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AskHistorians/ct23xc1 | 3d4klz | Why is President Buchanan faulted for failing to prevent the American Civil War? | Andrew Jackson was faced with a similar dilemma during his presidency when South Carolina threatened to secede over the Tariff of Abominations (colloquial name). He used a carrot and stick method: slightly reduced the tariff while at the same time passing a "Force Bill" that would have authorized federal troops going i... | 3 |
AskReddit/ed8x1ht | acleqv | Which film would be infinitely better if it was remade using Black Mirror Bandersnatch's "Choose Your Adventure" technology? | Years ago, I rented some crappy horror movie, I forgot the name, as it was pretty forgettable. On the DVD or BluRay, one of the extras was a "Choose Your Own Adventure" version of the movie. It was basically the same movie, but cut up in such a way where each character could "die earlier" than in the regular film. It w... | 2 |
AskReddit/co0nxar | 2tntcl | Who do you miss? | I miss my ex-girlfriend. She was batshit crazy, but she had nothing but great intentions. She had a lot of insecurity issues and was heavily abused as a kid. She was older than me, so I think I didn't really have the maturity to empathize with what she's been through. I'm happily married now, but I'd love to see her an... | 45 |
explainlikeimfive/cebponj | 1tuy94 | How do pets lay around all day without getting bored? | They definetly get bored. If they are lacking stimulation for long enough they can start pacing, panting, chewing on things, chewing on themselves, etc. So even if it's not horrible neglectful boredom to the point of showing signs they can for sure be bored. | 4 |
Ask_Politics/ckmt921 | 2gv5j1 | What would be the political repercussions if a state like Texas, New York, or California seceded from the Union? | Those are also the three largest state economies (each has a GDP of over $1T). If they became their own country, all three would rank among the top twenty countries in the world. A pretty huge loss for the country. New York is a major hub for finance, California for agricultural products, Texas for energy. It's hard to... | 2 |
AskReddit/cgqppsz | 22v6yc | What's the one thing your parents must NEVER find out? | When I was in highschool, my dad's best buddy from college came to visit. My parents let me stay up and drink some margaritas with them, but they didn't know I was adding extra shots to mine. We all got pretty drunk and after my parents went to bed I had sec with my dads friend. I came on to him, we both enjoyed it, bu... | 2 |
AskReddit/dui1qy9 | 7yopq0 | What's the best second language to learn, assuming you speak English, and why? | Spanish. It's the second most widely spoken language in the world having official status in 21 countries, spanning South, Central and North America, as well as Africa and Europe. | 2 |
AskReddit/cvl5oz1 | 3n6019 | Is capitalism destroying the world? | No, but capitalism as we know is destroying itself. Inequality raises all around the world, concentrated wealth and the inevitable next wave of automation will lead capitalism to a cul-de-sac, forcing it to reinvent itself, because billions of people wont just sit, wait and accept to die without any means to support th... | 3 |
AskReddit/e7iii31 | 9myol9 | What is the most expensive thing you've ever broken? | I havent broken too much. Funniest things I've seen break are a $75,000 machining head in the back of an old F150 that wasnt tied down. Was in a 3ft wide X 4ft tall steel rack in the bed, going on inner plant roads supposed to be 10MPH. Coworker turned too sharp and hit a bump, it toppled over and flattened the whole s... | 3 |
AskReddit/enevy3w | bodn67 | What are some fun things an adult can do that doesn’t involve losing sobriety? | I had a sober D&D group. It was actually really fun! Also motorcycles, boats, casinos, snow sports, fishing kayaking, hiking, gardening, playing music and going to concerts. Basically do what you have always liked to do, just don’t drink while you are doing it. It’s more fun that way anyway. | 7 |
AskReddit/c5jq31x | x6w5v | What Books/Movies have changed your life? | Believe it or not, the 1995 classic Hackers changed me. It taught me (at 10 yrs old) that my computer "hobby" didn't need to make me wear turtle necks, or keep a pocket protector in at all times. That even at a young age, some girls prefer the brain to the brawn. | 2 |
AskReddit/d3xsvmz | 4mrqft | What do people not appreciate enough? | Christmas. Without it we'd have no holiday in America where virtually everything is closed (except emergency/vital services), where families can truly get together, show appreciation, have fun, there's so much culture around the holiday as well. Yet all people do is complain about it, like how early it appears in store... | 2 |
AskReddit/dp4lsz7 | 79szth | Why is it way more fun to sleep on the couch rather than your bed? | There was actually a research study done about this by the University of Cambridge! It's simple biology. When you sleep in your bed, the neurons in your frontal lobe accelerate, which is what happens when you're executing a routine that your brain has filed away as a repeatable process. (Think of it like running a pres... | 37 |
