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AskReddit/cvn0per | 3ncztz | What is the one thing you didn't know you needed until you had it? | My cheap little android tablet. Used to think those were just toys, and us REAL computer guys needed REAL computers. Then, was given a tablet last year, and now I can't imagine how I got by without it. Edit: werds is hard to spell! | 12 |
AskReddit/ek4c0or | b9ghmh | What was the best day of your life? | i worked for 5 months straight on a sailing vessel with hardly any free time. we sailed to Antarctica as last voyage, and the captain allowed me to go ofboard for a day to walk around and explore an abandoned wailing station. it was horrific and beautiful at the same time, but certainly one of the best days of my life | 2 |
AskReddit/cdo7jkh | 1rkruj | If your worst nightmare was made into a movie, what would the synopsis be and who would be cast in it? | I have a recurring nightmare about being attacked by a giant seahorse. I suppose I'd have Steve Buschemi play me although we look nothing alike. I'd have the movie done for Sci-Fi network ala "Sharknado". | 3 |
AskReddit/eendg4w | aifbzu | Which celebrity death made you sad and why? | Princess Diana. It was so tragic, and sudden, and I’m not entirely convinced it wasn’t some sort of conspiracy by the Royal House of Windsor to kill her (that is one cold-blooded family). At the time, I couldn’t stop thinking of all the good she could have done, and about her 2 boys, Prince William and Prince Harry (wh... | 2 |
AskReddit/ds1tno9 | 7nhkbc | Which NoSleep series made you shudder, and has still stuck with you since reading? | You're going to get 100 obligatory "I'm a Forest Ranger" series (it IS awesome) comments. The two that stick out most to me is one currently still being released - "Has Anyone Heard of the Left/Right Game" and another one that starts with "Pig Iron" (includes "What Remains of God") - I think this one actually might be ... | 2 |
AskReddit/dnugyz2 | 740ell | What is your generation's 'Kids these days will never know.' ? | Kids these days will never know how to panic when the back of the TV is too warm and the parents are arriving soon and will be checking if you spent the night doing homework or wasting away in front of the TV. | 3 |
AskReddit/d5fzspo | 4tatis | What movies left you feeling rattled and messed up? | Eye In The Sky. It's a recent one with Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman, and Aaron Paul about the decision-making process and procedure to perform drone strikes in foreign countries. Definitely left me shaken up for the rest of the day after we saw it. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dbrs1k8 | 5kzi1g | What do large marine mammals drink? | Many marine mammals have a built-in filtration system that allows them to drink sea water and filter out the salt. In addition, they get a fair amount of their water from the contents of prey that they eat, which is often less salty than the water. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/dmhlbz1 | 6xpvhn | What evolutionary advantage is there for a plant to have strong flavor/odor? | There are several advantages plants could gain from strong flavors. Some plants depend on animals eating them and partially digesting and then spreading their seeds in order to reproduce. Having a strong and desirable flavor/odor would help attract animals. When it comes to plants that humans eat, we've been cultivatin... | 3 |
AskReddit/dtvqcnx | 7vx0uf | What was the most generous gift you have received from a stranger/online? | A lovely online friend of mine from the US wished to send me a Christmas gift one year. I gave him my father’s company PO box, which is located in another state, my father then forwarded the package to me - for those who are worried about safety -. I could see via the postage labels that he had paid $90 to mail this it... | 2 |
AskReddit/cgmnigz | 22gq89 | Which American political party uses fear the most and to what benefit? | No contest, the GOP, and their fabricated Frankenstein's monster, the Tea Party. They have to use a fear-based propaganda, because they don't have any actual ideas that don't involve making rich people richer at the expense of the rest of us. The Democrats are just sackless, disorganized idiots, Republicans play For Ke... | 5 |
AskReddit/e36i73j | 92l665 | What is one taboo in dating that you wish didn't exist? | There being a taboo about interracial dating. Like, I understand that it makes sense to be with someone of a similar culture to you and everything, but it shouldn't be a huge deal if someone wants to date or marry someone from another race or culture. It's a lot less taboo nowadays than it was in the past, but it's sti... | 5 |
AskReddit/d2ivoyw | 4gj5x2 | What's the most bizarre discrimination/offense you've ever received, so bizarre that you can even be mad about it? | I was sitting cross legged on the ground once and an old guy said I 'looked like a Buddhist'. Followed very fast with "No offence!" I was kind of in shock, not offended in the least, I've been called a lot worse than a Buddhist | 4 |
