qcyqv
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What would you change about high schools?
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In America? You guys have an education system that's crippled by standardised testing. I teach in the Scottish equivalent to middle/high school and most of the tests we do (up till the national qualifications at about 16) are all internally produced just using Scottish Government guidelines. More and more schools are starting to move towards ongoing assessment as being a bigger part in working out a pupil's level too, which is fantastic! No easily marked tickey-box bullshit either.
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askscience/dlbc683
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6s5vdo
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Why does the resounding pitch from a bottle or cup being filled change along with the volume of fluid?
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the pitch actually changes as a function of the volume of air inside the bottle/cup. A bottle filled with air is a Helmholtz resonator, and when you fill it up with liquid the air volume decreases - which leads to the pitch increasing.
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AskReddit/dyfu87o
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8gzllx
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What is the smartest thing you can do with an unexpected $100?
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If by smart you mean financially responsible, then put it into a credit card or other debt, or into savings. If by smart you mean good for the soul and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity because you don't need it, go to a restaurant and order something inexpensive and give a $100 tip as a surprise. Or give it to a beggar/church/ charity you support.
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AskReddit/c801dzf
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16waje
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What are your best stories about sneaking stuff through airport security?
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Didn't get it through . But I was once stopped with an AK-47 bullet in my purse. My boyfriend and I had gone to a shooting range and he had the AK. He thought it would be cute to give me a big ol' bullet as like a souvenir. I put it in my purse and completely forgot about it. Saw him off at the airport a few days later. Going through security, the guy just takes it out of my purse and gives me a "WTF?" look. I turned beet red and all I could say was "I forgot that was in there!" They laughed. This was pre- 9/11. I suppose that's obvious.
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AskReddit/c6kzqdj
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11bigd
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Would you sell a year of your life for $500,000?
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That equals about 20,000 hours at my current rate of pay. There are 8760 hours in a year. I am currently selling my life for less than half that rate.
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askscience/c4j2zmz
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t2umh
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If I travel to a distant star/object in 5 minutes, will I see that objects life in a fast-forward type manner?
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>If I were able to travel to a star in short order that has already died (but we still see it alive on Earth), would my view of the star as I travel show the star's death in an accelerating manner i.e. I see 1000 years go by with each second of my time? Yes. >If I left a buddy on Earth and traveled to the nearest extrasolar star and back in one minute, would it ever be possible for my friend to expect me back one minute later? Our nearest neighbor is around 4 light-years away, so the minimum time that your friend could observe to pass during your trip is eight years because you can never appear to travel faster than the speed of light.
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AskReddit/dj9jva8
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6iw697
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What irks you about the average person that seems mendable?
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The average person should be able to recognize that acting aggressively or starting an argument over trivial nonsense or opinions they disagree with does not ever have a positive affect on anything. But we're all too emotional to get that so we just scream at people and belittle them.
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AskReddit/c0cu2j4
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9hs3t
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For those of you who were "in a rut" for more than a few years and pulled out of it, what was your turning point or what changed in your life?
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I know reddit has an anti-miltary bias, but joining the Army made a huge positive change in my life. I am reasonably intelligent, but was picked on enough in high school to finally drop out. My family life was terrible, so I moved in with my alcoholic dad just because I knew he wouldn't care what I did. I then spent the next 3 years playing EQ about 18 hours a day. One day for reasons I can't explain I went into an Army recruiters office. Five years later, I'm married with 2 boys, own 2 cars, and I'm about to be an MI officer buying a house in Colorado Springs. I've lived in 3 different countries (one being Iraq) and visited 7 others. It's certainly not the answer for everyone, but it worked for me.
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AskReddit/c57f2nr
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vt3yw
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Does anyone actually like the first and last piece of bread or has any special ways to make it taste any better?
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My wife and kids don't like the crusts, generally. But there are a lot of things you can do with them: Make breadcrumbs or croutons French toast sticks (always a big hit in my family) Bread pudding Personally, I think the crusts make the best toast. In the late summer/fall, I start saving all the crusts in the freezer for turkey stuffing. The crusts hold up much better as stuffing than the regular slices.
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AskReddit/ei84aft
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azj5pt
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What was that weird way of making friends with someone?
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In elementary school, the playground was surrounded by a dirt area, and a bunch of us would build little houses by digging them out of the dirt, along with tents made of leaves and twigs and the like. At first, we would sometimes have our cities go to war, but this just meant that each guy went over to the other guy's city and stomped it into the ground. There wasn't really any way to defend it, short of standing over it for the entirety of lunch period, so we all had to make friends or risk having our cities destroyed. We could destroy the other guy's, too, but then nobody would have anything, so the only way to keep the peace was having everyone stay friends to keep their own city standing. So the Cold War, basically.
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AskReddit/djcbb8v
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6j6vls
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What is now considered common knowledge thanks to the internet, but would have been considered more obscure, 20-30 years ago?
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What Scientologists believe. 20+ years ago I had no idea, even though I met a couple of people who were in it. I get the impression even they didn't know what they were in store for once they leveled up. Now thanks to the internet we pretty much all know about Xenu, volcanoes and H bombs without having to go near Scientology.
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AskReddit/dmmob8f
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6ydwzj
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What 10+ year old game would you say is better than most modern games?
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I find myself returning to old games that have rich mechanics. Storylines of older classics are still good, but I really don't have the patience to sit through some of the less fun mechanics (ATB systems, grind-til-you-have-50-of-this-item quests, etc) these days. A personal favorite: Final Fantasy Tactics Really love the battle system here. It's complex, satisfying, and really does feel like strategy is a big part of it. It's something I end up replaying every couple years, and it still doesn't feel dated.
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AskReddit/cedrlg6
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1u1s41
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What is a TL;DR for 2013?
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2013 TL;DR Pope Francis elected, astounds Catholics, Christians of all denominations, believers and non-believers of all faiths, with messages of charity and acceptance and the human condition. Edward Snowden vindicates tin-foil hat wearing alarmists worldwide, becoming both a hero and villain. If you thought the Olympics in Russia next year would go off without a hitch, you're already wrong.