AskReddit/eaqtail | a1klx5 | What will happen when the world runs out of oil? | It won’t happen. We’ll keep pumping the cheap oil, and making better technologies to make the harder to access oil cheaper. Until we get to the point where the price of it raises enough to make alternatives realistic. But that doesn’t make a good story so I’m going with nuclear apocalypse. | 2 |
AskReddit/d66lem2 | 4wfm7y | What movie franchise does not need another sequel? | Any Disney/Pixar animated film from 1995- 2008. The movies were excellent original concepts around that time, but the sequels, especially recently, are bland and dumb. Disney/Pixar, to me, has always excelled at making original concepts and an interesting plot around it, even if its typically aimed towards kids. | 116 |
explainlikeimfive/cqe5m35 | 32sa7t | Why and how birds coordinate so good when they fly in groups? | There is a vortex, called the wingtip vortex created by the wings of the first bird - think of this as the first bird creating a gap of air behind it, and surrounding air rushes in to fill this gap. This wingtip vortex creates an updraft air current, which makes it take considerably less effort to fly in. As the vortex... | 3 |
AskReddit/c12o7ff | dsyxp | Is it academically ethical to expect a student to travel to another city on his/her own time to visit a museum for 25% of the class' final grade? | You can also frame the question as, "Is it fair for my prof to assign 25% of a grade to a 5 hour mandatory assignment?" I would say yes. How many weeks did you have to complete said assignment? If it's 25% of your grade, I should hope she gave you ample time. If not, ask your prof if you can do an alternative assignmen... | 4 |
AskReddit/d4usiak | 4qp4ty | What experiences have you had dealing with perverts? | Many experiences. One that sticks in my mind was at a rock club in Cape Town. I was walking through the crowd to the bathroom, and a guy put his hand up my skirt and grabbed my crotch. I didn't know what to do so just ran away. I told my boyfriend (then, now husband) and his friend. Friend told me that his female frien... | 3 |
AskReddit/d1ydikl | 4eajik | Do nice guys finish last? | Nope. Only people that expect to be given free stuff finish last. You can be a nice guy all you want but if you're smart and committed to your goals you won't finish last. Unless you're unlucky. Luck is also a factor. Also, if you're asking this specifically because of girls (a lot of people do) just keep in mind that ... | 2 |
AskReddit/dfuxrfz | 63l6eq | How do you feel about the War on Drugs? | Mostly it's become a war on people vulnerable to drug addiction. I'm all for encouraging people to not use drugs and stopping dangerous drugs from getting in people's hands, but you aren't helping anyone by giving them a criminal record and ignoring the root of the problem. | 6 |
explainlikeimfive/cc834og | 1md53w | Why does scratching a bug bite feel so good? | Itchiness happens as a response to foreign material trying to get through the skin. This can be any number of things; a bug on your skin trying to get in, a fungus, microscopic parasites, or a bit of dust. In response, we instinctively scratch to get rid of the foreign material. It actually takes conscious effort not t... | 995 |
AskReddit/eqm3pnf | byv7ib | What did you do when you were younger that you regret now? | 2 months younger me did not put my passport in a safe place. Today me can’t find it, and tomorrow morning me really needs it to travel. So much regret. | 2 |
AskReddit/drldu15 | 7lcvgx | What would you like to thank Reddit for? | I learned that vampires should see their reflection in mirrors. Before vampires couldn't see their reflection because mirrors were made of silver. Now , since mirrors are made of glass they should be able to see their reflection. Thanks reddit for this strange fun fact, that probably I'll never need Edit : also novelty... | 2 |
AskReddit/ciyxo4h | 2aupbu | If you could change ONE thing about your job to make you like it more, what would it be? | Honestly, while I work with several good people, earn a decent living, experience a fairly relaxed work environment, and have pretty good benefits, if I could change ONE thing about my job, I would change the job, itself. It would be out of its current field and into the field I want to be employed. | 2 |
AskReddit/c6b2j39 | 107m8k | Why did I come home to find millions of dead ants along the floor and walls? | I'm guessing they had a little Hitler ant in their kingdom. It was reigning and making war with other ant tribes. These ants were locked away in a camp. The invading allied ants were marching right into the direction of these camps and Hitler ant called out to all security guards at the camps to abandon the camps and l... | 3 |
