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AskHistorians/cwxmp8h | 3s73jh | When did plea bargaining become prominent in the United States? | There are a few factors that explain why plea bargaining wasn't done until the 19th century or so in common law systems: trial procedure took very little time and resources, and there was little sentencing discretion. As a result, neither side was particularly incentivized to cut a deal. So a few changes needed to happ... | 2 |
AskReddit/ck1gnrw | 2eoha8 | Why are military personnel given extremely harsh punishments for breaking the law, but police officers who have a similar responsibility to the public, are almost never punished? | >are almost never punished. Citation, please? I contend police, in the U.S., anyway, who break the law are usually roundly punished. Usually, the DoJ's Civil Rights Division will go after them and the DoJ likes winning its cases. | 6 |
explainlikeimfive/dgfl4wp | 6649gf | What do the numbers in blood pressure mean? | When you pump up a blood pressure cuff all the way, the brachial artery is completely clamped shut: no blood is flowing and there is no sound. As you start to lower the cuff pressure, it eventually gets to a point where your left ventricle's (one of the heart chambers) heart beat is strong enough to push the artery ope... | 15 |
AskHistorians/d6fqvdp | 4xeah2 | How did large empires during the Classical period maintain rule of law over large swaths of land, particularly during periods of rapid expansion? | Different methods would have been used by different people at different times, as one might expect. Sometimes they used the carrot, sometimes they used the stick, and any successful conqueror in the classical period used the right combination of both. They also needed loyalists in place everywhere they went. I'll talk ... | 7 |
AskReddit/dmxj1cs | 6zrftf | What TV series would be better if it had ended earlier? | Most TV series. Season 1: touch and go, trying to find its footing. Season 2: kinks are worked out and tone is set. Characters truly develop. Season 3: original, awesome stories. Established characters, setting, and "rules" to the universe. Season 4: continues strong from S3 (possible cliffhanger resolution,) but episo... | 2 |
AskReddit/cqishts | 339kgk | What's a lunch substitute for lunch meat sandwiches? | Sometimes ill buy tortillas or pitas, and then fill them with meat i cooked the previous night, and add in veggies or whatever else i feel like eating. I know its kind of like a sandwich, but it puts a little spin to it. Plus, i find it easy to eat when im on the go. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/dc9lgvk | 5n8xgh | Why can't my front windshield have those defroster lines my rear window has that defrost the rear window really quickly? | I did some reading and everything I found said it basically comes down to price. Some companies have made models with front defrost, but it's expensive, and the windshield is expensive to replace. Since front windshields are more likely to get chipped or cracked, they don't put them on cars intended to be inexpensive. | 249 |
AskReddit/eb2890t | a2znql | What’s your opinion on giving cash as a gift? | Cash is a 50/50 thing, and really depends on the recipient. Personally I like it, it usually gets squirreled away in my savings to contribute to something large and expensive , but alot of people feel like it's lazy and you didn't put any effort into the gifting process when you give cash. | 2 |
AskReddit/cituz74 | 2acz7l | What are you constantly worrying about? | University. I'm supposed to be doing essays but I just. can't. Every time I so much as glance at them, my brain goes blank and I start worrying. If I don't to them I'll drop out, if I drop out I'll be in debt and under-qualified, if I'm in debt and under-qualified I won't be able to get a job, if I don't get a job Mum'... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/eawpu5j | a2bb5l | How does one measly layer of cloth (aka sock) prevent feet from sweating in shoes? | Socks are fairly absorbent and pull moisture away from your foot so you don't notice the sweat unless you completely soak through the sock. Socks also provide a barrier between your skin and the show to help reduce blisters from rubbing | 4 |
AskReddit/eiq5s0s | b24no6 | What is the dumbest thing you believed as a child? | My sister once told me that when You got your ear pierced, they put you in a spin chair, and just spinned You around while shooting at your. The reason people had piercings other places than the ears, was that sometimes the piercer missed. I believed it from I was 4 till i was 7. | 4 |
AskReddit/eq9ssa5 | bxu5z6 | How are you providing a better life for your children? | Not for MY children, but my little brother. I'm 30 and he's 6 so I'm old enough to be his father. I try to visit him regularly. I want to be a good role model for him. He loves me a lot and REALLY looks up to me so I want him to see only the best of me. The parts I want him to emulate. Every time I pick him up for ice ... | 2 |
