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Canned tuna. Why does it stay good for so long? Why is light tuna low in mercury? | So canned/pouch tuna goes through a retort process. Most times it is checked for histamine at the time it hits the facility. This is important because histamine can withstand the cooking process. Then it is often frozen till it is time to be processed, it is then thawed out and the actual process begins. Let's fast for... |
How are humans able to correctly predict the strength needed and accurate trajectory of objects such as shooting a basketball or throwing a baseball? | we don't make any calculations. it's experience. that's why practice helps. so your first answer is pretty much spot on. |
Why is GoPro so laudedwhen helmet cams and miniature, portable cameras have ben around for years? | This thread is a pretty good example of why GoPro is so big. Anyone that is eluding or saying that it is marketing, or ads, or celebrity sponsorship, and not necessarily that it's the best product but just publicized well, is being downvoted. . All the comments that are being upvoted are pretty much along the lines of,... |
Why do dogs and cats lean their head to the side when puzzled? | I've wondered this myself. My dog tilts his head whenever you ask him a question. I've even just said random sounds to him that don't make sense, but when I raise my pitch at the end of the sentence as if I'm asking a question, he tilts his head. What causes this? |
Why do Asian tourists wear medical face masks? | For starters, it's common practice in Asia to cover your face when you're sick. Also, many of them are used to constantly wearing it back at their home because of high pollution levels, especially if they're from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and other highly polluted cities. |
what is a pyramid scheme and how do I recognize one? | Someone I know kept trying to rope me into his pyramid scheme selling vitamins. I've done a lot of reading and have discussed the said vitamin company with other friends. Turns out that over 90% of their sales are to other members of the company . Anyway this guy pretty much forcing his parents and relatives to buy his... |
Why are some people much more tolerant to spicy food than others? | I read something recently that suggested that some people don't taste as strongly as others, and these people are more likely to like spicy food, because they aren't as badly affected by it and it tastes less bland to them then other foods. It makes sense, animals that like to eat naturally spicy things like peppers ar... |
Why does the air at night smell nicer/different? | It's most likely petrichor, which is produced by soil bacteria when humidity increases.And of course, the way you perception of the world is different at night. Less light means more processing power being re-directed to other shit than eyesight.Usually at night there are less cars out to produce exhausts. Furthermore,... |
Relative to wages, are some things really cheaper now than they were in 1900? | with a few minutes of google i haven't been able to find anything that specifically says how easily one could have earned the equivalent wage in prior years. Most online calculators won't go back as far as 1900 though. This seems relevant. _URL_2_ETA: another good writeup here: _URL_2_ |
What is BMI? And why is (or isn't) it important? | If you take the weight of all the adults in a population and put them on a graph you'll get what looks like a smooth hump which tails off into nothing at the left and the right, and has a big clump in the middle. The BMI is a ratio of weight and height, and if you chart everyone's BMI you also get this same curve. All ... |
Can you starve yourself to death by running marathons? | You'd stop running before you starved. The human body can go on for about [three weeks] without food, given proper hydration. One day, you would collapse in the middle of your marathon, physically incapable of standing, much less running. You'd pass out. Upon waking up, you'd still have trouble getting up. From there, ... |
What would happen if someone destroyed the U.S. Constitution? | The person who destroyed it would probably be quite soundly maligned, but no, the document outlines the powers, it doesn't actually 'contain' them. |
Would placing the handle of a door closer to the hinges help make them resistant to pets? | Well it would certainly make the world look more like the hotel from Dunston Checks In. And isn't that really the ultimate goal?", 'My parents have turned the handles on their doors upside down, so they pull up to open instead of pushing down. Stops the cats from opening themJust use a doorknob instead. Nothing without... |
Why can't different species of animal mate? | A species is defined as a group of organisms that can mate and produce fertile offspring. If they can they're in the same species, if they can't, by definition, they aren't in the same species. |
