query stringlengths 8 249 | answer stringlengths 45 7.8k |
|---|---|
Why is Rachel Dolezal identifying as black considered a negative thing? Is her racial identity that much different from a transgendered person identifying as a different gender? | Because none of that was necessary for her to advocate for the black community. She could've easily just been her natural self. The average african american isn't mad but more perplexed. She made up death threats and was lying about who her parents really were. It's just weird .and gender is social. Sex is physical. If... |
How the overall scoring for the World Cup works, and what would need to happen for the US to advance. | The top 2 teams from each group advance. A win gets you 3 points, a draw gets you 1. From there, point ties are broken by how many goals differential. Presently, the US is in second place, behind Germany based only on number of goals scored. However, all the teams in the group are still really close. If the US wins aga... |
Why do companies (Google, Apple, etc.) that have billions of dollars worth of debt not pay it off when they have the money for it? | Imagine you and your neighbour both had 10 dollars in savings and planned on buying a lemonade stand each for $10 and that can make $2 profit every day. You bought it with your savings, while your neighbour used $5 of his own money and borrowed another $5 with 10% interest. You both make $2 a day but your neighbour has... |
Why is it so socially acceptable to drive 5-10 mph over the speed limit? | I'd be careful with this. When I was in Oregon almost no one went over, and definitely not more than 5 over. I live in NY however, and there's some roads you can be 15 over and go right by cops and not get pulled over. Ranges a lot regionally and situationally. Bad weather also means youre more likely to get pulled ove... |
Why does Mexico get cane sugar Coca Cola while the U.S. gets high-fructose corn syrup Coke? | You are kind of dancing around a myth. Most, if not all. coke sold in Mexico is Corn Sugar. Including once made their. 'Cane Sugar' soda is a marking ploy leveraging peoples ignorance about sugar.Agricultural subsidies make corn syrup cheaper to produce in the US than regular sugar. This is not the case everywhere in t... |
If Comcast is hated so much, why doesn't Google or Charter go in and profit from the areas where Comcast has monopoly? | I don't know if it's like this all over, but in my area, Time Warner pays the city extra money to not allow other providers into the area. Google can't come in unless the city allows them, and the city is making plenty of money from Time Warner to not let that happen. |
Why is throwing a glass of water on someone considered Assault? | I'm pretty sure that wouldn't be considered assault in New Zealand. WTF? Why would it be anywhere, unless it was violently done in order to provoke? |
why the Pachelbel's canon in D works with so many pop songs? | It actually doesn't. That first video fudges the hell out of it. I - V - vi - IV is a very popular progression, and not without reason. 4 chords is a great length because then you have 1 chord per bar of a 4-bar phrase, which is a nice phrase length. It starts on the tonic, has a little tension but not too much, and ha... |
Why can't things in small countries be replicated in large countries? | It's not really true. Many large-scale programs have been able to be implemented in large countries. There are additional challenges based on infrastructure, demographics, culture, and governing, which usually becomes more of a problem with larger country size, but it can still be done. The United States is a unique ca... |
Billion-dollar valuations for tech companies that have never turned a profit (!?) | So, what is supposed to go into a stock valuation is the following: 1) Assets 2) Sales history 3) IPs 4) Goodwill 5) Non-tangible assets 6) Expenses 7) Pending lawsuits 8) Debt So, if we look at a company like Uber, we can see that they have a lot of the sort of non-physical items that can be very valuable. Even if you... |
how is a space rocket aimed at a planet? | Orbits are very predictable thanks to astronomers taking precise measurements. Thrust is predictable thanks to engineers testing rockets. There's minimal drag in space, so once you get up to speed you coast at a known velocity. Since we know how everything is moving we can aim the space rocket very accurately, even aft... |
I'm nearsighted. Why are reflections of things far away still blurry if the mirror is only a few feet away? | The mirror only reflects the light that has traveled all the way from the object. So to get it in sharp focus your eyes still have to focus 'far away'. For our eyes and brain looking in a mirror is basically the same as looking through a window.Because the light from those objects is still traveling a long distance to ... |
why manual cars are dying off even though they're more fuel efficient and keep the driver focused | They aren't, it's just the case in America.Modern automatic transmissions actually get better milage than their manual counterparts. Additionally, some automatic transmission can shift faster than it is possible to shift a manual. Lastly, people are lazy or would rather have their hand free to do something elseThis is ... |
