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Moseley85jr: When your village was being raided you would send the children off to hide in the hopes they would survive even if you didn’t. Children would not inherently understand the danger they were in and parents would need to keep them calm. So children would be prepared for this day by playing fun games.

Intelligent_Gear_435: It’s the cat shouting meme.

RecordingOk2117: During the filming of the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz," several actors experienced severe health issues due to hazardous production elements. The original actor for the Tin Man suffered lung failure from aluminum dust makeup, and his replacement developed a severe eye infection from aluminum paste. The actress playing the Wicked Witch had copper-based makeup that was toxic if ingested, required her to consume only liquids via straw, and caused second and third-degree burns when ignited during a scene. Additionally, the "snow" used in a scene was industrial-grade chrysotile asbestos, and the Scarecrow actor's mask left permanent scars.

L_Is_Robin: That’s an art work known as “Untitled (Perfect Lovers” by Felix Gonzalez-Torres.

The artwork is the two clocks in the image, which start in sync. As time goes on, the clocks with inevitably become out of sync, most likely when one of the clocks batteries give out. This represents Felix and his partner Ross, Ross having passed away from AIDS.

Felix also passed away from AIDS. Felix did multiple pieces on this theme, I will respond to this with two of my favorite works of his.

Edit: I can’t believe I forgot this, but we do have this excerpt of a letter that he wrote to Ross prior to them passing, with a small drawing of two clocks: “Don’t be afraid of the clocks, they are our time, the time has been so generous to us. We imprinted time with the sweet taste of victory. We conquered fate by meeting at a certain TIME in a certain space. We are a product of the time, therefore we give back credit where it is due: time. We are synchronized, now forever. I love you.”

Erikatessen87: Going to butcher this by trying to pare it down, but here goes.

Nietzsche's theoretical "Übermensch," an aspirational model for humanity, wasn't a traditional "strongman," or a superhuman by way of genetics or social capital, or even a "man" at all.

Nietzsche's Übermensch was a self-possessed person who developed their own values and morality regardless of prevailing or outdated "wisdom" and rejected religious "other-worldliness," finding meaning in the here-and-now of life on Earth vs. learned helplessness and obedience with the hope of a supernatural reward after passing.

Anymous2314: Robert Downey Jr. wore blackface for his role in the 2008 satire film Tropic Thunder.

Grumlen: American houses, even those with a brick facade, are wood framed. European houses tend to be framed/built using stone/cement/bricks, causing them to be much more durable. The idea of punching a hole in the wall boggles Europeans, but is common for Americans.


Edit: Both styles have advantages. Wood homes are cheaper and faster to build, modify, or demolish. Updating such homes with wiring & plumbing is also far easier. By comparison European homes are far more difficult to modify.

Further Edit: It seems people don't understand the meaning of the words "tend to", and somehow believe they translate as "always". I'm not knowledgeable or arrogant enough to claim mastery of how every European community builds homes. There's homes built in the US out of concrete. There's homes built in Europe out of wood. The TREND is otherwise, and that's what the image is pointing out. Stop being pedantic.

Dull-Confusion498: I think it's because, what I can remember, Jupiter has saved Earth a lot of times from asteroids. Correct me if I'm wrong.

GM_Nate:

yes, it's basically the vacuum cleaner of the solar system.

Altruistic-Yogurt462: It means that the body has given up fighting the disease therefore the increased energy.

TheWesternDevil: This is what happened to my mother after battling cancer for 2 years. She was told the treatments were working extremely well, she was doing great for a week, and then she declined overnight, and passed away 3 days later.

BillyGrillie: The "Melania" movie has an audience score of 99% on Rotten Tomatoes but a critic score of 5%. This is because Rotten Tomatoes was overrun by MAGA bots to push up the score, but the critic score cannot be changed so easily with bots.

EggChemical7177: European woodlands are pretty unthreatening places. The geography is not too extreme, accessibility is relatively high due to population density and age of settlement- near total lack of predatory animals due to human competition. Worst thing youll see is a badger.

American woodlands are vast, untouched, dangerous places. Sizeable mountain ranges, often minimal infrastructure, access. Low pop density= further from help. Substantial dangerous flora and fauna, including large predators such as bears.

Responsible_Hall_471: a non electric guitar is called acoustic. I'm sure you can figure out the rest.

Loud-Principle-7922: She wanted a moment alone, and wanted to relax and read, but it seemed like she was sacrificing something. Moms need a break.

RandomflyerOTR: Dr Hartman here. Antibiotics need to be taken in their full course (until the supply given runs out) to ensure an infection is fully eradicated. A lack of symptoms does not mean the infection is gone, and if you stop early the bacteria will multiply again and the infection will return, likely stronger than before with a risk of becoming antibiotic resistant.

