r/NoStupidQuestions

I know it's not as simple as writing a check because studios own rights, actors have contracts, schedules are hard, and they would still need to distribute it - but I'd love it if some rich dude put up $ so I can watch the MacGruber TV show for another season.

Wealthy people fund vanity movies and passion projects all the time. So why is “I will personally finance one more season of Mindhunter” not really a thing that is done?

Is it mainly rights/ownership, or that studios don't want an outsider reviving their IP?

I don't want this to veer into "bc rich people are selfish with money” more curious which cancelled series people think could possibly be revived this way.

Ok this is gonna be the weirdest question ever but stay with me. My girlfriend smells totally fine and showers regularly, but occasionally, specific shirts she wears (that have been washed!) smell horrible to me. Nobody else smells these scents on these shirts except me, and everyone else including my gf say they smell fine. This has only ever happened to me with her shirts specifically, and it’s happened twice now. Each shirt had a different bad smell but both had been washed and others couldn’t smell anything.

ANY ideas and theories welcome we’re so confused as to what it is. PS her shirts usually smell fine to me

Disclaimer that plenty of men consume true crime content, and plenty of women play gory/violent video games. I am making generalizations here based on research studies that show trends.

I listen to a couple of true crime podcasts, and several of the hosts have made comments about how their viewers are like 70-80% women, sometimes even higher. This trend seems to persist even if you step outside the “feminist, female driven”true crime shows that have female hosts who give a very female perspective on the crimes, it persists to other true crime shows like Dateline and 48 hours, which are narrated from a more gender neutral perspective. (Dateline has a viewer base that’s estimated to be 64.2 percent women. Psychology Today gives a rough estimate that women make up about 60-80% of true crime content consumers, if you estimate the average between podcasts, shows, YouTube channels, blogs, etc.)

Also, male consumers seem to prefer gory/violent video games over women (though this gap is shrinking, I feel), so why do they have no interest in true crime?

Im 18 but i dont have my license yet and theres no public transportation in my city, the gym is 4min away by car but its a 30minute walk from my house , i want to just walk there but my parents say its dangerous and i do live in a suburban area that isnt really walkable and the sidewalks are really inconsistent but i hate being stuck at home all the time. I dont have a bike and i feel like that would get stolen anyways, and im a girl

I have never understood what possesses a man to put a hand against the wall while they are pissing at urinal.

It is always accompanied by performative sighs, groans, etc.

I've even seen men put TWO hands against the wall.

WHAT IS GOING ON? WHY?

I don't understand cardinal directions and I'm a grown man. Im embarrassed about it but want to learn.

I hear people say things like "you just head south" or "you dont need Google maps, just take the highway all the way north" and I dont understand it.

I finally discovered which streets in my city go north south east west and which direction, but apparently that doesnt actually mean if a street goes east that itll take you to a city east of the current location (so confusing).

Can someone explain this to me?

I am looking at the ongoing drone warfare between Russia and Ukraine, and it is deeply concerning. Right now, we are seeing relatively cheap, mass-produced drones changing the entire landscape of conflict in real time.

The potential future applications of this technology are obvious, and development right now is being funded on an unprecedented level. Right now, humans are still mostly piloting them, but the transition to fully autonomous AI targeting is already happening. If a government or a small group of rich "elites" decides to turn these mass-produced, autonomous weapon systems on civilian populations, how could ordinary people resist?

I’m fairly young (21f) and trying to teach myself self reliance an issue arose with my toilet so I am trying to change the fill valve which requires removing a nut from the bottom of the toilet but for whatever reason I can’t fucking get it I am just bad at using wrenches I don’t know if I’m stupid or what I don’t want to keep trying and end up stripping the bolt but I’ve tried researching exactly what I need to do I’m pulling it towards me instead of pushing away I got an adjustable wrench to ensure I had the right size I am directing the pulling force towards the fixed jaw

Still nothing

How am I bad at using wrenches this feels like it should be really straight forward

Am i just an idiot

I see my parents (both in their mid 60s) about once or twice a year and one thing I've confirmed from last time I visited them is how often the exact same talking points and conversational scenarios came up like in previous occasions I've seen them.

I find its getting kind of tedious visiting them because the repetitive conversation is so boring. It's like they forgot we already had that conversation about a dozen times already over the years and I already know how it goes while they act like it's new,

Of course it isn't always like this and we do sometimes have original conversations about things but there is still a definite theme of old conversations being repeated. I just kind of play along with those conversations but inside I'm bored of them.

How common is it for conversations to get repetitive when visiting family? How do others manage it?

Recently, I was in a debate group where we had a long discussion about divine omnipotence and why it supposedly doesn’t make sense. I believe we can’t analyze the divine, especially divine concepts, using human logic or computational logic for example, reasoning that if X equals Y, then Y cannot equal Z, or relying on conditional and unconditional statements. Otherwise, we’ll end up reaching extreme conclusions or no conclusion at all. I’ve been thinking about this and trying to figure out whether this is a logically sound way of thinking or whether I’m mistaken.

I know some people are okay with them but I wanted to see if the way I feel has any commonality.

I have a lot of grief for my childhood having undergone female childhood where there were social barriers to doing the things I wanted to do.

I’m having trouble articulating myself better but I guess I’m just wondering if the “you’re __ therefore you’re supposed to ___” attitude towards gender ever caused you harm or restricted opportunities

I have Crohn's disease. I've been in and out of hospitals most of my life. There is a particular kind of person I've run into so many times and I'll never understand.

Why do some people outright refuse to go to a clinic or hospital when they are in need of medical help?

I'll give 2 examples without naming the person, for obvious reason:

1. Knew a guy who had an abscessed tooth. Dude had a golf ball in his mouth. Refuse to go to the ER or a dentist until he was about to die.

2. Know someone who seems to have had a mini-stroke but won't go to the ER or a clinic.

I feel like we all know someone like this and I truly don't understand. Can anyone explain their logic?

it feels like today we get bored if we don't look at our phones for 10 minutes. Back then, everyday life was mostly repetitive physical labor and sitting in the dark after sunset, did they experience the feeling of boredom the same way we do, or were they just too exhausted to care

I’m on vacation right now and I was walking to the beach and when getting badges to go on the beach I got to the stand around the same time as a guy and kind of cut him, but when I noticed I stepped aside for him and let him get his badge before me. As I did this and as he went in front of me he said “you’re a real piece of ass” Is that an insult? Like “piece of shit”? Or is that like a gross sexual comment? My friend said it was the latter but I doubt a random guy would just say that. But I didn’t think I would have upset him since I stepped back and let him go first when I thought I cut him.