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AskReddit/evirgei
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ck3888
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What is something people do in religion that bugs you?
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Ignore the core tenets of most religions (i.e. be nice to people) and instead twist the message to launch their own bizarre conservative moral crusade against anything fun.
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AskHistorians/cfihrxj
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1y7e1g
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How did the drug trade develop in South America?
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I can explain from an economic geography perspective (bearing in mind the 20-year rule) with regard to Colombia. First, a brief context! Coca, the plant, originated in the Andes Mountains of South America and was revered by pre-Incan peoples. Leaves from the coca bush were used in religious ceremonies. At present, they are still used to combat debilitating effects of high altitudes. In the mid-1970s, Colombian entrepreneurs began to export small quantities of cocaine to the United States. Very high profits allowed the exporters to become self-financing and expand. This allowed entrepreneurs to develop stable routes and links with coca paste suppliers from Bolivia and Peru. The suppliers created networks to acquire the chemical inputs necessary to refine cocaine and developed transportation systems to make large shipments and distribution networks, with a focus on markets in the United States. By early 1980s, Colombia produced 11% of the world’s coca crop. During the late 1980s, Colombia had an economic growth of 4.5%, which was considerable when compared to other Latin American countries at that time. The industry has been said to be directly responsible with raising the standard of living of a million Colombians. Basically, to be concise, you had four variables (probably many more), that led to the growth and spread of the drug trade in Colombia during the 1970s & 80s: Historical and cultural use and cultivation of coca in the region. Supply and demand (growing market in the USA). Lack of agricultural alternatives. Many rural farmers, who had been living on subsistence crops such as corn, rice, and yucca, had switched to farming coca for various cartels or revolutionary insurgents. The farmers could not profit off their previous crops due due to poor infrastructure (getting the product to market) or regional strife. Thus, the ability to grow a product that had higher resell value and longer shelf life increased production. Cartels and FARC: In Medellin there was a deterioration of the rapid industrialization of the city in the 1970s with various industries, such as textiles. This is theorized to have pushed more individuals into the informal economy (cartels) in order to survive. Additionally, political civil strife facilitated organizations, such as FARC, to begin selling cocaine as a means of income in order to purchase firearms, supplies, etc. Rural farmers, out of desperation, had (have) no other alternatives but to work for the various narcotics dealers and revolutionary groups. I would suggest looking through the below readings. Further readings Thoumi, F. (2002) Illegal Drugs in Colombia: From Illegal Economic Boom to Social Crisis. The Annals, vol. 582, no. 1, pp. 102-116. MacDonald, Scott B. (1989). Mountain High, White Avalanche: Cocaine and Power in the Andean States and Panama. The Center for Strategic and International Studies. Washington, D.C. Mac Gregor, Felipe E. (1993). Coca and Cocaine: An Andean Perspective. Greenwoord Press. London. Rensselaer Lee III. Dimensions of the South American Cocaine Industry. Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Vol. 30, No. 2/3, Special Issue: Assessing the Americas' War on Drugs. (Summer - Autumn, 1988), pp. 87-103.
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AskReddit/d5z1a59
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4vk547
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What was your most terrifying driving experience?
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Transfer from the Airport to our ski resort in France. In the back of a rickety old mini bus with some crazy French dude driving like and ABSOLUTE maniac on ice covered cliff roads. He was overtaking multiple cars and buses on blind corners, I thought I was going to die. It was made worse by the large fall to one side into icy water and the fact we were in the back to exiting the bus would be difficult. We asked him to slow down and he just dismissed it.
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AskReddit/dpuj2mk
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7d2fdp
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If religion never existed, how would humanity have been affected in history and today?
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Religion would have formed, it is not something that could have been avoided in early human history. We needed something to explain the world around us and our penchant for falling into a hierarchical social structure where the strong control the weak through either force, resources or information lends itself well to religiosity. I am very much an atheist, but only recently (in the last few hundred years) have we as a species begun explaining natural occurrences with any measure of success.
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AskReddit/ecl6l7y
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a9ohfp
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What is your favorite way to get another drivers attention on the road when they are driving poorly?
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This is going to sound bad because it could cause an accident. You ever see someone at a light that is so into their phone it looks like they are mid Netflix episode? Well if I am next to them I like to leave a few feet to the line so that I can suddenly lurch forward like the light went green. Its always funny to see them pull partly into the intersection and then panic cause they don't know if they should back up or just wait it out there. Every time once the light does turn green they take off fast to get away from the other drivers that seen their embarrassing driving.
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explainlikeimfive/cs9ijdu
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3a5oii
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How did LeBron James not win the MVP when he lead both teams in points, assists, and rebounds?
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The Finals MVP trophy has only been awarded to a player on the losing team once, In 1969. Jerry West averaged 38 points in 7 games for the LA Lakers against the Boston Celtics, including a triple double (42 points, 13 rebounds, 12 assists) in a game 7 loss. In this year's finals, LeBron James averaged 35.8 points, 13.3 rebounds and 8.8 assists. I think the original poster's point is that if there was ever another time to award the MVP trophy to someone on the losing team, this would be it.
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AskReddit/di6wqu4
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6e1dxb
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What's your Craigslist horror story?
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Not so much of a horror story. But a guy came to buy my moving boxes. He told me that he was skipping town to avoid paying child support. Trying to ditch his kids and ex and go do a cash only business in another state. He paid $80 for the boxes. Still feel dirty about it.
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explainlikeimfive/eous1ql
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bt7eff
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Why does alcohol stop tasting like alcohol when you're drunk?
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Alcohol is a depressant to your nervous system so it dulls all your senses. Similar to if you bump into something while drunk, you don’t feel it until the next day, or why your vision gets blurry while drinking.
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AskReddit/eoomjdr
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bsnvqo
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What is something (books, movies, tv, etc) that got generally negative reviews but that you really like?
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A lot of people know about this but John Carpenter's The Thing from 1982 absolutely tanked in the box office and got miserable reviews. It's retroactively lauded cause it is one of the greatest and most effective horror movies of all time, but it still took forever for people to appreciate it.