OCD124: Guys exaggerate how long their [manhood] are. If it’s a nice, pleasant, comfortable 5 inches long, we say it’s 8 inches.

RetroGame77: Brian here. The evacuation order was children and women first. Since he survived, they will believe that he took the place of a woman or child, and dishonored his nation.

MicrowaveMeal: A student discovered an issue with the Citicorp building that had been missed by, well, everyone, where the building would collapse if wind hit it at the right angle. Crews worked nights to fix it to avoid panic. Should be good now.

throwaway48159: There are two reasons people use public transit. One is if it’s a good service. The other is if they’re poor and can’t afford better options. In the US, it’s generally the second one.

KrimsunV: Really good meals only get served when something unfortunate happens.

Matchboxx: Big 4 consulting Peter here. In corporate jobs where PowerPoints are used like, all the freakin’ time, they’re called slide decks. The term actually comes from when presentations where a “deck” of poster board cards, so it’s an even older reference, but these big consulting firms have cult like vocabulary, so slide deck is one of those things the youngins still use. 

sombreropickle: Republicans are mad that Alex Pretti legally had a gun on him.

NoSalamander6971: Because finance can’t do their job so that means we got overpaid and they’re gonna take it all back at once or even more.

AuthorAsksQuestions: Famous illusion. It can be an old lady from one perspective and a young lady from another.

goreveski: Rent is due.

KeldTundraking: If your job has unlimited PTO it will probably never actually give you a chance to use that PTO. They're typically high stress production jobs. Like imagine a game developer. Your job is to deliver the game on time. So sure take 2 weeks paid vacation during crunch, your team will hate you, they'll struggle more, and you'll be the first one fired after they launch and "rightsize" the team. Same goes for your sick time.

holdme2000: Basically the only time I receive compliments from a judge, they are about to rule against me.

Exciting_Place_6817: Trees cost more to insure because of hazards, meaning less trees in new developments because of insurance costs for those trees. Don't know if that's the real reason or the developer wants to squeeze more houses into less space probably both.

Brilliant-Cause6254: It means that the rice is perfectly cooked. When the water evaporates, the escaping steam carves out tiny micro-chimneys between the grains. If you rinsed the rice well (removing excess surface starch), the grains stay separate enough for that steam to push them upright rather than gluing them into a horizontal pile of mush.

abermea: IT professional here. By age 40 you either got promoted into middle management, or you got burnt out, retired, and started a goose farm or something that isn't IT related.

f3rryt4le: Ground war requires vehicles. Toyota builds a lot of vehicles that Middle Eastern ground armys tend to use (Pickup trucks etc.)

Basic-Bus7632: I think it’s because weebs are known to be obsessed with the superiority of everything Japanese, so the idea that a Japanese warlord would favor a western sword is inconceivable.

Mobile-Professional2: They are adjustable size wrenches, so there is little need to rank them by size.

MurfDogDF40: If you head over to r/thinkpad you’ll see about 300k people’s worth of content on these things, how to fix about every problem you could ever think of, and their longevity is unmatched. They’re like the Toyota Corolla of the laptop world. I think the joke is because the laptop last forever they plan on keeping you forever.

AutoMattic21: Been building Transport trucks and trailers for the majority of my adult life;

Transport trucks in Europe tend to be Cab Over Engine style(Optimus prime in the OG Cartoons), as they have more restrictions on the total length of both the truck and load can be.

In the US there are less restrictions on Transports(partially due to larger roads) so they use a Conventional style truck with the engine in front of the cab(Michael Bay’s Optimus Prime).

Conscious-Nose-2: The old ones have context. The new ones don’t.

_Qyqb_: They are either overweight or they are jacked. There is no in between.

Proud-Cartoonist-431: Peter's Russian pen friend here. See, the problem is that after WW2 masculinity in Russia became very one-sided, dictated by soldiership and operating heavy machinery. In many parts of the society, especially the working class inappropriate for a man to think about his looks, dress up, etc. Many men will endure pain but not even go to doctors unless forced by their wife.

After WW2, family changed, there's been even less involved fathers than before and women would do everything to keep the status of being married and he could sit on the couch as a priced possession. They expect the woman to work full time, cook, clean, parent, look like a model. Some modern men go even further and demand that she fully finds it with her money.

Another problem is, work changed and men prefer and demand traditional diet that's high in oils, carbs and generally is in 3000-3500 ccal, made for soldiers, loggers, miners and truck mechanics. Now most of them have desk jobs. Obesity is twice as bad in young men than with women.

Russians tend to have smaller facal features, gain more facial fat relative to the average human at the same fat percentage, and as a result look ugly when overweight, men even more so. So that to look cute as us you have to be relatively lean, not necessarily rail thin but at least amateur athlete grade.

