How does rabies make it’s victims ‘afraid’ of water?
The virus affects the entire body, and especially hits us neurologically. What happens when you’re thirsty and you see water? You salivate in anticipation of relieving that thirst. Salivation leads to swallowing, lest we drool. Well for someone in the later stages of rabies, swallowing becomes a very painful act…and as with anything painful, the mind tends to not want to repeat the act that leads to the pain. The Rabies virus causes severe muscle spasms in the throat, and even the sight of water can set them off. If that were happening to you, wouldn’t you be ‘afraid’ of water, too?
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Why are baseball teams so inconsistent year-over-year compared to basketball teams and those of other sports?
Baseball is a very difficult sport. The best hitters fail 7 out of 10 times they go up to bat. Slight deviations from that can result in big changes of the outcome. Scoring is very difficult, either through homeruns or actually gettin a runner around to home. Then you look at pitching. You effectively have to hit a 1.5ft by 2ft area from 60 feet away while throwing it either as hard as you can or with some type of special spin. In addition to that, you are trying to aim it at some point the catcher tells you to put it at. If you are off by even a few inches sometimes, that can be the difference between a strike out and a walk. Slight variations in baseball can lead to huge differences in the outcomes.
Now compare that to basketball. The average shooting percentage is about 45%. That means every other time a player shoots, it is likely to go in. This is a much higher rate of success. On defense, letting the other team score is not as disastrous because it is easy to turn around and score on them. Mistakes in basketball are a lot less punishing. It is a common strategy to foul in order to make it more difficult for the other team to score.
– youksdpr
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Why is climate change a political issue, even though it is more suited to climatology?
Because the implications of accepting climate change means more government regulation of the oil industry and other polluters. Being forced to pay for pollution means less profit for business. Republicans don’t like government regulations and they like big business.
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How do free apps with no ads (snapchat, instagram) make money?
Imagine your parents gave you $50 for the latest video game. There are other kids selling sub-par lemonade, old video games, comics and orange juice on the block for various prices from $0.05-$0.25 a cup. A days labor earns them anywhere from nothing to a few bucks. And you see these kids with their mud-pies and urinade, and you think to yourself, “I could totally do better.”
You decide to put your $50 into a lemonade stand instead of a video game. Hell, you even innovate and add sugar to your lemonade (crazzzzzzzzzzy). Now, you can competitively price your lemonade or advertise Johnny mud-pie for a small portion of his daily $0.50 profits, but that’ll just detract people from what you’re offering. Plus, they might find it mildly annoying.
No, you have bigger plans than that. You’re not running a mom-and-pop lemonade stand, you’re going platinum. But nobody knows you, everybody knows Johnny mud-pie and Orange Juice Simpson. How do you bring people to the table? light bulb You spent $5 getting this lemonade stand started, why not use the remaining $45 for a year of operational costs and give your lemonade out for free.
At a price of nothing, your lemonade quickly becomes the rave. All the other kids have already blown their profits and can’t sustain their business models, not when the competition is offering a product for free! Everybody’s coming to you. Who would pay $0.20 for pee, besides Pedophile Peter, when they can get your awesome lemonade for nothing?
Over the course of a year, you’ve built up a popular customer base. You’ve innovated a bit more, your lemonade now has caffeine in it, and all the local grown-ups stop by your stand instead of going to one of the 30 local Starbucks. Not to mention, everybody that passes through your neighborhood pulls over. Some people even offer a donation, but you lower your shades, give them a half smile, and in the deepest voice you can muster, tell em, “It’s on the house bud.” It’s time.
Johnny mud-pies has moved a few blocks away. His mom caught his dad with somebody in their room. IN THEIR ROOM. They’re going through a divorce and Johnny spends half his time on the other side of town. He’s richer now though, Johnny. He’s got money coming in from two separated neglectful parents instead of one neglectful couple. His allowance has tripled as his parents try to buy their way to his teeny little heart. He’s thinking of getting back into the game. He’s found a new source for mud. But he needs your help. He’s seen your business acumen, the way you drove him out of business with a product that wasn’t even in the same category.
Johnny offers to buy some space on your lemonade stand to market his product. A year ago, you would’ve said hell no. Your customers would’ve said hell no. Hell, you wouldn’t grow so quick as new customers would’ve been put-off. But now you got a steady stream of lemonade junkies. They ain’t goin nowhere. Word gets around that Johnny mud-pies is raking in made cash. All of a sudden, several new and old business are popping up around the cul-de-sac and around the block. You started with 50 bucks, you grinded on that chump change for a minute, and now you can’t even count the money you’re making.
– jzuspiece
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Why does asking small favors from a certain person make him/her like you more?
When you’re asking for help it shows that you trust this person enough to reveal your own inadequacies or shortcomings. This show of faith makes them feel good and that they can trust you since you trusted them first.
– Wiccan_Super_Soldier
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The legal concept of bail. How can a court justify releasing a potentially harmful person for a large sum of cash?
You’re innocent until proven guilty in the US, and your actual court day won’t usually be for awhile after you’re arrested.
It’s both not fair and unrealistic to keep people in jail for months before thier trial.