AskReddit/cq1yjnh | 31io7a | What life lesson you wished you had known sooner or wished that someone had told you earlier in your life? | Don't make it all about you. Take time to help others in some way, even if it's just telling someone "nice shirt", making someone else feel good, helps to make you feel good. Just as an example, I went through a rough patch last year where I wasn't finding any meaning in my life, I started volunteering with the local f... | 77 |
Ask_Politics/dos6o98 | 78a1mo | Why doesn't Bernie support Uber and Lyft and Airbnb? | The gig economy is pro-corporation, that's why. You yourself said he should support the corporations involved. Uber makes the money, Uber drivers make less than taxi drivers. | 13 |
AskReddit/cu9u2k4 | 3hr9l9 | What is a thing that makes you both laugh hysterically and feel guilty for laughing? | Small children hurting themselves. I'm not talking about badly injuring themselves, just minor stuff. Like when a kid who's just getting the hang of walking attempts to run, then falls. It funny until they start crying, then it's only funny if the parents are laughing. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cbwjr2h | 1l7ot9 | Why is there such a widespread dismissal of abstract art as being "easy" or "stupid" by mainstream society? | In general the value of anything is based on the average person's ability to reproduce it. Dirt is not valuable because you can just walk outside and pick some up for free. A car is valuable because very few people could make a car by themselves from objects they could obtain cheaply. An amazing piece of art like a ver... | 8 |
AskReddit/em1976c | bik785 | What's a non-english movie that people should watch? | Old Boy. It's a Korean movie. Watch the original 2003 version, not the 2013 western remake. Sympathy for Mr. Vengence is another Korean movie by the same director. Both movies are an incredible roller coaster of emotions. | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/cj84h2o | 2br2hb | Why do we treat North Korea as a joke when their atrocities are even somewhat comparable with those committed by Nazis in the Holocaust? | They're making fun of North Korea's threats. Yes, it is absolutely disgusting on what the regime is doing to it's people, but when it comes to the endless threats it makes to the US, South Korea, and the West in general, there is no threat and it's really just laughable. There's really no competition, North Korea would... | 16 |
AskReddit/c86vyuv | 17mome | Would you say war between the US and Korea is imminent? | Short answer: No. Long answer: North Korea postures a lot and has the military strength to challenge the USA in a "traditional war", but it doesn't have the strength to challenge the world that would unite politically, economically, and militarily against a world war fought with intercontinental weapons. | 2 |
AskReddit/d021e7h | 462305 | Who is the scariest horror movie villain? | A LOT of the answers here are really odes to the horror movie the character appears in. For me, the Joker in Dark Knight is the scariest because he made an entire city feel unsafe. Like can you imagine a criminal actually making a entire city feel like nothing could protect them and anyone at any moment could be the ne... | 8 |
AskReddit/dz12lfn | 8jnpo1 | What is your most, um, memorable cockroach story? | This story is not memorable because of what the cockroach did, but because of what I did. I was with a friend at my house when a little one of those bastards decided it would be a good idea to use me as a ladder. The moment I saw it I started screaming, kicked it off of me, jumped on a chair and from there on a taller ... | 2 |
askscience/ct38r7u | 3d2zm8 | Is body heat evenly distributed amongst the organs? | It was surprisingly difficult to find good literature on the subjects, but basically body temperature should be fairly well distributed. Some organs will perform more reactions and will therefore heat up more than other, but the body is typically held in thermal equilibrium through convective heat transfer of the blood... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/d7h4aih | 523qpq | What are the advantages / disadvantages of the U.K. leaving the EU? | Full disclosure: I voted to remain, and still believe that's the best option, but ill try to outline the pros and cons. Also, we haven't left yet, just voted to. Pros to leaving: The UK pays more into the EU than it gets back (being a richer country). Leaving the EU would mean there's extra money to be spent on things ... | 4 |
AskReddit/cvkvj1z | 3n53ro | Is it possible to separate a celebrity's actions/personality from the work they create? | Possible? Definitely. It depends on an individual though to be able to make the separation. Some people are not going to be able to appreciate a work without thinking of the actions of the person behind it, especially if they were well known and documented, ex. paintings done by Hitler. Another factor I think comes int... | 2 |
