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AskReddit/e44u00p | 971u3p | What’s more important: social life or academic success? | If I had to choose I would say having a social life . The reason is that you dont have to be academically successful to live a good life. And having good friends to hang out with, beats being alone. But on the other hand, not having a social life doesn't mean you dont have ANY friends. So I'm seriously not sure. | 3 |
AskReddit/ebl5grg | a5asj7 | If Trump publicly sold out the Russian mob and exposed their international practices, how technologically capable is the mob of whacking him while president? | The Russian mob and the Kremlin are two birds of one feather. Back in the soviet era Putin was in the KGB with many of the men who eventually became industrialists and statesmen. trump is no more capable of disclosing what he doesn't know than any person in his position. He could however incriminate himself by revealin... | 3 |
AskReddit/cu7hdpa | 3hhtpl | Should awards be given to children , whether they win or lose? | I think every kid should get a trinket for participating (team photo, uniform shirt, whatever), but I think that the winning team should get a special something, like a trophy or whatever. It's nice to foster feelings of belonging/teamwork/friendship/etc, but at the end of the day, there will always be competition out ... | 3 |
AskReddit/e9oh46w | 9wzsup | What monster were you most scared of as a child? | As a child, I didn't really understand what monsters were supposed to be other than scary, so when they appeared in my dreams they were mushroom silhouettes, that for the most part didn't intimidate me because mushrooms were one of my favorite foods. Instead I would have nightmares about people breaking into my home an... | 3 |
AskReddit/dicukjc | 6et9xc | What is something you buy, that you hide from your spouse or lie about the cost? | My ex bf never understood my inner nerd and could only handle my gaming and comic books but I love Pokémon especially the card game so I would buy the decks with out him knowing. I could hide a lot of it because Groupon would sell 100 random cards for like 15 bucks so I'd snag them there. | 3 |
askscience/c7pti58 | 15tz7o | What is the probability that two people on Earth share the same DNA? | it is a one in four choice per base pair, repeating about 3 billion times. so 4^(3,000,000,000) is about the total number of DNA sequences. Let us define D to be equal to 4^(3,000,000,000). The population of Earth is about 7 billion. So what is the value of at least two people having the same DNA? This is similar to th... | 6 |
AskReddit/c2m7ph8 | kpu26 | How do/did you manage your time in college without failing? | Make friends. Do study groups. Before your study group session, study first. Use that study session to have your friends test you on the material. When there's something you friend doesn't understand, explain it to him. That's how you learn! Your friends may also have old exams that you can take a look at; while the co... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/d02s9zu | 465sk0 | How does wireless data transfer works with so many devices receiving information from one source? | In addition to UntitledDocument37's info on addressing, I would like to add some more information about how this complex process works. The main thing to realize is that your phone can only "yell" so loud to the tower. There may only be a couple of towers that can even "hear" your phone nearby. You must also realize th... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/djkg9g9 | 6k9nzb | How does a cryptocurrency design itself to be ASIC resistant? | >What special programming needs to be done so that it can 'detect' that it's being mined by an ASIC or other specialised device, rather than a general compute device? A cryptocurrency that's been designed to be hard to mine on an ASIC doesn't have a specification that says "if running on an ASIC, go slower", such a thi... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cu7w72f | 3hjdpl | What's the difference between University of Blank and Blank State University? | In most states, Blank State University indicates a land grant college, which were schools pushed by federal legislation in the 19th century. These colleges were designed to teach practical skills like agriculture, engineering and sciences. This contrasts with the more liberal art education found at the University of Bl... | 4 |
AskReddit/c59jqaq | w20s5 | Who would win in a fight, a full grown male Kodiak bear or a full grown silverback mountain gorilla? | True the bear is the favorite, but I'm going to go with the gorilla. Why? because of how much dexterity he has in his main weapon - the huge bludgeoning arms. Meanwhile, the bear attacks with it's mouth, using it's arms for support. The claws are basicaly meaningless as a deadly weapon. By shear range and fighting styl... | 2 |
