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Why can an animal poop and not wipe and be perfectly fine, but a human must wipe or endure “the rash from hell?”
Most mammals (for instance, dogs) actually prolapse their anus slightly – they poke the inside part out a bit.
Cats, which don’t prolapse their anus, have to lick the shit off their butthole.
– Bannedfromfun
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How exactly does job hopping every 2 years optimize your salary in the long run? Are there such companies such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc., where staying is actually better than job hopping?
Funnily enough, 30 years ago, working for the same company for 20 or 30 years was seen as a positive thing e.g. you’re loyal, and you rose through the ranks and stayed with the company.
Nowadays, it’s seen as a liability, mostly because if you stay with the same place for a long time, people will think that a.) you lack ambition, or b.) nobody else will hire you.
– MexicanSpaceProgram
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What about Coca-Cola is so hard to replicate? The flavor of lemon-lime, grape, orange, etc. sodas seem pretty consistent. But off brand cola is noticeably just not as good.
It’s not just about ingredients, the process is very important too.
Take sugar turned into caramel. The total length of time spent heating the sugar (total joules) and the temperature curve (at which point there were changes in heating) directly affects the flavor and texture. Too hot and it tastes burnt, too slow and it’s all runny.
In the 90s Ruffles sales collapsed for a few quarters for no apparent reason. Frito-Lay used some very advanced processes, that included photographing every individual chip and rejecting (using timed puffs of air) those that do not meet color, size and shape requirements.
The root cause of the sales dip was a switch to a different blend of cooking oil. There’s a delay between a change in process and a change in sales as new product makes its way out into the supply chain. A month later, sales started to really dip. They checked everything in the machines and the ingredients but the sales kept door dipping. It was only after a chance discussion with a consumer did they discover the oil change had altered the temperature curve, which in turn made the chips taste ‘burnt’ to some palates. But only some people could taste whatever new substance was now in the chip.
– notmax
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How are Snipers countered when a leader is giving a speech in an open space?
hit a target at distance. Most urban tactical shooting is considered sub 300 yards due to common line-of-sight scenarios and the historical precedent (or lack therof) for long range assassination attempts. So locking this (0-400y range) down covers a lot of your steps, for beyond that range see below: *Assuming 400-1000y for common cartridges (5.56, 7.62, 30-06), 400-1500y for specialized (your AI’s, 6.5 SAUM, 7 RUM ect) and 400-2000y for your big boys (338LM, 50 BMG, Cheytac’s)
- Hitting a moving target at a range much beyond 700y is basically out of the question if you plan on taking one shot.
- If the target is stationary for a long time, likely behind a bullet proof podium. Energy at range is severely lessened and bullet proof material would be a problem.
- Despite what you see in the movies, no one targets the head unless it’s a hostage situation. Having to aim at something other than center-mass is very difficult. it’s smaller and moves more than center mass.
- You have to factor among other things: bullet ballistic coefficient multiplier, bullet velocity, scope height, barometric pressure, temperature, altitude and then past 1000y things like spin drift, Coriolis effect, direction you’re facing in relation to the earth’s spin. All to hit your target on the first shot. But most of this can be done long before or just before you would arrive.
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The major variable which you can’t prepare for: windage. Windage correction is the hardest job a shooter has. In an urban long range scenario this would be a major bitch. I correct for 2 windage readings (muzzle, at target) for most of my shooting, others can do 3. With buildings directing wind and nothing on the ground to read it (i.e grass, dust) it would be a pain in the ass.
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To give you an idea, my competition .308 with a long barrel for velocity would drift from target 18.2″ @ 1,000 yards with 2mph of wind 90 degrees to target. My flattest shooting rifle (6.5x55AI) sending a 140gr VLD as fast as humanly possible would still drift 10.7″ on a normal day at sea level. That’s for only 2mph of wind you have no idea how to read.
– CuzRacecar
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What has Family Video done differently than Blockbuster that has kept them in business?
In addition to the brick and mortar store front, Family Video has branched off into other markets such as real estate, 24-hour fitness centers, and cable television. The company also sells new and previously used items online. Family Video expanded into the Canadian market in 2012.
In 2013, following the continued decline of competing video rental stores, Family Video formed a partnership with Marco’s Pizza providing space for the franchise in many of its stores. The company is using the partnership as a way to deliver video rentals with pizza orders. Family Video also leases space to other retailers such as hair salons and fitness centers.
– homeboi808
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What is really happening to the “victims” during hypnosis acts?
Well first, there are no victims. It has been well established that hypnosis is an ability of the subject. It has essentially nothing to do with the hypnotist, and in fact even unskilled trainees, students, or the subject themselves can hypnotize a person with high hypnotic ability.
There are two schools of thought about what actually happens psychologically.
1) Social-cognitive theory. Basically, the act represents a very special social situation in which you’re allowed to do outrageous things with no consequences. It is socially understood that that isn’t “really” you, and afterwards you can claim amnesia or loss of control or whatever and you’ll never be blamed for acting like that. This isn’t exactly “they’re all faking”, because there is also an extreme social pressure to do what the hypnotist says and not be a buzzkill for everyone else. So, the combination of the pressure and the opportunity give rise to all the things you see.
