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How do you know if a picture is photoshopped, or just a really great picture? | some online software can digitally retrace modifications. usually though, there's other 'tells' for people that dabble with Photoshop themselves. it depends on the picture and what's in it really though. it can be rather difficult with pictures of people, unless you know what that person really normally looks like. |
what will humans do once most jobs become automated? | Supposing the majority of jobs become automated, humans will be left to pursue interests that they enjoy rather than interests that make them money. Labor jobs will be out the window, but artistic/creative jobs will remain. Humans will still make movies, literature, video games, music, etc. We'll probably see a big ris... |
what happens if you take all the hydrogen and oxygen out of a glass of water via electrolysis? Would there be anything left in the glass? | Well unless the water is completely pure you're likely to have some small mineral residue left over. Same as if you left it out to evaporate. |
The effects of going to sleep at different times | A bit of misinformation in the replies here is a more detailed response: Natural humans sleep for 4-5 hour periods wake up for 15 mins to 2 hours then return for another 3-5 hour period. Generally this happens 'at night' because there is 'nothing to do' and humans sleep better when it's cool and no sources of much ligh... |
If alcohol is in my blood, why do I feel way better / more sober after throwing up? | Vomiting actually helps produce endorphins in the brain, so you will feel better. Besides getting rid of stomach acids and fluids that remain, you are going to get brain chemicals to assist you. While your body hasn't actually rid itself of any toxins you ingested , the act of vomiting is supposed to make you feel bett... |
Why are computer parts made in such stringent conditions when they will most likely spend most of their functioning life in less than ideal environments? | Thanks everyone for your awesome replies. I always wondered this and now I don't have to wonder anymore |
Why do I often start itching all over my body just as I'm about to fall asleep? | I suppose it's possible that the muscles that move your hair are relaxing and that may cause itching? |
Why does liquid at room temperature taste warm but food at room temperature tastes cold? | Room temperature ice cream would taste terrible. But then again, at room temperature you would be drinking it, so maybe it's the same point? |
Do batteries wear out evenly, or are we throwing away batteries with life left? | Most electronics have a minimum voltage that they cannot operate under . As batteries lose their charge, their voltage also decreases. When a battery's voltage reaches a certain low, the electronics will be forced to stop running / consuming power. This is when you change batteries, but at this point, the battery does ... |
Why do we stop playing when we get older? | I'm in my 30's now and I still play everyday. The games I play have changed and how I think of the games have changed though. |
- Why / how does early voting and voting by mail "help" the Democratic candidate? | People who have more difficulty voting in person on election day tend to be those who are poor, as you don't always control your work or transport schedule. Poor people are more likely to vote democratic. Therefore early voting and voting by mail help democrats more than republicans.looking at the [age demographics] it... |
Why do Muslims have such a hard time assimilating, even into successive generations, whereas individuals from other cultures/religions/races are essentially totally assimilated by the 2nd generation? | Don't know where your ad but they have done a really good job in the states specifically Ohio. They have jobs businesses college graduate and low crime rate in Columbus. Where no different to the other buckeyes here. Guess it depends on the immigrant group and how they are received. Read a ethnography called In Search ... |
If World War II era guns were so good, why did we replace them? What advancements have modern firearms made that warrants replacing standard issue weapons? | Another point besides the more bullets point, which is the impetus for the design it is also very important how much the weight of weapons has dropped. Modern weapons are by far lighter than the world war counter parts and one can carry far more ammo at the same weight. Which has allowed for the massive expansion of so... |
How does Russia have so much political clout when it's GDP is lower than the UK, Germany and France. | Not a full answer, but I live in the UK and we are already hearing that our energy costs could increase greatly because the UK is partly dependent on oil/gas from Russia. I assume at least some other European countries have the same problem. There is also the question of Russia's nuclear arsenal to take into account.It... |
Why do we see a bunch of strange colors and shapes when we press up against our eyelids? | Follow up. Why does this not happen when I close my eyes and press? Just black, maybe a little white but that's when I'm not pressing. |
