Nowadays we look back at Victorian capitalists like Vanderbilt or Morgan in a pretty negative light. "Robber Barons", etc. But at the time, did they have "fans" like Elon Musk does today? Were they as visible in the media as people like Musk or Bezos are today? (old.reddit.com)
With the trend of unskilled, high-paying jobs being lost to automation continuing, what, if any types of jobs do you think will be available to unskilled workers in the future? (old.reddit.com)
If you could become visibly physically fit within seconds, but had to feel the pain of every workout necessary to get there for those seconds, would you do it? (old.reddit.com)
Why were chariots such a battlefield advancement? Wouldn’t a horseman shooting arrows from on horseback be equally effective, if not more, because a chariot’s wheels could get stuck in obstacles? (old.reddit.com)
In WWI, France held on for four years, and wound up winning. In WWII, France could barely hold on for four weeks, and wound up losing. What was the difference? (old.reddit.com)
In the movie “Nuremberg”, when footage of the Holocaust is shown during the trial, there is pin-drop silence in the courtroom. Then one judge abruptly gets up to leave and vomit, followed by the rest. Is this dramatization or did the Allies have this strong of a gut reaction to the Holocaust? (old.reddit.com)
Why is r/askreddit suddenly full of questions like: "Women of reddit What's Your favourite sex position" "What's a thing that makes you horny" "How do you have sexy sex in the sex sex sex" These questions are ruining the sub idk (old.reddit.com)
Has there ever been a recorded case where someone received a skin graft or and organ transplant involving skin where the skins were very different colors? Like a black person recieving a white person's hand? I understand they would like to get the pigments to match, but if you desperately need it? (old.reddit.com)
If mRNA vaccines remain proven safe, is it actually necessary to go through new trials each time when vaccinating for a new strain or another disease? (old.reddit.com)
In the podcast Dolly Parton's America, someone mentions that the term hillbilly was once used against poor white people who tried to organize post-civil war fusion governments with black people. Is this true or revisionist history? (old.reddit.com)
Why did the Ottoman Sultans use kidnapped Christians to make up the Janissaries? Why risk using forced converted ex-slaves as a personal guard? (old.reddit.com)
How do we know that "Saturn Devouring One of His Sons" by Francisco Goya is in fact depicting Saturn and his Child if the 'Black Paintings' were not named and only found after his death? (old.reddit.com)
Third world guy here, do you guys living in the first world ever feel privileged or thankful that you were born in a first world country? (old.reddit.com)
Since there are light frequencies that we can't see, does that mean that a rainbow is actually a wall of different colours, while we can only see a small fraction of it? (old.reddit.com)
Which philosopher, scientist, mathematician, doctor, or academic who are currently alive is considered the leading expert on research about consciousness? (old.reddit.com)
Why is it that when you wake up in the morning well rested but decide to go back to sleep for an hour your energy levels are like complete crap? (old.reddit.com)
[Serious] OnlyFans content creators of Reddit: what will you be doing once OnlyFans bans adult content this October? And what are your thoughts on the ban? (old.reddit.com)
A handful of the founding fathers returned home after war to start/continue an existing career in law. Due to their celebrity status, how coveted were they compared to other lawyers? How did their rates compare to others with similar practices? (old.reddit.com)
Did the distinction between "heavy" and "light" infantry/cavalry exist in history, or is this a modern designation applied in hindsight? (old.reddit.com)
Why doesn’t expensive military equipment have a kill switch or at least need a code to work that can render it useless if it falls into the hands of the enemy? A €50 phone seems to have more protection that a €1.4M drone! (old.reddit.com)
People of Reddit, I live in Lebanon where Coronavirus is our last concern right now for the fact that we're going through a catastrophic economic crisis. I was wondering how people from first world countries wake up everyday without feeling overwhelmed by the bad news? (old.reddit.com)
Can we detect relative high ground-levels of radiation from Orbit? Would an Astronaut on the ISS holding a geiger-counter into the general direction of Earth when passing over Tschernobyl or Fukushima get a heightened response compared to the Amazon rainforest? (old.reddit.com)
The Jewish Temple at Elephantine postdates the Babylonian Exile, when the Jews are thought to have transitioned to monotheism. Yet the documents found at that temple attest to polytheistic worship of YHVH and his wife, Anat-Yahu. What does this reveal about the evolution of Judaism? (old.reddit.com)