askscience/cbfrf2f | 1jl6zp | Why do vertebrates generally have no more than 4 limbs when invertebrates can have dozens? | All living and extinct mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and birds, belong to a group called tetrapods. The earliest tetrapods evolved from lobed finned fishes, and were quadrupedal. Thus, you are seeing the descendants of earlier four-limbed animals. This could change in the future, and certainly already these limbs are ... | 2 |
AskHistorians/c9c5c40 | 1c16vn | How did China come to be 90% Han Chinese? | The Han isn't one ethnic group per se, but a conglomeration of many ethnic groups. The Chinese dynasty's progressively got larger and larger in both size and population, due to the rich and fertile floodplains of the Yellow River. I believe China's population reached 100m by the Tang dynasty (Europe during this time wa... | 15 |
AskReddit/efupuif | annjf9 | Are there any real benefits to taking cold showers instead of warm ones? | My father's ex died after taking a cold shower. Apperantly a combination of high stress, high blood pressure and the fact that she took a 15-20 minute cold shower (which Apperantly lowered her core body temp) lead her to have a heart attack. Not 100% sure how true the story us since my father was never a huge part in m... | 5 |
AskReddit/dgrvhct | 67o7iv | What is a gift that you have given someone that backfired on you? | Not a huge backfire, but I bought a Nintendo Wii for my dad several years ago. He doesn't play many videogames but always enjoyed sports games on his old Sega Genesis and had mentioned hearing about the Wii's controller and its games being good for movement. So for his birthday I got him a Wii and some sports games. He... | 3 |
AskReddit/cvp3zaf | 3nlhhi | What was the worst decision you ever made? | getting black tar for a buddy. he od'd and was in a coma for almost 2 weeks. he had a seizure at some point and now he's mentally challenged. I've hated myself ever since and its made my depression alot worse. i wish i could go back and change things because theres not a day that gos by that i dont wish i could change ... | 2 |
AskReddit/c7i5xbz | 150lef | What is the first memory that you remember? | Psychologically they say you're not supposed to remember this early, but I have a distinct memory of crawling around my parents' apartment, which we only lived at when I was less then a year old. I described it to my mom and she confirmed that's what it looked like. | 2 |
askscience/c9qtw1l | 1dhni9 | What is the difference between stone and rock? | The definitions I got on my geology class were the following: Rock: solid material comprised of an admixture of minerals, of natural origin. It may or may not be weathered, but any modification it has is of natural origin. Stone: rock that has been modified by human activity for some application (say, crushing rock to ... | 10 |
explainlikeimfive/crx1kbq | 38qjjc | Why would you buy a vowel in Wheel of Fortune? | Let's say that you had a word that looked like this: R D. That word could be READ, REED, RODE, or even ROED (I looked it up). If the whole puzzle is like that, it can be pretty tough to even guess one word, which will lead you to the phrase. Also, guessing a vowel can help you figure out a partial word, which can help ... | 3 |
AskReddit/c4nhwb2 | tkvzm | What exactly does a airport metal detector look for? | The basic mechanism is that the metal detector is a big magnet. They run electricity through a ferromagnetic metal and create a magnetic field. When metal hits this magnetic field, it generates a magnetic field of its own. The detector looks for the difference. | 2 |
AskReddit/e3x9150 | 962dck | What are some small acts that strangers have done that have changed you life/day? | I work at a very common fast-paced restaurant/cafe so you order at the register and we bring your food to you so we don't expect tips, but one day when I gave this lovely lady her food, she got out her wallet, got some ones and some change and tried to give it to me. I declined at first, but she insisted, saying, "I al... | 3 |
AskReddit/cckaa7l | 1nnjnh | What would the world be like if everybody had your personality? | I think the world would be a great place. It'd be filled with people who will work hard for their 8 hours a day and then go home and toke up with each other. Honestly my personality is perfect for communism. As long as I have my weed, internet, and Xbox, I won't need many other material luxuries. We'd all just do our j... | 2 |
Ask_Politics/c7joldg | 156dbc | What are the arguments for an against giving residents of DC full representation in Congress? | For: DC is as large as other states, pay federal income tax (unlike the unrepresented territories), and their local government is controlled by the federal government (kind of). Congress has more say over Washington DC than they do over any of the states, yet the states control Congress and DC has no advocate. It's a s... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/cpevtd4 | 2z1ldv | How are reverse image searches so fast? | I read about this somewhere sometime ago. Its a combination of many processes. They extract image data and use histogram comparisons to compare two images for likeness. It looks for certain color patterns and tries to find the closest link with an image in its database. But this was inefficient and sometimes incorrect ... | 3 |