AskReddit/cuvdo7b | 3k7icu | Why are skilled trades and vocational school underrated in the American Education system as well as a seemingly viable career? | Depends on what you study. Many people go that route because they realized later in life that they messed up by not going to college early and see a vocational school as a way to catch up, but at the same time choose a trade that is highly competitive in the job market because it's quick and easy and everyone desperate... | 2 |
AskReddit/em5mkd6 | bj6g58 | What are some of your favorite things? | Raindrops on roses And whiskers on kittens Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens Brown paper packages tied up with strings These are a few of my favorite things | 3 |
AskReddit/c22nhao | icf0e | What was your job journey after college? | went through HS focused on business and marketing clubs. Went to college and realized that i enjoyed learning law and the penal system. My 2nd year of college i went in for an interview for an internship with an agency under the DOJ and they hired me for a paid position for students. worked there for 16 months before u... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cz7rcoi | 425fwt | How come that even with the modern analysis techniques we still don't know the exact recipe of Coca Cola and make cheap copies of the exact same thing? | A recipe is more than just a list of ingredients. The exact technique is critically important. Just knowing the right chemical formula using high pressure liquid chromatograpy doesn't actually tell you how to synthesize something. There are lots of substances on Earth that we can describe perfectly in terms of its chem... | 3 |
AskReddit/ecxxqxo | ab6y1d | How do small countries like New Zealand and Israel get so wealthy? | Size doesn't have much to do with wealth per person. Tiny countries like Luxembourg, Singapore or Brunei are extremely wealthy, but insignificant because of how small they are. Usually these countries have good education and health care and have invested heavily in infrastructure such as electricity. | 12 |
AskReddit/d79axj1 | 5150vb | What's your favorite drink? | This is my favorite cocktail, and it's really easy to make: The Broken Heart -1/2 tablespoon cherries -1 cup vodka -1 cup champagne -Mix-em up all together, then pour the drink out of the one glass that it spent so much time bonding with and spending time with, the best time I've ever spent with a woman, and pour it in... | 20 |
AskReddit/dqyza9d | 7iidx9 | Is it weird for two brothers to move out of their parents' house and live together, why or why not? | I did exactly that. If you get along you'll love it. It was great but the only problem was when he got married and had a kid I had to move out. But there were no hard feelings and it didn't affect our relationship at all. Maybe I could have stayed but it would have been weird at that point. As an added bonus we even wo... | 6 |
AskReddit/dd2qesm | 5qt58b | What's your best trick for defusing a really bad argument with your significant other? | You don't have an opinion. Don't mention your side, and don't bring anything else into the fight. Listen to what they say, don't get defensive, and then honestly try to fix the issue they've noticed. Not only will the argument be a lot less bad, you will both come out on top. | 2 |
AskReddit/d97c9zi | 59b7q6 | Which game would seriously deserve a well done remaster? | VTM: Bloodlines That game was definitely the victim of being rushed out too soon to make it out for Christmas. So many bugs and glitches and incomplete content and yet it still manages to be an excellent game despite all that. Give it a remaster, fix all the bugs and glitches and add the cut content back in and it woul... | 4 |
AskReddit/cux1za2 | 3kfve6 | If you can know the absolute truth about something, what would it be? | I would like to know the "absolute truth" behind private sector and government relationships as well as their connections to the media. It would be so cool to see who the megalomaniacs are and what kinds of hooks they have implanted in the country. For example, what do the Koch Brothers control that we don't know about... | 2 |
AskReddit/c2kh5ej | ki59j | What movie villain were you meant to hate, yet you ended up liking for whatever reason? | Not a movie villain, but Cesare Borgia from Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. He was heavy handed, but ultimately he wanted to create a strong and united Italy, which would ultimately have been a good thing. | 2 |
AskReddit/c3m6o3i | p3gzq | What is a legitimate way of working from home for a disabled person? | i am not sure if speech is any way effected, but if not you could look at work at home call center type jobs, most of those are tech support type deals. that's what i do, but i am not disabled in any way so i am not sure how that would work out for ya | 3 |
AskReddit/c0ls3t7 | bag1f | How has Facebook changed your Life? | Well, most recently, I found my father on Facebook. He and my mother were never married and he left before I was born. I never really asked questions about him or wondered about him too much. He's Chilean and his family lives in Chile, so I just kind of assumed that he probably moved back there. For my whole life, I've... | 2 |
