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askscience/dtrzluc | 7vewj7 | How do whales, the largest mammals on earth that inhabit the water, end up beached? | Don’t quote me on this but I remember a whale being beached in Scotland and hearing an official of some sort say that it was believed that sometimes they beach themselves intentionally when ill as to not prolong the suffering. This was around 15 years ago though so maybe we’ve learnt a lot more since then. Edit: spelling correction. | 20 |
AskReddit/edv22w8 | af2xw8 | What are ways to get taller? | I'm 20, doc said I'm still growing. At least my hands and upper body would, according to him. Maybe check if you have posture issues. If you stand "correctly" you are taller than when you would arch your back or slouch around. It's only a few cm, but it could help. | 2 |
AskReddit/ctu8yvg | 3g2k0z | What do you do when you're having a bad day? | Stop. Take a breath. Remember that there's SEVERAL BILLION people on the planet that are far, far worse off than me. Remember that I have food on my table and enough money in the bank to prevent me from starving if I get fired or if my family disowns me or if someone get sick or. <continue list of various conditions> Think about how bad my day really is in comparison to that other SEVERAL BILLION people. Carry on. | 2 |
AskReddit/dx8djsz | 8bnl4g | Did you enjoy high school or college more and why? | High school. I was an international student and immigrant during college, which made me an outsider. Even when I made friends it sometimes felt like they treated me as a novelty more than an equal. In high school I had much more in common with people because we were from the same area. The school I attended was specifically for smart people so we were more similar still and could relate to the unique struggles we shared. I often miss it. | 2 |
AskReddit/cf02hla | 1w9szh | What was the last thing that made you laugh so hard you couldn't breathe properly? | Our mini wiener dog likes to burry himself under the covers. One morning he's burrowing his way back out of the covers but instead starts going up the back of my husbands shirt. We were cracking up but I lost it when he popped out the neck of the shirt, with a "hey I made it" look on his face | 71 |
explainlikeimfive/dfceymh | 617zbk | How are cows and rabbits able to eat grass and turn it into muscle mass, but humans have to eat cows and rabbits to do the same thing? | First, a minor correction: humans don't have to eat animals to gain muscle mass. There's plenty of plants like soybeans and almonds that help us do the same thing. But that being said, food is really a bunch of complex chemicals, and your muscles are a bunch of other complex chemicals. When you eat, your body crushes the food and converts it into simple chemical 'building blocks', and certain building blocks called 'proteins' (which are found in meat, but also in plants like almonds and soybeans) can then be carried through your body and assembled back into its muscles where they are needed. And it's that crushing and converting process that contains the magic. Some foods like grass stalks are MUCH harder to crush and convert than others than others like meat. We can take young wheatgrass or the seeds from corn and handle those, but we're just not set up to do the converting on much tougher stuff like the chemicals in hay. Sheep and cows and rabbits can though. They have a digestive system - stomach, intestines, microbes, and other parts - that is longer and uses more stages than ours, and is specifically designed to break those tougher chemicals down into building blocks. | 10 |
AskReddit/c8ywqlv | 1an41i | What is a band that is more famous for covering a song than any of their own original material? | Maybe not the best example but I'd say Quiet Riot. I only ever hear their version of Come on Feel the Noise yet can't think of another song of theirs. I have never once heard the original, by Slade, played in the US. Tiffany from the 80s also comes to mind with her "I think we're Alone now" | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dbtk8rx | 5l7nn2 | Why do cash deposits not generate new money? | What you're describing is a problem with banking that led to the Great Depression. The stock market crash set of a chain reaction where everyone tried to take out their money from the banks at once, but because the banks use the actual currency for other things like loans and mortgages, when everyone at once comes to cash out the bank runs out and fails. Then everyone loses their money. In reality, your bank account is a debt you hold over the bank. they promise you they can pay it back whenever you ask for it. They're able to because they have huge amounts of cash in reserve, and because the federal government has promised to back those debts in emergencies. | 9 |
AskReddit/c6imxax | 111job | What is an honest opinion you have that most people would disagree with? | I think most of reddit agrees with the idea of eugenics so I'm going to voice my unpopular opinion of why that's a bad idea: If you want people to take a test what type of test would it be? How do we define "smart"? IQ doesn't necessarily translate to intelligence as it only tests recall ability and calculation ability. It does not test artistic skills. Everyone's good at something. "Dumb" people might be dumb not because of genetics but rather socioeconomic factors such as poor schools and poverty (a procreation test would adversely affect minorities and thus diversity in this way). Intelligence is a complex thing with many contributory factors so eugenics might not even work for the purpose of improving intelligence. We should focus on improving the human race via fixing these and not some arbitrary procreation test. Procreation isn't necessarily a bad thing. More children could actually help us keep Social Security and Medicare viable. The problem isn't overpopulation but unequal distribution of resources. Eugenics is a government intrusion on a personal decision. Also an interesting thing about IQ tests is that if we only allowed "smart" people to procreate than about 50% of the population wouldn't be allowed to have children. It is quite possible people arguing for eugenics will fail the "test". TL;DR Eugenics won't work. | 2 |
AskReddit/d1lexxw | 4ctw29 | What scares you as you get older? | Context: What scares you as you become older in life? Losing your parents? Having to go through a bad divorce/annulment? Homelessness? For me, it's losing my parents. It doesn't bode well that eventually, my parents won't be around. It's scary indeed, but they've lived good lives. My mom loves it in her home country ever since she decided to emigrate there a month ago. Also, how the WW1 and WW2 vets are slowly dwindling away. Some of the nations that were involved saw most of their last veterans die off recently, which leaves only a few WW1 veterans leftC which most are 100+ years or older. WW2 veterans too are dwindling away, as most of the commanders are gone, and the troops are around their 90s or older: | 2 |
AskReddit/dj2py7t | 6hzcqp | What normal activity seems suspicious when done at 3 AM? | I used to work at a bar so I wouldn't be getting home until 2 or 3 in the morning and the house next to me was a halfway house apartment building type thing and multiple times my neighbor would be sitting out on his little deck at 3 in the morning, in the pitch dark so all I could usually see was his creepy silhouette. he was doing nothing at all but it still was creepy and suspicious | 2 |
AskReddit/cxf2a6u | 3uiboc | What awesome thing have you only seen in a store once and regret not buying? | I saw this great, good quality transportable salad serving container with different sections on sale for 75% off and I can't even remember how I talked myself out of buying it, but I immediately regretted not buying it and even drove back the next day and they were all gone. Normally, I would have bought it and returned it (unopened and unused) within a week or so if I figured out that I didn't need it. I don't know why my mind misfired and I didn't buy it. There have been so many times since when it would have been the perfect thing to use to take salads to gatherings of friends or family. | 2 |
