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AskReddit/cvn0per
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3ncztz
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What is the one thing you didn't know you needed until you had it?
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My cheap little android tablet. Used to think those were just toys, and us REAL computer guys needed REAL computers. Then, was given a tablet last year, and now I can't imagine how I got by without it. Edit: werds is hard to spell!
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AskReddit/ek4c0or
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b9ghmh
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What was the best day of your life?
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i worked for 5 months straight on a sailing vessel with hardly any free time. we sailed to Antarctica as last voyage, and the captain allowed me to go ofboard for a day to walk around and explore an abandoned wailing station. it was horrific and beautiful at the same time, but certainly one of the best days of my life
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AskReddit/cdo7jkh
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1rkruj
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If your worst nightmare was made into a movie, what would the synopsis be and who would be cast in it?
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I have a recurring nightmare about being attacked by a giant seahorse. I suppose I'd have Steve Buschemi play me although we look nothing alike. I'd have the movie done for Sci-Fi network ala "Sharknado".
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AskReddit/eendg4w
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aifbzu
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Which celebrity death made you sad and why?
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Princess Diana. It was so tragic, and sudden, and I’m not entirely convinced it wasn’t some sort of conspiracy by the Royal House of Windsor to kill her (that is one cold-blooded family). At the time, I couldn’t stop thinking of all the good she could have done, and about her 2 boys, Prince William and Prince Harry (who are close to the same age as me). Plus Elton made me cry lots.
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AskReddit/ds1tno9
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7nhkbc
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Which NoSleep series made you shudder, and has still stuck with you since reading?
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You're going to get 100 obligatory "I'm a Forest Ranger" series (it IS awesome) comments. The two that stick out most to me is one currently still being released - "Has Anyone Heard of the Left/Right Game" and another one that starts with "Pig Iron" (includes "What Remains of God") - I think this one actually might be my fave of all time.
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AskReddit/dnugyz2
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740ell
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What is your generation's 'Kids these days will never know.' ?
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Kids these days will never know how to panic when the back of the TV is too warm and the parents are arriving soon and will be checking if you spent the night doing homework or wasting away in front of the TV.
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AskReddit/d5fzspo
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4tatis
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What movies left you feeling rattled and messed up?
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Eye In The Sky. It's a recent one with Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman, and Aaron Paul about the decision-making process and procedure to perform drone strikes in foreign countries. Definitely left me shaken up for the rest of the day after we saw it.
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explainlikeimfive/dbrs1k8
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5kzi1g
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What do large marine mammals drink?
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Many marine mammals have a built-in filtration system that allows them to drink sea water and filter out the salt. In addition, they get a fair amount of their water from the contents of prey that they eat, which is often less salty than the water.
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explainlikeimfive/dmhlbz1
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6xpvhn
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What evolutionary advantage is there for a plant to have strong flavor/odor?
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There are several advantages plants could gain from strong flavors. Some plants depend on animals eating them and partially digesting and then spreading their seeds in order to reproduce. Having a strong and desirable flavor/odor would help attract animals. When it comes to plants that humans eat, we've been cultivating plants with strong desirable flavors for thousands of years. While most of that doesn't really count as evolution, there are some cases where humans were the animals I described in my earlier paragraph and natural plants evolved to be more palatable to humans.
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AskReddit/dtvqcnx
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7vx0uf
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What was the most generous gift you have received from a stranger/online?
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A lovely online friend of mine from the US wished to send me a Christmas gift one year. I gave him my father’s company PO box, which is located in another state, my father then forwarded the package to me - for those who are worried about safety -. I could see via the postage labels that he had paid $90 to mail this item from USA to Australia. I open it up to find a lovely neck massage pillow; I had mentioned having pain whilst playing together.
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AskReddit/cgmnigz
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22gq89
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Which American political party uses fear the most and to what benefit?
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No contest, the GOP, and their fabricated Frankenstein's monster, the Tea Party. They have to use a fear-based propaganda, because they don't have any actual ideas that don't involve making rich people richer at the expense of the rest of us. The Democrats are just sackless, disorganized idiots, Republicans play For Keeps.
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AskReddit/e36i73j
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92l665
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What is one taboo in dating that you wish didn't exist?
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There being a taboo about interracial dating. Like, I understand that it makes sense to be with someone of a similar culture to you and everything, but it shouldn't be a huge deal if someone wants to date or marry someone from another race or culture. It's a lot less taboo nowadays than it was in the past, but it's still a huge problem with some families, to the point where said families will actually pressure the person into breaking up with their partner.
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AskReddit/d2ivoyw
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4gj5x2
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What's the most bizarre discrimination/offense you've ever received, so bizarre that you can even be mad about it?
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I was sitting cross legged on the ground once and an old guy said I 'looked like a Buddhist'. Followed very fast with "No offence!" I was kind of in shock, not offended in the least, I've been called a lot worse than a Buddhist
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askscience/cbfrf2f
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1jl6zp
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Why do vertebrates generally have no more than 4 limbs when invertebrates can have dozens?
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All living and extinct mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and birds, belong to a group called tetrapods. The earliest tetrapods evolved from lobed finned fishes, and were quadrupedal. Thus, you are seeing the descendants of earlier four-limbed animals. This could change in the future, and certainly already these limbs are modified heavily in some cases, for instance whales, birds, human hands, snakes. >Why does this reason not apply to invertebrates? While invertebrates encompasses many different evolutionary catagories, they diverged evolutionarily at an earlier time. Those groups more closely related will tend to have more similar styles.
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AskHistorians/c9c5c40
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1c16vn
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How did China come to be 90% Han Chinese?
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The Han isn't one ethnic group per se, but a conglomeration of many ethnic groups. The Chinese dynasty's progressively got larger and larger in both size and population, due to the rich and fertile floodplains of the Yellow River. I believe China's population reached 100m by the Tang dynasty (Europe during this time was about 25m). Due to this outward expansion, many ethnic groups were absorbed into the Han, joined its identity, and merged/mixed cultural traditions. For instance, in Northern China, Xiongnu, Jurchen, Khitan, and Manchu have all been absorbed into the Han. As such, the genetic diversity among Han Chinese are huge, with the oldest "Han" in present day Shaanxi (one of the cradles of Chinese civilization). In fact, I'd say the Han Chinese are more bound together by a cultural identity through a shared and mutual history, rather than genetic similarity like you would normally associate with an ethnic group.
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AskReddit/efupuif
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annjf9
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Are there any real benefits to taking cold showers instead of warm ones?
