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tksj8r | changemyview_test | 0.95 | CMV: Too many people in America are more than willing to throw out the presumption of innocence for specific crimes. This is spurred by the Deshaun Watson case, and subsequent signing by the Cleveland Browns. Before I start, I want to be clear, I'm making ABSOLUTELY no judgments on his guilt or innocence or the integ... | i1t3kbz | i1sc3sw | 1,648,050,394 | 1,648,038,709 | 169 | 102 | > However, the facts are a grand jury heard all of these cases and didn't find enough evidence to even bring them to trial. That is a BIG DEAL.... It may be a minor point but you shouldn't put too much weight on the findings of a grand jury. There is a famous quote that a grand jury would "indict a ham sandwich," and ... | There are three things I think we ought to mention about this. First, sexual assault cases are notorious for being difficult. The fact that a grand jury did not decide to move for criminal charges or that people at large are not necessarily convinced by that isn't particularly surprising in itself. It's not difficult... | 1 | 11,685 | 1.656863 |
3vyga5 | changemyview_test | 0.82 | CMV: The second amendment is not an effective way for the citizens to protect themselves from a tyrannical regime emerging in the United States I hear two primary reasons for people citing the need for individual armament: personal defense and so the citizens can protect themselves from tyranny. I think the notion that... | cxrsavb | cxrrdxr | 1,449,599,071 | 1,449,597,845 | 24 | 22 | I think you *vastly* underestimate the effectiveness of guerrilla warfare. There are more than 300 million guns in the U.S. And millions upon millions of veterans. And our armed forces only have a couple million soldiers, some fraction of which would undoubtedly defect. Air strikes work against hard targets. There's... | I think the Vietnamese, Afghans, and Iraqis would disagree with you regarding the effectiveness of the U.S. military against a determined insurgency. | 1 | 1,226 | 1.090909 |
apk8ur | changemyview_test | 0.96 | CMV: Dr. Phil and similar TV shows are the modern, socially acceptable equivalent of circus freak shows Old circus freak shows took people with unusual disabilities or physical conditions and put them on display for people to gawk at. Today (at least in first world countries) that kind of thing would be unacceptable be... | eg941p4 | eg9aleb | 1,549,917,557 | 1,549,921,226 | 40 | 68 | People Approach Dr. Phil to be on their show. He just facilitates. Old time Freak shows used to find people then present them for the world to see. I think this a large distinction. | I don't know "freak shows" but I do believe that Dr. Phil is based on the same sort of sensational and often salacious presentation of the skeletons in people's closets as Jerry Springer. It's very base, and I think it quenches the same thirst in people as listening to gossip, and I don't think it's altogether healthy,... | 0 | 3,669 | 1.7 |
t9pkz0 | changemyview_test | 0.62 | CMV: The DSM can be more harmful than helpful and it's overused Now, to make it clear, I'm not saying mental illnesses aren't real and that diagnosing people with them is pointless. But, the culture surrounding it, both inside clinical settings and on the internet, doesn't help people. It creates a culture of diagnosis... | hzvz7nh | hzw23no | 1,646,773,329 | 1,646,774,556 | 10 | 19 | Speaking from professional experience, the DSM is a tool whose purpose is mainly twofold. First to use a standard set of diagnostic tools to help accurately diagnose a client and to develop the appropriate treatment plan. Second to use amongst other clinicians so that if a client goes to see multiple clinicians, th... | The DSM was never intended to be used by people who aren’t practicing psychologists or psychiatrists. Much like medical texts are intended for doctors, the abuse of professional texts by laypeople isn’t the fault of the textbooks, they are usefully for actual professionals. The problem is with armchair amateur psycholo... | 0 | 1,227 | 1.9 |
pklzob | changemyview_test | 0.79 | CMV: The work-from-home push by white-collar workers will eventually lead to massive outsourcing that will hurt future generations of wealthy western nations. For some generations older than mine, when they were in the workforce there was an abundance of factory jobs that provided millions of people the opportunity to ... | hc4cuw1 | hc4f0di | 1,631,144,494 | 1,631,145,544 | 16 | 42 | My best argument against this is simply that most outsourced work is done in country’s with very little access to top tier education & without that many of these “white collar jobs” are out of the question for being outsourced. | There was a big wave of international outsourcing in the early 2000s. For some companies it worked, for many it didn’t. Having workers in different jurisdictions, cultures, time zones is very different than having local people who work from home. | 0 | 1,050 | 2.625 |
v25qi9 | changemyview_test | 0.73 | CMV: The theory that eliminating tipping would cause the restaurant industry to collapse is a conspiracy perpetuated by waitstaff and the restaurant industry Tipping is optional. Period, point blank, no ifs, ands, or buts. It’s a customers choice whether they want to tip or not and how much. The idea it is mandatory is... | iaqldbe | iaqjcdv | 1,654,049,574 | 1,654,048,586 | 87 | 7 | you aren't legally obligated to tip and you'll face no legal repercussions for not tipping. In that sense, it is optional. Not tipping in areas for which low income earners depend on tips is morally reprehensible and people will continue to morally condemn and judge you for it. Not viewing you as an immoral person i... | You’re incorrect, the tipping system is propped up by businesses that want to pay their workers sub minimum wage. It’s a loophole where they can pay them less and put the responsibility of paying their workers a “fair wage” more directly onto customers Wait staffs don’t want less guaranteed wages in the hopes their ti... | 1 | 988 | 12.428571 |
z32qlz | changemyview_test | 0.88 | CMV: Telling random people to smile is rude and inconsiderate of their feelings My view is that when people tell others to smile it's often comes from a place of selfishness rather than wanting that person to express themselves how they see fit. People want to see others smile mainly for aesthetic purposes than anythin... | ixkkcbw | ixjqwmi | 1,669,260,067 | 1,669,245,820 | 6 | 5 | Man you must hate professional photographers | i wouldn’t call it rude i would just say it’s kind of uncomfortable. I’ve been told by random men walking in public numerous times things like “smile honey” and stuff and it just made me uncomfortable💀 however in their mind, assuming they’re not trying to b creepy, they’re probably thinking that they made someone who ... | 1 | 14,247 | 1.2 |