What are the mental health effects of being a celebrity? | I heard it's because your shy and introverted in real life, and that people shouldn't expect you to act the same way of stage as you do onstage yea, doesn't make any sence". he then continues to use music as a coping mechanism. Can't handle this:_URL_1_ Bo explains how little control of his own life he has, "[he] can o... |
Why do helicopter blades make the choppy sound they do when they are spinning around at a constant speed? | Aeroacoustician here. while blade slap can certainly cause a chopping sound I expect what you're referring to is that characteristic sound helicopters make when simply flying through the air. this sound is not related to a blade passing through dirty air but rather due to the rate at which the blades spin. . assume the... |
If some say Gender is a social construct, why is it important to those same people, that they need to be identified as a particular Gender? | Countries are very definitely a social construct but it matters very damn much if the social construct says you live in the US of North Korea. Things that are socially constructed still have major effects on people's lives. |
Can psycedelic drugs make you experience "new" colors? | I've taken magic mushrooms around a hundred times as well as acid a couple of times and I've never seen any new colours. |
401k. Roth IRA. Mutual Funds. Stock Options. Bonds. General investing that I could do on my own. | To add on, options are not just something employers give you, you can trade options on the market. A option is a contract to buy or sell a security or stock for a certain price. 1 option is for 100 shares, the there's a strike price, expiration, and the current market value of the contract. For example You can pull the... |
How is a sailboat able to move against the wind? | [Here's a diagram]. Basically you can't go straight into the wind, but at other angles you can always set the sail up to redirect the wind and move you forward, so while you can't go straight you can [zig-zag forwards]", 'My days of playing Zelda: Wind Waker and being too lazy to play the song that changed the directio... |
Usenet, and how to start using it... | A lot of people here describe 'usenet-the-file-sharing-network'. It's not the main purpose. USENET started as a sort of place to discuss stuff. Functionally it's similar to web forums, but it works more like email -- message are retransmitted rather than viewed from a central location. So it's pretty much like public e... |
How does 'Anti-Paparazzi Scarf' work ? | The scarf is made from highly-reflective material, similar to a road workers vest, bicycle clothing, etc. Paparazzi like to use flash a lot because they don't have the time or control of the situation to expose using the ambient light. Using a flash can increase their chances of getting a worthwhile photo in their limi... |
Why are the French famous for surrendering? | The French cowardice trope attend back to ww2, they were invaded by the Germans and they surrendered just like any country would under the circumstances. However, in 2002/3 the French PM suggested that before declaring war on Iraq we should wait until the weapon inspectors finish their job as going in prematurity will ... |
How and why does our body function relatively normally if we don't eat healthily? | Well as others have said, junk food is often a case of too much bad rather than not enough good stuff. The reason for this is that we fortify so much of our food . Fortified flour greatly reduced the cars of spina bifida in the US and elsewhere. We started adding calcium to OJ to increase the absorption of both vitamin... |
Why do restaurants like McDonalds and Burger King not allow customers to order burgers for breakfast? | I know i want a damn burger at 430 the morning after having been up all night in the emergency room..It's been a rough year for wife and i. She got wicked migraines and I had gall stones.You want a feckin whopper after that shit. |
Why do people call for the abolition of the Federal Reserve System and denounce the United Nations? | Most money in the world is 'fiat money' - basically, it's worth what it's worth because we all agree that is what it's worth. We need to trade our goods and services and we don't want to barter, so we use money as the medium. The Fed is in charge of regulating that supply, and a host of other complex economic activitie... |
Why is it generally acceptable to eat raw fish, but not beef? | Clean fresh meat thats been flash frozen is OK to eat raw. But how many days has that hamburger been sitting in the grocer's fridge? Do you know? |
Why nationalism is acceptable but racism, sexism etc are not? | Without any kind of sarcasm intended: Nationalism is not socially acceptable in Germany. It's just not. Of course it's a lasting effect of the war. What North America would call casual racism often is, and certain parts of Germany are so traditional that they would be hard pressed to avoid being called inherently sexis... |
