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AskHistorians/c9tkjp6 | 1dsha1 | Have conquered people, after regaining their freedom, ever put up symbols of the conqueror later, as symbols of freedom? | I guess one example could be the Islamic symbolism adopted by Albanians. The Albanian national hero is Skenderbeg, referred to by the pope as the Shield of Christendom, but eventually he died, Albania fell to the turks, and hundreds of years later, Albanians and Kosovans identify themselves, as least marginally, as Mus... | 4 |
askscience/d0i4inb | 48aj8q | To eliminate the need for an extra day every four years, why couldn't we just redefine the second? | This would mean a day is not 24 hours any more. So each day, "midnight" would slip a little bit. After 2 years, "midnight" would be in the middle of the day! The fundamental issue that can't be solved here is there are not an integer number of days in a year. | 1,265 |
explainlikeimfive/dfwi9yy | 63r7e6 | What happens to money obtained in a drug bust? | The money is held in evidence until the case is disposed of. The police can then apply to the court to have the money and any other seized property forfeited as proceeds of a criminal enterprise. This is a civil proceeding, as opposed to criminal, and the burden of proof is only a preponderance of evidence, as opposed ... | 6 |
askscience/c76zikc | 13sbwv | Can you short out power lines using Mylar balloons? | Let's clear up a basic misunderstanding: Mylar is Dupont's term trademark for biaxially oriented PET film. It is a very clear film that you can see through. It can be used as is, or it can be printed on and/or metallized. For some reason that I've yet to understand, people think that Mylar is only the metallized versio... | 6 |
AskReddit/e2hlzxo | 8zbohi | What’s a seemingly innocent comment someone made, but actually hurt you? | A little while ago, my mom was talking to me. At one point, I thought I saw something out the window behind her and took a quick glance. Then, my mom said, “Honey, are you losing focus again?” I was listening to her, and I wasn’t just staring out the window, but the fact she automatically assumed I had lost focus made ... | 2 |
AskReddit/eizvq7x | b3ily8 | What are those situations you imagine being in, but will most likely never happen? | It's a little cringey to type, but I sometimes imagine scenarios where I have to step up and confront someone or stand up and help someone out. I'm 99% sure I don't go around white knighting in real life, but it's cool to imagine stepping up to the plate in a tough situation. | 2 |
AskReddit/dxkf6tp | 8d5hg3 | What is a stereotype of a group or demographic that in your experience is mostly true? | When I was a waitress, my (black) manager was telling me that she was going to tip me when her cousins came in, because black people don't tip and nothing she says can get her cousins to tip. I had never heard that before, but I kind of shrugged it off. I did start trying to notice if it was true, and it seemed to be a... | 2 |
AskReddit/d5s8zac | 4urom0 | What do you guys regret doing/not doing in your teens/early 20s? | I regret not having a normal life. My early twenties were an absolute shitshow. I got a lot of money from a lawsuit and I went completely off the rails. There was a lot of drugs, alcohol, and sleeping around. I lost a lot of friends, I caused problems with my family, and I can't remember what should have been one of th... | 3 |
AskReddit/e2unynv | 9117o3 | What does one have to do to get started in the IT field? | Depends on where you live. In some places, there are companies that are more than happy to train someone who knows nothing about IT to do a basic helpdesk type of position. Similarly, if you are a student, it is usually pretty easy to get a student work position at an IT position on campus even without training. Then y... | 13 |
AskReddit/c2pqbg0 | l4l2i | If you could go back to 1991 and restart your life from that point, what would you do? | Nothing, I graduated high school in 1991 and started college that fall. Pretty happy with my life right now(wife,2 kids, nice home, decent income) so I'm good someone else can have my turn with the time machine. | 7 |
askscience/dlw4pxa | 6uxh7p | How powerful are electro magnets, and what are their capabilities? | >Can electro magnets be not only switched ON or OFF, but can their percentage of magnetic capabilities also be controlled? Yes, you can tune the field strength by controlling the amount of current flowing through them. >What type of negative effects do magnets have on cell phones, laptops, TVs, etc? Strong, changing ma... | 10 |
AskReddit/eft2rm6 | ang4o9 | What was the most disappointed you ever were in a game or movie? | As someone who's never been all that big of a Harry Potter fan, I actually really enjoyed the first Fantastic Beasts, so I was really excited when I got a bunch of my friends to go see Crimes of Grindlewold with me. It disappointed me bigtime, and now I can't convince one my friends that saw it with me without seeing t... | 2 |