b3si2w | changemyview_test | 0.85 | CMV: A non-black person having an afro is not cultural appropriation as a haircut is not culturally exclusive I should preface by saying I would just like to objectively understand the other sides arguments. Recently i was told that by impersonating someone like Bob Ross with an afro, that this is would be cultural a... | ej1uxv6 | ej20cdh | 1,553,187,047 | 1,553,190,315 | 5 | 20 | Other people definitely have curly hair. But the question is, why call it an Afro if you are not specifically making reference to African Americans or people of African heritage. | Not my argument, but I can try to parrot something back to you. ​ 1) Since the 1960s (and even before then) African-Americans have been penalized for their manner of dress - be it their hair, their nails, their shirts or whatever. Black people have lost jobs, people have lost promotions, due to having "wrong ... | 0 | 3,268 | 4 |
hmfypp | changemyview_test | 0.67 | CMV: In the extreme long term (over thousands of years), if humanity had never invented religion we would be in a significantly worse place both academically and technologically than we are now Whether Mosques, Synagogues, Churches, or Temples; religious establishments had pushed humanity to expand our knowledge of the... | fx4x0f7 | fx4ya6o | 1,594,068,113 | 1,594,068,730 | 4 | 5 | > religious establishments had pushed humanity to expand our knowledge of the physical world by developing maths such as geometry, engineering, and other sciences What...? Where did you get this? Most of those were begun despite religion. Some of them were begun by groups that practices religion but only because the... | Your whole argument depends on one very unrealistic assumption, and that is that if religion was never a thing or, at least was never as influential as it is, then no one would have paid or incited for technological/scientific advancements; and that is just unrealistic considering how many of those advancements where i... | 0 | 617 | 1.25 |
78j7oe | changemyview_test | 0.86 | CMV: Capital Gains should be taxed the same as ordinary income I consider myself a libertarian and therefore am fiscally conservative. However, given the debates over the tax code overhaul, I truly believe we need to go back to the days of capital gains being treated the same as ordinary income. This would generate ... | dou8j91 | douqmpb | 1,508,882,917 | 1,508,904,796 | 5 | 8 | I have never really understood the macroeconomics of tax policy, but as a libertarian why would you want the government to generate more tax revenue? | Honestly, increasing capital gains taxes or (ideally) just counting capital gains as income for the purposes of income taxes only makes sense if we drop corporate taxes altogether. We have the highest nominal corporate tax rate in the world. No one pays the nominal tax rate because the tax code is riddled with exemptio... | 0 | 21,879 | 1.6 |
we5x1a | changemyview_test | 0.8 | CMV: I think many people that claim they're non binary are faking it. The majority of people that claim non binary identity AND aggressively insist on they/them pronouns are phony. Seems that many are privileged white people that are ashamed or embarrassed by their perceived oppressor status or perceived lack of "exoti... | iimf351 | ilry7v3 | 1,659,432,486 | 1,661,456,785 | 6 | 10 | If I accidentally misgendered you by calling you "Miss Eddyshorts" when you’re a dude, or "my boy Eddyshorts", if you’re a woman, would you correct me? I'm a stranger, and it's not intentional. It just may not be accurate. But for argument’s sake, let's say it *doesn't* bother you, and you're cool with accidental mi... | Nonbinary isnt even real. It was made up by people who arent gay and arent trans but wanted a way to feel special in the lgbt community. Now they insist everyone else accept their stupid beliefs because they're some minority group thats oppressed. They make real trans people look ridiculous | 0 | 2,024,299 | 1.666667 |
hpxtr9 | changemyview_test | 0.75 | CMV: America needs a populist political movement that focuses on widely agreed upon political and economic reforms instead of wedge issues and culture wars According to polling data there are a great many political and economic reforms that are widely supported by the general populace and would be beneficial to the ma... | fxug2av | fxuhm6e | 1,594,574,151 | 1,594,574,933 | 13 | 29 | The problem is that wedge issues aren't wedge issues because every politician necessarily makes them a big issue of their campaign. They're wedge issues because they're easily deployed against your opponents and everyone is required to have an opinion on them. Your centrist-populist party guy can run on those popular i... | The issue with unified left- and right-wing populism that completely ignores cultural discourse is that although both sides may end up agreeing on the *problems*, there still lies a significant gap to bridge with regards to the *solutions*. The Nazis, for example, were environmentalists. Instead of increasing regulat... | 0 | 782 | 2.230769 |
ffc2o9 | changemyview_test | 0.92 | CMV: Anti-vaxxers who have a child die to a preventable disease should be charged for murder/manslaughter at minimum. At this point in technology, where almost everything is available for public viewing on the internet, there is no reason for anyone to be an anti-vaxxer. There is literally tens of thousands of legitima... | fjxhm7o | fjxgt3v | 1,583,673,557 | 1,583,672,738 | 1,466 | 212 | Manslaughter requires direct participation in the person's death, so does murder. A more appropriate charge would be criminal negligence. Negligence is the absence of action. You can not convict someone for murder without them actively participating in the death. Unless the parents deliberately infected the child, th... | Anti-vaxxers are fucking idiots and and recklessly dangerous, BUT they wholeheartedly believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are protecting their child. Against a huge conspiracy. If you believed that people were coming to kidnap and murder your child, and the police said they didn't believe it and to forget abo... | 1 | 819 | 6.915094 |
690tz0 | changemyview_test | 0.87 | CMV: Trump could go back on almost all of his campaign promises and still retain the support of most of his supporters Before the election, many Trump supporters said that they supported him for his policies not his personality. I don't think that is true. Since the election, he seems to have struggled to get anything ... | dh2t9v6 | dh2wp2s | 1,493,824,767 | 1,493,828,475 | 93 | 196 | Clarifying question. Do you think losing roughly 20% of your base is a small thing? This is a massive failure for any politician, especially one who can only win by the narrowest margins in the first place. | I would argue that your premise does not have a strong base. While 80% is still a supermajority, losing 20% of his supporters would mean landslide victories in states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, etc. where Trump only won by a small margin. These three states alone would lose 46 electoral votes and be enough... | 0 | 3,708 | 2.107527 |