How do animated films made entirely with CGI have production costs in the $150 - $200 million range? | For the same reason CGI is not worse than hand drawn art. Someone still has to make it. You don't type what you want in the computer and instantly get a detailed picture. |
why is it that after cooking with garlic or onion, my fingers will still subtly smell like it days after the fact despite multiple showers and hand washes. | Your question has been answered, so I'll add this - I started keeping a box of disposable gloves in my kitchen and it's been the best thing ever. Nothing ever smells on my hands, I don't worry about touching anything. In an involved meal I might use 3-4 pairs, but they're about the same price for 200 as one pair of reu... |
Is the sound we hear when we speak how we actually sound? | Your voice as you hear it when you speak is heavily affected by internal sound waves traveling through your flesh and bones directly to your ears, mixed together with the sound of your voice that travels from your mouth to your ears through the air around you. Because of this, it sounds like your voice is deeper than i... |
Do secret services actually do cool movie things or it's just office work and/or normal police operations? | It's just like a lot of other federal agencies like the CIA and NSA. While they still do things like carry automatic weapons/protect the president etc. it's not as dramatic as in the movies. Just like the CIA is mostly office work and the NSA is just a lot of people in cubicles or workstations on dell computers. |
How do schools in Britain teach the Revolutionary war? Also, how do schools in Germany teach World War II | We touched upon it briefly. And what we were taught was basically what is in history books. The King was overbearing and the colonies revolted. Not sure if people expect schools in the UK to sugercoat the sordid history of our royals, but we don't. They're mostly thought of as insane bastards one way or another and the... |
How can Amazon make a profit off amazon prime, offering not only what Netflix offers, but free 2-day deliveries and all the other features ? | It's possible this is a 'war of attrition', in which one side uses its superior resources to wear down the other; in this case, to put the competition out of business. |
Would living on a constantly moving elevator be comparable to living with another planets gravity? | > How comparable is this is this to living on a planet with different gravity It is exactly the same as living on a planet with slightly higher gravity, as long as the elevator is accelerating at that speed. If you were in space you could be accelerating at 1G and it would be identical to living on Earth with respect t... |
Why aren't stethoscope tubes filled with liquid to allow sound to travel through them more effectively? | Even if it were better and you didn't have to relearn what everything sounds like, there is still the matter of money. Stethoscopes filled with any liquid would cost a lot more, and thus they would not be competetive as long as the current product is good enough. |
how can you tell through a picture that something is a miniture? | The hardest thing to simulate in a miniature environment is texture. For example: tree bark, wood grain, paint texture, hair, fabric weave I think our eyes can tell that the scale is off and that's what gives it away first. |
What is exactly happening when our bodies feel a "wave" of dread/anxiety? | We are very advanced beings, capable of responding to innumerable stimuli, we are not aware of most of our responses to said stimuli. Also, they can be both external or internal. Anything from a soft gust of wind that lightly caressed some hairs on the back of your neck, perhaps a random thought that you didn't even pa... |
What is the point of fonts like Wingdings and Webdings? | I believe it's use was for graphics back in the earlier days.. I could be totally off but I've heard that before |
Why do we especially honor the top 3 finishers in every sport? | I tried researching this and found no real definitive answers, but I think it's just traditional for a number of reasons. One of the main reasons I think is due to wanting to encourage a large pool of competitors. For example county fairs have traditionally given out grand prize, first runner up, and second runner up, ... |
"Obamacare", Point-By-Point | Thank you thank you THANK YOU. Never thought I'd join reddit, but here I am. I joined so I could say thanks.Great job on this point-by-point and the original. Thank you for your time and effort on this information. Much appreciated. :)You are amazing! Thank you so much for this effort. It really is helping me understan... |
Why hasn't some company made printers that have cheap ink refills? Wouldn't they outperform the rest of the market? | You don't sell printers to make money selling printers, you sell printers to lock the consumers into having to buy your ink and your maintenance contracts. There is also the problem that if you give consumers the choice between something high quality that will cost less in the long run and something low quality that wi... |