AskReddit/efja7qy | am4qfi | How do you continue the day if you told a joke that nobody laughed at? | You gotta come back with a self deprecating joke that gets a laugh and then a second non deprecating joke that piggybacks off the first laugh. Just don’t like that second joke bomb cuz then you have to move to a different city. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cctosfe | 1onkih | Why do all diet soda beverages go with zero calories - and not 10-50 but with a much better taste? | Diet drinks work by replacing the sugar in a standard cola with an artificial sweetener (such as aspartame or saccharine). In either case you get the same level of sweetness, with near 0 calories. While artificial sweeteners are just as sweet, they don't taste exactly the same as sugar (the taste of saccharine needs to... | 2 |
AskReddit/egdejuq | aq4c5h | What is the worst thing you have ever been asked to do as part of your job? | I worked as a grocery store bagger. For 2.14 per hour. Worst job I ever had, one day they made us (me & 2 other baggers) clean up the entire back room. It's the second worst experience of my life. | 2 |
askscience/cfoekc6 | 1ywe1i | What is happening in an operating system when a process is "Not responding"? | A different OS is going to treat cases differently, so keep that in mind. Anyone can write an OS, and an OS is often specific to the hardware it is intended to run on. When a program doesn't respond, it means exactly that - it is not responding to requests from the OS. Different OS systems are going to qualify this dif... | 69 |
AskReddit/c0mb0rs | be1xi | What's a word or phrase you misheard and repeated, only to realize later that the actual phrase was something totally different from what you said? | Here's one my wife did, which I guess is fairly common: In the rather famous song "Bad Moon Rising", my wife misheard "There's a bad moon on the rise" as "There's a bathroom on the right" and sang it that way for YEARS. I corrected her recently. | 5 |
AskReddit/dj7unt9 | 6ioi0s | What are some useful tips to help people switch from using the imperial system to the metric system? | It's so simple, there's no adjustments needed in using the metric system. The only thing is in your thinking. "oh, that's about 10 feet long". er, 3 meters long. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cbcqmjh | 1jakzq | How do we know Carbon Dating is accurate for dates more than 1000yrs old? | We understand the mathematics of nuclear decay, so we know how much carbon 14 vs carbon 12 we should see. Then, we combine it with geologic dating and written records. For instance, we may know from written records the exact date that a tomb was sealed. If we carbon-date biological material inside, we know what date we... | 3 |
AskHistorians/cerz4in | 1vffif | Is how the bible is written now how books / text was written in that time? | Something that you should take into account is that the Bible contains many different forms of literature. Some of the Books contain prose narrative (Exodus or the Gospels for example) where others are poetry or songs (the Psalms) and therefore follow the style of those genres. Other books like Chronicles, Numbers, or ... | 3 |
AskReddit/dtc7qh8 | 7tft2q | How good/bad (including cost) are your company’s health benefits? | Used to be great options, decent premiums. Now only one option (high deductible) and the premiums are outrageous. So it sucks. Considering taking a lower paying job with better benefits because the costs have gone up so much. | 2 |
askscience/d975pud | 595188 | Are humans born with innate fears or are those fears originated from some specific event in life? | This is not settled science or necessarily universally applicable, but there was a study that showed that while primates may not be born with particular phobias or fears of such things as snakes and spider, they may be born primed to learn to fear some things more easily than others. In one study, infant monkeys shown ... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/etm25vx | ccbh0z | How does Bayesian inference work? | Where you go to school it rains half the time. So half the days during recess it's raining, and half it's not. When the recess bell rings, I ask you if it's raining or not. The best you can do is guess (say by flipping a fair coin). What if you also knew that little Timmy hated to get wet. Timmy will only go outside in... | 15 |
AskReddit/dbir7ak | 5jt52c | What is the reason you lost connection with your once "best friend"? | I got a girlfriend. He decided that I was choosing her over him (and I can see where he was coming from sometimes). We still played in a band together throughout high school, and talk once or twice every now and then. But ultimately, we just took different paths in life, and I'm closer to his parents now rather than hi... | 2 |
AskReddit/eter4zx | cbdhld | What is an interesting history topic to read about? | The American Civil War such a high stakes and devestating conflict with interesting tactics and new technologies coming into play. Allied deceptions during World War 2 especially around the Normandy landings. WW2 resistence groups | 4 |