MapleSyrupThief: Peter here, its an IASIP episode, where the premise is that by getting a person on a boat they can't say no... because of the implications. Implications being they are alone on a boat far away from other people and have no choice due to the situation.

_Fun_Employed_: Maybe that it’s when they decide to do costumes for the photo they made him dino the dog, you know, Instead of Barney, who would be Betty’s husband.

DangerousKidTurtle: What he remembers as the Color Room was really a place for him to be tested and monitored, most likely because of learning or emotional disabilities. The last panel is him realizing this fact many years later.

EnterTheDragon07: Hi guys I think I can add some info to this.

Looking at the flag on the user's name it's a south african flag, being south african myself this immediately caught my eye

The bottle is implying his girl is using "muti" - which is a traditional African medicine or magical charm (Black magic can be good or bad)

It's implying that girl is using muti on her man so she can control him to do whatever she desires eg. Laundry, Washing dishes, housework etc.

Case closed.

FoxHoundNinja: Hey, Peter here. The joke is that Jesus knows the person in the crowd is a time traveller, and is telling them to go back to their time.

Plisnak: The one just above the bottom right corner (at 5,5). It's symmetrical.

Konfituren: The spikes are a proposed method of designating nuclear waste storage facilities, so that in 10000 years, if our society destroys itself and new people emerge, they'll be scared of the spikes and won't go digging through nuclear waste, which will still be dangerous at that time.

SilvertonguedDvl: Basically:
He's putting effort into trying to talk to her/engage with her on some level.
She's, well, not.

He leaves the conversation feeling miserable and unwanted.
She leaves the conversation feeling content and doted on because he spent so much time trying to talk to her.

It's an example of a lopsided relationship, that's all.
Not really a joke, just kinda sad because pretty much everyone has felt like that with someone else in their life - where you really wanted to make a connection and they're just not reciprocating at all.

It's like when you realise that you're always the one calling your friend to hang out, so then you see if they'll ever call you first - and they never call you. You realise that you don't hold the same position of value in their life that they held in yours. That while you thought about them, they never really thought of you at all. At least, not enough to reach out when they hadn't seen you in a while.

Afraid-Muscle-8935: He was joking. She wasn't.

MajorEntertainment65: Friends with many lesbians and the trope is their first dates last abnormally long (like 2 to 3 days straight) and it's intense when the "first date" ends because it is intense to spend that long with one person you just met.

JugglingDodo: A famous entry-level problem in Chaos Theory is modelling populations of rabbits.

You model the number of rabbits in each successive generation, where the number of rabbits in generation n+1 is a function of the number of rabbits in generation n.

What you find is that under a lot of conditions there is what's called a 'strange attractor' where the population of rabbits from one generation to the next oscillates in a chaotic way around an equilibrium.

One generation is able to boom and have lots of babies, but then the lack of food and resources for the next generation mean they shrink and the population oscillates stably but chaotically around an equilibrium.

What you also find (and is a much funnier scenario to look at) is that under the right conditions a rabbit population will explode exponentially and within just a few generations there will be more rabbits than there are atoms in the universe.

So you choose your model parameters and leave the model to run, come back and check on your rabbits, and after a few generations they've taken over the world.

That's what's happened in the graph in the top right panel. Each branch is a new generation and after just a handful of generations things have gone wild.

thebuscompany: 5 "feels" like an even number because it divides so evenly within a base 10 system.

[deleted]: Ollie here

GOT DRUNK, DEMOTED FROM SERGEANT TO PRIVATE FIRST CLASS.

UnluckyUnderwear: K-pop Peter here. Apparently there’s a rumor that Park Bom is suing YG Entertainment for about 64 quadrillion won, or about 46 trillion USD. Roughly *100 times Elon Musk’s net worth. Supposedly she’s suing them for withholding income and making fun of her plastic surgery. She’s 41 btw.

Sure-Confection3117: Using a different personality with different people based on their different personalities. Friend one is laid back and chill, so youre laid back and chill around them. Two is outgoing, bubbly, so you match it. Etc etc.

MistbornSynok: Refried>Baked

MunMaan: Having head covers for your irons (the smaller, metal chunk looking golf clubs) is considered a cardinal sin among many golf purists as they see the clubs as tools for the game, rather than ornaments which should be kept in absolute pristine condition.

Jixxie87: fractional banking, it's where a bank will only hold a certain % of money on their books, the rest gets loaned out to other customers to make money.

Jumpingyros: The book House of Leaves. A man and his family move into a new house, he discovers that it’s 1/4” bigger on the inside than the outside. Things go poorly for him. Also Poe made an entire album as a companion to the book, which was written by her brother.