pddz0n | changemyview_test | 0.95 | CMV: Affirmative Action for college admissions should be based on socioeconimic status, and not race. Title. I'll use myself as an example to start. I'm Lumbee Indian (card-carrying), and thus college is free for me from many instutions. The issue arises from the fact that I don't live in Robeson County, North Caroli... | hapo08d | hapqosn | 1,630,176,006 | 1,630,177,175 | 25 | 407 | I honestly can't see how AA for race isnt racist. Its literally handing out privileges based on skin color. Economic status is clearly the better option, but america is obsessed with race for some reason. | You seem to misunderstand the goal and history of affirmative action. That's okay. Most people do. The goal is not to create a level playing field. The goal is not to 're-correct' for prejudice. The goal is not even to benefit the "recipients" of affirmative action. **The goal of affirmative action is desegregation... | 0 | 1,169 | 16.28 |
fof2q9 | changemyview_test | 0.92 | CMV: r/FemaleDatingStrategy is a toxic, hateful sub filled with bad advice and shouldn't be viewed as a positive community on reddit. I'm writing this because while in my experience condemnation of or at least acknowledgement of the toxicity, hatefulness, and bad advice-full-ness of "manosphere" subs or communities foc... | flfdogz | fleu09a | 1,585,103,969 | 1,585,091,512 | 38 | 19 | As a woman who dates women, I can confidently say that if I ever tried using those "dating strategies" or that kind of hateful terminology with another woman it would immediately be seen as disgusting toxic behavior. That tells you that it isnt about "dating" at all. Those women are just horrible toxic people who cont... | So I think that the situation with the WSJ is relatively easily explained. The WSJ is a newspaper with a conservative editorial page, and as such it tends to publish content that leans conservative. Most of the ways in which FDS is toxic/hateful are just it affirming traditional gender roles: things like being trans-ex... | 1 | 12,457 | 2 |
7zu6h2 | changemyview_test | 0.72 | CMV: Erik Killmonger in Black Panther is the rightful heir to the Wakandan throne So the specific rules of ritual combat are not completely elaborated on, but we can make some assumptions as to its rules based on the movie: 1) Either one of the leaders of the five tribes or someone in the royal bloodline is allowed to... | duqvwel | duqwqul | 1,519,450,525 | 1,519,451,923 | 3 | 46 | Killmonger was the rightful king. For a little bit. T'Challa userped the throne back in a mini Civil War, not by ritual combat. Ritual combat is apparently not the only way to become king. Basically, you're not wrong, but Erik is dead so he can't really be king can he? | The film establishes that the one competitor wins the ritual combat when the other either dies or surrenders. T'Challa did neither. That's why when T'Challa returns, he tells Killmonger the ritual combat is not over, since he's not dead. There's not a lot he can do about the fact that Killmonger refuses to continue the... | 0 | 1,398 | 15.333333 |
5e0tv7 | changemyview_test | 0.61 | CMV: I don't think my uphill battle as a black female PhD student is worth it I see other women having a decent time.They have children, they have boyfriends, they have worries but they are fairly typical. It seems boring but they are extremely happy from what I can tell. There is probably something wrong with me. I do... | da8u423 | da8t7i6 | 1,479,686,995 | 1,479,685,744 | 23 | 10 | I bet if you got inside the minds of all your friends, I bet they wish they could be as smart, determined and as motivated as you. Have you considered how different you and your friends will be ten or 20 years into the future. Do you know what percent of all people get into a PhD program? Do you know what percent of th... | You can't force yourself to want what others want in pursuit of normality. Accepting yourself and your desires is what you need to work on - which may include seeing a therapist and it's not because you are a freak, more people could use it than most people realize. Many people have inner lives that you just don't se... | 1 | 1,251 | 2.3 |
qe4x5l | changemyview_test | 0.59 | CMV: I think male prisoners in danger of being victimized by other male prisoners should be placed in a third, separate place. I'm specifically talking about trans women, but I wanted to make the title open to show I'm not singling them out. We know that they are at higher risk of being assaulted in prison, but I don't... | hhqo6a7 | hhqoc8a | 1,634,995,773 | 1,634,995,861 | 2 | 26 | I've always thought jails should be separated by crime or physical stature. | Arent there are already protective units within most prisons for vulnerable prisoners? Also the stat about trans offenders is pretty worthless given the sample size is so tiny | 0 | 88 | 13 |
tk4wti | changemyview_test | 0.66 | CMV: Trying the door to a public bathroom before knocking is ridiculous This is one of my biggest annoyances, and I want to see if there are any reasons I shouldn’t be annoyed. With a single person public restroom, about half the time people just jiggle the knob without even knocking. I always lock the door, but in ... | i1o6r2a | i1o41we | 1,647,962,883 | 1,647,961,809 | 76 | 21 | I hate when people knock. Then I have to say something. That’s the last place I want to speak to a stranger. You might as well announce “I’m shitting in here!” It’s crude and embarrassing. The lock is its own form of communication. It says no so I don’t have to. | I mean, it comes down to an assumption that whoever's in there would've locked up. They aren't jiggling doors to try and catch someone with their pants down. There's always the chance that whoever it is has poor hearing and knows they wouldn't hear an "Occupied!" Or they were operating on autopilot and forgot to knock... | 1 | 1,074 | 3.619048 |
61f3hs | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.89 | Explain like I'm five years old: I heard that recycling plants use magnets to sort aluminium from the rest of the rubbish. How, when aluminium isn't magnetic, does this work? | dfe2lab | dfe2xpw | 1,490,448,056 | 1,490,448,788 | 19 | 306 | Everything is magnetic in a strong enough field. Even this frog | In a word, electromagnetism. You're probably familiar with electromagnetism, it's creating a magnetic field by running current (in other words, moving electric charge) through a conductor. You can make a simple electromagnet at home to show that this works. The opposite also happens, when you move a magnetic field ... | 0 | 732 | 16.105263 |