2) Dissociation theory. Basically, you have two aspects of your consciousness: The everyday thinking and feeling part you call “I”, and a hidden observer in the back of your mind that just kind of watches everything. Normally you identify with the I, and have only a faint awareness of the observer. In hypnosis you become the observer – which is an altered state of consciousness – and don’t worry so much about the I. The observer cares far less about your social standing, personal qualms, etc, and just notes everything going on. So it is more likely to do far-out stuff, similar to what you might do when you’re drunk, high, in a dream, etc (all of which are other altered states of consciousness).
– animalprofessor
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Did Hitler have a plan to invade the U.S.?
Nothing concrete, there were attempts to build bombers that could attack the mainland USA from Europe. There was also the various U-Boat attacks and the various attempts to land spies/saboteurs in the USA.
Hitler assumed that the United States would be unable to field armies right away and that they wouldn’t be able to enter the fray until 1942/1943, which in Hitler’s mind was more than enough time to deal with both the USSR and Britain. Hitler foresaw some grand struggle between the New World, led by the USA, and the Old World led by Germany. It was imagined that Germany would force England into a peace treaty and than the two would ally against the common threat in America; with Britain’s navy being key to attacking the Americans. Here is a quote from Hitler on the matter:
If America lends her help to England, it is with the secret thought of bringing the moment nearer when she will reap her inheritance. I shall no longer be there to see it, but I rejoice on behalf of the German people at the idea that one day we will see England and Germany marching together against America. Germany and England will know what each of them can expect of her partner, and then we shall have found the ally whom we need. They have an unexampled cheek, these English! It doesn’t prevent me from admiring them. In this sphere, they still have a lot to teach us
Hitler didn’t imagine a huge battle between Germany and the USA in his lifetime but rather a protracted,almost coldwar like struggle. Hitler also planned to exploit what he saw as an “Anglo-American Rivalry” and he predicted that one would eventually destroy the other. To quote Hitler again:
England and America will one day have a war with one another, which will be waged with the greatest hatred imaginable. One of the two countries will have to disappear.
Hitler also predicted that that the United States would collapse in on itself and thus a protracted struggle would be even easier to win. He imagined that once the British Empire allied itself with Germany, the American public would become angry and the American state, which Hitler had no respect for, would collapse.
In that case, what would happen to the United States? They would be territorially intact. But one day England will be obliged to make approaches to the Continent. And it will be a German-British army that will chase the Americans from Iceland. I don’t see much future for the Americans. In my view, it’s a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities. Those were what caused the downfall of Rome, and yet Rome was a solid edifice that stood for something. Moreover, the Romans were inspired by great ideas. Nothing of the sort in England to-day. As for the Americans, that kind of thing is non-existent
Finally, Hitler had next to no respect for the Americans as soldiers, which is why he was so unaffected by things like the American invasion of North Africa, because he assumed that the German military would crush the Americans. He did however, have respect for their ability to mass produce and he acknowledged their economic strength.
If we succeed this year in getting our new tanks into the line in the proportion of twelve per division, we’ll crushingly outclass all our opponents’ tanks. It’s enough to give Rommel twenty-four of them to guarantee him the advantage. If the Americans arrive with their tanks, he’ll bowl them over like rabbits
Hitler’s ultimate goal was to establish German suzerainty over Europe and than lead this new German dominated Europe into the future. This was Hitler’s goal, the United States wasn’t the highest of priorities for Hitler.
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Kind of. Ultimately, they have to memorize enough information to be able to recreate the cube state, but most blindfold methods have you memorize the sequences in which you solve pieces, and the method prescribes that the pieces are to be solved in a distinct way so that each piece you solve exactly sets up the next one appropriately.
For instance, here’s the webpage introducing probably the best-known blindfold method: the Pochmann method . In this method, you basically start out by finding a piece you want to move into an appropriate location. You then move it there, careful to affect the rest of the cube as little as possible (of course, you must also move the piece that’s currently sitting at the destination, and perhaps a couple more pieces somewhere else, but leave the rest of the cubies as is). The algorithm works in such a way that the piece that was at the destination is now where your other piece started! Therefore, you now repeat this process for the new piece. Repeat this (with minor caveats) for each edge and for each corner, and eventually you’re done!
So what exactly needs to be memorized? Just the destinations of your pieces. A typical example, taken from the site, would be memorizing something like
FR - UL - FD - DB - DR - UF - LB - UB - DL - FL - BU - stop - UB - RD - UF - UR - DL - RB - FR - LD - BL
(where F = front, B = back, U = up, D = down, L = left, R = right) or some color coded equivalent.
This is not hard to do using either the story method (come up with a story based on the text — see the link for an example) or simply by lots of practice.
– FST
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Why does everybody hate comic sans?
