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explainlikeimfive/depkwt3
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5yf3pu
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Why is it when the police lose a lawsuit it comes from tax payer money instead of something like the police pension fund?
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When a person sues because a police officer violated their civil rights, the lawsuit is almost always against the officer. Sometimes you can sue the local government if it has an unconstitutional policy (like a secret racial profiling policy you could somehow prove existed), but if there's no specific policy then the suit is against the individual officer. However, individual officers rarely pay any significant portion of a judgment against them. The reason is that governments typically indemnify them. Indemnifying someone means you pay for their legal defense and the judgment against them. For example, your auto insurance company has an indemnification agreement with you for any motor vehicle accidents you cause. Sometimes the indemnification is required by state law, sometimes it's required by county ordinance, and sometimes city officials decide whether to indemnify or not on an individual basis. Regardless of the exact method, almost every police officer gets indemnified for these types of suits. There are a couple reasons a city may want to indemnify an officer. First, it helps make sure that your officers aren't afraid to police to the extent you want them to. If you want officers to be "tough on crime" but they have to worry about personally getting sued for being "too tough" then they won't carry out the orders vigorously. On the other hand, if the city is on the hook then it has an incentive to make sure it doesn't make its officers go too overboard because then it will be paying out a lot in judgments. From the perspective of the person suing, it's good to have indemnification because if you win a $1 million judgment, most police officers wouldn't be able to pay that while a city could. Of course it also takes money from government funds that could be used for public services. It's worth noting that officers sometimes do have to contribute to judgments against them, but in practice it's usually a small amount of officers and they only have to contribute a small amount. The reason the money doesn't come from the police pension fund is that the fund is either (1) a contractual obligation the city will have to pay no matter what or (2) privately held by the officers/their union and not accessible in a judgment against an individual officer. You also probably don't want to rob an entire police department of its retirement because one person did one really crappy thing once.
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AskReddit/dh0wy94
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68s0wt
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Who is the worst stand up comedian ever?
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Everyone may or may not agree, but I cannot stand Chris D'Elia. I've watched a bunch of his things and I've heard he is a great crowd work comedian, but I don't just care for his style of comedy. Maybe down the road when my standards plummet I can find room for appreciation.
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AskReddit/c37w7zn
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nc0pr
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What is the worst thing someone has done to you?
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I would have to say for myself, the worst thing someone has done to me, is stole my money I had saved up, and lied to me about doing it, only to find out when I caught them, they finally told the truth. It was enough to get me a place to live, and a car. To make it worse it was a family member.
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AskReddit/ekyit6g
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bdjbiu
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What was the single best purchase you have ever made?
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My 2012 MacBook Pro. It was the most expensive thing I ever bought for myself at the time. It cost $1,200 and I was only 18. It actually cost more than my first car. My mom was furious and thought I was being stupid. But I wanted a good computer for college and made the investment. Well, it got me all the way through college with zero issues and is still in use now! The thing is a total beast. I had to replace the hard drive once and buy a new charger once, that’s it. Never had a virus. Dropped it a few times on a tile floor. Left it in hot cars and cold cars. Spilled many drinks on it. It’s nearing the end of its lifespan now, though. I might get another 6 months tops out of it. But it’s almost 8 years old! Was a great investment.
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explainlikeimfive/cg5sayd
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20qguk
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What causes stock prices to move up or down throughout the day?
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In general, the fluctuations in a day will depend on multiple factors, but the most basic is still supply and demand. Lets say Company X opens at $5.00 a share. There are trades back and forth - the spread is $5.00 Bid (how much people want to buy it for), and $5.10 Ask (how much people want to sell it for). The 'spread' is just the difference between Bid and Ask. Usually when there is a lot of volume (meaning a lot of people buying and selling), the spread is smaller. Anyways, lets say on Monday, Company X is just OK. Normal buying and selling has the price going up and down between $5.00 and $5.10 as people buy and sell. Not much going on here. One trader might be willing to ask for $5.08, and the price will drop to $5.08 if someone buys at that amount. Someone else might sell for $5.10, and if someone buys at that amount, thats what the stock is worth at that moment. Now comes along Tuesday. Company X releases some positive financial data. Demand is up. Now the ask has jumped to $5.20, a fairly solid increase. Bids follow because people want to get in on the Companies better financial prospects. The ask will rise as much as it can before it eventually levels off - someone might set an ask of $5.50, but if no one bids on that, it goes nowhere. There is an upper limit where people will buy, and people who want to sell will sell at that price. The price goes up and down, but finally settles at $5.18 for the day. Not a bad increase. On Wednesday, Company X releases more data, and notes that while they have some good news, there is also bad news, and their quarterly results will look bad. Now people are worried. They begin to sell their stocks for $5.17 in order to get rid of them. The price continues to drop as more people try to exit their positions. Buyers want it for $5.10-5.12, so the sellers have to hit that number to sell. By the end of the day, we had a high of $5.18 and a low of $5.10. Technically, from Monday, we are still up 10 cents. But we had a much better day on Tuesday, and Wednesday closed a little lower. Depending on how the Company manages the news, they might be able to re-ignite positive influence among potential investors and get the volume moving again, and hopefully continuing to increase the value of the stock. Google finance and yahoo finance have excellent live feeds for how a companies stock value is doing. This is not always indicative of how well the company is doing - investors have to do a lot of analysis of company financials and industry movements to get a better idea of what a stock is worth. remember - until someone buys or sells at a particular price, the stock is worthless. So if I have a bid for Company X at $1,000,000, and no one has an ask at that price, nothing is going to happen there.
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AskReddit/dwgigfb
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87ybyh
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What made you stop believing in god?
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My older bro started hanging out with this goth dude in middle school named Damien. Soon after, he stopped believing. I was 9. I asked what happened, then he retorted with a question of his own. "Why do you believe in God? Because Mom and Dad do? Have they ever been wrong?" I realized then that I could think for myself about religion, independently.
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AskReddit/cj6fj8i
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2blc84
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What would you do if you were out of underwear and needed to go to work?
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You can dry wet underwear with a iron pretty quickly. Wring the garment out. Place inside an absorbent towel & wring out again, to get as much moisture out as you can. Put a towel on your ironing board, the undies on top, run an iron over it (without steam setting & not so hot as to melt the elastic) and keep it moving. Every few seconds lift the garment to let off steam. Should only take a few minutes. They'll might still be a little damp but won't show and will dry by the time you get to work.,
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explainlikeimfive/cjr2amx
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2dn21t
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Is foaming hand soap better because it's already foam, or worse since it's already foam and people might scrub for less time?
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Foaming hand wash is a pre-mix of surfactant (detergent), scent and colour, and mostly water, and air is injected by the dispenser or a chemical reaction takes place to make the bubbles. Because it's foam it spreads and wets the surface of your hands with both the detergent and the water part very quickly. So it more rapidly evenly covers your skin surface with a mix of detergent and water than scrubbing either bar soap or a thick dollop of liquid hand soap around on your hands, meaning it starts to work a little quicker. It takes very little time to reach a point of diminishing returns for the "average" handwash. Doctors scrubbing for surgery or mechanics digging grease out of their fingernail edges need a more thorough treatment, but for most of us that haven't been handling poo or rotten meat lately, a short wash with a foam-based soap is enough to do us just fine and we don't get that much more gain out of a longer wash. Of course, parents with toddlers who are mud-puddle magnets may get different mileage. But at least foam soaps are more fun for them to squirt and play with than that slimy bar of Ivory, so it might motivate them to do a better job.