p29xkn | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.65 | Explain like I'm five years old: Why can't morbidly obese people just get hundreds of pounds of fat and skin removed surgically in a small series of procedures? | h8imldv | h8in3up | 1,628,675,946 | 1,628,676,393 | 5 | 77 | They can. But it’s very expensive procedures. Depending on the country you live in, it may not be covered by health insurance. Most people don’t have that kind of money. | >Why can't morbidly obese people just get hundreds of pounds of fat and skin removed surgically in a small series of procedures? Any surgical procedure carries serious risks for the life and general health of the patient. Liposuction is even on the more dangerous spectrum and the resulting trauma for the body has ... | 0 | 447 | 15.4 |
8gc6vv | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.75 | Explain like I'm five years old: Why does terrific mean good and terrible mean bad while both horrific and horrible mean bad? | dyahg2p | dyahea5 | 1,525,211,214 | 1,525,211,165 | 27 | 12 | It's usually a good bet to google {the word} etymology when you're not sure why a word is what it is. A complete answer from the first result: >The meaning of terrific has actually changed over time. According to EtymOnline: >1660s, "frightening," from L. terrificus "causing terror or fear," from terrere "fill with ... | Ahoy, fellow redditor. Yer not alone in askin', and kind strangers have explained: 1. Why is horrific == horrible, but terrific =/= terrible? ^(_9 comments_) 1. Explain like I'm five years old: Why do both "terrible" and "horrible" mean something bad, but "terrific" and "horrific" have two completely different meani... | 1 | 49 | 2.25 |
6hzpw1 | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.87 | Explain like I'm five years old: In the song "Taxman" the Beatles complain about the then 95% tax rate for top earners in the UK. Why was the tax rate so high back then, and was the rate sustainable? | dj2iu2j | dj2hif1 | 1,497,802,879 | 1,497,801,051 | 14,486 | 6,976 | Why were taxes so high? World War II. All the military equipment, all the soldiers' pay, all the medical expenses, all the expenses had to be paid, somehow. That somehow was with debt. Debt that had to be paid off by the government over the next 20-30 years. So, during WWII, the British government (and ALL gov... | Its important to note that not all the income of a top earner was taxed at 95%. Income taxes usually work by brackets. Example with made up figures: Your first $18,000 is taxed at 10%, then $18,001 to $75,000 is taxed at 15%, etc. In the U.S., the highest bracket currently is ~39% starting at ~$418k, so only income a... | 1 | 1,828 | 2.076548 |
yht5gr | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.77 | Eli5: Why does ceramic break tempered glass so easily. | iufnsaz | iufpv5m | 1,667,172,578 | 1,667,173,525 | 4 | 44 | Tempered glass is under very high internal stress from the process of cooling it rapidly. Ceramics are harder than glass so the impact of the two mostly transfers the force to the glass which causes the stress of the internal glass to exceed its ability to hold its structure. AFAIK. | Ceramic is very hard. Not in the general, colloquial sense of hard, but in the Mohs Hardness Scale. That scale measures whether or not something can scratch something else. Diamond is the hardest on this scale - not because you can't break diamond. Diamonds are pretty brittle, you can easily crack or shatter them with ... | 0 | 947 | 11 |
8n1nvp | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.71 | Explain like I'm five years old: Why can you get food poisoning from cooked chicken that has been left out for 12 hours on the counter, but not from a piece of chicken that has been stuck in your teeth for 12 hours before you brush? | dzs2xy4 | dzs26g4 | 1,527,621,041 | 1,527,620,380 | 24 | 4 | The difference is which type of bacteria grows on the chicken. Since the chicken is cooked, any bacteria on/in the chicken was killed, meaning that only environmental bacteria will grow on it afterwards. On the counter, bacteria from people touching the counter, dust and air, and all the other things that may be in th... | A tiny piece of chicken stuck in your teeth for 12 hours could develop bacteria, but it would be a very tiny bit of bacteria. | 1 | 661 | 6 |
4y15fn | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.68 | Explain like I'm five years old: Why are removable batteries for electric cars not a thing? I was reading in r/science about how 'range anxiety' is keeping people away from electric cars. (https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/4xym1e/range_anxiety_is_scaring_people_away_from/) So I was why are removable batteries... | d6k99x1 | d6k419q | 1,471,382,279 | 1,471,375,653 | 4 | 2 | As someone who has changed out batteries in Chevy Volts and Cadillac ELRs I can tell you that it is not an easy process. There are a ton of safety measures that they make us follow. We have to have special gloves to handle any of the high voltage system. We have a special table fixture that we use to lower the batte... | Car batteries are large and heavy, so it's not as easy to swap them out. Also, since those batteries deliver *a lot* of power and get hot, most of them have an extensive cooling system. When you're removing a car's battery, you're not just disconnecting the terminals, you're also disconnecting a liquid cooling loop. It... | 1 | 6,626 | 2 |
x9obut | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.82 | Explain like I'm five years old: If WhatsApp messages are end to end encrypted, how can WhatsApp show me the code used to encrypt those messages? | inp5tfe | inp909f | 1,662,708,010 | 1,662,710,642 | 3 | 6 | This is one of the great accomplishments of modern cryptography. The ability to show you exactly how the encryption happen. Modern encryption uses one way functions. Mathematical functions that are trivial in one direction, but we know of no way to reverse them in any kind of reasonable timeframe. Since you don't know ... | Public keys and asymmetrical encryption to exchange a symmetrical encryption key. When I want to send you a message, my devices generates 2 encryption keys. A (private) and B (public). Messages (plaintext) encrypted with one key (ciphertext) can only be decrypted by the other key. You cannot decrypt using the same key... | 0 | 2,632 | 2 |
ybeph1 | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.7 | Explain like I'm five years old: Why are YouTube videos in 480p resolution almost always larger (in file size) than those in 720p resolution? 480p use a slightly higher bitrate, but why does that make sense? | itg0yct | itg5jpj | 1,666,523,943 | 1,666,527,031 | 6 | 8 | Can you clarify your question? Are you asking why would youtube do this, or how can 480p video be larger than 720p? | are you comparing the same video? Download it at 480p then again at 720p and confirm which is larger simple videos with a lot of the same colour and less noisy content will have smaller filesize s as they compress much more | 0 | 3,088 | 1.333333 |