askscience/chpi5hu | 2698n4 | Why is it that, if you are awaken mid-sleep, and go back to sleep immediately, you can wake up feeling refreshed - but if you stay up and try to nap off the deficit later, you tend to wake up still groggy? | Case 1: awaken in the middle of the night, return to sleep, wake up in the morning. Explanation: we awaken multiple times every night, but they are very short awakenings that we do not remember, due to amnesia around sleep. So this is a normal night of sleep, really. If you had an extended period of wakefulness, then w... | 2 |
askscience/c46t3a0 | rllza | Would you feel the effects of DMT if you consumed alcohol prior to smoking it? | You're talking about freebase DMT? That you can smoke or possibly inject? If that's the case then, yes you would. Your brain releases extremely small amounts in comparison to amounts in recreational use. This is just speculation however as I'm not scientist. I hope some kind of doctor or scientist in the field of neuro... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/c2mnb7j | krobg | Why do the planets of our solar system seem to share a rotational plane? | They were all formed out of the same accretion disk (stuff rotating due to gravity), so when that cloud of dust was collapsing, it collapsed into the same rotational plane, all going pretty much in the same direction. | 36 |
AskReddit/eug6gwe | cgchvj | When do you know you’re ready for marriage? | IDK if you can ever be sure. This fall will be 20 years together for me and my spouse. We dated 6 years before getting married at age 24. Both of us have changed so much over these 20 years, and we have faced destruction many times. But we still choose each other. I love him more than I can say. I don't think you can b... | 3 |
AskReddit/c7te0ob | 167945 | What is the funniest thing someone has yelled out in the middle of a movie at the movie theaters? | I was at the midnight premiere of Spider-Man 3 (I know, I know, shut up). It was a whole theater full of geeks. About 10 minutes before the movie started, someone in the back did a loud Chewbacca growl/purr. Then someone in the front of the theater responded with their own Chewbacca call. Within 10 seconds, the entire ... | 2 |
AskReddit/cy2c3hq | 3x7hmt | Who has the best/prettiest voice you've ever heard? | I've always like Christoph Waltz's voice. It's not just how it sounds, it's his enunciation. When he speaks it's like his voice is delicately balancing each syllable, so that nothing is emphasized more than it should be. I could listen to him read a phone book and be fascinated the entire time. | 25 |
AskReddit/cdpwdz1 | 1rqs2e | Why are some animals, like dogs, more responsive to humans than other animals or insects, such as spiders or frogs? | They're mammals, like us They're social creatures, like us We've been in close contact with them for a loooooooooooong time. Imagine if you lived 3000 years ago, scraping by as a hunter-gatherer, and you had a pack of dogs to help you hunt. If you had a new litter of puppies, and one dog grew up to be worthless and unt... | 3 |
AskReddit/eglh0u8 | ar8sei | What do you think of the idea of euthanasia for mental illness like depression? | I watched a really good documentary on this on YouTube where it is legal in the Netherlands (I think) and a few people were on the waiting list for assisted death due to depression etc. When it came their turn to have the procedure done they decided to back out because during the time they were waiting they decided to ... | 8 |
AskReddit/erdlpej | c1jcjs | What is a tip you have to wake up early every morning? | Eat every morning at the time you want to wake up/ eat all meals at the same time every day. your body will start to adjust and wake itself up, Or try waking up the same time every single day, even if you gotta hit snooze every now and then to adjust. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cqurns5 | 34hlkc | Why did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan? | Those pictures of a modernist Afghanistan in the '50s and '60s are misleading to a certain extent. They only show what Afghanistan was like in the major cities. In the Afghan countryside, it was much more conservative and traditional. So in 1978, there was a communist revolution in Afghanistan. The newly communist Afgh... | 3 |
AskReddit/c5cbapv | wd7vf | As a man, what are some of the more "unmanly" things you enjoy? | Supposedly, after reading a Fashion Magazine for 5 minutes, I've learnt that the modern man isn't supposed to have a beard (other than a 2-day growth). So I have a beard. I'm unmanly in this modern society. | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/ecc1ot4 | a8n6s0 | Why do furry blankets feel warmer than non-furry blankets? | They are. Tiny bits of air get trapped between the furry hairs, and each one acts as a little insulator — a safety zone between your body's warm air and the room's cold air. | 17 |
AskReddit/chg81fb | 25dtbh | What was your worst moment in high school? | Asked out my friend whom I was madly in love with and she gave me a pat on the back and said "Sorry". That really sucked. Also, (not my moment) there was a freshman that brought 2 bags of soda to school because the seniors had told him Freshmen Friday was a party and he needed to bring sodas. | 496 |