AskReddit/exlixbu | ctl81n | How did allergies to benign things, like cats and peanuts, survive natural selection? | Allergies were a lot less common in the past actually, and there’s a theory that the reason our bodies have started to develop extreme allergies these days is because as a species we have done so well in keeping ourselves healthy due to vaccines, medicine, and general hygiene education, that our immune systems aren’t u... | 5 |
AskReddit/etgn9ij | cbmv0o | What good or bad memories do you have from elementary school/middle school? | I stabbed the class bully in the neck with a number 2 pencil in elementary. Juvy was fun, though it lasted through out all of middle school. It was almost like young crook school. I learned a lot. Had a lot of opportunities to join larger more established gangs with good connections. Thanks to Texas Department of Corre... | 5 |
askscience/c44ec92 | rb3eu | How do we jive friction from tidal forces with the conservation of energy? | The heat comes from the rotational energy in the bodies - it can't last forever, but it doesn't need to - only for a few billion years. Consider that the Moon is tidally locked to the Earth - because it used up it's rotational energy until it was tidally locked. Once it's tidally locked, the tides are static, so there'... | 5 |
AskReddit/cl2psse | 2ijo57 | What happens during a TV licence inspection (UK)? | They will connect an aerial and if the TV is found to be capable of receiving live broadcasts, they'll deem you to require a TV license and will ask for payment of it there and then. A couple of things though - they often send out blanket letters to an area and only check a couple of addresses, so unless you have had o... | 2 |
AskReddit/cohv9c5 | 2vi84a | Why aren't beanie babies worth as much as everyone was hoping they'd be? | There was such a rush to buy something that was mass produced, creating artificial shortages of the beanie babies, which in turn drove the price up. After people stopped buying them so quickly in such quantities, the bubble on them popped, much like a housing market bubble. | 2 |
AskReddit/c1tt9l5 | ha8tk | What childhood memory has negatively affected your adult life? | My entire childhood has negatively affected my life because I grew up with a bipolar, schizophrenic father who emotionally, mentally and verbally abused me on a daily basis. | 7 |
AskReddit/ccwlk03 | 1ox4w6 | Who is your most famous friend or family member? | I have two kind of famous friends. One is Joe Lauzon, a UFC fighter that currently shares the record for the most Fight/Sub/Knock outs of the night. The other is FPS Russia, who at one time had one of the 5 most subscribed youtube channels. I'm not sure if this counts but I've partied with the guys from Epic Meal Time ... | 290 |
AskReddit/cjopqgb | 2dcqyb | What do you do when an attractive person is looking at you? | The best thing in the world to do when you've made eye contact, regardless if the person is attractive or not, is to smile. Awesome feeling when they smile back. You just made their day! Great vibes! | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/dfe1wnz | 61evd3 | Why are Ringo Starr and Meg White considered bad drummers? | Ringo is a great drummer, and came up with some innovative stuff. But when compared to Keith Moon, Ginger Baker, or John Bonham, he's not at that type of drummer's level. In fact, Pete Best (the Beatles' first drummer) was actually considered a better drummer. Not sure if having a virtuoso drummer (not that Pete Best w... | 41 |
AskReddit/e60eo30 | 9fzp9e | What information are you hoping to find when you look for album reviews? | A key component is definitely giving some background or history on the artist/band; I won't necessarily find that if I simply listen to the album. Also, reviews help me learn professional music terms that I wouldn't know/understand without explanation. When using them in an album review, it helps provide examples of mu... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cg19e4s | 20a8ya | Why is it medically recommended that people try to reduce swelling if swelling is an important part of the healing process? | First off, swelling causes pain. Secondly, the stretching and pressure that swelling causes can do some other minor harm. And can obscure other signs of a problem. But mostly it's less that swelling is part of healing, it's that swelling is a sign that something is wrong, and reducing the swelling is a sign that they a... | 3 |
AskHistorians/cnb60p8 | 2qzhau | What are some ways Western Europe in the Early Middle Ages was more technologically advanced than ancient Greece and Rome? | In direct contest to the OP what are some specific examples of what was lost? I remember hearing that a lot of medical knowledge was lost in western Europe after the fall of the Romans. | 8 |
