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AskReddit/djd9jvz | 6jcmx2 | Why haven't they found a cure yet in the walking dead? | Some illnesses have been around for thousands of years, like Malaria, and we can't cure that even with all of the resources and (supposed) intelligence of modern humanity behind us. There are a lot of different reasons that the people on TWD couldn't make a cure, starting with resources (electricity, lab equipment, sci... | 2 |
AskReddit/d6k5wmx | 4y1eei | Did you follow your dreams and became who you aspired to be? | No. There are two main problems. 1.) I'm a constant day-dreamer.my idea of a drama life and dream job constantly changed so I didn't stick to anything and. 2.) Honestly I get lazy and stop doing something pretty soon into pursuing it. It takes a pretty special drove to truly pursue your dreams if they are lofty. | 2 |
AskReddit/c0apdao | 8x2wh | Why do answering machines/services keep taking longer and longer to get to the "beep"? | to get your money. if you're on a cell phone, you're using minutes while waiting for the beep. if you're on a land line, you may be paying per minute for long distance. | 2 |
AskReddit/d4nywha | 4pumf6 | Why do people put a reason for an edit when they have just changed a spelling? | I'm guessing its for transparency. Reddit let's other people see what comments have been edited, but not how they have been edited. Also important, like everything else on the internet, it is an etiquette thing too and part of Reddit's culture. | 5 |
AskHistorians/cc2kmcg | 1ls3h0 | When did the expression "American dream" start to be used? | If I recall right, the first known instance is relatively recent: James Truslow Adams uses the phrase in his 1931 book, The Epic of America. I quote the relevant passage: "There has also been the American Dream, that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for... | 2 |
AskReddit/c0f58kc | 9zh3o | What is the most frightening thing you've ever experienced? | One time I was driving down a four lane road, with the light green in my direction, when two young kids darted out from in front of a semi that was stopped and waiting to turn in the left turn lane. I had to slam on my brakes, and I came to a stop only a few feet from them. They seemed oblivious to how close they'd com... | 4 |
AskReddit/c98pgrx | 1bp6la | Has anyone run into or met a celebrity that seemed down to earth? | I ran in to Gabe Newell and his kids over the summer. I'm still friends with both of his sons (haven't talked to good ol' Gaben in a while though). When I met him, he seemed really cool and down to earth, and we talked about DOTA 2 and TF2 for a bit. | 2 |
AskReddit/e4r39ub | 99xgfs | How do people in wheelchairs get around in winter? | My dad just wears gloves keep his hands warm if he's alone, if someone is with him, they usually push and he still wears gloves. Many folks in wheelchairs find a way to be independent- they aren't all invalids. My dad drives, owns and operates a business, does various bits of carpentry. And he's been in a wheelchair fo... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cs9xjk7 | 3a798h | Does animals that run a lot (lions, horses for example) get stiff in their legs after running so much? | First, no animal runs "a lot" compared to what Humans are capable for. That's kind of our thing. Second, cats really don't run a lot. They're sprinters. Third, animals are built completely differently than humans, and most importantly they know how not to overdo it. Humans don't really get "stiff" unless they overdo it... | 2 |
AskReddit/cmfmuve | 2npf7o | Why hasn't the world liberated North Korea? | Its simply not "worth" it. If the US and South Korea went to war to with North Korea it would be a short war, but it would cost a tremendous amount of lifes. North Korea has a huge amount of artillery pointed at Soul, witch would cause a lot of damage and death in a short amount of time. Not to mention that they are pr... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/dbohf4w | 5kk3or | How is it that some people are born with natural talents for things and others must learn them? | "Born with it" is usually a misconception. The general philosophy is that it takes 10,000hrs of practice with the aim to get better to master something. The key to that is making the most of your time spent "practicing". For example, professional hockey players almost exclusively are born in January/February. It's not ... | 75 |
AskHistorians/cphowz1 | 2zcrci | How would long-distance roads in 19th century America compare to modern-day highways? | It would have been pretty terrible, frankly. Even in the 1920s and 1930s a long-distance journey in an automobile would have been anything but comfortable. There would have been designated roads, but before the 1920s, no standardized traffic signals. Very few service stations because there were so few automobiles to se... | 5 |
