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Reply to ELI5: What do you add to coffee for someone who hates the taste of coffee? by Training_Warning_405
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dketterer1 t1_j26r9af wrote
Reply to ELI5: What do you add to coffee for someone who hates the taste of coffee? by Training_Warning_405
Yeah, just drink tea or something? Ig you don't like the taste, don't drink it.
theBarneyBus t1_j26r1g9 wrote
Reply to Eli5 - probability by Ok_Elk_4333
The idea you’re talking about is true and accurate, for a fully randomly shuffled deck of cards.
A newly opened (and therefore ordered) deck that has only been riffled a few times is not fully random.
Em_Adespoton t1_j26qxet wrote
Reply to comment by EmmNav in ELI5: What do you add to coffee for someone who hates the taste of coffee? by Training_Warning_405
Caffeine hit or… that’s what’s being offered.
Since black coffee is sharp, bitter and acidic, there are plenty of things you can do to it to change its flavour profile.
Hey… add guacamole, and you’ve added fat and salt and a bit more acid. Might actually taste good.
EvenSpoonier t1_j26qtn2 wrote
Reply to ELI5: If ballet dancers need to mutilate their pointe shoes before they can be danced in, why are they still manufactured the way they are? by BurritoBum90
Nowadays it's thought that these methods are ineffective, but there is a need for pointe shoes to mold precisely to the feet of each individual dancer. It has until now been prohibitively expensive to custom-manufacture shoes for each individual dancer (except for major stars), so instead they manufacture shoes in such a way that a dancer can break them in by doing special exercises that not only strengthen the feet and legs, but also bring the shoe into shape. The older methods of "mutilating" pointe shoes were thought to be a shortcut for this.
Nowadays, some companies have been experimenting with 3D-printing pointe shoes, which would allow for a very close custom fit. This shows some promise.
prustage t1_j26qmva wrote
Reply to comment by TheBaddestPatsy in ELI5 How do animals that swim/fly in complex formations do it? by TheBaddestPatsy
I'm not a zoologist so cannot give an expert opinion but I have heard that since flying in formation means that each bird is following in the wake of the bird in front of them they may also make adjustments to get the best aerodynamic advantage.
With big birds (e.g geese) this will mean they tend to keep on the same plane as the wings of the other bird thus resulting in a flat 2D formation.
With small birds (e.g. swifts) the nature of the aerodynamics mean that this is not necessary and so they will follow another bird at any angle within the 360 x 360 hemisphere in front of them. This would result in the more three dimensional formations you see with swifts.
Em_Adespoton t1_j26qiux wrote
Reply to ELI5: What do you add to coffee for someone who hates the taste of coffee? by Training_Warning_405
Sugar adds sweetness; cream adds fat. Only other things really would be to add some cayenne pepper or wasabi for spice, or some miso for umami.
Or you can go a different route and melt some chocolate into it, which already has a balance of sugar, fat and cocoa.
greatvaluemeeseeks t1_j26pz4w wrote
Reply to ELI5: What do you add to coffee for someone who hates the taste of coffee? by Training_Warning_405
don't drink it? I don't get what's so hard. If someone hands me a thing I don't want then I politely decline. No one is forcing you to drink it.
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Mammoth-Mud-9609 t1_j26pg2t wrote
Reply to ELI5: What do you add to coffee for someone who hates the taste of coffee? by Training_Warning_405
Nope if you don't like coffee there is nothing you can add to it the only thing you can do is take away the coffee and replace it with something else.
EmmNav t1_j26pdo7 wrote
Reply to ELI5: What do you add to coffee for someone who hates the taste of coffee? by Training_Warning_405
Not coffee? I mean you can also drink plain water and continue with your life. what’s the point of drinking coffee if you don’t like the taste?
sterlingphoenix t1_j26pdlm wrote
Reply to ELI5: What do you add to coffee for someone who hates the taste of coffee? by Training_Warning_405
I don't like coffee.
It doesn't matter what you add to it. I won't like it. I've -- accidentally -- had some of the insanely sugary coffee shop coffees and it's one of those "I could get used to this if I really, really forced myself" kind of things, but that's the best you can get. Same for coffee ice cream. Gross.