AskHistorians/cqec3g2 | 32srrj | In British politics, what factors led to the decline of the Liberal Party and caused the Labour Party to be the main opposition to the Conservative Party? | So far i only have one source on the subject which I am reading right now. In the book English History 1914-1945 by Taylor it is stated: That the Liberal party in 1929-1931 had failed to adopt itself to the new trend of municipal elections becoming an integral part of local administration. Furthermore he claims that ma... | 5 |
AskReddit/cg4y15g | 20muuq | What is your sexual fetish, and how could it be better understood? | I've been waiting for something like this. My fetish is giantesses/macros. For those luckily unaware of this, what it is is arousal for women significantly taller than usual, exemplified in the few films centered around a "50-Foot Woman." If you want to get a better idea of what it looks like, simply search for giantes... | 242 |
explainlikeimfive/effdfni | alnhep | How do game consoles ( PS4, XBOX One) run games smoothly although they don’t have the same system requirements as powerful PCs? | Console games are coded specifically to match the architecture (mainboard/CPU/GPU) present in each console. PC games need to be coded to be compatible with multiple different configurations. | 14 |
AskReddit/ceh1dte | 1udrfp | What's the most cost efficient way to build a clock from scratch? | There is a kit "The Game Keeper" used to have. The paper clock. An analog (w hands) clock you could construct like a puzz-3d. I would look online for it. Good for a 1st timer & cost effective. | 2 |
AskReddit/cwihprm | 3qupyc | What do you think about the people who act like if there's no documented proof of something, then there's no way it happened? | Well, I don't, actually. I've never thought about them at all. However, let me do that for a moment. These must be people who never consider that almost all of their lives are undocumented, yet they not only live them anyway, but they expect people to believe them when they say "Guess what happened to me today?" or oth... | 2 |
AskReddit/dpvch24 | 7d6ceh | What’s your best memory going to the grocery store as a child? | With 14 years I had my first real grocery store (the captialistic kind) experience. We had no real grocery store in the USSR, especially in our province and region. I went in with my mom and I was like 'OH MY GOD', because I never saw so much food at one place. The best thing about that, I COULD PURCHASE ALL OF THAT. E... | 11 |
AskReddit/d99xva8 | 59nzjy | How come your own birthday gets less exciting every year? | You grow up. You've had one before, last year, it's nothing new. You realise it's only that day because someone invented a calendar. Your family make less of a fuss on your birthday each year as they've only been celebrating you getting older ready to leave home because they made that one mistake. You earn a wage and b... | 2 |
AskReddit/eb6tzst | a3jvxy | What’s the most embarrassing story you had with your boss? | I quit my job, walked off the job site, and flipped my boss off when he told me to come back long long ago. It was embarrassing because I let my frustrations get to me but I don’t think I’d do it any other way looking back at what a jerk he was. | 2 |
AskHistorians/c9oc6uy | 1d9ilk | Were there any organized firefighters in ancient Rome? | Definitely, the Barracks of the Firefighters is still largely there at Ostia. Suetonius tells us that the Emperor would station a Urban Cohort there to protect Rome's grain supply. There was a similar building in Rome. There were also measures put in place following a fire in Rome to increase the distance between build... | 4 |
AskReddit/c9zipng | 1eeu0f | What is something that most men don't know about women or that women don't know about men? | Most women don't know that men undergo similar self image problems/struggles, and I would even argue more so than women due to societies constant "males must be masculine" pushing. | 6 |
AskReddit/ejv5kwh | b8074g | What awesome dream you had should be made into a movie? | Yes! And it’s awesome. As someone who audio records my dreams, I have been able to capture imagery, feeling, and those things you forget the minute you wake. I once dreamed I was with Angelina Jolie in a bar when things started to go south. The people had turned on us and wanted us to leave, but Angelina stood up, guns... | 2 |
AskReddit/dqymt0u | 7igvzh | What are people's opinion on Mel Gibson? | He's a talented dude, but after every single Mel Gibson movie is over, as the credits roll, I think to myself; "Boy, Mel Gibson sure knows how to make white people feel good about themselves" | 5 |
AskReddit/cq0rtzi | 31ecjz | What music do you not publicly claim you enjoy, but really enjoy? | Dude to be honest, I don't claim the classics. I'm talking the real old stuff like Beethoven symphony nine type music. I enjoy it, it relaxes me! | 5 |