why does the rest of the Middle East hate Israel? | The Israelis took what is now Israel from the Palestinians in the years following WWII through different means. Muslims and Jews didn't really hate each other prior to that, there significant numbers of Jews living in Palestine peacefully in increasing amounts until it started going downhill", 'Been hanging out in /r/l... |
Is it possible to forcibly deflate currency by removing it from circulation or is it going to inflate infinitely? | As far as I know, deflation can occur if there are negative interest rates or if there is a liquidity trap. However, you'd probably get a better answer from /r/Economics or /r/AskSocialScience. |
Why is the British Pound always more valuable than the U.S. Dollar even though America has higher GDP PPP and a much larger economy? | The relative value means nothing. One US dollar is worth 114 Japanese Yen, but that doesn't mean that the US is 114 times more awesome than Japan or something. It's totally arbitrary. Tomorrow the British government could decide to change their currency to a new one, called the British Dollar, where every British Dolla... |
What benefits, if any, does poison ivy have on this planet? | How are you defining benefit? It has the 'benefit' that its poison protects it and thus makes 'baby poison ivy' possible. That's really all that matters from the perspective of continued existence. |
Do cats know when they're playing with a toy or do they think they're actually on the hunt and that they're attacking a prey? | Commenting because I want to know the answer too and I don't know another way of finding this again easier |
why is is it so much easier to get food poisoning from chicken than other meats? | Birds harbour more salmonella than mammals, and poultry is less dense than red meat which allows bacteria to penetrate into the flesh. For something like beef or lamb, there might be contamination on the outside of the meat but you are cooking the outside of the meat more than the center. Those meats are more dense and... |
Why Jamaicans are so good at Sprint races? | Edit: Previous omment content removed after OP edited post. OP: That's cool. And it doesn't seem like anyone was offended. |
Why don't drug cartels, street gangs and other criminal groups just merge instead of competing? | The Italian-American mob did just that. They created The Commission, mad up of the heads of all the families, particularly the 5 New York families. It ensures one family doesn't step on each other's rackets, and prevents war between the families. _URL_0_ |
Why does the gas reader in my car show full for so long and then just freefall after that? | The fuel monitor floats. If your tank is almost full, the bob touches the top of the tank. If you fill it completely, the bob is already at the top and therefor can't go higher, so the measurement doesn't increase. Now you have excess fuel to burn before the bob reads a lower level. This is also why you can drive on em... |
Why does the US require you to pay taxes even when you're working and paying taxes in another country? | The US allows many people working overseas to exclude a significant chuck of earned income from taxation. Alternatively, the US allows a credit against taxes paid to other countries. So while the issue of not getting many US services remains, the double taxation hinted at doesn't usually happen. |
Since liquid salt Thorium reactors are relativly cheap, easy to fuel, easy to opearte and safe then whats the catch ? | Thought I was on askscience here for a sec, may be a good idea to x-post this there? Might not be ELI5ing, but you'd have an answer? |
how does dementia eventually kill people? | One way is they stop eating & drinking. My grandma said it was painful and she wasn't going to do it anymore. So she just slept and never ate again. She withered away. Honestly though, once someone has dementia, they're pretty much dead. They're not the same person you ever knew - just a shell. |
Why is it impossible to access the source code of a downloaded app or program? | Because it's already compiled. You can think of it like this: * Write a program in a human-understandable programming language, such as C, Java or Python. * Compile that program-- removes all the understandable stuff, shrinks it down and coverts your program and instructions into machine code the computer can understan... |
How do filmmakers make this effect? | You edited the post everyone here talking about how they used CGI and stuff but it's of a girl singing trololol", 'Soooooo OP edited his post. The original was asking how the Other Guys scene was made. He edited it to ask about little girls. Because of reasons? |
Why is it impossible for two humans to have the same fingerprint? | It's not impossible. It's just very, very, very unlikely -- so unlikely that it's very useful in law enforcement applications. |
So a New Hope is coming in 4K, how can they upscale a movie taken with cameras almost 40 years old? | They're not upscaling the movie, it's been downscaled for the past 40 years. Film technology has always greatly outpaced screen technology. |