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AskReddit/ctyd4zp
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3gi3bt
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Is there such thing as Mom humor?
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"Rugrats in Paris:" I can't mother and merger at the same time. The above is a recorded example of Mom Humor. It is geared towards Moms, written by Moms, and spoken by Mom character. But is it humor? The topic is hotly debated.
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askscience/cje64mc
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2cbqq4
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If you freeze soda water, will it still be carbonated when you unfreeze it?
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Carbon dioxide can be dissolved in water, but like most gasses, it is far less soluble in solids than liquids. Freezing forces the gas out, creating often explosive pressure on the can/bottle. This same pressure also tends to help force the gas back into the water when thawing. Fun facts: tiny holes caused by the gas being pushed out of the freezing liquid is what gives frozen soda it's slushy appearance. Some of the co2 binds with the water forming carbonic acid. If you drink soda in a chamber that's pressurized to the same level as what's inside the can, the gas can't escape (the room is just one big effective can), but you will still feel that burning sensation in your mouth/throat when you drink it, proving that it isn't the bubbles causing the pleasing irritation.
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AskReddit/cmwpxqr
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2phes1
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What brand/business used to be good but now just sucks?
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Anything that's called a "factory outlet." They used to be stores where past seasons' fashions were sent, so the items were a little old, but they were first quality products that never sold to department/retail stores. They fit well, kept their shape, and kept their colour. Now, they've become such big business that almost all of them have completely stopped carrying first quality items and they've gone exclusively to goods being made in cheaper factories using cheaper labour, cheaper materials, and sub-par designs, so that although the "Banana Republic" or "J Crew" or "Calvin Klein" items you're getting at the "factory outlet" are labeled as those brands, they're nowhere near the fit, finish, quality, or durability as the real thing. Everything twists, fades, comes apart at the seams, or gets otherwise completely destroyed in less than a year. I have Polo and Banana Republic items that are three years old and still look good. The stuff they're peddling is pure garbage and they're just trying to cash in on their names. They're essentially knock-offs of their own products. There may still be a few who may still legitimately clear out old "first quality" product at their outlet stores but they're becoming few and far between.
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explainlikeimfive/d7l25zh
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52kwht
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What will happen if one drinks a full bottle of Tabasco sauce?
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Depends on your tolerance levels for capsaicin, but it you're used to little spicier foods, like Tabasco sauce, worst you can get is some indigestion and 'second passing syndrome'. If you aren't used to stronger spices, you will feel sore, and definitely you'll have digestive problems for a couple of days. I'd advise going easy on your stomach next. But most probably you won't be able to chug full bottle if you're not tolerant. Capsaicin (the chemical compound we find 'spicy') feels like burning, but it's just nerve endings activating chemically. Anecdotally, a friend of mine chugged down a bottle of it as a dare, and worst he got, his girlfriend refused to kiss him afterwards that evening.
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AskReddit/dycx1zt
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8gmoma
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What are your tips for moving out of parents' house to a different state with no job and no prospects?
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Find a job before you move. Don't move if you don't have a solid plan in place unless you like soup lines and salvation army/city union mission beds.
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AskReddit/e6wmnyz
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9k66ls
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What is a question you can ask someone and their answer will most likely be a lie?
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Depends person to Person though! If you are going to ask your best friend, i don't really feel they will lie to your any question (mostly). If you are asking a person(MALE) whom you don't know that closely then he will definitely lie if you will ask him his SALARY and in Girl's case they will definitely lie if you ask them their AGE
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AskReddit/cd5gzmv
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1psagh
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Which which Breakfast Club character did you most identify in high school?
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I know you want a "with" in there. When I was in High School, which was in the late 1990's, The Breakfast Club wasn't on our radar. It was just old enough to be nasty old stuff and not old enough to be resurrected. Having seen it since, I identify with it a lot. No character in particular, but the lot of them. Isn't that the whole idea? But the first time I ever saw it was during a Master Pancake show in Austin. (local not-quite-as-good-MST3k)
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AskReddit/d9lky98
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5b3grl
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What makes you nervous?
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Making eye contact. People always talk about the importance of eye contact, but whenever i'm actually noticing myself making eye contact with someone, I get all nervous and wonder if they realise how much i'm actually trying to make eye contact. It's about that "am i staring too intensely into your eyes" kinda moment, and all i can think about is whether i should just cut it out altogether so i don't make myself look like a weirdo.
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AskReddit/ea3ehpu
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9yqu2b
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What are some effects of the two World Wars which are still apparent today?
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The National Health Service and social welfare in the UK. After the Blitz destroyed homes, and soldiers came home with nowhere to live and no income, the UK population started to pay National Insurance contributions to cover the costs and help those in need. Due to the World Wars, people understood that you could loose everything or find yourself in a difficult situation through no fault of your own.
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AskReddit/ci9scba
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28d0e3
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What are the most uncomfortable romantic songs I can play during a car ride to work with my brother everyday?
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One important thing to keep in mind. Eventually he is going to get fed up with all the love songs and ask you to stop. The only reasonable thing to do then is to stop playing them. In preparation for this though, you should start collecting break up songs. After he asks you to stop with all the love songs, start playing all the break up songs instead.
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AskReddit/cnxa2rw
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2tasol
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What event that happened to you felt so scripted that it made you wonder if you were fictional?
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A handsome stranger gave me a flower on the street. It turned out that I had already connected with him in my past and then connected again with him months after the incident through one of the most random, impossible, bizarre coincidental experiences I have ever had. I felt like I was in a movie.
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AskReddit/c0cle2a
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9fnq1
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How does one (female) meet/date a nerd?
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I propose the inverse question to you. How would a male find a female nerd? Sadly, I've yet to come across one that is a.) single or b.) well-adjusted.
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AskReddit/da4rboy
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5di2gc
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What made you realize you were hanging out with the wrong crowd?
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Not your typical response to this kind of question: I played Halo with a group of guys for a few years, and they had started taking it far more seriously than me. One day I made a mistake in a match and our teammate just starts screaming at me over the mic in a shrill voice, insulting me, questioning my intelligence, and demanding I apologize for myself. In that moment I had a personal reality-check and realized I was just coasting through my 20's on the couch with a controller in my hand. No goals, interests, or motivation, barely any sense of who I was, and letting myself get berated by a 30-something guy who still lived with his parents over a game that was no longer fun for me. I turned off the xbox and never played with that group again. Since then I've gotten around to all the self-discovery/improvement stuff I had been putting off since my teens, and I'm far happier for it.
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AskReddit/cks189f
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2hez2y
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Do you believe race affects personality?
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The colour of your skin does not affect the way you think or feel at all. So your solid answer there is a clear cut, yet very scientific "no". What does however shape our personalities is upbringing, education, social influences and life experiences. Sadly some of these are not always optimal and that can sometimes be due to skin colour and the prejudices or circumstances around that.
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AskReddit/c8xffix
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1ahdza
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What did you eat growing up, and how does it affect your view on food today?
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My mother was just an awful cook and I went the first 19 years of my life thinking I hated all kinds of food, turns out I only hate it when she makes it. She microwaves frozen veggies without any water for about 30 minutes, this turns it into tasteless goo. She microwaves rice in this cooker that turns it out kind of chewy. She overcooks meat into leather. The best thing my mother ever did for me was not teach me how to cook. I went off to university knowing how to make mac and cheese and spaghetti. This forced me to learn how to cook using cookbooks and the internet. I am nothing special as far as cooking goes but at least I cook better than my mother. I slowly discovered that I actually do like several foods I thought I hated as a child and I think I eat reasonably healthy. The only lasting impact from childhood is that we had potatoes every day, potatoes are rare in my kitchen.
