YOU SAID:

why is this a thing and how does it work and why is this a run on sentence?

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これはなぜなのか、またそれはどのように機能するのですか。

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Why is this and how does it work?

INTO JAPANESE

これはなぜですか、またどのように機能しますか？

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Why is this and how does it work?