I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve, basically.
samjpot t1_j26ouqq wrote
Reply to comment by heroicgamer44 in Eli5 Depression can impact reading and thinking ability. Why is this? by heroicgamer44
this is such a difficult question to answer. some research suggest that it’s possible for permanent damage to be made from depression, while other’s suggest it is not permanent. this differs from mania, the opposite of depression, where we know that permanent damage is made with each manic episode
danielszajkowski t1_j26o5lp wrote
Reply to comment by jontss in ELI5 why do electric vehicles have one big battery that's hard to replace once it's expired, rather than lots of smaller ones that could be swapped out based on need (to trade off range/power/weight)? by ginonofalg
WD40 is not a contact cleaner.
Diagnosing a problem at a shop is usually at minimum 1hr. Currently the shop rates are about $150/h
Book time on replacing the switch would vary from each make and model. But I would expect it to be no less then 1.0h
Then to take apart the switch, inspect what is wrong. Repair the corrosion. (Which is more then just spraying “wd40”). Test the switch. Verify the repair. Reassemble. Document the repair. I would expect 1.5-2.0 hours.
So your probably just about 4 hours, which is $600 plus taxes. With no one covering any warranty.
There is no way a licensed tech is doing that, if they can just replace the assembly. And have the repair covered for parts and labour.
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heroicgamer44 OP t1_j26n0qu wrote
Reply to comment by samjpot in Eli5 Depression can impact reading and thinking ability. Why is this? by heroicgamer44
Can those cognitive abilities return? And what or moments were they return but only for a short period of time?
samjpot t1_j26mkc1 wrote
when someone is clinically depressed, their symptoms not only distort reality in a way, but their brain neurons and receptors are thrown off in some way. this ultimately leads to a decrease in some cognitive abilities
TheBaddestPatsy OP t1_j26lxyz wrote
Reply to comment by prustage in ELI5 How do animals that swim/fly in complex formations do it? by TheBaddestPatsy
Thanks! So what is it, in an individual bird’s consciousness that causes different birds to fly in different patterns. Like geese fly in a V, starlings do whatever the fuck that is, and the swifts that nest in my town fly in a tornado
WhynotstartnoW t1_j26l3kn wrote
Reply to comment by DeusRexy in ELI5 why do electric vehicles have one big battery that's hard to replace once it's expired, rather than lots of smaller ones that could be swapped out based on need (to trade off range/power/weight)? by ginonofalg
>Each battery is different, but each of the small batteries I would say the average is something like a Capri Sun pouch, some are bigger, some are smaller. Also, they are pouches, with layered cathode and anode layers (negative/positive), with separator layers between and an electrolyte slurry inside.
Not in Tesla's, they just stack a bunch of A cell, B cell or D cell sized LiIon batteries in the box.
Hyggenbodden t1_j26klz4 wrote
Reply to comment by tomerFire in ELI5: Why do we need to sleep? by tomerFire
It could theoretically be done, but we have evolutionary evolved using sleep as we know it as a recovery strategy. It has shown to be an advantage.
Birds for example also have sleep, but they evolved in a way that only one half of the brain sleeps at any time because that allows them to keep flying while recovering which turned out to be an advantage.
aDvious1 t1_j26kl0f wrote
Reply to comment by Azeranth in ELI5: why are the days longer in some places than others? by earthlingnumber22
The "wut" was rhetorical.
Azeranth t1_j26k90h wrote
Reply to comment by aDvious1 in ELI5: why are the days longer in some places than others? by earthlingnumber22
When the sun is lower in the sky, as in, the angle between the sun and horizon is smaller, the sun has to traverse fewer degrees across the sky to set. So it sets sooner. It's because the earth spins at an angle relati e to the plane it orbits the sun along
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Training_Warning_405 OP t1_j26rdpr wrote
Reply to comment by Em_Adespoton in ELI5: What do you add to coffee for someone who hates the taste of coffee? by Training_Warning_405
What does adding fat do to the taste?