AskReddit/dtm3rb6 | 7up8ia | As a kid, what is the first movie you saw that you might have been a little young for, what about it messed you up? | The Terminator. Saw it when I was 5. The only way it really messed me up was that pretty much the moment I hit puberty I knew exactly which movie I owned which had a topless female in it. I apologize, Linda Hamilton. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ce4lgy7 | 1t5als | How can journalist legally interview wanted criminals without having to disclose their location? | Well, you're not legally required to report it if you meet wanted criminal. However, journalism is a very risky field, if you interview a criminal and don't report him then he goes out and commits another crime, you could be seen as allowing the crime to take place. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ejn24sp | b6tq8a | How do trees transport water from the roots to each of the leaves so many meters high? | There is a good video on YouTube by Veritasium which will explain far better (and hopefully I’m remembering right) but the general idea is that water evaporates out of the leaves, this in turn sucks water along the branches from the trunk and roots. It uses the surface tension of the water to climb up the capillaries i... | 8 |
AskReddit/czr6b3p | 44elwn | What was your screw up that ended with one of your relationships? | I've been in a few that ended by me telling them how I really felt about their friends girlfriends. I hate other chicks, I tolerate them for the boyfriends sake. But it seems like once they find out my negative outlook on these people, they get bitter and ditch. | 2 |
AskReddit/cc5jm6p | 1m3o6y | What's something you wish people knew about your country? | I wish people from the rest of the world would realize that the greatest decision the United States has ever made is to set aside swathes of land for preservation. The National Parks were a uniquely American idea when they were first implemented and, in my opinion, still is the best idea our country has ever had. The l... | 39 |
explainlikeimfive/enun44o | bplgde | Why can't pregnant women who don't want the child in Alabama go to other states to get their abortion done? | The new law makes it illegal to do so. Women who travel for an abortion can be charged with a felony. The other issue is that mostly poor women need access to legal abortions, rich women aren't as impacted. Historically, rich women with unplanned pregnancies would go to private doctors, pay extra, and get the procedure... | 9 |
AskReddit/e0lmoyl | 8qsbdc | If Adam and Eve were the first two people to procreate, how was this allowed by God if they clearly couldn’t have been married given there were no priests? | Genesis 2:21-22 >So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. God quite literally gave Eve to Adam. This ... | 28 |
Ask_Politics/cguirrs | 238jc0 | Why does Canada have multiple parties? | "Duverger's law" is not a law like the law of gravity; it's an observation that certain types of elections promote or push towards certain types of political equilibriums. Neither Canada nor many other countries have any nationwide elections - any country using a Parliamentary system does not. This substantially reduce... | 9 |
AskReddit/do5h30i | 75dty7 | For those against the legalization of recreational marijuana, what are some good arguments against it? | I've been torn over whether or not it should be legalized and I'll give my reasoning for being against it. 1) Marijuana can exacerbate the symptoms of mental illness. I'm not saying it causes mental illness, but for those who already have an underlying mental illness it can significantly increase the degree to which sy... | 5 |
AskReddit/c61uxks | z6fvs | Do more people die because drugs are illegal than would die if they were legal? | Who can tell? It's the profitability of drugs and the regional power of cartels that are the deciding causes of the terrifying number of deaths in the drug trade. If drugs were legalised tomorrow would this change? Probably not. If alternate (non-cartel) supplies were created, then we would see the traditional violent ... | 2 |
AskReddit/c4ehh0l | sjcob | Should Reddit go dark in protest of CISPA? | Yeah going dark wont help, just like boycotting companies for a day aint working. Most people on Reddit will sit back and think "I can sit and do nothing, because im sure everyone else is doing everything they can" | 2 |
AskReddit/d7qqirj | 5385q3 | Where do you see humanity in 1,000 years? | Probably gone. Its only been around 50 years since mankind invented the means to destroy the entire race (cold war) and we have already had several near misses. In the next 1,000 years we are going to invent way more ways to kill ourselves, the technology of mass destruction (nukes, biological, chemical, etc) will end ... | 17 |