How do TV game shows tax people who get cash on the spot? | Surely depends how much money. If it's under 10 grand I'm quite sure it works exactly how they do bingo parlors. When you win anything over $1199, they rig it so you win multiple 1199's so it's not one lump taxable sum.Canada does not tax windfall gains, so lottery/casino/game show winnings are pocketed in the amount s... |
Why is so much of the ocean unexplored? | Space is easy as it's pretty much empty. You only need something that can withstand a vacuum to be there and there is nothing obstructing your view. Underwater however, the deeper your go the higher the pressure becomes, so your ship needs to be extremely strong not to be crunched. And you can't see very far as the wat... |
How do people in India know which caste I am? | You will be fine. It's not like as if there are people running on streets killing people from different caste. Also it is very unlikely someone would ask you yours. |
why is it so hard for the US to get 5%of the vote to a third party candidate? | I also voted for Johnson in 2012 for the same reason. I don't think things will change anytime soon. Hopefully the younger generation will get over the popularity contest that is the American President and vote more widely and hopefully on issues and not how well they know the persons name. I don't have much hope for A... |
Why did the guitar become such a staple of modern music? | To extend MathPolice's comments: An unamplified acoustic guitar just isn't that loud. In 1940, the loud stuff was bands with big brass sections, people hammering away on pianos, things like that. A guitar player was hard to hear in a crowded bar. Without an amp, whatcha gonna do? |
Why has the African continent experienced such chaos, corruption and strife over the years? | 1600-1900s white imperialism & colonialism. 1900s-2000s white exploitation of their natural resources . And before you downvote me for saying this next thing, please name a few advanced societies inside the Rift. Valley or Sub-Sahara Africa .. Blacks cannot create an advanced society on their own, they're mud hut triba... |
Why is red bull so expensive, isn't it pretty much just a soft drink with a couple extra ingredients? | It's the way that energy drinks have marketed themselves as a separate category of soft drink that allows them to charge more for that arbitrary distinction. One drinks a Coke or Pepsi as a casual beverage, whereas Redbull or Monster is usually consumed for energy and alertness. However, energy drinks' claims to make y... |
Why is it that every-day people can not borrow money for mortgages directly off of the government at the 0.5% rate, but instead have to go through banks and pay 5 times that rate? | You're mixing up central banks and commercial banks. A central bank is more of a financial regulator than an actual bank. Its the monetary policy body of a country. If I was to really simplify it, its main job is to make sure the commercial banks aren't coloring outside the lines of a stable financial system, controls ... |
Why do women hate the toilet seat being left up so much? | Look at it this way. If you've ever shared a car with someone who always rearranges your mirrors and pushes the seat all the way upfront - it's the same feeling. It's a minor annoyance that can really piss some people off. I'm a dude and I love peeing sitting down when I'm at home. I just sit down at the toilet, push m... |
Are "perfectly straight teeth" (like after braces) better for eating than more uneven teeth (in general)? | If you're comparing movie star teeth to teeth with a few gaps or slight misalignment issues, there isn't really a difference. Many people get orthodontic work because they have more serious problems. Major overbites, underbites and crooked jaws can cause problems chewing, make teeth wear unevenly a nd, in extreme cases... |
Why are different elements so different? | Every atom is like a different shape block. The square block can fit into the square hole, but the triangle block can't. The only difference between the two shapes is only 1 extra side, but because of that 1 extra side, the blocks work in completely different ways.The amount of valence electrons 2/8/8/8 plays a factor ... |
How come when I slap the crap out of a fly, ROCKING its world, but it doesn't get KO'd or get a concussion? | Big man, rocking a fly's world, you bully", 'Mainly it is because fires are small: the amount of energy that needs to be exchanged to brake or accelerate an object depends on the mass of said object. This energy translates into strains on the "structure" of our object. Now, consider a small cube, the size of a fly. Mak... |
Why is there a separate league for men and women in chess in the year 2015? | Women are welcome to play in the men's tournaments. They just usually have poor outcomes. So they created women's tournaments so that the women can have more success. Same with the women's titles some women earn the men's versions, but most can't. |