AskReddit/c85hfhn | 17gx5i | How come it's socially acceptable to tell a smoker that smoking could kill them, but it's not okay to tell an overweight person that eating so much could kill them? | These threads always crack me up because obesity is suddenly caused by everything except for overeating, poor diet choices, and lack of exercise. Look at the numbers. There is a reason that America has such a bigger obesity problem than the rest of the world, and it isn't because we are somehow more susceptible to hypo... | 4 |
AskReddit/ecbpknw | a8lqyx | Why does alcohol make some people mean or angry? | Alcohol doesn't make anyone be or do anything. it just shuts down the part of the brain that prevents them from acting on the thoughts and urges they have all the time. So if someone is a mean drunk, or an angry drunk, they are that all the time, but they just know better when they are sober. It's a bad sign. | 7 |
AskReddit/cd0i3fo | 1pauwi | What product that you own has lasted longer than you ever thought possible? | I bought a first generation iPod shuffle at a yard sale in 2006 and it still works. I have the worst luck with electronics I either break or loose them so quickly but that thing has lasted me so long. I even left it in a pocket and it went through the washing machine and it was totally fine. Kind of annoying that I hav... | 2 |
AskReddit/c0e9t6a | 9stlb | What tips and tricks do you have for keeping your house warmer in the winter (that actually work)? | There was a reddit post i saw earlier asking if anyone else leaves their oven open after they cook to help heat the house. That works pretty well. I use a space heater to heat the room i'm using and don't have to heat the whole house. Draft stoppers (rolls of fabric filled with insulating material and sewn at each end)... | 13 |
AskReddit/e8z9a81 | 9tuvd9 | What are some dark ways to teach kids life values? | Let them get lost and find their own way home. My Dad once left me at the shopping centre when I didn't meet him at the car on time. He didn't call me, just drove home and I had to walk 45 mins on my own for the first time between this shopping centre and my house. Had no google maps back then to help or anything like ... | 2 |
askscience/dt60002 | 7shhk1 | Can total hearing loss from short-term very loud sounds be fixed (or fix itself), and what would cause this sort of noise-induced deafness? | Noise induced defness is caused by the ear drum rupturing. Because it is essentially a flap of skin that reads vibrations (very simplified), a perforation or rupture will stop that from vibrating, so it cannot transfer the sound wave in a way that the human brain can understand. Eventually, this can heal, but there wil... | 2 |
AskReddit/c3pbg3z | ph4xr | Why don't drink manufacturers make bottles more spherical? | Yes in terms of material but, spheres are a LOT harder to mass produce than cylinders. Most companies are trying to get as many bottles or cans out as fast as possible and the cost of material does not make a big enough difference. | 4 |
AskReddit/eega3l0 | ahno7p | What is in your opinion the most important moment in human history? | The moment two human beings figured out they referred to eachother with "you" and to themselves with "me", respectively. This is the first moment in human history, the birth of "humanity" all of the moments before are just Time, of which a part of it there was life, including humans. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/dqvhh0v | 7i1nj9 | How does your body know what to process from the food you eat and what is waste? | First, let's talk about the "know" part. Your body uses microscopic structures called "enzymes" that grab ahold of other molecules and (for our purposes) breaks them down into other molecules. Each of these enzymes are specific to what they break down, so an enzyme won't just break down anything, it will only work on s... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/ciiujm4 | 299wlx | Do blind people dream, and if so, how? | I'm no neurologist, but as far as I understand things, dreams are basically made of ideas, and are part of the brains mechanism to organize things. The blind still have ideas, even if they have little or no visual component to them. Their dreams may be different, but I'd say they're still dreams. | 2 |
AskReddit/codlmpj | 2v0cxv | What kind of snobs are the worst? | Mine is pretty specific, but horse snobs. The equestrian world is filled with snobby people. People that look down on you because you're not riding a $200,000 horse or using a $8000 saddle. Or those that think their training methods are the ONLY way. Or whatever else. It's maddening. | 6 |