AskReddit/egozb3p | arqlnl | What is an inside joke for people in your hometown? | We had a mentally-challenged 50-year old borderline-homeless Puerto Rican guy named Javier. He decorated his bike with Barbie Dolls and cutouts of nude women. In our small town, he was kind of an urban legend, except a real person. All day long he would ride around on his bike and occasionally stop into the convenience... | 3 |
AskReddit/dvgyy9r | 83dbfy | What things do we take for granted right now that 100 years from now people will look back on and wish they could experience? | Being able to look out our windows and see the world in a somewhat natural state, and not just see an industrialized world of endlessly sprawling cities and skylines. Not enough people today can appreciate the amazing beauty that is our star-filled night sky, and I imagine that in a hundred years there will be many few... | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cpdn6os | 2ywrpj | Why does alcohol make us lose memory? | Alcohol inhibits the function of the 'bridge' between our short term memory and long term memory. The short term memory only keeps new information for a very brief amount of time and passes it on to a filter that decides wich bits to keep and wich bits to toss. If you're drunk enough that part of your brain just tosses... | 7 |
AskHistorians/c4smovu | u616a | What is the strangest thing people found valuable in your area of study? | This question was made for my area of study! During the 1600s the Dutch Republic became, for a period time, the richest place in the world. They weren't the only ones either: the same economic factors that were benefiting the Dutch republic affected most of Northwest Europe. With all this money going around there was a... | 60 |
AskReddit/d1ot15q | 4d8nvn | What advice did your first boss give you that has stuck with you to this day? | My first boss was a really salty old guy we will call Larry. I had just graduated high school and was basically the only girl in a big aluminum weld shop full of men. They made me do everything. I cleaned the offices, inspected the stock that came in, ran inventory, answered the phone. It was crazy, but I felt apprecia... | 23 |
explainlikeimfive/ei389kn | aytxak | Does leaving my light switch on with a dead bulb in one socket and a smart bulb in the other use electricity all day even if the smart bulb is off? | In order for a smart bulb to be "smart" it must always remain connected to whatever network it uses. A quick Google search says that the Phillip's hue draws 0.4 watts in the off state. This is a very minimal amount and would hardly be noticable on your power bill. (0.4 Wh x 24 x 30 = 0.288 kWh per month then multiply b... | 14 |
AskReddit/c8jehnr | 18zk05 | What is your favorite ending to any book/video game/TV show? | "The Men Who Stare at Goats" had the best movie ending ever, hands down. Ewan McGregor (Young Obi-Wan) has spent the whole movie being told about Jedi warriors (not Star Wars), has a tiny monologue, and then he runs/phases through a wall. | 6 |
askscience/djmj3yr | 6kakx2 | When you lay awkwardly on an extremity (such as your arm or leg), what cause the sharp "needles poking you" feeling? | The pressure constricts the nerves which eventually causes them to stop working correctly. This is called transient parasthesia. The pins and needles effect is basically the result of the nerve firing erratically while "waking up" and moving toward normal functioning again. | 6 |
explainlikeimfive/ctx4hlg | 3gcy9z | When countries like Russia, China, and America 'buy gold' to bolster their economies, where do they buy it from? | They buy from each other. In NYC the federal Reserve has a massive vault with many compartments. Each labeled with a different countries name so they buy from each other and shift the gold.bars from vault to vault. Source: took a tour of the reserve and saw the vault even held some of England's gold. | 46 |
AskReddit/c64zi2o | ziw3o | Can animals commit suicide? | My aunt had a dog that loved running away to my grandmothers house across town for leftovers. He did this all the time, always got loose, and always ran around without getting hurt. He would even get our dog to go with him sometimes. Our dog always came back smelling of skunk and my aunts dog never got sprayed. He was ... | 2 |
AskReddit/c40lhnr | quphd | What is the number one condiment that you can't live without on your hot dog? | Hurm. If I sort out my favorite styles: Chicago dog Sauerkraut ( onions with mustard ) Cincinnati coney Corn relish ( onions with mustard ) Mustard and onions seem to be the only constants. I guess it's a fight to the death between onions and mustard, and I love them both like my own children and can't choose. I've nev... | 3 |
AskReddit/dxxmin1 | 8es1qb | What are your thoughts on brake checking Tailgaters or distracted drivers? | First, if you brake check a distracted driver, you have a real good chance of getting run into. Despite who is determined to be at fault, you still have to get your car fixed and significant damage, even if repaired correctly, lowers the value of your car. Not to mention the inconvenience; repair times can be brutally ... | 3 |