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My father's ex died after taking a cold shower. Apperantly a combination of high stress, high blood pressure and the fact that she took a 15-20 minute cold shower (which Apperantly lowered her core body temp) lead her to have a heart attack. Not 100% sure how true the story us since my father was never a huge part in my life so obviously I wasn't there but, food for thought I guess.
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AskReddit/dgrvhct
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67o7iv
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What is a gift that you have given someone that backfired on you?
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Not a huge backfire, but I bought a Nintendo Wii for my dad several years ago. He doesn't play many videogames but always enjoyed sports games on his old Sega Genesis and had mentioned hearing about the Wii's controller and its games being good for movement. So for his birthday I got him a Wii and some sports games. He seemed pretty excited when he unwrapped them! Three years later I went to their house - and saw the Wii still hadn't been opened. Not my best use of $300. since then I've mostly stuck to gift cards and beer-of-the-month memberships for his gifts!
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AskReddit/cvp3zaf
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3nlhhi
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What was the worst decision you ever made?
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getting black tar for a buddy. he od'd and was in a coma for almost 2 weeks. he had a seizure at some point and now he's mentally challenged. I've hated myself ever since and its made my depression alot worse. i wish i could go back and change things because theres not a day that gos by that i dont wish i could change places with him
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AskReddit/c7i5xbz
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150lef
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What is the first memory that you remember?
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Psychologically they say you're not supposed to remember this early, but I have a distinct memory of crawling around my parents' apartment, which we only lived at when I was less then a year old. I described it to my mom and she confirmed that's what it looked like.
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askscience/c9qtw1l
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1dhni9
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What is the difference between stone and rock?
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The definitions I got on my geology class were the following: Rock: solid material comprised of an admixture of minerals, of natural origin. It may or may not be weathered, but any modification it has is of natural origin. Stone: rock that has been modified by human activity for some application (say, crushing rock to make gravel, carving rock for sculptures and blocks, stoneware, gems.)
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explainlikeimfive/crx1kbq
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38qjjc
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Why would you buy a vowel in Wheel of Fortune?
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Let's say that you had a word that looked like this: R D. That word could be READ, REED, RODE, or even ROED (I looked it up). If the whole puzzle is like that, it can be pretty tough to even guess one word, which will lead you to the phrase. Also, guessing a vowel can help you figure out a partial word, which can help you get more letters. Since you lose your turn when you miss a letter, you want to make several guesses, keep earning money, and then solve to hold your winnings. If you're not sure if a space could be a Y or a T or a V, buying an E might clue you in.
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AskReddit/c4nhwb2
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tkvzm
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What exactly does a airport metal detector look for?
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The basic mechanism is that the metal detector is a big magnet. They run electricity through a ferromagnetic metal and create a magnetic field. When metal hits this magnetic field, it generates a magnetic field of its own. The detector looks for the difference.
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AskReddit/e3x9150
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962dck
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What are some small acts that strangers have done that have changed you life/day?
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I work at a very common fast-paced restaurant/cafe so you order at the register and we bring your food to you so we don't expect tips, but one day when I gave this lovely lady her food, she got out her wallet, got some ones and some change and tried to give it to me. I declined at first, but she insisted, saying, "I always give when I can. God bless" and now every time a customer upsets me at work, I think of her
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AskReddit/cckaa7l
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1nnjnh
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What would the world be like if everybody had your personality?
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I think the world would be a great place. It'd be filled with people who will work hard for their 8 hours a day and then go home and toke up with each other. Honestly my personality is perfect for communism. As long as I have my weed, internet, and Xbox, I won't need many other material luxuries. We'd all just do our job and keep the country running, and at the same time have little to no expenses.
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Ask_Politics/c7joldg
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156dbc
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What are the arguments for an against giving residents of DC full representation in Congress?
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For: DC is as large as other states, pay federal income tax (unlike the unrepresented territories), and their local government is controlled by the federal government (kind of). Congress has more say over Washington DC than they do over any of the states, yet the states control Congress and DC has no advocate. It's a simple matter of fairness. When the founding fathers first established Washington, they picked an uninhabited area because they envisioned it not having a large permanent population, but that can't be said of today. Against: Because the Constitution specifically says that it is not a state, so we shouldn't treat it like it is one. It's also supposed to be a neutral ground between the parties and the states, which makes less sense if it is politicized like everywhere else. I'm strongly in favor of DC being given representation, but not statehood.
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explainlikeimfive/cpevtd4
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2z1ldv
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How are reverse image searches so fast?
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I read about this somewhere sometime ago. Its a combination of many processes. They extract image data and use histogram comparisons to compare two images for likeness. It looks for certain color patterns and tries to find the closest link with an image in its database. But this was inefficient and sometimes incorrect (like if you had a picture of a moonlit sky and a bright light, both were equally white so they would cause misinterpretations sometimes). Then a more efficient method was found by using Feature Matching. It was basically similar to Histogram Comparisons in many ways, but instead of taking the whole image into consideration, it took parts of the image one by one and began to collect data that it would then cross-check with existing images in its server. As for how it does it so fast, there is a lot of caching and processing power involved. You have to understand, Google's computers are insanely fast and it can do things our computers would take minutes to do, in milliseconds (even less maybe). Whenever you do a normal search, Google displays the time it took to show a certain number of results. If you search for Katy Perry, it returns (according to my search) 14,20,00,000 results in 0.34 seconds. With all that processing power and using caching and a lot of other complex algorithms, it really wouldn't take the servers long to churn out accurate results.
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AskReddit/dtm3rb6
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7up8ia
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As a kid, what is the first movie you saw that you might have been a little young for, what about it messed you up?
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The Terminator. Saw it when I was 5. The only way it really messed me up was that pretty much the moment I hit puberty I knew exactly which movie I owned which had a topless female in it. I apologize, Linda Hamilton.
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explainlikeimfive/ce4lgy7
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1t5als
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How can journalist legally interview wanted criminals without having to disclose their location?
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Well, you're not legally required to report it if you meet wanted criminal. However, journalism is a very risky field, if you interview a criminal and don't report him then he goes out and commits another crime, you could be seen as allowing the crime to take place.
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explainlikeimfive/ejn24sp
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b6tq8a
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How do trees transport water from the roots to each of the leaves so many meters high?
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There is a good video on YouTube by Veritasium which will explain far better (and hopefully I’m remembering right) but the general idea is that water evaporates out of the leaves, this in turn sucks water along the branches from the trunk and roots. It uses the surface tension of the water to climb up the capillaries in the tree because even with a pure vacuum at the top it’s not enough to “suck” the water up that high.
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AskReddit/czr6b3p
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44elwn
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What was your screw up that ended with one of your relationships?
