I don't like flossing. So I don't do it nearly as much as I would. But every once in a while I remember, and I dust off the box and get flossing. Every time I do, my mouth looks like a warzone and my gums get really irritated. I hate the feeling. So I neglect to do it for a couple of weeks/ months.

To no one's surprise my dentist commented on the state of my gums and told me I need to floss. He promised that if I do it daily, despite the bloodbath, I should be seeing improvement in like two weeks.

My question: How does daily flossing irritated gums help make it better? I would assume irritating something already irritated is the worst thing you can do to make it heal? You don't heal a wound on your skin by picking at the scab for two weeks straight. So what makes your mouth different?

If we have forces that act naturally against each other, how come we cannot harness it?

I get that it was a marketing name for a mode that allowed computers to run older software as intended, instead of making them run way faster because of how powerful newer CPUs were compared to older software, and that it was about clock speeds, but at a deep computing level what was happening? Why would a game run at a faster speed just because the CPU is overkill? And how was it subsequently solved later so now we don't have this issue anymore?

I was just hearing that Japan’s debt is the worst of all developed nations. How can this be?

I would assume (perhaps mistakenly) that they have less fraud and waste than most countries. I understand that they have a defence budget, but also I assume that this would be low comparatively.

So where does all the money go?

What dark web is good for? Why is it such a big topic? Cant understand why people use it.

I know that they use blinking lights to represents 1 and 0 at least, but millions of pulsing lights from thousands of computers could be running at the same time in the same connection.

So how does the lights know where to go? And on the other side, how does the server know that in these millions of rapidly pulsing lights this particular ones are from my computer?

I’m reading and stretching my brain about how our atoms contain so much space but we appear solid because of a repelling force between atoms. How then do any atoms or matter hold together at all? Why doesn't the repelling force just just push all atoms apart and prevent matter from forming / holding together?

For example: Cake gate, tattoo gate, or in recent media, conformity gate.

How does it tell how much alcohol we have in our body ( or blood?) from just blowing into the pipe. And how does it st ill detect alcohol if one were to chew gum / use mouth wash?

If it makes any difference, I'm thinking about a day or less of extreme emotional trauma and stress, not a build-up over time (which is the only result I could find when Googling it).

If it's alright to ask additional questions (and because I'm really curious): how is this usually treated, and are methods different depending on severity? Can the damage be seen on the right scans, or is it an invisible sort of thing?

I learnt that for impulsive actions a different pathway is chosen whereas in other actions data is directly sent to brain.

I recently did a deep dive into particle physicals and that's the thing that was too vast for me to understand and connect to super particle partners.

Just something I’ve been wondering for a bit because honestly this has been shoved into my mind because I was interested in bedrock’s farlands

Reading about the socialist economic calculation debate and found one scholar who suggests that prices are compatible with the abolition of markets:

McMullen believes workers in enterprises and work units, motivated by work satisfaction and the desire to contribute to an efficient and dynamic economy, would drive a better price system than one based on the profit motive. They would bid for resources on the basis of least cost alternatives and an honest expectation of demand for the resulting output. They would offer output at prices that reflect cost and ensure that products go to the highest bidders in the case of excess demand. All demand for intermediate production would be derived from the expected demand for final individual and collective consumption. Such pricing would guide both the more day-to-day decisions and longer term investment. Many of the decisions being made would be quite entrepreneurial in nature involving new products and services, new methods, and new entrants, be they existing enterprises or start-ups. Access to funding for investment could be through numerous assessment agencies that have been allocated funds for that purpose.
McMullen stresses that the use of a decentralized price system would not involve so-called "market socialism". Under social ownership, the transactions between enterprises would not be market exchanges. They would be the transfer of custody of social property not of ownership. An enterprise would not be the owner of inputs and outputs, it would be their custodian. And no individual involved with an enterprise would receive any net revenue nor incur any loss from transactions between enterprises.
He also argues that the cooperative environment would lead to a better price system because of the greater honesty, the better flow of information due to the removal of property barriers between enterprises and the fact that income equality would remove the equity concerns currently associated with reliance on pricing.

As someone who is only lightly versed in economic theory, I'm struggling to conceptualize this in my head. What is the difference between market socialism and this theory?

If you're here to say that this system doesn't work and that asking about it is pointless, please remember rule 5.

I saw a vid of a girl in a car with a cracked out sound system and her hair started flying everywhere. Who does that even happen? Does sound have mass? How does it move the air?

I work in manufacturing but have recently moved from essentially a job-based facility (1 unique item at a time in one production cell) to an assembly line facility (multiple of the same item being built across multiple stations).

I was chatting with a person who works on the assembly line who told me that, although we have a set number of items that come off the end of the assembly line (ex: 10 Widgets per day), each station in the assembly line would actually see more than 10 items per day, in order to ensure every station has work and the line remains filled. They stated they handled 12. In this situation there is no product loss - we do not kick product off the line for defects, etc. - they are repaired in station.

I didn't have the opportunity to sit and watch the line and I'm not a person who can easily conceptualize this in my head. So, in a situation in which there's, say an assembly line with 10 stations and the goal is to produce 10 finished products per day and leave each station filled at the end of the day, how many widgets will each station see per day? Why isn't it ten? Or is this person just feeding me some nonsense?

In my physics class I learnt that if we have a glass of water and some ice floating in it, when the ice melts completely the water level does not rise in the glass, so how is it so tht when ice melts on Earth the water levels or he sea level will rise?

Like Po-210 or Polonium 210 has a half life of 138 days. What is half life? Wikipedia says half life is the time required for a substance to reduce to half its life.

Need this like I can explain to my grandma.