AskReddit/eeyv0dk | ajtqsd | What are some simple things that could greatly increase someone's quality of life? | As a dane living in Denmark, often listed as the happiest country in the world, I can give you the daniest of words I know: "Forventningsafstemning." This means the process of looking at things beforehand and then adjust your expectations of what is to come. Danes are very good at this. If you don't expect too much, yo... | 37 |
AskReddit/d82xbyn | 54lb9a | Have you ever dated a crazy person, what were they like? | I dated a bi-polar girl for two years. Super super loving when she wanted to be, but there were days and even weeks where all you could do was walk on eggshells. There was a month where she wouldn't let me go to the bathroom alone because she was concerned I was texting other girls. We ended it after she hit me with a ... | 5 |
AskReddit/cv8ksyg | 3lqgdt | What type of person do you secretly hate? | That person who portrays a perfect life on social media, but in reality is far from the truth. Same type of person buys an expensive nice looking car they can't afford to appear successful | 26 |
AskReddit/dcwdfz1 | 5q56lh | Why is Trump going to build a wall if there is already a large fence? | He's never actually been to "the border". For four hours he went to a neighboring police station but never actually set foot on the ground or saw the border itself. He probably has no idea what's there right now, but the idea of people voting for him because he'll build a huge wall keeps him going. | 2 |
AskReddit/dg7ro8d | 65661i | Why did the police officers think it would be OK to drag Dr. Dao off the plane? | It was their job. Dr. Dao had been asked to leave the plane due to overbooking. Happens all the time. The airline always puts you on another flight or reimburses you for the inconvenience. Dr. Dao refused, even when security had been called. When you defy security, things typically get physical. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/ctz1ihm | 3gkyld | Why does any flight take longer than 12 hours? | It's impossible to just stand still, as everything, even the air in the atmosphere moves with the same speed as the rotation of the earth.So the rotation does not actually make any difference to the length of the flight as we will always be in the same reference frame. The only thing that determines how long a flight i... | 5 |
AskReddit/c9rohon | 1dmakf | What was you most embarrassing day of school? | I had done a little experimenting with my high school boyfriend at the time and he proceeded to tell everyone. They then spent about a week making obscene gestures at me to let me know that they "knew what I did". What an asshat. Edit: I forgot one! This was college, though. Anyway it was presentation day in my career ... | 5 |
AskReddit/cv2cv01 | 3l1mft | What is your opinion of Catholics as an Atheist? | I was raised Lutheran but my grandparents were catholic. My problem is that they're the most "hardcore" sect, in that they have no tolerance for other beliefs. Tell a Catholic you're atheist and see what happens. They're also incredibly entitled. this is all in addition to the horrible indoctrination they do to childre... | 2 |
AskReddit/cc2ftn9 | 1lt10y | If you could save one day of your life in your memory to relive whenever you wanted, what would it be and why? | The day I saw my great grandmother in the hospital. My only memory of her is her laying on a hospital bed before she died. Unfortunately, the memory is slowly fading away, and I can't even remember what she looked like anymore. | 3 |
AskReddit/edykfsv | afh4ul | What's your worst customer story? | I was a housekeeper for a couple of years and the worst guest I’ve ever dealt with demanded I stay until 6:30pm (it was 2pm already) to clean his room after he had spent all day with Do Not Disturb on his door. My boss was not lawful and stopped paying his staff after a certain time, for that day he stopped paying me a... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/di9q4gh | 6eeutc | If you're searching for a used car of a certain type and you keep seeing the same year and model everywhere, does that mean that model year sucked? | Not necessarily. There may have been a particularly good financing deal available that year, or it was just a very popular model. For older cars, finding a good number still in circulation can actually be good news. That suggests that the car didn't have any major mechanical problems that killed them all off. | 20 |
AskReddit/d2pv3x0 | 4hi99w | What is the weirdest/creepiest thing you've ever heard from a sleep-talker? | Back in university we were at a conference. A group of us all shared a hotel room, being poor students, we were just being practical. Anyhow, in the pitch black, our Venezuelan friend started speaking fluent spanish, like someone left on a spanish news channel. So fast, so loud. It wasn't creepy, it was weird, in an ab... | 2 |