AskReddit/ehy50l2 | ay3z69 | What was something normal that terrified you as a child? | Owls. I had a nightmare about one when I was 2 years old and was terrified of them up until a few years ago. Now ironically, I love them and chose them as my daughter's theme for all her baby stuff. Lol. | 2 |
AskReddit/dzb6le2 | 8kx2f6 | What is the costliest (monetarily) mistake you have ever made? | I was in high school. My best friends older sister (late 20's) told me she was in a pinch and asked to borrow some money. She was married and had a kid so she seemed to have her life somewhat on track. I figured it was okay to help her out. I let her have $200. Over the course of a few months she paid me about $100 but... | 3 |
AskReddit/cl0u0de | 2ic97s | What small thing or event changed the course of your life? | Not a small thing but I got drunk and drove and wrecked my car. 9 stitches in my forehead. While recuperating I spent a lot of time on the internet. Met a girl, married her, been married for 12 years. | 2 |
AskReddit/cyi6sl1 | 3z07hl | How are you NOT politically correct? | By not particularly caring if I'm politically correct or not. From either direction. That is, the usual "I'm not PC" thing, but also not making a fetish out of being the Naughtiest Boy In Town just to get a rise out of people. That's just sad. | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/d1kzuh0 | 4cs6i1 | What happens to the bodies of those who opted to donate to science? | Well, you can't just "donate your body to science". You can donate your body to a specific scientific organization that has a use for cadavers, though. But all this is stuff that has to be done before you keel over. Not every body is useful to every organization. Beyond that though, it is up to the organization as to w... | 2 |
AskReddit/emoj9n4 | blge3q | What are some feminine traits of your boyfriends/husbands? | It is all about my husbands hair. He looks like a walking Alaskan Jesus. One day we were shopping and I walked away and he had a conversation (thinking I was still next to him) about this hair product and how it would benefit his hair issues. Some old lady laughed and told him he had beautiful hair. He was half mortifi... | 2 |
AskReddit/co2qepw | 2tvpwf | Does Magma splash? | Anything splashes if it has enough force behind it. A bullet will splash if it hits something hard enough. So yes, magma will splash. It's dense enough that you can stand on it, but if it were to drop from a sufficient height it would splash when it hit the ground. Also, if it's flowing fast and it's hot enough, it spl... | 2 |
AskReddit/daowibh | 5g2a6f | What should you NEVER do at a library? | Jousting down the aisles on horseback in full armour sounds fun, but i reckon they would frown on that in pretty much every library. Political correctness & health and safety gone mad if you ask me. | 12 |
AskReddit/ea39thg | 9yq81i | What’s the stupidest reason you have gotten in trouble for as a child? | I rode on a school bus with a boy I thought had cute hair, very curly and soft. My bus driver didn’t like how often I touched his hair for some odd reason and I got in trouble with the school, and was paddled. So, yeah. I got paddled for touching a dude’s hair. | 2 |
askscience/cjz0lrx | 2eecq9 | Could chemoautotrophic bacteria live in the hostile environments of another planet? | The discovery of extremophile organisms like bacteria has certainly broadened our understanding of life, and the sheer strangeness and lengths it can go and survive. So, the answer is yes. There definitely could be organisms on other planets, even those that we might have traditionally thought of as being too hostile t... | 6 |
AskReddit/dlbpplp | 6scqfa | What's your favorite cheesy line in a movie? | I remember watching the Matrix in theaters when it first came out. It was awesome. Everything was new and great. But the movie was so good that most scenes became tropes. Bullet time, pause and spin cameras, stuff like that. Eventually everything got copied and overused in other movies. I watched it recently after not ... | 3 |
AskReddit/e6s1v99 | 9jj7iw | What's the worst meal you ever made? | I used to be a professional, so naturally there's been some fails along the way The one which comes to mind the most: I was making an almond and maple sugar ice cream. Really nice stuff, maple didnt overwhelm the almond at all. This was a really nice restaurant too, people dropped lots of money on wine and food, like a... | 2 |
AskReddit/eqtq8g0 | bzn1i9 | What do you do to help you go to sleep faster? | Avoid blue light. If your phone has night mode use it. If you have a hard time sleeping, avoid computer monitors/TV/Phone/tablets for an hour or two before bed - Try reading, meditating or exorcise. The blue light on screens messes with your circadian rhythm (sleep cycle). Also don't watch TV in bed, if you make bed fo... | 2 |
AskReddit/c8p0xgd | 19l6u9 | Which would you rather have, One world government or no government at all? | One world government. No established order creates chaos. Obviously one world government could be very oppressive, but on the other hand, if they truly cared about the well-being of the world it could be efficient. | 3 |