Why are so many things that feel good bad for us? | Well a lot of the things that are bad for us really have an impact later in life. Most people didn't live that long until very recently, last few centuries. Even then, if it doesn't stop us reproducing, it won't be evolved out. |
Communism and why people see it as being bad? | I have described Communism as a set of interesting concepts and noble ideas with one thing in common: they don't work. The basic concepts of Communism seem sound. But put them together with corruptible humans, and they fall in a heap. The results are not pretty, and those in power tend towards dictatorship and despotis... |
How bad is coke for you? | If you are from the teens to late 20s, no, you don't have to right now. the real damage happens over decades. you may be painting yourself into a metabolic syndrome/diabetes/organ damage corner for when you are 40+ and have a slower metabolism. I'd consider tapering off and drink it as an occasional treat, or at least ... |
Is it possible to use currency exchanges like the stock market and "buy low, sell high?" | That's how stock markets work. You buy shares in a company, currency, etc. while they are cheap, so you can sell them when they're high. The catch at it is, that you'd have to know which shares rise and which shares fall in value, which is more difficult than you might think. |
Why does Japan have awesome candy? | > ELI5: Why does Japan have awesome candy? That's a subjective question. According to me, for example, it doesn't. However they do have a really wide variety of flavors . |
Why the hell do they call 3840 x 2160 resolution, 4K? Shouldn't it be 2K? | 2k, 4k and beyond doesn't follow the same 'structure' that SD and HD do. '4K' is measured from the first number. Technically, I guess it should be called 3.8K, but they round it up. |
Why do motorcyclists rev their engines at stops? | This is not unique to bikers, for sure. Let me just say that up front.---Because they're a**holes. Seriously folks, I know I'm a grouchy old man and everything, and I always wanted a motorcycle, and maybe someday I'll have my mid-life crisis and buy one. And it will have a muffler. That Toys-for-Tots thing I had to suf... |
Why do horses need to be put down when they break a leg while most other animals don't? | One horse leg on average holds up 300 pounds of horse and is used to surviving a fuckload of punishment, because running is what horses *do*. So while you see stories of some dog using a prosthetic or getting a cast, that's because they lay down most of the time, are relatively light for their size, and have enough shi... |
why do we assume extra terrestrial life needs carbon and /or water to live? | Because we only have one known data point that on what the conditions are that support life. Scientists don't exclude the possibility that liquid methane could support life or there could be silicon based life forms, we just know for a fact that liquid water and carbon support life and if we want to find a needle in a ... |
On a console gaming system with unchanging hardware like the Xbox 360, which has been out since 2005, how do the graphics on games keep getting better? | There's no fixed way of creating a game. It's the same as using photoshop. There are multiple ways that you can accomplish the same task, some are more efficient than others. As time passes game developers learn and discover more efficient ways of coding their games. This frees up more resources and allows for more rob... |
Why is it unsafe to eat cooked meat stored in the refrigerator after 3-4 days? And what is the likelihood of actually getting sick? | Meat can go bad in the refrigerator because cold temperatures slow the growth of many bacteria but it doesn't kill them outright. Some species that cause food poisoning such as Listeria monocytogenes can actually continue to grow even in the refrigerator and cause sickness if it is consumed. It is generally accepted th... |
How do woman's periods sync up? | They don't. The original study was published in 1971 and subsequent attempts to replicate the study failed. Also, there were problems with the original study as well. [Wiki link]", 'Have you ever been on a turning lane at a stop light with other cars in the lane and everyone has their blinkers on? And every once in a w... |
Why did humans evolve to lose most of the hair that our early ancestors had, yet require clothes to stay warm? | Just to conter something that's popped up a few times in this thread; features are never really 'discarded' or at least the ability to redevelop those features is always retained. Most birds don't need teeth any more but the instructions for building them are still encoded in avian DNA. |
How would life have started on a planet that none exists? | We've known this for thousands of years: 'God said, let there be life, and there was life.' But seriously, first comment nailed it. |
Why do people buy used police cars? | Some people see them as being reliable used cars since they likely followed a regular maintenance schedule . Other people think it's just cool to drive an old police car. |
The bodies strewn around Mount Everest | It's too risky, you'd be putting more lives in danger to retrieve the bodies. Which you'd then have to bring those new bodies down as well creating more risk. Carrying 200 pounds of frozen, dead weight down a mountain is NOT simple or easy to do. |