How do we know that online poker and other forms of electronic gambling are not rigged? | How do you know that slots or tables aren't rigged? Or that there's no creative sleight of hand done by the dealers at a table? Either you trust the authorities that ensure fairness and the fear of the company getting caught by the authorities, or you don't. |
How can American restaurants legally pay their servers and delivery drivers less than minimum wage under the assumtion that they might get tips? | As an American waiter, I don't see why people from around the world despise tipping. First of all, the actual food is cheaper because the employers don't need to pay the employees as much. Secondly, knowing that you could get more money for giving better service gives an incentive for good service. I am also making mor... |
Why, in old movies, do they make light fall across an actor's or an actress' eyes? | This isa very cool lighting technique. Much better answers in the thread, but if you've ever seen Bela Lugosi's Dracula, any time he goes to mesmerize someone and take them under his power this technique is used. A heavy closeup on his eyes with a bright, shining stripe of light across them makes him seem even more sup... |
Why is produce at ethnic stores so cheap? | I just know the Asian Markets are the best, and the number one markets i like going to, and once i go to college i'll go there - i'll get a more traditional better and healthier ramen diet in college compared to everyone else |
Why does Jury Duty pay so little? | in canada, part of the reason is that they haven't reviewed the pay rate since the 60s or something. and if you talk to you parents, you'll know that back then you could go the pictures for a nickel and still have change left", 'Here in the UK you get your travel, food and wages covered. I was on jury for a month and t... |
Are these statistics of crime/poverty in the Black community skewed somehow? | ELI5 is for explanations to concepts, not yes/no questions, so this post has been removed. That doesn't mean it's bad, it just belongs in another subreddit, like /r/Askreddit, /r/nostupidquestions, /r/answers, /r/asksocialscience, or maybe a statistics subreddit of some kind. |
How are Christians allowed to dismiss the Old Testament? | Its because the Old testament laws were for the Jewish people. People that came to believe in God after Jesus' death were referred to as Gentiles. And even then they didn't have the same laws as the Jewish christians and weren't bound by their laws, such as as eating unclean animals like pigs and even shrimp. But now d... |
Why do some cultures traditionally use silverware, others use chopsticks, and others use just their hands? | It's the cuisine and the way the food is prepped. Asian food is essentially cut into bite sized pieces prior to cooking. Large steaks do not feature predominantly, hence no need for knife.Western Style cooking is the opposite.Just worth mentioning that the oldest existing record of someone using a fork comes from China... |
Why are so many people against genetically modified foods? | I can only speak for myself, and I apologize in advance for the wall of text. The worries I have are not related to the food, but to what happens to the food afterwards, and to the greed of the companies controlling the food. From what I understand, one of the modifications is so that certain grain plants are not kille... |
Why are certain expletives, such as "fuck," censored/never used on cable shows, but the "n-word," arguably more offensive, is used in shows without issue? | There is no official censor for cable networks. The FCC only regulates airwaves before 9PM, so cable and network television after 9 PM can broadcast anything they want. Cable networks usually self-censor their own material though. They can pick and choose what they want to censor. It's pretty arbitrary what words are o... |
If electricity speed is about 300,000 km/s, why does ping of internet depend so much on the distance? | For the same reason it takes only 4-5 hours to fly from Los Angeles to Chicago, but you can sit there waiting for a connecting flight in Denver for 4 more hours if there's no directs available. |
The IRS scandal and Obama's connection | Just a heads up Appleshaush - this subreddit is notoriously unreliable when it comes to *current* political events. It'd be better to look at the same story from different networks - start with Reuters, then corroborate it the BBC . _URL_0_ |
How can animals that eat spiders for sustenance not get bitten inside their mouth/throat sometimes? (Or do they?) | There are lots of different adaptations that depend on the predator. In general, spiders actually have to try pretty hard to bite something, and the spider is probably dead pretty quickly upon being eaten. It'd be quite difficult for a spider to accidentally bite anything. It's a bigger issue for predators of stinging ... |
Considering how many stars are out in space, why is it that we aren't constantly seeing supernovas in the sky? | All of the stars you see in the night sky are relatively close to us. In fact, many if not all of them are still alive now, in all probability. Their distance is so close that you are seeing them hundreds to tens of thousands of years in the past. While that sounds like a big number, it's peanuts on the age of a star. ... |