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I've been in a few that ended by me telling them how I really felt about their friends girlfriends. I hate other chicks, I tolerate them for the boyfriends sake. But it seems like once they find out my negative outlook on these people, they get bitter and ditch.
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AskReddit/cc5jm6p
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1m3o6y
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What's something you wish people knew about your country?
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I wish people from the rest of the world would realize that the greatest decision the United States has ever made is to set aside swathes of land for preservation. The National Parks were a uniquely American idea when they were first implemented and, in my opinion, still is the best idea our country has ever had. The land isn't owned by aristocrats or corporations like a lot of the other beautiful natural settings of the world.
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explainlikeimfive/enun44o
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bplgde
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Why can't pregnant women who don't want the child in Alabama go to other states to get their abortion done?
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The new law makes it illegal to do so. Women who travel for an abortion can be charged with a felony. The other issue is that mostly poor women need access to legal abortions, rich women aren't as impacted. Historically, rich women with unplanned pregnancies would go to private doctors, pay extra, and get the procedure. They also are typically better educated about birth control, have better access to it, and fewer social pressures against it, and so have fewer unplanned pregnancies. Taking a day off work, driving across state lines, and getting an abortion while on a minimum wage job isn't possible for poor women.
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AskReddit/e0lmoyl
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8qsbdc
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If Adam and Eve were the first two people to procreate, how was this allowed by God if they clearly couldn’t have been married given there were no priests?
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Genesis 2:21-22 >So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. God quite literally gave Eve to Adam. This is clearly a "marriage under God". No priest necessary, when God is the one presiding.
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Ask_Politics/cguirrs
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238jc0
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Why does Canada have multiple parties?
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"Duverger's law" is not a law like the law of gravity; it's an observation that certain types of elections promote or push towards certain types of political equilibriums. Neither Canada nor many other countries have any nationwide elections - any country using a Parliamentary system does not. This substantially reduces any impetus to devolve down to only two significant parties. It's not the FPTP elections in Congress that push the U.S. towards just two parties; it's the FPTP election for President that does. Many other countries don't have that.
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AskReddit/do5h30i
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75dty7
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For those against the legalization of recreational marijuana, what are some good arguments against it?
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I've been torn over whether or not it should be legalized and I'll give my reasoning for being against it. 1) Marijuana can exacerbate the symptoms of mental illness. I'm not saying it causes mental illness, but for those who already have an underlying mental illness it can significantly increase the degree to which symptoms present themselves. Mainly psychosis but can also be depression and anxiety. There are some people who just should not smoke marijuana. I had a friend who developed a daily habit. After about a month I remember having a conversation with him telling me he had a girlfriend in Canada who was a werewolf; not as a joke, he was dead serious. In addition it was impossible to have a conversation with him, he was just plain incoherent even to other daily smokers I knew. A week later he had a psychotic breakdown and was hospitalized a week. He cleaned himself up and a month later seemed like a perfectly normal 24 year old. 2) I don't like the way the marijuana industry pushes marijuana as a "cure-all medicine". It just isn't that. It doesn't "cure" or prevent cancer. It treats the side effects associated with chemotherapy. I do think research needs to be done to see if there's any medical benefits to marijuana use but to sit there and say based on current knowledge, marijuana kills cancer is a bold-face lie. This is actually also a reason I had though for being pro-legalization, where I live (California)- the term "medical marijuana" is a joke. For $80 you can literally video-chat with a doctor across the state, you don't have to give your medical history; you just say I'm having migraines and they say here's a prescription. If "medical marijuana" is going to be treated like that we might as well legalize it. 3) The current medical marijuana system in California keeps dispensaries as very mom and pop operations. I have great concern for what happens when large corporations start moving in on this business, lobbying politicians for favorable regulations at the expense of public health, and spreading misinformation to the public. A small business has the interest of the customer most of the time, a massive corporation has the interests of investors most of the time. At the end of the day I voted for legalization in California last election but I do have a lot of concerns regarding mental health and I think the public needs to be educated about those risks. Before you smoke, you should talk to your doctor and evaluate if there's any potential risks. Lest you want to have a werewolf girlfriend
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AskReddit/c61uxks
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z6fvs
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Do more people die because drugs are illegal than would die if they were legal?
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Who can tell? It's the profitability of drugs and the regional power of cartels that are the deciding causes of the terrifying number of deaths in the drug trade. If drugs were legalised tomorrow would this change? Probably not. If alternate (non-cartel) supplies were created, then we would see the traditional violent market decline. The amount of deaths of people using (while unacceptably high) is not a major component of total deaths in the drug world. Business vs business is by far the major cause. That said, if drugs were legal, it is probable that the amount of deaths by OD, etc would decline, because generally people who OD are alone, hiding their habit, and deliberately use in places where they will not be noticed in case of an OD until it is too late.
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AskReddit/c4ehh0l
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sjcob
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Should Reddit go dark in protest of CISPA?
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Yeah going dark wont help, just like boycotting companies for a day aint working. Most people on Reddit will sit back and think "I can sit and do nothing, because im sure everyone else is doing everything they can"
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AskReddit/d7qqirj
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5385q3
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Where do you see humanity in 1,000 years?
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Probably gone. Its only been around 50 years since mankind invented the means to destroy the entire race (cold war) and we have already had several near misses. In the next 1,000 years we are going to invent way more ways to kill ourselves, the technology of mass destruction (nukes, biological, chemical, etc) will end up in the hands of nutters and sooner or later we blow ourselves up. Either that or we end up killing ourselves by destroying the planet so much that we cant feed ourselves.
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explainlikeimfive/dmnhx15
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6yhuxc
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Who are these "experts" we always hear about in the news or in sources of information?
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It depends on the topic as well as the source. For a biased media source pushing an agenda an "expert" might be anyone who says what they want, but for a more objective source "experts" might be people like researchers who have studies a particular topic.
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AskReddit/czr5p9e
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44m6f1
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What is your medicine for the soul?
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Honestly, religion is very confusing to me and I'm not looking for a religious argument. With that being said, I go sit in church by myself on Sunday's and soak it all in. For me, it feels like it recharges my soul and get's me ready for the following week. Whenever I miss a week of church, I can tell a difference in my mood. It really is a good escape from my daily routine. I think most people look towards a brief escape as medicine for their soul. Whether that be drinking, drugs, meditation, music, movies, or whatever. p.s sorry for scatterbrained thoughts and poor grammar.
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askscience/csibvbp
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3b0wvm
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If we had a convenient black hole available to observe, what questions could we answer about them that we can't already calculate?