AskReddit/d5ki246 | 4tuyc6 | What's the best way to learn French? | If you're looking to learn it in small increments on the side, I would suggest DuoLingo. It is quick, easy, and will get you a strong start. After that it's best to just speak with people who speak French to practice. | 2 |
AskReddit/eknuoft | bc4ukm | What’s something you do to calm yourself down or alleviate anxiety that isn’t weed? | Meditation. Even if it’s just a quick one. Close your eyes, take a deep breath and exhale. Clear your mind. I’ve also read that St. John’s wort supplements have an effect on depression and anxiety. | 2 |
AskReddit/dh550pr | 69amzl | Why don't you enjoy watching sports? | The Stuff-Happening/Filler-and-Advertisement ratio is way off. I can have practically 95-99% Fun Uptime playing a video game or watching a video that I can fast forward or reading a book. Watching sports has like a 40% Fun Uptime. | 2 |
askscience/dmnsh43 | 6yelnp | What decides an atoms electronegativity? | Electronegativity is just an empirical measure of how tightly the nucleus of an atom will attract bonding electrons. A full treatment requires quantum mechanics and molecular orbital theories, but you can get an idea of the lay of the land from simple Coulomb attraction. The force acting on a unit charge by another cha... | 11 |
AskReddit/emjs3qz | bkvh7u | How do you get popular on Reddit? | Even if you do make popular posts it isn’t really the same thing as being popular. People don’t pay attention to usernames or who’s posting what. It’s more focused on the content on reddit, not the poster. | 9 |
AskReddit/cr9eo27 | 35zrmt | What's the weirdest lie your parents ever told you? | My mom told me that princesses eat vanilla ice cream and that bad girls eat chocolate. She didn't want me staining my clothes and I ended up silently judging anyone who ate chocolate ice cream until I was in first grade. My mom is an evil woman. My daddy told me that the car would flip over if you left the turn signal ... | 2,901 |
AskReddit/d6kyqwu | 4y4uno | What moment have you made awkward by laughing at a bad time? | There was a kid in school who always said: "I drive better when I'm drunk!" during drivers ed, assemblies, and other inappropriate times. He made sure that we all knew he was a great drunk driver. Well it wasn't very long until he wrapped his car around a tree and died while being. you guessed it. Drunk. High BAC and a... | 3 |
AskReddit/d1lobtp | 4cv6pj | What can us consumers do to make your job easier? | If you don't like the color or graininess of the mustard, don't buy it. Some consumers argue that mustard should look bright yellow and smooth, while others think it should look like Grey Poupon. It's a subject restaurant patrons will argue with waitstaff when they insist on a particular type (or brand) of mustard to b... | 69 |
AskReddit/ca6810y | 1f2pq6 | What are some small everyday changes/habits/activities you've done to help improve the way your life is going? | Started to study a little bit on the train trip to uni. Usually I'd just watch an episode of something, but now I review some work I've done earlier in the week, attempt to finish some assignment questions, read up on what I've yet to do etc. Considering I travel an hour both ways, I actually get a reasonable amount of... | 2 |
AskReddit/chl00se | 25unb9 | How do I improve my negotiation skills? | the best way to improve imo would be to read a book on negotiations (there are already plenty in this thread, just pick one) go thrift shopping and practice the concepts of the book there. You can easily get 5-7 hours of hardcore negotiation experience there per day. Try out different strategies like building rapport p... | 2 |
askscience/eiatxwr | azts2n | How do Space rocket stabilisation mechanisms work? | That's one method of controlling spacecraft attitude, but a pretty weak one. The idea is that spinning a disk one way creates a torque that will spin the spacecraft the other way. Find something like an eggbeater with a rotary motor, and notice how when you turn it on it will try to twist your hand. However, to get a t... | 6 |
AskReddit/c0h80nl | aesq7 | Why Do People Always Try to Be Cool? | I really don't understand what you are getting at. If the original poster had made a self post describing his writer's block in some straightforward way, the thread would have been filled with suggestions on how to fix that. But the poster just threw up a funny screenshot that people can relate to and make jokes about.... | 11 |
AskReddit/ewgd3ae | co6otq | What is the most vivid dream you remember from years ago? | i was in this fancy office with my best friend, he kept telling to be careful not to touch anything coz it was some rich guy's office and had some sophisticated security system. I was very careful, especially when i spotted this black panther is the room, i stopped moving. He got closer and closer to me and started sni... | 3 |
