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How do mental disabilities/disorders improve one's senses?
I've never heard of any direct connection between autism and good eyesight. If an autistic person has properly developed eyes, they'll have good eyesight-if not, they won't. 20-20 vision has to do with the physical shape of the eyeball more than anything.
Why are the Americans that have the most pride about their country also the ones who trust the government the least?
death panels", and my fav courtesy of junior Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"
Why do we find characters such as the Joker and other psychopathic villains so interesting, given that psychopathic traits are usually horrifying?
A hero is only as good as his villain. No one wants to watch a one sided affair. There has to be struggle, thought ultimately the hero will win, duh! Batman and Joker are so captivating, because after you strip away the ridiculous gadgets? They're human! Not aliens with magic powers. We sympathize with their vulnerability but also their cunning and ingenuity. Side note: the 2016 Lego Batman movie was awesome at highlighting their relationship.
How does evolution account for human exceptional intellect and language?
The difficult thing to explain is why we are the only species with this high intellect while the intellect of monkeys, two steps below us, is rivaled by many other mammals and birds. Humans are the odd species out. We are built to outrun any other creature over long distance. That way we could hunt large animals by running after them until they broke down and didn't put up much of a fight any more. That is why we have such massive legs compared to other animals, why we have butt cheeks, why we have not much fur and why we walk on two legs instead of four. From there on it is speculation but a documentary I saw about old fashioned running hunters shows that the prey goes out of sight during the hunt very often and finding tracks, understanding animal habits and communication between hunters all are big factors in success or failure. Of course above a certain threshold things like leadership, charisma, tool use, engineering skills, long term planning and precise communication become big survival factors and from there on brains evolve to be really big until they hit the limit of what is mechanically possible which they did with us .Probably too late here. Were **not** exceptionally smart, But we have developed an ability to live in the past and in the future. This allows us to do very nifty things, like improve upon existing ideas, learn directly from mistakes, and act in order to satisfy future needs rather than just for the now. This is what separates us from other animals.Best I can put forward here is that evolution is not just who doesn't get killed, but who reproduces. Intelligence is an attractive trait and along with other factors people have mentioned, the smart guys got the smart girls and it built off that
Why must we turn off all electronics while on a flight?
> What would a seatbelt do at that speed? Something I can answer! They will, in no particular order: compress your body to cause severe internal injuries you won't recover from, act as razor blades, break every bone in your body, suffocate you, *or prevent you from flying around the cabin killing other people while a plane is going through a period of turbulance that is severe yet that it can recover from, netting you with a dozen counts of manslaughter because you were too kewl 4 seatbeltz!* > Why does 3 inches of incline matter? Another! Generally, heavy airliners only get a 20 degree clearance for angle of attack before going into stall. Every single pilot with a license will know how to recover from stalls, but it's still an unfavourable position to be in. That said, 3 inches extra angle of attack at the start of a voyage will drastically alter your altitude and even coordinates by the end of a flight, more so on a long one. This is because there are certain things in the air that are basically the equivalent of currents in the water, and passing certain altitude markers in certain regions of the world will put you into these sections, which will thus slow you down or speed you up .
If I was thrown into the future, how far would I go before I could't understand "Future English"?
We can't know. Never before have we had recording technology. Never before have people of this time been able to hear people of the previous times speak. So the way we talk is being affected by hearing people of 50 years ago talk - and we hear this regularly, as we watch classic movies and historical records. Exactly how much this will prevent the language from drifting is unknown, as it has never happened before.21st century english will last for about another 85 years.
If slaves in America were so expensive, why were they beaten and killed?
Slavery is based on fear, if your slaves don't fear you, they won't work. Brutally beating a rebellious slave might cost you one slave, **not** beating a rebellious slave will cost you all of your slaves.
Why are many important historical artefacts locked away and rarely displayed even though they are very well protected (climate control boxes etc)?
The space to safely display important artifacts is much smaller than would be required to display all the archived artifacts. It's just too expensive to put everything on display and take care of it.
What is happening in Ferguson, MO?
The grand jury is getting close to releasing their finding, and from things that have been leaked, as well as new information that's been released, it looks like the grand jury won't indite the officer. The governor of Missouri is afraid that there will be violent rioting if the officer isn't indicted.
why bankruptcy is legal.
Because otherwise, once you run up a large debt, you're screwed for literally the rest of your life. That's not good for anyone; you'd prefer to be able to get your life back together, and the people you owe money to would prefer to get a little bit of payment rather than none.
Why is it rude to ask someone their salary?
I wish people didn't find it so personal. It really benefits employers way more than workers for you not to know what others are paid.I generally ask what the salary range is for the type of work being done. People get funny when it comes to talking about money.
Why did studios switch from blue to green screens?
In my film class I was taught that green screens are for filming in the day and blue screens are for the night it also depends on what the actors are wearing. Edit: I don't think I got the question right..
How is digital information stored (in computers, memory sticks etc.) without a power source?
It all depends on the medium of storage and how information is stored on it. Media like CDs and hard drives can store information without power, while RAM can't. RAM uses circuitry to store the 0s and 1s. A 0 means there is no current passing through the circuit, and a 1 means there is. Since the circuit requires electricity to function, all information is lost without it. On the other hand, 0s and 1s on a CD are stored as physical crests and troughs on the medium. On a hard drive, they are stored as magnetic polarities on a magnetic medium. In both cases, once the 0s and 1s have been created, they don't need electricity to persist.
How do so many people who post obviously copyrighted video on YouTube have YouTube partnerships (and therefore ads on their videos)?
Because their content counts as transformative work under fair use. They don't just show the content, they review it our otherwise work with it.
if antibiotics will eventually stop being effective, will antibacterial products like bleach also stop working?
Antibiotics are poisons, while bleach is like a bullet. You can't gain immunity from getting shot because you were shot before. Antibiotics often inhibits cellular functions through either occupies an important enzyme, or denature them. But bleach would physically destroy the bacteria through irreversible chemical reactions. Same for alcohol, where ethanol denatures proteins on bacteria's surface, effectively encase them.Antibiotics is like developing a poison that only kills rats because it targets a protein only they produce, so if they stop producing that protein, it loses effect. Bleach is like killing rats by napalming the field, everything dies. Evolution only works if there are survivors to reproduce.
All popes from 1523 till 1978 were Italian and then there were three non-Italian popes in a row. Why?