How does flipping the video remove copyright? | I doesn't. At best it would make your creation a derived work, but likely simply flipping the image would not count as creative enough for that either. The main reasons for these shenanigans appear to be an attempt to fool automatic system that recognize known videos and flag them as copyright violations. |
Explain what the point of having health insurance is when you still have outrageous deductibles? | In addition to expensive procedures like /u/twobitiarry described, insurance also typically pays for smaller, everyday office visits as well after your copay. For example, I recently had an office visit that would've cost $1,000 without insurance. I only paid $40 for the copay.it is very simple. pay X amount of money a... |
How can Apple be 'Eco-friendly' when it used forced obsolescence to have its customers buy new iPhones ? | They aren't is the obvious answer. I haven't updated my ipod 4 because so many said the new OS made it slow to the point of unusability. |
Why can't you inject dopamine to get high? | I'm just going to add something. Yes there is the blood-brain barrier to which dopamine cannot directly cross, and you cannot directly inject it into your brain anyway - no needle is fine enough for that and the location one would need to inject it into presumably for it to work, is the substantia nigra which is not on... |
if rates of autism are skyrocketing and there is no clear cause could it be that we are over diagnosing? | Because they're not being diagnosed at a 1 in 2 rate. I don't know where you got that number from. It is normal for pretty much any disorder to get diagnosed more and more throughout time, because there is more information about it through research, more awareness about it through the media, and less stigma against it ... |
Why does tickling cause laughter? | Because it is believed that touching the body in that way is inappropriate. Because beliefs are not only believed in the brain, but in the entire body . Doing/saying anything that is believed, MIGHT trigger laughter, which is basically the relief of the belief: in that moment is realised it is just a belief and is not ... |
why do some Black people in America identify with Islam? Wasn't it imposed on Africa just like many other religions were? | I don't know about the eastern parts of sub-Saharan Africa, but as to West Africa, Islam was definitely not imposed by outsiders; the closest you can say is that it was imposed by insiders. The first converts to Islam in sub-Saharan West Africa tended to be rulers of Sahelian kingdoms like the [Ghana Empire] and the [M... |
What happens when you get deported? | If you're a lucky American. - you arrive back in San Diego with a margarita in your hand, a rental car, and $1000 to spend in Vegas . That's what I've heard anyways . |
What AOL actually does, in 2015? | Surprisingly enough they still offer dial up service and have 2.3 million dial up customers. In some rural places your only internet options are dial up or satellite internet. Satellite internet can be expensive and there is also a big ping time involved so it doesn't work very well for things like gaming. And if you l... |
why blowing in Nintendo cartridges worked/didn't work. | Most of the time with my console it's a seating issue, the game needs to sit in the slot in a specific way. The blowing on the cartridge didn't do anything it seems. |
If almonds are so high in fat, how exactly are they good for you? | Fats aren't always bad for you. Your body needs a certain amount of them - it's just that a modern diet provides far, far more than our bodies were designed to use. Per [Wikipedia], almonds are high in a number of nutrients and the fats they contain are generally not the kind that are especially bad for your health. Th... |
Are there more dimensions beyond X, Y, and Z? | The 4th dimension is time. Dimensions represent location. Now, location, as we know it on earth has three points. X,y, and z. The 4th dimension is time, where the variable represents a certain time in space. Theoretical, mainly. For example, if someone stood on top of the Eiffel tower, at this very moment. 3 dimensions... |
How do cast of "Jackass" survive all their stunts without a scratch? | Johnny destroyed his dick. I remember hearing that he did so much damage to it that he passes through a tube and can't get it up. |
How come sparkling water doesn't spray out of bottles like soda or champagne do? | Oh, it does. I can't tell you how many bottles of club soda or seltzer I've soaked the kitchen floor and myself with.Sometimes there are different amounts of carbonation added. The drinks with higher carbonation will spray more than those with lower carbonation. |
Why do some people derive pleasure from watching/causing harm to others or animals? Is it a personality disorder or are their brains just wired differently? | I would take such great pleasure in harming the people who hurt animals. It brings up a level of anger and hatred I never knew I could feel. I can't imagine having to see it on a daily basis for my job. |