AskReddit/cqdqblh | 32qsry | What is an acceptable tip for to-go orders? | I typically do 10%, or $5, depending on the value of the order. It doesn't seem right to me to tip the full amount when I haven't received any service, but I also know that some of the tips go to the kitchen staff. Tipping culture is weird | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ccg3kby | 1n7nc8 | Why do people care so much about homosexuality? | Taking religion out of the mix, the overpopulation thing is very new. For most of human history, infant moratilty rates were very, very high and you had to keep a steady stream of children coming to keep a society populated. Religions took over the concept of family and reproduction because they had the influence and p... | 3 |
AskHistorians/cg4zsxk | 20nkdk | Why didn't the North allow the South to secede before the Civil War of the United States broke out? | It's a tricky question, because the Constitution is rather mute on the subject. Lincoln, and doubtless many others in the north, believed that the permanence of the government was implied in the Constitution; that no government was ever created with the seeds of its own destruction contained within, and that secession ... | 11 |
AskReddit/cj0tl0h | 2b1aip | What do you wish more people understood? | Where money comes from. Too many people are taught from a young age that they need to study hard in school, get into a good university, study harder, graduate then get a good job in order to do well in life. I wish schools taught kids about income, expenditure and savings - basic accounting stuff. Children need to know... | 5 |
AskReddit/eteie9o | cb9owd | What's a double standard you hate with passion? | I'm a guy, and once I saw a little girl running around and crying at the the mall, so I watched for a minute to see what was going on.she was lost. I went up to her and said "hey are you lost? Let's go over here and get some help" as I pointed to a little kiosk we were standing beside. My intention was to call a securi... | 210 |
AskReddit/db6h1ce | 5i9nt2 | What is truly better; Physical paper books or electronic books? | Physical paper. Although audiobooks sped up to 1.5x can do wonders. You can read volumes in far less time than it would actually take you to read them. I like to do both, by listening to the audiobook prior, you latch onto key ideas, then later on reading the actual book can gain deep insight into your already solidifi... | 2 |
AskHistorians/chjzer3 | 25qif3 | Why didn't the Mongols invade India? | The Mongols did invade India, even if they failed to progress beyond northern India. They fought against the Delhi Sultanate and even managed to sack Lahore in 1241. The climate explanation is plausible at first, but doesn't make sense once you examine it further. The Mongols invaded southern China, Vietnam, and parts ... | 22 |
AskReddit/cefdlhj | 1u7xpq | What is the single best thing you have ever bought for either yourself or another person? | My family bought a 50' tv for my grandma. Flatscreen, LED. Its nice. My grandma deserves it. Shes like 65, still working hard, the money isn't so great, she has a huge heart, and her old tv was those huge CRT ones. Around 32 inches. We broke into her house and set everything up and waited. When she came, we hid and she... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/de4nhab | 5vt6ni | Why would a 45g bar of chocolate cost 80p (cents) but a 300g cost £1 (dollar)? | Because more of their costs reside in the packaging and distribution than in the chocolate itself. Think about buying sand in giant 200 pound bags or individually wrapped grains, how do you think the price would change per pound? | 8 |
AskReddit/e1re6ft | 8vyl98 | How would you feel if they added pole dancing to the Olympics as another part of gymnastics? | I mean it takes a lot of physical strength to be a real pole dancer (I’m not talking about ones who use poles that spin). Plus it would be fun to watch. I don’t really think it falls under gymnastics, though. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ccr3gh5 | 1od9fi | If sound is slower than light, is there a lag between what you hear and what you see? | Yes, light travels at 299,792,458 m/s while sound is roughly 340 m/s. The classic example of this is lightning. You will always see a flash of light before the crack of thunder because the sound took longer to get to you. You can actually calculate how far away the strike was using this difference in speeds. | 2 |
AskReddit/ebz64t6 | a6zxf0 | What unusual Christmas/Holiday tradition does your family have? | Not spending time with (extended) family. We just stay at home until after the holidays and visit family then. Not super weird we’re just not big on being around everyone everyone for the holidays cause my brother are in uni in the US but my family lives in the UK. | 2 |
Ask_Politics/e7d8wc4 | 9maheq | Is it bad to use ill defined terms like "liberal" and "capitalism"? | You just need to have folks define their terms from the beginning. How the word "Liberal" is used to today tends to describe those we believe are on the Political Left. It's a broad use of the term that's used to illustrate "The Other". Same with "Capitalism". Folks tend to reference the term whenever the market and/or... | 4 |