vaz4h2 | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.84 | eli5: Sugars are carbs. What is different about sugar that requires it to be listed separately on a nutritionql label? | ic5bu70 | ic5i2dv | 1,655,079,365 | 1,655,082,708 | 32 | 64 | The idea is that we need to have sugar called out specifically because its the type of carb that we most often consume too much of. The callout is for awareness, education, and tracking your intake of sugar. "50 carbs, but 45 of them are sugar" versus "50 carbs, 5 of which are sugar". Very important to be able to see ... | Not all carbs are equal. The two act very differently when consumed. There are some carbohydrates humans cannot even digest because we lack the enzymes, don't chew our cud, and lack the hind-gut fermenting microbes horses and pigs possess. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0q4XMzuzV4 https://www.youtube.com/watch... | 0 | 3,343 | 2 |
76i19b | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.92 | Explain like I'm five years old: If electricity speed is about 300,000 km/s, why does ping of internet depend so much on the distance? | doe8ddd | doe5rsp | 1,508,069,312 | 1,508,061,738 | 1,830 | 76 | Imagine that all cars, freight ships, trucks, and airplanes would move at light speed. Now think about how long it would take to send a package around the world. Of course it would be faster now, but it wouldn't come close to the speed of light. _Moving the package_ would take almost no time, but the package would stil... | The latency comes more from the various bits of hardware the signal has to pass through, than from the wires. Even so, if you're going halfway around the world at the speed of light without detours, that's 20,000 km / 300,000 km/s = 66 ms (edit: in each direction, so the ping time would be +133 just from distance) whic... | 1 | 7,574 | 24.078947 |
3o13w0 | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.82 | Explain like I'm five years old: My whole family caught the same nasty stomach bug. Some of us threw up a lot, others only pooped. What was happening in our bodies to cause the different course of actions? | cvt4710 | cvt40y6 | 1,444,348,497 | 1,444,348,207 | 18 | 4 | In a lot of these bugs, children tend to vomit more and adults tend to have diarrhea more, so age might have something to do with it. There are also people who vomit easily with stomach bugs, while others rarely do, so there is an individual "strong stomach" factor as well. Our family has both kinds of people. Ther... | this recently happened to my husband and I. the only thing I could figure is that a slight variance in the pH in our digestive tract caused the bacteria or virus to thrive at different points in our guts and to varying degrees (I profusely had The Brown Water Floweth and he barely had stomach upset). the pH changes thr... | 1 | 290 | 4.5 |
1kq5by | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.84 | Explain like I'm five years old: Since we're aware of the elements required to create water (H2O), are we able to do so? Are the elements scarce/abundant? If not/so, why don't we just create water and supply it to places in need? This might be a dumb question, but it seems so simple...which might be exactly why it isn'... | cbrjxe3 | cbrk9rw | 1,377,008,260 | 1,377,009,346 | 13 | 60 | We don't need to make water. 70% of the Earth's surface is covered with water. | TLDR: water is more abundantly available than its components. | 0 | 1,086 | 4.615385 |
w2035q | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.96 | Explain like I'm five years old: when we get stressed, and have adrenaline and cortisol run through our system, once we calm down where do those hormones go? | ignh3qx | igncq08 | 1,658,157,519 | 1,658,155,719 | 640 | 60 | Systemic chemicals and hormones are mostly broken down in the liver. In addition, individual cells of many types can further process many steroid hormones - so cortisol (which is a steroid hormone = basically a fat based hormone) can be further metabolized in neurons to make a neuroactive version that does not affect ... | We generally have sites in the body where certain chemicals are ‘re-absorbed’ and their effects nullified. Anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medicines will block these sites and cause things like serotonin to remain in your system and build up. Your body releases compounds and removes them, and will do this at various ... | 1 | 1,800 | 10.666667 |
qqd7kr | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.94 | [eli5] Why do you have to clean ships underbelly from barnacles? | hjzg3gz | hjzh126 | 1,636,492,018 | 1,636,492,389 | 339 | 5,944 | To reduce friction. The barnacles cause more drag on the ship, slowing it down. I know this is one of the reasons, unsure if there is more. Correct me if I'm wrong, or forgetting something. | In ships the build up of barnacles is a type of fouling Fouling is anything that builds up on the underside of the ship and gets rid of the streamlined hull. The barnacles make the ship a lot rougher so the water doesn't flow as smoothly and skin drag is increased, the increase in drag means an increase in required p... | 0 | 371 | 17.533923 |
yvx48k | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.93 | Explain like I'm five years old: Can a person feel pain or other sensations in a transplanted organ? And if so, how do the severed nerves connect to the rest of the body? | iwgnss6 | iwgl94s | 1,668,523,093 | 1,668,521,930 | 355 | 49 | With a heart transplant the new heart is said to be de-nerved. It has no nerve connection so it does not respond to your body the same way your native heart would. However another user said that this means your heart rate won't change based on actively which is not true. Your heart rate does change, just with a signifi... | The severed nerves aren't reconnected. For most organs, this isn't that much of a problem, as they don't need much control or give feedback. For heart transplants, the control of heart rate is lost. Heart rate won't go up with exertion and won't go down with rest, but will tend to stay at a medium rate. It also means ... | 1 | 1,163 | 7.244898 |
yptyvd | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.91 | Explain like I'm five years old: Why do some animals, like sea turtles and salmon, lay eggs away from their natural habitat? This might be a strange question, but why do sea turtles lay eggs on land and not for example dig up holes inside the ocean? They live their whole lives in the ocean, so why do they lay eggs on l... | ivkwimk | ivlhcty | 1,667,933,005 | 1,667,940,916 | 7 | 9 | I don't know about fish, but turtles lay their eggs in sand so the embryos can breath. Sea turtles have to come up for air every so often. | For salmon, the rivers that they spawn in have fewer predators and more cover than the ocean, which allows the young salmon to mature some more safely. When they get to a larger size, the ocean has more food than the rivers. | 0 | 7,911 | 1.285714 |