AskReddit/eq1ukkv | bwzu2g | What's the shittiest thing that's happened to you this year? | My emotionally abusive fiance left me. He told me he had been planning on leaving me for 2 years, but he wanted the baby i was to incubate, so he made sure that i got pregnant, stayed through the pregnancy and our son's first 14 months, then broke it off. During the break up fight/discussion, he also explained how it w... | 2 |
AskReddit/ed4vtsl | ac32yp | What’s the single most important thing you’ve done to improve your life? | I sit with my emotions for a few moments instead of immediately acting on them. Thinking them over and not just jumping down someone’s throat when I feel threatened or hurt or any other bad feeling allows me to calm down and think through what I did to get us here and what can be done moving forward. This has greatly i... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cclqymu | 1nt1mo | Why do scissors cut better the more open they are even though the blades can meet anywhere? | If you mean why do they cut better when the thing to be cut is closest to the pivot point, it's because there's a lever effect going on. This means that for the same amount of pressure exerted with your fingers, more pressure applied by the blades closer to the pivot. | 3 |
AskReddit/cjq3g7c | 2dj8wm | What is one song you would be fine with never hearing again? | Get Lucky-Daft Punk. The restaurant I work at had a playlist last summer that was 2 hours long and would go from the original to an acoustic version and then an hour later the original was back on. Sometimes the manager would forget to change the playlist so I would hear the song 6 times in 2 hours. | 3 |
AskReddit/c27w86t | izi7s | Do gay people in college dorms get treated differently by others in the dorm? | I don't think living with a gay or lesbian roommate would change that much. It's not like you're sharing a bed or anything. I can see how it would make some people uncomfortable, but even though my roommate wasn't a lesbian, we still didn't do things like change in front of each other, etc. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/di617ec | 6dw7wb | Why does the US look for oil in the Middle East if it has enough at home and in Canada? | Most of the refineries in the U.S. were optimized on the premise that oil is getting heavier. What we've been finding in the U.S. has been lighter and can't be processed in U.S. refineries without investment. This is actually why you're starting to see condensate splitters popping up everywhere (condensate is the light... | 6 |
AskReddit/e00odxi | 8o4tvf | What makes some people good at persuading and influencing others? | It's a quantitative skill. If you want to be good at persuading people you need a particular skill stack. You need to study persuasive rhetoric. You also need to study philosophy, particularly epistemology, as that will help you deconstruct opposing arguments. Lastly, you need good communication skills to get your idea... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/chtk1sp | 26qnbu | What happens when a "chill" runs up my spine? | It is a movement of the arrector pili muscle along the spine which causes the hair to stand up and the skin to contract, making you feel that chill. Usually occurs when someone is walking over your grave. | 39 |
AskReddit/dryz3ga | 7n4ckg | What are the best and worst parts of your job? | I work as the Animal Health Supervisor at a Humane Society. Best part is having animals come in who are super injured, sick, etc. Being able to fix them and seeing them go to their new homes. Updates from the owners, especially years later are also awesome. Worst part is when you can't fix them and have to make a diffi... | 2 |
AskReddit/ca3rotw | 1eu570 | When asking someone "how are you today?" do you honestly care how they are doing? | I work as a cashier at a grocery store and I can say that I honestly enjoy hearing about peoples days while I work. Its really boring when everyone says "fine" or "good". I love when fighting couples or exhausted moms come through my isle. I like my job because I get to connect, even if very briefly, with a lot of peop... | 2 |
AskReddit/dftg27e | 63egif | What do you wish strangers did more often? | Show kindness towards other strangers. We are all human, we all have problems, good days, bad days, hopes, dreams. If you see someone drop something, pick it up and give it back to them. Someone doesn't have the right change for the bus and you have some spare? Help them out. I know that people aren't as trusting these... | 3 |
AskReddit/cwfxras | 3qk85r | What does your SO do that annoys you? | She has no sense of shame. It's simultaneously the best thing about her, she's so confident, funny and interesting and doesn't let things hold her back. Free of a lot of societal pressure, she's magnetic and always fun to be with. It's also completely mortifying when she vocalises something she really shouldn't at a ba... | 11 |