AskReddit/ckmi68u | 2gtuv6 | What's the most ninja way to eat a bowl of cereal? | Place cereal bowl on to of a flagpole. Pour chosen cereal into a silenced leaf-blower. Pointing it upwards, turn on leaf-blower and blow the cereal into the bowl. Climb the outside of the nearest available building. Fill super-soaker with milk and shoot milk into the bowl. Disguise yourself as a flag and climb to the t... | 2 |
AskReddit/elcrhn3 | bfd661 | What would your dream planet look like? | Probably just look like Earth, so it’s habitable. But it’s more of a Pangea so that everybody can learn one language easier, and we can all communicate. Maybe we will all have the same religion, so no one will be arguing about it. Everybody will have an equal amount of land and housing. Everyone will have to work to ge... | 2 |
AskReddit/c9n29v1 | 1d5b2q | What is the best thing you have heard someone "Sleep Talk"? | My late girlfriend used to talk in her sleep a lot. The three I remember most were: When she insisted she needed to call me. I was sitting at my desk about 2 metres away at the time. But she was adamant she needed to call me to the point where she'd lunge out of bed to try and grab her phone. In the end, I had to to sp... | 2,076 |
AskReddit/ebghm0x | a4pfgn | What hobby or interest were you introduced to thanks to Reddit? | I guess it was already forming by the time I started Reddit (3 months ago) but Reddit really helped me introduce me to making memes. Some of my ideas have been bad, but I've definitely honed my "craft" thanks to feedback on Reddit. I guess I have some sense of humor. | 3 |
AskReddit/djwr0or | 6luxoj | Why do you never see urinals installed in private homes? | My dad literally just moved into a new house and he annoyed the builders by requsting a urinal in the master bathroom. He had them not install a tub, but instead install a urinal and shower. He was very excited about out. Had me go over the measurements in the plans for it because him and math get along about as well a... | 3 |
AskReddit/cyntagi | 3zoqtd | Do you sometimes hear yourself lying without actually intending it and for meaningless things ? | For me it has happened a few times (not that enough to think it's pathological), but enough for me to notice and feel very awkward/awful afterwards. It's as if I intend to give a factual answer to a question, then for some reason my mind wanders to a hypothetical situation and then wires get crossed and I blurb out the... | 2 |
askscience/cc8bkzj | 1mcj6c | If sound waves can be cancelled out, can incident light be cancelled in the same way? | Yes, light waves can experience destructive interference. It's the basis for the interferometer. As for the second question, can you reword it? I'm not exactly sure what you mean. Are you talking about an atomic system, or just free electrons? | 6 |
AskReddit/e129qca | 8su7of | What is the smelliest smell you’ve ever smelled? | Not a light-hearted story, but my best friend and the most wonderful dog in the world died of cancer about 3 years ago. Near the end she got an intestinal infection, and lost control of her bowels. I have never. ever. ever. smelled anything so horrid in my entire life. It literally moved in waves through the room and h... | 2 |
AskReddit/e8ewmln | 9r7c1b | What's the dumbest "cure" somebody told you to try? | I suffer from tendon sheath inflammation, in my wrists and elbows. Someone once told me to cover my arms in tinfoil and it would help. I asked her if it would help because of the heat, but she explained that it worked on an ionic level. She also once gave my boyfriend some stickers to put on his forehead because he had... | 4 |
AskReddit/ey6dj38 | cvtzp3 | What confession did your parents reveal just before they passed away? | not my parents, but their parents, my grandma was on her death bed and told us they had hid a great deal of money in their home, but said my grandpa (who was dead already) hid the money and she didnt know where it was in the house. Grandma died and my aunt and uncle tore the whole house apart for years before giving up | 322 |
AskReddit/do0p68b | 74rygx | What's the smartest tv comedy? | It has comedic parts but I'm not sure it's considered "comedy" but I'd say Mr Robot probably the only TV show actually based on real technology and not a bunch of made up spy-movie tech jargon | 2 |
AskReddit/eo87pwt | bqv5dm | What do you think you're really good at but dont tell people because you dont want to brag? | Lying. It comes naturally now. Even when I don't actively think to lie I just do it automatically. Started when I got sick of explaining jokes to people. Then began realising it's so much easier to lie sometimes than to explain why things are. I know it's bad, but it's out of my control now. It's gotten to the point wh... | 6 |
