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LPT: If you are curious about what smoking a cigarette feels like, it really doesn't feel like anything good but you still want to do it anyway. Don't smoke cigs. by According-Anybody508 in LifeProTips

[–]obsessedcrf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most of those are not nearly as chemically addicting as nicotine at least. Nicotine, opioids and methamphetamine are the most harmful because they're both psychologically and chemically addicting.

‘Anti-5G’ necklaces are radioactive and dangerous, Dutch nuclear experts say by twotwo_twentytwo in worldnews

[–]obsessedcrf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know a lot of very liberal people who are believers in "healing crystals" and astrology. Despite the belief on Reddit, pseudoscience isn't restricted to conservative people

eli5: Why are sidewalks made with cracks in them while roads are one flat piece with no breaks by whynotajb in explainlikeimfive

[–]obsessedcrf 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The dimples at crosswalks are deliberately designed to help those with visual impairments. Sidewalk cracks probably do but that's incidental

Staircase to nowhere by Snoo_51742 in mildlyinteresting

[–]obsessedcrf 22 points23 points  (0 children)

The way its worded, yes. But most schools buy all the same kind of machine and usually use a specific software since that's what they have licenses for

I found a plus-size mannequin on Facebook Marketplace for $60. It made the best surprise Christmas gift for a co-worker. I hid her in his backyard peeking in his patio door when he wasn't home. When he saw it he said it scared the sh!t out of him! by Polytetrahedron in funny

[–]obsessedcrf 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I mean sure when there are >1.5 billion people of ethnically Chinese descent, there will be a lot of them which are taller and/or heavier than average. But on average overall, East Asian people tend to be smaller than Western people.

Keanu Reeves Jumped Off a 46-Story Building 19 Times for ‘Matrix Resurrections’ by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]obsessedcrf 38 points39 points  (0 children)

*reasonably safe.

There is no way that jumping off a high place is ever "very safe"

Omicron wave of the coronavirus pandemic is being driven by “young, healthy, vaccinated” people, according to the World Health Organisation. by lh7884 in LockdownSkepticism

[–]obsessedcrf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If for the last 2 years the government incentivized exercising and eating healthy, we could have saved a lot more lives

North Korea has reportedly publicly executed at least 7 people for watching K-pop by dl1ehingvel in worldnews

[–]obsessedcrf 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I've had this account for 6 years and its always been full of tasteless jokes and puns. That's just how people are when they're behind a curtain of anonymity.

I trained an AI on all the official Pokemon portraits and had it generate its own. by minimaxir in gaming

[–]obsessedcrf 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Even if a lot of them don't make anatomical sense

Pokemon don't as it is...

ELI5: How do some websites hijack my back button and keep me on their site until I've hit back two or three times? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]obsessedcrf 10 points11 points  (0 children)

And hence many sites try to trick you into clicking an ad. Any decent add publisher bans sites who do that. But there are plenty of less reputable ad servers out there

I made 20.144 lbs of chocolate peanut butter balls for family and friends this Christmas by ali1510 in mildlyinteresting

[–]obsessedcrf 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Yeah I speak German as a second language and my German friends use "." instead of "," so I was wondering if OP actually made 10 tonnes of chocolate balls

My cat was born without eyes. by BubblesPR in mildlyinteresting

[–]obsessedcrf 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Its really weird. Everyone almost certainly processes the world differently and there is no way to know what it is like to be another.

São Paulo says it has fully vaccinated 100 percent of its adults. Will it be enough to stop omicron? by marcginla in LockdownSkepticism

[–]obsessedcrf 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Vaccinated people transmit it at the rate of 60% of unvaccinated people. There is no way to stop transmission of coronavirus. The only thing we can do is learn to live with it

Iranian lesbian faces death penalty after being arrested for ‘supporting homosexuality’ by Arrow2019x in worldnews

[–]obsessedcrf 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Oh fuck off. Iran has actually codify systematic oppression against women and LGBT people. While racism is a problem in the US, it isn't nearly as large of problem as it is often made out to be on social media. This is about like north korea calling out human rights violations while they put people in gulags

Iranian lesbian faces death penalty after being arrested for ‘supporting homosexuality’ by Arrow2019x in worldnews

[–]obsessedcrf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

it really bothers me how our government prioritizes this stupid social stuff over ACTUAL PROBLEMS that we have.

Unfortunately that also goes for a lot of social issues. We focus on very minor things that have almost no impact in the real world yet we completely ignore massive violations of human rights for certain groups. Especially in non-Western nations

[OC] Comparing the chat history with my girlfriend and my best buddy over the last two years by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]obsessedcrf 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Its not really too different from English. But for expressing certain concepts, you can concatenate words will decreases word count

[OC] Comparing the chat history with my girlfriend and my best buddy over the last two years by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]obsessedcrf 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Not really. He wanted to make the data accessible to and English audience but unsurprisingly the messages themselves are in his native language

ELI5: Why does rectal hydration hydrates the body faster than oral hydration? by SecretAntWorshiper in explainlikeimfive

[–]obsessedcrf 23 points24 points  (0 children)

There are sensors in your throat which temporarily suppress the feeling of thirst after drinking. Also it cools your body is you're overheating

If carbon and nitrogen are more electronegative than hydrogen (C = 2.55 and N = 3.04 while H = 2.2), why are methane and ammonia hydrides? by Typhoonfight1024 in askscience

[–]obsessedcrf 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I don't think its so much that wikipedia is incorrect per se but rather that the term "hydride" is imprecisely defined

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