Why can't we taste when we are sick? | Mostly because a huge part of taste is smell, and you can't smell when your nose is stuffed up. Have you ever tried eating with your nose plugged? It's very hard to taste anything. |
Why its usually much cheaper to manufacture outside of america. | The richer a country is, the more it costs to employ their citizens. So, suppose a given factory costs a million dollars to build, and uses $1,000,000 of plastic a year, and needs 100 employees. You can build it in America, and those 100 employees would want, say, 15 bucks an hour, working out to around 62,400 per empl... |
Why did creatures in ancient times (dinosaurs) grow to be so much larger than creatures we have now? | It's important to note that the Blue whale was and still is the largest creature in existance, larger than even the biggest dinosaur. |
I'm sick. Where does all of this snot come from? I figure blowing my nose would get rid of it all but I seem to have an infinite supply. | I would recommend a neti pot. It's the only old-world remedy I ever recommend, and it clears all the snot out of your sinuses. You can buy them from Walgreens for $15. |
what is it about cancer that kills you ? | Don't most people die from complications of cancer, rather than the cancer itself? I hear a lot of times cancer patients will get an infection and never recover.This is a stupid question but what is cancer itself? a parasite? |
Why is it important to know so many digits of pi? | Mostly for bragging points. The most precise that you would ever need PI in actual practice is seven or eight decimal places, and that's only for professional engineers. **Edit:** Wait, do you mean why do people memorize so many digits of PI, or why are we figuring out so many digits of PI? |
What is happening in my brain when I am 'moved to crying' by the chords of a song? | I agree with what has been said about the actual composition about a piece of music, but remember- music only has meaning in the context that it is given. What we consider as 'dissonant' and 'consonant' has changed throughout history and will continue to change. Imagine a really powerful moment in your life- a wedding,... |
Every year, more money is "pumped" into the economy, and prices go up, wages go up, expenses go up... Where does all that money come from? | The mint. The government can just make more and that's partly what drives inflation . Governments like at least a little inflation because it means people can't just hoard cash to hide their wealth from the government, well, not without it devaluing over time. |
Why do people who don't regularly smoke, do so, when drinking alcohol? | I think it's a social thing. If they have friends that smoke, they might smoke too. Especially if its all of your friends and you get left behind if they all go outside to smoke. |
What is the Loudness War and what side am I on? | You aren't quite on a side. The loudness war was an arms race within the music industry of louder and louder albums. You are collateral damage having been forced to listen to albums that inexplicably sacrificed audio quality for volume for ages. |
How can Marijuana be legal on a state level while it's illegal on a federal level? Does the federal law mean nothing? | It's like the babysitter letting you stay up late & watch scary movies, even if your parents say you can't. |
Why do so many older people seem to lose empathy for young people even though they went through the same things? | Because just like you, youngin's never took advice from the older gerneration. We old folks just say, screw it, you'll learn eventually. Repeat for every generation. Now pass me my prunes and Geritol. And stay off my lawn. |
If dollars are created when the Fed loans to banks where do the extra dollars come from to pay off the loan? | That's one way - the Fed can also create money by buying things, usually treasury bonds, in the open market. Those transactions don't imply a future repayment. The Fed also isn't the only source for money to be created: lending transactions by banks also create money. But remember that money is not wealth: the amount o... |
Why does the moon appear to "follow you" as you move/drive? | OK thanks, that's what I told him so now I feel confident that it wasn't just a stupid Mom answer. ;-) |
Why do we sometimes have a "blink-and-it's-morning" sleep? | I'd like to know an answer for this as well. Only happened to me once as a child and I was mad as hell. One guy made an educated guess but I want the ELI5 I'm used to with giant words and technical jargon. |
Why do some people bother uploading illegal content for us all to view/download? What do they gain from it? | Much of the content you find on popular, widely-known filesharing sites actually starts out being released earlier on top-level sites/networks. The people that upload to those get earlier access to all the content that is posted before it gets released to the public at large, usually a week or two in advance. That's pr... |