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explainlikeimfive/c94kbgy
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1b84pb
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What happens with the remaining cavity when someone donates/loses a body organ?
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There is no air or fluid that fills the space. The organ is removed and depending on the organ, its size, and its location there are internal stitches put in to hold the walls of the organ cavity together. Like all tissue the flesh surrounding the organ will eventually grow together. Basically after it is healed it is like there was never an organ there to begin with. From the outside there may be a noticeable "dent" or cavity. It is very easy to feel when an organ has been removed if you rub over the scar. it sort of feels like a hole but it is solid.
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askscience/c36jeyj
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n5y52
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If left out in the open, can charcoal effectively filter the air in an apartment?
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Anecdotally, I have about a cup of activated charcoal in my fridge. Things will rot in there and I can smell nothing. Some things rot to their limit, becoming furry shriveled mummies of their former selves. The lack of odor has become a problem of sorts-- it is too effective. But given a sufficient amount of activated charcoal and time, the charcoal will absorb the odors from the apartment. The charcoal will absorb any small molecules that come into contact with it. And the magic of diffusion keeps the odors coming. As others have mentioned, it may be more effective to open a window and increase airflow with fans.
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AskReddit/dznsrzw
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8miaum
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What's the weirdest thing you've discovered in your place once your party guests left?
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About 25 origami birds, coke baggies, whole room covered with fire extinguishing powder, a grinder full of kief, puke in the laundry basket, a Reebok shoe, some gross burnt fish omelette concoction in the kitchen Never hosting parties at my place again
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AskReddit/e1k4mnx
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8v2tl4
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What are you hoping at the moment?
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My TV is in another house in another city, I use it primarily as a computer monitor. I'm hoping to get it back to my current house soon so that I can start working on my computer again also hoping that I'll have the money to build a new better computer soon
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AskReddit/c2i4nue
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k7rd4
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What does my Cookie monster T-shirt Say?
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>ゾグラゾ ギリリ ギラミイ I don't think this means anything.maybe it's just onomatopoeia to show the sounds that cookie monster makes? Edit: I asked my dad (who is Japanese) and he says it's just onomatopoeia and doesn't really mean anything.
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AskReddit/dxg3cpv
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8cmow6
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Do you think that god exists and why or why not ?
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I don't believe in him but I don't say he doesn't exist. Same sort of thing for every god or gods. You can't prove that a god or gods exist. I don't think there is a god but I don't rule out the possibility of a god or gods.
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AskReddit/dy3sq0g
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8fi7wx
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What challenge would you create to reward the winner with a billion dollars?
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If someone comes up with the perfect educational system that gives children no matter what their familial, financial, physical, or mental situation a great education that meets their specific needs, setting them up for success in a field in which they can excel. This would ensure that future generations would be successful in their chosen fields and have opportunities they may otherwise not have been able to have. This would create a generation that could make huge leaps forward in technology, medicine, and science. The person would get the billion dollars from me and I would make my money back by investing in all of the cool new inventions coming out due this universal academic success.
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AskReddit/e7s9m9e
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9o81r9
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What’s the most epic way you’ve seen someone quit or be fired?
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Had a girl I used to work with at a previous job get fired from my current job. She got fired for coming to work intoxicated. I think the final straw was she borrowed a coworkers car and lost it, though I’m not sure if that was the reasoning. She showed up the next day and tried taking tables (am waitress) and obviously had to leave. A few weeks later she was in the news for driving drunk and killing her stepson. She is in jail now and I forgot about her. Will have to remind my coworkers.
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AskReddit/ci3rcpg
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27rv2f
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What is a certain procedure for eating a certain food/snack that is imperative for you to follow?
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If I have a meal with, for example, four separate food stuffs (sausage, mash, beans and bacon) I have to eat them proportionally so the last four bites of food left on the plate are a piece of each. If I end up with half a sausage, a few beans and no mash or bacon I know I have failed. I am weird.
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AskReddit/cfiazy4
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1y8q64
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How do I win over a murder of crows that keeps harassing me?
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Pick one that seems to be on the outskirts of the popular crows and separate him from them. Woo him with your irreverent humor and quirky charm. Anytime he tries to 'harass' you tell him he knows nothing. If this doesn't work shoot him in the back with some arrows.
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AskReddit/dlofr02
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6txa9w
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What makes you happy?
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When my friends contact me with good news about themselves. It could be big things, like winning a state competition or making progress with mental illness. Even little, out-of-the-blue things like "hey I finally got baking that cake right!" or " I actually look good in my driver's license photo for once!" I like to see that they're doing good and they would take the time to even text me one on one about it. Especially the small things, because it makes me feel like I'm a part of their life, and they want me to be a part of their life.
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explainlikeimfive/d9zvyqa
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5cwito
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Why are radio waves used for communication in space instead of lasers?
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> but I do not understand why it is not the standard form of communication. The communications are generally sent from the ground toward satellites and radio waves pass through air much more easily than light. It is also much safer to be transmitting a powerful radio signal than shining a super-bright laser into the sky if anyone happens to be flying by. > this technology seems to be the solution to the thirty-two minute communication delay. No it isn't. Light moves at the speed of light. Radio waves also move at the speed of light. A laser isn't going to arrive any faster than a radio wave.
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AskReddit/et528hv
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ca1a0x
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How do you locate a Debit Card?
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If you lost your debit card you'd need to contact your bank to alert them. This to prevent fraud purchases. If you have an app for the card on your phone, it should give you the option to disable the card.
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explainlikeimfive/csvgz49
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3ch27r
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How did the fireworks instantly kill the guy that put the shell on his head?
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as I understand, ^1 it was a Mortar tube designed to hold prepackaged charges that launches fireworks into the air -rather than being a self propelled rocket the force required to send a firework package high in the air would be - by equal and opposite reaction - fairly damaging ( ^1 excepting further information) edit: some reports state that it was also a misfire and it was the firework package itself which exploded
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AskReddit/ecrtjit
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aagj1d
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Why did you attend or why did you choose to send your own kids to either a private or public school?