In the 3rd century BC, crossing the Alps earned Hannibal an Absolute Madlad status. In the 4-5th century AD, Italy and Rome basically had revolving doors for those who wanted to sack them. What changed? (old.reddit.com)
The argument I often hear against “Tax the rich” is that “The rich will move away, and your economy will suffer”. Are there any historical occurrences that can back this? (old.reddit.com)
How culinarily unusual might a cheeseburger have been in 1st century Rome? Would a combination of minced beef, cheese, bread, and vegetables, however put together, have been considered particularly out of the ordinary within Roman diets? (old.reddit.com)
Genuinely not trolling: why has it been ok to say a habit (nuns outfit) in black and white makes nuns look like a penguin for decades, but say a burkha looks like a postbox and everybody loses their minds? It’s just clothing! (old.reddit.com)
Will this new HIV vaccine Moderna is starting trials will be just for people without HIV or people already with HIV will also ve able to take it (in case it gets available), therefore ending daily medication? (old.reddit.com)
What are some fun mobile games that don't have many ads, are actually fun, and are not just all scams with low production values and misleading ads? (old.reddit.com)
The Home Owners Association seems universally disliked by everyone I talk to, across generations. Why did it come about and why is it so ubiquitous now? (old.reddit.com)
If I bought a house where the previous owners had allowed in a vampire, is the vampire grandfathered in or would I need to allow it in again? (old.reddit.com)
When emailing customer service, is it annoying to respond “thank you” in email if they’re helpful because it just adds you back to their queue or do they actually appreciate it? (old.reddit.com)
Instead of ladies and gents bathrooms, why don't we have Stalls and Urinals as separate rooms? Stalls give you the privacy if needed and urinals can be for those just have the specific equipment required. (old.reddit.com)
In Jarhead, a marine trainee in the scout sniper program stands up during a crawling exercise and gets shot. How common were such training exercise deaths from live ammunition at the time? (old.reddit.com)
With the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan some newspapers wrote as their heading 'Afghanistan back to Medieval times' or something alike. Now we all know that the Taliban and the Afghanistan situation are a modern fenomenon. But what was Afghan Medieval society really like? (old.reddit.com)
Game developers, what is something gamers on the internet always claim to be easy to do or fix, when in reality it's a real pain in the ass? (old.reddit.com)
Abandoned as a child, you'd think 40 years later I would have gotten over it by now, but I still have abandonment issues. I cry and get heartbroken and extremely oversensitive when people come and go in my life. When they go. Absolutely crushes me. Tears for weeks. How to deal with this as an adult? (old.reddit.com)
Why is everyone computing tons of digits of Pi? Why not e, or the golden ratio, or other interesting constants? Or do we do that too, but it doesn't make the news? If so, why not? (old.reddit.com)
This may sound like a silly question but how is it, when a seed is planted in the ground, that it knows which way to grow? How can a seed, buried down in the darkness, know where the sun is so as to grows upwards and similarly know where the water is so as to grow the roots downwards? (old.reddit.com)
What if man eventually gets to, say, the 63 trillionth digit of PI, and it's discovered that there actually is a repeating pattern? What would that mean? How important would it be? (old.reddit.com)
Women with toxic, neglectful mothers, how did you learn to cope with your poor relationship with your mom? How did it change how you viewed women in general? Did it change which women you let into your life? (old.reddit.com)
Given that they had been together for over 15 years, why did Hitler bother getting married to Eva Braun when they both had just 40 hours to live? Was it genuine affection, just something on his bucket list, or was there some legal consequence of dying a married man? (old.reddit.com)
Considering Muhammad had several wives who were well-educated and scholarly, how did sects of Islam become so hostile to educating women? (old.reddit.com)
In the Disney film Frozen, the king and queen's ship disappears in a storm (fandom sleuths suggest it was 1840) and Princess Elsa is coronated three years later. In the mid-1800s, how long would a ship need to be "missing" before the passengers were presumed dead? (old.reddit.com)
In HBO's Rome there is a dedicated man who reads announcements in the Forum for the public. Did such "forum announcers" exist? Were they commissioned by the Senate? Did they belong to a specific organisation? (old.reddit.com)