Why does almost the entire Brazil world cup team go by just one name? Seems pretty precocious, like they all attended THE Ohio State University. | Many Brazilians go by single name nicknames. It's cultural, possibly made more common by the relatively low literacy rate. _URL_0_ |
Why during horrific occurrences, do humans put their hand over their mouth? | There's another gesture - the 'both hands on head, elbows out' gesture that I have seen people in videos do when witnessing something horrific - car accidents etc. I've always wondered about that one, it seems even more universal then mouth-covering, and more specific . It has felt, at times, like at least partially a ... |
Who is Tom Bombadil and why is he important to LOTR? | You know how sometimes your kindergarten teacher sends you home with reading homework? What if, instead of doing your homework, you asked me to do it instead? I'm pretty good at reading. I'd have no trouble at all doing it. But the truthis, I just don't care enough to do it. It doesn't affect me. And if I do all your h... |
Why does it "hurt" when you swing at a baseball but miss? | Well, it didn't usually hurt me when I swung and missed, but certainly it feels more awkward. I suspect it is because your body was prepared for some resistance from the ball and counted on that resistance to avoid hyperextension of your limbs/muscles/tendons, but then when the ball resistance did not come, your limbs,... |
What kind of drinking causes a hangover? | I think it's different for everyone, but a primary factor is dehydration. If you guzzle a few glasses of water before you pass out after a night of drinking, your hangover should be less intense. Me personally, if I drink too much of anything sweet I will have a terrible hangover. |
All the different types of music file such as mp3,mp4, alac, flac. Etc.... | Digital music formats fall on a scale between file size and quality. With newer advances in technology, files can retain a higher quality with a smaller file size. **MP3, AAC, WMA, OGG, M4A, M4P, RA**, and many others are **lossy** codecs. This means they reduce the quality of original music/audio and compress the file... |
Why is it that bugs can survive falls that would be (proportionally), deadly to larger animals? | Kinetic Energy = .5 What does this mean? It means that the energy with which you hit the ground is dependent on your mass. Bugs have little mass, therefore they don't hit the ground very hard. Also air friction slows them down a hell of a lot more than it does us.f=m*a Acceleration= force of gravity so the variable her... |
Why is rotisserie chicken cheaper than most uncooked full chicken | It is my understanding that rotisserie chicken is a loss-leader. Most people grocery shop once per week. In order to get you in the door more often, they offer ready-to-eat dinner items like this yummy chicken. So, they sell them at a loss to get you in the door. While you're there, you buy more stuff. That's the goal. |
Why does a slow hard drive affect everything else on my computer? | The hard drive is a book, the ram is the page you are on, the cache on the cpu is the sentence you are reading, the instruction is the letter you are processing. In order to start doing anything, you have to open the book in order to read the page. In order to get to the page you want to be at, you have to read the ind... |
Why the USA don't have national identity card? | A Social Security card/number is assigned to each individual during early childhood, based on birth certificates. You can't function in the system w out the #, it is your 'permanent identity'. Edit: it's Federal |
How come rapists get longer sentences than murderers in the US? | You're wrong. In America, 97 out of 100 rapists never see the inside of a jail cell. and the 3 that do, serve about 5 years. The average sentence for homicide is over 9 years. |
What makes God more more prominent than the Greek gods? | Monotheistic religions have a way of gobbling up polytheistic religions. If you are polytheistic, you are ok with someone worshipping a different god than you. The hunter worships Artemis, the blacksmith worships Hephaestus, and if that weird foreign guy worships Yahweh, what's the harm? Monotheists see it very differe... |
what a bug in a computer program/video game is. Why does it exist? | Remember when you first started adding two digit numbers? Did you ever forget to carry a digit. That's a bug. A bug is what we call any mistake in a program. Supposedly, this is because the first error on the first computer was caused by a moth flying into a vacuum tube. Bugs can be seen by the user, or they can be fix... |
How does the TSA know if you have a Note 7? | Either they'll just look at it/ask you or its xray image is very distinguishable from other phones. But the TSA is fairly inefficient in finding bombs and the like. If you commit to it you can easily bring a bomb on a plane |
Why don't we use superglue to mend wounds anymore? | Surgeon here. We use superglue all the time. Generally a fancy brand called Dermabond, which is 8-octyl cyanoacrylate with some thickener and a slight purple tint so it doesn't run everywhere and you can see it on different skin tones. |