AskHistorians/dcel1lx | 5nue89 | How did the Romans treat the "natives" in their occupied provinces? | A slight majority of the population across much of the ancient world was enslaved by default. For them, Roman rule may have been an improvement. As for the free men. Rome generally preferred not to come back and sort you out. Once you were defeated, you would be very loosely garrisoned and the tax farmers would set to ... | 2 |
AskReddit/c2lr6hg | knws0 | What one thing have you learnt that turns long mundane jobs into simple tasks? | 1337 skillz. I've automated or minimized most of the tasks associated with my current job so I can spend most of my time developing new stuff. Or arsing about online. They're not mutually exclusive. | 2 |
AskReddit/c0zbu5j | dd73d | How do I make my own moonshine? | Moonshine is not a neutral liquor. It's the corn mash from whiskey-making which is consumed before barrel aging. It has a very distinct corny flavor, one that many find off-putting. I love whiskey, and I can't even drink a lot of "white dog" (which is the general term for moonshine that's produced by a commercial disti... | 7 |
AskReddit/ev3519k | cib512 | Have you ever not understood what a person said, gone "yeah" and chuckled, and it's landed you in an awkward situation? | Was at the gym, on the stairmaster and some old lady starts to to talk to me and is going on and on about how she loves the machine, and somewhere I tune out and listen to my music. She suddenly asked me a question to which I nod and say yeah nonchalantly, to which she just abruptly walks away. Come to learn she was li... | 2 |
AskHistorians/d4tzh64 | 4qkddy | Did the writers of the Bill of Rights intend for the amendments to be absolute rights? | A very, very common misconception of the first amendment is what you said, that you cannot yell "fire" in a crowded building. The reason that is not allowed is because it is not speech. It is a call to action. This is how it was explained to me, with an extreme example. A white person could walk into inner Detroit and ... | 3 |
AskReddit/c4wxkv5 | undep | What character from a movie or TV show are you told you are most like? | Some of my friends used to compare me to Dr. House, partly because I'm frank and mostly because I had a limp for a while. I've also been called the Avatar in a conversation in which people were describing what kind of benders they'd all be. Yet another friend told me if any of her friends were to be stormborn, have fir... | 2 |
AskReddit/dku00ih | 6pznh3 | What movie will you watch every single time you see it on? | Purple Rain or Zootopia. Since Zootopia is on Netflix for free and frequently pops up in my "watch it again?" queue, I've seen it like 12 times. That movie is just eleven flavors of lit. | 2 |
AskReddit/es6kobc | c66f5k | What's the next evolutionary trait for humans? | Unfortunately (or fortunately if you look at it in a different way) humans as a species have effectively stepped outside of natural selection and the old rules of evolution just don't apply to us anymore. Evolution happens when the environment around a creature changes and certain characteristics become advantageous. T... | 2 |
AskReddit/c0vcyye | cugz9 | What makes a girl a ho? | My Definition: Ho is more a state of mind. A woman becomes a ho when she suspends self-respect in favor of attention, and takes attention any way she can get it. Some women can have a relatively high number of sexual partners, but never degrade herself or make an idiot out of herself if she does not get all the attenti... | 5 |
AskReddit/d8mom3t | 56v44k | What's your best explanation of what being drunk feels like? | Being a good level of drunk feels like being the best looking, funniest, most confident version of yourself. Not to encourage drinking or anything. I just thought i'd share what being a normal level of drunk feels like to me. Getting too drunk.then yeah it sucks, feels like all the things everyone described. | 2 |
askscience/ewotb5k | cp8n1l | Can an element have enough protons/neutrons in 1 atom to be visible from the human eye? | what does it mean for an atom to be visible? Do you only mean that, if you shine a light on it, you can see a shadow or a reflection? Or do you also include the possibility of seeing light emitted by a single atom? The size of an atom is determined by the size of the electron cloud around the nucleus. More protons mean... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/dpsc561 | 7crnfw | Why do stains become harder to get out if you leave them alone for a while? | I'll try an analogy - I hope it helps. If you put down watercolor paint on paper it needs to dry (set) before the ink basically becomes "part" of the paper - it soaks in and dries. if the paper gets wet some of the paint will "clean" off. if you pour water onto the paper just a few minutes after painting on it more of ... | 9 |
AskReddit/cba7llh | 1j1qh7 | What keeps you up at night? | It takes me about just as long. I think for me though, the fear i have doesn't come from what I've seen or heard, it comes from the unknown. I've really been thinking about this lately. Why am I afriad of the dark? Not because it's black, but because I can't see what's in it. Why can't I go to sleep at night? Because w... | 3 |