Why is Neo-Nazism such a prominent voice in Greek politics today, when less than a century ago millions of Greeks were starved and murdered by Nazi Germany? ELI5: Golden Dawn | I'm going to be that guy - but, millions of Greeks weren't starved/murdered - [it was about 300,000] |
Why can massive games like Skyrim fit on one disc while the first season of Heroes needs seven? | Well young one.. Let me explain it to you this way.. Let's imagine we are panning over a Forest with a camera. We would take 30 pictures every second, and when we look through all of them in order really really quickly, we would essentially be watching a video of a camera panning over a forest. Lets put all these image... |
My whole family caught the same nasty stomach bug. Some of us threw up a lot, others only pooped. What was happening in our bodies to cause the different course of actions? | Bugs that give you food poisoning cause nasty symptoms in your digestive system because that's where they like to live. However, in every person's digestive system, there are different places that things like bacteria and viruses can live, such as the stomach, the intestines, the colon, etc. Each one of these places ha... |
why cant windows uninstall 2 things at once at control panel ? | When windows installs or uninstalls a program, it does several things, the first and most obvious is the installation of files, such as the .exe file that serves as the launching point for many programs. the second is it edits the registry - an operating system level database that stores settings for things like user a... |
What makes alcohol addictive? Is it the substance itself or more of a mental thing? | Undoubtedly it is addictive and when people get deeply addicted just trying to quit can be fatal. I'm sure all the other posters when into the biochemistry and all that. But here's what makes an alcoholic special: they just feel different, like they are from Mars. Or like everyone else got the instruction book of life ... |
Chinese people at the gym | It's a status issue. Gyms are short in supply so taking pictures is like taking pictures with a tourist attraction. |
How .99 repeating equals 1 | What is 1 - 0.999 recurring? The answer is 0.000 recurring .. and then after an infinite number of 0s, there would be a 1. But we can't ever write an infinite number of 0s. No matter how much accuracy we use, the difference between 1 and 0.999 is zero. This is true even if we use infinite accuracy. Because the 1 comes ... |
Why do humans get auditory and emotional satisfaction from music? | We have evolved to be active and interested listeners of music. Music contains meaning for humans. The spoken word is in large part musical performance, with rhythm, melody and dynamics. The human fetus is introduced to its mother through the rhythm of her heartbeat and the melody of her voice. The infant spends its fi... |
Why aren't Arabs black? | Because it was settled and held by people who weren't black. People aren't cooked by the sun. Skin color is inherited. |
What exactly is, and the significance of, NASA's announcement today? | This is only just the newest of NASA's great discoveries. They have an amazing track record of coming up with brilliant discoveries every February. I'm sure it's the result of having cleared their heads over the Christmas break, and nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that the federal budget usually gets submitted i... |
How, in this day and age, can it take "five to ten days" to unsubscribe from an email? | I run a mail server at a domain. A couple of years ago I created 8 email addresses that have never been used before, they simply didn't exist. I **unsubscribed** each of them using the unsubscribe link in about a dozen emails I had received. Within a couple days each of those mail addresses were receiving 6 to 10 piece... |
Why are some people better than others at painting/drawing? | Some people are born to find drawing/painting a little easier. For me it just clicks, I know what an elephant looks like, so I can paint one. But I've also practiced my entire life. If you want to be good at skateboarding or cooking you have to apply time to that skill. It really is just another skill and not really a ... |
How people get caught not having a TV license?(UK) | I didn't seem to know anyone who bought a license as far as I can tell as a American it was the honor system. How ever I did live in a college town.I'm sorry, but this reminded me of "The Young Ones" . |
How does hail manage to stay solid long enough to hit the ground in 100+ degree weather? | Ever poured a cup or ice in the sink and see it's still there an hour later? Ice even in high temps takes a while to melt. Way longer than the 30 seconds it's in warm temps while it's falling. |
Why is the sound of a baby crying incredibly annoying? | It's annoying because the crying it self is designed to get attention, and your brain made it annoying so you won't ignore your baby crying. |