Since the middle ages, the power structure of the Church which the pope heads has been concentrated in Rome. That meant, first of all, that the working language of the Vatican was Italian, which immediately disqualified many people from working in Church administration; and secondly, that many of the churchmen available for the Popes to draw upon who were already resident in Italy were also Italian. Also, central and northern Italy are among the oldest continuously Christian regions in the world, the have the densest concentration of parishes and bishoprics , and so the densest number of senior clergymen. At each step in the hierarchy, the popes picked people one step down for promotions; since the base of the pyramid at the Vatican was all Italian priests, the cardinals at the top were also disproportionately Italian. Then, when the time came to elect a leader, most of the voters and the candidates were Italian. Additionally, within each kingdom in Europe *outside* Italy, the highest members of the clergy were essentially political appointees. The King of France had the right to appoint French bishops from a very early date; even where this agreement wasn't explicit, the local ruler had very strong influence on the choice. In other places the bishop was elected and the eligible voters were bribed, so that while the bishop didn't always represent the *same* ruler, he always represented *some* ruler. The point is that if you look at all the *non-Italian* bishops, archbishops, and cardinals, not only were they less well-represented, but *no other ruler in Europe* would want the puppet of one of his rivals to become the religion that all of his subjects followed.
How can fast food companies (McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's etc.) make a profit on a $0.99 cheeseburger?
Having the store open, lights on, kitchen running & staff is a fixed cost. If they can even sell it at a break-even price, they're getting you in the store & hopefully selling you a high-margin product like french fries or potatoes. They're also getting you in the habit of shopping there, building goodwill & making the restaurant look busy.
Is there any hard evidence that GMO foods are harmful?
Well, one of the most common modifications to crops is related to dealing with competition from other plants. Crop plants have been bred to give us their energy, not to compete efficiently with other plants. GMOs deal with this issue by making crops immune to the herbicide Round Up, allowing them to thrive when sprayed while other plants die. One of the most reasonable objections to GMOs is the increased reliance on an herbicide that could be potentially harmful to health and the ecosystem . However, I've heard that Round Up ready crops actually involve a lot less harmful spraying than their non-GMO counter parts, but I don't have a source on that.
Why are there so many atheists on Reddit?
Reddit is hivemind, and also a lot of younger people. People often come to different conclusions based on stuff but it's it feels good to be in a group host makes more fun of others especially if it's less popular to the masses but popular within your secret club. People saying anything regarding intelligence are being silly. Being religious or atheist has nothing to do with your intelligence level. There are as many dumb and uniformed Christians as there are immensely trivial and stupid atheists as well.
[Meta] I think people are forgetting what /r/explainlikeimfive is for.
I'm confused as to how you can decide whether a question is complex enough to need explanation? You said in your post and in the sidebar > A friendly place to ask questions and get elementary school-level answers, without fear of judgement. Appropriate for questions about current events, history, politics, culture and more. If this is a friendly place to ask questions without fear of judgment, how can you judge any of the questions posted? Just because you understand something and don't need an explanation, doesn't mean that others aren't searching for an explanation. I would however agree that many of the explanations are much too detailed and no 5 year old, let alone an adult, could understand them. Rather than being restrictive of the questions submitted, lets focus on making the answers easier to understand.
How come there are millions of users on reddit, but relatively "successful" posts only get around 4 figure upvotes?
These answers are all making me chuckle so I'm gonna throw out the true answer that was on eli5 a while ago: The reddit upvote system is one of exponential decrease. As the amount of upvotes goes up, the weight of each vote goes down. So when you see a post with 2,000 karma, it likely has around 8,000 actual upvotes. So when you see the top posts for subreddits like R/funny are 13,000 karma, that's actually a huge number comparative to what it looks like.There is a diminishing returns mechanism in reddit votes. Every 1000 votes reduces the weight if each vote X 3 . So first 1000 needs 1000 votes, second 1000 needs 3000 votes, and so on So if a post reaches 5000 votes, it means it had over 100,000 upvotes. If it reaches 7,000 there were over 1,000,000 upvotes. If it reaches 9,000 there were over 10,000,000 upvotes.
how is the green monster legal in baseball rules?
If that wall wasn't there, there'd be a million home runs over the left field fence. The distance to left is extremely short due to how the stadium is crammed into a city block. [Here's a picture] It's not there to make it harder for opposing teams. It makes it harder for everyone so the game isn't ridiculous.
How did _URL_0_ cost $634,000,000? That seems a bit much.
A rundown of the salient points already made: * it didn't: [as per *Glen Beck's* site], or else [the GAO ].. so $100M - $400M* private sites grow organically both in term of goals/functionality and user base; this had to be complete and handle everyone on day 1, something unheard of in the private sector* the costs that get thrown around aren't just for the website itself, but for the entire infrastructure * the Center for Medicaid and Medicare was still changing the requirements up to a week before the launch * in government contracting, open source solutions often aren't permitted: in my personal experience this has to do with liability and a requirement for 24/7 third party technical support* in general, when it comes to government projects, there are *much* stricter requirements all around that need to be met
Why do people pace around the room when they make phone calls?
I freaking do this every time. It's like I can't control myself. I also usually talk in some odd way that makes me out of breath.
Why does uninstalling something take seconds while installing something can take hours
Think of your computer's hard drive as a bunch of really big checkerboards. Each space on each board has a checker with two sides on it that you can flip over, and each checkerboard has a special checker that says whether or not that board is being used. When you install something, you take a bunch of your checkerboards and mark them as being used for that program. Then you carefully flip the checkers on them in the order that you need to so your program will run properly. When you uninstall something, all you're doing is unmarking the boards you used, so that the next time you need a board, you can take any of the ones that you had before. You don't care about how the checkers inside the boards are flipped, because you don't need to worry about that until the next time you're going to use that board.
Why wouldn't a flat tax work for the United States?
The issue is that a 9% tax on someone who makes $25,000 a year is significantly more damaging than the same 9% tax on someone who makes $100,000 a year. People in the lower income brackets typically need every penny to cover living expenses and simply can't afford any income tax at all.It would work but it will increase taxes on the poor and decrease it on high income earners. It would drive many families currently on the brink deeply into poverty.The ELI5 version is easier to see if you inflate the numbers. Imagine the tax is fixed at 75% for *everyone*. The guy making $1,000,000 a month is now 'only' left with $250,000 to live on. No comment. The guy making $10,000 a month is now only left with $2,500 a month, which with some frugal corner cutting, is perfectly doable. The guy making $1000 a month is now only left with $250 to live on, which is effectively impossible.It would "work" in the sense that if you enacted it into law then people would have to pay that amount. It also would raise some revenue for the government, though it's unclear if it would be more or less that the current tax structure. In terms of the deficit, we don't have a balanced budget now, we probably wouldn't have a balanced budget under a flat tax.