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I went to a K-12 private school up until 9th grade when we moved away for my Dad's job. Classes were smaller and the school was better than the public schools in our area. My wife and I also have our kids going to a K-12 private Baptist school for the same reasons.
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AskReddit/cgqm3kf
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22uqyq
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What celebrity did you start out hating, but has since won you over?
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Bruno Mars. mainly because I detest 98% of what gets played on the radio. His lyrics could be better, but he really is a talented preformer. His voice is absolutely beautiful. I need to stop hating on things that are popular, it's pretentious
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explainlikeimfive/cbqoebv
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1knb8u
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Why does music sound so much better when you're drunk?
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Lowered inhibitions, or the same reason why you seem so willing to try new things. Basically, when you're sober, there's a neurotransmitter that inhibits you from doing things that may or may not be socially unacceptable to you for whatever reason. Alcohol inhibits the production of this neurotransmitter, hence you are more willing to do/try things that you normally wouldn't do, and you let your guard down.
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AskReddit/efd0s2b
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ald9m7
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For the college students, what are some random things that have happened in your lecture halls?
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Well I had a story of my own, it's first lecture hall during freshman year with 200 students. I'm sitting in class and a kid comes bursting through the door. He sprints down the isle then, back out the door during the lecture. Not really sure what that was about
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AskReddit/eo62ybw
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bqn62t
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What happens in movies that makes you think "that would never happen", but actually does happen in real life?
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When something tragic happens and a character reacts by dropping to their knees and fists clenched, screaming "NOOOOOOOOOO!" at the sky. Wait. surely that DOESN'T happen in real life. right? ��
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askscience/ccp0cjm
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1o5r16
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When the sun eventually transforms into a red giant, why are the inner planets predicted to be engulfed and why won't their orbits just expand outwards with the sun's expansion?
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The orbits of the planets are a function of the Sun's mass - when the Sun expands to a red giant, its mass will still remain the same, so there is no reason why the orbits of the planets would change as it expands.
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AskReddit/ck2lug5
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2er36t
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What are the most important "unwritten rules" that people should know and follow?
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.That different societies and cultures have their own social rules and norms. Don't see everyone through a coloured glass of biases and rules you think are omnipresent. For eample, it is ok in one society to ask another man's wife for a dance but not ok to burp at the table. Yet, in another society the opposite of these rules might apply. Enjoy diversity.
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AskReddit/czncbf7
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4449u3
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What's your favorite singular episode of a TV series?
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The X-Files - Drive (Season 6 Episode 2) Mulder is carjacked by a man infected with a deadly pathogen. The entire episode is them driving. The infected man is Bryan Cranston and the episode is directed by Vince Gilligan. It was the first time they worked together before Breaking Bad. Supernatural - Mystery Spot (Season 3 Episode 11) It's basically Supernatural's take on Groundhog Day. It's hilarious, even if you're not a fan of the series. If you're interested in more Groundhog Day episodes, also check out 'The X-Files - Monday' (Season 6 Episode 14) and 'Fringe - And Those We Left Behind' (Season 4 Episode 6). The Twilight Zone - Nick of Time (Season 2 Episode 7) When people think of Shatner and The Twilight Zone, the episode that usually comes to mind is "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet." That's a great classic episode, but Shatner actually did another episode of Twilight Zone, and I like it even better. The premise is pretty simple: "A pair of newlyweds stopping in a small town are trapped by their own superstition when playing a fortune telling machine in a local diner."
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AskReddit/eo2u5pa
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bqba2a
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What history fact did you learn through pop songs or TV shows and movies?
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Not necessarily ‘pop’ but learnt it from a song. It’s about a battle called the Battle of Castle Itter. Where an SS contingent decided to execute prisoners, but then a Wehrmacht unit with the help of an American unit fended the SS division at Castle Itter. It was one of the times 2 opposing forces fought with each other in WWII 5th of May, Victory’s just around the corner, 1945 the Führer’s reign at its end. Jenny at the Gates, as the SS open fire, there’s no time to waste the final battle’s begun After the downfall a castle besieged. Defeating the Nazis, awaiting relief. Gangl and Lee and their men set the prisoners free.
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AskReddit/dh2kc5m
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68zufh
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What wakes you up in the morning?
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My cat has learned how to charge the door in the morning. She runs the entire length of the house and slams into it, swinging it open and leaving her stood there like a murderer. I usually don't wake up till I get claws in my face though.
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AskReddit/cyitz6k
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3z2zbe
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What's that one video game level that took you forever to beat?
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Star Wars: the Force Unleashed, taking down the Star Destroyer. Mostly because my graphics card was out of date at the time and the game had broken graphics so it took me ages to beat.
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AskHistorians/dhanmg5
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69yyyu
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Did the American government or public actually think that "duck and cover" was a viable means of protecting themselves from a nuclear blast?
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"Duck and cover" is about reducing the possibility of being injured from flying debris, collapsing ceilings, breaking glass, and, when outside, the amount of thermal radiation deposited directly onto skin. If everybody exposed to a nuclear blast did it, there would be some increase in saved lives, decreased injuries, etc. At some distances from ground zero it would have no likely effect of your survival at all, at some it would not be necessary. But in between is a lot of potential area and potential lives. To think that "Duck and Cover" would mean total survival is to misunderstand it. It is a relatively "cheap" way of decreasing injury if you think an atomic attack is going to happen. For various locations of the "victim," and very types of weapons over the Cold War, its efficacy would vary (the canonical film was made in 1950, when the Soviet nuclear weapons were few in quantity and relatively small in power — things changed, technologically, over the course of the Cold War, and led instead to a focus on fallout mitigation instead of blast survival). As for the public — that's a harder question to answer. There is a lot of anecdotal evidence that people came away from such training scared, not emboldened. The core idea in the "Duck and Cover" training is that nuclear weapons use is not just hypothetical, but a real threat. (The language was often about when the bomb was dropped, not if the bomb was dropped.) The 1950 film is kind of terrifying when looked at in this lens: it is about teaching children to believe that nuclear weapons could be used at any time, that you needed to be alert and on guard 24 hours a day, that no activity was so innocuous or banal that you should not be ready to take cover. That's a pretty heavy message. As for whether the general public believed the Civil Defense people — there is a lot of evidence that they didn't think the activities would work or help, a lot of ridicule of the idea that a school desk would hold up against an atomic bomb. There's a lot going on here, including a rejection of expertise and a lack of understanding about what such activities were meant to do. The real problems with Cold War Civil Defense were not that this kind of thing wouldn't work, though it often gets focused upon. The really dubious plans were things like evacuation, the notion that you could get everybody out of Los Angeles, DC, New York, etc., if you thought an attack was imminent. As the mayor of Los Angeles put it, they couldn't get people out of Los Angeles smoothly on a sunny Friday afternoon at 5pm — what are the odds they'd be able get it done under threat of atomic attack? A nice book on Civil Defense and its effect on US culture is Kenneth Rose, One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture (NYU Press, 2004).