explainlikeimfive/dmnhx15 | 6yhuxc | Who are these "experts" we always hear about in the news or in sources of information? | It depends on the topic as well as the source. For a biased media source pushing an agenda an "expert" might be anyone who says what they want, but for a more objective source "experts" might be people like researchers who have studies a particular topic. | 5 |
AskReddit/czr5p9e | 44m6f1 | What is your medicine for the soul? | Honestly, religion is very confusing to me and I'm not looking for a religious argument. With that being said, I go sit in church by myself on Sunday's and soak it all in. For me, it feels like it recharges my soul and get's me ready for the following week. Whenever I miss a week of church, I can tell a difference in m... | 31 |
askscience/csibvbp | 3b0wvm | If we had a convenient black hole available to observe, what questions could we answer about them that we can't already calculate? | It's not about our ability to calculate their properties, but about our ability to verify those calculations. Strictly speaking, we can't say that a solution is physically valid, unless we observe the corresponding behaviour in nature. p.s.: Am I the only one finding the idea of 0.11 mm big black hole orbiting our plan... | 3 |
AskReddit/drw80ph | 7mrhjj | Was there a single moment in your life that you look back on as a definite ‘wrong turn’, where you’re fairly sure things would have worked out far differently if it hadn’t happened that way? | I started playing softball pretty young. I played in a lot of different leagues, with a lot of different levels of competitiveness. Every coach I'd played with had essentially told me that I could go as far as I wanted because I was so "softball smart" (Basically, I could read plays and read the field like almost nobod... | 5 |
AskReddit/duypeyt | 80wfvt | What is your go to meal when you are broke af? | Kraft Dinner. $0.50 for a box and it does the trick every time. When I was really broke I would never buy milk, but you can always replace it with something else: a little water and extra butter, or diluted coffee creamer. | 2 |
Ask_Politics/elhvhu7 | bg0dyt | How is Trump doing as president? | I am a firm anti-Trump person but I will try to give you the view of Trump from both sides of the political spectrum. Republicans will say: Trump has boosted the economy by cutting regulations and taxes. Unemployment is low and the stock market is rising. Trump also is fighting religious discrimination of Christians an... | 26 |
AskReddit/cg88837 | 20zqz1 | Do you know someone that has been really impressed by History Channel's Ancient Aliens? | I'm impressed by Ancient Aliens. It's really convincing, it kindda freaks me out. It is one of my guilty pleasures, I do believe there are aliens. But you asked if I know somebody, aside from myself, who likes A.A. A friend of mine first watched the A.A. series and he recommended it to me since he knows I'm into aliens... | 2 |
AskReddit/d6b94h8 | 4wzqjj | When you were in school, what big thing went down during 'That Field Trip'? | Johnny passed out while we were looking at the cadavers during an anatomy field trip. Later on he was feeling better and decided to have another look just as the coroner was pulling the cadavers lungs out to show us. Johnny passed out again and hit his head on the corner of something as he fell. He started bleeding pro... | 15 |
AskReddit/dxru2se | 8e2btl | If you were given a choice to either be transported permanently 500 years into the future or 500 years into the past, what would you choose? | If I were to be transported to the past, I don't think I am skilled or knowledgeable enough to actually use anything that I've learnt in modern life to do anything of great importance. I wouldn't influence the progression of the human race, and I wouldn't become rich/powerful - I'd probably die pretty quickly from some... | 2 |
askscience/c36buuv | n56xc | How are the high-velocity winds that are characteristic of wildfires created? | I'm not sure what background you come from, so I'm going to go for the basic answer for now. If you have questions, feel free to ask. Hot air is less dense than cold air. As a consequence, the air that has been heated by a fire will rise. If that fire is very hot, the air from inside and above the fire will rise very r... | 7 |
AskReddit/e0vp62a | 8s0xt5 | If Facebook's definition of 'friend' is too broad, what is the best distinguishing factor between a true friend and somebody you kind of know? | A true friend is someone whom you're comfortable to be yourself around. I wouldn't consider myself a two-faced person, but I definitely act differently around people I consider my true friends. I'm more relaxed, my filter is gone, and I'm much goofier. | 3 |
AskReddit/c42oxy4 | r3pku | If you were filthy rich, what would you do for a career? | Depends on just how filthy rich we're talking. Rich enough to live on forever, but not do anything too crazy? Travel endlessly, maybe open a record shop or something equally as eclectic. Approaching billionaire territory? Travel around, but on a private ship with a small helicopter. Donate money to fund more science pr... | 2 |