If animals can distinguish us from our smells, how do they not get confused by the smells of our soaps/colognes/deodorants/etc?
You kind of answered your own question here. They can smell really well, so they're able to distinguish the difference between you and the Cologne/whatever.A dog's dominant sense is smell. In contrast, a humans dominant sense is sight. When I was at USARPAC Basic Sentry Dog School, they told us that when a dog thinks of a place, he thinks of the way that it smells. In contrast, when a human thinks of a place, they think of the way that it looks. > [Dogs\' sense of smell] overpowers our own by orders of magnitude—it's 10,000 to 100,000 times as acute, scientists say. "Let's suppose they're just 10,000 times better," says James Walker, former director of the Sensory Research Institute at Florida State University, who, with several colleagues, came up with that jaw-dropping estimate during a rigorously designed, oft-cited study. "If you make the analogy to vision, what you and I can see at a third of a mile, a dog could see more than 3,000 miles away and still see as well." Uno [Sentry Dog Handler] US Army, 69-71I have read that when cats smell food, they smell every single ingredient. So, where a human would smell warm chocolate chip cookie, the cat would smell the individual ingredients: butter, chocolate, walnuts, sugar, etc. This may also be true of dogs and other animals, idk. When an animal smells a human, it would be the same, sweat, food breath, ingredients in soap, etc.I heard it explained this way: if I put a bowl of chili in front of you, what you smell is chili. If I put it in front of a dog he smells beef, paprika, tomatoes, garlic, etc. That's because his nose is exponentially more sensitive *and* his brain has evolved to be able to discern scents. So while your friend Kevin smells like AXE body spray to you, to a dog he smells like Kevin and AXE.
Why are the symptoms of a cold worse when a person is about to sleep?
You're lying down. That's the key difference. Most of that contested feeling you get is due to the flesh in your sinuses swelling, not snot. When you're lying down more blood goes into your face meats than when you're standing, causing them to swell more making you feel more congested and more convinced that death is coming.
Would a newborn baby from the stone ages, if brought to the modern day, grow up like any other child?
Yes and no. You wouldn't notice much of a difference because the genetic composition of humans hasn't changed much in the last thousands of years. Yet we're studying a new concept called epigenetics, which refers to changing of the expression of genes without an alteration to the genes themselves. That could mean a lot in terms of 'proneness to disease', for example. I could explain more on epigenetics if you wish, but right now I'm on my cellphone. Source: I'm a psychiatrist who is studying the epigenetic factors to certain psychiatric/psychological disorders.
How does Alzheimer's kill a person?
No one has really touched on the facts of what Alzheimer's really does to a person on a physical level. Alzheimer's makes your body, or at least your brain, unable to break down a certain protein that is naturally formed. Most people are capable of breaking them down, but there are some people that have a certain mutated gene that when aged can suddenly ruin your ability to break them down. These proteins build up to create toxic clumps. The toxic clumps directly affect brain function and can also cause wider spread damage to the body.
Why do Freemasons honor Egyptian Gods like "Osiris", "Isis", and "Ra"?
Masons don't honor Egyptian gods to my knowledge. I was a Rainbow Girl for a number of years and so I knew many masons.
Why the Speaker in the U.K. House of Commons isn't the Acting Monarch/other Royalty?
It's a constitutional monarchy. While a lot of stuff is done in the monarch's name, they're not meant to personally have a direct role in the law making process. That includes presiding over meetings of parliament.
Tax returns are the return of excess wages that the government in a sense loaned from us. Why aren't we entitled to interest on the excess tax?
Tax returns are a form you fill out and file with the government. You're thinking of a tax *refund*. As for the question, like someone else said, it's because there's no law saying we are. However, I'd be leery about asking for one. If the government paid people interest on excess tax then there would be a precedent for the government to *charge* interest on the years when you underpay and owe money after filing.
Why does sound need a medium to exist?
Sound is, by definition, a compression wave propagating through a medium. If you take away the medium, there's nothing for the wave to exist in. Or to put it slightly differently: Sound can't move through a non-existent medium for the same reason you can't swim through an empty swimming pool.
What stops humans from sleeping for days at a time?
If you ignore hibernation and simply focus on sleeping days at a time: we just don't get tired enough. Humans are easily capable of sleeping 40 hours or more, provided they stay awake for 2-3 days in a row. But, as this isn't really enjoyable, we stick to a +- 24-hour clock.
How did coating a weapon like a dagger in poison work? wouldn't the poison fall off if the weapon is too fast, like an arrow?
Since you seem to be focused on the physics of it, just think about how dirty cars get - and stay - even though they regularly reach high speeds. Dirt, mud, bugs, bird poop, and even exhaust particles get on there and require specific conditions to be removed. Even driving quickly through rain doesn't do much to clean a car. Matter tends to get stuck to matter , including at the microscopic level.The San people of southern Africa are likely some of the earliest users of poisoned arrows, IIRC there have been arrowheads found with poison residues on them from 50,000 years ago. They use a number of poisonous plants in their recipes, but the most effective toxin comes [from the larva of a small beetle]. The beetle larva is harmless if eaten, unless you have a cut in your mouth. You can imagine what happened to the poor guy who first discovered this. The way that the San get the poison to stick is that their recipe always includes some resin from the acacia tree. This acacia gum is a very effective glue when it dries, so they basically first make poisoned glue and then apply it to the arrowheads.Some states still allow poisoned arrows for archery hunting. I know Mississippi is one state that does. The poison is released from a little pod placed on the arrow shaft an inch or so behind the broadhead. The pod itself is a little rubber tube that fits over the shaft. The poison in powder form is put inside the rubber pod . When the arrow penetrates the animal the pod rolls inside out depositing the poison into the wound. The poison used is the fast working skeletal paralyzing chemical [suxamethonium chloride], also known as suxamethonium or succinylcholine sold as Anectine®. It's used by doctors in surgery to paralyze skeletal muscles. Enzymes in the blood quickly break down the chemical and the meat can be eaten.
Why Windows 64bit is x64 but 32bit is also known as x84 and not x32?