askscience/ej77dku | b4icfb | Can life exist without mitochondrion? | Well, sciences believes that the mitochondrium was once an organism in itself and got 'eaten' by another. So there was life without mitochondrium. I would also say that evolution would have found a different approach to energy supply if it hadn't happened, life would've existed still, but maybe there would be very diff... | 10 |
AskReddit/e5tqvyi | 9f4dhf | What's your best gaming memory, be it board game, video game, D&D, etc? | Ok I'm going on a rant here. First off, Undertale. That game made me feel something that nothing ever has before, to the point where I broke down inside over killing a fictional skeleton man. Something about that game's atmosphere just hit me hard. The best memory would probably have to be beating Sans, because I'm not... | 3 |
AskReddit/dlddj4x | 6sk6p9 | How did you fail your driving test the first time? | They had a stop sign randomly placed in the DMV parking lot. It wasn't near any intersections, it was just there to test your alertness for stop signs. Didn't notice, failed. Tricky jerks. | 2 |
askscience/cwb2x9u | 3pydch | Is it possible for two celestial objects to be very close yet locked in binary due to magnetic repulsion? | There are two related quesitons. Do celestial objects with signifcant magnetic charge get formed? And that if you had two two such magnetic charges near each other could it hold stable against gravity? And I guess the issue mainly fizzles in that interstellar gas just doesn't collapse easily into planets or planetoids ... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/drx7ly3 | 7mwmqa | What's the fundamental difference between hand soap, dish soap, body wash, bar soap and shampoo? | They're each focused on a different purpose Dish soap should cut through grease and oil, that's its primary job. It doesn't necessarily need to smell nice or be soft on the hands as long as it plows through stuck on grease Hand soap should be decent at getting stuff off your hands, but also needs to be soft on the hand... | 5 |
AskReddit/ce1f9z3 | 1suq0l | What was the dumbest rule your school has? | Well I'm out of school now but they had a stupid internet policy. I was banned from the computers in the library for a week because they thought I was playing online poker. I got bored and was playing solitaire, I even showed them but the person who caught me didn't know the difference. Now I can tell you the most stup... | 6 |
AskReddit/esasqin | c6rnmk | What was your hardest grind in a video game? | Oh Boy here we go: I am a very competitive person when it comes to video games so any multiplayer game I’m invested in I won’t stop playing until I got the highest or at least a really high rank. Took me like 3000 hours in league to get diamond Also I have around 15k games won in Hearthstone . At one point I literally ... | 2 |
AskReddit/c0ur04b | crs56 | How do I rid myself of "Antivir Pro"? | I repaired a coworker's machine with this a few days ago. I ended up having to reboot his computer in safe mode with networking. Then I downloaded Malwarebytes and renamed its setup executable to iexplore.exe so it would run. Ran a full scan and it cleaned the Antivir Pro. Rebooted in normal mode and everything was ok ... | 2 |
AskReddit/c8ej1xw | 18g3er | What is your all time favorite anti-joke? | Knock Knock Who's there? Robert Robert who? Robert breaks down into tears because his grandmother's Alzheimer's has progressed to the point where she doesn't remember her own grandson. EDIT: My apologies to those named Robert who have grandmothers with Alzheimer's. I am sorry if I made you uncomfortable or depressed, t... | 1,722 |
AskReddit/d7b3rho | 51d4ro | What's one thing movies consistently get wrong? | No one ever communicates or explains things correctly. "Hey, that girl you saw, that was actually my sister." "Oh. So you weren't cheating?" "No. Chill out. You wanna go get some Sheetz?" "Yea, sure." Whole movie averted. | 126 |
explainlikeimfive/dt6yowg | 7srkcl | How does an authenticator app work? | The idea behind an authentication app is to have an algorithm with two inputs: A static secret key and a publicly known, changing input. The output of this algorithm does not reveal what the secret key is from its output. Both the server and the legitimate client have the secret key, and the publicly known input is typ... | 14 |
AskReddit/eb4hze1 | a39nb9 | Have you ever been in a relationship that challenged your assumptions of what you both wanted and what you needed? | My last relationship ended because she is asexual and I am very sexual. We thought we'd try an open relationship (Though Im not a real outgoing playboy) at first but we've both came to realize it wouldnt be fair to push expectations of sexual energy onto each other. looking further down the line if she wanted kids whe ... | 2 |
AskReddit/ern4olo | c2xaoq | What is the first thing you would do if you just won $1 million? | Contact a lawyer and try my best to keep it unknown to people that I just won a bunch of money. That said, I'd probably just save it for later, maybe when I graduate college I'll buy a nice place to live and fill it with cats | 18 |