What is Homeopathy and does it really work? | Others have described how homeopathy is performed, but to be clear, any effects observed are due to the placebo effect. Your body can do amazing things on it's own, due to this effect, and it is elusive, and no one understands it. The results of homeopathy are indistinguishable. The idea came from some 1796 bullshit, a... |
Why is Porn seen as Perpetuating Stereotypes/Unrealistic? | I don't know about the 'perpetuating stereotypes' bit, but there's no denying that it's unrealistic. Porn is made specifically to be aesthetically pleasing to a viewer, with no regard for the comfort, pleasure or even safety of the actors. In a real-life sexual situation, exactly the opposite is true. |
How big of a health risk would a deodorant be that prevented you from sweating at all? | At all would be bad. You could easily over heat, and there is no telling what kinds of other negative effects it may have. If you mean preventing sweat on the area it was applied . we have that in every grocery store. It's called anti-perspirant. Deodorant is basically perfume for your arm pits. It just tries to mask o... |
What Does Jeremy Corbyn Mean For Labour And British Politics? | It means we Will have a conservative 3rd term because honestly he just won't give the middle classes a reason to vote for him. Liz was the best possible candidate because she would have given the middle classes an incentive to vote Labour. He needs either to follow a Blairite playbook or convince Murdoch to back him so... |
Why does food smell so delicious as it enters my body but feces smells so disgusting as it leaves my body? | Food has to smell good. That's how it has evolved to be. When the plants and animals were evolving, fruits were developed by the trees with the purpose of getting eaten by an animal. When an animal eats a fruit, it dissipates there seeds and help plants reproduce. Sweeter, attractive, good smelling foods have better ch... |
what is League of Legends and why has it become so popular with such a wide spectra of people? | LoL is made after DOTA, the game which created the MOBA genre. MOBAs are essentially RTS means Diablo, and they are an interesting twist to the RTS format. The focus on controlling one character makes for a simpler, more intimate game than games like Starcraft which frequently end up being a contest of how many clicks ... |
Are there any countries in the world that can realistically invade the US by force? | Our military would vanquish any invaders, true, but let's not discount the fact that A LOT of citizens are armed to the teeth.The us navy has some 430 ships. Of that, 76 are submarines. And submarines are in three categories- fast attack, ballistic, and guided missiles. Anyway, for those wondering, a fast attack submar... |
Why do I have to wear a lead apron when getting x-rays of my teeth at the dentist but nothing is done to protect my head? | The whole point of the x-ray at the dentist is to get an image of your teeth. Which are, you know, *in your head*. It's kind of hard to protect your head from x-rays when the entire point of the procedure is to *send x-rays through your head*. |
Why is it illegal in most states to carry brass knuckles but knives are fine? | I'm no expert on the subject but knives are useful tools which don't ever need to be used for violence. Brass knuckles on the other hand seem to only be used for violence. |
Why evolution hasn't made parasitic bites any less painful. | I suppose this has 2 perspectives to answer from. 1) The bed bug doesn't care how its bite makes you feel, it's already gotten what it came for. 2) Your body won't minimize the itching and pain, because it's your body's way of saying something is wrong and needs attention. Otherwise we wouldn't take care of ourselves.M... |
Why does the world (besides the United States) hate Israel so much? | There are a few Middle Eastern countries that just don't think Israel has a right to exist, and are angry because of that. Most countries don't mind that so much, but they *do* mind the fact that Israel blatantly ignores UN resolutions telling them not to do things. |
Why does my body's capacity limit and threshold for pee seem to change? | Your bladder holds your urine, but it isn't a container of fixed size like the gas tank on a car is. It's a flexible sack than can expand and contract. There is a complex series of reflexes as well as inputs from higher brain functions that regulate the bladders tone. Diurnal variations, local irritation and other fact... |
Can you force someone out of sleep paralysis by prodding them? | Normally, when you go to sleep, there is a part of your brain that makes it so that your body cannot move. Otherwise, we would all act out our dreams. When you wake up, your body is allowed to move again. Sleep paralysis is when you can't move your body even though you are awake. As someone who has had sleep paralysis ... |
Why aren't oil countries limiting production to counter the crash of oil prices? | Some money is always better than no money for many businesses. Its also important to look and see that even at current prices some companies and countries in the middle east are still making a ton of money. Just because the current price isn't sustainable in our countries, doesn't mean it isn't sustainable in other cou... |
