Hot dogs as opposed to various superior sausage-onna-bun/stick options are something I almost always avoid, but I can and have stood a few Hebrew National Franks if need be. In order grilled > pan fried > air fried, as I like a touch of char on my hot dogs to add some damn texture.
I think part of the problem is that most (by no means all) hot dogs are low cost, low quality, and served with buns, sides, and toppings of equally low quality. Which is why I never say an absolute “No” to ketchup (Heinz only please) as a possible crutch.
I have to admit, my top concerns are environmental (climate change) and healthcare (universal coverage), so a candidate that hit those issues would be hard to resist.
Admittedly, I’m a straight white male. Not Christian, though.
I’m not exactly sure the square footage of my house, but given it’s a boring box, I know just from measuring the length and width it’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 1100 square feet.
Death Timer. I should be able to quickly deduce whether it was an accident or a chronic illness that will do the trick: if I get a thorough checkup, eat super-healthy or stop with any noxious substances for a solid month, and/or lose a lot of weight, if I then see the timer going forward in time, then I’ll know it was health-related. If it doesn’t budge a single second, that likely means an accident (or murder, or even suicide…) will be the culprit.
If I suspect an accident, should I check it before I leave on any sort of trip? Cancel the trip, see if it goes up, or down? Change the destination and check for a change? Or is the device absolutely immune to any such manipulations? Do we run into one of those timeline paradoxes where, if I were to see such a change and would thus alter my plans as a result, it never actually budges at all since it already KNEW what alternative I would choose, but if it doesn’t change then I’m not changing my plans, so it HAS to change so I will, but it actually won’t, and aarrggh…[/brain hurts]
Yeah, that was what I had in mind when crafting the poll. The timers are always 100% accurate. They only count down; there’s nothing you can do to alter the outcome.
Does this mean free will is obviated? The future is locked into stone? No matter how many pounds a grossly obese person loses, the timer never budges? Or, rather, they cannot even lose a single ounce in such a scenario, no matter what the timer tells them?
It means that nothing you can do will hasten or delay the time of death. If you’re an obese person with 2 years left, you can choose to eat healthier and exercise more, but you will end up dying in 2 years anyway, perhaps due to some other ailment, accident, or misadventure. If you’re a healthy person with 50 years left, you can start engaging in highly risky behaviour, such as jumping out of airplanes without a parachute, but you’ll most likely just end up putting yourself into a 50-year coma.
I don’t want any of those changes in sleep periods. Any of them would screw me up relative to daylight, relative to farming, and relative to almost anything I do involving other people.