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AskReddit/cry328n
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38v5hh
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Would you work a six day week to have three day weekends?
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Agreed.but six day work-weeks are too long. We have the technology/productivity to have seriously shortened the workweek to 3 or 4 days by now. Not even in a socialist/communist society, just a marginally more equitable one.
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AskHistorians/cidzz1y
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28sbt0
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How were the days of the week (in the English language) named?
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The following as an excerpt from my draft Introduction to Folklore, which may help with your question: The Romans, Greeks, and Egyptians did not employ a seven-day week even when they used the solar calendar. The idea of a seven-day week came from ancient Babylon slowing making inroads into the Roman Empire after the first century. Still, Rome did not formally adopt the week until 321 CE. People throughout the world recognize a period of time ranging from three to ten days that plays the same role as the modern week. These are frequently divisions of the lunar cycle. In agricultural societies, the week is often four to five days and is tied to markets. Central Africa, for example, has a four-day week with the market as the focus. For the Babylonians, seven was a particularly important number. They recognized seven heavenly bodies that moved independently of the stars: what we now call Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the sun, and the moon. Each of these astronomical objects corresponded to a deity. In addition, much of Babylonian astrology focused on the moon, each phase of which lasts approximately seven days. It was easy, therefore, to associate each day of the week with a deity. The Romans, adopting this practice, began the week with Saturday, naming that day for Saturn, the most remote and slowest of the visible moving planets. Days for the sun and moon followed, and then Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, and Venus had their respective days. Romance languages preserve these pagan designations. The Germanic world imported the Roman concept of the week before Christianization, so they substituted the names of their own gods for the Roman ones. They only had, however, a four-day week, and so they discarded Saturday through Monday, which returned later with the Christian faith. In addition, the Germanic world did not associate celestial objects with their gods, so the designations for the days of the week had no counterpart in astrology. Tiw/Týr, the god of war, assumed the position of Mars. Odin, god of wisdom and magic (Woden for the Anglo-Saxons), took the place of Mercury, although in both cases the analogy was weak. Thor, the Germanic sky god of thunder, was a more obvious substitute for Jupiter. Freya, goddess of love and fertility, assumed the place of Venus. The preoccupation of the Christian calendar with the importance of Sunday as that religion’s Sabbath was influenced by the popularity of a Roman religion known as Mithraism, which held the sun as sacred. For the Germanic world, Thor was generally regarded as supreme, and so Thursday assumed premier importance. The primary position of Thursday, as opposed to Sunday, created an ambiguity for Northern European folk culture until industrialization and the adoption of the idea of a weekend, consecrating Sunday as the Sabbath. In Germanic-based European folklore, the evening before Thursday or Sunday were the best time for magic. In addition, dreams during those nights had greater potential to become reality. A person born on Thursday should not be baptized on Sunday, and the opposite was also true. If this taboo were broken, the child would grow up seeing ghosts. In addition, only those born on one of those two days had the potential to become a sorcerer.
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explainlikeimfive/ci12khr
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27i88a
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If being attractive is an important aspect of sexual attraction, why hasn't natural selection turned us all into super models?
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In comparison to even a couple hundred years ago, we are generally super models. We are taller, freer from birth defects, ethnically interesting, overall healthy, generally able to spend time and resources on our hygiene and appearance. The bar just keeps rising.
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AskReddit/c2j64lb
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kcfle
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What's the weirdest gift you've ever gotten?
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My dad once bought (read as stole) at tin boat for me. And my grandmother has given me plenty of weird gifts, such as a broken compass, a commerative Obama coin, fake dollar bills, a switchblade, and a toy car. All in one day.
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AskReddit/c0ieirq
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amyg8
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What is your favourite band that no one has heard about?
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No-Man. It's one of Steven Wilson's side projects. Most know him from Porcupine Tree, but I'm surprised so few people have heard of No-Man, as he actually started off with No-Man before Porcupine Tree existed.
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AskReddit/d2d0733
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4fyefx
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Why does a mirrored reflection of yourself look better than photos of yourself?
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I guess it is because I can move into different angles and try different looks, while the photo is just that very moment in which you might not have looked as good. Also you're always moving A BIT in the mirror, which makes you (obviously) seem more natural and lively than on a picture.
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explainlikeimfive/dxeb4ke
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8cedz1
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How do embassies work?
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An embassy is a building where the ambassador works. An ambassador is a representative of a foreign country. At its most basic, and ambassador is a sort of messenger -- in fact, the word "ambassador" comes from a very old Celtic word that meant "messenger" or "servant". For example, the French ambassador to the US works at the French embassy at 4101 Reservoir Rd NW in Washington D.C. His job is to officially represent the French government. That is, if the US government needs to say something really important to the French government, instead of jetting over to France, they can just summon the French ambassador. Everything they say to him, they are saying directly to the French government. In addition to that, the embassy is also tasked with looking after its own citizens. If, for example, you're in a foreign country and your passport is stolen, you can go to your country's embassy, prove your identity and get travel documents so you can get back home. If you're arrested for something, your embassy can help you find a lawyer, ensure that your rights are respected and -- if the charges are plainly ridiculous or you're being badly mistreated somehow -- try to secure your release. If you hear that a government has "summoned the ambassador of country X", that usually means they want to severely criticize that government. If a government expels the ambassador of country X, that means the two countries are no longer on speaking terms. There's a myth that an embassy is technically on the soil of the country it represents; i.e., if you go into the French embassy in Washington DC, you're technically in France. This is not true. But there is a concept of "diplomatic immunity". Think of, for example, the US Embassy in North Korea. If the North Korean police kept going in there for whatever reason, you'd start to think that maybe the North Koreans were interfering with or spying on the work of the staff. So there is an agreement that countries should not interfere with the work of foreign diplomats: the police, army, even the fire brigade don't go into an embassy compound without the permission of that embassy's government. It's not illegal, but it could start a war. Also, diplomats don't have their official briefcases searched by customs, and so on. But because of this diplomatic immunity, it's an open secret that "diplomatic staff" are often actually spies. And even where they're not spies, they often can't be prosecuted for criminal acts: there are cases of diplomats literally getting away with murder because the murder was committed inside the embassy and that government refused permission for the host country's police to investigate it. That's why many countries have expelled Russian diplomatic staff recently. This came in the wake of the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in the UK, an act which is strongly suspected to have been done on the orders of the Kremlin. If so, it would likely have been committed by somebody under cover of diplomatic immunity: they could have smuggled the nerve agent in diplomatic baggage, and the British police won't be allowed to arrest them or even investigate them. But what the British can do -- and did do -- is to declare some of the diplomats "persona non grata", meaning they must leave the country. This first of all is basically a way of punishing Russia. But also, it's hoped that at least some of those diplomats are actually spies, and that by expelling them, the British have made it harder for the Russians to carry out further similar attacks. EDIT: Thanks for the gold.
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explainlikeimfive/d43kuph
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4nfziz
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Is healthiness truly changeable, or will someone who got fit but was once morbidly obese always be less healthy than someone who has always been in good shape and eaten well?