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AskReddit/dgsh2u8
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67qqgp
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For a million dollars a year, how many years would you eliminate from the end of your life, without knowing exactly how old you would have lived to be?
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3 years for myself. I figure I'll live a fairly long life based on the average lifespan in my country, and I don't feel like losing my mind or crapping my pants at the end of my life, so I might as well enjoy enough money to live comfortably.
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explainlikeimfive/cxzozn0
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3wxi83
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Why do companies skimp on IT improvements to user computers, such as SSD drives and maximum RAM upgrades, when they would make huge impacts on employee productivity?
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As an IT manager of over a decade, I feel well placed to answer. Whilst all users seem to want to eel like they've got a better machine (and thus some sort of one-upmanship with other people in similar jobs), the simple fact is that it doesn't make a difference for most roles. An SSD is particularly good at working on boot times and RAM is great for application load and heavy processing but most people only need a standard PC and 4GB ram (today). Most generic static office drones will come in, boot their PC (or even wake it from monitor sleep if they've left it on all night), load their email and that's them for the day. They'll likely open Word/Excel/PowerPoint although more often than not, this will be using network drives and they'll access the web. Sometimes you'll have mobile users that for one reason or another could use an SSD for reduced power usage so they get better battery, but nowadays most of these will manage with a standard 3-4hr battery (constant basic use on a roughly standard laptop) and a phone/tablet for quick email checking on the go. Despite what they may tell you, they're usually able to plug in if at a conference or similar. Power users are different however. I find that heavy IT staff (those not working on the front desk but doing almost anything else), finance staff, software engineers, designers and marketing (content creation) users often require a boost. These users will often be found attempting to launch miniature server infrastructures on their machines, loading and formatting a ton of data on heavy spreadsheets or manipulating immense media files. For these users, a boost is great and can mean the difference between marginal and excessive production. Consider (for argument's sake) I rolled out ~3,000 machines this year and have another 500 going out at the moment. If the average cost of these is £500 each (roughly per laptop or desktop) and the additional cost of an SSD and 12GB RAM is £170 (current), that would mean I'd spent ~£1.75 million but had saved £0.6 million by not rolling out powerful machines to everyone. If these machines are going to be used as planned, this would save 26% of the cost, and £600,000 would easily fund a good chunk of the running costs of the server infrastructure or similar.
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AskReddit/d4hanwy
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4p1k92
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What cheat codes have you remembered over the years?
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Skipping the obvious, there are two that stand out to me: In Donkey Kong Country, you can go to the file select screen and type in "barrel," which on a super Nintendo controller is B-A-R-R-A-L and it unlocks something. I want to say it's extra lives, but I honestly forgot. On the NES, if you ever get a chance to play Who Framed Roger Rabbit, go to the code input screen and type in "LH[then however many Rs it takes to get to fill the middle]3B. It lets you start the game with all the items in your inventory, which effectively takes you to the end of the game. Why do I remember these? I have no idea.
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askscience/ce6viia
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1td8vs
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What exactly am I feeling when I feel the urge to urinate?
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When your bladder fills, the detrusor muscle, the muscle that makes up a layer of the bladder wall, is stretched. The stretching signals the parasympathetic nervous system to contract it to push the urine out. That's what you're feeling when you need to pee. There are then two sphincters, one internal autonomically controlled and one external voluntarily controlled that need to be opened to unleash the golden shower.
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AskReddit/d0qt3ox
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49cnit
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What video game actually taught you a lot of real world skills?
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Civ 5 taught me resource management and the fact that war is the one way to get peace since you can do nothing and people will still hate you. Pokemon taught me adaptation on the fly, and Kancolle taught me how fickle RNGesus can be.
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AskReddit/eac4vbi
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9zuk0x
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When’s the last time you cried and why?
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Last night I cried because I couldn't immediately find a crochet project I've been working on. Before that it was because there was no more lemon meringue pie. I just birthed a baby on Sunday, so hormones are out of whack and I cry about everything.
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AskReddit/e4lw840
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9997da
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What are the best "little things" that your partner does for you?
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There's a million things. But he'll randomly bring me home things. Like a chocolate bar, or an owl trinket. (Kitchen towel, lawn decorations etc) He's doing something tomorrow at noon that he won't tell me about yet either. Just that I'll love it. Whatever it is. He's a good one.
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explainlikeimfive/cxgj5ip
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3uol5s
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Why does it get really windy as soon as I walk through a subway station entrance?
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Wind is cause by pressure differentials, and temperature is directly related to pressure (higher temperatures mean higher pressures, lower temperatures means lower pressures). The temperature between the outside and inside of a subway station are different, so a pressure differential is created and you get wind. If you can pinpoint the direction of the wind, you can tell which area is warmer. Wind always moves from high pressure (high temperature) to low pressure.
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AskReddit/e92o8n8
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9u91ah
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What’s your worst job interview experience?
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It was a first interview for a low level job at a manufacturing company that I really wanted. I walked in and there were eight people sitting around a conference table. I was not at all prepared for that. They gave me a good grilling. It kind of felt like I was on trial and I completely bombed. I had put a lot of time and effort into getting ready and even burned a vacation day from my current job to go to it.