Anyone belittling someone else for a "google-able" question or insulting people for asking their questions will recieve a 3 day ban. This isn't a new rule, it's been stated in the first paragraph of our sidebar since we started. (old.reddit.com)
How did couples deal with cultural differences in royal intermarriages during the Medieval-Elizabethan period? Were any of their struggles documented? (old.reddit.com)
Was it really once normal for people to "fall insensible" and need weeks of medical care to recover from sudden shocks (e.g. deaths in the family or business failures)? If so, what has changed since? And if not, why does this seem commonly-accepted in books like Frankenstein and Sherlock Holmes? (old.reddit.com)
AskScience AMA Series: Hey Reddit! We are NASA scientists that study Earth systems, how they're changing, and how they impact our favorite foods. Ask us anything about agriculture, drought, and food security! (old.reddit.com)
Women and girls in Afganistan are losing their freedom and rights. How do you cope with the rage and the feeling of being helpless in the face of this injustice? (old.reddit.com)
Why is that people who made terrible life decisions are given special treatment when they finally turn their life around, wether by their own choice, or because the law enforced it, but those who consciously stayed away from bad decisions to begin with, never get any kind of acknowledgment for it? (old.reddit.com)
When you're out on a date and a girl says "You're not going to murder me, right?" What should be the best response to alleviate her concerns? (old.reddit.com)
Are we really going to pretend like the US didn’t just waste two decades, $1 trillion, and thousands of lives for absolutely nothing in Afghanistan? (old.reddit.com)
Americans , how do you feel after your gov took billions of your tax money and life of American soldiers for 20 years to fight Taliban only for things to go right back where they were pre- Sept 11? (old.reddit.com)
How do you feel okay about working? How do you stop feeling that horrible sense of dread when you're sitting in the car before entering the building? (old.reddit.com)
Tent cities are increasingly common in the US, but I don't remember any from when I was a kid (80s-90s); I know they were common also at the heights of the Depression (or was this a myth?); how was this remedied then? Was it addressed by government action, private actors, or a mix? (old.reddit.com)
I've been taught that when Europeans found the new world, they brought with them many diseases that wiped out the native American population. but- wouldn't this work both ways? wouldnt the colonists encounter new diseases in America that they had no immunity to? (old.reddit.com)
Why do horseradish and wasabi seem to burn through the nose, while regular hot sauces and peppers seem to burn through the tongue (and also almost anything else they come in contact with)? (old.reddit.com)
The USA and Australia have lost almost every war (or at least failed to meet war objectives) we've been in since World War 2. Should I expect our global influence to nosedive? (old.reddit.com)
People who served militarily in Afghanistan since 2001; what are your thoughts on the current events, and therefore the previous 20 years? [Serious] (old.reddit.com)
In Superman III, the “dumb blonde” is shown reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. She says “How can he say that pure categories have no objective meaning in transcendental logic? What about synthetic unity?” Having no familiarity with Kant, I always wondered if her comments have actual meaning? (old.reddit.com)
Soap was first invented around 2800 BCE. This was literal thousands of years before we discovered bacteria and viruses or came up with germ theory. Did we just get really lucky that soap kills these microorganisms? (old.reddit.com)
I’m very liberal, and Reddit is afraid to admit when a Democrat makes a bad move.... but what’s happening in Afghanistan kinda Biden’s fault, right? (old.reddit.com)
Women who typically need 30+ minutes of forplay before you can have an orgasm with a partner, how long does it take you to have an orgasm alone if you masturbate? Does it still take a similar amount of lead up time or do you typically orgasm faster when you do it by yourself while alone? (old.reddit.com)
Was suicide among slaves common in ancient times, such as during the building of the pyramids or as recently as the enslavement of black people in early America? (old.reddit.com)
I'm getting a blood test tomorrow and I'm really nervous about it. Can someone please explain the entire procedure in as much detail as possible? (old.reddit.com)
People who have sucked their own dick. If I suck my own dick will I feel the dick in my mouth more or will I feel my dick getting sucked more? (old.reddit.com)
[Serious] What do you think the future is going to be like for people who refuse to have instagram, facebook, snapchat, tiktok and the like? (old.reddit.com)