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Should I care about rusted-out brake dust shields?
I have a 2005 Toyota and the dust shields are reduced to nearly nothing. Replacing them, especially, the rear ones, is a big job even though the part is cheap. Is there a strong reason to throw a lot of money at this "problem"?
9 AnswersMaintenance & Repairs6 days agoWhat is the typical terminal velocity of an air-dropped gravity bomb?
2 AnswersPhysics6 days agoWill there be an explosion of stupid baby names when Yahoo Answers ends?
We trolls will no longer be available to comment on the fanciful made-up names that are so popular these days. How many kids will be stuck with career-ending ghetto names? How many will have to argue with their teachers over how their names are spelled?
3 AnswersBaby Names3 weeks agoIs it good or bad for African-Americans if more non-white people immigrate to America?
Don't the immigrants of color just take advantage of programs designed to help the descendants of slaves? Don't they use their advantages of wealth and education to get ahead while the American people of color get left behind? President Obama and VP Kamala Harris could never have reached the positions they did if they had not had immigrant parents.
2 AnswersPolitics1 month agoIs it fair to criticize recent white immigrants to America?
They enjoy white privilege but they don't come from families that enslaved people.
4 AnswersPolitics1 month agoThere are commercials on TV stations that feature classic reruns. How do they put these together?
For instance, I saw one last night that started out with Henry Winkler doing his famous Fonzie "He-y-y-y". Then there were clips from many other old show with other actors using a similar expression; "MASH", "Gomer Pyle", etc. Are these old shows somehow indexed so a producer can search for specific bits like this? Or do some people have an encyclopedic knowledge of the old shows and can easily find these? Or do people just watch them and make notes of excerptable moments like that to make limited indexes they can use?
3 AnswersComedy1 month agoCan I get SSDI for "cave syndrome"?
I've been sheltering inside for so long I think I've developed mental illness. I'm scared to go out and look for a job.
6 AnswersPeople with Disabilities1 month agoCan a shooter tell the difference between shooting a blank and a regular lead round?
I've never shot guns much and never a blank. (Where do you even get them?) I would think that the recoil of a real round would be much stronger than that from shooting off a blank. Is it?
12 AnswersHunting2 months agoWho are "Newest Americans"? ?
Are they the unborn children who must be protected from abortion? Or are they citizens of other countries who are trying to get across the border into the USA?
2 AnswersPolitics2 months agoWho writes those click-bait stories?
Someone takes an ordinary three-sentence item from the news and stretches it out to 20 or 30 little pieces you have to click through. They always have the same kind of lame non-native-speaker language in them. Are there companies that do this?
5 AnswersWords & Wordplay2 months agoIs it passe to be a tomboy?
Do girls today prefer to be "gender fluid" or something like that rather than call themselves tomboys?
5 AnswersPolls & Surveys2 months agoWhy do Americans think shamrocks are the same as four-leaf clovers?
Look closely at commercial "Irish" stuff for sale, especially around St. Patrick's Day. You will find that many of the shamrock designs are actually four-leaf clovers. Don't Americans know that St. Patrick used the three-leafed shamrock to teach the heathen Irish about the Trinity? What is going on?
2 AnswersSt. Patrick's Day2 months agoIn British English, does the word "sleigh" usually indicate a horse-drawn vehicle?
And "sled" a vehicle that coasts under the influence of gravity?
4 AnswersWords & Wordplay2 months agoIs the Skoda category the only one on YA with no relevant questions?
I looked at all the questions. None of them have to do with Skoda cars. Are there other underused categories like this?
2 AnswersSkoda3 months agoWhat fate befell loyalists in states that seceded?
What happened to those white citizens who opposed secession and civil war? Were they driven out of their homes? Lynched? Merely shunned?
2 AnswersHistory3 months agoIs it racist to render Black English phonetically in news stories?
This morning, I read a story about the murder of a whole family in Indianapolis. The reporter quoted a neighbor “I’m still tryna wrap my mind around this whole thing.” Wouldn't it be better to use the correct words "I'm still trying to.."? There's no news reason to suggest the race and educational level of this person.
9 AnswersMedia & Journalism3 months agoWhy do packages from China arrive so darn fast in the mail?
If you buy some cellphone accessory from a seller in China, it will be here in 2 or 3 days and they pay almost zero postage. Yet a small package from Europe takes weeks and weeks if it ever arrives.
4 AnswersOther - Business & Finance3 months agoWhy are long-term couples reluctant to marry?
Marriage offers a lot of financial advantages over remaining single. Since "no fault" divorce is the law [nearly?] everywhere, untangling the relationship isn't so bad even if you do call it quits. Actually, because it's a settled legal process, divorce is probably easier than sorting out an extra-legal arrangement. So why the reluctance?
9 AnswersMarriage & Divorce3 months agoDo you think sunset or legal twilight regulations are better for headlight use?
In Massachusetts, headlights must be on by the end of legal twilight. (Enforcement is lax, of course.) In many other states, they must be on at sunset. Which do you think is better at discouraging driving in the dark without lights?
7 AnswersSafety3 months ago