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AskReddit/crp9q7t
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37remm
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What is your favorite Spongebob Squarepants quote?
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Personal favorite: Squidward: (while climbing rope) "Well i'm gonna get to the bottom of this thing" Spongebob: Wouldn't the be the top?" (Blinks) Honorable mention from the same episode: Spongbob: "SHIP!" Patrick: "Spongebob, when are you gonna stop living in your little fantasy world?"
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AskReddit/d9529m5
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5926ly
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What long running TV series did you love at first, but as seasons went on, you wished it would be canceled?
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The Simpsons, around Season 12 when it was clear the glory days weren't coming back. Family Guy should have stayed canceled. Those first 3 seasons were terrific. Now it's just pathetic.
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AskReddit/cs2ztcm
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39fx2h
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What is your earliest memory you can remember?
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Before people start telling stories when they were two and remember XYZ. Our brains development does not store retrievable memories until we are around 4 years old. The only "memory" people have is remembering that someone has told a story about something that happened. (and. now for the down voting and the arguments defending their stories. Please note that I have actual studies and evidence of the functions of the brain and can be easily verified by a simple google search on your part.)
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AskReddit/ejundh0
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b7wgzs
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What are you currently looking forward to?
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I'm constantly looking forward to something, to keep me going. Mostly just movies/TV - so currently Game of Thrones and Endgame. Almost done our re-watch of GoT - only 2 episodes left (and consequently 2 weeks left til season 8 :O)!
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AskReddit/dlu1rf2
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6unm2o
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How do I stop myself from thinking about my ex especially at night, before going to sleep?
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I made a rule for myself: no thinking about things I can do nothing about while in bed. When the thoughts come up, I gently catch myself, realize what I'm doing, shrug mentally, and let them go while deliberately mentally changing the subject. If the thought subject is especially upsetting, it's normal for me to have to do this many times in a row. That's fine.
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AskReddit/esp8n8x
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c0dyzi
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What US stores allow dogs who aren’t service dogs?
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Often book stores will, hardware, lumber, farming stores. Depends on the store - call first. Your dog needs to be 100% house trained so if it's still a puppy maybe stick to pet shops.
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askscience/cqowkn0
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33vlcu
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How can a fundamental particle be made of energy when energy is just a property of matter?
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First of all, energy is not a property of matter. It's a property of physical systems. A sea of photons has energy but is not matter. Secondly, it's not really accurate to say that a fundamental particle is "made of" energy. A fundamental particle is a quantum excitation of some field. That excitation carries energy and momentum, but you shouldn't think they are made of those properties.
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AskReddit/dva46v6
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82hoh0
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What’s the weirdest thing that’s ever been stolen from you?
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One time someone broke into my house and stole meat, eggs, milk, etc from my fridge along with some cooking utensils. There was a $2000 laptop and a $1500 camera sitting 10 feet away. I felt bad enough I didn't even bother to report a break in. Can't imagine the state of that person's life if they were breaking into houses just for food. Still weird to me regardless.
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AskReddit/eo5v3h4
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bqmy0r
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What is the creepiest thing a child has told you?
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When my 4 year old niece told me she saw 'great-poppy' (her great-grandfather, my grandfather) on the tv when she was watching a kids show, almost like he was part of show. He had passed away a few months prior.
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AskHistorians/cbdp6bo
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1jdt0d
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How was Pompeii lost for so long?
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Considering that the Roman Forum, that is the very heart of Roman life, was buried simply by the sands of time over several centuries it isn't really that surprising that Pompeii was lost when covered in volcano ash in a single event. I think you make a good point, but to me the better question is: how were cities lost, I mean literally buried under slowly amassed dirt and then built upon by the medievals, without the intervention of a natural disaster. If you go to the roman forum you can see all the things that have been excavated similarly to what they've done in pompeii and you can see how after the temples and such were buried centuries later the exposed top halves of the taller temples were turned into churches and such. And I can't understand how people just let part of a city slowly be buried while they were friggen living in it.
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AskReddit/duqnjcg
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7ztbjw
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Where is the best place you've visited?
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Syria. So many amazing places and friendly people. Highlights include walking through Palmira at sunset; the old city in Damascus, roof top restaurants, bars in the Christian quarter, delicious food, beautiful mosques; Kurdish villages in the north, the Souk in Allepo: and mostly just the people. 50 countries and definitely the friendliest people across the board that I've ever met.
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AskReddit/dv9s6wj
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82g6j6
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What is one feeling / sensation you are always going to love?
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Moments after a great and deafening show when you and your friends/S.O./giant crowd are walking out and everyone is joking and laughing and just in awe of the great time they had. Disbelief at what they saw and felt. The overwhelming feeling of gratitude for life and disbelief at (as Led Zeppelin put it) "how tomorrow could ever follow today?" .feels, man
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AskReddit/e9anb0c
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9varx9
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What's the most important thing to look for in a job coming out of college?
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For me, the benefits and company culture were the most important. It’s also nice to know there’s room for advancement, but this is my first job out of college & I’m planning on grad school in a few years, so it wasn’t necessarily a huge must for me in an entry-level position.
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explainlikeimfive/duwkrmz
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80m5mj
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Why does America drive with automatic transmission for the most part, while most of the world still drives manual transmissions?
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1) Current automatic transmissions are actually more efficient than manuals. 2) Very small diesel engines never caught on in the US. 3) US tends to have more powerful vehicles, so small efficiencies from manual are not needed. 4) Manual sucks in stop and go traffic. I like a stick, but I understand why a lot of people don't.
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Ask_Politics/evyiu8g
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clxjvo
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How is a single senator able to "block" a bill from going to vote or even being discussed in the Senate?
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McConnel as Majority Leader sets the agenda for the Senate and so can refuse to bring bills to the floor. Other times it's a bit more complicated, by essentially bills get referred to committees in the Senate, a small group of Senators who specialize in one area of legislation, before a bill makes it to the floor, and a bill can get "stuck in committee" where the committee never releases the bill to the rest of the Senate.