Why is it when you take a picture of an image on your computer monitor, the pictures always look funny with a lot of lines when you zoom in? | It's the refresh rate and also your camera's fps rate. The standard camera doesn't process as fast as the human eye. It's similar to how wheels on a car or ceiling fans appear to be moving backwards depending on their speed. So when you view a tv or monitor on a digital camera, the refresh rate is visible. |
Why don't companies like McDonald's and Taco Bell deliver food like Pizza Hut and Domino's? | In some countries they do, when I visited family in Jordan a few years back, my cousin ordered mcdonalds for delivery around midnight, not sure why they don't do it here, it was fairly quick and wasn't cold iirc |
Why if CO2 is only .038% of atmospheric gases, does it have so much impact on global warming? | Congratulation, you've discovered a cascading effect. These are some of the most amazing things to study and there are areas of expertise for studying them in almost every field of science There are lots of things like this, where a small move one direction or another can change things massively. example: imagine that ... |
How did we tolerate the smell of each other years ago before soaps, toothpastes and regular showers? | You ever had someone tell you your room smells funny or your house smells odd? It's because you are accustomed to it and stop smelling it yourself.We were used to it.. Like that old lady at Church who has no clue she has put on enough perfume to last a normal person a lifetime.I way prefer some sweat smell over fake we... |
How do British police officers safely apprehend armed/dangerous criminals without carrying guns? | Because the criminals don't really have guns either. The whole gun-ownership thing is strictly controlled through licenses a majority of licenses to carry guns are for shotguns, and they tend to be farmers.Via these various methods: - Tasers - Batons - Pepper Spray - Fisty cuffsHot tea thrown in the face is far more ef... |
How does the stock market 'create' wealth? | Trading creates wealth. The reason you trade is because you want what the other person has more than you want what you give them, and vice versa. In the stock market, you trade a chunk of money for a chunk of a company, including some of the future profits. The person running the company gets cash now to invest and mak... |
Why do so many people in the USA get arrested for resisting arrest? Surely you need to be arrested for something else first in order to resist. | It's what you shout before hitting them with the baton .. Makes assault magically legal.Laws are more like guidelines for those who write or enforce themThe arrested for being a dick in US is "disorderly conduct" |
How do doctors get prescription medication? Can they prescribe them to themselves or do they need to go to another doctor? | They could prescribe for themselves, but they probably go to other doctors for a neutral point of view. Most doctors also are rich enough to go to another doctor when they're sick. Source: My grandfather was/is a doctor. |
A Beginner's Guide to ELI5 | > Don't say purple *Checks own username* Dammit. Great sub by the way, and from what I can tell the mods are doing a great job adjusting to becoming default. |
How people (like Helen Keller) who are born deaf and blind can learn things | People don't learn because they can see or hear. They learn by being exposed to inputs over and over again and recognizing patterns. |
What do the different knobs and sliders and buttons do on DJ mixers? | other answers are already really good. but one thing to mention about DJs using 2 turntables is the crossfader, that slider that you see scratch DJs manipulating furiously. it controls how much of the sound is coming from one or the other turntable. ie it 'cross-fades' between the two.Depends on the knob, but most pert... |
how do radio stations profit from text messages sent to them? | Thing is *they don't always*. Social interaction is a really good marketing technique to keep people interested. But, if they are, they can sign an agreement with a mobile provider in-which the price of the text message is increased and both the station and the mobile provider get a bigger cut. Sort of like those mobil... |
Why does it feel good to cry when we're sad? | You breathe in a way you haven't allowed yourself to all up untill that first crack - uncontrolled, unhindered, the way your *body* wants and was built to, not your mind. Ego lets go of the diaphragm for once and breath drops in deep, touches something real, and comes back up *alive* It feels 'good' because it's the vi... |
How does my $300 airplane ticket actually pay for a $285 million jet, fuel, salaries, maintenance, etc? | I'm on mobile so I can't add a link but if I remember correctly they did a 60 Minutes segment on how airlines make money. They explained how much money they made from ticket sales and then divided that up into operating costs piece by piece- some flights aren't even profitable. But airlines get extra money from shippin... |