AskHistorians/ejfu1qw | b5koon | How did students get to school in the late 19th,early 20th century? | For most of the period you're asking about, foot power was the most common, though not the only, option. One thing to keep in mind is that in that for most of the 18th and 19th century, schools were typically built where the children were. (The most glaring exception to this are the Indian Boarding Schools, built to "re-educate" Native, Indigenous, and First Nations children which were often built in isolated areas, far from the children's families.) The earliest compulsory-related education laws in the United States are found in Massachusetts and mandated the construction of school buildings when the population of children exceeded a certain threshold. Granted, these laws were tied up in religious education but the idea that schools should be located where children was the norm for much of the 18th and 19th century. As a result, American school children were more likely to attend a one-room schoolhouse that served all children in the community, regardless of age. In many cases, the presence of a centrally-located teacher, school and/or library was used to appeal to immigrants or those looking to move west. That said, communal transportation wasn't uncommon for children who lived outside a comfortable walking distances. Teachers' letters and journals speak to a waiting for a father to arrive with a "wagonful" of students or having no students because the student who usually picked up his classmates on his way to the school in the family wagon was ill or needed at home. At the same time, it's important to note that school wasn't necessarily a part of every child's experience. Families might sent only one of their children, keeping others home to work or farm or a child simply wouldn't go if the weather was too inclimate. In some cases, a community lost their teacher and so students would attend in a nearby town, making the walk that much further. Schools were often in session for six week semesters in the Summer and Winter and in some cases, a child might board with a family member near school if the travel back and forth was too much. As school became something more and more students did, especially in urban areas, carriage makers saw the market the business of transporting children represented. Reports vary, but it's generally recognized that the first vehicle designed explicitly for the purpose of transporting children appeared on the scene in 1886 when Wayne Works began advertising their "kid hack." It was a horse-drawn, open-sided wagon with a wooden roof, not unlike a trolly. The first inter-state conference on transporting school children was held in 1939 and by 1980, most American children were taking some form of bus or public transportation to and from school. Interestingly enough, one of the decisions made at the 1939 conference was that school buses would be painted a unique, unmistakable yellow. According to conference reports, the color was selected as it would be easily noticed in the early morning and late afternoon when buses would most likely be on the road. It wouldn't be until The Works Progress Administration (WPA) school projects in the 1930's and then the building craze as the Baby Boomer children reached school age that American high schools would become the large, sparling buildings on the edge of communities we see today. Between 1900 and 1970, there was a massive wave of school consolidation, meaning many of village and town schools were shut down. These consolidations expanded a school's catchment area, which meant increased transportation costs. The 10th Amendment of the Constitution leaves education up to the state, which means, basically, each state's education transportation system has its own history. That said, all states have developed into a system of block grants awarded to districts based on population size and attendance zone. Some districts have developed in-house systems of transportation, others hire out to third-party vendors, while others provide school children with passes on a city's public transportation system. | 4 |
AskReddit/cdy9m7a | 1sjt2l | How did Islam become a major religion in Indonesia? | The same way Christianity became a major religion in the United States; people moved there, others liked the notion Islam brought with it, followers began to appear, and it grew steadily over time. | 2 |
AskReddit/cetqoa1 | 1vmk82 | What's the craziest/worst thing you've done or gotten away with, simply because you were well dressed? | when I was in my early twenties I worked in Reno. 3 blocks of casinos are connected on the 2nd floor. I had to wear businesses attire, I would get off around 7pm and walk by corporate parties. I ate free diner about 3x times a week. By 7 or 8 everyone is already drunk, if you're dressed like they are no one notices you . | 5 |
askscience/c4g55zq | sqhtf | When e-Data is Deleted, does the energy get discharged as heat? | >This has me wondering about how the energy from those electrons (or electrons from any type of computer) gets dissipated upon deletion. It has to go somewhere. Wherever they're grounded. On a laptop, back into the battery, or some small amount lost as heat over time. On a desktop, same deal, only to ground through the power. It's not really accurate to say that data increases electron mass. Moving electrons from the battery to an "on" bit doesn't increase its mass in a laptop. When brought from a power line it could, but this, again, doesn't apply to devices like a Kindle. EDIT: Devices are hot, however, because they absorb/emit electrons. That's where pretty much all of the heat comes from. | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/dcadgbt | 5ncd1c | Why do they say, "scrambles" jet? | Oddly the only thing that's not necessarily accurate is the "Taiwanese sea" part. Which is sort of not a thing, and likely what would amount to Taiwanese sea is pretty much violated regularly due to the existence of kinmen and Lienching counties right off the Chinese coast. It's pretty likely that the Taiwanese government will "scramble" jets every time that a Chinese warship leaves Fujian or crosses between the island of Taiwan and the Chinese coast, which probably happens with a great deal of regularity due to the alternative being miles out of the way and also crossing through Japanese territory. | 2 |
AskReddit/c9fak1h | 1ccy10 | What are your worst/craziest/most annoying neighbor stories? | I have too many stories to share. I got to the point where I never wanted to share a wall, floor or ceiling with another tenant again, nor did I want the parade of inconsiderate / crazy room-mates, ever again. I love my house. Yes, occasionally a neighbor throws a loud party or another will fire up the weed-eater at 7:00 a.m. on a Sunday, but otherwise, it is heaven. | 2 |
AskReddit/efgayet | alr8py | What is the stupidest/funniest thing you told a kid that they believed? | Not me but my native friend told this little boy a good one. We were at the grocery store and a little boy, clearly a tourist, asked him if he had any cool powers since he was an "Indian." My friend calm and casual told him he could turn into a wolf and the kid's eyes just lit up like it was the coolest thing he ever learned and was so jealous. | 4 |
explainlikeimfive/cuus8ld | 3k4u84 | Why are sugar, cement, and urea considered high risk transactions for anti-money laundering? | They're widely traded, valuable essentially everywhere (in large and small quantities--urea what's in most bagged fertilizer today), and very hard to track/easy to falsify records for. A pile of sugar/cement/urea doesn't have a serial number or other typical provenance information. So if a pile of 100 tons is reported as a sale of as 200 tons (with the money for the second hundred tons coming from the owners other illicit businesses) it's very hard for investigators to prove the pile was originally 100 tons. | 4 |
AskReddit/dsesl89 | 7p6330 | What's your favourite opening line of a book? | I won't say why because of Spoilers, but it's "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed" As I was reading the series, I was aware of the fact that that line meant a lot to fans. I thought it was a perfectly good line, but I couldn't see why people were so enamored with it. I then got to the end of the series, and it became my favorite opening line. | 7 |
