What are your favorite beefs in history?

It can be a conflict that’s now resolved or it could still be ongoing.
It could be individual people or entire nations.
Like there’s the British Empire vs the French Empire, a lot of conflict and grudges.

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u/Actual-Injury8955 — 12 days ago

Can you just leave the screw-on cap of a bottle on loosely for the airlock substitute?

If you put your yeast in a bottle that uses a screw-on cap, can you leave the cap loose and it substitutes as an airlock? The degree of looseness I’m thinking of would be that you screw it all the way on and then give rotation of looseness.
As a scientist, I’m curious because when we incubate microbes that need oxygen to live (aerobic organisms) we screw the cap on all the way and then give it 1 rotation of looseness. That allows the organism to take in oxygen from the atmosphere and release air without blowing off the cap or exploding the test tube.
Would it not be a similar situation with yeast?

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u/Actual-Injury8955 — 1 month ago

With that balloon, bread yeast, and bottle of soft drink or fruit juice experiment, has anyone been able to add something or use a certain drink that made it taste good or just not bad?

It seems a lot of people had to do the project in school where you learned about different forms of respiration, including fermentation. You put baker’s yeast into different bottles of soft drinks and/or fruit juice. Then, you put a balloon on it. You measure it each day for a week to show how gas is being made.
Has anyone been able to do something that would make it taste good? Or taste neutral? Just not taste bad.

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u/Actual-Injury8955 — 1 month ago

What movies that were based on a real story do you think took the “based” part too far and why?

For drama, length, and entertainment, movies do add fictional things or take out real things when they’re based on real stories.
But what movie do you think took all that too far and why?

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u/Actual-Injury8955 — 2 months ago

Could the UK and France have won WWII without USSR and USA?

China, I understand they would need. Without China, there was no one to fight Japan.
At that point, France is still conquered by Germany, but the UK is still there.
Could they win without the other 2? I would assume no victory would’ve occurred. Stalin then does not purge majority of Germany’s troops and the USA then does not give the big manufacturing power.

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u/Actual-Injury8955 — 2 months ago

What are sets of quotes people say that contradict each other?

An example is people say, “Birds of a feather flock together,” but they also say, “Opposites attract.”

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u/Actual-Injury8955 — 2 months ago

What’s your favorite story to connect Inception and Nolan’s Batman movie trilogy?

You have the many common cast members. You got Bane, fake Ra’s Al Ghul, Scarecrow, Robin, and Alfred.
How do you connect them to Inception?

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u/Actual-Injury8955 — 2 months ago

How did Britain create the largest empire in history?

It’s a tiny island that’s resource poor.
They didn’t have the manpower to conquer places like India, but were still somehow able to do it.
How did they conquer so much of the world without the manpower to do so?
France is larger than Britain and France did industrialize with the rest of Europe. So Britain didn’t have a large gap in technology like Britain and the indigenous Americans for example.
Lots of Western European countries had access to a lot more resources with a larger land area. They were also connected physically, making it easier for them to trade with each other over trading with Britain.
How did Britain do it?

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u/Actual-Injury8955 — 2 months ago

What are your favorite moments of a regular person stopping a superhero or supervillain in their tracks or even defeating them?

If I wasn’t clear on the question, here’s examples of what I mean:

https://youtu.be/yodVQ5QAc88?t=156&is=EWH4WSe3GjpAH5V8
2:36, what stops Clark, a super powered alien, dead in his tracks is his father, a normal human, telling him not to because he doesn’t want Clark to expose himself.

https://youtu.be/ijkr3tgf8GM?t=34&is=\_YGtfwAesH\_a4JXU
0:35, what stops and defeats Harry as the Green Goblin, a super powered person with bombs at his disposal, is Liz, a normal human. Liz defeats Harry by confessing how she loves him. That disarms Harry and defeats the Green Goblin.

u/Actual-Injury8955 — 2 months ago

Could Dennis' idea for the Paddy's Dollars have actually worked?

The Great Recession episode.

Dennis (blacked out) suggests the Paddy's Dollars like Dave and Busters does.

Was there something they could've done to make it work?

It seemed like a good idea.

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u/Actual-Injury8955 — 2 months ago

Has a common enemy ever unified so many fragmented nations those nations became an empire?

There’s the old saying of how a common enemy unites people because of the idea that the enemy of your enemy is your friend.
Like the US and Soviet Union were enemies, but they allied to defeat the Axis Powers. The common enemy of the Axis Powers united 2 enemies. But they went to doing the Cold War after WWII ends. So the common enemy being gone caused the relationship to return to hostility.
Has it ever gotten to the point that many fragmented nations united against a common enemy that they became an empire to defeat their enemy?