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Much can be reversed. For example, Dean Ornish, MD, has shown that even your heart vessels can go from being narrowed with plaque to being open and healthy as a result of a healthy lifestyle, diabetes (type 2) can be reversed (often), etc. It would probably take considerable work and also probably considerable insight into one's body, but the bottom line is that a lot can be reversed if people have the right methods and make the right efforts. However, becoming morbidly obese and very unhealthy doesn't happen overnight. Similarly, going from that state to a state of greater health doesn't happen overnight - I think you could potentially think of it like 2 sides of a wave. The first side of the wave is going up, up, up to disease, and the other side of the wave is going back to health. Both take time. Source: Am primary care doctor who has investigated the role of lifestyle and nutrition on health for years and has worked with various physicians nationwide who do nutritional interventions as their job with great success.
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AskReddit/c1sr90r
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h5gbc
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What movie that everyone else seems to love do you really dislike?
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Anchorman, Step Brothers. basically any recent Will Ferrell movie. I rented the Anchorman and actually stopped watching it. I went to see Step Brothers in theatres and actually walked out of the movie. I get that it's supposed to be stupid comedy, but this isn't stupid comedy it's just stupid. I loved Old School and actually managed to sit through Blades Of Glory so I don't know what's up with his movies.
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explainlikeimfive/ck898rf
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2fd05s
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What were the chief agents responsible for the degradation of the middle east from a place of enlightenment and tolerance into an underdeveloped region torn apart by war, religious intolerance and political/sectarian strife?
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All empires fall. Dictators, foreign insurrectionists, unending wars, radical factions. The overwhelming truth is that a giant region, populated by wildly heterogenous peoples, with many different traditions and belief systems, simply can't be governed efficiently by hierarchical government.
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AskReddit/e059w84
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8opga0
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What inspires you most and makes you go forward?
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I used to be easily inspired by my personal drive to improve what was in my sphere. Loving my husband, kids, home, career, our business, friends, pets, community, even our church. But my husband covertly undermined me and viciously betrayed and humiliated and stole from me. I lost everything over the past few years while he has made his dreams come true at my expense and now shares it all with the other woman as he never did with me. She gets the best of him and lives the life I created. And she’s a heartless, greedy, violent fake like him. My children are the only reason I am making another effort to survive, but the look in their eyes, the lies they believe, the fear and disappointment when I see them. I am so tired and disillusioned.
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AskReddit/eog34th
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brs1j8
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What’s your airport horror story?
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I went to Mexico with my girlfriend at the time. It was meant to be an escape from it all where we didn't check up on the news and just enjoyed our little vacation bubble. On our way back, when we landed in Florida, we had a delay in our transfer that lasted 2 hours, which turned into 5 hours, which turned into 9 hours. Around hour 4 of pacing and groggily attempting to sleep, I walked by a news stand and saw that Hurricane Sandy had obliterated the east coast during my vacation. My jaw dropped and I tried to get as much info as poasible, because I had plenty of friends in New York at the time. It was a horror story for several reasons.
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AskReddit/ef90e59
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aky4xh
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What is your best drunk story?
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I like to host people from differents part of the world thanks to Couchsurfing. I ended up hosting this dude from Colombia and we went out for a few beers, it was suppose to be chill as i had to work the next day. We ended up talking alot and ordering more and more drinks. He flirted with some girls in the bar and they invited us to sit with them. It was 2am and the bar was going to close so they invited us to this other bar that closed at 6am. Now from this part i really don't recall anything as vodka shots and Delirium (strong belgian beer) made me super drunk. My colombian guest told me we ended up dancing with them and at one point i was making out with one of the girls in a corner. He told me that i was suppose to go home with her but when she went to the bathroom i fell asleep waiting for her on one of the tables so he took me home. He was laughing but also bitter because he was also gonna hook up with one of the girls but he took cared of me instead haha. It truly was one of my favorite nights as i wasn't expecting any of it. Also side not, i payed for it dearly the next day at work my massive hangover. I was lucky that my manager is around my age and a nice guy, so he let me take it easy as it was friday and laughed at me mostly.
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AskReddit/dl32fqp
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6r815j
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What is something you hate but wish you didn't?
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Tattoos on women. Please note that this is purely an aesthetic aversion. It has nothing to do with character. I just very much prefer the female skin unadorned. EDIT: And veggies. I hate almost all veggies.
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AskReddit/db3euwm
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5hvymj
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What video game actually deserves a 10/10, and why?
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This will maybe not be as popular but u think the Elder Scrolls Skyrim deserves a 10/10 from me. It came out over five years ago and I still play and replay it. I do back to my wood stalls archer or install mods to do a simple pleasant farmer run. It's the only game that I can come back to once a month for five years and still enjoy.
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explainlikeimfive/cc2yekq
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1lurm1
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When skydiving, is the gravity of the earth's core pulling me down or the air molecules I am in contact with?
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Everything attracts everything. However, the heavier the object, the more force it will exert on you. Imagine all the weight of the air above you when jumping (pulling you up); that weight is negligible compared to the weight of the earth + the air beneath you (pulling you down). Side note: the distance is also very important. If you double the distance, the force is divided by 4. This is why you wouldn't fall off the moon if you stood on it and the earth passed by overhead. But this isn't important while you are still in the atmosphere.
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AskReddit/d4tpsiu
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4qkbo1
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What's the funniest way you've heard of someone being fired?
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Security at a big, famous, movie theater in L.A. A concessionaire got fired for stealing and eating a hotdog. I escorted him out of the theater. His good buddy heard he'd been fired and started yelling at one of the managers. He was fired too. When I escorted him out of the theater, he kicked a trash can across the hallway and the manager watching ordered me to arrest him for property damage. I laughed. "What damage? It's a plastic trash can!" Then I was fired.
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AskReddit/c22fj9v
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ibkbs
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How would you feel about changing the age at which people are considered to be a legal 'adult' from 18 to 13?
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Well, those religions you mentioned are very old. Go back 2,000 to 7,000 years ago and people were getting married and starting families in their early teens. No doubt this worked well for its time, but this is not ancient Mesopotamia. It's a more complex world, and sociologists and psychologists tell us it takes people more time to mature in a society where there is more to learn. Back then, all you had to know was which end of the cow to feed and which end to milk (a gross simplification, but you get the point.) Even as late as the 19th century it was possible for a well-read individual to learn everything humanity had to teach. Today you could spend your whole life studying one sub-branch of a major science and still not learn it all. With the complexity of modern life, there is so much more to learn. If anything the age of majority should be raised, not lowered.
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askscience/d8hhozd
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569ein
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Why does one twin age more in the traveling twins paradox?
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> If that's true, then technically they are both at rest, aside from the brief period of acceleration. The devil's in the details. When Twin B is coasting, you're right that she sees Twin A aging slower than she is, and concludes that she is the younger twin in her own reference frame. But during that brief period of acceleration, Twin B suddenly sees Twin A age incredibly fast, almost by 40 years. During the trip back Twin A appears to age slowly again, but it's too late - Twin A is 40 by the time Twin B arrives home.
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explainlikeimfive/cxfons7
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3ukzgl
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Why do people still use paper receipt in shops and not invent receipt card, which we could use in all shops?
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The truth is that if you use a credit/debit card, there's already a record and you don't need a paper receipt at all. Even if you didn't, any large store (think Target) will have a record of your purchase - at least enough to know a product was bought there. You can also you your phone for payments nowadays, and that's likely to get more and more popular. When that happens receipts can just get emailed directly to you.
