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MikuEmpowered t1_ixyhu93 wrote
Reply to ELI5: How does money laundering work? by [deleted]
Multiple cleaning.
A business receives a shit load of unexplained cash. It then proceed to "receive it" along with other legitimate customer deals. usually slightly bloating the numbers. This causes any fast looks to turn up as "yeah its legit, just bad accounting"
The business then spend or transfer the money to another laundry, and through multiple layers, the money essentially becomes untraceable.
MikuEmpowered t1_ixyhjw3 wrote
Reply to ELI5 : How do electric shocks kill you? by EaAeEaAe10
Your heart beat is regulated by your natural pacemaker, which generates small electric voltage. When you induce a small voltage, this fuks up the pacemaker, and in severe cases, causes fibrillation. The whole reason your heart works is through a steady rhythmic beat, its the different contraction that causes the blood to pump and create a flow.
Higher current causes the entire heart to contract at once, which also fuk up the rhythm.
If you do not bring the rhythm back (usually through a defibrillator), your heart fails to pump blood and you die.
Electricity also generate heat, the higher the resistance, the more heat is produced. Flesh, is not exactly conductive, so when a very strong electric shock passes through you, it will cook along the path.
MikuEmpowered t1_ixh2zc9 wrote
Reply to comment by Aksds in ELI5: Why does water taste horrible after eating an apple? by whereami8017
Welcome to your ELI5 guide, on your right, you can see the basic rule of this subreddit, and if you look closely, you might see that the number 1 rule is "be nice", and number 8 as "don't guess"
While the poster likely violated rule 7, that is for the mods to judge and not us.
MikuEmpowered t1_iucyh9z wrote
Reply to ELI5: what is the point of chewing food thoroughly if your stomach will digest everything anyway? by Dacadey
Ever chucked a huge chunk of sugar block into water? note how its extremely slow to dissolve?
Same with food, the more you chew, the smaller the food bits become, this overall increases the total area your stomach acid can interact with the food.
When you don't chew, and just swallow an entire brisket full, it will take a long time and too much energy for the body to process, and in turn, decide that it's not worth the effort/energy and just pass it out.
MikuEmpowered t1_iucwa2x wrote
Reply to [ELI5] Are billionaires that have their networth bigger than some countries GDPs richer than those countries? by abromo7
No.
GDP is like your annual wage for countries.
But personal asset is ALL that person is worth.
Its kinda hard to say the guy who has 2 billion in asset if you count everything, he owns is richer than the country that makes 1 billion every year.
MikuEmpowered t1_iu0sjuo wrote
Rat race is just like what it sounds, rat racing in a maze for food.
It's pointless and the race never ends. winning the race just means the rat waits for the next maze/race.
When applied to human, it basically looks at life as pointless. You grow up, spend your life working, then retire. Sure, you went on vacations, met your soulmate, have kids and whatnot. But just like the cheese, its temperate. it's pointless, and at the end of the day, everything you ever done holds no purpose except prolonging your life. and come a few hundred years, everything about you is erased. The cycle of pointlessness is why we call it the rat race.
MikuEmpowered t1_iy3oi96 wrote
Reply to ELI5: How are the Xray machines at airports not super dangerous? by Curious-Nothing6234
Xray don't penetrate metal all that well.
In the hospital, they are shining an x-ray into you in an open space, not exactly contained, so medical workers need to shield themselves.
But at the airport, the xray is surrounded in a metallic box, effectively surrounded by shielding.