They're x86-32 and x86-64, technically. For a long time though, x86-32 was the only one used, so people just called it x86 since there was no ambiguity. Later on 64-bit became popular, but x86 was already an established term.
what happens to the flooded cars after a major flood?
They are a complete loss in most cases, cleaning and reselling them usually gives pretty big title flaws. If people don't check, some unscrupulous dealer might sell a few of them, but most people check.
Why are DJ's treated like artists, with a stage name and everything, and their own 'shows' people get tickets to, when they just play other people's copyrighted music?
The DJs you're probably referring to are the big ones at EDC, Ultra, etc. Those guys produce a lot of the music they play or they remix those sings. They do play other peoples music as well, but they are also putting their own spin on it.
[NSFW] Why censor a woman's chest?
I cannot think of a culture that does not have some standard for what is decent versus what is indecent. For women, because you are talking about a woman's chest, there have been rules about a woman ankles, legs, hair, face, chest, genitals, butt, damn near everything. Not every culture will emphasize the same thing due to cultural reasons, but the general drive to divide decency and indecency remains. Or in other words, there is an innate desire to make some things intimate, and some things mundane, and a belief that they two should not be too muddled. This comes with sharing our physical bodies as well as emotions and some cultures pick a woman's chest while others chose something else.
Why are movie stars able to be frequently recast in many roles, but the careers of the stars of popular TV shows often seem to fizzle out when the shows end or are cancelled?
A lot of it has to do with how the business of TV works. Every year, several dozen potential shows are greenlit for pilots, at which point actors are cast and a sample episode is filmed and showed to TV executives. Of those, only a fraction ever get picked up to series and make it to air. Of those, only a fraction ever get past the first season. This all happens while the current TV season is being filmed. So when an actor's current show gets cancelled, he's usually locked out until the next pilot season for shows that will appear two seasons from now. And even then, if he gets cast on a pilot, there's only a small chance that the new show will make it on air. If it doesn't, he's locked out for another season to try again. And during that time, people forget he's around and new actors have gained fame so he's not as in-demand as he once was, which makes the casting process all that much harder.
Why is it that some people resort to self-harm as a way to deal with their depression?
Sometimes it's a cry for attention. Marks on your body are very noticeable to anyone.\r\rAlso, feeling pain covers negative emotions. This is similar to when you might dig your nails into your skin or pull your hair when you're angry. It is a way to get rid of the adrenaline that comes from the fight or flight instinct that is associated with negative emotions.
How the Obama talk, which has 159,313 upvotes, is not higher all-time than "Test Post Please Ignore" with 26,753 upvotes.
IIRC, the score is determined by log. I can't remember if it's log base 2 or base 10
Who uploads all the torrents and do they get anything out of it?
Since you're a 5 year old, you need to learn how to share your stuff with other people. If everybody can share with everybody, then we can all get enjoyment out of all the entertainment there is.
How did Romans tell the difference between iron pyrite and real gold?
They had dark stones called touchstones they could rub the sample they were testing across. If it was a soft metal, the sample drew a line on the stone. Pyrite wouldn't. They could tell the metal of the sample by the color of the line, and they kept touchstones with lines drawn by samples of known purity around for comparison, so they could figure how pure the sample they were testing was. Touchstones allowed them to test for the purity of gold, silver, copper, tin, and lead.
Why does it cost more for higher internet speeds to the IP if it uses the same cable for all different speeds.
Because they're in business to make money. They can make the best return on their investment by selling a low tier service for one price and a higher tier for another. The actual cost of providing one individual customer isn't particularly relevant, what matters is how much you can squeeze out of the entire market.
I think they're called 'for profit' colleges, but I'm not sure. Places like ITT Tech and University of Phoenix: why are they bad?
There is also a documentary on netflix instant stream that goes pretty in depth and has some good interviews if you're still interested.
Why are home games so important in sports, and why do analysts make a big deal when a team loses at home?
Sports teams are well oiled machines. The competitive advantages between winning and losing come down to a very small set of circumstances. A few extra hours of rest, preparation time, and not having to travel can give that team an advantage over the one that does. Also factor in sleeping in your own bed, the comforts and routine of playing where you're used to playing and the crowd cheering for you and it gives a distinct edge to the home team.
Why do we have the strength to lift our partner but not enough to carry a gas cylinder or anything similar weight or less
They are helping with grip and putting the center of _URL_0_ close to where it needs to be as possible. You're sometimes dealing with not only the forces from their weight, but also the moment around the center of gravity
What is it called when you learn a new word and then suddenly it seems like you hear the word very often soon after learning it.
The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon is also the reason you should write down your goals and review them everyday. If your goal is to get a job or meet someone new, make that the first thing you think about in the morning, and throughout the day you'll take notice of potential job openings and attractive friendly people.
Why I'm always incredibly tired in class, but the moment I leave I'm rejuvenated?
My money is on psychological. You don't enjoy class and are very excited to leave it. You might even get excited in the moments leading up to it, which would be an easy thing to look at to check.
Why is there no "% daily value" for sugar on the Nutrition Facts label?
Along with what everyone else has said so far, you technically don't need sugar in order to survive. This is how diets such as the ketogenic diet are able to completely cut out carbohydrates. Your body takes the building blocks of fats and proteins and turns them into a usable form called ketones. Glucose is a quicker form of energy though, so that's why our body likes to use that first.
Why are older Cubans so set against opening up of diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba?
They're hoping that if the Castro regime falls, somehow they'll get back the property they lost when Castro took over.
Where do deleted files go when you delete them?
Usually they don't actually go anywhere - your computer just marks that space as available to be written over by other programs. They're only truly gone once something else writes over that disk space.It goes into the recycle bin on the corner of your desktop.
why is it not possible for an overweight person to stop eating for a while and just live off their bodyfat for a while?
A man in the 1960's fasted for 382 days with doctor supervision. Went from 456lbs to 180lbs. After 5 years, his weight went up to just 195lbs. [Blog post on fasting]", 'Because you generally need more than just fat to fuel your body. Nutrients and all that jazz.Well they'd still get hungry and that triggers the instinct to feed. Calorywise, I know food provides energy much faster than fat; you have to go hungry for a while in order for the body to even start accessing the energy in the fat. I'd assume you'd be really weak for at least that period.
Why do Asian people wear face masks when in Western countries?
In addition to not spreading illness, some women do it when they don't feel like/have time to put on makeup ", 'It is a combination of mild paranoia of getting sick, and respect for others by covering you mouth when you are sick.