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AskReddit/eghck7r
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aqo3mp
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What do you eat first: your fries, your hamburger, or both, and why?
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Bite of burger. Couple of chews. Add a couple of fries to the mouth mix. Goal is to complete the burger and fries at the same time. With no leftovers I’d either.
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AskReddit/eww50n4
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cqgha4
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What is something you swore up and down you would never EVER do, but then turned around and did it?
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Becoming more "feminine" and "girly". In my early teenage years, it would be a miracle to find clothes in a different colour than black. Hated pink, hated heels, would curse, swore no make-up other than black eye-shadow. Well. Fast forward 8 years and I love skirts, dresses, I have more colour in my closet (though mostly basic colors like black, white, beige, grey with some red and green) and I love red lipstick (no foundation, I'm severely allergic). Also I watch my language and just like how I am now.
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AskReddit/cafixv2
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1g070y
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What song makes you feel happy whenever you hear it?
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Lately it's been Of Monsters and Men-Mountain Sound. I heard it at work one day and it drove me crazy because the female singer reminds me of another song that I have yet to remember. But it's been my happy song for the past week.
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explainlikeimfive/csixk6s
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3b53y2
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Why are all planets sphere shaped?
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The sphere is the most efficient way to cram the most matter into the smallest amount of space. Since gravity draws everything inward any object of sufficient mass will be spherical. Planets that rotate very fast can flatten out a bit so they're not perfect spheres. Jupiter is noticeably oblate due to its rapid rotation and "squishy" nature.
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AskReddit/dcseanf
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5pmdai
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What have you ever heard someone say that made you question their intelligence?
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My friend, his roommate, and me were having a conversation about national defense and weaponry. Friends roommate thought it would be a good idea to "mass product" (not produce, product) iron man suits. He was completely serious. He also thought airplanes should be made from the strongest metal possible (which is also probably the heaviest).
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explainlikeimfive/e52fsui
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9beby8
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What is it about Maths that makes it the most commonly disliked subject in school?
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Several reasons, imo: It's not taught properly (from my experience), focusing on memorizing the formulas instead of learning the concepts and "the why." This is compounded over the years by teachers who never explain why math works the way it does. People don't like being told there's one right (or one more right) way to do things. Yes, you may have gotten the same answer with a different method, but often times, that's a fluke and/or the method being taught is better in the long run (which most people don't seem to care about) It's an easy subject to hate. People in general are lazy, and school kids are impressionable and want to fit in with their friends. It's easy to hate since it's so commonly hated.
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explainlikeimfive/eprm93g
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bvq8hj
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Why are some animals more likely to be pets than others?
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They've been bred for it over centuries, and often have symbiotic relationships with humans. Also, imho, predators make better pets than prey animals. They don't have prey response, and live longer.
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AskHistorians/cfjfwdv
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1ycrtz
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How accurate is the claim that the Windsors aren't the true heirs to the British throne, and that an Australian man is the rightful king?
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Can you provide some more context here? What Australian man? Anyways, the Windsor claim goes back in direct lineal succession pretty much all the way to Queen Victoria*, and indirectly it goes all the way back to George I (I mean, theoretically it goes "indirectly" back all the way to William the Conqueror and even beyond that, but the jump from Queen Anne to King George I is a pretty big indirect leap, so its a good stopping point). At what point in this succession is this supposed Australian person supposed to have branched off? * Elizabeth II is the eldest daughter of George VI (who had no sons), who is the second eldest son of George V (Edward VIII, who was the oldest son and King between the two, abdicated), who is the second eldest son of Edward VII (Prince Albert Victor, the oldest son, predeceased both his father and grandmother without issue), who is the eldest son of Victoria.
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AskReddit/e97a42r
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9uv81z
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What’s the most interesting thing about you?
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I've wanted to be a trauma nurse for the past 3 years and I've wanted to work in the medical field since I got my very fiest doctor kit. I won first place on two research projects in 3rd and 4th grade at my school on urology and surgical procedures, respectively. I wanted to be a medical examiner when I was around age 7. I'm in a clinical rotation program at my school that serves as CNA skill training, and if I pass my test next year I'll actually be able to be employed as a nurse aide. So I guess my interest in medicine and healthcare is the most interesting thing about me?
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AskReddit/d6wf5sa
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4zjqkp
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What's the best paradox you know?
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It may have a different name, but I know it as the Grandfather Paradox. It speculates on time travel with the case of one who goes back in time and accidentally kills their grandfather. This would mean that they were never born to go back in time and kill their grandfather. So I guess they would actually just pop up in the present as if nothing had happened.
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askscience/c5vp49h
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yhu8n
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Would it be possible to transplant a gorilla's digestive tract into a human, giving that human the ability to digest cellulose?
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The transplant would be rejected by the humans immune system fairly rapidly. It would actually be better to use a pig intestine, which would last "slightly" longer since pigs share fairly simillar cell markers. Point is, the human is likely going to die with a transplant like this due to organ rejection
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AskReddit/cifcxmi
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28xa2r
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What are some good meals a College student could make?
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The following recipe was made often in college and I remember my friends were always impressed I made it for them (even though it is super easy). Breaded Chicken cutlet go buy: Chicken breast Bread Crumbs Some Sauce - pick one you like, marsala sauce is good or teriyaki. You will also need mushrooms and broccoli Corn or pasta. Virgin Olive Oil Take oil and put it in the pan. Put pan on stove top. Dip chicken breast in oil then dip it in the bread crumbs and drop it in the pan. Keep flipping it over until it's cooked. Will be white in the middle when ready to eat. Put the corn in a pot with a little bit of water and a cover and let the water steam and cook the corn. Put the broccoli and mushrooms in a pan with oil and move those guys around with a fork till they are ready. Spice with some lemon or spices for flavor. Sauce works too. Dinner is ready in about 15 - 20 minutes. Enjoy!
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AskReddit/d4sdaf3
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4qempq
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What're you almost 100% sure actually happened?
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Humans have overpopulated the planet and destroyed the environment and our own ecosystems with an array of different destructive methodologies, it's already too late to stop the runaway effects of our actions and we're all going to die of starvation from lack of pollinating bees. I'm like, almost 100% on that.
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AskReddit/dklt9xn
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6p1cnh
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What's your best tip/method for fighting the Sunday Blues, aka the feeling of bummed-out dread that comes from the knowledge you have to go to work tomorrow?
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Keep yourself busy with fun things, and realize that the thought completely wastes all your fun time so it serves no purpose other than to make you upset - there's no reason to think about it. It's a matter of reappraisal. Sure, you only have one day of fun before work tomorrow, but also, you have a full day of fun and freedom before you need to think about work tomorrow!
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AskReddit/dp5jcxq
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79xoyv
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What topics should be completely off-limits for jokes?
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As a whole, nothing. Don't tell 9/11 jokes to survivors/families, don't make rape jokes around victims. Know your audience. But overall everything is free game. When we start to stifle comedy and art as a whole weve moved into dark territory.
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AskReddit/eq6siks
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bxhxh2
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What's the worst time you've left something behind while traveling?
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not really left behind, but our dog ran away as soon as we arrived to our destination (~6hours) and had been missing for hours by the time the people looking after her had given us a call. i was 12 and had to drive all the way back home to look for. my moms friend eventually found her and stayed with her while we drove to pick her up.
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AskReddit/cf7fojb
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1x1zw4
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What is a single word or phrase you would get a tattoo of if only to remind you of something?