xwau2c | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.69 | eli5: Why were laugh tracks so widely used on sitcoms in the past? Did people not know when they were supposed to laugh? I’m rewatching some older sitcoms and the laugh track is so odd to me. I remember thinking nothing of it growing up, but now that I’ve been watching sitcoms without it, it feels completely pointless... | ir5dr1h | ir5djw0 | 1,664,977,501 | 1,664,977,412 | 82 | 14 | Originally sitcoms were filmed with an audience, and you would hear their reactions. In the 60s, TV networks tried inserting laughter into sitcoms, and discovered that focus group audiences found the shows much funnier than with only "natural" laughter. So yeah, it does work. Laughter is contagious. Humans are weird. | Sometimes the audience reaction isn't loud or sustained enough to be worth using in a broadcast. A quick guffaw or chortle can be more of an disruption of a scene than a laugh that goes on for a few seconds. And sometimes a joke just doesn't land, but they need to fill in the pause that was supposed to be there for th... | 1 | 89 | 5.857143 |
8c4bny | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.91 | Explain like I'm five years old: How do nurses, drug users, etc inject a drug directly into a vein? How do they know the needle tip hasn't gone through the vein or even missed it completely? I'd imagine most veins are less than 5mm in diameter, that's a pretty small target to land the tip of the needle in. How do they ... | dxbzt0y | dxbzn8p | 1,523,669,627 | 1,523,669,453 | 6,210 | 84 | The "flash". Before pushing in, you draw back on the plunger. If the needle or catheter is in a vein, blood will easily be drawn back into the tubing or syringe and then you can push the medication or fluid in once you see that. If you're not in a vein, you won't easily pull blood out when drawing back. | im pretty sure they pull back on the plunger when they think they are in a vein. if blood comes through, that means they are in a vein. | 1 | 174 | 73.928571 |
xtofw1 | explainlikeimfive_test | 0.9 | Explain like I'm five years old: Why do smaller aircraft tend to have their engines on their fuselage while larger ones tend to have them on their wings? | iqqv0x0 | iqqwa8s | 1,664,716,470 | 1,664,717,111 | 6 | 141 | Ground clearance. Larger landing gear weighs more. Small planes can't carry as much weight without massive losses to fuel efficiency and range. So they have smaller, size appropriate landing gear. This puts them too low to the ground for under wing engine placement. | Smaller aircraft often only need one engine and you want that engine in the center of your aircraft. Larger aircraft will often need two engines or more and so you can't put two engine in the center, that's just too big and wouldn't leave you enough place for the pilot. Usually in that case, they will put those engine ... | 0 | 641 | 23.5 |
xokddg | legaladvice_test | 0.91 | My lawyer said he got a charge dismissed but lied and actually plead guilty. He did get the other charge dismissed. I’m pretty upset that he lied to me. At this point is it even worth confronting him about it. Can he even do anything at this point for me after the case is closed ? Never was I in front of the judge. He ... | ipzck5w | iq0aq3j | 1,664,206,348 | 1,664,219,563 | 230 | 351 | Lawyers don't plea for you. Did they make a bigger deal that you agreed to without understanding it? | It's not possible to enter a plea without signing your plea form, waiver of rights, and entering the plea in front of the Judge. So either you're misunderstanding what you did in court or something is incorrect. I recommend contacting your lawyer first and requesting clarification. | 0 | 13,215 | 1.526087 |
u1a9p0 | legaladvice_test | 0.98 | [TX] Friend's dog is being abused, will reporting animal abuse launch a bigger investigation into his child abuse as well? Texas. A friend of mine (16 or 17) is being severely abused by his parents, physically and emotionally. CPS was called to his house one or two years ago, they didn't even TALK to him (they intervie... | i4cblwn | i4b10m2 | 1,649,710,923 | 1,649,691,558 | 197 | 152 | A) Call CPS, B) Tell every single teacher you can about this, C) You might want to remind them that it is illegal for them to not report this to CPS, D) This applies to pretty much everyone in a school including the Lunch person. | You are young, and I know you are worried about your friend. The right thing in this situation is to call CPS again for your friend. And absolutely call Animal Control (google animal control and your city to find the phone number) and tell them you'd like to report an animal abuse case. | 1 | 19,365 | 1.296053 |
3tlco5 | legaladvice_test | 0.94 | [Chicago IL] My therapist that my parents hired and forced me to see in highschool has decided to charge me instead of my parents for appointments I missed/was late for. So in my junior year of high school my parents discovered that I had a fetish they didn't like so they sent me to a pricey widely known therapist to t... | cx78364 | cx77oin | 1,448,048,637 | 1,448,048,020 | 333 | 82 | Legal or not, you need to file a complaint against this therapist. You can do so here: http://www.idfpr.com/Admin/Complaints.asp This is just not ethical behavior, if what you're saying is true and the entire story. Asking a minor (at the time of rendered services) to pay for the services requested by the parent... | The guy can demand payment all he wants. I can also tell my neighbor's 5-year-old that he owes me a bajillion dollars. Both have roughly the same chance of being enforceable. This is because you were a minor when the services were performed. Your parents are responsible. I personally would tell the guy to pound sand a... | 1 | 617 | 4.060976 |
f41bwq | legaladvice_test | 0.96 | [Massachusetts] Neighbor's and their friends are trespassing on my property to get to lake via my private dock, what liability am I looking at? I recently purchased a lakefront cabin with a private dock. The cabin is located at the end of a peninsula. This Sunday, I visited it and discovered about 10 people on the froz... | fhnhlm2 | fhnkoft | 1,581,726,930 | 1,581,728,086 | 1,341 | 4,973 | If they get injured on your property they may sue you, they might not win, but defending against the suit itself could be very expensive. I'd consider looking into fencing/gates which can control access when you arent there. | I strongly suggest buying homeowner's insurance for the property with decent limits of liability. Not being liable does not keep you from being sued, but insurance will cover legal fees and damages for you. | 0 | 1,156 | 3.708427 |