Is what the NSA did/is doing that different from spy programs in other countries? | It's also important to note that because the internet was invented in the US and most of the world's major internet companies are based in the US that it's easier for the NSA to access the world's internet traffic because so much of it has to get routed to or through the US. |
The business model for pallets and shipping containers. | A lot of pallet companies hire pallets out to warehouse/distribution companies at a couple cents per day. When these pallets are transferred to other companies, ownership is also transferred and the new owner is charged by the pallet company. It is a massive business and if you don't have a pallet controller that is on... |
How, through out evolution, did cats learn to fall in their feet so perfectly, if historicaly they aren't so often thrown to the ground with their feet up? | Probably has something to do with the fact that most of our cats' ancestors were perpetually climbing things. Wild cats, the distant cousins of our domesticated cats, are often found climbing trees and mountains. Good climbers need to be good fallers too, if the species is to survive. |
Why is there such a negative stigma against nuclear reactors? | Nuclear made a lot of promises at the start of the nuclear age, but ended up being rather expensive to build and operate. The public now has a greater fear of them because of issues with poorly stored nuclear waste from the early ages of the work , and then the high profile disasters since . Entire towns and regions ha... |
Let's assume I'm a regular fish in the Pacific Ocean, what's keeping me from going to the bottom? | They are fully capable of going up and down as they desire they stay at certain depths because that's where their food is", 'Water greatly attenuates visible light the deeper you go. Higher wavelengths like red are attenuated faster while lower wavelengths such as blue attenuate slower which is why deep water appears d... |
Why does lemonade and other more sugary beverages seem to "go right though me" and make me have to urinate twice as fast as opposed to water or milk? | Your kidneys remove excess blood sugar. Also you might have diabetes if it's that noticeable. See a doctor.Lemons are a natural diuretic. Diuretics cause biochemical processes that make your body retain less water. Simply put, they make you pee more. _URL_0_', "That's the body saying to quit drinking that crap |
How are Confederate flags still so widely accepted when compared to, say, Nazi symbols? | Because we as a society aren't vocal enough about shaming those who fly the flag. See the political cowardice on display over the last week by those who defend the flag. Such a profile in leadership. Says something about Mitt and Jeb and Haley that they called for it to be taken down . |
Why are banks allowed to lend you money for which there is no actual equivalent value (means they don't actually have it), and collect interests for it? | They have the assets on their balance sheet. They legally own the money still, it's just being used by other people. If I own a rental car company and I go to the bank to get a loan I have to show I have something of value to back up my promise to pay it back. The cars I own for my business are things of value, even if... |
What is wrong with video surveillance in public? | For me, it's because the governments of the world historically do not have the best intentions, even toward their own citizens. The US is nowhere near immune to this . Frankly, they've abused trust in the government so far that it's hard to believe this data wouldn't be used in very negative ways, far beyond any crime ... |
Why the fruit cake hate? | Fruitcake has become a joke because what most people associate with fruitcake is terrible. I grew up with relatives that candied the fruit themselves, baked the cake using real butter and aged the cake properly. It was delicious. Then I had a piece of some random mass-produced cake. It was terrible. The candied fruit w... |
Why do starving children have their stomach swell to extremely large sizes? (e.g. Ethiopian children) | Back when I was a kid in the 80's and the famine in Ethiopia was a big cause in the public eye, I saw a great deal of images and video of starving people. I and the other kids in my class asked this same question and did a project on it. Basically, what the guy before me said - a specific condition who's name I can't r... |
What's the purpose of a modern king/queen/royal family if they don't run the country? | Nothing. They're ceremonial figureheads. They have a lot of wealth, a lot of historical significance, and in some countries they adore their royal family, but they're mostly just there because they *used to be there*. And since Britain had a relatively peaceful transition, , the royal family just sort of stuck around. ... |
How do massive trends suddenly blow up overnight? | Imagine all these circles that you do not belong to, but overlap with yours. Trends become huge in circles apart from yours maybe amongst a certain ethnic group, or very young kids, or only in major cities by the time you become aware of something because it overlaps with your circle, it has completely filled up other ... |