AskReddit/e55ip8k | 9bih20 | What embarrassing story do you have of your first romantic relationships when you were really really young ? | I was 13 years old or so on vacation at Disney World with my family (mother, father, sister). Met a 13 or 14 year old girl at the hotel pool, and we hit it off. (Her name was Casey Kreutzcamp - I'll never forget). Definitely super-young, this-could-be-love type of butterflies in my stomach, as all teenagers get. Our pa... | 2 |
AskReddit/c0xguxw | d4auk | How common is it to experience panic attacks? | You should probably go see a doctor. While that doesn't sound as severe as some attacks I've heard other people have had (fainting, hyperventilating, nausea, all that good stuff) it is still good enough reason to be checked out. | 2 |
AskReddit/eohixn6 | brybys | What’s you favorite number and why? | The number 4 - Three is an ideal number but four crosses the threshold - The old saying 2 (plus you) is company, three is a crowd. It's like having 1, 2, and 3 - all great numbers, without being to cumbersome | 2 |
AskReddit/d7af0k0 | 51a9ek | What is the most undervalued joy of life? | Having clean water, consistent electricity/power for your home, and reliably clean/safe food. It doesn't seem like a joy until you realize how much worse your quality of life would be without it. | 7 |
AskHistorians/ci45wfg | 27rmva | What was city lighting technology like before the 18th century? | First of all let's mention that people used to arrange their activities to fit within the hours of daylight. There was little reason to go out after dark. Towns were not that many either. So "city lighting" was not a big issue and neither did it require a complex solution. Thus, people used whatever "technology" was ea... | 5 |
AskReddit/dvn7zo9 | 844ph1 | What myth has been debunked many many times but people STILL believe in it? | Climate Change as a 100% man-made, world ending scenario. Regardless of how many times the polar caps are falsely reported as melting (even though NASA has said otherwise), the increasing in Co2 being bad for plants (although it's shown to increase vegetation and harbor the possibility to end world hunger), and the 1 d... | 6 |
AskReddit/cnwrxnk | 2t8rrg | Which intuitions have reputable, "quality" online degrees? | It's not a quality issue. It's a reputation issue. A college degree is just a verification stating you met the requirements to graduate. Most career paths I've taken have been from connections within my social network. Going to an established university with an established alumni network has unmeasurable benefits. Atte... | 2 |
AskReddit/e5fapaa | 9d4hum | What are some good philosophical texts/articles/links to ponder deep into questions on existence/meaning of life etc? | Personally I prefer the text of first modern existential philosopher: Soren Kierkegaard. The problem of making choices is fundamental to existence and finding meaning in life. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cjc5noq | 2c5m3j | Why is Salmon dyed pink? | The diet of wild salmon includes crustaceans, which makes their flesh naturally pink. The diet of farmed salmon is different, and their flesh is a dirty grey color. So, you're sitting in the supermarket and you see two sections of salmon fillets. In one section they are a nice, vibrant pink color. The other, a pallid g... | 6 |
AskReddit/cirqmza | 2a5p5l | What is the most heated debate you've ever gotten into over something other people may say is pointless? | My high school bestie and I got into a heated three hour long argument over who would win in a fight, Captain America, or Spider-Man. Also the infamous Goku vs Superman debate. | 13 |
askscience/dpbjo0n | 7anmrd | What significant differences are there between humans of 12,000 years ago, 6000 years ago, and today? | Anatomically modern humans have been around for 300,000 or so years, so biologically speaking very little has changed. Behaviorally there still seems to be significant debate, but from at least 50,000 YBP humans were behaviorally modern, meaning using language, and possessing symbolic thought and art. | 2,465 |
AskReddit/clf1nwo | 2jskrd | What is the weirdest thing that has ever happened to you while travelling in a foreign country? | So a few months ago I was in Rome, I had a great trip btw, and one day I decided to go shopping because well, when you travel you need to buy souvenirs right? Anyway, I stopped in front of this little vendor who was selling soap. I was around there for awhile, smelling the soaps and whatnot, when I decided which I was ... | 2 |
AskReddit/c0uqwxx | crp44 | What is the weirdest insult you've ever received? | This was delivered by my brother to a family friend he was mad at (he was about 2 at the time). "I am going to put you in a pie". From what I've heard, this has become a common insult around their house | 6 |
explainlikeimfive/clclfme | 2jkjr7 | Why is there blue raspberry flavored candy, but not the typical red raspberry flavored candy? | Blue raspberry is not an actual fruit. It is flavored to taste of raspberry but colored blue to distinguish it from cherry, strawberry, and watermelon which are also shades of red/pink. | 4 |