There are exceptions for particularly violent offenders and flight risks. Electronic monitoring (ankle bracelets) is also an option.
– 56Subject
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Can someone explain Satanism to me?
A very common misconception is that Satanist are devil-worshipers, but this is not the case and actually most Satanists don’t believe that the devil exists. What they do believe is that the archetype (type of person) the devil represents is how one should act in the world.
You can think of Satanism as a rejection of Christian values. Christianity teaches people to be humble, to put others before yourself, to put your faith in a higher power, to reject sinful thoughts, to turn the other cheek, etc.
Satanism says that’s all stupid. You are the only thing that matters in the world, and your only job is to look after yourself and get as much pleasure as possible before you die. If anyone gets in the way of you getting what you want, you may “destroy them.” You are accountable to no one, however you shouldn’t let yourself get out of control. It’s sort of like a slightly more sophisticated version of hedonism.
To be fair, it isn’t 100% terrible, they do have some worthwhile ideas like “don’t harm kids or animals,” but I think the harm outweighs the good. I knew someone who used to identify as a Satanist, but he gave it up because he said the world became too horrible of a place. He started to see everything as a confrontation and became violent, detached and unhappy. I would not recommend it as a lifestyle choice.
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Can You Explain The Panama Papers?
When you get a quarter you put it in the piggy bank. The piggy bank is on a shelf in your closet. Your mom knows this and she checks on it every once in a while, so she knows when you put more money in or spend it.
Now one day, you might decide “I don’t want mom to look at my money.” So you go over to Johnny’s house with an extra piggy bank that you’re going to keep in his room. You write your name on it and put it in his closet. Johnny’s mom is always very busy, so she never has time to check on his piggy bank. So you can keep yours there and it will stay a secret.
Now all the kids in the neighborhood think this is a good idea, and everyone goes to Johnny’s house with extra piggy banks. Now Johnny’s closet is full of piggy banks from everyone in the neighborhood.
One day, Johnny’s mom comes home and sees all the piggy banks. She gets very mad and calls everyone’s parents to let them know.
Now not everyone did this for a bad reason. Eric’s older brother always steals from his piggy bank, so he just wanted a better hiding spot. Timmy wanted to save up to buy his mom a birthday present without her knowing. Sammy just did it because he thought it was fun. But many kids did do it for a bad reason. Jacob was stealing people’s lunch money and didn’t want his parents to figure it out. Michael was stealing money from his mom’s purse. Fat Bobby’s parents put him on a diet, and didn’t want them to figure out when he was buying candy.
Now in real life, many very important people were just caught hiding their piggy banks at Johnny’s house in Panama. Today their moms all found out. Pretty soon, we’ll know more about which of these important people were doing it for bad reasons and which were doing it for good reasons. But almost everyone is in trouble regardless, because it’s against the rules to keep secrets no matter what.
– DanGliesack
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Why, with exception of a few, don’t reality singing show winners (The Voice. American Idol, etc) have any commercial success? If the American people vote on the winner, one would think there would be more albums being bought
Success in the music industry doesn’t seem to correlate w/ winning singing shows for a few reasons:
1) A singing show is really just a glorified popularity contest with a small sample (ie, a couple dozen people). Just because you’ve been selected as the most popular out of a small group on TV with a given audience does not mean that you will have large scale commercial success when you are suddenly up against the thousands of artists on the open market.
2) Successful music requires more than just a nice sounding voice- unfortunately this is the only musical characteristic that gets tested rigorously on such a show. Technical ability, range, projection, creativity all get swept aside; contestants really only end up singing a given track because it is known to/popular with the audience- ie a bunch of covers (seriously- how many times have you seen an original composition performed in the main contest phase of one of these shows). This does not equate with the real world- how many wildly successful popular artists do you know of that relegate themselves strictly to covers?
3) For a track/album to be financially successful, it needs non-trivial amounts of marketing, networking (with producers/promoters/studios/etc) along with at least some originality/creativity. This is not usually something contestants are made to do during a competition- they only get presented with a pre-selected track to perform, not a mini record project where they have to bring an entire album into existence.
These shows are strictly about entertainment value. The show-runners have already gotten what they wanted out of the deal: $$ from creating entertainment that attracts a sizable audience and subsequent ad dollars. Once they’ve crowned a winner, they don’t have that big of an incentive to stick around and make sure that their winner has a successful career- that would potentially take years with a chance of success that is still quite slim. They’ve already moved onto the next season, where return on investment is all but assured.
– Logic_be_Damned
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What actually happened to make the cost of college in the US practically unaffordable without a loan?
Demand for college degrees increased, two main factors, ∞ other smaller factors
Factor 1: financing for college became more readily available, increasing number of people who can actually go to college, increasing demand
Factor 2: the workplace environment shifted to more specialized skills (away from manufacturing), requiring a college degree to get a “good” job, increasing demand
Graph Showing This Numerically (link )
Factors 3-∞: women go to college more now, globalization increases competition for workers, internet allows for more aggressive college advertising, tacobell announces the quesalupa, immigration increases raise demand, etc.
fast forward 30 years…graduate school is now required to get a “good” job
– CheesedToMeatYou
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