explainlikeimfive/e5mrfmw | 9e74zq | Why does a blue sign or light seem vague or unfocused? | Certain cells in your eyes (‘cones’ on your retina) can detect red, green and blue light. The ones that detect blue light are most sparse, and also located more away from the ‘center’ where the main point of focus is (the fovea). | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/eu9xrpf | cfh86s | Why aren't species that have huge populations, like humans or bugs, having a commensurate number of mutations and thus branching off new species? | 2 reasons. First is that simply, not enough time has passed. Modern humans have existed for about 200,000 years. That's simply not enough time for speciation to occur. The second is that we don't exist in isolated populations, which is how speciation occurs. Humans from all over the world are constantly exchanging genetic material by producing offspring, so, with few exceptions, there are no isolated population that exists to diverge. | 8 |
AskReddit/ce7md5b | 1tg937 | What is your advice to someone that is going for their first full-time job interview? | Depends on the job but in IT I'd say don't try to bullshit them, be honest. Prepare some questions to ask them in case they give you a chance to ask them but make sure you care about the answer. Don't ask directly about holidays on the first interview unless they offer you the job. Don't start negotiating the salary until you know what the usual rates for the job the area and your experience are. When I interview people it's as much about knowing whether they'll like the job or not than whether they can do the job. Are they sure they are not going to regret moving to another part of the country they don't know and quit after 6 months? Just what I have in mind right now but I'm sure others will comment and you've done a bit of research on the topic already. | 2 |
AskReddit/clbeo5e | 2jg41v | What would the world look like today if Al Gore won the 2000 presidential election? | I'd say that Barack Obama probably wouldn't be President now. In all likelihood a Republican probably would've won the 2004 Presidency and we would've likely had an 8-12 year Republican reign as President then. We seem to, as of late, go in 8-12 year swings of one political party being in power before people get so fed up, they decide to try the other one. I would be pretty surprised if we saw two Presidents, both two-term, from the same party, back-to-back. Maybe John McCain would've been elected in 2004 (with a different running mate), and the world wouldn't have nearly the same knowledge of Sarah Palin as she hadn't yet been governor of Alaska. | 6 |
AskReddit/eamj6sm | a13nod | What's a popular thing you can't understand the fuss about? | Every popular trend. When some brand or type of music or item is trending, I aitomatically get very suspicious that it's just because of popular bandwagoning, not because that thing has any intrinsic value. It takes me a while to like new things, because I first assume it just trended as a fluke and there isn't any substance to it. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/cydcuul | 3ygrsf | Do some humans "need" meat while others do not? | Humans are biologically omnivores. That means that we are suppose to eat a mixture of meat, plants, fruit, fungi, and nuts. Humans need meat because we are not herbivores. We are not capable of getting all the nutrients we need from plants without eating a wide variety of them. It is also important to note that most of the plant combinations do not grow naturally together in most of the world, and many only grow in tropical regions. (India being one of the few places with all the right plants). In modernity we are able to be vegetarian or vegan without problems because we have access to dietary supplements and the ability to import the proper foods from around the world. But there is no reason to give up our natural diet and the pleasure of eating meat unless it violates your personal ethics. | 2 |
AskReddit/e5a5j9s | 9cevkk | What’s the weirdest question you were ever asked, and what was your reply? | I have a pretty pronounced tracheostomy scar across my neck. I guess it was an emergency job, because the scar is just. ugly. A dude at the Best Buy Mobile counter actually ASKED me what it was from. I just stared at him for the longest time until I think shame set in. I just said, "Emergency surgery." ​ Edit: I know the question itself isn't weird, but WTF mobile guy? I don't even know you. | 6 |
AskReddit/c0yb0wn | d8dw0 | Do you miss anything that technology has made obsolete? | I still write hand written thank you cards, just because it is so much classier than an email. I recently had someone send me a thank you note on facebook. That made me think much less of them. Some people think technology has made normal mail obsolete, but it actually just separates the classless from the formal. | 2 |
AskReddit/cjdpnyt | 2cb4kl | What is one piece of advice you would give to a new manager/team leader to help make them successful ? | Encourage your team to eat lunch together. Eat lunch with them. Builds trust, people get to know each other better, and generally improves collaboration and team work. Source: Am a manager, eat lunch with my team every day. | 3 |
AskReddit/c0qqmdp | c7zqp | How friendly is your town/city/place in general? | Los Angeles. Friendly for a big city. The sunshine helps. But a lot of the time its a "fake friendly" because people here have some hidden agenda. I miss the country. | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/df6php3 | 60hwxs | How does commodity trading work? | You usually don't literally 'buy bananas'. You buy or sell a contract to buy bananas at some future date. These are called futures contracts. So today (March 20), you might agree to buy 100 tons of bananas at $100/ton on July 1st. The market or exchange pairs your agreement up with someone who agrees to sell 10 tons of bananas at $100/ton on July 1st. What if the price of bananas rises to $110/ton? Well, you have an agreement to buy at $100/ton, so you gain $10/ton, or $1000. But if bananas drop to $90/ton, you lose $1000. If you are a banana grower, and you are worried about prices dropping, you might use a contract to 'lock in a price' today, so that you can be protected against the loss. On the other hand, if you are buying bananas for your grocery store chain, you might want to lock in a price, too. So that way, you can keep the banana price consistent in your store, even if the banana price skyrockets because of a typhoon destroying many of the plants. And in between, there are speculators. They make money by buying and selling the contracts, usually taking a profit by buying and selling at slightly different prices. Speculators suck, but they also provide a ready buyer or seller for those folks who use these contracts to manage their risks. Oh, and one more thing: When you trade commodity futures contracts, the price changes are handled by a 'mark-to-market' process. Each day you hold the contract, the price changes get reflected by a transfer of cash from someone whose contract 'lost' to someone whose contract 'gained'. This makes the contracts safer, and also means that when your banana contract expires, the value is expressed as cash in your account, not a truck full of bananas arriving at your doorstep on July 1st. | 3 |
AskReddit/cgbfemv | 21bii3 | How does a "No Makeup Selfie" in my FB Feed raise money or awareness for charity or cause? | It can't and doesn't. All it does is generate meta-data for whomever started the original feed. If you use FB, never take the stupid quizzes to who you are in Harry Potter land or whatever. And no one is ever going to see a dime because someone shared or liked a picture. Seriously. If you like a page such as those, what generally happens is that after they die down, the content is stripped and the now empty page (except for all those Liked account links) is sold off to someone. Said someone can now edit the page to say anything they want and still have the likes attached. Hilarity and spam and such ensue. EDIT TO ADD: And if you are stupid enough to text a random number to send money to a "cause" just because some photo pops up in your FB feed then you deserve to be robbed. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/enix248 | boo5v7 | Why is that when we experience a blow to the head we “see stars”? | that's shock, which can result in a rapid lowering of blood pressure, so as to mitigate bleeding out if you were injured. that lowering of blood pressure can make you pass out, or see stars, or essentially feel dazed. It also might have to do with brain injury if the blow was bad enough. | 27 |