AskReddit/d6e98cu | 4xc8io | In a perfect zombie apocalypse, how did the outbreak start, and what are the zombies like? | Doesn't really matter how and what the zombies are like. It's all about location. If the outbreak started in a third world country, like the middle of Africa somewhere, then it would have a chance to spread and infect a lot of people really quickly. The outbreak would before known to the world eventually, but there'd b... | 3 |
AskReddit/elf4neq | bfnrp8 | What's your weirdest dream? | There was a twin volcano eruption me and my dad were there I saw a villain from the TV show I watched in a wood rowboat rowing towards the volcanoes who apparently was my uncle? Anyways I was suddenly on my couch jumping from sharks I saw some dragons from HTTYD swimming and then one of them landed buy a Lego character... | 2 |
AskReddit/djptb5z | 6kytd6 | What was your sketchiest experience at a motel/hotel? | There was a sketchy Super 8 motel in Oregon right off the highway that I stayed in. It was kinda run down, but in the middle of the night I heard odd noises that I can only describe as an alien whispering. Then I realized it was my sister talking in her sleep. Still a super sketchy Super 8 tho. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cnz4wzp | 2thm3o | Why do polar bears live at the Northern Pole and Penguins at the Southern? | Bears swim, but primarily prefer land- they basically 'came up' from relatively close places like Russia or Canada. Penguins rook on land but have a really impressive swimming range. And they'd kind of have to, given how far away even the closest (and, sfaik, all bear free) land to Antarctica is. The niche penguins wou... | 3 |
AskHistorians/d2ymfdu | 4iint8 | Did the Germans and Italians ever share Jet Technology during WWII? | Yes, they did in fact share at least the theoretical bits of Jet technology. That said, it's interesting that Italy never actually made a jet powered fighter as opposed to Germany who actually went on to test a few other engines before arriving to the BMW 003 or the Junkers 004. Probably the most important part is that... | 13 |
askscience/c4l325u | tawm9 | What's that feeling you get when you're stretching or yawning--a sort of thrill that quickly spreads through the body? | When you stretch it is basically dilating your blood vessels, which is why athletes stretch before exercise, to ensure maximum blood flow to increase O2 exchange efficiency. E.g. if you sat down for a long time, standing up allows more blood to flow in those areas which have been deprived of sufficient O2, so your musc... | 12 |
AskReddit/c0i2hxg | akn2l | Which Musician do you wish would "sell out" for the ultimate benefit of improving the deplorable state of pop music? | the people who are writing for pop music are some of the most trained and most creative writers money can buy. you're not listening to soul, but you're listening to very well written music. it's easier to appreciate it. | 3 |
AskReddit/e9t6ng9 | 9xlf6m | What's the worst present you've received? | My mom is from Thailand and doesn't really get the whole Christmas thing. last year she got me sore throat medicine. I didn't have a sore throat. Thanks for the gold kind stranger! I also forgot this story, she once got me around 50 tiny vacation mouth washes for my birthday. Somone told her kids these days drink them ... | 7 |
AskReddit/eala4ei | a0xsd4 | What is the worst Christmas present you've ever received? | It's the thought that counts, and I'm grateful for every gift I have received. That being said I received plastic clothes hangers one time from my aunt. Maybe I even needed them, but still. I was like 8 at the time. | 4 |
AskReddit/cl2oxdj | 2ijidl | Who's your inspiration and why? | My personal inspiration is my Mother.My whole life she has been my rock, my guidance, my teacher. She has always given me freedom but reinforced boundaries. She let me discover my identity by making my own mistakes and taking my own paths. My mum is the one person who I want to be like. She's incredibly intelligent, ca... | 2 |
AskReddit/ejykacr | b8lxwf | What’s your “My life is over” moment that actually ended up to not be a big deal? | I tried to end my own life but was found by my brother, i thought for sure that was it. He was gonna tell my parents i’d be sent to some home for the rest of my life. Turns out I wasn’t gonna be sent to a home but found out i had a minor case of depression and ADHD. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/c4xj14h | upyfe | Why is the Northeast and West Coast U.S. generally more liberal than the Midwest and South? | There are a lot of things that go into this (all the way up to how your brain is wired - liberals and conservatives literally have different brains) but biggest single determinant of whether someone is a liberal or a conservative is whether they live in a rural or urban environment. Urban areas are overwhelmingly liber... | 5 |
AskReddit/dd5043c | 5r74ph | What was the dirtiest trick ever pulled in the history of war? | Dirtiest trick that was conceived but not used was British scientists formulating a plan of dropping anthrax laced linseed cakes into cattle fields as a bio-nuke of sorts once it worked up the food chain. After initial experiments destroyed pretty much all life on the island they used, they decided that possibly killin... | 20,279 |