The differences between Wii, PS, Xbox, etc., and which is considered the best system. I'm 40, out of the loop, and have to buy one for Christmas. | PS and XBox are basically the same thing. Historically there have been a couple more shooters and better online play on XBox and PS more racing / Japanese RPG / etc games, but that's narrowed a little. Both consoles get basically the same games. It's more important which consoles his fiends have . Though Xbox and PS ar... |
Why dont we just execute prisoners by gunshot to the back of the head | In addition to everyone else's answers, a very important factor is protecting the *executioner*. It's very difficult for any sane, well-adjusted person to just hold a gun to someone and kill them in cold blood; anyone who was asked to do that repeatedly would quickly stop being a sane, well-adjusted person.You have to ... |
How is a 0' sea level established for GPS measurements? My floating boat is currently reading 141' over sea level! | Mean Sea Level is calculated by taking the world's averages of the sea's levels for the past 19 years. This is how it is done when pulling GPS coordinates for my job in the military . If there are other ways it is calculated for civilian fields that I am ignorant of, then I am sorry for the bad data. |
What does it mean when people say certain types of cars have oversteer or understeer? | *Under* is when a car is heading towards a corner, turns the wheels but carries on in a predominantly straight line. *Over* is when a car, in the same scenario, has the rear of the car slide out of line more than required to make the corner. Both are primarily caused by speed, travelling too fast for the corner being a... |
Why is hand washing only effective with warm water? | It really doesn't matter what temperature the water is - you're never going to be using water cold enough or hot enough to kill bacteria anyway. Hand washing is primarily effective through the application of soap and the scrubbing action. However, most people only wash their hands long enough to remove stains and parti... |
Why don't humans have memories from infancy? | children's brains have a burst of neurogenesis . there's evidence from rodents that this leads to forgetting of memories formed before neurogenesis. source: _URL_0_ |
How do hackers remain anonymous when they are directly connected to an ISP? | Let's *actually* ELI5 it TOR: The ISP is a letter carrier. They'll pass your letter on to your network of super secretive friends who will ultimately send it to its destination and get the response for you. Yes, they have the power to read that letter, but you and your friends are smart - you talk in code that nobody e... |
What makes a "good" lawyer a "good lawyer? The law is the law so what makes one better than another? | > The Law is the Law One of my patent lawyer friends has had several cases where he felt his client was clearly in the right, but the judgement landed against them. At the end of the day you're still trying to convince one or more people that your client is being truthful and that the law should be in their favor. Ther... |
Why do women deliver on their backs? | Many women give birth on their knees or crouching. Western midwives will encourage the mother to do what's comfortable. The mother makes the decision not the doctors or midwives.I wouldn't necessarily trust your osteopath's assertion that labour on the back is the preferred position in western hospitals. At least here ... |
How is it that after a given amount of time, we can no longer feel items on our bodies (like rings or brassiers)? | Your body just gets used to them so you don't notice them as much. Same thing goes for smells and sounds. |
How does pressing my tongue against the roof of my mouth and my finger between my eyebrows get rid of a stuffy nose? | congestion is mostly due to swelling in the sinuses, not mucus or snot clogging you up so applying pressure to force blood out and then removing the pressure results in an opening of the passages. you can get a similar effect by holding your nose shut and blowing, like you're going to pop your ears, for 10 seconds or s... |
If women make 77% that men do for the same job, why would companies hire men and lose all of that revenue? | Women don't make 77% of men *for the same job*. Much of the wage gap is due to women choosing jobs that don't pay as well. For an in-depth but easy to understand look at this, try reading [Scott Adams verdict]. |
What is the importance of Gold? | The nature of commerce requires something to trade with and store value. Barter and gift economies can only go so far, which is why cultures around the world developed their own currencies. Currency allows people to trade with other people even if they lack a good or service that the other person wants, because the oth... |
American coffee culture and why Starbucks is so incredibly popular | - Starbucks basically introduced espresso-based drinks to the average American. - To succeed in America, your product has to be very consistent from outlet to outlet. Starbucks achieved this consistency by roasting dark. This leaves very little up to bean variance since roast flavours take over. - Given the dark, bitte... |