AskReddit/cefqvtz | 1u9a1l | For those who suffer from anxiety/panic attacks, when (in your lifetime) did they start? | i started having panic attacks when i was around 17 and they were ongoing until about 19. i didn't know what they were and just kinda dealt with it. they resurfaced around 23 and got so much worse that i had to go to my doctor. the initial attack that made me go lasted 3 days. i couldn't do anything. trying to sleep wa... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cqqhi31 | 3421iq | Why do bubble come out of my tear ducts when I depressurize my ears? | There's a duct that connects from the vicinity of your eye into your nasal cavity, the nasolacrimal duct. I'd assume you're forcing air up through this duct. It normally functions to drain tears from your eye, so that they can ultimately run down your throat, and is why you get 'snotty' when you cry. | 3 |
AskReddit/ci6a1e4 | 280tec | What's the best thing that you have ever done for somebody? | I don't remember the best things, mostly because I'm not sure if I've done that many awesome things for people, but I did help out a homeless man near my condo that I'd see often. I gave him a Tim Horton's gift card worth $20, and would also buy him coffees when I saw him on my way back from class. | 2 |
AskReddit/dkou4rr | 6pf5ul | What's the closest you been to "seeing history in the making"? | OK, this one is pretty funny, and also sad for me. Please read the username and keep it in mind as you read. My wife and I are on our honeymoon, having spent the last few weeks preparing, we were super busy. We got married in Gibraltar, and spent a couple weeks travelling across Europe. We went to Barcelona (I lived in... | 6 |
AskHistorians/c4wmch1 | ulqt6 | How many people actually set out to 'conquer the world'? | I doubt anyone with a realistic idea of the size of the world has ever seriously considered trying to conquer it. If you're willing to include people who have set out to conquer the known world, i.e. the world as far as they knew it existed, I'd say it's possible that Genghis Khan or one of the other Mongol leaders asp... | 4 |
AskReddit/cfte0bl | 1zfy6m | What unknown film on Netflix blew you away? | Even though it's not on Netflix anymore, Bronson completely blew me away. When Netflix dropped it I bought the DVD and have reached several times. Tom Hardy was unbelievable. Edit: Apparently it's back on Netflix. This makes me happy. Everyone drop what you're doing and go watch it now. | 332 |
AskReddit/dzvd5ha | 8nguxy | Why do most forks have 4 prongs? | They didn’t always used to. According to Bill Bryson’s book, “At Home”, earlier in history they had anything from 1 to 7 or more. I guess over time people found 4 to be a good balance of stickability into food vs able to ram it in one’s mouth. Other fun fact: Another name for the prongs is tines. | 2 |
AskReddit/cb250te | 1i9076 | Is the owner of my share house stealing my mail? | The postal carriers DO NOT remove previously delivered mail. It's just not done. The postal carriers DO have a key. Which is used to deliver the mail. Often, that key opens the entire front face of a multi-dwelling mail box, allowing them to deliver all the mail to the individual boxes easier. Stealing mail is a Federa... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/d8pybxg | 576prp | Why does it feel good to slam doors and bang things when we're angry? | It's human psychology. Going by Sigmund Freud's theory of the mind, you have three aspects to consider, The Superego, The Ego and The Id. The Superego = Moral Conscience and Values The Ego = You, how you are and your personality The Id = Your desires, the ones you have no idea you have. Think of it like a huge iceberg ... | 6 |
explainlikeimfive/cgqnloo | 22v22k | Why do movie makers use "Green" screen in the background, instead of any other color? | Green is chosen because it rarely conflicts with other colours. The purpose of a green screen is to be able to quickly select the area and remove it in post processing, and replace it with another image. The software selects the area by color, so if something is similar in tone to the background, it will be removed too... | 24 |
AskReddit/ebb886n | a43kni | What did you think you had gotten away with keeping from your parents, that it turns out they knew all about? | asking my mom for advice for "a friend" about how she was worried she might be pregnant. i thought i was so clever, she knew right away hahahaha. just never told me until i was much older, we laugh about it now. also, i wasn't pregnant, so woo hoo! | 4 |
AskReddit/chu6lql | 26syuu | What was the weirdest way you've ever been punished? | I was grounded from wearing anything more than my underwear for two weeks, my sisters were encouraged to have company over. I was also grounded from being in my room at the same time. To add some context, it was because the only working bathroom was between my sisters' and mother's rooms. My mom would shut the door to ... | 10 |