AskReddit/epsdxow | bvt4kg | Where should people find jobs out of highschool? | Any job is a good start. Just keep trying to work your way up. If a job limits your ability to move up, find another job, and use it as leverage to move up, or follow through with the job switch. Bosses shouldn’t be trying to hold you back. Just make sure you follow through with a good work ethic. | 2 |
AskReddit/dvyhbmk | 85mhyx | Who is your favorite actor, living or dead, and why? | Bruce Campbell. A self-made man who takes his fame humbly, but also known to be a good person to his fans. Also happens to be the star of my favorite series, Evil Dead. | 2 |
AskHistorians/dhigier | 6ay4hj | What led to the Fatima sightings of 1917 being so prominent within the Catholic Church? | Further, how much did Portugal's Estado Novo propaganda machine contribute to the Church's recognition and how true are the remarks that Fatima's acceptance by the Church and the Portuguese authorities are mostly derived from the Church and Portugal's stance towards communism and the fact that Fatima's message is clear... | 3 |
AskReddit/c4qk4an | txiwn | What myths about health/body are people the most stubborn about holding on too, despite the lack of any evidence to support them? | When I was little kids always said, oh blood is blue inside your body, but turns red when it comes in contact with oxygen. Not true. It's actually a very dark red. Well people might say, why are veins blue? They appear blue because light is defused by skin. | 216 |
explainlikeimfive/cidva6s | 28rynd | What is my body doing when drop off a roller coaster to give me that "feeling" in my stomach? | On Earth, gravity pulls us towards the ground. However, the force you notice isn’t the downward pull of gravity, but the upward force of the ground beneath you. The ground pushes up on your feet, pushing up on your bones and organs. The sinking feeling in your stomach when on a rollercoaster or driving over a hill is c... | 3 |
AskReddit/em7l7l5 | bjeymt | What do you hate about yourself the most? | I hate how I suck at socializing with people outside my very small circle. Even when people are being nice to me I don't know how to react. I wanna show them that I appreciate the nice gesture, but I can't seem to find the words to say plus how and when to say it, so I end up just mumbling a very meek 'thanks' 'okay' '... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/d1htjxq | 4cg458 | How does headache exactly hurts your head if your brain cannot feel pain? | There are literally hundreds of of types of headaches, so each one can be representative of something different. Sinus pressure, vascular issues, tumor increasing intracranial pressure, muscular tension, trauma etc. The brain could be the issue but it's usually transmitting from somewhere else. | 20 |
explainlikeimfive/d1sniqy | 4dno09 | Why are the new games coming out unable to be cracked? | Companies pay a license to use what's called DRM-- Digital Rights Management in their software. It's effectively encryption to piracy-- people copying their data and then sharing or selling it to others. Software that causes the game not to function if it detects it has been copied-- think of the old CD key system-- if... | 5 |
AskHistorians/c58fg2s | vx8b2 | What made Napoleon such a great general? | Move to the rear: Block the enemy supply route, which gives the opposing commander only two choices: Fight and win, or retreat around Napoleon's army and back into contact with supply. Blocking supply and communication forced Napoleon's opponents to fight on his terms, or flee on his terms. Central position: When facin... | 125 |
AskReddit/cnxv2wi | 2tcvgb | What truly original thought have you come up with ? | I thought of a series of youtube videos where I get Stone Cold Steve Austin to shoot shot for shot remakes of scenes from movies, only replacing one character. The first one will be SCSA replacing Jenna Elfman in Can't Hardly Wait, in the scene where she is telling Ethan Embry about her teenage crush on Scott Baio. | 2 |
AskReddit/c0owv1m | bwh6h | Is it weird to drink beer in the shower? | Only if you get water in the beer. Then you are not drinking beer in the shower - you are drinking Coors in the shower. And drinking Coors, in the shower or anywhere else, my friend, is completely inappropriate and unacceptable. | 291 |
AskHistorians/d049cv1 | 46ddzn | Who discovered the Americas? | The correct answer is "an unknown Paleoindian more than 16,000 years ago." If our choice is limited to Columbus versus the Norse, though, the Norse win. They reached Greenland (which is part North America) in the late 10th Century. In 1000 CE, Leif Erikson led an expedition to mainland North America after hearing about... | 11 |
AskReddit/c1vtemd | hj1a8 | If you could get a stats report of your life after you die, what statistics would you want to know? | The number of pictures or videos in which I unknowingly appear. Think about security cameras, or other tourists picture on which I appear . etc Even better than getting only the statistics, I would love to be able to take a look at those, with the time and location meta-data written underneath! | 3 |