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It's not about our ability to calculate their properties, but about our ability to verify those calculations. Strictly speaking, we can't say that a solution is physically valid, unless we observe the corresponding behaviour in nature. p.s.: Am I the only one finding the idea of 0.11 mm big black hole orbiting our planet funny?
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AskReddit/drw80ph
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7mrhjj
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Was there a single moment in your life that you look back on as a definite ‘wrong turn’, where you’re fairly sure things would have worked out far differently if it hadn’t happened that way?
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I started playing softball pretty young. I played in a lot of different leagues, with a lot of different levels of competitiveness. Every coach I'd played with had essentially told me that I could go as far as I wanted because I was so "softball smart" (Basically, I could read plays and read the field like almost nobody else) and had a killer arm. I played in a few tournament leagues, had a few conversations with pretty high profile team scouts etc. At 13, it was already pretty apparent that I was realistically looking at a full-ride to one of the best softball schools in the country in the future. Right before high school though, my school's coach changed, and I decided to not try out because I knew that I didn't really get along with the new coach at all. Then, the summer after my freshman year of high school, I basically shattered about 10 bones in my foot during practice, and after that I wound everything down. I decided to stop playing completely after my sophomore year in high school. If I'd been on my high school team. well. It's weird to go back and look at how I went from spending 40+ hours a week on something to no time at all. I'm OK with how things wound up, but it's hard not to think about what would've happened if I'd kept with it and actually gotten that full ride, especially since I'm in the age range to potentially see some girls I played with/against on the 2020 Olympic Roster.
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AskReddit/duypeyt
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80wfvt
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What is your go to meal when you are broke af?
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Kraft Dinner. $0.50 for a box and it does the trick every time. When I was really broke I would never buy milk, but you can always replace it with something else: a little water and extra butter, or diluted coffee creamer.
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Ask_Politics/elhvhu7
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bg0dyt
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How is Trump doing as president?
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I am a firm anti-Trump person but I will try to give you the view of Trump from both sides of the political spectrum. Republicans will say: Trump has boosted the economy by cutting regulations and taxes. Unemployment is low and the stock market is rising. Trump also is fighting religious discrimination of Christians and it is now acceptable to once again say Merry Christmas. Trump has made the American military great again Trump is forcefully putting America's interests first on the global stage. Democrats (and Anti-Trumpers) will counter that: The economy was performing well under President Obama and Trump has done very little to actually benefit the economy, apart from a one-time boost by cutting corporate taxes. THe same basic economy was said to be terrible when Obama was in office is now great under Trump. Unemployment was dropping under President Obama and continued under Trump. Cutting regulations hurts the environment and does little to actually boost jobs. As for the stock market, it rose under President Obama as well. Trump wants to allow people to use religion to legally discriminate against the LGTBQ+ community The American military was the most powerful in the world under President Obama. Soon after becoming President, Trump made a comment about how his generals were going to really fight ISIS. This is ridiculous. Trump is not a military strategist. Trump attacks America's allies and cozies up to dictators and despots. Trump lacks the attention span to get proper daily intelligence briefings. Trump prefers going with his "gut instinct" instead of investigating the facts to form solutions to problems Trump demonizes illegal immigrants
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AskReddit/cg88837
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20zqz1
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Do you know someone that has been really impressed by History Channel's Ancient Aliens?
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I'm impressed by Ancient Aliens. It's really convincing, it kindda freaks me out. It is one of my guilty pleasures, I do believe there are aliens. But you asked if I know somebody, aside from myself, who likes A.A. A friend of mine first watched the A.A. series and he recommended it to me since he knows I'm into aliens and history. That friend of mine was a devout Christian.he told me he became Atheist after watching A.A. season 1.
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AskReddit/d6b94h8
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4wzqjj
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When you were in school, what big thing went down during 'That Field Trip'?
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Johnny passed out while we were looking at the cadavers during an anatomy field trip. Later on he was feeling better and decided to have another look just as the coroner was pulling the cadavers lungs out to show us. Johnny passed out again and hit his head on the corner of something as he fell. He started bleeding profusely. Field trip cut short. Went home early. Thanks for the half-day, Johnny.
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AskReddit/dxru2se
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8e2btl
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If you were given a choice to either be transported permanently 500 years into the future or 500 years into the past, what would you choose?
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If I were to be transported to the past, I don't think I am skilled or knowledgeable enough to actually use anything that I've learnt in modern life to do anything of great importance. I wouldn't influence the progression of the human race, and I wouldn't become rich/powerful - I'd probably die pretty quickly from some sort of plague. To the future!
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askscience/c36buuv
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n56xc
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How are the high-velocity winds that are characteristic of wildfires created?
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I'm not sure what background you come from, so I'm going to go for the basic answer for now. If you have questions, feel free to ask. Hot air is less dense than cold air. As a consequence, the air that has been heated by a fire will rise. If that fire is very hot, the air from inside and above the fire will rise very rapidly. As that air rises, though, it produces an area of low pressure which effectively sucks in cooler air from the surroundings. This air then feeds the fire, allowing it to become hotter, increasing the rate of vertical motion and the rate that cooler air is sucked into the fire. If the fire becomes hot enough and is large enough, the wind speeds can become significant. FYI, this is actually a similar process to how thunderstorms operate, but with a different heat source and is considered a form of convection. In cases where you have high winds associated with a fire, you likely will find an associated pyro-cumulonimbus cloud.
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AskReddit/e0vp62a
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8s0xt5
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If Facebook's definition of 'friend' is too broad, what is the best distinguishing factor between a true friend and somebody you kind of know?
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A true friend is someone whom you're comfortable to be yourself around. I wouldn't consider myself a two-faced person, but I definitely act differently around people I consider my true friends. I'm more relaxed, my filter is gone, and I'm much goofier.
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AskReddit/c42oxy4
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r3pku
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If you were filthy rich, what would you do for a career?
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Depends on just how filthy rich we're talking. Rich enough to live on forever, but not do anything too crazy? Travel endlessly, maybe open a record shop or something equally as eclectic. Approaching billionaire territory? Travel around, but on a private ship with a small helicopter. Donate money to fund more science projects around the world. Richard Branson / Bill Gates rich? Fund the next big space project, contribute billions to agencies like SpaceX. Personally pay for the building of a craft under the condition I'm the first official passenger.
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askscience/catwc3r
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1hfp5f
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Would an object falling to Earth fall faster if it is in the Earth's path as it revolves around the Sun?