- Why if I own stock in a company and am literally a partial owner of that company I don't have a right to access all financial information of that company.
If you own stock of a public company, you have the right to get financial statements and quarterly and annual reports. Any public company is required to put out that information, and also to report other significant corporate events, good or bad. That information is all publicly available on the SEC's website - go to _URL_1_ and put the company name in the upper right corner. They don't have to publicize trade secrets or details of pricing, wages, etc., since those are internal and considered secret. They have to tell revenue, profit, things like that.
Why do expensive hotels have private wifi for sale while crappy motels have free wifi?
I work for a business hotel. Most of our guests are here for business or traveling for work. Since they're here on business, odds are they're not footing the bill for the room or wifi, so $15 a night doesn't mean anything to them and they are willing to pay, or more so have their employer pay.
Why aren't cars made of steel or something stronger than aluminum so that the entire car, including the front, keeps its shape during crashes?
Cars used to be built that way. They injured people way more than today's cars. Cars now are designed to not only absorb the impact, but also divert the energy around and away from the passenger
Obamacare to someone from the UK
In simple terms, It's a law that mandates people have a healthcare plan that covers certain things. I know it can be explained much better than this, and I left some out, but that's the nutshell.This is a very short description, but should avoid most biased & politicized views: Its a semi-reconstruction of the insurance industry via new regulations while mandating one to have insurance. Its not quite social medicine nor is it the insurance reform once hoped for, falling somewhere in between. Depending on how regulations impacted your area and livelihood you may have seen very little change up to drastic shifts in healthcare providers & service provided
Why do Xbox One/PS4 games need to be installed to the hard drive, but every console before this generation you could just put in a game and play.
My suspicion is that some future versions of the consoles may not come with a bluray disk drive and become download only, thus they are requiring game developers to not need a bluray drive to play the game . I definitely agree that loading from hard drive is faster and gains the game more performance, but it doesn't explain why the games don't read from the hard drive and bluray simultaneously. This is would give games much more performance and is easy to do for developers, yet this isn't happening.
Why in open world games does the terrain around me look massive but it then only takes minutes to traverse what looks like it should take hours?
I don't have an answer, but I have a suggestion for maybe finding one: look for a video of someone noclipping and explore the actual dimensions of a mountain or other piece of terrain. You may find that they fooled you with perspective, or perhaps they used invisible walls and warping, so that the mountain you climb is actually different from the mountain you saw.Also keep in mind that video games often do not really account for slope when calculating speed, i.e. running a thousand yards might take 5 minutes in real life, but running up a thousand yard mountain would be impossible to do in one sitting, however, it is not in a video game.
Why do doctors try to stop the swelling of an injury if the body's healing-reaction is to create swelling? What do we know that our bodies don't?
Can't speak for all cases but maybe I can clear your mind on some aspects of this. Usually when a doctor performs a surgery, he sews up whatever incisions he made, our bodies don't know this, and just know that there was a big incision and react accordingly, which is way more swelling than necessary. Therefore we take anti inflammatories to reduce that swelling.Swelling is better than nothing. Medical treatment is better than Swelling. However, medical treatment is really new so medical treatment has to include things like ice to reduce swelling.
Why is the sex humans have so different from other species?
Most animals don't want to get eaten, so telling the whole jungle about being in a somewhat vulnerable position isn't the greatest idea for survival. Bonobos have the art of using sex as a social/bonding experience down better than humans do. Even more sex just for fun, a good deal of it homosexual. Not terribly noisy either, though, they communicate mostly non-verbal.Because it's a recreational thing for us, not solely reproductive. You'll also note that pretty much *everything we do* is more complex than other animals. Take eating. Most animals just kill/eat. We go to the store, choose/buy things, take them home and prepare them, and often eat with family/SOs or at least some videos. Hardly anything we do is done as "simply" as other animals.Well, we're ~~the only~~ one of the few animals who kiss. We do this because we can be face to face, and even make eye contact while being affectionate . This contributes to intimacy . Since human children require an incredible amount of investment to raise to adulthood, the parents' having a solid relationship is preferable.
Why are dentists, optometrists, etc. not part of the "standard" medical community? In other words, why doesn't all insurance cover vision/dental?
I think it has more to do with the definition of insurance. Insurance is a form of risk management used to hedge against an uncertain loss. You get health insurance because you don't know when you're going to get sick or injured. The 'uncertain loss' in this case is an unforeseeable health condition. Insurance companies can make money from this because how often do people get sick and what are the chances someone is going to get hit by a car or something random like that. However, for the most part, dentistry is not insurable because most cavities and gum disease is are chronic, progressive, predictable, and preventable. How will insurance companies make money from diseases that can be easily diagnosed and prevented? That's why payout is better for preventive procedures and not major work for dentistry. I wouldn't even call dental insurance 'dental insurance'. It's more like a maintenance plan or 'dental benefits'. I assume the same goes for optometry. The condition of your eyes getting more nearsighted or farsighted is progressive and if we take out genetics, I'm assuming preventable . However, if you get something like retinal detachment then your medical insurance covers that most likely because that's something you can't foresee not to mention much more serious too. Anyway, that's my take on it.
How did the British empire handle its colonies more efficiently than the US handles Iraq/Afghanistan?
By not having 24 hour news channels. And racism, lots of racism. When the locals got out of line, they'd bring out the army and start shooting. Back home, no one really knew about it or cared about brown people getting killing.Colonial Brits had a significant technological advantage over the natives at the time. Guns, cannons, and cavalry are highly effective when the natives have spears and arrows. Modern militaries are more evenly matched in the sense that everybody has guns and bombs for the most part now.Take a quick look at a map of Africa and compare it to Europe. See All those long straight lines on the African map? They are there because Africa today was invented by colonial powers back in the day. One of the things they did to ensure power was create areas with two or more different groups living together [for instance modern day Zimbabwe has 15 'official languages. You want an area that's apx. 20% 'Jones' and 80% 'Smith.' You, the colonizer, then arm and educate the Jones and make them your middle men. The Jones are dependent on the colonizers for education/weapons and the Smiths hate the Jones they see every day more than the colonizers. This 'middle class' system is why you have many Indians and Chinese in Africa; they were brought in to do jobs the colonizers didn't want the natives doing; same with large numbers of Germans in South America.
Why is it still so expensive to call internationally, when i can download free apps and do it for free?