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I'm not a tattoo fan, but if I had to get one, I would want my home state's motto, "Ad Astra Per Aspera" on the inner part of my upper left arm. It means "To the stars through difficulties," which I think is not only a beautiful sentiment, but it reminds me of home.
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AskReddit/cchcs6p
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1ncn2m
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Did a movie/tv show every inspire you to change your life?
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Stargate SG-1. Captain Carter inspired me to become a strong, independent women who don't need no man and to pursue knowledge and peace all while reaching for the stars. Unfortunately, I'm a financially irresponsible manchild who uses my girlfriend as a life-crutch a little too much all while failing out of college and being underemployed.
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explainlikeimfive/e7wl9tj
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9otdxo
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How do junkyard/Dumps sort trash and recycling?
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Typically, items with any value get sorted out to be sold, and the remainder hits the dump. Depending on where you are in the country, and how your state government regulates recycling, some dumps will also have their own sorting methods, especially for construction and demolition materials. You'd be surprised at the amount a garbage/recycling company can make. But there's also such a high cost to transport, it's not quite as profitable as it used to be. Tl;Dr people who don't get paid a lot hourly stand at a conveyor belt and pull out anything that can be resold for value. Everything else goes to the dump.
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AskReddit/cjd5464
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2c93do
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What's a joke you're sick of hearing about your job/major?
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I'm a computer science major and I hate when people ask "oh Computer Science? Do you do a lot of hacking?" or "Oh i have a computer that needs fixing" I am not a hacker and i am not a computer repairman.
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AskReddit/egmqqvj
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arf3jp
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What’s the stupidest thing you’ve convinced someone of?
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I had all four of my kids convinced I could blow the red lights out at stoplights. I would wait till I saw it was about to change and I would say, ok, let’s blow and they would blow furiously and it would change every time. I think they were at least 8 or 10 before they figured it out.
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AskReddit/duhj243
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7ym0uh
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What are some “just because” things you can do for your S.O?
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I'm a gift giver; my favorite way to express how much I love him is by giving him small unexpected presents. My second favorite way is through acts of service. Occasionally, I'll stop at his favorite chocolate shop on my way home from work and pick up a box of chocolates for him. When I see that he's out of socks or undershirts, I'll pick up a package as a surprise. I try to cook some of his favorite meals every week. I listen to his stories about video games or shows that I'm not personally invested in. I'll wash and fold his clothes so he doesn't ever run out, because I know he hates doing laundry. When I know he's about to have a hard day, I'll wake up early and make him a strong cup of coffee and something hearty for breakfast. Sometimes I'll sneak home early and pick up our place. I'll pick up the mail so he doesn't have to. On holidays, I get him some lingerie that I know he'll like. Sometimes, when I'm feeling really lovey, I'll write a message on the mirror with my lipstick -- or hide a handwritten note for him. I encourage him to regularly spend a few hours a night playing his favorite video games, and sometimes I'll watch him play so I can understand what he talks about. I put his towel in the dryer while he's in the shower so that it will be warm when he gets out. I make a mental note anytime he mentions liking something, so I know what to get him -- this week he mentioned loving clementine oranges, so I made sure they were on our grocery list. He often picks up little presents for me from the store, and sometimes he surprises me with a bouquet of flowers. He nearly always takes out the trash and does the dishes, which is great because I can't stand the smell of food gone bad. When I ask, he'll clean out the fridge without grumbling. He texts me "I love you" and other messages throughout the day, and has every single day for five years. He lets me pick out the TV shows most of the time. He tries to read books that I really like, so we can talk about them together. He kisses me every day before he leaves for work and as soon as I get home from work. He genuinely says thank you when I cook dinner. He's always the one who goes outside to pick up the take out so I don't have to put on pants or go out in the cold. When I have to work on the weekend, he makes sure I come home to a nice bubble bath. He tells me I'm beautiful/sexy frequently. Sometimes he'll give me the coveted first bite of the dish he ordered when we go out to eat. He grabs my hand and holds on tight when we go out in public. He takes walks with me. These are some things that we do for each other that have made our relationship work. Like every couple, we have our ups and downs; these small acts go a long way during the downs, and make the ups even better than they would otherwise be. Edit: thank you so much for the gold and the stories; they're so sweet. I hope I didn't make too many people sad or set too many unrealistic expectations -- no relationship is perfect. I don't do these things all the time, and I promise that on the next thread I see that asks what my terrible traits are, I'll give a long and detailed list of all of the unromantic things I've done.
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AskReddit/c9lmodh
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1d08ll
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How do cop cars compare to regular cars?
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The most popular police vehicle in the United States is the Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor (CVPI). Apart from a slightly higher compression ratio, the 4.6L V-8 engine used in these cars is no different in power from the one found in a civilian model. The biggest differences in the CVPI is in durability of critical components. Police cars are subject to severe abuse including idling for hours, driving over curbs and other obstacles and making body contact with other vehicles. Because of this, CVPI's have an external oil cooler (radiator), higher final drive ratio (better torque), and reinforced frame and suspension components. Police vehicles don't really have to be especially fast. In most cases, this just escalates the danger of the chase. Their best ally is the other officers out there, and of course, the almighty radio.
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AskReddit/dwh1w69
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881bj2
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What's worse: Someone who doesn't hold the door open for you OR someone who doesn't thank you for holding the door open for them?
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How about when you get stuck holding the door for like, crowds of people. SOMEBODY ELSE TAKE A TURN. And I always end up accidentally bailing at the worst time like right before an old lady is coming or a woman pushing a baby stroller.
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AskReddit/elsig7t
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bhfyfl
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What memory does the shirt you are wearing remind you of?
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this is interesting because i thought about this today. i’m currently wearing my old best friends shirt. we don’t speak anymore, and i think he is a vile human being. our friendship reached a point that when it ended i felt nothing and still don’t, hence why i can wear his shirt and not feel weird about it. and that in itself is strange to me. life is strange.
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askscience/cgpuol8
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22rni6
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Is it a definite number of atoms in the universe?
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There is certainly not a definite number of atoms in the universe. Atoms are being fused constantly inside of stars, and are undergoing fission in every unstable isotope or nuclear reaction. I cannot definitely say that there isn't some finite number of protons/neutrons/other subatomic particles. I don't know enough to answer that.
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AskReddit/c2h9x8u
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k3r1d
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What is a good "I'm hung over and just want to lay here, veg out and watch movies" movie?
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I like Rose Red for sick days. It's by Steven King. It's a set of four movies, I believe, with each being about two hours long. I can just sit there all day and watch good low key ghost shenanigans.
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AskReddit/cbk5y00
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1k0lfi
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If you could have any song played in your funeral, what would it be and why?
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A friend of friend of mine was very sick and planned one or two things for her funeral. She had an amazing sense of humour and insisted one song was played during her funeral! Queen . . . another one bites the dust! Personally, I have no idea though for me.
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AskReddit/elgkklt
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bfvbza
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What's the most mundane thing that always seemed significant to you?
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Making your bed in the morning. Give it a try for a week and notice a world of difference. It sets you up for success by completing this mundane task first thing in the morning for the whole rest of the day.
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explainlikeimfive/cnmu570
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2s7cmz
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How was sound recorded in the victorian era?
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The sound was recorded on to wax or enamel cylinders, these rotated as the needle slowly moved from left to right, the way weird people eat corn on the cob.