AskReddit/d3fgpvf | 4kjv1x | Has anyone actually won anything good from liking posts on social media that offer prizes? | Yep. I've won a t-shirt, a gift card from a local restaurant, and tickets to a gymnastics event. If the sponsor is local and the offer is from their legitimate FB page, you stand a good chance of actually winning something. | 2 |
AskReddit/clbd03z | 2jg2bl | If you put a chameleon in a room full of mirrors, what color will it turn? | I skimmed the wiki article on chameleons, so I'm somewhat of a chameleon expert now. The chameleon would likely be alarmed by all the mirrors and being surrounded by his reflection. Thus it would turn a dark color, brown/black depending on the species as color is also used to express emotions in chameleons and they go ... | 3 |
AskHistorians/cfazydx | 1xf6r2 | Is there any genuine evidence that Marcus Licinius Crassus ran a fire protection racket? | He definitely ran a lucrative fire brigade that haggled over the price of their services while the fire was going on. I imagine he also had agents prepared to purchase real estate outright at fire sale prices, if you will forgive that joke. Setting the fires deliberately seems like the sort of accusation that would be ... | 4 |
AskReddit/ey45n3v | cvh9b6 | What do you collect? | I’m starting to get into watch collecting, I have 5 right now with my most recent being my dream watch submariner. Just got out of college and am starting a decent paying job tomorrow so I’m hoping to expand that collection quickly | 69 |
AskReddit/cgjy7vy | 227235 | What are some things that people outside of your industry arent supposed to know? | In some commercial (i.e. non-residential) buildings, some thermostats are installed/left-in as fakes to give occupants the illusion that they can control the temperature via the HVAC system. The funnier thing is that people will actually report being more satisfied with the indoor environment when they think they have ... | 66 |
AskHistorians/cov17g9 | 2wwv4x | Why was the Greek city of Syracuse typically governed by tyrants? | This touches on some questions of my own. Thucydides (1.17) had noticed a similar phenomenon: >Wherever there were tyrants, their habit of providing simply for themselves. made safety the great aim of their policy, and prevented anything great from proceeding from them. All this is only true of the mother country, for ... | 3 |
AskReddit/dqck11d | 7fkhs5 | What is it like to live life without crippling depression? | It’s holiday season now.and the depression is setting back in. I willfully broke my sobriety just because I wanted to get drunk for a weekend, and the demons have come back in full swell. The weird thing is, though.it’s like welcoming back a friend. An old friend, who just shows up and at first seems warm and reassurin... | 2 |
AskReddit/d2fwqde | 4gabdb | What is your lamest joke? | I have too many lame ones to choose. These are some of the lamest ones I know. Why did the owl owl? Because the woodpecker would peck her. Two peanuts were walking through a park and one was a salted. "Waiter, this coffee tastes like mud." "Well it was ground this morning" A Indian drank 100 cups of tea and that night ... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/e2k7ji7 | 8zof33 | How do malls get cars inside to be shown off/won in the middle of the building? | Usually the front door. Those sliding doors out front of various businesses can actually be pushed or pulled completely open from the hinges, and big buildings like malls tend to have really wide ones. They could also take them through shipping/receiving entrances instead, but those would generally be on the sides or t... | 5 |
AskReddit/ec4d0ru | a7nyw4 | What’s the most important tip you would give a new driver? | Keep your eyes on the road. A text can wait, accidents don’t need to be stared at while you drive by, billboards aren’t important, etc. Too many accidents happen because drivers are distracted and it only takes a few seconds of not paying attention. | 3 |
AskReddit/eito0mr | b2mmbv | What’s a conspiracy theory that you genuinely believe is true? | The CIA coined the term “conspiracy theory” after the assassination of JFK, and the term has been use it to mislabel and denounce others forums of research and evidence discovered outside of what the official government claims that were reported at the time. The term is now synonymous to crazy lunatic with no evidence.... | 2 |
AskReddit/c2i2l7s | k7il3 | Do you believe in karma? | People like to chalk Karma up to some spiritual force, but really most of it is just human nature. To take a slightly more extreme example, cheating on your girlfriend with another girl (and leaving the former for the latter) will often result in you being unhappy.not because of karma, but because of the type of people... | 2 |