Why if a fever is our bodies natural way of fighting sickness am I always told the moment I get a fever to take medicine to reduce it? | Fever CAN be beneficial to help fight an infection, but most of the time when we get a fever with a common cold or common virus the fever is unnecessary. Many viruses that get in our body and cause what we know as the 'common cold' could pass through our body just fine causing no noticeable or lasting damage themselves... |
Why can fine dusts cause an explosion? | Sugar is combustible, you do a slow burn of it in your body every day. You want to make a stink and a lot of smoke , take a pan of it and heat it on the stove until it starts to burn. Now you take that substance and you increase the surface area to volume ratio so oxygen has access to a lot of molecules in the dust par... |
how can corporations be considered people? | Essentially, it comes from the need to have a legal way to define a group of people as making decisions as a single entity, and the accompanying rights and responsibilities that entails. It turned out that the easiest way to do this was to handle them in more or less the same way as people are handled by the legal syst... |
How does placebo effect work when healing a person? | There are, I believe, different kinds of effects having to do with placebos. Something that probably isn't considered a placebo, but that I feel is more at the root of what causes the effect, is how well certain patients do in the fight against cancer simply looking at their outlook. Patients who have accepted death an... |
What's Martial Law? | martial law is when military is granted overwatching power by the government. people's rights are suspended. anyone suspected of violating the law or ordinance can be arrested and tried without due process of civil court. |
Why does alcohol in mouthwash not make you drunk through your palate? While you use a straw in alcoholic drinks so you get drunk faster because the alcoholic drink goes through your palate? | I've heard you get drunk faster through a straw, only because you're more likely to drink it faster. |
Why does microwaving/cooking food which is out of date not kill the germs and make it edible? | It's not always the bacteria itself that's harmful. It's often the byproduct of bacteria metabolization that can harm you. In that case, even if you killed every bacteria the food would still be harmful. |
why is it that our bodies are symmetrical on the outside, but not on the inside? | In addition to the other answers, there's some sexual selection pressure, too: nobody can see if your stomach is out of place, but if your outsides aren't symmetrical, it's obvious. |
In our dreams, how are the people we have never seen or interacted with before conjured up? | > I feel like I interact with humanoids when I remember a dream with someone I have never met before. Of course you do! All these people saying you must have seen those faces before are talking nonsense; we have imagination while awake and asleep. Do you think the Zerg of Blizzard's Starcraft franchise were seen by the... |
Before the Big Bang? | I have a theory that involves both the big crunch and the expansion theory in which over an infinite amount of time our universe that expanded from the big bang will reform into the microscopic ball of all the universe's material once again because of the simple laws of gravity that the universe abides to. You can thin... |
Why is Russia such a threat to NATO (Europe+USA) when it has an economy the size of Italy? | Military officer here. Their general expansionist attitude and military positioning are a great concern. Main concern other than that would be their technology development and how efficient they've been in combat in Ukraine. They have been continually developing for conventional warfare while the US has been focused on... |
What causes stomachache when we consume food that's gone bad? Parasites living in the food attack our stomach mucosa? | I'll take a shot a explaining this to a five year old. As mentioned before, there are two ways you can get a stomach ache from eating something. Imagine that you leave food out, there are teeny tiny things called bacteria that like to play on food. When they get to play a long time, they leave a big mess. Like if you b... |
How are calories measured, and how accurate is it? | 1 gram of fat is 9 calories. 1 gram of alcohol is 7 calories1 gram of carb is 4 calories1 gram of protein is 4 calories if your recipe is for 500grams of flour, 100grams of butter, and 100grams of sugar, it's just a math problem for a 5 year old. problem is, ingredients don't always come in chunks of carbs and proteins... |
What is a housing bubble? And is such a bubble occurring in London? | A housing bubble is where houses quickly gain value, usually far above their actual worth. Then, the bubble bursts , sending the housing values way down. I can't comment on the current climate in London though. |