Official ELI5 United States Presidential Election Thread | Why is Ohio considered more important than Florida as a swing state? The media are going on about Ohio. The candidates can't stay away. But Florida has 29 college votes, Ohio only has 18. And according to the last poll, the voting will be split virtually 50/50 in Florida. So why is Ohio considered more important? |
How are people in the UK reacting to porn bans? | With mirth at the ease with which you can circumvent it or, since it's opt-in, with complete indifference. Most of us can tell it's an expensive, ineffectual gesture to pander to all that Daily Mail screeching about online perverts . |
Why are passengers and crew members on airplanes and ships commonly referred to as "souls" while on board? | Number of passengers =/= souls on board For example, infants are not included in the passenger count. A plane holds 100 passengers, and one of those passengers has an infant with them. As far as the paperwork is concerned, there are 100 passengers and 1 infant on board. And if there are 5 crewmembers, there are 106 sou... |
why does my beard grow red while my hair is brown? | I have the same deal. Apparently, when I was really young, I had reddish hair. Now it's just the beard. My hair on my head is pretty much a light brown, beard is red, arm hair blonde, leg hair dark. I'm some kind of a calico freak. My eyes aren't even a real color, some blue-ish, grey-ish green-ish shit. |
What is the weird smell you get when you hit your head hard? | From what I understand, it's likely due to minuscule blood spray from capillaries being ruptured. So yeah, blood. |
Why do people care about animal life way more than they do human life? | To be clear, people care more about *pet* life than human life. A great example of this is the unspoken rule that you don't show the killing of pets in movies . Very few times is this unspoken rule broken. A classic example is in *Independence Day*, where millions of people are just obliterated, but they take the time ... |
How can Amazon issue so many no-questions asked refunds, in many cases not even requesting the product back? | Amazon makes so much money that they just don't care. There's not much of a point returning a probably broken product to Amazon if it's just going to cost them more money to process an RMA on it. A lot of people have and will boycott companies due to bad customer service experiences; whereas people who have a good expe... |
Why are airplane tickets are so expensive in America compared to Europe? | Part of it is also due to European countries being a lot smaller. For example almost everyone who lives in the UK is in a position to easily and quickly get to London, a major international city with one of the busiest airports in the world. Airlines know they can fill seats and there's a lot of competition. This in tu... |
What is the role of the Supreme Allied Commander Europe and who is he the chief of? | The problem with NATO is that you've got a bunch of different militaries working together, all with their own seperate chains of command.. That can make coordinating a campaign a bit of a clusterfuck. To solve that problem, and keep in mind that NATO was set up specifically to defend Western Europe from the Soviets, th... |
Why don't I own a sea treasure that I find? | Whichever American country Spain stole their gold from should be the ones to get it back if that's the game we're going to play. |
- I have always wondered why movies shoot scenes out of order. Wouldn't it be so confusing for the actors etc. | For any half-decent actor it's not a problem at all. Part of their job is to learn the context of the scene and perform the part accordingly. |
Why is it when someone is in pain they tend to find relief if they grab onto something tightly? | I think it has something to do with pain displacement. When you squeeze something, you are pushing the blood to another part of your body away from the source of the pain. That and you are distracting your mind. Either that or it's one of our fight or flight responses we learn early to prepare for possible injury or ha... |
Why are military casualties relatively low in the War in Ukraine, despite being a war that's lasted two years between two European countries fighting with modern weapons? | It's not a war between two European countries. Russia is obviously contributing to the separatist cause but, for diplomatic reasons, they are not officially a belligerent and they are severely limiting their efforts.First off there are fewer people involved: there are less than 200,000 fighters in total from all sides ... |
why is BODMAS used in mathematical problems? why not just solve the problem the way its shown? | It's like data compression for humans. Math equations can get pretty long. So instead of writing out the whole thing, mathematicians use a special shorthand to make the equation shorter. BODMAS is the tool you use to decompress this shortened equation to understand the actual equation. |
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