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Well that depends on where the object originated. For example, if it was simply floating in the space that the Earth is moving into, then yes. It will fall like a normal object with an initial downward velocity equal to the speed of the Earth. If the object originated from Earth's frame of reference, it would not matter which side of the planet it launched from because in both cases it would have the same initial velocity. I hope that helps
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AskReddit/c4gxfjj
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stjlv
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Have you ever played the race card and won?
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Not me, but a friend played the race card at work. He and another coworker left early. He got in trouble, other guy did not. My friend claimed racism because he was white, and the other guy is black, and the other guy did not get in trouble for the same thing. He won. Best part, neither of them got in trouble for leaving early. He was later "forced to quit" for something "unrelated". The government does not like to lose a battle.
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AskReddit/dk4kt38
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6mu77l
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What was the first message you sent out this morning?
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Sent a good morning text to husband, asking for him to tell me when he's about to eat the last muffin I baked (I packed him a muffin for every day of his business trip and left surprise notes on top of every muffin under the foil). Since this is his last day in another city, I wanted to add that we (me+our cat) can't wait to see him tonight and also sent a photo of us. (Obviously, I couldn't put this message inside before he left, cause I didn't know in which order would he eat the muffins)
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askscience/crnk0e6
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37kugw
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How would a springboard work on Moon?
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First: ignore the fact that it's notoriously difficult to do acrobatics on the moon. And friction. To figure this out, we need to look at energy. When you jump, you add kinetic energy to yourself. This is converted into gravitational energy when you move up, slowing you down. As you fall back, the reverse happens and you speed up again, ending with you falling down with the same energy and speed as you began. Note that the strength of gravity doesn't change your final energy/speed: lower gravity just takes a bit longer to get you back. The trampoline does something like gravity: it converts kinetic into elastic energy and back again. Gravity plays no role in this. Without friction you'd bounce forever. If you jump, you add some more energy to the mix. The first jump about doubles it, the second triples etc. So the trampoline would work perfectly fine on the moon, and you'd jump and bounce at least six times as high as you would on earth. As there's no air friction on the moon, it might even be higher.
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AskReddit/doobcdl
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77sg7v
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What non A-list Actor/Actress do you follow religiously?
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It used to be The Weeknd before he got mainstream famous but I don't really follow him anymore. Outside of that, maybe Jeffrey Donovan, but I wouldn't say I follow him religiously, but basically if he starring in a movie or tv episode, even as a cameo, I'd definitely watch it.
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AskReddit/d0rg5sq
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49fp06
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What is something done wrong in your country's school system that should be changed?
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I'm a teacher in the US and our public school system is so screwed up I don't even know where to start. Too much homework, kids aren't allowed to live and experience life. Somehow the powers that be keep thinking that if they keep giving the students more and more work our test scores will go up. Which brings us to: Standardized testing. We've dropped most subjects except math and English/reading in our elementary schools and teach our classes so the kids can pass the tests. Schools that do well on the tests actually teach classes on how to take the tests, which means they're biased towards someone who knows how to answer the questions; school and teacher performance is measured by how well the students do on the tests. Our state, California, laid off about 90,000 teachers and just as many aides starting in 2006. Even though the economy is supposedly "better" now, they haven't hired all those numbers of teachers and aides back. Class sizes are huge - 34-36 kids per teacher in elementary school after 3rd grade. Teachers don't have the time to help all the kids. I could go on, but you get the point.
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AskReddit/chujos8
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26uc84
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How would you handle something like this?
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I don't think you handled it wrong. No real way to handle that for just starting out. I probably would have not gone and used it on myself. But I wouldn't have tried to give it back directly. More like is rather us use this for us to go to a nice dinner or to do something fun that could cost a little more than an extra date. He seems like a nice guy, a genuine guy so I doubt his hurt feelings linger on. Good luck to the both of you.
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explainlikeimfive/chebv47
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25723w
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How did California spend 4 billion dollars of taxpayer money on Capital Punishment since 1978 (or $308 million per execution)?
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Death row is expensive purely because you have to be absolutely sure, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the person did what you claim they did. Even if they confess, this can still result in many, many court cases on TOP of the cost of keeping them imprisoned. Materials for execution are not cheap either, IIRC there is a shortage of the lethal injection drugs used for capital punishment and this probably inflates costs a bit too. Many countries will not manufacture them as they do not agree with the ethical policy they get used for. In other words, its expected that anybody condemned to death is going to cost way more to give them chances to vindicate themselves. This is actually the best assessment for capital punishment, because it's economically a worse choice as well as on shady ethical grounds.
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explainlikeimfive/dh68099
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69frsd
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How do car key-fobs work and why do we not see machines that can mass-spoof unlock signals like computer passwords?
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The fob sends a very large number very slowly. It takes about 25ms to send the number, so that's only 40 per second, max. Most cars require 50ms of no signal to restart their receivers. That's about 13 guesses per second. It takes a long darn time to send a trillion numbers at 13 guesses per second.
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AskReddit/cqf0t37
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32vcmv
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What are some helpful things to know when buying a car?
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Ongoing costs can make a big difference in the long run. Things to consider: How often does it require servicing? How much is the insurance? What is the fuel usage? How much are replacement parts? are they readily available? If you're buying second hand then low mileage, service history, previous damage, who's owned it (how well/badly they drive). It's not cheap if you have to spend thousands on fixing it up right after you buy it.
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AskReddit/e813i1r
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9pedwc
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What’s your go-to “yo momma” joke?
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Yo momma so big, that she had type 1 diabetes and died at a young age before you were able to marry, have kids, or be able to tell her that you loved her and appreciated all the sacrifices she made to give you the quality life that she did.
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explainlikeimfive/cs0cfw4
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394ob9
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How has Jurassic Park not been screened to critics if it comes out in 3 days?
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Even if it's screened to critics, they have a review embargo which asks the critics to not post their reviews until the theatrical release. However, some people are breaking the embargo and the reviews aren't favorable to Jurassic world.
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AskReddit/c1u8rz8
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hc4ob
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If you could recommend one under appreciated movie and/or TV show on Netflix instant stream, what would it be?
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I recommend Dear Zachery, it is on the stream and is an indie documentary. Its twists and turns will keep you on the edge of your seat and sicken you. It has excellent video editing and is a great tribute to a slain friend.
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explainlikeimfive/ed0jmfa
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abisk2
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Why are Prions which are linked to Creutzfeldt-Jakobs Disease considered to be the worst and most incurable of disease within mankind?
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I don’t know if they are the worst and most incurable disease, but the scary things about prions are: —they aren’t alive, just mis-folded proteins that spread and replicate making them hard to target by medicine or your body’s defense —they cause progressive and frequently fatal disease / sudden death, often involving the brain —there isn’t an effective cure or treatment
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AskReddit/dbv8eil
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5lf97e
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Why isnt voting day a national holiday that people get off of work?