explainlikeimfive/dar9t1v | 5gd1py | Why are electronic transactions deducted from an account and posted immediately, but a bank to bank transfer takes anywhere from 2-5 business days to post? | A few things are happening. When you are charged a hold is placed on your account for the amount of the charge and after 2-5 days depending on the bank you will see that your Actual Balance changes to match your Available Balance because the charge has been completed. When you are being refunded you get to see the situation from the opposite perspective, the person or company paying you sees that money leave their account immediately as a hold is placed, and then 2-5 days later their Actual Balance has the charge deducted and that money is transferred to you. Now, a company issuing a refund may have its own in house procedures which cause a refund to take longer, but once the refund is approved and the button is pushed it's exactly the same. | 4 |
AskReddit/cgo9t98 | 22mmcj | What's the best method to stop smoking ? | I answered this a while ago, but take a white straw, cut it into 3 inch sections, and keep them in your breast pocket, or sun-visor in the car. Whenever you have a craving, go through the motions of smoking, but use the straw instead. | 2 |
AskReddit/ev2snvi | ci9ywp | Why is the value of money one of the most commonly accepted beliefs among human beings when in fact it is completely fabricated? | Its accepted because to simplify things it's a good substitute for the barter system, for example if you do nail art/manicures that's useless to me as someone who works on cars so instead of refusing to do your work I take your money, which essentially functions as a token for equivalent value. | 3 |
AskReddit/csj753t | 3b63ny | What's going right and wrong with your country's education system and teaching methods? | I'm from the U.S., and am headed to college right now. What's going wrong: We're severely over-tested, in general, and everything is based around the test, or the test score. Even teachers who are obviously passionate about their subjects can't teach in their own way that will keep students engaged because they have to teach all the information on the test. Science and math education, specifically, are abysmally taught, being much more about route memorization than inquiry and frequently fail to impart the fact that science is constantly changing and evolving. Arts are frequently undervalued - not at my school in particular, but generally speaking, the arts are given far too little attention and funding. And of course, cost. College in the U.S. is horribly expensive for students, while I can't think of anyone who thinks high school teachers are paid enough, on the flip side. What's going right: They are, honestly, preparing us to be citizens. We graduate with enough math knowledge to do our taxes and calculate tips, and we have a background knowledge of our countries history and literature. We are prepared to socialize with and cooperate with a variety of people, from bosses to peers to handicapped people (our school had several special-ed kids). We know, generally, how to write a paper, research and cite sources, etc. And finally, we know what we like and don't like. For those of us who are going on to college, we know what subjects we've enjoyed, which we've hated, and what to expect from both in further education and life in general. | 3 |
AskReddit/epg4vim | buqado | What's making you happy right now? | This guy I've been talking to recently, we're on a call right now and honestly I think I may be falling head over heals for him. He makes me laugh, listens to me, makes me smile when I cry, listens to music with me. he's so amazing if only he knew how I felt Edit: We've been talking since 1 am and its now 5 am and I think he fell asleep talking to me, I'm the happiest I've been in so long just in this one moment. This guy means so much to me and I haven't even known him long. I've told him so much stuff about my life and yet he's still here helping me through these hard times. Thank you! | 3 |
AskReddit/dkx2kr7 | 6qg8pz | Which friend did you meet through the weirdest circumstances? | i met my best friend while playing a MMORPG, funny thing is we live 1h away from eachother and we met in a server from USA (we live in Argentina) not the weirdest but im still amazed at the chances of finding each other. i also met another friend of mine at the beach, like 6hs away from home and he lives one block away from me, and never crossed paths before that | 2 |
AskReddit/ewqokhy | cpodij | When was a time that you looked especially cool and someone both noticed AND pointed it out for other people to see? | Okay, one time I got up on stage and danced in front of a bunch of people at a prom. A lot of people were doing it, but I got a compliment for being cool dancing. I thought I looked like an idiot haha | 2 |
AskReddit/dnhwg12 | 72em23 | If you could re-draw national borders, what would you do and how would you name the new countries? | Erase all borders and create New World Order Seriously though, just redo almost all of Africa. Most of the borders were made by European explorers who had no idea what they were doing from an Anthropological standpoint, and it's been the cause of a lot of strife in Africa for long time. | 2 |
AskHistorians/cu4jo5t | 3h4izi | Are there any ancient accounts of serial killers? | Does anyone have any reliable information on Tom Quick, the Indian Slayer? I have read that he is America's first serial killer and he killed over 100 Indians in the 1700s, but the line between fact and legend is pretty blurry. | 23 |
AskReddit/c0pembq | bzw9d | What (if any) are the drawbacks to living in Sweden? | People are usually less open than in the US, especially to strangers. I.e. people never start a conversaton with a stranger when they are waiting for the bus. Parts of the bigger cities are quite bad due to a pretty large influx of immigrants the last 10-20 years which have resulted in tons of people who live in wellfare. These immigrants (or their children) usually dominate the crime statistics naturally which further the segregation. You have more possibilities if you are rich in the US than in Sweden. Harsh laws when it comes to drugs. They are not as harsh as I've read most states in the US have (when it comes years) but compared to other crimes it is punished very hard. Marijuana is not even close to as common as in the US. Very little mexican fast food. | 16 |
AskReddit/cavq8cy | 1hmeo5 | If you could change one thing about your favorite book/movie, what would it be and why? | Kill Bill. For one reason or another when I got to the end of that movie, I was upset to see Bill die. I don't know how else the movie could've ended. Clearly he deserved it, but just the way it happened. The fact that he was built up the whole time to be some super evil dude and just wasn't that menacing kind of changed my outlook. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cgvnuf2 | 23cjns | Why is it socially acceptable to spend so much money on your wedding day even if you are not financially stable? | Traditionally, the wife's family(father) pays for the wedding as part of her dowry. It's part of why you needed a fathers permission to marry his daughter. With the breakdown of the traditional family, and changing social norms, it now rests on unprepared couples to handle it themselves. | 13 |
AskReddit/chv8chk | 26wvwl | What is your biggest guilty pleasure? | Taking baths. I would spend hours in a bubble bath if I had the time. Like I mean, I'll get a snack (usually some chocolate), a drink, a good book or a magazine I've been wanting to read.and just relax. It's bliss. Outside of that planning is a guilty pleasure of mine. It's not even a control thing because if plans don't pan out I really don't care, I just love planning. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/c49h2il | rxo44 | Why do we itch? | Remember, your skin is an organ, it has a lot of things going on with it that you can't see, but can feel. Usually what causes itching it eczema, when you think of eczema you probably say to yourself "I don't get big rashes on my skin!" but it's actually far more common than you'd think. Eczema is millions of microscopic cracks in your skin, and when things go into those cracks (literally anything, water, pollen etc.) it becomes irritated and begins to itch. Dull itching is fine and will probably just make your skin go red, but when people have sensitive skin, and are susceptible to allergies and hay fever, it becomes much, much worse. So in short, everyone has eczema, and it can spring up anywhere on your body at anytime, it's just when you have allergies that it becomes a condition. | 8 |
