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Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days ago

ELI5 What would be the negative or positive be for the American people if they got control of Port of Hormuz?

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ELI5 What would be the negative or positive be for the American people if they got control of Port of Hormuz?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days ago

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Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days ago

How do we go about taking back the word lemmy or lemmings? Instead of having it mean dumb animal walks off a cliff?

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How do we go about taking back the word lemmy or lemmings? Instead of having it mean dumb animal walks off a cliff?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days ago

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Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days ago

How does a Fillibuster actually work? Is it a person really talking until a certain time limit or something? Who sets the time? Is it like we see in the movies? How does a person endure that?

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How does a Fillibuster actually work? Is it a person really talking until a certain time limit or something? Who sets the time? Is it like we see in the movies? How does a person endure that?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days ago

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Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days ago

ELI5 How much money does it take to start up an ISP? Like my subdivision we only have two choices. Why not just set up a building in the center of sub and everyone pay was less for internet?

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ELI5 How much money does it take to start up an ISP? Like my subdivision we only have two choices. Why not just set up a building in the center of sub and everyone pay was less for internet?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days ago

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days ago

ELI5 Why are most Americans news outlets keep saying we are flying to the moon? When in all actuality we are flying around it?

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ELI5 Why are most Americans news outlets keep saying we are flying to the moon? When in all actuality we are flying around it?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days ago

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days ago

ELI5 where are all the protests songs at ? Nam had theirs Korea had their Desert Storm had there. Would not now be the perfect time to make a protest song kine like Jesse Welles?

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ELI5 where are all the protests songs at ? Nam had theirs Korea had their Desert Storm had there. Would not now be the perfect time to make a protest song kine like Jesse Welles?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days ago

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days ago

The whole Israel Palestein situtation. If it is just about jurusalem why not just split it and live happier ever after. If not the why doesn't one group with their allies more inside.

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The whole Israel Palestein situtation. If it is just about jurusalem why not just split it and live happier ever after. If not the why doesn't one group with their allies more inside.

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days ago

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Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days ago

ELI5 The whole government shutdown thing and why things to be just business as Usual? I contract out and wait at airports are the same plus other stuff?

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ELI5 The whole government shutdown thing and why things to be just business as Usual? I contract out and wait at airports are the same plus other stuff?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days ago

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Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days ago

ELI5 The government shutdown being a bad thing? The government is not paying these people so shouldn't they save money and can spend it on other stupid stuff?

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ELI5 The government shutdown being a bad thing? The government is not paying these people so shouldn't they save money and can spend it on other stupid stuff?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days ago

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Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days ago

ELI 5 Arkansas no books for inmates thing? Does this mean no one can donate books or anything? How does this work?

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ELI 5 Arkansas no books for inmates thing? Does this mean no one can donate books or anything? How does this work?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days ago

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Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 27 days ago

How do heroin users hit a vein on the first or second try without any medical experience? I sat thru 3 month course on draws and occasionally I miss just like DRs how do herion do first time out?

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How do heroin users hit a vein on the first or second try without any medical experience? I sat thru 3 month course on draws and occasionally I miss just like DRs how do herion do first time out?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 27 days ago

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IndigoGolem@lemmy.worldEnglish · 28 days ago

Why can't inflation be stopped by just printing less money?

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Why can't inflation be stopped by just printing less money?

IndigoGolem@lemmy.worldEnglish · 28 days ago

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 29 days ago

ELI5 How is it in most US states are having a hard time getting food to people? I really truly do not understand it. But right behind it we are suppose to be the most obese nation on earth?

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ELI5 How is it in most US states are having a hard time getting food to people? I really truly do not understand it. But right behind it we are suppose to be the most obese nation on earth?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 29 days ago

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Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 29 days ago

ELI5 What is the difference between a tax and a bond.? Is not a tax ongoing and the bond has a cutoff limit? If so then why do people gripe about taxes when they can have bonds?

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ELI5 What is the difference between a tax and a bond.? Is not a tax ongoing and the bond has a cutoff limit? If so then why do people gripe about taxes when they can have bonds?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 29 days ago

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

So in society we want everyone to be nice and kind and everything. If this is so then why do we classify williamsburg syndrome as a disease? When it is what society aspires to be?

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So in society we want everyone to be nice and kind and everything. If this is so then why do we classify williamsburg syndrome as a disease? When it is what society aspires to be?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

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Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

Can someone explain the Save Act and how its not like jim crow era regulations?

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Can someone explain the Save Act and how its not like jim crow era regulations?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

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Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

ELI5 Can someone explain the nuke US and Israel problem with having Iran have them? Its their country so they got uranium who are we to tell how they can use it?

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ELI5 Can someone explain the nuke US and Israel problem with having Iran have them? Its their country so they got uranium who are we to tell how they can use it?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

adelinezade@lemmy.zipEnglish · 2 months ago

How to prevent your phone from being opened forcefully

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How to prevent your phone from being opened forcefully

adelinezade@lemmy.zipEnglish · 2 months ago

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

How is this still a thing nowadays? That a cop died by ingesting Fent by either touching it or someway else besides taking a pill or administered? How long is this bs going on for?

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How is this still a thing nowadays? That a cop died by ingesting Fent by either touching it or someway else besides taking a pill or administered? How long is this bs going on for?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

I think this is an ELI5 question. The Supreme Court squashed all of Trumps sweeping tariffs. Then Trump comes along saying 10 percent global tariff isn't that what the SC just squashed?

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I think this is an ELI5 question. The Supreme Court squashed all of Trumps sweeping tariffs. Then Trump comes along saying 10 percent global tariff isn't that what the SC just squashed?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

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