AskReddit/ed6wt5i | accgpz | What is an underrated/mostly unknown band you would recommend to people? | Hippo Campus, one of the best indie rock bands to come out in a long time in my opinion. Also, Everything Everything. They’re popular in the UK but virtually unknown in the US. They’re incredible and one of my favorite bands of all time. | 3 |
askscience/couwbal | 2wwlmm | How did certain symbiotic relationships (like plovers and crocodiles) come about? | Like everything in biology: over time. Crocs don't identify plovers as food, so over generations crocs who showed no agressive behaviour towards plovers got the advantage of less parasites and accumulated in better survival odds for crocs with plovers. That and time. | 8 |
AskReddit/cn6n062 | 2qj851 | What would you do if your country fell into civil war? | Pretend to be English. Gain their trust and secretly send their plans back to my Scottish brothers. I'm assuming this civil war is between Scotland and England | 34 |
AskReddit/cfr58th | 1z7ag7 | Why do worries that keep you awake at night seem so trivial in the light of day? | I think it's because negative things only affect you a lot when you have time to think about them. If you think about it, when you twist your ankle or get a paper cut, you have two choices: you can sit there and be like "God this really really hurts" and it'll hurt for awhile, or you can get a bandaid or walk it off an... | 2 |
AskReddit/cr7pdkq | 35tp32 | What could Hitler have done differently to win World War 2? | Define win? I would suggest that at the darkest hour (i.e. 1941 give or take), instead of pursuing victory over Britain he should have sued for peace, and consolidated. I’ve heard it said that he did in fact try to do this, but Churchill rejected him (can’t confirm now, but if a historian could, that’d be great). IF he... | 23 |
explainlikeimfive/ddf4q7k | 5shj5y | Does California need federal funding more than the federal government needs California's tax payer money? | The simple answer is no. California pays the federal government in taxes far more than it takes from the federal government. It's the 7th largest economy in the world if it stood on its own. | 15 |
AskHistorians/cztdd76 | 44vl6m | Were the Dutch really the only ones allowed to trade with the Japanese after Japan was closed in the 1600's? | No, of course not. While "official" trade was heavily restricted there was still a great measure of unofficial, and backdoor trading. Russia was actually one of the main beneficiary of this in the late 1700s as the flood of their goods into the Japanese markets proceeded them being granted official trading privileges. ... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/ef7c01k | akr3jj | Why does your nose get more runny in cold weather compared to normal conditions? | In the cold, our body dilates blood vessels in your nose to help warm and humidify the air before it reaches the sensitive tissues of your lungs. The result of the increased blood flow is a runny nose. | 23 |
AskReddit/ekv65tz | bd1ohb | Why do some people not tip waiters/waitresses? | Listen, as a waitress, I live on my tips. I don't think it's a good setup, but for my life, it is necessary. I think tipping should cease because it's an excuse to severely underpay your workers (i make 5$ an hour without tips) and it makes people feel obligated. But please realize, by not tipping you are hurting your ... | 3 |
askscience/d5megml | 4u2qca | How large can a cubic-single-room-style structure be, like NASA's vehicle assembly building? | It could be built by placing many suspension bridges breadthwise next to each other. Longest of them currently have span up to 2 kilometers. They can be perhaps 500 meters high. So you could have 2 kilometer wide, 500 meter high room without internal columns. But it would be too expensive for any conceivable use. | 8 |
askscience/ck8fso4 | 2fedpn | Why don't propeller driven aircraft use automotive engines and vice versa? | Radial engines have all crank arms of all pistons connected and allow all cylinders to be in the same geometric plane (pun not intended). This keeps the weight of the engine in a narrow section of the airplanes length, allows all air-cooled pistons access to airflow and provides a very lightweight engine. If you ever g... | 3 |
AskReddit/ddkl5kv | 5t72yb | What song do you automatically associate with a particular scene in a movie? | So. I can't remember what movie it is, nor do I know what song it is. "So keep your mouth shut" right? I do know the scene had Sam Rockwell, he was up to no good and it was a dramatic intro to the scene. And the song was like, "Dooooom, doom doom, doom doom.doom. Der der derder!" I've heard the song a few other times a... | 2 |
AskReddit/cn5hji2 | 2qeqe1 | What things are you sick of? | Cynicism and misanthropy. People seem to think optimists are idiots and cynics are cool and smart. I love the world. I love humanity. Life, by its very nature, is filled with tragedy and loss. But it's worth it. When people say things like "Expect the worst and you're never disappointed" I get a little depressed. It's ... | 87 |