askscience/catwc3r | 1hfp5f | Would an object falling to Earth fall faster if it is in the Earth's path as it revolves around the Sun? | Well that depends on where the object originated. For example, if it was simply floating in the space that the Earth is moving into, then yes. It will fall like a normal object with an initial downward velocity equal to the speed of the Earth. If the object originated from Earth's frame of reference, it would not matte... | 11 |
AskReddit/c4gxfjj | stjlv | Have you ever played the race card and won? | Not me, but a friend played the race card at work. He and another coworker left early. He got in trouble, other guy did not. My friend claimed racism because he was white, and the other guy is black, and the other guy did not get in trouble for the same thing. He won. Best part, neither of them got in trouble for leavi... | 2 |
AskReddit/dk4kt38 | 6mu77l | What was the first message you sent out this morning? | Sent a good morning text to husband, asking for him to tell me when he's about to eat the last muffin I baked (I packed him a muffin for every day of his business trip and left surprise notes on top of every muffin under the foil). Since this is his last day in another city, I wanted to add that we (me+our cat) can't w... | 3 |
askscience/crnk0e6 | 37kugw | How would a springboard work on Moon? | First: ignore the fact that it's notoriously difficult to do acrobatics on the moon. And friction. To figure this out, we need to look at energy. When you jump, you add kinetic energy to yourself. This is converted into gravitational energy when you move up, slowing you down. As you fall back, the reverse happens and y... | 18 |
AskReddit/doobcdl | 77sg7v | What non A-list Actor/Actress do you follow religiously? | It used to be The Weeknd before he got mainstream famous but I don't really follow him anymore. Outside of that, maybe Jeffrey Donovan, but I wouldn't say I follow him religiously, but basically if he starring in a movie or tv episode, even as a cameo, I'd definitely watch it. | 3 |
AskReddit/d0rg5sq | 49fp06 | What is something done wrong in your country's school system that should be changed? | I'm a teacher in the US and our public school system is so screwed up I don't even know where to start. Too much homework, kids aren't allowed to live and experience life. Somehow the powers that be keep thinking that if they keep giving the students more and more work our test scores will go up. Which brings us to: St... | 5 |
AskReddit/chujos8 | 26uc84 | How would you handle something like this? | I don't think you handled it wrong. No real way to handle that for just starting out. I probably would have not gone and used it on myself. But I wouldn't have tried to give it back directly. More like is rather us use this for us to go to a nice dinner or to do something fun that could cost a little more than an extra... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/chebv47 | 25723w | How did California spend 4 billion dollars of taxpayer money on Capital Punishment since 1978 (or $308 million per execution)? | Death row is expensive purely because you have to be absolutely sure, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the person did what you claim they did. Even if they confess, this can still result in many, many court cases on TOP of the cost of keeping them imprisoned. Materials for execution are not cheap either, IIRC there is ... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/dh68099 | 69frsd | How do car key-fobs work and why do we not see machines that can mass-spoof unlock signals like computer passwords? | The fob sends a very large number very slowly. It takes about 25ms to send the number, so that's only 40 per second, max. Most cars require 50ms of no signal to restart their receivers. That's about 13 guesses per second. It takes a long darn time to send a trillion numbers at 13 guesses per second. | 4 |
AskReddit/cqf0t37 | 32vcmv | What are some helpful things to know when buying a car? | Ongoing costs can make a big difference in the long run. Things to consider: How often does it require servicing? How much is the insurance? What is the fuel usage? How much are replacement parts? are they readily available? If you're buying second hand then low mileage, service history, previous damage, who's owned it... | 2 |
AskReddit/e813i1r | 9pedwc | What’s your go-to “yo momma” joke? | Yo momma so big, that she had type 1 diabetes and died at a young age before you were able to marry, have kids, or be able to tell her that you loved her and appreciated all the sacrifices she made to give you the quality life that she did. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cs0cfw4 | 394ob9 | How has Jurassic Park not been screened to critics if it comes out in 3 days? | Even if it's screened to critics, they have a review embargo which asks the critics to not post their reviews until the theatrical release. However, some people are breaking the embargo and the reviews aren't favorable to Jurassic world. | 3 |