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u/Actual-Injury8955 — 2 months ago

Did Europeans ever use extensive biowarfare on indigenous Americans or was all disease introduction that killed indigenous peoples accidental?

If I used the wrong term, what I mean is this: did Europeans realize contact with them gave indigenous Americans diseases and use that to intentionally introduce diseases to populations of indigenous Americans with the intention to kill them?

I did put "extensive" in the question because I know there was at least 1 case of the smallpox blankets. But 1 recorded case wouldn't have been enough to be full biowarfare. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41109292/)

I have heard people say that early Europeans couldn't have understood that concept. But, I would think they could figure it out. Kids can figure out that if they cough on a toy and give it to a kid they don't like, the kid they don't like gets sick. So, I think Europeans would be able to realize that.

Or was the disease introduction all accidental and the Native Americans died unintentionally of the disease? I know stats say majority of indigenous Americans died of diseases, up to 95% (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8785365/).

Even if 95% of the indigenous peoples died from unintentional disease introduction, the Europeans did do intentional cultural and physical genocides. That does not excuse or make the actions of the genocide less bad.

u/Actual-Injury8955 — 2 months ago

Were Australia and indigenous Australians unknown and rediscovered by Europeans, Asians, or Africans like the Americas were?

Asking as an American, since Australia didn't really come up in history classes.

The Americas were the New World and there was 1st contact with Columbus and the indigenous peoples. These were 2 continents that didn't know of each other with multiple peoples that never knew the other one existed.

Did this happen with Australia too? Or was Australia close enough to the Afro-Eurasian land mass that there was still contact in those times?

Australia never seemed to come up with the New World and Old World labels. Australia is an island and further away from Afro-Eurasia, but it is somewhat close to Indonesia and I am assuming Indonesia was in contact with the rest of Asia. So, if Indonesia is close enough to Australia and close enough to the rest of Asia, then others would've known about Australia.

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u/Actual-Injury8955 — 3 months ago

What are your fan theories as to why there are no wild starter Pokémon and/or why only professors have them?

The Pokedex has described at least Charmander as living in mountains. And the professors have exclusive access to the 3 starters.

What are your theories?

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u/Actual-Injury8955 — 3 months ago

What are your favorite, “I forget they’re together in real life,” and/or, “I wonder what’s going on in their spouse’s head,” moments?

I’ve seen up to season 12.

I think of when they tend bar to try to win an award. Mac gets mad at Dee and was ready to fight her. Makes me forget they were married by then.

I think of Dennis putting a woman’s head in a freezer for love. I wonder what was going through his wife’s head. Like was she wondering, "How TF did my husband think of that for love?"

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u/Actual-Injury8955 — 3 months ago

If George Washington and Thomas Jefferson thought slavery was so bad, why did they continue to keep slaves?

They both said how slavery was bad and needed to end. But they both actively kept numerous slaves and never freed them. That they felt slavery was hypocritical when they’re fighting for freedom from Britain.
George Washington freed his slaves on his death, yes. But he could’ve freed them way sooner.
Thomas Jefferson also fathered numerous children with his slaves and I am assuming not all of that was consensual.
I am assuming it’s that they both were greedy and wanted to continue to profit, which for them meant keeping slave labor. But is that it?

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u/Actual-Injury8955 — 3 months ago

What are your favorite examples of evolution just being good enough?

Evolution is just a force that exists.
Obviously it has no end goals and isn’t making decisions.
It just exists and is about an organism leaving enough descendants with traits that give their offspring the advantage to survive longer.
I’m just personifying evolution. What are times it was just good enough?
Things people joke about as evolutionary flaws.

Like the laryngeal nerve.
Or human testicles require a temperature different from the human body. So they’re external, where they’re super vulnerable and hurt if they’re attacked or can have testicular torsion.

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u/Actual-Injury8955 — 3 months ago

Why was Daniel Larusso saying, “This school sucks!” such a big deal to the coach?

The Karate Kid movie.
Maybe it’s an age thing, I’m in my early 30s, born in the early 90s.
I was rewatching the other day and it seemed like Daniel saying the school sucked was a big deal.
The coach was mad at Daniel for fighting in self defense and sent him out.
But the coach seemed to get angrier when Daniel says, “This school sucks! Sucks!”
They act like he cussed.

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u/Actual-Injury8955 — 3 months ago

What do you think the 2nd worst thing Cartman did is?

I’ve only seen up to season 17.
It’s generally agreed that what Cartman did to Scott Tenorman is the worst thing he did (up to that point).
What would the 2nd worst thing be?

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u/Actual-Injury8955 — 3 months ago