The real reason: because they can. It's why right now data is expensive, 10 years ago texts were expensive, 20 years ago calls were expensive. Each time there is an explanation why you're not being robbed, then prices magically drop when the next big thing hits. The telecomms always find some way to squeeze you
How is "Paying off the National debt" possible if the national debt is sold as bonds?
Historically, the US has rarely run a budget surplus. Government debt is generally measured as a fraction of GDP and contrary to popular belief, govenments generally don't reduce national debt by paying off the principle. Instead, most western countries have managed their debt by running a deficit percentage smaller than the rate the economy is growing by. Thus while the total principle continues to grow, it comprises an ever smaller chunk of the national output. In the twentieth century, debt as a percentage of gdp was expanded greatly in wartime and reduced in time of peace, however projected rising healthcare costs and pension schemes have raised some questions about this model in the twenty first century. Especially when growth rates have seemed to settle at 1-3 percent versus the 3-6 percent seen historically. Another factor is that quite a large chunk of US debt is actually owed to other parts of the US government. This is what people mean when they talk about social security running out of money, the money paid into SS doesn't sit around in a government savings account, it's loaned out to other federal agencies. Current SS payments are funded by the contributions of younger workers but as the baby boomers start to retire, the smaller working population will likely struggle to support such a large retired class. Its a shitty situation and will probably lead to both the young working population and the elderly getting shafted.
Why IS the underside of the pillow always cooler?
There are two sides to the pillow. One of them hasn't had your face heating it for a while, and the other has.
how do architects or engineers account for the weight of everything that people may bring in apartments/offices, so that the building doesn't fall apart from the accumulated weight?
There are standards for various uses - car parks, retail, residential, concert venues, etc that differ from country to country and take into account a number of factors. You would need to take a serious amount of extremely heavy furniture to even start making the structure stress. I once worked on the design of a shopping centre in Poland that had a large glass roof over entire length. The local code required a much higher strength in the glass than I was used to seeing, but it was taking into account heavy snowfall during winter months. It actually meant you could park a car on the glass roof as the requirement was a higher load bearing ability than the underground car park. The engineers also designed a 'net' of electrical wiring over the glass which would heat up to melt snow and reduce the load.
Why is your brain so bad at using your non-dominant hand?
It's not that you're bad at using your non-dominant hand, it's that you're really good at using the dominant hand. When you were five years old and just learning to write, you were terrible. But over the years you've written a lot and gotten more and more practiced. You've built up the muscle memory for how to draw all those squiggles. But when you try to write with the other hand, you haven't build any muscle memory in that hand. You're back to writing like a five-year-old. If you spend a lot of time practicing, you can develop that muscle memory in the other hand, but most people never bother unless they injure their dominant hand.
why would OPEC reduce oil production to "support" the low/falling oil price?
It might roughly cancel out today, but they have a fixed and limited amount of oil to sell. Reducing production now means that they'll have more oil left to sell at a higher price later, increasing revenue in the long term.
Why does it take a year to produce a 2-hour-long movie when it takes the same amount of time to produce a 12-hour-long season of a T.V. show?
TV series seasons are shot a bit like a really, really long movie. You only need to find the crew and do the planning, casting, find locations, create sets, props, wardrobe and do various other things once. These kind of one-off things form a very big portion of the budget and time that goes into a production. It doesn't make that big of a difference if you shoot a film with 100 scenes or series with 1000 scenes. In addition to that, series are often planned in a way that makes shooting a lot of scenes fast. A movie production might shoot 2 pages of script a day, when series go through 12 pages. For example flat looking, smooth lighting allows shooting many different scenes in the same place in a row, with many cameras to cover all angles at once. Movies are rarely shot with many cameras, instead the scenes are acted and lit again for every single camera angle. They could shoot scene 4 from episode 5 right after scene 13 from episode 15 maybe just by slightly altering costumes. This kind of non-chronological shooting is harder for actors and other crew, possible resulting in worse quality, so movies sometimes shoot chronologically even when it doesn't make sense from schedule and budget standpoint. TV script is probably written to recycle sets and locations as much as possible, so that the crew does not need to change locations constantly and it can be shot efficiently. Also, while movies are typically shot, then edited, then vfx added, then sound work, then color graded etc . Series often do all these things at the same time; editors are hard at work with episode Z when episode Y is still being shot and X is being color graded and so on. I probably missed other things that allow shooting a lot of stuff fast. But often its also just that standards are lowered to keep up with tightened schedule; there are slightly lower expectations of technical quality and visual impact in TV.
How did Unidan (and other people) get caught manipulating votes?
Whenever you access a website, you IP address gets logged on the website's server. Reddit's admins can see those logs, so they can tell which user used which IP address to connect to the website. So when two users have the same IP address, there's a chance that they're the same person . So I guess reddit admins saw that a bunch of users with the same IP address as Unidan's kept upvoting him and downvoting the people who argued with him, so they figured out they were alternates.What exactly is this referring to? Can anyone fill me in?', "Reddit logs who upvotes what. _URL_0_ As well as various anticheat methods- you'll notice that if you make a new account, then vote on your comment, then log out the vote isn't actually applied, because reddit autodetects that.
How does colour work?
blue", and "red" in quotes is because the second part of color is based in how it's perceived. Human can perceive wavelengths of light from ~450 nanometers blue to ~700 nm red. So wavelengths in this range are often called "visible" light. However, other animals, see a different range of wavelengths. Honey bees, for example, can perceive wavelengths from ~300 nm ultraviolet to ~600 nm orangish. The wavelengths that an animal can perceive are determined by the number and types of photoreceptors in their eyes. Humans have three photoreceptors that have peak absorption at different wavelengths: 424 nm , 530 nm , and 560 nm . Again, these are just the peaks of the absorbance for the receptors, they can actually absorb wavelengths on either side of these, just not as well. So, when light bouncing off an object hits your eye, your three color photoreceptors will absorb the light to different degrees. If, for example the light is mostly 530 nm in wave length, then your "green" receptor will absorb almost all of it, and your other two almost none. This receptor will change it's shape which triggers a neuron to send a signal to your brain that it then interprets as "green". People who have missing or mutated green or red photoreceptors can't detect those wavelengths as well and thus can't distinguish between those colors. The degree to which your three color photoreceptors are triggered by the wavelengths of light entering your eye and the subsequent strength of the signals they send to your brain are ultimately what determine how you perceive color.
If an average human can hold their breath for around 2 minutes, why do MMA fighters tap out after like 5 seconds when they get in a choke hold.