AskReddit/c1u8rz8 | hc4ob | If you could recommend one under appreciated movie and/or TV show on Netflix instant stream, what would it be? | I recommend Dear Zachery, it is on the stream and is an indie documentary. Its twists and turns will keep you on the edge of your seat and sicken you. It has excellent video editing and is a great tribute to a slain friend. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ed0jmfa | abisk2 | Why are Prions which are linked to Creutzfeldt-Jakobs Disease considered to be the worst and most incurable of disease within mankind? | I don’t know if they are the worst and most incurable disease, but the scary things about prions are: —they aren’t alive, just mis-folded proteins that spread and replicate making them hard to target by medicine or your body’s defense —they cause progressive and frequently fatal disease / sudden death, often involving ... | 13 |
AskReddit/dbv8eil | 5lf97e | Why isnt voting day a national holiday that people get off of work? | Because most states have either early voting or absentee voting to accommodate those who can't make it to their polling places. And laws to allow people to leave work to vote. If people aren't voting now, they won't vote because they have the day off. | 11 |
AskReddit/dlpbpqh | 6u1wt5 | What would you never name your child? | There was a child called Uniqua at my daughter's daycare. That wasn't event the first time I heard that name - I lived in hope that another Uniqua would join and they'd have to put surnames on the kids pegs. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cfyd37u | 1zz4nq | What's the point of daylight savings? | In 1920-1960 electricity was mostly used for lighting houses. Lots people are awake around 7am-11pm. The time it is light outside is in the summer about 6am to 10pm. Because of this in the summer you need to use electric for 1 hours a day, but when the sun shines in the morning you are sleeping. Moving the time saves 1... | 3 |
AskReddit/cpg2q7a | 2z6evl | What's one question that you can ask a girl, in order to determine if she is dating material? | I would ask "When was the last time you talked to your mom?" The answer you get can tell you so much about her. It can tell you how much family drama you might have to deal with. It can tell you if she has a similar family background as you. You may not want to date a girl who hates her mother or has no relationship wi... | 4 |
AskReddit/ced7ops | 1u030q | What would you do if you were immortal? | Hide. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that if a person were discovered to be immortal, that person would be rounded up, put into a cage, and subjected to an endless battery of tests until such time as it was determined exactly what it was that made them immortal and how it could be synthesized into a drug that ... | 13 |
AskReddit/cnoiccb | 2sdqhs | What's something that immediately turns you off of a video game? | Predictability and rehashing. I'm currently 27 years old. I grew up playing video games, there's almost no game that will blow my mind, so I just find most games out there to be completely boring. They stopped innovating or surprising people with their games, everything looks the same and feels the same. I want games t... | 9 |
AskReddit/cf7etdj | 1x1znb | What's the scariest dream you've ever had? | My creepiest dream was me sitting on a couch in front of a camera with everything normal just staring at it. After a while I got up and turned the recording off and played it back. The video that played back was exactly what I was doing, sitting on the couch looking into the camera except it was in black in white there... | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/d0b2ke3 | 478s5x | Why are we still not able to accurately predict the weather? | The weather is a very very very complicated system thats why. Theres no simple formula. Its a chaotic system. A small change in one input can radically change the predictions. That said weve honestly gotten pretty good at predicting the weather a day or two out. | 36 |
AskReddit/cg7mxxh | 20xgg3 | What can you not talk about where you live? | This isn't where I live, but when my hockey team traveled to Ohio to play Kent State, you weren't allowed to talk about the events of the shootings in the 60's. No one was allowed to say, "four dead in Ohio." Ever. | 2 |
AskReddit/dyqd4xu | 8ib58m | What’s worst attempt you’ve made at asking somebody out and How did it turn out? | Asked some girl who was WAY out of my league in grade 4, looking back I only liked this girl because she was pretty. Anyways I made it so awkward by getting half the people in the grade involved by announcing it to them a few hours before going on to later ask the girl out. She said no and half the grade knew she rejec... | 2 |
AskReddit/cjdsh2x | 2cbb0g | What is something people make a bigger deal about than it actually is? | Radical feminists. Yeah there are some crazy people on Tumblr, twitter, SRS, or what ever other social media site, but they make up a very small minority of feminists and don't have much if any real societal influence. A lot of the otherkin movement and other stuff that seems a bit silly on face value is often just a m... | 3 |