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Because most states have either early voting or absentee voting to accommodate those who can't make it to their polling places. And laws to allow people to leave work to vote. If people aren't voting now, they won't vote because they have the day off.
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AskReddit/dlpbpqh
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6u1wt5
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What would you never name your child?
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There was a child called Uniqua at my daughter's daycare. That wasn't event the first time I heard that name - I lived in hope that another Uniqua would join and they'd have to put surnames on the kids pegs.
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explainlikeimfive/cfyd37u
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1zz4nq
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What's the point of daylight savings?
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In 1920-1960 electricity was mostly used for lighting houses. Lots people are awake around 7am-11pm. The time it is light outside is in the summer about 6am to 10pm. Because of this in the summer you need to use electric for 1 hours a day, but when the sun shines in the morning you are sleeping. Moving the time saves 1 hours of use. The point nowaday is daylight savings time is negligible, because lighting a house i really small compared to keeping your house cool with a airco.
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AskReddit/cpg2q7a
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2z6evl
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What's one question that you can ask a girl, in order to determine if she is dating material?
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I would ask "When was the last time you talked to your mom?" The answer you get can tell you so much about her. It can tell you how much family drama you might have to deal with. It can tell you if she has a similar family background as you. You may not want to date a girl who hates her mother or has no relationship with her. You may not want to date a girl who "tells her mom EVERYTHING". Many times a simple question might open up more information than you expect.
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AskReddit/ced7ops
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1u030q
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What would you do if you were immortal?
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Hide. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that if a person were discovered to be immortal, that person would be rounded up, put into a cage, and subjected to an endless battery of tests until such time as it was determined exactly what it was that made them immortal and how it could be synthesized into a drug that could be sold. Immortal? Congratulations! Unless you hide your immortality you'll be the most important guinea pig the world has ever known.
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AskReddit/cnoiccb
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2sdqhs
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What's something that immediately turns you off of a video game?
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Predictability and rehashing. I'm currently 27 years old. I grew up playing video games, there's almost no game that will blow my mind, so I just find most games out there to be completely boring. They stopped innovating or surprising people with their games, everything looks the same and feels the same. I want games to surprise me, to make me use my imagination and also to do something new. That's why many GTA games have that "technology!" element, where if you wish you can just observe the life of the NPCs and be surprised by the things they do.
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AskReddit/cf7etdj
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1x1znb
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What's the scariest dream you've ever had?
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My creepiest dream was me sitting on a couch in front of a camera with everything normal just staring at it. After a while I got up and turned the recording off and played it back. The video that played back was exactly what I was doing, sitting on the couch looking into the camera except it was in black in white there was blood all over my face where my eyes should have been there was just black and there were things flying all over the room. It was more creepy/eerie rather than scary.
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explainlikeimfive/d0b2ke3
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478s5x
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Why are we still not able to accurately predict the weather?
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The weather is a very very very complicated system thats why. Theres no simple formula. Its a chaotic system. A small change in one input can radically change the predictions. That said weve honestly gotten pretty good at predicting the weather a day or two out.
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AskReddit/cg7mxxh
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20xgg3
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What can you not talk about where you live?
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This isn't where I live, but when my hockey team traveled to Ohio to play Kent State, you weren't allowed to talk about the events of the shootings in the 60's. No one was allowed to say, "four dead in Ohio." Ever.
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AskReddit/dyqd4xu
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8ib58m
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What’s worst attempt you’ve made at asking somebody out and How did it turn out?
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Asked some girl who was WAY out of my league in grade 4, looking back I only liked this girl because she was pretty. Anyways I made it so awkward by getting half the people in the grade involved by announcing it to them a few hours before going on to later ask the girl out. She said no and half the grade knew she rejected me. It was talked about up until grade 8 and it took me up until grade 9 to finally get over the embarrassment. Even to this day (Grade 11) Me and that girl still cringe whenever we see each other in the hall. Ugh.
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AskReddit/cjdsh2x
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2cbb0g
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What is something people make a bigger deal about than it actually is?
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Radical feminists. Yeah there are some crazy people on Tumblr, twitter, SRS, or what ever other social media site, but they make up a very small minority of feminists and don't have much if any real societal influence. A lot of the otherkin movement and other stuff that seems a bit silly on face value is often just a modern way of social rebellion for teen girls.
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AskReddit/cf344ev
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1wljgm
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What is your worse roommate experience?
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Dang. Well, yours is way worse than mine, but here goes. The year after I graduated I moved into a three bedroom apartment with two other guys that I knew from college. They were both programmers and worked from home and aside from weekends, we didn't see much of each other. They pretty much just stayed in their rooms. In the first month we lived together we received our first water bill. It was insanely low. Like, $30. That's when it dawned on me: in the month we lived together I was only one showering.
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AskReddit/dp3crpg
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79nngg
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What word or words do you hate the most?
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I hate the word because. It’s such an ugly and unwieldy word for so simple a meaning. The conjunctive for carries the meaning of because, yet it shorter, far more attractive, and drips off the tongue like honey. “She is everything to me, because I love her.” vs “She is everything to me, for I love her.” I rest my case.
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askscience/duje4n6
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7yuy6s
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Why don't the palms of our hands and the soles of our feet tan or burn?
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Well there is an extra layer of skin on the palms and the soles. It’s called The Stratum Lucidem. It’s privies thickness to the skin. In the lower basal layer of the skin you have your melanocytes which vary in amounts depending on race, the more melanocytes the darker the skin. The melanocytes have a harder time migrating through that thick keratin layer. There is still some color but it’s just lighter. You can still burn the skin on the palms and soles with UV light but they don’t get as dark cus of extra layer of skin.
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AskReddit/diovdzd
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6gb2ny
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What is your favorite thing about being an adult?
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Adults don't constantly tell me not to do certain things. I remember being a kid and adults were always telling me I was doing something wrong or not to do this or that, which looking back were perfectly harmless things that I was doing. As an adult, everyone just assumes you know what your doing and they mostly leave you alone
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AskReddit/c42cp1i
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r27pt
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What's the worst thing to happen to you as a result of asking someone out?
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Asked a friend out about a year ago, she said no. Caused a bunch of our mutual friends to feel really bad for me, and she lost a lot of her friends as a result. I felt really awful about it. We didn't talk for a few months, but we've become pretty good friends again. It's like nothing happened at this point.
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AskReddit/c8rwn4y
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19wes0
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What did it feel like to get in your first car accident?