AskHistorians/c7ue1fr | 16b2kn | Would a Duke (or equivalent) outrank a Prince's wife is she wasn't born a Princess herself? | Quick question, how do you mean outrank? Normally, the Prince would usually be granted a Dukedom unless he was being forced into the clergy (which historically was used to prevent too many claimants to the throne). Therefore, she would become a Duchess consort and she would be high in the succession to the throne. But ... | 3 |
AskReddit/c8yrppz | 1amkmr | How do I stop the cramps while running? | Running on a treadmill uses different muscles then on a track, for instance. This is because on a treadmill, you aren't using the muscles to propel yourself forwards, only upwards. I can't remember the muscles exactly, so I won't quote them. One way to stop cramps is to stretch out quickly before/during a run. Try to d... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cpizn66 | 2zhpjc | Can I just make an account somewhere and buy 1 share in a stock without a broker? | You can, however most of the time the commissions to buy and sell your share will cost far more than any profit earned on one share of stock. You may want to see if Kraft has a DRIP, which are designed around small purchases (they may have holding length of time restrictions, however). | 3 |
AskReddit/clubty1 | 2lfm4v | Why do people take things like the Illuminati seriously? | I have a friend who has a coworker who literally believes the illuminati gave his father cancer. Oh and threw his mom's cat in the pool. Oh and gave Robin Williams depression. He's apparently working with the FBI to take them down. On a side note, the illuminati is not a conspiracy--it does exist, just not in the way p... | 2 |
AskReddit/dcovdyn | 5p5c14 | What person do you become while drunk? | Depends. If im alone I'm very high fuctioning, I've done my taxes while drunk, applied to college, created resumes and used them to get the job I love. With people? I'm fun, I buy people shots and drinks, stand next to me I'm buying you a shot just because. | 2 |
AskReddit/dzg8guc | 8lkjmr | How do you approach a problem about your relationship without hurting your SO emotionally? | Sounds like you need to have a talk with your other about communication first and foremost, then bring up issues later. I was in an abusive relationship before (verbal / physical) and that caused a lot of lingering issues when it came to trusting what someone was saying or taking something personally / fearfully. You n... | 2 |
AskReddit/crkejpu | 377ya5 | What is the creepiest thing you have ever seen your pet do? | Doesn't matter what anyone else says. Everyone's creepiest experience with their pet is this: Sitting at home alone. Dog/other pet suddenly stares intensely at front/back door for a good minute or two.possibly with growling. Gets a nope-outta-there every time. | 3 |
AskReddit/chmczcx | 2602u0 | What are some ways to make a good impression during my first desk job? | Show up early and try to be in a good mood. Smile. Make eye contact when you talk to people. Basically, be the kind of person you'd like to be around. And do good work, obviously, but those other things count for a lot. Also, you're new. Don't complain about the boss, the business processes, the customers, etc. You hav... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/ccp7wj5 | 1o6gn4 | How come republicans still go to tv shows like "the daily news"? | Some people are misinformed, they don't have any idea what The Daily Show is. This happened a lot in the early years of the show but is less common now. Some people really believe that they are not doing anything wrong. They feel they can present their argument and people will be sympathetic to them so they welcome cha... | 2 |
AskReddit/efaxc47 | al5mxk | When have you been locked out of your house, car, etc? | When I was a kid I was getting something from the backyard and my mom left to go to the grocery store. She thought I was in my room because the door was closed but the cat closed it by playing with it. She locked the house when she left and locked me out. I picked the lock with a paint scraper and the wire from a plant... | 2 |
AskReddit/d8v8cqw | 57v6rq | Who's voice could you listen to for hours on end? | Frank Sinatra. I first heard him 10 years ago when I was 11 and I've never stopped listening. I'm a Baritone and it's always great to hear big time Baritone voices in a sea of Bases and Tenors on the radio. | 2 |
AskReddit/cu3gd11 | 3h1jyw | How long do you wait before honking if someone isn't paying attention when the traffic signal turns green? | You have to give my car horn a pretty good push to get it to work. So if I have enough time to register that they haven't moved, put my hand on the horn, and push it in hard enough to honk it, they've waited too long. | 3 |
AskReddit/egcwjxt | aq23c6 | How do you look on the bright side when you’re depressed? | I don't know about you, but when I'm depressed, I CAN'T look on the bright side. Instead, I accept the feeling and go on with my day, albeit in a melancholic way. I do my best to eat correctly and sleep correctly. I try not to dwell too much into what exactly is making me upset. Eventually with enough time, I'm back to... | 3 |
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