AskReddit/dhwnj39 | 6cqnj2 | What do you think about when you're running? | I don't think much about anything other than being aware of my surroundings when I jog/run. Walking is different (I walk far more than I run or jog), I'm mostly in my head, lost in thought or fantasy, but my eyes are constantly scanning the immediate environment while my brain takes mental snapshots of the data and stores it for safe keeping. | 3 |
AskReddit/eotp7zl | bt32zm | What’s your most nostalgic memory of a video game? | Playing Yoshi's Island on SNES as a child. The colours were so bright, the music was enthralling, the story was ambitious; it felt like going on a real adventure. Racing in Super Mario Kart felt so fun and the technology really felt like the pinnacle of entertainment. Playing through Legend of Zelda OoT made the kid I was feel like a hero. Playing Star Fox made me feel like I was saving the world and everyone was cheering me on. I've had a lot of great moments in video games, though nothing will ever come close to how I felt exploring Super Mario 64/Ocarina of Time. | 2 |
askscience/cp4cxxp | 2xtj7d | If one were to randomly draw on a coordinate plane, could it always be represented by some equation, inequality, etc? | It depends a bit on what counts exactly as an equation or inequality. But if you only allow for a finite or countable infinite amount of symbols then the amount of possible finite strings is countable. The amount of possible lines over a coordinate plane is uncountable though. So there simply would be more lines than there are possible equations and therefore the answer would be no. You could solve this issue by either allowing an uncountable amount of symbols or by allowing infinite strings as equations. Neither is very practical though. | 3 |
AskReddit/d2cfkgb | 4fvu4o | Do Anarchists have so much faith in the good of humanity that they think people could thrive without rules/laws? | People do thrive without "rules" or "laws" as I imagine you see them. The globe is an anarchy, and no state sees itself as subordinate to the law; even in the West where there is so much ink spilled towards lauding governments of law, rather than men, corruption is rife, innocents murdered, state rapacity barely checked. One need look no further than the "Drug War" to witness the modern, parliamentary democracy's cheerful willingness to exempt itself from the rule of law. And yet, in spite of all that, humanity enjoys living standards beyond even the wildest imaginations of its ancestors not 200 years past. The globe is an anarchy, and always has been. There may be a time in the future where it is technologically possible to monopolize the use of force on the market, but until such time what we have in history and in the present is varying degrees of formalizing what is, essentially, daily life in Mogadishu. I should hope that a wise anarchist recognizes this and conducts himself accordingly; anarchism shouldn't be a political program so much as a rejection of political programs. In that light, it is not the faith of the anarchist that merits dissection, but rather the faith of the statist; the notion that men will be good and wise when given a license to do violence to achieve their ends and set beyond the law is clearly an article of faith. If not a superstition. | 2 |
askscience/c69h8wa | 100wg0 | Why is there so much controversy surrounding GMOs? | A big part of it is consumer misinformation/fear, as well as an excuse to make trade restrictions. For example, Europe protects their domestic agricultural producers by banning GMO products/requiring mandatory labeling of imported GMO products. There is no evidence of negative health impacts of GMOs. They can be an important component of a sustainable agricultural strategy. Traditional crop breeding often involves irradiation of seeds to generate mutations.and this doesn't seem to worry consumers as much for some reason. Trade protection and exploitation of consumers by opportunist ill-informed organizations are the reasons for the controversies. | 6 |
AskReddit/cuzupk1 | 3krbp5 | What's a scary thought? | Being responsible for people. Being able to save some money but losing your job and starting to use your savings. Its really scary to see the amount of savings go down and not have a job. You get anxious, and if you cannot control yourself you get desperate. Im just thankful I started a new job this week. Thats a happy thought. | 2 |
AskReddit/danwo1e | 5fxufb | What is a quote you've heard that truly changed your perspective on life? | Not a quote per se, but my 3rd grade teacher, on the last week of the year, made us climb up on our desk and watch our classroom. Then she said something like "Do you see how different the classroom looks like? You've spent an entire year watching it from one place and thought you knew it. I hope you'll learn that no matter how you think you know something or someone, there is always other angles to look through and see something else". This honestly changed my being to the core. I'm a perspectivist through and through now I guess | 2 |
askscience/c1ywjeb | hwdxi | Is there any validity to the arguments of AIDS deniers? | I'm completely biased as my research is on HIV transmission, but no, there is not. There's as much validity to this argument as there is in the "vaccines cause autism" argument. HIV does not always cause AIDS, but AIDS always has a pre-existing HIV infection. And HIV exists, I have the electron micrographs, and tubes full of it. | 31 |
AskReddit/dy7gyye | 8fyku7 | How come suffering with depression/anxiety didn't seem so prominent 60 years ago? | This is the thing that I don't understand - living standards in pretty much all classes improve almost yearly, and yet people seem to think their life sucks more now than they did 20 years ago. I have (only) theories for this, and I relate it back to a trip I did to SE Asia many years ago. I am not alone in this observation, but it seemed to me that despite living in developing nations with limited/no access to things we take for granted, the general populace were more stoic and easy to please than us in developed nations. I think that people in developing or poorer nations take happiness on face value and simply enjoy it while they can - they know that hard times are the norm and they cannot dwell too long on feeling down, as this will not put food on the table. On the flipside, I honestly believe that in developed nations, we live a relatively pampered life and simply do not look upon our (relatively constant) fortune with the same appreciation. Life is not expected to be a struggle, never-ending happiness is promised to us all so we view any deficiency in our happiness in the darkest light. It's like our version of ''every cloud has a silver lining'' - every silver lining surrounds a dark cloud. | 3 |
AskReddit/em12e04 | bij9d6 | What is the best dream you ever had? | I had a really difficult homework question in my day life. Went to bed, my dream showed me doing my homework and I got to the one problem and figured out the answer. Next morning when I woke up, I solved it | 2 |
AskReddit/cwr5neo | 3rtdg2 | Where do you go when no place feels like home? | I'm sorry buddy. I know the feeling. Honestly, the park with some good music helps me sometimes. A nice bubble bath. An Arcade. Sometimes the Library. Any place where your mind can relax and enjoy it. What kind of things do you like? | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/d04bfpd | 46duv3 | Why mobile video players such as The YouTube app won't continue to play when you leave the app/close your phone? | Youtube want you to be looking so they can make ad revenue. You can't click an ad if your screen is turned off. Other apps use Youtube's API to show their videos and the license agreement states your app has to stop playing the video if the screen goes off too, just like Youtube's own app, for the same reason. | 5 |