AskReddit/ewef3z0 | cnwsb7 | What's the most random phrase/conversation you've heard that has stuck with you? | “You ate my sandwich, prepare to get fisted f*ggot” I heard this while driving my friends to my place, we went to Arby’s and had to stop somewhere cause one of my friends had to go to the restroom. We stayed in the car while my one friend went to the bathroom. My other friend ate his sandwich. When he came back, that w... | 5 |
AskReddit/ehkzo5y | aw9tv9 | What trick do you use to find affordable housing near where you live? | Affordable housing? Living within my means? I'm looking for a plot of land I can rent to stack my free pallets and refuse for a comfortable home, but nobody sell. The market says I do cheapest deal and live within households of 7+ and criminals without parking. | 3 |
AskReddit/cos7dt5 | 2wmfyr | How was the first time you saw a naked woman? | this actually depressed me a lot at the time: I was about 14 years old and a crazed homeless women wearing no bra and ill-fitting jacket came up to me on the street and starting ask me directions I gave them to her and she announced I was cute and flashed me. She was not very attractive, would be an under statement. ta... | 2 |
AskReddit/en4bibw | bnbomy | What show makes you lose respect for people when you find out they watch it? | Fox news in general. You have to be a sociopath to watch somebody like Hannity or Carlson and think "this guy makes sense". That or so stupid and gullible you should be weeded out of the gene pool | 18 |
AskReddit/ep8dzdo | bu7c8c | Who can Fondly Remember Government Surplus Cheese and how it tasted? | My father was super soft-hearted and would take trade if somebody couldn't pay him. We got paid in government cheese more than once. It came in an enormous 5-pound block. My mother was bound and determined to get good use out of it so we had cheese everything until it was gone. Cheese omelets, cheese sandwiches, cheese... | 12 |
AskReddit/dkmmi7c | 6p5127 | What plot hole ruined a otherwise good movie for you? | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was an amazing movie. The only plot hole that ruined it was the fact turtles are not capable of complex thought never mind learning karate. | 5 |
AskReddit/da58j8m | 5dkf83 | Where do you draw the line between a person who enjoys drinking and an alcoholic? | As a person who only recently learned the difference in my own life.I can say that if you have to ask, it's a potential problem. I didn't realize how much of an effect it had on my life until I stopped. So try and stop drinking for a week. If you can't do it then you have a problem. If your life feels better after a we... | 2 |
AskReddit/dqjilw1 | 7gjb11 | What is something you got the blame for but never actually did? | When we were kids, my sister and I shared a bedroom. My sister had a weird habit of playing with wooden toothpicks (using them to pull apart dried glue. Tear apart beaded things I made.) She wasn't supposed to play with the toothpicks, really. One day, she stepped hard barefoot on a toothpick on my side of the bed. She... | 2 |
AskReddit/ci5rupp | 27z48i | Is it the same to eat raw eggs in the morning rather than cook them first? | Roughly, yes. Although I recommend blending them into a shake or something as the taste is a bit odd. Also there is always the increased chance of illness from consumption of raw eggs, but if they're fresh and you've got a good immune system, you should be fine. | 2 |
AskReddit/czyj72n | 45krtb | What's the best and cheapest drink you can easily make from vodka and just a couple other ingredients? | Simple Dirty martini. 1 shot Vodka, 1/2 shot dry vermouth, add olive juice and salt to taste. Supposed to be a salty tasting drink. I love them | 2 |
AskHistorians/egomzt1 | arla7v | Would a Roman from the 1st-2nd century AD recognize anything in the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine) in the 11th-12th century as "Roman"? | In religion, language, and many other respects, the Byzantine Empire of the Comnenian period was very different from its Roman ancestor. It continued, however, to preserve many of the cultural traditions, some of the institutions, and one of the great cities of the Roman world. In the second century, the Roman province... | 1,009 |
explainlikeimfive/exydou8 | cusryj | Is voltage barrier of diode the same as band gap of LEDs? | Both are band gaps . The difference is that a diode is made of a material with a indirect band gap and a LED is from a material with direct band gap. If you have a direct band gap the result is a photon but if it is indirect bandgap the result is a phonon. The wikipedia article of phonons have the first paragraph quote... | 3 |
AskReddit/efhlwuy | alwyop | What is a serious issue in society that gets blamed on the victims? | Everybody only talks about rape. But I'm going to cover a very broad topic here. Poverty in a lot of places gets blamed on the sufferers for 'being lazy' when in fact a lot of them have more work ethic than the privellaged, it is their lack of opportunity that fails them. | 6 |