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explainlikeimfive/c72qgy0
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13cjx2
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Why is a crime to use money people have donated to your political campaign to decorate your house?
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Campaign funds are not your money in the same way that the money a CEO pays to his paid-on-commission employees is not his money. That money is only allowed to be used for his campaign. He is allowed to put his own money into his campaign funds in the same way a CEO is allowed to buy from his own employee to increase the employee's pay. That CEO can't just buy from the employee and keep the money from that transaction for himself.
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askscience/dcscmfj
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5pkvqp
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Do viral infections reduce an organisms lifespan?
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I assume you are talking about humans so I'm going to answer based on that. It may work the same for other organisms but I'm not sure. As a human, you have groups of stem cells that replenish the dead cells. These stem cells can divide a lot so they are responsible for replenishing those lost cells. When they divide they basically make a copy of themselves (stem cell) and a cell of that type that can divide more to fill in the lost cells. So no it wouldn't decrease the life span of a human.
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askscience/cbkgw3r
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1k1l6a
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Should Americans really be worried about radiation coming across the Pacific Ocean from Japan?
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The amount of radioactive water released is less than an eighth of an Olympic swimming pool a day. This is nothing compared to the volume of the pacific ocean. By the time it gets to the US, it will be diluted beyond measure. The radioactive material in the water is cesium, which doesn't accumulate very much in seafood. There is no danger.
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AskReddit/cbge7k6
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1jnf5v
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What is the best prank someone has played on you?
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My grandfather played the greatest prank ever on this guy he worked with. This was back when gas was pretty cheap, so keep that in mind. My grandfather's coworker recently purchased a new car, which he ranted and raved about. He particularly bragged about its gas milage. My grandpa got really annoyed with this guy, so he started to fill the gas tank of the car in tiny amounts, so the guy was bewildered. He would report every day how far he had gone, so that my grandpa knew exactly how much to fill the tank so it stayed at the same mark. This went on for about a month, and they guy had actually written to the car company, telling them how amazing this car was, since it hadn't had been filled (to his knowledge) for weeks. The car company wanted to take the car back to see what the heck was going on! So just when this guy thought he had a magical car, my grandpa switched it up. He started siphoning gas OUT so the gas milage dropped drastically. The guy had no idea any of this happened. He went from the best gas milage ever to completely minimal. Pretty cool long-term prank, I think.
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AskReddit/cfymhr3
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200e2z
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Are there any fetishes or related things that you haven't made publicly known but someone still suspects you have?
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Not me but a girl at my uni: She was the most shyest and quietest person i had ever met and i had never heard her say something for herself until second year, before then she "spoke" through her friend. Imagine her whispering into someones ear and that person repeating what she said. At a house party after a lot of booze a friend told a few of us that she had spotted her on a fetish website she happened to be part of. We all laughed and quickly forgot about it. A few weeks later at another house party a group of us drunkenly set off to find her on the site but we weren't expecting much. We were surprised when we saw glorious HD shots of her suspended in ropes, in leather, being whipped.the list was endless. It always made conversations awkward knowing that the rest of us knew her secret.
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AskReddit/e24utx4
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8xqjaj
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How did your dog get his or her name?
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My girlfriend and I met while working at the Corvette Assembly Plant. I was an engineer and she was a nurse. Our dog is named Zora after the "Father of the Corvette." I also found ouch much later that Zora is a fish creature from a video game so that kinda sucked.
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AskReddit/c14y73q
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e38nb
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Why do you choose one bar over another?
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I choose bar's generally randomly.as long as they don't look really dirty or really expensive I'll go in. What's more important thought is the experience in the place one I go in there.it decides whether I'll even remember it, let alone ever come back. Most often I prefer that the place isn't always packed.that the rest of the clientele is around my age.aka twenties. It also helps if the bartenders are cool.a bartender at this one place did a favour for me once that basically spared me major embarrassment in front of the girl I was with.I didn't have the extra cash that day.but I came in the next day ordered a beer and left a $40 tip. I'm a loyal customer.
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explainlikeimfive/clfzb4u
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2jxi9m
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What is the difference between for-profit and non-profit universities?
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The difference between a profit and a non-profit organization is with for profit, you make money simply from owning it. If you own a for profit school, and you take in a million dollars in tuition, its yours, and you can spend it anyway you like. That gives you an incentive to pocket as much as you can, and spend as little as possible on educating people. With a not profit school, that million dollars goes into an account, and has to in some way be spent on the school. You can hire your self as president and pay yourself a salary, you can build a president's mansion, and you can buy a president's car, but if you can't justify those are legitimate school expenses, that is fraud. The biggest pitfalls with for profit schools is: quality of education - they have a profit motive to spend as little as possible accreditation - they often provide certificates rather than recognized degrees loans - they are very good at working the student loan system, and once they get that loan money, don't have much incentive to keep you around
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AskHistorians/c5bd43j
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w91we
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Why was the Soviet military so ineffective in the first half of WW2?