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It was embarrassing. It was my fault. No one told me, but if your accident isn't serious, then cops can take a REALLY long time to arrive. So I had to wait with the person I hit for about 1 1/2 hrs until the cop arrived and we could sort it all out. I also felt really guilty for messing up the other guy's day. No one was injured. The cars weren't totalled, but both of us had places to be.
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AskReddit/cfj2jjq
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1ybpb9
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How do you respond to your SO when they drop those three little words and you're not ready to reciprocate?
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Had this happen maybe two weeks ago, then she asked "dont you love me?" We only recently started talking. She's still in high school, I'm graduated though im 3 years older. I just told her "first of all, i'm not ready to love yet" (recovering from break up Second, " youre too young and in high school. No way im saying that. And i dont know you. Sorry, i dont" Point is you just have to be sure, no one can tell you when the right time to say it is. If you dont feel you should say it back, just dont. A good person will understand
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explainlikeimfive/cn0icos
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2pw32y
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What would happen if every computer, tablet, and mobile phone were to all simultaneously connect to the Internet?
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Not much. You'll connect those via your home/work/coffee shop router. Those routers all have a set number of external IP addresses (usually just one for small networks, while a college campus or something could have several.) As far as "the Internet" cares, everything connected to your home router is one device (ELI5 simplified, there are bits of data that tell it which thing in your house to actually go to.) Having 5 or 10 devices suddenly connected to every router on the planet wouldn't do much of anything, especially if you're not trying to load webpages.
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explainlikeimfive/ebi82z9
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a4whnc
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Why cant you grow certain fruits/vegetables from seed?
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In this case, it has to do with the way the genetics of the tree works. I'll stick with apples, but avocados are similar. Basically, your standard wild apple is basically a crabapple. Small, not very tasty. Over time people have bred these and occasionally found an apple that is particularly good. It happens to get a gene for being big, a gene for tasting sweet, genes for good flavor undertones, a gene for growinig healthy, etc. Now, they take this tree and propagate it by basically cutting off a bit of the tree and growing it into a new tree. So all apples of that variety are fundamentally the same tree in some sense. Contrast this with dog breeds, where every dog of that breed is in the same "family" you might say, but not genetically identical like all apples of a variety. So what happens when you plant a seed from an apple tree? Well, just like your kids aren't identical to you, the seed isn't identical to the apple tree. Maybe it's got sweet fruit but not big fruit, etc. In general, it won't be much like the parent tree. Or, to make a dog analogy, imagine if you had a bulldog, and you cloned it again and again to make more bulldogs. Each exactly the same as the one before. But what happens if you take one bulldog, let it breed with some random mutt off the street? The babies won't look like little bulldogs like their parents. This is similar to what happens when you plant the seed of an apple or avocado.
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askscience/ec3fr4m
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a7gywz
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Why aren't our satellites that orbit within the Roche limit torn apart?
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The roche limit is calculated assuming that the object is only held together by gravity. For very large objects, other forces are small in comparison to gravitational forces. For small, sturdy objects, like manmade satellites, electrostatic forces are much more important than gravitational forces, and so the concept of the roche limit doesn't even approximate their behavior.
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AskReddit/evp567e
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cknkjb
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Who will be next James Bond?
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Nobody. Time to end James Bond. The Daniel Craig Bond films were laden with references to past films and iterations of Bond, and while that's all good fun, it's also a sign that the franchise might be on its last legs. Let Bond 25 be the last film and bow out gracefully.
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AskReddit/c5do7h0
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wirm3
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What are some of the weirdest reactions teachers have had to new information that they didn't believe was real?
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That's pretty cool you learned about the Korean War in middle school, I didn't learn it formally in school. So I did my own research. As for my experience, this isn't so much of a weird reaction, but my parents sent me to this science class over the summer when I was 6 years old that was calibrated for 3rd and 4th graders. My mom managed to convince the teacher to let me stay in the class one day, and if I wasn't up to a good pace my mom will withdraw me. The class covered Physics, Chemistry, and Astronomy. I've self taught myself astronomy since I was 5 so I was pretty good at the subject. I ended up teaching the class astronomy that summer and my teacher had a conference with my mom telling me that I was a genius. tl;dr taught astronomy when I was 6 to some 9-10 yr olds
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AskReddit/e10e7fz
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8sknq4
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What are some of the worst charities that you should not donate money to?
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Other posters have hit my highlights (Autism Speaks, Susan G Komen, PETA) I'll take a different tack and say that you should almost never donate to a "pop-up" charity. These are the charities that are formed in the wake of some disaster (think Katrina, Haiti earthquake, etc). Many of these organizations are straight scams, where most of the money you give goes straight into admin (e.g. hiring a director, paying him/her a salary, giving him/her a nice office and computer, etc) with very little actually going to affect. Charities that have been around for a while have usually been audited and have experience. These pop-up charities have never been audited and have no experience. I have done some disaster relief work and I cannot overemphasize how awful it is watching (probably well-meaning) charities roll into town with no idea how to do things, how to deliver their assistance in a prioritized and equitable way, or how to support themselves in a disaster area. They immediately become a burden on the rest of us and/or spend their entire effort bulking up their portfolio of photos to use in their next funding drive. Sllightly off topic but a plea.the next time disaster strikes, please please do not do a food or clothing drive. Instead, give money to a large, enduring, respected agency. Your can of corn that cost $1.49 retail and will cost $5 to ship to the site is a waste when we can buy wholesale canned goods locally for a fraction of the price. And nobody wants your old clothes. It is incredibly manpower-intensive to sort and match people with clothes. People can wear the clothes they are in for weeks and that shipment of clothes is displacing more critical shipments like fuel.
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askscience/c1qqpxm
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gw56g
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How close are we to being able to live forever?
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Not very close. It is possible in theory (if we somehow genetically engineered humans to become like plants or figure out how to transplant our minds into newborn infants, I suppose), but in practice it will not happen soon for two reasons, both related to cancer. First, any treatment that immortalizes the cells of the human body dramatically increases its risk for cancer (because cancers are immortalized cells and natural cells are not immortal). If I'm not mistaken the biggest short-term barrier to longevity. Second, even if you somehow address longevity-induced cancer, even normal cancers will increase with higher and higher frequency the older you get until they overwhelm cancer treatments. This is because the longer you live the more the cells of your body begin to accumulate mutations until they accumulate enough to become cancerous. To be immortal against cancer, you would need some sort of way to prevent cells from accumulating mutations. Nature's way of doing that is having children, which reset their cells to the germline copy (along with a little mutation and a lot of recombination along the way). Call me old-fashioned, but I think nature's solution of "immortality" (having children) is superior to actual immortality. It allows the population to genetically adapt to changes in the environment and also promotes creativity by refreshing the "mental pool" every time a new generation is born and must re-learn how the world works. I believe it was Thomas Kuhn who said something to the effect of: scientific revolutions occur when the old scientists die.