AskReddit/c2usaka | lqi5s | Why is fast food so much cheaper in the US than in Canada? | US Wendy's gets their food from the US, where the meat is processed. In order to get that same processed product to Canada, they must ship it. This fluctuates the price of the product. For some companies, building proprietary factories in different countries can also cause in influx in prices. | 2 |
AskReddit/c61zn33 | z6z2z | What is your dream job? | I have my dream job right now. I set my own hours so I work only when I want to. I get to drink on the job. I like to be naked, and I get to be naked all the time. It's not hard work. I'm a stripper. | 14 |
explainlikeimfive/c7i1d3d | 1503pz | Why don't we build pyramids anymore? | Because they aren't very efficient. Lets say we use modern construction techniques and fill a pyramid with 'rooms' people would wanna live in. (I make this assumption because making a tomb that big for just one person anymore is silly on the face of it) So now we have a 'use' for a pyramid. Lets say you are in a big ci... | 19 |
AskReddit/eekxy0x | ai46gm | What did you lose, only to find again after much time? | My grandfather gave me a cute necklace for my third birthday it’s a gold plated bear with my birth stone on the belly and three balloons with diamonds in them. I always lost it and would find it months or years later. Thankfully I found it for the last time and now I’m not a stupid child anymore have it in a safe spot.... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/ck968ku | 2fgjnz | Why do products like honey or salt have expiration date even though they never go bad? | It's a legal safeguard for companies. Even though it'd most likely taste fine past an expiration date, it's to prevent lawsuits. "You advertised your honey as "fresh"! Well I opened it up 10 years later and it wasn't!" People will sue over ridiculous things. | 2 |
AskReddit/dfl52ov | 62b0wa | Why do you like listening to your preferred genre of music? | I absolutely love pirate metal, Alestorm in particular. I just love it so mich because of how different it is from other stuff I hear. The concept of a pirate themed metal band is also a reason. When I was a kid, I remember loving pirates, and I suppose listening just gives me some nostalgia as well. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/dv4d09j | 81p83c | Why do cars with start/stop start itself again when staying to long in one spot? | It starts again because it needs the engine again. Or. Well. Not the engine. But the electricity the engine produces with the generator that is connected to it. And possibly some of the excess heat it naturally creates with the combustion. There is a lot of stuff in the car that constantly consumes electricity. the ent... | 4 |
AskReddit/dafy9f5 | 5extpz | What experience/interaction influenced your life most in life? | going to college showed me how immature people could still be. we're in our 20s, you really gonna make fun of my clothing? I'm poor. So, that influenced me to choose friends wisely. | 3 |
AskReddit/ekk00cl | bbnm5v | What’s the story of that one coworker everyone dislikes? | There’s multiple but I’ll tell you the most memorable. I’ll call the coworker no one like K, my friend will be P. P as interacting with customers while K asked her to help with something in the back, since the customer was paying P said as soon as the transaction goes through she’ll head right back. After the customer ... | 3 |
AskReddit/c4h7e19 | sv1ea | If most theaters are using digital projectors with digital film prints these days, how are the theaters keeping those digital copies off the internet? | The movies actually get shipped in on hard drives, and in order for the projectors to be able to play them, a license has to be loaded onto the projector. The licenses usually last a couple of weeks, and once the timer runs out a new one is installed. I used to be a shift manager for a movie theatre, and it was annoyin... | 2 |
AskReddit/cmbfjul | 2n8ovp | What is something people do, that they think is unique, but really everyone does it? | "I'm only friends with guys because girls create too much drama." "I'm not like other people of my generation." People think they're being unique but in reality these phrases are so common that I just cringe when I hear them. | 2 |
AskReddit/cddcmif | 1qj874 | Have you ever had a lucid dream or out of body experience, or possibly sleep paralysis? | Yes, all 3. Lucid dreaming occurs for me quite regularly, most often during the early hours of the morning when I've just woken up but fallen off again before my alarm goes off. The other two I've only had each on a single occassion. My out of body experience I liken to what people describe as astral projection. I don'... | 2 |