AskReddit/c4oqgl9 | tpzrb | Should I tell my parents about my blood test? | ABO blood groupings are not all that easy. There's another antigen "H" that person needs to express the A and B antigens. If you're A, B or AB you have H as well. It works the same as the others, where it's codominant with it's recessive allele "h". This means that if you have at least one H allele, you will have A or ... | 1,511 |
AskHistorians/c5eqv3y | wmn2r | Did black people have rights in England before the slave trade began? | Just as an aside, the painter William Hogarth sometimes painted black or asian people in his paintings of London. Notable examples would include 'The Harlot's Progress' and 'Southwark Fair'. Although it is hard to infer whether the black people in these paintings had any rights but they do appear performing a servant r... | 8 |
AskReddit/c19p53k | eok7t | What is your least favorite company to deal with? | Any insurance company. I got in a car accident as a passenger a year ago and went to the hospital as a precautionary measure. I got a hospital bill for a couple of hundred bucks and faxed it to my car insurance company (Geico) which is what they told me to do. After I received another bill I called Geico and was being ... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ceeqeqw | 1u5mie | What is gravitational potential energy stored as? | It's stored as a change in height. Energy can be stored as a change in position; that's what potential energy effectively is. Gravitational potential energy is given as P(e)=mgh As the mass of something is generally constant, and the gravitational pull is a function of height, height is the attribute which directly det... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/czm5qmf | 43zi24 | Why can't we get to absolute 0? | Basically, the laws of thermodynamics. specifically, entropy. If you want to think of it simply, heat is vibration of molecules. Absolute zero is the point at which there is no vibration. The law of conservation of energy states that you need to give that energy to another particle to get rid of it. but energy will onl... | 53 |
AskReddit/cp17r75 | 2xlqae | What is the worse way that someone that you actually know has died? | Depends on how you constitute worse. I had to watch my dad suffocate over the course of a few years. Towards the end just lifting his hand winded him. I watch others suffer through cancer which was also bad though their particular type was a quick killer. I've had not one, but two friends who were severed in half from ... | 2 |
AskReddit/dfiy1fl | 621hv7 | What are some good ways to save money? | Set up a new bank account and pretend it is a bill you have to pay every month regardless ( like rent or internet ). When you're paying all your other bills at the end of the money, just transfer money to that account as well. Use it as a savings account, or whatever you want to save for. | 5 |
AskReddit/eeb26et | ah347z | If money was no issue, what job would you choose to do for the rest of your life? | Finally dedicate my time to being an artist. It's hard to push yourself to practice when you're being pulled so many other directions! Or finally take all the classes I need to be a Licensed Psychologist! If money isn't an issue then I can finally afford grad school?! | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ccfsfs3 | 1n6gsz | How does the "dump button" in radio work exactly? | (Radio example) The broadcast is on delay by about seven seconds. There's a computer that keeps that delay buffer. If a guest curses then they can dump the past seven seconds (so that they are essentially broadcasting live) without having a gap in airtime. Then, the computer will automatically insert tiny pauses inbetw... | 9 |
Ask_Politics/e8b422n | 9qpjw4 | Who sponsors President Trump's rallies? | His rallies are costing the American tax payers a lot of money for travel and security. And while other Presidents help their party by campaigning during the election season none of them did their own rallies except during the Presidential election season. | 7 |
AskReddit/dh7t9uk | 69n26j | What makes pizza so unhealthy? | Pizza isn't necessarily unhealthy, it depends on what you use. Chesse, tomato sauce, and bread doesn't sound that unhealthy, right? Well, it is healthy as long as you use those only ingredients. Unfortunately, most pizza places add unhealthy stuff to their pizzas so they can taste good and get you to come back. | 2 |
AskReddit/d5ltje2 | 4u0k3u | What is a gypsy and why do they have a negative reputation? | Gypsy comes from "Egyptian", but the people the name belongs to is called "Romani" The Romani people were a nomadic tribe with a reputation for training their children to commit crimes. A lot of that reputation may be exaggerated, but there were some instances of bands of Gypsies. | 3 |