AskReddit/ckj1bm0 | 2gh56k | How would you make me trust you? | Trust takes time. But I would give something valuable or make a trade. My dad used to do that when he was a long haul truck driver. He would find a homeless person to watch his truck and then he would buy them a week's worth of groceries or whatever they needed. It worked! | 8 |
AskReddit/eciv43i | a9fmbc | What was the best Christmas gift that you gave to someone this year? | solid cherry antique dresser for my girlfriend. filled each drawer with other presents she wanted like a purse wax melter thing etc. got a matching mirror and dining room table. sounds like weird gifts for christmas but we desperately needed furniture. | 3 |
AskReddit/cvff25l | 3mj6v8 | What is at the top of your travel bucket list? | I want to spend multiple months (maybe 2 or 3) backpacking around the Indonesian islands. Honestly, this is just what is at the top of my list right now. It's pretty hard to narrow down a bucket list when you want to see it all! | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/dimfczm | 6g0a40 | What advantages did modern humans have over other animals, other than intelligence? | Lots of advantages. It has been proposed that the intelligence part was never really a big advantage when dealing with other animals and that we devolved our intelligence mostly to compete against other humans. One thing that gets often mentioned is that our bipedal locomotion and our stamina means that we can keep running for a long time, we might not be faster than the animals we hunt but we can keep going for much longer and if we use our teamwork to take turns with the whole running down the prey it gets even better. Endurance hunting is what that technique is called and the theory goes that our ancestor were using it to kill animals before we had much in the way of advanced tools and weapons going. From the perspective of a prey animal that must have been something out of a horror movie: you run away but the relentless pursuer is always there following you until you finally collapse in exhaustion and they bash your brains in. Humans also have had teamwork going for them like wolf packs only much better and can teach each other tricks they worked out like some other smart animals only much better too. | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/czoey45 | 448y3w | How did the US and Canada, two countries with similar colonial and geographic backgrounds, end up so different in terms of political cultures? | Their colonial backgrounds aren't very similar at all. Canada didn't become functionally independent from the British Parliament until 1931, and not entirely so until 1982. Predictably, Canada's political culture is much more similar to Britain's. Not to mention that many of the United States' founders were specifically trying to create a political system that wasn't like that in Britain. | 9 |
AskReddit/c2k4r7t | kgtdi | If I park in the back of a parking lot and take up two spaces (away from everybody), is it still considered unacceptable? | Yes it is still unacceptable. The reason you take two spaces is you want space around your car, inferring that even you believe it is likely that cars will show up and need to park adjacent to you. If you park at the empty part of the lot, you don't need to park in two spaces because the others are empty already. Park in a single space. | 5 |
askscience/d1yb1tr | 4e7wti | Why do people never forget how to ride a bike once they've learned? | The fear of falling is the main reason why it's hard to learn in the first place. You need a certain amount of speed to keep it upright, but a higher speed = a more painful experience if you fall. So the tendency is to want to start off slowly, causing a wobbly ride. The intricate details of which gear to use, how to pedal properly, to brake without flying over the handlebars, those could probably be forgotten. What "clicks" in your head is that you actually have more control over the bike if you get it moving a little faster, and less if you slow down. This is such a simple cognition, and something you won't forget. | 21 |
explainlikeimfive/co87hdm | 2ugm44 | If the Colorado River carved out the Grand Canyon, why don't any other rivers in the world have such canyons? | There are actually many such places. They just exist outside of America (although some do too) so you have never heard of them.albeit none of them are as wide as the grand canyon. Which also was formed under unique circumstances, draining fresh and saltwater out of the country with the recession of the Hudson seaway as the ice ages came on. Here are some other big damned canyons carved out by rivers: Snake River Canyon, USA Tera River Canyon, Montenegro Wachau Valley, Austria Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, China Rhine River valley, Germany Blyde River canyon, South Africa Rio Maranon, Peru And the list can go on and on. There are also such large canyons and valleys and even larger than that sitting underneath glaciers in the frozen north as we speak. In closing, the grand canyon is grand in its own unique ways amongst its peers in the world, but it is certainly not alone. | 3 |
AskReddit/cb0yr2h | 1i4o03 | What do you do when you need to kill time until you feel better because you're in pain/sick? | I'm so boring. I find a show on Netflix I have been avoiding because I still don't believe Netflix knows me better than me. Then I watch the whole series because damnit, Netflix IS smarter than me. I also rearrange things. Makes me feel productive even if it's just rearranging books. | 2 |
AskReddit/cgmxlt5 | 22hnmt | How much control do you believe parents should have over their children's lives once their kids turn 18? | They should exert zero control. Any parent that has more than zero control, even in cases of residence, has either taken it (no good) or been given it (also no good) and they need to get out of that role before they defocus the kids life. As a father of a bunch, with 2 in their 20s, I stopped really telling them what to do at about 12-13. All I do is advise. I've been thru it, I know what I would do if i were AGAIN in those shoes, I can share that wisdom with them, but I can only tack it to the door. It's up to them to realize my point and choose, or not, to take it. | 3 |
AskReddit/cp82i6j | 2ybuzq | Have to gain twenty pounds in four days, what to eat? | There is no food you can eat that will give you a 20 lb weight gain in 4 days. Eat a huge meal before weigh in and swallow lead weights. If it's not a nude weigh in tape weights to your legs and/ abdomen. Seriously, don't swallow weights they might kill you. Just eat before the weigh in and try taping weights on. | 2 |
AskReddit/e7ja5wd | 9n37mi | Why is Japanese art and painting much more popular than Chinese art? | Keep in mind China has a population of 1.3 billion, so saying Popular is bold. Chines art is also selling for record prices due to wealthy Chines buying back artwork from the west. If the question is more about western taste in art, I think it would probably go back to the influence Japanise art started to have post-1850's due to the Convention of Kanagawa permitting trade between Japan and the West that resulted in Artists like Monet, Degas and van Gogh collecting woodblock and ukiyo-e prints. | 2 |
AskReddit/dws3gp1 | 89n18w | What's the grossest thing you'd do for $1 million? | To me, the issue isn't grossness but shame. $1m would be life-changing, and I'm not easily grossed out. But reputation matters and affects how I can live with that money after. So it really depends on who knows and how public it is. | 2 |