AskReddit/cj8h05p | 2bs13e | What is something that makes you feel like a kid again? | Long ago my family and I used to go to Laredo, TX (we live in Mexico), just to shop but mostly window shopping, sometimes we just stopped by ToysRus just so my brothers and I could have a look around, maybe play the super Nintendo demos, we ate at Taco Palenque, went to Walmart, the mall, there was a talking tree there... | 2 |
AskReddit/dzli71a | 8m7sf3 | How far back (years or generations) can you trace your family history? | Mom's side to the 1500's. Family all over europe, but mostly england and france. Dad's side is a little tricky since there's a lot of Cherokee on his side. I could trace it back as far as the early 1800's though | 2 |
AskReddit/c3s5agk | pto8e | What's the coolest/most boss thing one of your parents has done? | I don't know if its the coolest things, but. I have a picture of my mom flashing a peace sign while at a Led Zeppelin concert, and both of my parents have partied with Alice Cooper. I come from a hippie and a metalhead. | 3 |
AskReddit/cn7v885 | 2qnxwm | What question are you tired of people asking you? | Why can't you work faster, longer hours, and smarter? I swear ever since my company used the downed economy as an excuse to cut some of my coworkers yet still demand the same amount of output, I am tired of hearing this. | 2 |
AskReddit/ehvymmc | axt8e1 | What are some villains who's motives made complete sense? | Fictional villains? I think Magneto from the X-men has some understandable motives. Real life villainy often depends on which side wins and gets to write history. Often, not always. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cwfs0xw | 3qjtv0 | What exactly happens to a person's ears when they are temporarily deafened from, for example, a nearby explosion? | Your tympanic membrane may rupture which will permanently decrease your hearing (as I understand it), but you can still hear with a ruptured membrane (think kids who get tubes put in their ears because they get chronic ear infections). In the few seconds after an explosion your brain was sending a signal of a loud soun... | 44 |
AskReddit/en6qxdu | bnkuqo | Where do you think we go after we diet? | There is no "dessert," "midnight snacks," "second breakfast," or any other kind of after diet. The weight will always come back. The only rational way to diet is to make lifestyle changes and maintain the loss. It took me years to come out to my family as a dieter. I was kicked out of my dinner club. It's not something... | 2 |
AskReddit/ed88lu5 | aci3fd | What injury or health condition significantly changed your life? | I broke 5 vertebrae in a fall when I was four years old. I wasn't paralyzed, but the bone deformities altered my physical development significantly. I lived with the crippling, deteriorating kyphosis until I was in my 40's then finally had the 12-level spinal fusion to fix it. At that point I was completely disabled by... | 14 |
AskHistorians/c9cwl0a | 1c4cy4 | Why wasnt Frantz Fanon executed on the spot for trying to enact a revolution? | Also a follow up question, Is there any times where Fanon's views were taken and used other than the Algerian revolution? I know Rage Against the Machine preaches for Fanon in at least one of their songs, Year of the Boomerang(the title is actually a quote coined by Fanon.) Were there any other writings or instances in... | 2 |
AskReddit/ektr1sa | bcvbfv | What temperature do dogs like bath water? | Some dogs can get painful muscle spasms in their tails from cold water. It mostly effects 'working-class' dogs like retrievers & spaniels. As long as the water's not too hot or too cold, it should be fine. | 2 |
AskReddit/cmyupt2 | 2ppns9 | What's the drunkest you've ever been, and what did you end up doing? | I've never really been that drunk. I've never even had a hangover. I think the worst thing I've done while drinking was hit on somebody's girlfriend right in front of her boyfriend at a party, or cursing at an opposing fan at a college football game right in front of a security guard. EDIT: Yes, her boyfriend, not his ... | 3 |
AskReddit/dnn8pd0 | 7333y7 | What do extremely wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? | Services like personal shoppers. My formerly wealthy SIL used to have a personal shopper at Nordstroms that would buy clothing for her. The private shopper knew everything about her and would often deliver them to her at work. There were even some lines of clothing that never made it to the rack that were not available... | 3 |
AskReddit/deu35vg | 5yzdll | What is the best vocal performance you've ever heard? | I wish I had a video of this, but I don't. This takes a little bit of backstory though, so I apologize for the length. My first semester at small liberal arts college, one of the students took their own life. He was a fairly well known student on campus and the search for him went on for two days before they found his ... | 2 |
AskReddit/dd4d949 | 5r4fdp | What movie, video, or television episode sucked the life out of you? | Ima go ahead and say Beasts of No Nation. That movie changed what I imagined war to be like. The way the soldiers trudged on just because the commandant told them to, the way Agu changes and matures throughout the movie, the things that the commandant would do to some of the soldiers, (SPOILER: He raped them), it all j... | 2 |