AskReddit/e99bzt0 | 9v4633 | How would you tell your friend they smell? | When I was a teenager, a visiting friend told me "If you shower every day, you'll smell better." He didn't say it in a mean way, just stated it as a fact, and he did it in a way where nobody else could hear it. I hadn't showered in three or four days at that point, so I got a quick shower and changed clothes, and felt ... | 484 |
explainlikeimfive/cc30wax | 1lun10 | What is it that makes human beings orders of magnitude smarter than other animals, and why are we the only species with such intelligence? | Language I'll go with that too. I hear a lot of people commenting on the larynx. That is important, but we also have mental capabilities with language that animals simply don't. Most linguists think that humans have a basic ability for syntax (grammar) already hard wired into our brain. Animals have shown that they hav... | 9 |
explainlikeimfive/d8ol6jv | 573a6h | Why are there male and female Chess championships? | So it was a male dominated sport hailing from the days that women playing professional chess was not really accepted, this eventually changed, but the top pro's were still exclusively male. In order to attract more women into the sport, women only events started being hosted. This worked to an extent, and several women... | 2 |
AskReddit/dgkqmln | 66rmnd | What's the worst way you have ever been woken up? | toddler had woken up with a dirty diaper, stuck both hands in it, waltzed to my room touching seemingly everything in the house, then cradled both my cheeks in his hands to get me to wake up. | 5 |
AskReddit/eogzmco | brvqis | What’re the best mixed alcoholic drinks? | I saw someone mention this drink in a thread like this one a couple of months ago, and I had to try it myself. Fireball (whisky with cinnamon) + cream soda. It is absolutely delicious, and it would be way too easy to drink one too many of those and regret it. That's why I only got one of the sampler bottles that are li... | 2 |
askscience/c9rzcqg | 1dmu90 | How does radiation absorption work? | With ionizing radiation, photons interact with matter through one of three main interactions: In Compton Scattering, a photon interacts with an electron, ejecting the electron with some energy and scattering the photon away with some energy less than its incident energy. Pair production occurs spontaneously within the ... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cpukf9z | 30pbuy | Why aren't all gas tanks on the same side of the car? | Supposedly, as the Subaru dealer told me, Subaru's gas tank is on the passenger side because Subaru is big on safety. If you're out of gas on the highway, it's safer to fill up on the passenger side than on the driver side with traffic speeding past. | 1,946 |
explainlikeimfive/di73fxp | 6e2575 | What would happen if you dropped an ant from the top of the Empire State Building? | ants have such tiny mass compared to their size that the effects of air resistance strongly counteract the ant-falling speed due to gravity. humans have a terminal velocity of about 200 km/hr (when they're all stretched out). ants have a terminal velocity of about 6.4 km/hr. that's the speed of a quick walk. or maybe a... | 2 |
AskReddit/ea34osh | 9ypaup | What's the worst response to "I love you"? | So, I actually have a response to this from my experiences. When I professed my love to the woman who will soon be my wife, I was deployed and she was still in college. We had been talking for a couple of months and I had a deep feeling that she was "the one", as they say. She was running late for a class and texted ba... | 9 |
AskReddit/ck47hl0 | 2eyjzk | Why was fox hunting such a fancy dress event? | Those jackets are quite warm and have extra layers on the lower part to protect your thighs from rain, the Jodphurs are light and ideal for riding and the boots protect your legs from chafing. The red also allows the main group to be spotted by stragglers so yes they did and still do dress up for a hunt mostly for prac... | 3 |
AskReddit/d2j48mt | 4gnko8 | Does going to a high ranking university really matter? | Depends on the country and industry. In my country, in some industries, only a few universities count as reliable, and others would be thought by potential employers like garbage-collectors. In other industries or for some specific professions (as game designer, which is not even among the list of professions here) you... | 4 |
AskReddit/c3w6r3e | qb6pt | Do you wake up feeling refreshed? | At one point in my life, I remember sleeping very well. It was sometime when I was younger, but for years now I have had a very odd type of sleep cycle. Sleeping has become bitter sweet for me. I wake up almost more tired than when I went to sleep. I was at one point prescribed Clonnipin and Ambien to help me sleep, wh... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dah6un1 | 5f3fjp | Why do we like watching the same TV show or movie over and over again? | Our brains like familiar things. Something we already have seen is easier to get into than something brand new because it requires less attention and effort from our brain. It's also sometimes good watching a TV show knowing the ending (eg Black Mirror, Lost) as we can pick up on foreshadowing or minor details. | 14 |