AskReddit/cvhucjd | 3mswwo | How did you get through a break-up where both people still loved/liked each other but life just pulled you apart? | I fell in love at 15 years old. Everyone told me that it was not real. I knew it was. I stayed with the girl until I was 18. We found out that we just wanted different things in life. After her, I found my current Fiance a couple months later. I've been with her ever since. Its been over 5 years now, since me and my first girlfriend split up. I STILL love her after all this time. Don't get me wrong, I love my fiance too. I don't think after you have truly loved someone you can ever not love them. I know she feels the same. We have talked a couple times throughout the years. I think I will love that girl until the day I die. I have been fortunate to have been loved by 2 extraordinary women in my life. Not many people can experience that. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/doy042c | 78zugu | Why out of certain glasses when you pour liquid out of them does the liquid stay to the side of the glass ? | Surface tension, viscosity and surface adhesion. Basically, liquids are sticky, so they wanna stick to the side of the glass. If you do that tilt the glass enough gravity won't be enough to peel the liquid away from the glass and it will run down the side instead of free falling. Once the liquid is running down the side, surface tension gets involved and adds to the forces holding the liquid to the side of the glass. The steeper the pour the higher the normal force and thus the less likely the liquid will stick to the glass. But also the faster the pour. A very viscous liquid may require a steep enough pour to overcome it's stickiness (adhesion) that it may never happen. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/c2yyu2u | m89vs | How do river rapids form? | For the same flow rate of open water (gallons per minute) there are two arrangements the water can take. One is a larger area and slower velocity (flat water) and one is a smaller area and faster velocity (rapids). l Rapids occur when the river floor is rough or has a steep change in elevation. The effect is called hydraulic shift and is also visible at larger spillways or dams where a large slow moving body of water changes into a smaller faster moving body of water. Not LY5, but I hope it's not too confusing. | 2 |
AskReddit/e5pfty3 | 9ejfed | What is something you wish you could experience for the first time again? | Traveling to a different country for the first time. Hearing everyone speak a different language, seeing everything in a different language, people dressing differently. it was so weird at first. Seeing different cultures in videos is one thing, but experiencing an entire different culture is another. It was a feeling that has always stuck with me. I loved it. | 2 |
AskReddit/c2byy1r | jgtbz | Why did my blackberry just start spying on me, I'm not even IN London? | Are you sure you didn't just start the voice recorded one day by accident, and it's actually been running since August 7? That's 5 days of recordings, it looks more like an accident than something deliberate - if anyone were spying on you, they wouldn't leave this kind of obvious evidence behind. Was your blackberry charging this entire time? | 5 |
AskReddit/d3i18zn | 4kv30s | What should more children be taught? | Empathy. If children are taught at a very early age how to understand the thoughts & feelings of other people before casting them off as bad, wrong, or stupid, then perhaps a lot of unnecessary conflict and/or intolerance could be avoided down the road. | 159 |
AskReddit/c9kx00p | 1cxht9 | What would happen if the police decided to deputize a superhero? | I think they'd be fine deputizing someone who's role doesn't conflict with them, like Aquaman. But I think the super hero genre has always had conflict between law enforcement and superheroes for the right reason, they don't operate within the law, and they aren't subordinate to the police hierarchy. They may both be on the same side, but deputizing someone who doesn't really respect your authority and can flout it with impunity, is a corny formality. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cdg9adu | 1qtbjc | How does wireless internet work? | The internet works by connecting you to other places (other computers, servers, etc). It is very similar to phones, but instead of sound, it is passing digital information. Just like you can generate your own "phone" connection, you can't generate your own internet. You have to connect to the net itself, otherwise there is nothing you can do/get. Some of the internet you can store. Like videos, pictures, text. You can download and save these for later. But you can't interact with them. For example, you can download all the text on reddit and save it. This will let you read any post made in the past whenever you want, even if you aren't connected to the internet. However, if I make a post after you downloaded all of it, you will not see that post because you didn't have it before and don't have access to it. | 3 |
explainlikeimfive/ejkgdm0 | b6hb63 | If being dehydrated gives you a headache, why don’t we always wake up with a headache after 8 hours without water? | To add to the above comments, our bodies aren’t running at full capacity when asleep. A lot of brain functions and therefore bodily functions shut down or perform at a percentage of their day time capacity, so less calories and water are consumed by the body. In contract, 8 hours at work without water would leave plenty of people feeling parched to say the least. | 454 |
explainlikeimfive/cvkxxoy | 3n58s4 | What are birds doing when they fly around in crazy, beautiful, yet chaotic formations? | Different species of birds flock together for different reasons, so depending on what species you were looking at they could have been foraging for insects, or moving en masse for protection, warmth, aerodynamics, or as a mating behavior. The complex movements and formations they make are called murmurations, and it's only very recently that we've begun to understand more about how they work. It seems each bird is only reacting based on a few very simple rules that can be roughly summed up as 'do what the nearest seven other birds are doing'. In this way the movements of a flock are emergent patterns that ripple through the flock in waves. The same behavior is seen in shoaling fish and to a smaller extent in herding cattle and even in human crowds. | 2 |
AskReddit/d8nnd95 | 56zfl6 | What is the scariest night terror / sleep paralysis you've experienced? | When I moved into my new apartment a few years ago, the first night there I experienced sleep paralysis. I was facing the wall, but I could see a lump moving down the wall. This turned into a face. It started pushing out very slowly from the wall, getting closer and closer to mine. The best way I can describe it was that it looked like Linda Blair in the exorcist when she is full on possessed. After struggling against it, I woke up and kicked the wall so hard I broke my foot. | 5 |
explainlikeimfive/cg3pd90 | 20j1ha | Can afflictions like ADHD, bipolar disorder, etc ever be completely cured? | In order to cure it, we have to know exactly what causes it. Right now, all we have is strong evidence that the introduction of other chemicals can help -- which is good, but not exactly what we need to know in order to really understand those types of disorders. Especially because not everything works all the time or with everyone -- treating mental disorders are still somewhat of a guessing game. I think that if we can one day better understand the cause, then yes, we might be able to cure. | 4 |
AskReddit/c82mj8d | 175gen | What is the one book that shifted the way you think about the world? | To Kill A Mockingbird. I know everyone reads it in high school but I was far too young to understand the subtle and honest life lessons. Reading it again as an adult changed my perspective on how I treat others. It truly captures the way a child views the world if you read it at a younger age. But when you are old enough to see the world as Atticus sees and explain it, this book is heartbreaking and beautiful all at once. | 2 |
AskReddit/ecdzcqu | a8urdg | What are some good pick up lines? | Ok it’s that time of year again, I get to tell this story. Now I will apologize upfront this is not a good pick up line. In fact this is the worst pick up line I’ve ever heard. It was the holidays and I lived in a small tourist ski town. Everyone I knew was going home to their families except me. Some friends had asked me to cat sit for them since I was sticking around. It was Xmas day and I spent it watch the complete lord of the rings. Somewhere around disc 2 or 3 of the two towers my tummy makes a rumbling. I decide to head into town to see if I can get food. Everything is closed. I’m about to turn around when I spot a pub that is open. I head inside and find a table. In the bar there was: me at a table by myself, the bar tender, a man sitting at the bar alone, a woman at a table also alone. My drink arrives and I’m quietly reading a book and thankful that the bar isn’t playing Xmas music. In fact there’s no music. It was wonderful and also the reason I could hear what happened next. In walks our pick-up artist. He looks around the room before spotting the woman. He has been waiting for this moment I assume for months. Plotting. Planning. He walks right up to her and says the best/worst pick up line I’ve ever heard. “Hi! My name is Cole, and it looks like you just got Cole for Christmas!” We laughed him out of the bar. | 38 |