87y446 | legaladvice_test | 0.91 | How can a man (discreetly)find out if his wife is still married to her previous husband in another state (Arizona)? My buddy "Fisher" has been married for 3 years. His wife "MaryAnn" mentioned in casual conversation that she fears she is still married to her previous husband in Arizona (Fisher & MaryAnn live in Califor... | dwgg8mm | dwggix6 | 1,522,294,014 | 1,522,294,342 | 4 | 178 | Check the court marriage/divorce records. | She got married 3 years ago while not knowing if she was still married to a previous spouse who ghosted her while she was in a coma? And now the current husband wants to hire a PI to find out instead of just checking court records? Not sure why anyone is worried about being discreet. There's obviously no secrets to ... | 0 | 328 | 44.5 |
9dsx9d | legaladvice_test | 0.96 | [Ontario] Walked in on a exec having sex with another coworker, what do i need to do to protect myself? I got a pager duty alert tonight, after getting a warning about one of our servers basically becoming unreachable. I arrived, and fixed the issue, but as i was leaving i could hear people faintly talking. So i though... | e5k0eob | e5jzxh0 | 1,536,328,518 | 1,536,328,066 | 175 | 144 | On a strategic note, if these people are habitual scumbags they may try to implicate you in wrongdoing by offering you something that compromises your integrity. Don't accept gifts - especially "intangible" ones - any time in the near future. Or at all, ever, but definitely not right now. | Not a lawyer but had some experience with Ontario employment law. Workers are pretty well protected. I would write down on paper everything I saw and file it away. This ensure you have a contemporary account of what happened, includes dates and times, etc.. In the unlikely even you are treated unfairly show a copy of... | 1 | 452 | 1.215278 |
pynnud | legaladvice_test | 0.94 | Neighbor's dogs killed my livestock. I want to file a small claim petition in Texas, but do not know where to start. Animal husbandry is the main source of income for me. I raise show quality and rare breed rabbits and exotic poultry that I intend to sell chicks from. I have other animals that are strictly pets. Sunday... | hevc2xv | hevt04d | 1,633,020,775 | 1,633,027,785 | 116 | 129 | \PDF warning\] [http://www.co.panola.tx.us/upload/page/2919/docs/JusticeOfPeace/JP2-3/CivilFines.pdf In short, you fill out the paperwork, pay the filing fees, file the paperwork with the court, await your court date, show up and present your case, obtain a judgement, then -- arguably the more difficult part -- figure... | In addition to the small claims court route, don't forget about declaring a loss on both your federal and state income tax returns. You have an actual loss, a police report that should be enough documentation. If you take this to small claims court and are stiffed because there is no money - then this may be at least... | 0 | 7,010 | 1.112069 |
aqr1k7 | legaladvice_test | 0.98 | Neighbor rents attached townhouse next to us on AirBNB, wants to buy ours at way below market value since we are selling. Today they put up a sign on his property advertising it is an AirBNB rental for parties. Is there nothing i can do? Location: Ontario, Canada Our neighbour who i will just call Guy, bought the town... | egi4nau | egi3zoh | 1,550,197,575 | 1,550,197,019 | 1,027 | 465 | Get copies of the arrests and noise violations, etc, and send them to AirB&B. They have policies on being a good neighbor. | Have you consulted a real estate attorney? There are some places that have laws against being in a position to directly drive down the price of a property in order to buy it themselves below market value. | 1 | 556 | 2.208602 |
bjh32y | legaladvice_test | 0.97 | Former grad student, considering suing my university for $14k unpaid wages (Texas) Long story short, I completed my graduate degree back in December and my graduate advisor still owes me $14,000 in unpaid wages for the work I did in their research lab during my last year of grad school. This professor paid me what they... | em82rz4 | em81b4m | 1,556,718,877 | 1,556,717,931 | 1,318 | 20 | I would also look into contacting the entities that provided him with grant money. It's a huge no-no to do what he's doing if the money is from places like NSF or NIH. | You can look into filing a wage complaint by seaching file wage complaint texas, on Google. If too much time has passed you would have no choic but to file a lawsuits. However, lawsuits are so expensive that it could be counterproductive to do so. You will need a lawyer and the lawyer will cost. One may be able to ne... | 1 | 946 | 65.9 |
8mxeit | legaladvice_test | 0.97 | Friend sent me a Cease and Desist for an app. A friend of mine recently sent me a Cease & Decist letter claiming that I stole his app idea. He claims that he told me about this idea, but I don't have any recollection of it. He also expects me to pay for damages done. On speaking to him, he said it's fine if I do it fo... | dzr5nv8 | dzr4xq8 | 1,527,582,915 | 1,527,581,361 | 160 | 5 | He sent you a C&D, or his lawyer did? Either way this sounds frivolous. | ---
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ec02mv | legaladvice_test | 0.83 | [VA] My ex/daughters mother beat the daylight out of me yesterday in my own home, tried to strangle me & refused to leave after i said it over 20 times, i swatted her off several times as she kept on coming for me after i broke free. I had to leave my own home to get away. Note: We dont live togethe My ex has been try... | fb8cjkn | fb8vce5 | 1,576,610,956 | 1,576,622,732 | 8 | 22 | Make sure to photograph any injuries/scratches on your body to use as evidence, as well as any property damage. What are they charging you with? | CPS investigator here. You should be concerned about the child welfare referral that is more than likely going to be made, concerning your child’s exposure to domestic violence. This is considered child neglect and it is a risk to your child’s physical, mental and emotional safety. Law enforcement officers are mandate... | 0 | 11,776 | 2.75 |
mpuxxh | legaladvice_test | 0.97 | I solely own and pay for my house. Bf lives with me but pays less than $300/month for misc. bills. I want him out and have repeatedly broken up but he will not leave. I'm considering giving him notarized letter with 30 day notice. This is not Covid related. Will I be able to legally evict him? Location: Florida. My hou... | guc66an | guc55y0 | 1,618,288,435 | 1,618,287,752 | 858 | 783 | Under no circumstances should you leave your house with him in it. | You do not need a reason to end his month-to-month tenancy. Just a written notice to vacate (15 or more days). Then if he's not gone you take him to court. The COVID moratoriums are for people who can't pay due to COVID (at least in Florida). Finally a sheriff with a court order comes to remove him. | 1 | 683 | 1.095785 |