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AskReddit/c7zrz3i
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16vmsr
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How long do you stay in a relationship once you've realized you want nothing long-term out of it?
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I used to end most relationships after 2-3 months. At the 2 month mark is usually when I realize the guy sucks and I couldnt be with him forever. My last relationship lasted for 6 months (about 5.5 months longer than I'd have liked). I'm not going to lie, I stayed because it was mildly better than being alone. [Edit] Just to add, my relationship now is still going strong after 6 years.
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AskReddit/cal8fgb
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1gl3jv
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How did you find out about Reddit and what were your first impressions?
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I thought rage comics were the funniest thing ever, I think I stumbled across some kind of rage app on my phone then found out a couple weeks later that it was attached to Reddit.
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AskReddit/dsckhf9
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7ovaw5
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What's one thing that has declined in quality over time?
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Does anyone else think strawberries are lower quality than they were 10-15 years ago? I feel like I remember strawberries always being the tastiest, juiciest fruits ever, now about half the time they're just bland.
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explainlikeimfive/d5il92c
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4tn50r
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Why aren’t we able to make roads out of a more durable material than asphalt and concrete?
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Concrete is very durable. Finding a more durable material that can be put down miles at a time in outdoor conditions and be driven over by trucks would be extremely challenging and expensive.
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explainlikeimfive/d04h09r
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46e7q8
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How is it that we can not feel hungry but still crave and eat snacks?
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Two reasons: Chemical needs: Cheetos, salami, both high in sodium.you wanted something salty. Rice, carbs. Dal.idk what dal is and am to lazy to google it. I'm guessing your proper dinner wouldn't have been a salty mass of carbs though. For some people (most?) eating brings an emotional high. Not a high like heroine or anything that powerful, but a high in that you feel safe and secure while eating. "Ok, not going to starve yet." and when you are stressed eating can often help you calm down. One of the reasons snack shops sell so well at amusement parks is because parents with small kids get stressed out, or the kid gets angry, and the sweet snacks help calm everyone down.
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AskReddit/c4ritd1
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u1ili
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What did school teach you that was blatantly false once you researched it on the Internet?
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You will have to use cursive every day of your life passed the 5th grade. The only way to succeed is to go to college. Also, pretty much everything you learn in history class is filled with half truths or is woefully incomplete. edit: As far as cursive goes, I posted it here because in the scope of this thread, it fit as a falsehood that I would be REQUIRED to use it to survive in school and life past the grades where it is taught. Any desire to use cursive should be purely personal as it is just simply an alternative form a script for writing just as MLA is a different form of citation vs Chicago style citing. I prefer to use short hand, but you might prefer to use cursive and that's ok.
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AskReddit/cqxrt6h
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34sutw
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When a stranger smiles at you, why do you smile back?
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A couple years ago, I look into the mirror and don't like my reflection. I stare into a mirror and make faces, then onto smiles. Finally, I find a smile that looks genuine and pleasant. It was difficult to hold my genuine smile for longer than a few minutes at a time. My face hurt, I had no smile muscles in my face! I kept at it. Now I can wear my smile all day. I have great smiley face muscles. The results from my efforts is amazing! People smile back at me all day long. People are much less nervous when I am around. People are down right friendly. People from all walks of life chatting me up. Now this was a major life changer for me. I'm a big scary leather wearing Harley biker dude. If it works for me, anyone can do it.
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AskReddit/dg2vvop
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64krfz
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In all honesty, how brave are you when it comes to facing physical pain?
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From 1 to 10, a solid stupid. I once slightly dislocated my jaw, instead of going to the hospital I tried (and painfully succeeded) to put it back in place. A couple of years ago my lower, second to last tooth(which was already more of a crater rather than a tooth) was wobbly, which was getting highly annoying. Did I go to the dentist? Nope, I went to the bathroom, opened my mouth in front of the mirror and carefully pulled it out, then spent the next few days checking for infection(there wasn't any, thankfully). A more serious answer now, pretty brave I'd say, I don't think I'm particularly resistant to it(as in, I feel it just like anyone else afaik), but I can definitely take the pain without much of a problem.
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AskReddit/cknsj6m
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2gz0ni
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What place have you traveled to that you hate the most?
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My family goes to Korea every couple of summers or so. Seoul is a very large, exciting city, even more so because it feels quite different from America. The towns around the sea are really beautiful as well, because they have misty islands and mountains for miles out in the ocean (you know, typical Asia) and sea glass/ weird Pacific detritus littering the beaches. I have to say that the place I hate most in the world is Daegu. The entire city is just dreary, and even though it's very busy, it just feels dead. Like 90% of the people living there are frowning old folk, and the rest are kids that do nothing but study. The whole place is conservative to the point where people will stop you on the street and voice their disapproval if you wear shorts. Everyone is so uptight that they don't even bother to smile on the streets. There's absolutely no individualistic expression; the city is mostly shades of dreary. Apartment buildings dominate all the space. There's nothing fun to do. People just live. I spent weeks rotting in that place, and I never want to go back.
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AskReddit/cpu1smj
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30ndph
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What would 12 year old you be shocked to find out you currently do?
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Everything. Live. I couldn't visualize living past the age of 30. There was just a blank spot. I sort of assumed I'd die in an accident or something. Be married. Most girls have some idea of what kind of person they want to date, they idealize weddings a bit, etc. I'm not asexual or aromantic, I just didn't care and couldn't visualize it. Then I met someone senior year of high school, which was a huge shock to anyone who knew us. We behaved like a married couple from the beginning and two months into the relationship we pretty much lived together. Everyone referred to us as a married couple, even the adults. As a 12-year-old, being married to my high school sweetheart 20 years later would have been way too weird. So as 12-year-old me is screaming about how strangely her life is going to turn out, I'll tell her that I've fulfilled her lifelong dream of being in National Geographic. Then I'll tell her that it's not because of her writing, but for photography - a subject she was not interested in and was kind of afraid of. Every one of her life's dreams having been twisted into an unrecognizable mass, her descent into insanity will be complete.
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AskReddit/e82o8t2
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9pm37s
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What is something that you've bought because it was cheap, but then you realize why it was cheap after using it?
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Sometimes I like to go on eBay and buy cheap stuff from China. It costs like a dollar and gets delivered in like 3 weeks, but it's fun to see how crappy things can get. Look for pocket knives or multi tools. I know it's a waste of a dollar but it's fun to see how easily I can break these things. I'm weird.
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AskReddit/e3xrg52
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96455n
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Is crucifixion a reasonable punishment for my neighbor who runs his gas powered leaf blower at 7 AM on Saturday?
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Maybe not crucifixion, maybe just immolation. On a side note, years ago I was visiting my sister in Alaska during the summer solstice. My last night there I went to have a smoke at about 1am. Her neighbor came out and started mowing his lawn!
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AskReddit/egu4kiw
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asgdpa
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What scenario does Bernie Sanders win 2020?
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Unfortunately Bernie's policies don't line up with those of the Capitalistic Oligarchy controlling American politics, to win the primaries he'd need an overwhelming majority of votes from registered democrats, otherwise the DNC will never nominate him. Unfortunately I fear that even if he does receive the nomination it will likely mean that Trump's policies will receive support from both the republicans and the democrats who fear the type of change Bernie supports.
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AskReddit/cu2edji
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3gxevn
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What age did you first feel like an adult?