AskReddit/cf344ev | 1wljgm | What is your worse roommate experience? | Dang. Well, yours is way worse than mine, but here goes. The year after I graduated I moved into a three bedroom apartment with two other guys that I knew from college. They were both programmers and worked from home and aside from weekends, we didn't see much of each other. They pretty much just stayed in their rooms.... | 2 |
AskReddit/dp3crpg | 79nngg | What word or words do you hate the most? | I hate the word because. It’s such an ugly and unwieldy word for so simple a meaning. The conjunctive for carries the meaning of because, yet it shorter, far more attractive, and drips off the tongue like honey. “She is everything to me, because I love her.” vs “She is everything to me, for I love her.” I rest my case. | 9 |
askscience/duje4n6 | 7yuy6s | Why don't the palms of our hands and the soles of our feet tan or burn? | Well there is an extra layer of skin on the palms and the soles. It’s called The Stratum Lucidem. It’s privies thickness to the skin. In the lower basal layer of the skin you have your melanocytes which vary in amounts depending on race, the more melanocytes the darker the skin. The melanocytes have a harder time migra... | 20 |
AskReddit/diovdzd | 6gb2ny | What is your favorite thing about being an adult? | Adults don't constantly tell me not to do certain things. I remember being a kid and adults were always telling me I was doing something wrong or not to do this or that, which looking back were perfectly harmless things that I was doing. As an adult, everyone just assumes you know what your doing and they mostly leave ... | 2 |
AskReddit/c42cp1i | r27pt | What's the worst thing to happen to you as a result of asking someone out? | Asked a friend out about a year ago, she said no. Caused a bunch of our mutual friends to feel really bad for me, and she lost a lot of her friends as a result. I felt really awful about it. We didn't talk for a few months, but we've become pretty good friends again. It's like nothing happened at this point. | 2 |
AskReddit/c8rwn4y | 19wes0 | What did it feel like to get in your first car accident? | It was embarrassing. It was my fault. No one told me, but if your accident isn't serious, then cops can take a REALLY long time to arrive. So I had to wait with the person I hit for about 1 1/2 hrs until the cop arrived and we could sort it all out. I also felt really guilty for messing up the other guy's day. No one w... | 2 |
AskReddit/cfj2jjq | 1ybpb9 | How do you respond to your SO when they drop those three little words and you're not ready to reciprocate? | Had this happen maybe two weeks ago, then she asked "dont you love me?" We only recently started talking. She's still in high school, I'm graduated though im 3 years older. I just told her "first of all, i'm not ready to love yet" (recovering from break up Second, " youre too young and in high school. No way im saying ... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cn0icos | 2pw32y | What would happen if every computer, tablet, and mobile phone were to all simultaneously connect to the Internet? | Not much. You'll connect those via your home/work/coffee shop router. Those routers all have a set number of external IP addresses (usually just one for small networks, while a college campus or something could have several.) As far as "the Internet" cares, everything connected to your home router is one device (ELI5 s... | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/ebi82z9 | a4whnc | Why cant you grow certain fruits/vegetables from seed? | In this case, it has to do with the way the genetics of the tree works. I'll stick with apples, but avocados are similar. Basically, your standard wild apple is basically a crabapple. Small, not very tasty. Over time people have bred these and occasionally found an apple that is particularly good. It happens to get a g... | 8 |
askscience/ec3fr4m | a7gywz | Why aren't our satellites that orbit within the Roche limit torn apart? | The roche limit is calculated assuming that the object is only held together by gravity. For very large objects, other forces are small in comparison to gravitational forces. For small, sturdy objects, like manmade satellites, electrostatic forces are much more important than gravitational forces, and so the concept of... | 24 |
AskReddit/evp567e | cknkjb | Who will be next James Bond? | Nobody. Time to end James Bond. The Daniel Craig Bond films were laden with references to past films and iterations of Bond, and while that's all good fun, it's also a sign that the franchise might be on its last legs. Let Bond 25 be the last film and bow out gracefully. | 2 |
AskReddit/c5do7h0 | wirm3 | What are some of the weirdest reactions teachers have had to new information that they didn't believe was real? | That's pretty cool you learned about the Korean War in middle school, I didn't learn it formally in school. So I did my own research. As for my experience, this isn't so much of a weird reaction, but my parents sent me to this science class over the summer when I was 6 years old that was calibrated for 3rd and 4th grad... | 2 |