What is that itchy feeling I sometimes get on the inside of my body? | Anyone else have this happen after reading this? Like- You're super aware of your blinking. Edit: Grammers.Oh my god me too I would very much like this answeredThe word for what you're feeling is "formication." Note the letter after "for" is em, not en. Someone in every class of fourth graders finds this word in a dict... |
What would happen if a conjoined twin committed a serious enough crime to warrant incarceration? | By far the most unique ELI5 question I've seen in over a year on reddit.I got it! Put one in the jail cell, close the door with the skin flap going through that hole for the hand cuffs. Boom, just one twin is behind bars and the other is free to go Oh, wait ', "I'm a lawyer. While I don't have the time to do the legal ... |
Why did people in photographs from the 19th and early 20th centuries always look so mad/mean/never smile? | In addition for standing still for minutes at a time, the photographs were rare and would probably be the only one they ever displayed. So they would dress up formally and have a formal expression; you don't get a portrait painted with a goofy grin. |
Why does the gynecologist leave the room when you take off your clothes? | As a med student who just finished his gyn rotation: We have shit to do when your changing. There's no reason why we need to be there, awkwardly watching you take off your clothes in front of us. We throw you the gown and then use those minutes to start typing up the patient notes or grabbing a quick bite to eat in bet... |
Why don't countries exile criminals anymore? There are plenty of uninhabited islands that could be set up as a type of penal colony. | Every penal colony which has been set up has been proven to be an economic failure. The two most horrible examples we know of are the Soviet Gulag system and the French penal system which existed in French Guiana between 1853 and 1938. Penal colonies are a waste of money and encourage massive corruption. Penal colonies... |
Why does a laptop/pc get slower after time/use? | In Windows files build up over time and the PC gets slower. Try switching to Linux and you'll probably see a massive performance increase. Or not. It could also be that your CPU cannot handle certain types of modern programs. |
Why does it seem that the percentage of people becoming atheists has increased in the past 10 years? | It may be that there are not actual more in general but that it is more socially acceptable to be forthcoming about there atheism. My grandfather was a non believer. He went to church and participated in religious functions. However he thought religion was all bullshit. He may have been an agnostic theist or an agnosti... |
Why can people with ADHD focus on fun things like Video Games but not boring things like Homework? | ADHD isn't necessarily the lack of ability to focus, it's the lack of ability to *control* your focus, and your responses to stimuli. |
The leaning tower of pisa is leaning because of the soft ground under it. If that is the case shouldn't the tower be sinking straight? | Imagine dropping a stick in soft mud. What are the chances the stick will stay perfectly straight? You have irregularities in weight both on the stick and the building. You have irregularities in the softness of the ground under it. You have difference in water both from rain and ground water. You're asking the wrong q... |
Why can America get away with spying on friendly countries without getting in deep poop for it? | The people at the top know that most countries are doing the same thing and just haven't been exposed the way the US has.Only non-allied countries get in trouble for it, and even then not really. Generally, when counter-intellgence discovers a bug/spy/agent/whatever they won't report it or disable it counter intelligen... |
How come if I'm late making a payment a corporation/company can charge me interest on the outstanding amount. But when a corporation/company owes me money, I can't charge them interest? | If a corporation owes you money and you're not getting interest from them, you should renegotiate the contract you signed with them if it's that important to you. |
What's the difference between clementines, tangerines and mandarins? | If you find a stone in a clementine, it means the clementine tree has been close to a lemon tree. Clementines are sterile by design. At least that's what I've been told.Which ones are the ones with puffy, very easy to peel skin, no seeds, and sweet & juicy clementines?', "Tangerines are NOT oranges. they're tangerines!... |
My cable provider has a monopoly on service in my neighborhood. This is the case throughout the US. How is this *not* anticompetitive behavior? | They don't REALLY have a monopoly. They have a lease on the lines which lasts for a set amount of time. After that time ends, other cable companies bid for the lease. It isn't a monopoly as long as one cable company does not remove the other cable companies from being able to compete for service. |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.