AskHistorians/cfv9c24 | 1znd1y | How accurate is the dialogue style in '12 Years a Slave'? | Well, I will say that the way people spoke in the movie is the way people spoke in the book. Many lines were taken straight from the book, which was of course a true story. One thing that was interesting in the book is that surely Northup, from upstate New York, spoke differently than the people in Bayou Boeuf Louisian... | 3 |
AskReddit/dtv3un2 | 7vsvqu | What food or drink is your crack? | Apple juice. Ice cold apple juice when I get up in the middle of the night and am thirsty is so enjoyable it's an actual physical sensation of pleasure in my brain, like a quick dopamine boost. I don't know if it's just because I grew up with it as my go to drink as a kid but to this day apple juice is my crack. I refe... | 7 |
askscience/cyp9qdl | 3zuyur | Why do rate of reaction principles still occur in non-chemical acts, such as stirring tea in hot water? | So I think you're trying to distinguish physical processes from chemical ones? The thing is, everything is made of chemicals, so deep down as long as some base assumptions are met, chemical laws (I like to think of them as laws of matter) should apply to it all. For some chemicals (biological chemicals like enzymes are... | 9 |
AskReddit/dyb4hr3 | 8geovh | What are some common things that would be considered absurd if they didn’t already exist? | Fountains. We take a large dose of water, place it in a contained area, run it through some pipes with fun shaped hose heads which let it come out in an aesthetically pleasing way, have it land back into the contained area, and let thesaurus water continuously cycle through the same consistent pattern. Also, have peopl... | 5 |
AskReddit/daxlahp | 5h5ikt | Why is it a tree we put presents under on christmas? | As Christianity was being proselytized across Europe, its leaders incorporated existing pagan traditions into Christianity's celebrations, likely to make the religion more amenable to skeptics and ease the transition. Jesus's birth, which scholars (those that think it likely he existed) believe was sometime in the spri... | 6 |
AskReddit/c0z3rtz | dc53v | Do you correct strangers when they mispronounce your name? | My name is not unusual but was uncommon in my area when I was a little kid, so I grew up dreading that first day of class every year, when I could expect half of my teachers to mispronounce it. My skin thickened enough by age 14 or 15 that I could bring myself to correct them. Now I just do it, even though it can be a ... | 2 |
AskReddit/ekrjz7b | bcl0id | Why is farting socially unacceptable? | I fart . a lot. It's not necessarily socially unacceptable but it smells bad and I don't blame anyone not liking it. But some people really produce a lot of gas and idk, it's not like I fart because I want to or have the ability to produce them on command. I'm not gonna hold that in though, it hurts and I'm pretty sure... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/efgrenx | alt2cf | When a video file (like an .mp4) becomes corrupt, why do the video frames usually all become a solid green color, yet the audio remains intact? | MP4 files (and similar ones like MKV) are container files which contain 1 or more "streams", essentially seperate files that are interwoven together into one file with a header to identify them. A typical mp4 has 1 video stream and 1 audio stream, however it could also have additional audio streams (such as different l... | 3 |
AskReddit/c5mrugw | xj0hr | What are your best college stories? | I had such a good time learning "extra curricular" lessons. One of the best stories was when my friends and i decided to learn how to lock pick. didnt take long to pick up (get it?) and we soon broke into everything in our building. We also learned how to throw knives in the arboretum and got really good at singing 'ro... | 2 |
AskHistorians/chbbtqh | 24wg7c | Why are Supreme Court Justices allowed unlimited terms when the other two branches impose term limits? | The term limits of the elected offices of the United States were designed to represent the amount of popular pressure the officials were intended to respond to. For example, the House of Representatives has an election once every two years. This rapid, direct, election means that Representatives must constantly legisla... | 19 |
AskReddit/dkww6mg | 6qfjy4 | What article of clothing that someone wears, immediately makes you judge them? | Fedora. There was a time and place that they were an acceptable choice, but those days are gone. A friend in high school used to wear them, it's his fault I hate them. He made me realize they look good on no one | 3 |
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