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I am 35 years old. I have a respectable professional career, two children, a mortgage and a life insurance policy. I feel like I am pretending to be an adult, I am playing the part but I don't have any of life's answers and I'm waiting for someone to remind me that I'm not actually a grown up yet.
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AskReddit/dj6g4no
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6ii8zn
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What is stopping us from helping the people North Korea?
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1) Non-military solutions are not effective. We've tried sending humanitarian help for decades but it's only used to prop up the government and help them stay in power. It doesn't trickle down to the regular people. 2) Diplomatic solutions are ineffective. We've been trying that for decades too. They say they'll stop doing X for more aid. We give them more aid. They do X anyway and call us imperialist scum. 3) Military solution is too costly. They have successfully developed nuclear weapons. Even ignoring those, a lot of South Korea is threatened by conventional weaponry. Half of Seoul can be destroyed just by pure artillery in no time if we attack them. Even upon victory you'd have shitloads of victims on both sides. Internationally it's not viable too - China wants a buffer state and they most certainly don't want to deal with millions of uneducated refugees flooding their country.
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AskReddit/dtk7c7h
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7ugshv
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What do you know about Chinese food?
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It uses all of the parts of the animal. The Chinese don't waste food. Try visiting a Chinese market. You'll find things like duck tongues, pig uterus, chicken feet and variety of other animal parts. Real Chinese food isn't what is served in mainstream "Chinese" restaurants in the U.S. There are exceptions, for example in primarily Asian areas like the S.F. Bay Area, etc. where there is a dense Asian population that isn't American born.
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explainlikeimfive/c6evl9w
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10mzwf
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How do some animals know when we're sad?
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I have a couple of theories. My first thought, perhaps a bit harsh, is no. It is not aware that you are sad. Human beings have a tendency to believe things we want to believe. If we turn around and see someone behind our back, we think we sensed them before we turned around. If we read a horoscope that magically turns out to be right, we think that the horoscope predicted the future. If we are sad, and our pet comfort us, we naturally think it's because the pet could sense it somehow. But that's because you're in a frame of mind where you want comfort from someone, perhaps especially from your dog. If you did statistics on it, how many times your dog approach you when you were sad, compared to not sad, the likely answer is that it will be roughly the same number. It might also be the case that your dog approached you when you were sad once, and you rewarded it by scratching and stroking it. This incidence might have taught the dog that if it approaches more you when you are having a sad, let-down posture, it will be rewarded. This does not mean it knows your emotional state, it means that it recognizes your posture perhaps and thinks: "If I approach this guy now who usually feeds and take me for walks, then I will be rewarded. Yes, good idea!" Simple conditioning. Although, this premise means that the dog reads your body-language, which might be the case for all I know. Dogs respond to authority and submissiveness, so perhaps it somehow can read other body-language as well. Also, a lot of neuroscience research in emotions is done on animals, such as rats and monkeys. In many instances, findings from this type of research is then applied to research on the human brain. This means that there are certain similarities with many types of animal brains, and the human brain. This might be the case with dogs, I don't know. If it is, we might share enough hard-wiring in the brain for them to read "sad" bodylanguage.
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explainlikeimfive/claizxg
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2jcxhy
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Why do some hospitals affiliate themselves with various religions i.e. Dallas Presbyterian Hospital?
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Religions have a long history of caring for the needy, and treating sick people in an era before modern medicine was a good way to get yourself killed, so it required quite a self-sacrificing sort of person. Also, religions helped people with the financial aspects of their treatment as well - you're a lot more likely to be charitable to your church group, after all. Religions founded a lot of hospitals for that reason.
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explainlikeimfive/e5t6rhn
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9f1s41
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What is actually happening when you plug your nose and 'pop' your ears?
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Your eardrum is a sealed surface with air on both sides. Ideally you want this surface to be lose so it can hear things well, because if the pressure gets either too high or too low on either side then it pushes the seal tight and it can’t vibrate as well anymore. To make sure that doesn’t happen your head has a tube (called a “eustachian tube”) that connects to the inside of your eardrum to let the air move in/out. When you “pop” your ears (whether through yawning or any other way) you are opening up that tube and letting air out/in (or in the case of the nose thing, forcing air in/out rather than the more gentle yawning opening).
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AskReddit/ejgibi3
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b5x3tt
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What’s so wrong about making genetically superior humans from altered embryos?
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The people who could afford it (super rich folks) would make it unaffordable for the rest of humanity. That much is obvious. They would form a hierarchy of genetically altered people who will eventually grow to hate and look down on the rest of humanity.
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AskReddit/cnqcbx8
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2sjw6y
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What celebrity do you have an irrational hatred for?
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My mom has an unbelievably irrational hatred for Julia Roberts for no reason. She also hates Hugh Grant because she says he dithers about when he speaks; hems and haws and such. When he did a Reddit AMA, he literally typed out "erm"s and "hem"s. I was in hysterics. Also, when my mom used to upset me as a teenager I would watch Notting Hill at top volume.
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AskReddit/e1jrenj
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8v1ex1
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Why is your boss horrible?
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My bosses name is mike and he’s actually been to prison before so we call him Prison Mike. He’s horrible because sometimes he lets out the dementors that he brought from prison in the office and they attack us.
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AskReddit/cn3f6a7
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2q6ney
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What is something incredibly cool about space that most people don't know?
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The fact that Space and Time are connected has some interesting implications. For example, there is no universal 'now'. Say if there's a planet exactly like earth in a galaxy 13 Billion light-years away, and the planet's history, people living on it, the events that happened there - its all exactly same like earth. You would think there'd be a version of 'you' there reading this comment right now. But you'd be wrong. Since space-time are connected, at extreme distances, even slight movement to or from something takes you in a totally different 'slice of now'. So, if you're travelling towards that planet meager speed of the car (65mph), the 'now' on that planet for you would be probably hundreds of years in the past. And if you were travelling away, the 'now' on that planet for you would be hundreds of years in future. So, practically the 'right now' only holds meaning in the local vicinity.
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AskReddit/e52zt0h
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9bh63f
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What helps you wake up in the morning and not feel like an absolute sleep machine?
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My sleeptracker (it's the actual brand of the product) it's a sleep phasis alarm clock that is built into a wristwatch. You have to get used to it, but it wakes you up during the right sleep state, by vibrating on my arm. As far as I know, the company doesn't exist anymore and I can't really find any alternatives, as for some reason, most fitness trackers/watches record your sleep phases, but don't have an alarm clock that uses that information (which in my opinion is really stupid).
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AskReddit/c09xy2e
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8okdv
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What's the funniest movie you've ever seen?
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When I was little, movies like Airplane and Naked Gun and other Leslie Nielsen appearances were the bees knees. Men in Tights hit me hard a few years later. Really silly over-the-top humor seemed to disappear for a while then. The most recent movie I've seen to make me split is Tropic Thunder. Ben Stiller gets mad props from me for crafting that masterpiece. Harold and Kumar was a very pleasant surprise, as was Superbad.
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AskReddit/dfy7t0g
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63zpxk
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What quote changed your perspective on life?
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".the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and to know that place for the first time." TS Eliot I kept that quote in my mind while I was going through rehab. Reminded me that all the work I was doing was to start life over.to live my previous life, but in a totally different way.
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AskReddit/dzccivv
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8l2ook
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What are the best 'compliments' that are actually insults?
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Ugh, back-handed compliments! Those are the worst! I've been told my jeans look like they fit better now that I'm not as fat. K thx Not 'the best compliment' but I'm not sure what you mean by that
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