AskReddit/ecmtbjc | a9vfut | What do you think of a compulsory year of volunteering in a developing country when you leave school? | It's not volunteering if it is obligated, but I get what you mean. In my country this is motivated by giving student points for volunteering during their studies. Once you started it is easier to keep doing it. I agree with an earlier comment that it shouldn't be in a developing country, but in your own. | 2 |
AskReddit/ei75r75 | azdpjf | What is your addiction? | Heroin. When I was 18 my younger brother was arrested for a murder he had nothing at all to do with. We never had our father around and living in a bad area i felt sort of responsible in a way to look out for him,so when this happened it hit me pretty bad. About 2 months into him being in jail (he was 16 so he was sent... | 9 |
AskReddit/e0q0ypg | 8rarku | What are you comfortable missing out on? | Adult fiction books, the kind that are on display when you walk into a bookstore but are forgotten a year later. Especially the ones with really prolific authors, because they tend to be the same story told over and over again. That’s fine if you like that, there’s nothing wrong with reading them, but to me they’re mos... | 17 |
explainlikeimfive/cmo3gyn | 2okui1 | Why do we get milk/baby teeth then lose them? | This is part of the growth process. Teeth are not like other bones. The bone in your arm can just grow as you grow, but teeth do not grow, so when you need bigger teeth to fit into your bigger mouth, the solution is to grow entirely new teeth. | 94 |
AskReddit/cdvsv5c | 1sbai1 | If minimum wage went up to $15, wouldn't prices of goods go up similarly thus negating the increase? | Cost of living in Australia is marginally higher, however minimum wage is dramatically higher + heavily subsidised tertiary education and interest free student loans, free healthcare, and a universal standard for working class jobs (i.e. certification and qualification for trades). The increased wage is part of the sol... | 39 |
AskReddit/dlkq519 | 6thj9b | What would happen to society if all internet throughout the world was turned off for 7 days? | Well I don't know about society as a whole but I think that the internet might be one of the only things helping me retain my sanity. Since I don't go outside or interact with human beings, the internet is the only way I understand interaction. Starved of attention I'd probably use the skills I've learned online to ass... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/e4v6fpe | 9ag7gm | How do we know that the gas giant planets in our solar system are actually gas giants? | Well theres a variety of factors involved. Theres spectral analysis which is the go to method for determining the material of a distant object. Lets take jupiter for example. Jupiter is huge. And has a certain gravitational pull. Since we know how big it is and how much mass it has we can calculate how dense it is. So ... | 26 |
AskReddit/ciljyy5 | 29jn0e | What is the best piece of advice you could give a College Student looking for an Internship? | Get one at a place that will get you valuable contacts. It is the most important thing you can get out of an internship. Develop some relationships. Travel far if you have too. Stay extra hours. Whatever it takes. Don't take it lightly at all. Get it at a good place. Your internship is the most important class you have... | 3 |
AskReddit/eh1e1ij | atjhuq | How was your day? | Needed this! Thank you. My day started out like any other, ate my Frosted Flakes, took daughter to daycare and am at work thinking.is this it? What am I doing with my life? Do I matter? Got kinda down thinking about life.so thank you OP | 2 |
AskReddit/ec83jb0 | a85exq | What is your story of someone trying to explain something to you in your area of expertise? | I volunteered at an animal shelter and had an animal care staff member attempt to correct my grammar in a sign posted for staff which included "there is a pair of gloves in the transfer room closet." She was convinced that it should read "there are a pair of gloves." That's not an uncommon point of confusion, and the c... | 3 |
AskReddit/dhz74i5 | 6d2a7j | What is the most heroic thing you have ever seen someone do for their child? | Saw the video. It was on the front page a long while ago. Might have been in China. Guy on the street jumps to the rescue and saves 2 children (I think) from a speeding vehicle. He grabbed the kids and did a backwards somersault, saving their lives at the last second. I haven't witnessed any truly heroic first hand acc... | 2 |
AskReddit/dqgcref | 7g49y3 | What movie would you love to watch for the first time again? | Avatar. I'll happily admit it's not a great film, but at the time it was the first PROPER 3D film I'd ever watched and it was amazing. I was swatting at fireflies and dodging exploding mechs etc. It wasn't just tacked on to get some extra sales, it was recorded specifically to be 3D. I left the cinema stunned, honestly... | 2 |
AskReddit/czzrfaq | 45s51i | What are some things that are banned in the USA for health reasons, but legal in other developed countries? | Kinder Eggs. Banned because chocking hazard of having non-edibles inside candy, also banned for not being allowed for all ages and are marked as being for children 3+. | 5 |