pi4nd5 | legaladvice_test | 0.87 | How to help intellectually disabled cousin currently in prison into a more appropriate place? My cousin (23M) has been in jail since January for saying he had a gun and “trying to rob a store”. He didn’t have a real gun, just an air soft gun. The real issue is that he is severely intellectually disabled (mentally he is... | hboye5g | hbojrzv | 1,630,853,734 | 1,630,846,412 | 14 | 6 | Not a lawyer, but worked with this population in Georgia in the past Contact the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities. Disability and Mental Health services are woefully underfunded and under-resourced in Georgia (really, everywhere). There are institutions in Georgia for individuals with dev... | Have you tried the ACLU? Legal Aid? ADRC? Work the phones, write letters, contact local politicians, be a pain in the ass. | 1 | 7,322 | 2.333333 |
yoeyi4 | legaladvice_test | 0.97 | My dog was mauled and killed on my own property Yesterday afternoon my 8 year old lab mix was mauled by two pitbulls that came onto my property. We rushed her to the emergency vet but after several hours of trying to save her, we decided to euthanize, the trauma was too much and she was struggling and in so much pain. ... | ivdx78n | ive0ex2 | 1,667,802,991 | 1,667,805,585 | 136 | 846 | Yes you would be able to sue them for the medical bills. | Not sure if there is any legal issues but maybe posting a description of the dogs on your local Facebook page might help you find the owners. If you have a security camera you can even post the video to a community safety page | 0 | 2,594 | 6.220588 |
cb3fqa | legaladvice_test | 0.97 | Neighbors kids won't stop destroying my yard. What options do I have? (IN) So ive been having issues with my neighbors kids playing in my yard. I've planted a tree which they rip the leaves off of to the point that they are killing multiple branches, they leave my yard filled with toys (multiple of which have been dest... | etcrpn9 | etcvdx0 | 1,562,691,244 | 1,562,693,433 | 2 | 457 | ---
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won96g | legaladvice_test | 0.96 | how long will my mom be in jail for domestic abuse? my mom dragged me around the house by my hair. i told the police, i had video evidence and they took a picture of my hair literally coming off bc she pulled it out. she did this bc she wanted to kick me out, but she legally has to give me a 30-day warning. my 18th bir... | ikbxpij | ikbxu08 | 1,660,529,112 | 1,660,529,172 | 370 | 1,460 | It's impossible to guess. You absolutely should support prosecution, testify honestly as to what happened, etc. | You did the right thing calling the police and glad you are safe for the moment. Do you have someplace safe to go to for when she returns? She could be back tonight or tomorrow, depends on a lot of factors like where you are and what she is charged with. But more likely she'll be given an order of protection not lettin... | 0 | 60 | 3.945946 |
wqlaly | legaladvice_test | 0.94 | Is it possible to earn US citizenship for my future child if I, the future father, am a US citizen BUT the child's birth certificate does NOT have me listed as the father (even though I am)? • The future child will NOT be born on American soil • The future child's mother will NOT be American • I am a U.S. born citize... | ikn1p4c | ikn3g64 | 1,660,733,122 | 1,660,734,297 | 5 | 32 | Is the mother married to someone else at the time of birth? Not sure if ICE currently presumes the husband is the father, but that is law in many US states. | Once you are 100% sure thr child is yours, report the birth to a consulate via https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-travel/while-abroad/birth-abroad.html. I'd suggest calling the consulate first to see if they are going to need any additional documentation to show that you are the baby's biological... | 0 | 1,175 | 6.4 |
k94g4d | legaladvice_test | 0.95 | My Dog bit a kid who wouldn't leave him alone. They want him to be put down. My Dog is a German Shepard has never bit anyone. He isn't stupid or aggressive but, he doesn't like being pet on by random strangers unless I've given consent. He wont bite but, he will shy away but, if you kept on trying to pet him he would l... | gf23usg | gf21am0 | 1,607,439,806 | 1,607,438,416 | 7,495 | 557 | Just a tip: in any future discussion about this, do not focus on the “my dog is well trained and has never bit anyone” part of the story. I used to investigate dog bites for my city and every single incident involved being told that by the dog owner. Whether it’s true or not is inconsequential. Just focus on the facts ... | Do you have your vaccination records for your dog? There is no test for rabies on live animals, you must produce proof that they are vaccinated. That is step 1. Take your proof and contact animal control. | 1 | 1,390 | 13.456014 |
52w50i | legaladvice_test | 0.95 | (MN) My brother and his wife bought a house that was stolen (taken from someone through a forged quit claim deed) My brother and his wife bought a house 6 months ago. It has now come out that the person they bought it from wasn't the owner, her cousin was the owner and he forged a quit claim deed and had her evicted by... | d7ntzij | d7nti5v | 1,473,950,042 | 1,473,949,375 | 237 | 90 | I want to make it clear that your brother and his wife should not, under any circumstances, just surrender the house. They have the down payment+mortgage invested in the house, and, regardless of whether the guy committed fraud, the bank still gave him money and is going to want it back from the people who borrowed it ... | #THIS IS WHAT TITLE INSURANCE IS FOR | 1 | 667 | 2.633333 |
56i3ln | legaladvice_test | 0.88 | Neighbor cut down trees within my property line without my permission. I live in Michigan and have several trees near my property line which provide privacy from our neighbors. These trees are 1-2 feet on our property (we still have a stake in the ground showing the property line). Last year, we had a six foot chain li... | d8juzfx | d8jfrss | 1,475,972,582 | 1,475,949,646 | 12 | 11 | Get land surveyed, hire and arborist to get a report on value and replacement cost of trees. Hire a lawyer to send a letter to neighbors about said damage and estimate reports on replacement costs. They better have homeowners because this will not be cheap for them. | So you installed a fence several feet inside your property line, inside of these trees? Do you think the neighbor assumed that you built the fence on the property line? | 1 | 22,936 | 1.090909 |
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