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What would a Palastenian state look llike? I am currently stationed in Chicage and think from time to time that after a little while and enough support could look like Chicago if people left them alon

ELI5 What is sex trafficking and how does it work?

This is probably a stupid question but don’t understand it because it keeps happening more now than ever especially since Diddy. If I take my girlfriend to a restaurant she does not want to go to across state lines is that sex trafficking? Since we will probably have sex later?

ELI5 How come it seems now the old wise tale of Vietnamese eating pets and now its immigrants into the USA?

Explain like I am a moron. If the US is such apparently a badass super power it has never tried to take over another country to expand its influence and status?

ELI5 how come Discord can give out military specs and warn the FBI about a shooter without being tried to shutdown like tictok and others??

I have never used tick tok so excuse my stuppidity

ELI5: Why is cheating in online games seemingly so prevelant?

What do these people think they gain?...

ELI5 How did people steal PPP loans? Was it really easy or did they just know how to get around the red tape and stuff?

I ask because a couple in a state next to me just pled guilty for stealing not one PPP loan at 2.1 million and a second at 1.6 million? Did I miss out on something by being above board?

ELI5: Does a DNS provider or an adversary know my real IP address if I have a DNS leak?

I use a VPN service that is connected to a server in another country, however this VPN service does not offer control over my DNS requests to block some sites so I preferred to use another DNS resolver that has this function....

ELI5: Why is high frequency trading allowed?

I don’t see how it’s a benefit to capitalism or companies or, well, anyone, really, to allow people to make thousands of trades a day for minute profits on each....

ELI5: What should I do about the newest privacy stuff in Firefox?

I can’t read long texts anymore, so I don’t really understand what’s going on. My internal bullshit-o-meter tells me that it’s being blown out of proportion....

ELI5: What in the hell did Trump tap into that is almost causing a second civil war in america?

ELI5: What prompted Ukraine now just to invade Russia could they not have done it a while back?

What's up with JD Vance and couches??

Why my nose gets runny when I cry

Pretty much every time I cry, my nose gets super runny and my throat gets slimy. Why is that?

Impedance, floating

What’s the difference between impedance and when a pin on a microchip is floating?...

Power Networks in the USA

I know that the US has three or four major electricity networks (East, West, Texas, Hawaii) but I dont understand how they are they are regulated or operated....

How can there be functioning bathrooms in high rises?

It seems like such a huge amount of water and would require so much energy to get it that high, plus there’s the waste to deal with

If the IBM PC used an ARM (or related) CPU instead of the Intel 8088, would smartphones ultimately have sucked less?

Developers still continue to shaft anyone that isn’t using an IBM PC compatible. But if the IBM PC was more closely related to the latest Nexus/Pixel device, then would the gaming experience on smartphones be any good?

Why is gaming so dependent on IBM PC compatible hardware now?

Ultra-low-end business laptops from 2015 with a mobile Intel Core i3, 4 GB of RAM, and integrated graphics still have a dramatically better gaming experience than the Pixel 7 Pro. Why?...

Why do certain brands of smart TV's exclude specific apps. For instance if you have an LG TV you cannot add the MLB app

ELI5: What kind of security mechanisms do software companies use to ensure that the source code of their products will be practically impossible to discover?

Exemple: How does Apple guarantee that the iOS source code will not be discovered by an adversary?...

ELI5: The Linux xz backdoor situation

PLEASE. I keep seeing it in memes. As I understand it the latest version of the xz package (present in rolling release distros like Arch and SUSE Tumbleweed) has “a backdoor”, but I have no earthly clue what can be done by malicious folks with access to that backdoor or if I should be afraid or how to check if my distro is...

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