AskReddit/ccntxvg | 1o0vbr | What is the worst pet you've ever owned? | A dwarf hamster. Don't laugh. She was a handful. Her cage was 4 feet off the ground on a shelf. She escaped almost every night, which means that she would knowingly take that 4 foot drop. I shouldn't have been surprised, I picked her at the pet store because she was jumping off the wheel and launching herself at the wa... | 3 |
AskReddit/dseqg46 | 7p5qze | How fast would a tennis ball have to travel to go through a human? | This came up on the morning news, and now I’m curious, but my physics is pretty rusty. Some numbers that I’ve found: 100psi is enough to break the skin Tennis ball: 66mm diameter and 60g 73.18m/s faster recorded tennis serve I was trying to compare to the energy in a 7.62 bullet, scaled for cross sectional area, but I’... | 2 |
AskReddit/egq45nt | arwqv8 | What’s the worst power trip your boss has done? | He started the day by calling my team down to the other warehouse to get us to peel the top of a sticker off 100 drums and stack them onto two pallets. He sends us away and gets other people to stick new labels on the drums and move them onto different pallets. We could have just labeled them as we went. Edit: that's j... | 2 |
AskReddit/cpr3tcy | 30cbn0 | What is a good original senior prank idea? | Create a fake FaceBook profile of your high school's principal and add all of the students from that school you can find. Steal the pictures from his/her current profile to make it look legit. Once you've added a ton of students, tell them that the next school day is cancelled or something. I did this at my school for ... | 3 |
AskReddit/e7wdddh | 9osh6k | What song or album brings back some of your favourite memories and what were they? | Alanis Morrisettes “jagged little pill” She was hugewhen I was in grade school. Thought she was a total badass. No specific memories, just remember rocking out with my friends thinking we were the definition of female anarchy | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ccfbzh1 | 1n4m9v | Why are planets and stars only spherical and not any other shape? | Great question! Gravity pulls objects towards their center of mass. Because in three-dimensional space the only way to have all points on the edge of a shape be the same distance from the center as all other points is to have the shape be a sphere, gravity squeezes every part of a heavenly body into a sphere. Objects w... | 21 |
AskReddit/c7f7ntg | 14pes8 | Is it possible to change your personality? | Personality is part genetic part environmental. The environment in this case is culture and subculture. To a certain degree, you may choose your subculture based on your personality, but to another degree, your personality can change due to your subculture. If you choose to hang out with a certain group of people, you ... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/crrnop2 | 3821v3 | How does water vapor exist at room temperature and atmospheric pressure? | Any liquid (or solid, in fact) has something called a vapor pressure. It will very slowly evaporate, because while the temperature of the whole object is too low to have molecules break off and run free, the temperature of particular molecules (their kinetic energy) can be high enough to do so. This is because the mole... | 2 |
AskReddit/e1fbe33 | 8ugnld | What was the nicest lie someone has ever told you? | My ex wrote me a note once while I was at work and she was at my apartment, detailing the reasons she loves me and when I came home she was asleep and I found that on my desk along with several gifts. About a month or two later, she tried to ghost me, started seeing another guy on my birthday, and told me she had never... | 4 |
askscience/cuhg4ma | 3ill91 | Are our decisions really "unconscious"? | That's because no-one really knows the difference between conscious and unconscious thought. Not just you! We don't know what thoughts are, we don't know what a 'decision' means really in the context of the mind, and we don't know what consciousness is. I'm sure the studies you talk about have been very carefully perfo... | 2 |
AskReddit/doo8hlv | 77rvt1 | What is the creepiest thing that happen to you? | The first time I was allowed to stay home overnight by myself, a 6 foot creepy guy with a bathrobe kept knocking on the door over the course of a few hours. I was thirteen, I pretended I wasn't home, but he kept comming back, happened like 5 times that night, just after the Chelsea King murder. Stayed up all night. Nex... | 2 |
AskReddit/eszdtwv | c9kwej | Would you immediately stop talking to a potential dating prospect if they didn't know when to properly use to, too, and two? | I’m not a native English speaker. My English is not perfect, but I make the effort to make it as clear as I can, and use the proper words for what I want to say. If I was talking to a native English speaker and he didn’t even bothered to put the effort to speak his own language correctly, then I wouldn’t bother continu... | 2 |
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