Because it violates all standards of uniformity and kerning. Humans have a need for things to be in order, and comic sans isn’t. Every letter is at a slightly different height, making it more difficult for the mind to consume as a whole. The human eye also enjoys straight lines and smooth curves, comic sans has neither. Kerning, the art of how to space letters inside the same word (think typewriter vs Word documents. Typewriters can’t do kerning), is absent in comic sans. I should say not absent, but purposefully not ideal. Letters that should be close are far apart, again leading to the word looking just slightly wrong.
To answer your question, the reason people hate it is because it feels wrong and they can’t pinpoint why, making them more angry. Also because it is an easy way to appear playful and childish and if there is anything the internet hates, it’s people pretending to be stupid.
– lightning_fire
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What’s it like to have Schizophrenia?
Let me run you through a day in the life of my personal brand of schizophrenia:
7:00 am: Wake up and lay in bed for awhile. Although I live alone, I hear footsteps throughout my apartment. I start wondering whether someone broke in during the night, so I get up to check the lock. Not only is the dead bolt still latched, but the chain is also still in tact; however, the footsteps are still in the kitchen, and I have to check the door and whole apartment at least three more times be sure I’m alone.
7:30 am: I’m taking a nice hot bath, but, as the water is running, I hear a conversation happening just outside the door. I know no one is there because I’ve checked the door, but I can’t help but hear a few people debating about the use of leather vs. cloth seats in cars. I dip my head under the water and try to ignore what’s not there.
8:00 am: Is there something crawling on my leg? When I look down to inspect, there’s nothing. This will happen at least once every half hour throughout the day, so I won’t continue mentioning it.
9:00 am: I’m eating breakfast, and I taste metal when I’m eating my toast, so much so that I can’t finish my food.
10:00 am: I’m walking to campus, and the way gravity is pulling me goes from under my feet to slightly off-kilter to the right. I feel like I’m going to fall over because something is pulling me that way, so I need to sit down and wait out my equilibrium resetting itself with my head in my hands to keep myself from puking from the dizziness.
10:30 am: The voice in my head named Nero starts telling me, as a response to girls walking slowly in a group in front of me on the sidewalk, that I should disembowel one, choke the second with her intestines, and curb stomp the third while she cries from watching her friends die. I try my hardest to ignore him, but the voice gets louder and more demanding, even after I have already passed the girls.
11:15 am: As I sit on the toilet, the tiles of the floor start to get larger and smaller, which almost makes me sick.
12:00 pm: I’m talking to my friend who flaked on me a few weeks ago, and Nero is trying to tell me what they deserve for being a shitty friend, which just so happens to be running their face over until it is as flat as a pancake.
1:15 pm: As I’m sitting in class, the teacher’s words begin to not sound like English, and the jibberish I’m hearing makes it impossible to concentrate on the lesson and what I’m supposed to be learning.
2:00 pm: I finally have my appetite back after the metallic tasting toast, but I cannot help but think that the people behind the counter put something I’m allergic to into my food because of how insistent I am that they exclude it. After inspecting my food and taking it apart bit by bit, I’m ready to eat my mound of slop, which is getting cold.
3:00 pm: I see more of my friends, but the voice in my head just keeps screaming the worst insults at them. I can no longer concentrate on what they are saying to me, which means I cannot hold up my end of conversation, so I awkwardly excuse myself and hear the conversation roar up again once I leave. The voice in my head continues to tell me that I’m worthless and even my friends pretend to like me.
4:30 pm: I’m home once again, but I hear a tapping on my window, as if someone is trying to get my attention. Although I live on the second floor, I still need to check for other life at least four times.
6:00 pm: My foot feels like it’s on fire, which distracts me from doing the reading assignment due tomorrow.
7:30 pm: When I try to read again, all the words on the page float away and melt together into a black jumbled mess, so I still can’t focus on my homework.
8:00 pm: Something smells like it’s burning in the kitchen, but I have only started thinking about cooking food.
9:00 pm: I’m starting to get tired, but, because I haven’t been able to focus on my homework, I can’t sleep quite yet. The voice in my head continues to berate me and tell me how worthless I am to the human race. Suicide is brought up. Once he knows I have heard this thought, he starts detailing all the ways I could kill myself, all of which I have access to.
10:30 pm: I’ve managed to complete my homework, but it’s not my best work. I try to wind down for the night, but I feel someone standing over my bed and watching me browse the Internet. When I turn around, no one is there, and I need to check the door again to make sure it is locked.
11:30 pm: I am falling asleep, and, at the final moment before I am actually unconscious, I hear a knock at my door. When I get up to check to see if anyone is there, not even the motion detection light is on in the hallway, which makes me anxious.
12: 45 am: As I really am falling asleep this time, the voice in my head chimes in to make sure my final thoughts are ones that set me apart from everyone who actually does love me. My last thought before going to sleep is him telling me I either need to kill or be killed to be truly happy.
Because I’m schizophrenic, this is my reality; this happens every day. Just as you see your hand in front of your face, the voice in my head as well as the auditory and visual hallucinations occupy the space of my world.
– lit-lover
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