Well, two things to think about. One, MMA is exhausting. By the time you're in the chokehold, you're already out of breath, and also being choked is incredibly uncomfortable. Also, you may have seen guys who pass out pretty much immediately, that's more often the result of the blood supply being cut off.
Why don't we like Comcast?
Because they are allowed to have de facto monopolies on local television and internet markets. In the total absence of competition they are free to ignore consumer complaints and wishes and charge a non-competitive price for their service. Comcast does not allow single-channel subscription that most people would prefer, bundles popular channels with less popular ones to boost numbers , and have a very poor reputation for home service calls. In a competitive market they'd never get away with this business model but the cost of market entry is too high for any real competition.
Why is menstruation historically unclean/impure in many religions
The thing I'd like to see is how menstruation is treated in a woman empowered/matriarchal religion, anyone got any info? I'm betting the attitude is quite different. The dominant world religions and most religions currently extant do not fall into that category. For the inevitable comments below about smell, I'm sure everyone living in the hot desert type climates that generated our major religions was more than a bit whiffy. Menstruation historically was also a lot rarer, it did not happen every month because you got married at 12 or whenever you started bleeding and were kept pregnant, miscarrying, birthing or breastfeeding for most of your natural life until you died giving birth or were lucky enough to make it past menopause. Not being able to touch anything when menstruating because you'd make it unclean seems a little bit less of a burden when you realize it would almost never happen.
Why are western nations criticised if they don't take in refugees, but others aren't?
I can think of two obvious reasons: 1. we are practically right next door to where the refugees are coming from. The refugees are trying to get to Europe and we have to deal with that. They're not trying to get to Japan.2. People criticize their own countries first and foremost. As a citizen of a European country, I have no personal stake in whether or not China takes in any refugees, but I care about whether or not *my* country does it.
Why do all of the east Asian ethnicities seem to hate each other?
Japan invaded and occupied huge swaths of east and southeast Asia before and during WWII, and, as others have noted, viciously brutalized enemy combatants and civilians alike. People who lived through these events are now quite elderly, but certainly most Koreans over 40 grew up with parents or grandparents who suffered under the Japanese. This accounts for much of the enmity toward Japan, at least with respect to Koreans and Chinese. I never saw much in the way of prejudice involving other Asian groups, but I suspect that Asians from more developed nations may have some feelings of contempt for Asians from less developed countries like Vietnam and Cambodia, and because Asians from more tropical climates tend to have darker skin, there may in fact be some color prejudice. This would be akin to white Americans' dislike of Mexicans.
Why did Reddit shut down r/TheFappening but leaves some truly disgusting subs up?
Enough people complained about *the fappening*. It probably falls under the remit of Revenge Porn legislation too. As for the various other repulsive subreddits, not entirely sure why they're tolerated.
Why do Storm Troopers have masks and armour when they're obviously useless?
Maybe the armor isn't useless; maybe all the stormtroopers that got shot while wearing that armor aren't dead but really badly injured; they WOULD'VE been dead had they not been wearing it; we just don't know this because the original trilogy never had any scenes showing Darth Vader visiting the troops in hospital and handing out commendations and words of encouragement to them to get better and back out into the field once they've all mended.
Why do people "bounce" or "shake" their legs when sitting down?
To circulate blood that pooled down there, due to inactivity, back up using the leg's pump mechanism that works when the leg is active.
Why are places like Japan experiencing extreme heatwaves of 40-45 degrees celcius while equatorial areas such as Malaysia and Indonesia are not experiencing such high temperatures even though they are closer to the equator?
Its a heat bubble, the Midwestern United States had a bad one 5-7 years ago with averages of 35-40°C in some places for over a week. It's a possible outcome when high pressure systems meet. One will pass over the other, pushing it down to the surface. You end up with a stagnant localized heat wave that takes forever to dissipate or move on.
Why can't we just eat pills for all the necessary nutrients daily and bare minimum carbs? Will we survive if we do just that?
Some of the necessary nutrients would be macronutrients to provide energy, like carbohydrate, protein and fat. You'd need such a large volume of pills to provide these that it would start to feel like you're just eating food. You could eat rice and beans, those are both kind of pill shaped sources of carbohydrate and protein. Throw in a few quail eggs for pill-shaped fat and protein and you've got a nice meal that's pretty much just a version of what most people eat anyway: food.
How exactly does radioactivity cause damage to the human body, and how do the symptoms result?
I think the simplest explanation is that it causes cell destruction and death. A sunburn is radiation damage. But it's not deadly usually , because it is limited to the surface of the skin, and the cells can repair themselves. When it comes to fatal radiation exposure the damage is just so overwhelming that the body cannot cope, it cannot repair. Your bone marrow dies, leaving you unable to produce red blood cells. The lining of your GI system gets torn apart and sloughs off, with nothing to replace it. The layers of your skin die and separate, falling off and making you one giant open wound, you die of infection or fluid loss. For long term radiation death , it's about the destruction of the DNA within your cells, and it's more complicated than just straightup cell death. But the simplest answer is that radioactive particles destroy what they touch, and with enough destruction, you'll die.
Why is is that many people are pushing to get mankind to colonize other planets, when are own uninhabited oceans are such a huge percentage of our own planet and so accessible
'Twas oft asked here. Ye may enjoy these: 1. [Will we ever colonize our solar system? ]1. [ELI5: Why are we trying to colonize Mars? ]1. [ELI5: Why colonize Mars? Wouldn't it be more efficient to fix things on planet Earth? ]1. [ELI5: Why are there people talking about colonizing Mars when we haven't even built a single structure on the moon? ]1. [Why bother colonizing planets? ]1. [ELI5: Why is there such a big push to colonize Mars when it doesn't appear necessarily more viable than colonizing the deserts of earth? ]1. [Space Colonization ]", 'If we want to survive as a species we have to move on. We are quickly reaching the point of no return and making this planet unsuited for such a large polulation. But realy, making permanant settlements on other planets and moons in the solar system is just the first step, and colonizing the galaxy will be the next logical step.
How come there are no ad blockers for non-rooted mobile devices?
Companies make money off of you seeing ads. They don't want you to be able to block them. Rooting gives you full access to the device so you can remove the protection that they put on.With iOS 9, users of Apple mobile devices can install ad blockers from the App Store without using unofficial hacks.
Why do secret service wear suits and ties when if they need to run, move quickly, or do anything else that seems like the most restrictive attire?