AskReddit/dup51r6 | 7zmkp6 | What is worth living for? | Mornings where the sun rises just right, little moments of complete peace, those glimmers of comfort, the feeling of a cats nose on your chin in the middle of the night, a perfectly toasted piece of bread with a warm cup of tea. There are so many wonderful little moments worth living for. | 15 |
AskReddit/d8nhb2y | 56ypw8 | What is your favorite fight scene in a movie or TV show? | I'll do a top 3. The showdown with Rama, his brother, and Mad Dog in The Raid: Redemption. The showdown with Rama and the assassin with the curved knives in The Raid 2: Berandal. The hammer girl and bat boy fight scene in the Raid 2: Berandal. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/d5zoip1 | 4vmnkv | How does poor posture cause back muscle pain? | There are a variety of different reasons, including overstretch of the muscles such as your erectors (erectors are the rope-like muscles you can feel up and down the sides of your spine), your infra/supraspinatus (the muscles of your shoulder blades that keep your shoulders pulled back in good posture) and your traps. ... | 7 |
AskReddit/cnsuwvc | 2su50o | If you got to spend a day in the body of someone of the opposite gender, what WOULDN'T you do? | If I swapped bodies with a woman I wouldn't do anything that would have long term consequences for her body or her reputation, and depending whether or not I knew her I probably wouldn't want to experiment with her body or even get changed, because that could just make it even weirder. If I was assigned a randomly gene... | 13 |
AskReddit/djrf2kf | 6l6cl6 | Which childhood TV show/book would you actually like to see made into a big budget movie and done correctly? | Not really from my childhood. But its about time they started making Terry Pratchett books into movies. The 'tv specials' and animated stuff they have done have just been pants. His legacy deserves it! | 2 |
AskReddit/dmj7oa2 | 6xw4ga | What makes you think "who thought about it first"? | Some plants are poisonous until they've been extensively prepared-boiled, sun-dried, painstakingly separated from other parts of the plant, etc. I want to know who decided to keep trying. "Remember how the neighbors died after eating those red seeds?" "Yeah?" "Well, I boiled those seeds for, like, a day. My theory is t... | 3,800 |
AskReddit/ecp5ex3 | aa4xsi | What causes so many fat people to believe that their weight isn’t under their own control? | Because the amount of control needed differs greatly for several reasons, and if you can't come up with it, you won't be able to do it. Neurological effects: Discipline and impulse control are fickle things, humans are not as conscious as they think they are. Apart from actual conditions that actively target it, their ... | 3 |
AskReddit/co4vi68 | 2u3vic | Is it possible to hallucinate due to drinking to much alcohol? | Not a doctor, but I've seen drunk people who looked to me like they were hallucinating. Also, I've seen people seem to hallucinate after taking nutmeg. I think I remember reading that the reason is it's poisonous in sufficient quantity, which shocks the system causing hallucinations. Seems like that might apply to alco... | 2 |
AskReddit/ed9e0bk | acnmfy | What are some things you wish you didn’t see or hear about? | I basically tune out anything to do with Trump at this point. Or #MeToo. Or literally any other major social issue. I've written the whole thing off. None of it applies to my life in a meaningful way and I've got bigger things to worry about. If I were rich and powerful I'd feel more inclined to care but as a lowly peo... | 2 |
AskReddit/c041apu | 6jmwc | What is the funniest unexpected search result you have ever had on Google? | I was doing some research on rape and the web, so I was doing searches like "facebook rape" and whatnot. Eventually I got to "child molesters myspace" and the 10th result (still) is "Child molester jobs | MySpace Jobs" which goes to the MySpace jobs site. | 2 |
AskReddit/c6mm3hb | 11ho9q | What is one weird thing you do that if someone saw you, you would have no idea how to explain it? | When I walk through door ways I touch the top bit, no idea why or how I would explain it. Or when playing video games and moving with the in game motions i.e. moving your head to the side to dodge the incoming rpg or drifting with the cars. | 3 |
AskReddit/cuxue81 | 3kjanr | Is playing the lottery a waste of money? | Mathmatically it is a waste of money. However, if you are buying a ticket with no real expectation of winning, and just doing it for the enjoyment of the self-delusion that winning is possible, then it depends on what value you place on that feeling. I personally think it's worth a buck or two every now and then to go ... | 39 |
askscience/c3x7leh | qfi2y | Where are the bones? | Bones will actually be destroyed if they just sit around in the open. In particular, small animals just disappear relatively quickly. Something like a deer will stick around a bit longer, but even then not for ever. Lots of scavengers and rodents will gnaw on bones and bits and drag them off. And animals do tend to die... | 17 |