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AskReddit/drgy12b
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7kszgr
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Why do some customers treat retail workers as subhuman?
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They falsely believe that their "status" as a customer economically empowers them to behave in a condescending manner - giving them a temporary sense of "superiority" at the retail worker's expense.
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AskReddit/ctdd1eq
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3ebove
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What's something your parents did that you swear never to do to your kids?
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Belittle their accomplishments to try and make them do better. Without ever even saying that what they've done was impressive or worthy of praise. Not show any real signs of affection or love. I always feel bad for it, since they never treated me badly. I was never abused or neglected. But, I just don't like my parents.
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AskReddit/d6jtic3
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4xzuj5
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What movie far exceeded your expectations?
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12 Angry Men. I know a lot of people hype this movie up but my expectations were low considering most of my movies that i watched prior were mainly actiony flicks. It was a nice surprise when i realised i could actually engage with a movie about people just sitting and talking with each other. Might have to rewatch it soon.
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askscience/cwu6sig
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3s3kzm
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How is genome duplication a possible way of evolution?
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Well, whole genome duplication can be the product of errors in the mitosis and/or meiosis processes, since they require at some point duplication of the genome by DNA replication. This produces an organism with double the number of its overall genetic information. In many cases, reproduction with other individuals of its species is impossible due to chromosomal incompatibility. If I remember correctly, many cases of genome duplication have been observed in plants that have the capacity to self pollinate. This process can produce new individuals with the whole genome duplication. Now, as you mention, the genome duplication can be a source for evolutionary change because, even if you change a gene, you still have another copy that can "compensate" for that change. This has been observed in the evolution of gene families, in which the duplication events lead to fast diversification of the additional copies. Sorry I don't have source for many of these statements at the moment. I'll try to provide some more information later.
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AskReddit/cu5ga4m
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3h9jzk
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What do you do when a gay friend is in love with you?
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Gay people aren't alien creatures, man. If this guy is cool, he will respect your boundaries and be happy being your friend - just as you hopefully would if you were in love with a woman who didn't share those feelings.
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AskReddit/c8m4smi
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199xiy
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What sound do you miss?
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Train whistles, oddly enough. When I was young we would leave our house in the woods in Appalachia and visit my grandparents in Georgia for Christmas. My immediate family grew up far away from any sort of city and the only noises were heard at night were wildlife sounds such as whippoorwills and crickets (another sound I miss). My grandfather had worked for the railroad there and a train track ran about a hundred or so yards from their house. On Christmas Eve, I would lay awake and stare at the ceiling for hours, too excited and nervous for the next morning to come to spend Christmas playing with my new toys and my extended family I hadn't seen for a year or more. Throughout the night I would hear a train whistle in the distance and it would instantly make me think of my grandfather who had worked at the train depot in that town, who was possibly the most quiet and kind older man I have ever met. I always attributed that sound to him, even as a child, and now that he has passed away for some years now I'll hear the occasional train whistle when I am visiting other cities (we don't go back to Georgia anymore after he and my grandmother had died) and think of him sitting in his chair half awake while my Grandmother and I watched Jeopardy, getting about half the answers right.
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AskReddit/c5v15z3
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yfcpu
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What is the most annoying thing that wakes you up in the morning ?
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Usually, I'll be having the best dream. Then I'm being woken up by some random stranger saying things like "Excuse me, I'd like to check out now." or "Excuse me, sir, what time does the breakfast start." Don't these guests know that I'm trying to get paid to sleep? Jesus people, go back to your rooms til day shift gets here.
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explainlikeimfive/d4kuwk6
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4ph5gr
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How does money laundering work?
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So you have a cracking business selling cocaine on the street, and you take in a bunch of cash. But wait. how do you spend it? How can you put that in the bank without the IRS wondering where it came from? What you need to do is turn that "dirty" money into "clean" money, by "laundering" it. What you want is some sort of business that takes in cash for sales every day, and just claim that the cash from your cocaine sales came in through those businesses. One example is a laundromat, or you could use a massage parlor, or whatever. The cash goes on the books as "sales" and is reported to the government, taxes paid, and the owners of the business get the clean, legitimate money. The problem is avoiding being caught. You can't claim you made $100,000 in a month through your laundromat while your electrical bill for running the machines is like $200. You can't do the same with some scummy diner if nobody ever eats there and you don't buy much food. But however it is done you want plausible earnings where it is difficult to tell exactly who came in and gave you the money and what was done for them in return.
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AskReddit/dhhufsj
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6avv8s
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What is a basic skill that lot of people lack in this time?
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Basic math skills. I've met a lot of people who because of bad math teachers think "Oh I'm just bad at math". Really, I don't think there is such a thing. With enough practice, anyone can become good at math. Even if you are someone who gets numbers mixed up (The mathematical version of dyslexia) You can still be good at math! Math is more than just numbers, and it's an important skill to grasp.
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AskReddit/dw7pyy3
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86tdi8
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What is the craziest coincidence that ever happened to you?
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My job entails me to go to a lot of retail stores to push my product. There was this really cute girl who worked at one of the stores I would frequent. Never had the nerve to ask her out or anything even though we would talk a lot when we were working at the same time. Couple days ago I matched with her on a dateing app. Both laughed about it when we saw each other next. She admitted she was to afraid to ask me out as well and was upset I never did. Going on the first date tonight. Not a super crazy coincidence but fresh in my mind,
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AskReddit/ccaxo29
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1mnsh9
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What expression on a person's face is permanently engrained in your memory, and why?
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My dad is a very serious person. He is where I get my emotionless nature from. I am not stoic, but he taught me not to cry and as a kid and a teenager, I never did. Anyways, my dad being a bulwark of a person has always kept his composure. Until one day. I moved across the country at last minute's notice to pursue a career that would help me get enough money to help pay for my sick mother's hospital bills. It didn't matter that I was leaving all of my friends and family behind. It only mattered that I could help my family get back on track and out of debt. When he took me to the airport, knowing full well I would not be coming back for a long time, he hugged me, kissed me, and then.broke down crying. He told me he was so proud of me, and he was so happy that he raised a daughter brave enough to take on the challenge of helping her parents. I could see all the emotions in his eyes: the sadness, the pride, and the fear. That expression has never left me.
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