What breakthrough in technology allowed 2016 to be the year where virtual reality became a legitimate consumer product? | It's not even clear whether the Oculus and other VR products will be successful in the long run. It's a neat and well made gimmick for gamers to be immersed more, but it might just stay a niche market if people prefer to play with regular screens.It really was a gradual thing. Screens got better resolutions and respons... |
Why the Fibonacci Sequence is important/ related to nature (and everything else) | I was the same way for a while, not getting why the Fibonacci sequence was so special, until I learned that ANY sequence where you add the previous two elements will give the golden ratio. Plants, shellfish etc. aren't doing math, they're just repeating a process that combines the last 2 times they performed the same p... |
Why do people duck when leaving a helicopter even though the blades are much higher than their heads? | Not sure, but my guess is that it's not necessary but reinforces the idea that you do not want to stick any body part or item you have anywhere close to the blades. Maybe stuff won't blow in your eyes too.Loads of reasons. The one that always made me duck though was blade sailing. Not a nice way to goFear .also it coul... |
When McDonald's has Happy Meal toys from a popular movie, is McDonald's paying the movie studio for the toys or is the studio paying McDonald's to advertise the movie? | I'm going to guess before looking at the comments and say McD gets paid. McD will sell its happy meals either way, with your shit or the other guys shit. Only case where they might cut a deal is for STAR WARS or something huge like that - even then, they aren't necessarily paying, just giving a better deal than Burger ... |
Why tunnels that go underground don't flood when it rains | It's all in the raised position to be safe and I'm active the water is sipping up above the tunnel is under. |
I heard that the world is $217 trillion in debt. Who are we in debt to? | > And do countries forgive debt for a country that they also owe money to? Generally speaking, governments tend not to directly owe other governments that much money. Debt is primarily owned by individual citizens and businesses, and overwhelmingly it's owned by individuals and businesses within the same country that o... |
If prostitution is so common and active on Craigslist, why doesn't the police just arrest them all? | I believe that generally police going after prostitutes is more to control 'nuisance' than prostitution itself. That is, people complain about street walkers and such so the police try to break that up so that it doesn't 'bring down the neighborhood'. Hookers working online and out of their own homes or hotels aren't g... |
Why is lobbying legal? ELI5 please | Because the United States was created as a result of oppression from the state. As such almost all of it's protections are from the state only. The thought of extremely strong private entities didn't really exist, and so lobbying was designed to ensure the common man could get his views across to the people he elected,... |
how come that low cost airlines are cheaper than the train? | I'm surprised no one has mentioned the infrastructure costs. The Railways have thousands of miles of track and hundreds of stations all over the place, often these places are though to access aswell. |
How (why) does cancer cause pain? | a lot of the times it doesn't, but chemotherapy drugs are super SUPER toxic and make you really sick. cancer is pretty hard to kill so the stuff that kills cancer also tends to kill you too. Tumors can also displace tissue and put pressure on organs, or interfere with nerves, causing pain in that way", 'As a follow up ... |
As a Canadian on reddit, how do regular Americans survive with 100+ k medical bills, 100+ k tuition costs, and virtually no social safety net? | Forever chained to debt. That's how the system stays alive. Keep everyone entertained in their home and afraid of the outside. |
Are the other photo saving types becoming redundant? Like JPEG, BITMAP etc | Each file type serves a specific purpose, and while there is overlap, they each have their uses. - **JPEG** is the most popular for images and is the standard file format for most digital cameras. It uses a different kind of compression algorithm than GIF and PNG which allows it to compress photos more effectively with... |
why does heat distort things behind it? | Because hotter air moves faster, the light bounces around more when it hits those molecules, and your eyes detect it as wavy distortion.I thought this was ELI5?Just because you use less words, doesn't mean you're more easily comprehended. |
Why do most people start to enjoy the taste of beer as they get older? | It doesn't necessarily have to do with age. The legal drinking age is higher in some countries, so this may contribute. Beer is an acquired taste, drink it enough and you will enjoy it more and more. Whether 15 or 45, it doesn't matter. |
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