AskReddit/epfikfk | bup0cw | What movie left you completely blown away after watching it? | The Game. So many red herrings and mindfucks til the end and Michael Douglas bein a boss. Only saw this year and I hadn’t seen anything good in so long the blow might have blown out of proportion, but i was loving it. | 3 |
AskReddit/er3zwhj | c0e5t2 | What is your coolest travel experience? | My dad was in the Army, which people took to mean that we moved a lot. However, he was a recruiter, so we were fortunate to have stayed in one spot pretty much our whole lives growing up. 13 years ago, which was about 2 years before he retired, he was made to pick a new MOS. Long story short, he goes through AIT and is... | 2 |
AskReddit/eklzzd5 | bbwlm5 | Why do you/dont you believe in love at first sight? | For me, love at first sight doesn't exist because I'm more attracted to personality/intelligence than I am physical looks. I believe that people who are beautiful on the outside can quickly begin to look ugly if their behavior is rotten, and just the opposite, people who are not so physically attractive can begin to ap... | 2 |
askscience/c3s7q6d | ptrs1 | How did Newton derive the Law of Universal Gravitation? | Observations demonstrated that the planets in our solar system orbited the Sun in ellipses. Newton discovered through his investigation (IE invention) of Calculus that a body undergoing acceleration proportional to the inverse square of their distance would travel in an ellipse. He then made a mental leap and realized ... | 5 |
AskReddit/einvl56 | b1rr8x | What scene from a movie do you hate, because of what it does to you emotionally? | The scene in A Star Is Born where the husband commits to killing himself. It’s not graphic or explicit you just know. Overall I thought that movie was ok, great soundtrack but not the best movie ever. For me though having lost my dad to suicide that representation of committing to ending your life just caught me off gu... | 2 |
AskReddit/enj2oj6 | boost3 | What screams "I'm out of ideas"? | I had to do a business project in university. This girl in my class (who happened to be one of my best friends' ex, but she thought we were still friends) was very excited about her project and she was telling me all about it. Her idea was to sell hair bands with beads on them. The kind you can buy at the dollar store.... | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dyi2e32 | 8h8vmh | How is it that we can tell the difference between watching a recording of a completely still scene, and looking at an actual still image? | If you take multiple pictures of the same scene they will be slightly different. There is away noise in a image senor the captured images will not be the same. So a video will not be a stream of identical images but almost identical images. It is also likely that the video compression algorithms result in that the nois... | 4 |
AskHistorians/d2dc64h | 4fzc5j | Were slaves treated differently during Roman times compared to the way the US treated their slaves? | "Better" would depend highly on the social standing of the slave, how they were acquired, and what their jobs were. It also depended on the time frame. During the imperial period especially, slaves slowly accrued more and more rights. For a farmhand or mining slave in the late republic it would be hard for a slave to t... | 29 |
explainlikeimfive/c28lk1y | j2fm1 | Can someone explain how hedge funds work? | You have stocks. You can buy and sell stocks (or variations of that, including puts/options/etc). That's what 99% of people have access to, but sometimes, cunning people figure out ways to make a lot more money, and that's what hedge funds are. Hedge funds are usually invite-only. People put them together and invest in... | 2 |
AskReddit/dnhsfyr | 72e1tw | What's most annoying about Reddit? | Reddits voting system actively discourages discussion and actively rewards hiveminding. It's annoying that people don't understand that you shouldn't downvote someone because you disagree with them. You should downvote them if they aren't adding to the discussion or are breaking a rule. | 10 |
AskReddit/c0kh11q | b1dnb | What would happen if Pinocchio declared "My nose will now grow"? | It depends on whether he thinks his nose will grow - it grows if he lies, not if he's wrong. If he doesn't know, I suppose that's a lie, and it grows. So what happens next varies with hidden state, and two events that look exactly the same externally could have different outcomes. | 2 |
AskReddit/dvu31zu | 851oq2 | What are some ways we have changed the course of evolution and the meaning of "survival of the fittest"? | "Survival of the fittest" no longer applies to Nature scenarios. We've changed the game as humans and the fittest to survive in the modern world do not contain the same characteristics as the fittest to survive in nature. | 4 |
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