AskReddit/e10e7fz | 8sknq4 | What are some of the worst charities that you should not donate money to? | Other posters have hit my highlights (Autism Speaks, Susan G Komen, PETA) I'll take a different tack and say that you should almost never donate to a "pop-up" charity. These are the charities that are formed in the wake of some disaster (think Katrina, Haiti earthquake, etc). Many of these organizations are straight sc... | 5 |
askscience/c1qqpxm | gw56g | How close are we to being able to live forever? | Not very close. It is possible in theory (if we somehow genetically engineered humans to become like plants or figure out how to transplant our minds into newborn infants, I suppose), but in practice it will not happen soon for two reasons, both related to cancer. First, any treatment that immortalizes the cells of the... | 6 |
AskReddit/drgy12b | 7kszgr | Why do some customers treat retail workers as subhuman? | They falsely believe that their "status" as a customer economically empowers them to behave in a condescending manner - giving them a temporary sense of "superiority" at the retail worker's expense. | 7 |
AskReddit/ctdd1eq | 3ebove | What's something your parents did that you swear never to do to your kids? | Belittle their accomplishments to try and make them do better. Without ever even saying that what they've done was impressive or worthy of praise. Not show any real signs of affection or love. I always feel bad for it, since they never treated me badly. I was never abused or neglected. But, I just don't like my parents... | 27 |
AskReddit/d6jtic3 | 4xzuj5 | What movie far exceeded your expectations? | 12 Angry Men. I know a lot of people hype this movie up but my expectations were low considering most of my movies that i watched prior were mainly actiony flicks. It was a nice surprise when i realised i could actually engage with a movie about people just sitting and talking with each other. Might have to rewatch it ... | 555 |
askscience/cwu6sig | 3s3kzm | How is genome duplication a possible way of evolution? | Well, whole genome duplication can be the product of errors in the mitosis and/or meiosis processes, since they require at some point duplication of the genome by DNA replication. This produces an organism with double the number of its overall genetic information. In many cases, reproduction with other individuals of i... | 3 |
AskReddit/cu5ga4m | 3h9jzk | What do you do when a gay friend is in love with you? | Gay people aren't alien creatures, man. If this guy is cool, he will respect your boundaries and be happy being your friend - just as you hopefully would if you were in love with a woman who didn't share those feelings. | 5 |
AskReddit/c8m4smi | 199xiy | What sound do you miss? | Train whistles, oddly enough. When I was young we would leave our house in the woods in Appalachia and visit my grandparents in Georgia for Christmas. My immediate family grew up far away from any sort of city and the only noises were heard at night were wildlife sounds such as whippoorwills and crickets (another sound... | 4 |
AskReddit/c5v15z3 | yfcpu | What is the most annoying thing that wakes you up in the morning ? | Usually, I'll be having the best dream. Then I'm being woken up by some random stranger saying things like "Excuse me, I'd like to check out now." or "Excuse me, sir, what time does the breakfast start." Don't these guests know that I'm trying to get paid to sleep? Jesus people, go back to your rooms til day shift gets... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/d4kuwk6 | 4ph5gr | How does money laundering work? | So you have a cracking business selling cocaine on the street, and you take in a bunch of cash. But wait. how do you spend it? How can you put that in the bank without the IRS wondering where it came from? What you need to do is turn that "dirty" money into "clean" money, by "laundering" it. What you want is some sort ... | 3 |
AskReddit/dhhufsj | 6avv8s | What is a basic skill that lot of people lack in this time? | Basic math skills. I've met a lot of people who because of bad math teachers think "Oh I'm just bad at math". Really, I don't think there is such a thing. With enough practice, anyone can become good at math. Even if you are someone who gets numbers mixed up (The mathematical version of dyslexia) You can still be good ... | 4 |
AskReddit/dw7pyy3 | 86tdi8 | What is the craziest coincidence that ever happened to you? | My job entails me to go to a lot of retail stores to push my product. There was this really cute girl who worked at one of the stores I would frequent. Never had the nerve to ask her out or anything even though we would talk a lot when we were working at the same time. Couple days ago I matched with her on a dateing ap... | 2 |
AskReddit/ccaxo29 | 1mnsh9 | What expression on a person's face is permanently engrained in your memory, and why? | My dad is a very serious person. He is where I get my emotionless nature from. I am not stoic, but he taught me not to cry and as a kid and a teenager, I never did. Anyways, my dad being a bulwark of a person has always kept his composure. Until one day. I moved across the country at last minute's notice to pursue a ca... | 4 |
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