AskReddit/ebd137z | a4bk3d | What is the craziest or most unprofessional thing a teacher ever did when you were in school? | My teacher had us go around the room and guess who was a virgin or not based on just meeting each other. One girl that most said wasn't a virgin started bawling because she was raped but besides that was indeed a virgin. Edit: This was in a high school sophomore class. | 6,668 |
AskReddit/ed1p2z8 | abnnsu | What is the first thing you would buy if you won the lottery? | Aside from dealing with legal steps of winning the lottery, I would like to buy an old building to store my books and make a private library. It would be simple: A skylight, an old leather couch, and rows and rows of bookshelves. | 3 |
AskReddit/d1yvp1s | 4ecggk | What's really going on emotionally when a person decides to cheat on their SO? | I'm not so sure there's always a great deal of 'emotional' content involved. It's not like they wake up and think, "Gee, it looks like a nice day to cheat today." People find other people attractive, and sometimes their primal urges coincide. Situations sometimes lead people down paths they'd normally not go, often whe... | 6 |
explainlikeimfive/dk81dyl | 6naq9h | Will placing the Internet under Title II allow it to be censored like radio or will it allow the internet to continue to stay open and free? | Private telephone conversations are covered under Title II, and there's no censorship of telephone calls. In practice, censoring the Internet isn't directly possible. You can make a separate net, not the Internet, which you censor. China, for example, does this. There is no Internet in China, only "China-net". If someo... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/dvvokhz | 8595hb | Why do fusion reactors use Deuterium instead of Protium? | Because, to fuse hydrogen into stable helium requires neutrons. Protium has zero neutrons. Deuterium has one proton and one neutron, so add two of them together and you get two protons and two neutrons, which makes your standard helium-4. Throw in some tritium and you might get lithium-7 (3 protons, 4 neutrons), the mo... | 2 |
AskReddit/c776cq7 | 13u1wk | How do blind people dream? | I'm not completely blind, but I will be some day. I currently dream in black and white, and my dreams are more about the emotions/feelings of things happening than vividly visualizing things the things that happen. Example: I'll have a dream about being in a car crash, but the dream will focus on the feelings of adrena... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/c4l870e | tbjor | What's the difference between multi-grain and whole grain foods? | Multi-grain means that several sorts of grain are used. The opposite is something that would only use one kind of grain. Whole grain means that it uses the grain with its "skin" (the bran). The opposite is refined grain, which removes the "skin", like for the flour that's used to make white bread. So a product can be b... | 3 |
askscience/c1gj4jw | fk6iq | How does the brain generate a new idea? | If you go through all the threads in askscience that are about the brain (there are a lot), you'll notice a common thread. There's a lot of "it's not entirely clear yet," and "well, it's still a bit muddled, but here's some possibilities." The human brain is probably the single least understood phenomenon in the univer... | 14 |
explainlikeimfive/d6mnju4 | 4ycpg0 | Why is learning history in school important? | What happened in the past shapes what happens in the present and future. Learning history means learning not only what worked and didn't work for earlier societies, but how their way of life evolved into ours. Plus, history has some wicked awesome stuff. | 21 |
explainlikeimfive/cg37dsx | 20h66t | Are "perfectly straight teeth" (like after braces) better for eating than more uneven teeth (in general)? | It has to do more with the alignment of your bite. With perfectly straight teeth, each of your top teeth is aligned with your bottom teeth so that the flat surfaces of your molars directly contact with each other when you bite down. This means that the force of your bite is evenly distributed among all the teeth. With ... | 2 |
Ask_Politics/cexm3rw | 1w05o3 | Why hasn't the UN intervened in Ukraine? | Because riots in a sovereign state isn't the UN's business unless the security council finds it necessary and appropriate to intervene under the "responsibility to protect" initiative. The initiative covers genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing - none of which is going on in Ukraine. If th... | 34 |
AskReddit/ch3do4w | 24400v | If you could save any fictional character from death, who would it be? | I would save the Terminator in Terminator 2. He was a really good character and his death is among the few scenes in movies that make me cry. I'd also probably save Sirius Black. I just thought he was a good character. | 9 |
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