As someone who has stood embassy duty and worked a suit detail you have the suit tailored much differently, you're going to have a larger jacket and pleated pants to allow for more movement and easier concealment of weapons, you're also going to wear rubber soled shoes and clip on ties for running and fights. Also as mentioned above they are just the small detail there's a lot more than 5 guys around the president at all times. Mostly the SS wants to look less threatening and blend easily into the background.
Does the president even have the power to gag employees of federal agencies and the agencies themselves? Don't we pay for their research, expertise, and information?
The research is owned by taxpayers. How those results are distributed and publicized is also controlled by the taxpayers through the executive branch. For an easy to understand example, consider DARPA. They are making secret weapons technologies every day. There are great computing and navigation innovations made under federal research that goes into fighter jets, but you'll never see it. That's not a violation of freedom of speech, it's basic national security to hide your maximum capabilities . Trump is expanding this philosophy to ALL research. The researchers aren't technically getting their freedom of speech violated, they just can't talk about any results generated under federal funding without permission from the White House. We still own the results, but we have apparently chosen to instruct our leaders to restrict the distribution of that information. These researchers are free to give up their federal funding and and talk all they like under private funding, but good luck getting a private investor to find a 5-year return on fruit fly genetics. Since the United States Government still owns all of those results, a new president could just as easily reverse all of these decisions and 4 years of research would become public on day 1.Would this include publications? If research is to be published, would they be able to publish it and just not comment on it?
Why won't China let Tibet be an independent country?
Why won't the US let iraq//syria/libya/iran/pakistan/afghanistan/some of the indian tribes with land claims be independent countries? Powerful people project their interests into the affairs of weaker peoples. You would do it too if you had the power.
Why is it more acceptable to reject someone because of their height than it is to reject because of weight?
It might be relevant to point out that height is controlled more by genetics than weight is. If you are significantly obese and choose to live a destructive and unhealthy lifestyle it's no surprise that you're often seen less attractively.
Why is that some electrical devices like computers need big "blocks" in their power cords, while other devices like a my lamp has a straight cord?
I'm not sure if you mean the power transformers others are talking about or the round slugs near the end you plug into your computer. The round slugs are ferrite filters and reduce voltage spikes on the DC. I'm not sure if they help even-out DC ripple. It's been a while since school. Lamps and other AC appliances all use the AC ripples, and the amplitude of the voltage is also too large for those little filters.
Is learning English by a chinese person as hard as an english person learning Chinese language?
I'd say for daily use learning , living language, Chinese is probably a little easier. That's almost exclusively because their grammar and pronounciation is easier than English. In Chinese, you pronounce a word precisely as it's written with no exceptions. Trying to learn English is a nightmare for a foreigner because of our silly laughter/slaughter rules . So with some basic learning, anybody can read pinyin Chinese and get it sounding right. What's going to take you a lot longer in Chinese is learning to read. 3-4000 characters will get you fluent enough to read a newspaper, but even as little as 500 will allow you to read a fair bit and guess the blanks.
How does a can of diet Coca Cola have zero calories compared to a regular can of Coca Cola, which has 150 calories?
The artificial sweetener in diet sodas isn't a carbohydrate like sugar, but rather a sweet-tasting chemical. A typical stick of gum has sugar or sugar alcohol in a very small quantity.
Why is the media so biased against Ron Paul?
I reject the premise of your question is that the media is biased. They don't write him off as a racist, theocratic, fascist loon. They actually give him attention and write about him. So actually I guess they are biased - in his favor.While he is participating in the Republican primaries, he is a Libertarian with significantly different views than the party as a whole. Republicans and Democrats really have more in common than either party with a true Libertarian. For this reason, Paul can not be the Republican nominee.------------------------------------------ > No bias isn't just in answers, it's in questions too. You should rephrase your question.
How do mass evacuations work logistically?
I am currently in West Palm Beach, Florida. Everything south of us has been ordered to evacuate, but as the above redditors have suggested, it's not as easy as that. The news has whipped people into a frenzy so badly that 90% of gas stations in south Florida have run out of gas. Mix that in with people trying to drive out of south Florida on highways that are essentially gridlocked and you have quite the clusterfuck. All tolls have been suspended on the Florida Turnpike to help alleviate the traffic, but the amount of people on the road at the same time is negating that positive effect. The next thing they will do is turn both South and North Turnpike into only North. My wife and I have decided to stick it out in our home rather than try to brave the highways and escape North.
Why do Americans not trust their police?
Reddit is representative of younger redditors, who base their perceptions of the world from what they are shown on news and social media. Older redditors tend to base their perceptions on their environment and personal experiences. If you polled reddit right now, you'd probably get like 50% trust police in general, 25% distrust police in general, 25% loathe police. If you polled a 50+ community, it would probably be 90% trust police in general, 8% distrust police, and 2% hate police. There's also a large racial disparity in those numbers. It's a misnomer to say most Americans distrust police. MOST don't. The traditional media has taken to airing news stories of police misconduct and abuse because it resonates well with a large portion of their viewership. Even so far as to push a racial persecution element where it is not a factor, or giving deference to obviously incorrect information.
Why does viruses and bacterias kill their host if they need it to survive?
An interesting way to look at this question is to ask why do humans destroy their environment if they need it to survive? Bacteria and viruses don't consciously weaken the host organism. They just find themselves in an environment suitable for sustaining life and reproducing and mindlessly consume resources until either they are eliminated by the host immune system or until they've damaged and used so many of the resources within the host that it dies. If humans can consciously choose how to act yet destroy their own environment without thought anyway, it's really not surprising to find it's a common result of a lifeform that can't even think.
Why did so many stand up to SOPA and PIPA but recent Net Neutrality concerns seem to be ignored on Reddit?
Desensitization. They'll keep pushing until we're so used to seeing it that we don't pay any attention or make a fuss any more. Typical politics.Burnout, there is only so many times we can get fucked over and continue to get outraged about it.I'm surprised no one has mentioned internet fatigue yet. I think that is the biggest factor. Basically, the people of the internet and their short attention span can only rally behind an issue for so long before they get bored and fatigue sets in. A little known example of this is the support behind the second internet blackout day. Didn't hear about that? Exactly.I thi k people have just accepted that they are going to keep pushing shit down our throats until we are tired of fighting it. Kind of like a beat down porn star who has lost her dignity and gag reflex.The sharpest knife will be worn down with repeated use. We're being worn down so as to no longer be able, nor care to, cut the bullshit before us.