AskReddit/cqzqd5r | 3509xr | Who was your favorite teacher and why? | My all time favorite was my 4th grade teacher. I was having emotional issues, so I got put in the slow class. I am a bright girl, but depression clouds intellect. I cried when I knew I was going to be in her class. It really helped me, though. I was quick to get my work done, so I got lots of praise and was able to help other students, which helped my self confidence. She was an awesome teacher and I knew she cared about me. She had me put in the gifted class the next year. She saw the potential in me. | 3 |
AskReddit/dcg40hg | 5o283w | What certain sound, smell, or touch immediately makes you feel negatively? | A crying baby. Idk what it is, it makes me cringe and my heart starts pounding and I feel like I can't breathe and I just want it to stop. Even on TV or movies. I have to mute it if there's a crying baby. The weird thing is I have a 6 year old and crying babies didn't bother me until after my son was past that crying age. | 3 |
AskReddit/c1n0dmq | gen85 | What happens with unclaimed lottery prize money when there is more than one winning ticket? | I'm not sure, but I would imagine the Lottery Commission gets to keep the unclaimed portion, just like any other. Let's say you and I win the big prize and we have 180 days to claim our prize. When you go to claim yours, you sign a statement agreeing to the amount and probably releasing the Lottery Commission from any other claim. On the other hand, as usual, I have lost the ticket and miss the 180 day deadline. At this point, the money becomes unclaimed for both of us since it's past the 180 day line. I'm just guessing, but remember the Lottery works to fund itself. There are very few loopholes, if any. Good question though. | 2 |
AskReddit/ebyn1ne | a6wus6 | What is one of your favorite smells? | My mom’s house. I’ve not lived with her for a while, but I’m moving across the country next month and I’d do anything to bottle that smell and take it with me. Smells like cookies and memories and hugs. | 2 |
AskReddit/dexavlb | 5zdusx | What are some common scams that people still fall for? | Idk if this is scam. but my grandmother believes basically everything she reads on the internet. •Elvis is still alive and kicking. •there's people who will cut her debt in half by giving them your credit card info (not kidding-she did this)<scam worthy •basically everything you see on foxnews is her bible Edit: She thinks Elvis is in witness protection b/c of something he narc-ed on. | 3 |
AskReddit/c6k6y99 | 118boi | How does a girl know when a guy wants to be more than friends? | Is he breathing? He's into you. Re-watch "When Harry met Sally" pay particular attention to the Can guys and girls be friends conversation. It maybe a little direct for your values, but the statements are pretty true. | 3 |
AskReddit/cb9ylzx | 1j0wot | How could the education system, both grade school and post secondary, be changed to better help individuals find their passion/maximize their potential? | Additional funding to employ more teachers to reduce class size / improve teacher:student ratios. Better individualized attention means problems are identified earlier and addressed more quickly. Healthier food at school lunches so that students dont get after-lunch snoozles. Year-round schooling (trimesters) with month long breaks in between. Abolish "grade" system (grades create a conveyor belt mostly independent of comprehension) and focus on skills/knowledge retention. (Ie develop a tree like on khan academy; students progress up the tree in all the different areas as they are able.) Decoupling lessons from "grade level" will allow students to accelerate through easy stuff and spend more time on challenging stuff. | 3 |
AskReddit/cxfmekh | 3ukmdm | What simple activity will teach you a lot? | Being by yourself and taking that opportunity to reflect. And by being by yourself, I mean distancing yourself from all possible distractions and forcing yourself to think. For me, I have to make a five hour road trip every few months. I take this time to reevaluate my habits, my friends, my goals, etc. If what I am doing and how I am acting today is not getting me closer to my goals, I decide how I am going to change that. Self reflection will teach you a lot about yourself. | 4 |
AskReddit/dskowv7 | 7pww2r | What's your biggest driving pet peeve? | (USA) There is not a fast lane and a slow lane. There are traveling lanes and a passing lane. If someone passes you on the right you are in the wrong lane. If you are in the left lane and you're not passing anyone you are in the wrong lane. It is not your job to regulate the speed of the other drivers by sitting in the passing lane and blocking everyone. This makes me homicidal. Also, try to be aware of the other people in the world around you that are also driving. You are not the only person who needs to be somewhere. Don't sit next to the car in the other lane making, what is essentially, a moving road block. Awareness people. Let's all practice it. | 2 |
AskReddit/dzf0myf | 8lekyd | What three songs by the same group/artist couldn't be more different? | Beatles: I Saw Her Standing There Within You Without You Helter Skelter I’m a huge Beatles fan, but actually not a huge fan of any of these songs. Still, you have to admit they do not sound like they’re coming from the same band at all. And to be fair Within You Without You is really just George Harrison and an arrangement of session musicians. | 2 |
explainlikeimfive/cybzyju | 3yb92a | How do Windows Registry Cleaners decide what to remove? | Some basic things right off the bat are references to .dll files that are no longer there. For example if you uninstalled a program and the registry had entries pointing towards a now removed .dll file that's considered useless. Another one would be having an entry that references a filetype that the cleaner determines is no longer used by your system. So if you had something like Audacity and your registry kept track of what program to use to open their filetype, then you uninstalled Audacity, but the registry entry to open that file was still there, your cleaner would want to get rid of that. I can't really remember what some of the other basic ones are, but I do know that a lot of cleaners have loose parameters as to what they should delete so they can outperform their competitors by removing more garbage from the system. This is why it's important to always backup your registry even if you don't think anything could go wrong. One more thing a lot of people speculate as to whether a registry cleaner actually speeds up anything and if it's worth the risk for your average end user. Either way do your research and make backups. | 8 |
AskReddit/cb04srm | 1i1qgr | What has been the single most live changing event in your life thus far? | Being born. I used to stay inside all the time and do nothing. I was wasting my life away. I'd get a little exercise, kicking about a bit, but never really exploring the world around me. Then my Mom must have gotten tired of me. I planned on staying a year, but she wasn't having any of it. One day she just starts grunting and yelling like a banshee, and Pop Goes The Weasel, I'm flying across the room like a greased turkey off a waiters platter. Lucky the nurse snagged me in her pillow case or I'da splatted against the wall like a well bruised tomato. Anyway, life changed a lot after that and I find myself wondering where I went wrong. Why was I picked for this adventure I knew nothing about? HuH? | 4 |
AskReddit/etree12 | cd49bl | Which Self-Improvment Book has really changed your life? | Personal finance has really been a big help. There are a bunch of books. Head over the r/personalfinance and read the wiki. Seven habits of highly effective people is great as well. Really changed my thinking in some regards. | 2 |