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This is a very complex and complicated subject - probably hundreds of books have been written about this both inside and outside of the USSR. Essentially, the reasons could be put into 2 categories: First Reason: The Soviet Union was simply not ready for war when Germany invaded. During peacetime, the military of any major country works on a skeleton crew. It is simply too expensive to maintain a war-time full size army in peacetime. As soon as the war starts, the country will call up reservists, troops will assemble in cities all over the country, get on trains (or ships/planes whatever) and then be transported and deployed to face the enemy. This is call mobilization. For a country the size of the Soviet Union, this process takes a long time - more than a month. When Germany invaded the SU on June 22, 1941, the Red Army was still largely a peace-time army - it wan't mobilized or it was perhaps only partially mobilized. The troops in the interior of the country have not yet joined with those at the border. This gave the German army a significant advantage. The German army could concentrate an overwhelming amount of troops at the key points of their advance. This allowed them to quickly surround and destroy many of the Red Army units facing them. This meant that the mobilizing RA units arriving from the interior could no longer join with anybody and had to make a new front. Essentially, the defeat at the border created a cascading domino effect where the Germans would never really fight the RA at full strength and instead defeat it peace-meal. You might ask "Well, why didn't the SU mobilize sooner? Couldn't they have seen this coming?" There is a lot of misinformation out there that basically says that Stalin was given accurate intelligence that the invasion was pending but refused to believe it. Actually, intelligence reports he received were contradictory and not reliable. There was no conclusive evidence that war was indeed imminent. However, the Soviet leadership became very concerned about the threat in the early June (about 2-3 weeks before the invasion). Even if mobilization was declared then, it was already too late, since at least 30 days were needed. But more importantly, they reasoned that a mobilization would be provocative to Germany and make war a certainty rather than merely a threat. Second Reason is the difference in troop quality. The the few years before 1941, the RA had grown by nearly 5 times. Soviet military academies had difficulties meeting the demand for qualified new officers. On a more theoretical level, the RA didn't really have a clear and effective doctrine that it would put into use. Senior officers understood that the nature of war had changed dramatically since the days of WWI, especially with the advent of the tank. However, it was not very clear what was the best way to use armor, and without concrete experience it was hard to determine. (The terrain during the war with Finland was not very suitable for armored warfare). To give an example, originally the Soviets had their tanks spread across the infantry. However shortly before the war, in 1940, they decided to organize all the tanks in to 19 mechanized corps. Each corps would have hundreds of tanks. However as experience showed, these mechanized corps, while looking formidable on paper, were actually too big and too difficult to control. Also, as experience showed, tanks actually need a lot of infantry and artillery support - something that these mechanized corps didn't have enough of. Finally, the mechanized corps didn't have sufficient transport which limited their mobility, which is a key feature of armored units. The Germans, on the other hand, probably had the best and the most complete doctrine on how to use armor at the beginning of the war. During the interwar years, they put a lot of thought into how armor should be organized, what the proper ratio of tanks to infantry is, and so on. The campaign in Poland was just about the ideal scenario to test their doctrine - it was a real war with a real enemy but still forgiving enough that mistakes would not lead to a disaster. The Polish campaign was also one of several opportunities for German officers and soldiers to gain valuable experience. Thus the German military was well ahead of the RA qualitatively. Re: Stalin's Purges: The misfortunes of the Red Army are often explained by Stalin's purges. However these claims are usually exaggerated. Overall, only about 4% of Red Army officers were killed as a result of the purges. The majority of those affected were returned to the army either before or immediately after the war began. Several of Red Army's very senior officers were killed but there is no indication that they were more talented or capable the the ones who replaced them. Also, while it is true that the RA had a deficit of junior officers, the purges were very top heavy. Of course, the purges didn't help the situation but it would be incorrect to say they were the main or even a very significant reason for RA's defeats of 1941. Sorry for the wall of text but this as I said earlier, it is a rather complicated subject. TL;DR - The Soviet Union was not ready for war operationally - the Red Army wasn't mobilized or deployed at the start the war. Also the Soviet military planners, nor the officers in the field, had sufficient experience with modern warfare (contrary to Germans, which had a ton). EDIT: Formatting and grammar
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AskReddit/cid8z2h
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28ptbz
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What is the biggest misconception about diet/weight loss that most people believe?
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You can lose weight in the gym without changing your behavior (food) outside of the gym. Ugly truth: what you do outside of the gym is more important for weight loss than what you do inside the gym.
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AskReddit/e9nhhdu
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9wtui4
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Which movie made you cry and why?
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Two movies, similar reasons Marley and me: had just gotten back the run of my beloved dogs ashes the day I watched it and she was part lab, I would of bawled like a baby anyway but grieving for the dog we’d had since I was a newborn made it so much worse. Then a couple of years or so later my dad decided to put on red dog an amazing movie about a well known dog in Australia. We’d just had our own dog who was also pet red Australian cattle dog put down that day and welp the same thing happened. I just don’t like watching movies about dogs anymore too risky
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explainlikeimfive/d0fhwip
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47taa4
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Are AP's (Assistant Principals) at my school really allowed to search me whenever they feel?
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No, they can't search you whenever they feel like. But they can search you if they have a reasonable suspicion you are carrying contraband. > Although the underlying command of the Fourth Amendment is always that searches and seizures be reasonable, what is reasonable depends on the context within which a search takes place. New Jersey v. T. L. O., 469 U.S. 325, 337 (1985). In the context of a school, school officials have a huge responsibility to keep you safe and watch over you. Of course, you do have a reasonable expectation of privacy in your belongings, but because of the special responsibility of school officials, they don't need a warrant or probable cause to search you. > The school setting also requires some modification of the level of suspicion of illicit activity needed to justify a search. Ordinarily, a search -- even one that may permissibly be carried out without a warrant -- must be based upon "probable cause" to believe that a violation of the law has occurred. However, "probable cause" is not an irreducible requirement of a valid search. The fundamental command of the Fourth Amendment is that searches and seizures be reasonable, and although "both the concept of probable cause and the requirement of a warrant bear on the reasonableness of a search, . . . in certain limited circumstances neither is required." Id. at 340 (citations omitted). Thus, if there is reasonable suspicion you're doing something wrong, they can do a reasonable (making you empty your backpack, not making you strip down) search.
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explainlikeimfive/cr7y4oy
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35umj3
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How could humans realistically colonize a planet with modern technology (assuming that getting there isn't an issue)?
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We couldn't. We don't have reliable technology to let us breathe and grow crops on any of the planets in the solar system. If we found something very Earth-like we could theoretically do all the same stuff we do on Earth right now, but our ability to get a biosphere going on a foreign planet is dubious.
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askscience/cro78m6
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37m35b
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Does Silicon based CPU's have a limitation of speed?
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Yes, CPUs have a max frequency. Part of this max isn't actually because of the silicon though. It is because of heat dissipation. The faster the vibration(higher frequency) the more heat is created. Size of the crystal also impacts heat, smaller crystals can't get rid of heat at high temps because they don't have enough surface area when in contact with the plate to get rid of heat. Heat can cause crystals to fracture at high enough temps, or cause a CPU to melt down. I am sure a crystal vibrating fast enough could also tear it's self apart.
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