What kind of salt is in your kitchen right now?
- Iodized table salt
- Non-iodized table salt
- “Kosher” salt
- Sea salt
- Other coarse salt
- Pink Himalayan salt
- Some other “fancy” salt
- There is no salt whatsoever in my kitchen
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And which salt do you cook with most often?
- Iodized table salt
- Non-iodized table salt
- “Kosher” salt
- Sea salt
- Some other coarse salt
- Pink Himalayan salt
- Some other fancy salt
- There is no salt in my kitchen / I don’t cook / I don’t use salt in my cooking
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Would you eat insects as your main protein if they could be processed into a form indistinguishable from say, any other alternative protein?
- I would actually rather just eat them minimally processed for maximum environmental friendliness
- Sure, I’d eat bugs if I didn’t have to think about how they were bugs when I was eating them.
- No, but also I don’t like any other alternative proteins, like vegan meat substitutes, either.
- No, I wouldn’t be able to stop thinking about where the protein came from no matter how disguised it was.
- No, I need my meat to come from an animal that understands and fears death.
- No, for some other possible nuance that these answers don’t address.
- Yes, for some other possible nuance these answers don’t address.
- Somehow, I am still not satisfied with any of these answers so I am choosing this one.
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Someone invents a new safe, harmless psychedelic drug that purports “1 year in 1 hour.” That is, every time you take the drug, you are taken on a trip into an alternate consciousness that feels exactly like an entire year has passed, but it’s only an hour long in real life. The manufacturer touts this as a way of adding time to your life - “a normal human life flies by awfully quickly; 75 short years and it’s over. But with this drug you can feel like you’ve lived many hundreds of years by the time you’re on your deathbed.”
The drug costs $100 per pill. You don’t get to choose what your trip will be. The vast majority of trips are reported to be good or at least boring/unremarkable (such as working in wheat fields), but a few are reported to be nightmare-ish. The good news is that each trip pill packet also comes with a trip-ending pill, which you can take any time to end the trip if it goes bad.
There are no true adverse physical or psychological effects, but most users report that once the trip is over, they are dazed for days because of how long, vivid and thought-provoking their year-long trip was - even though it was only 60 minutes in real time.
If you would normally die at age 80 but take 200 such trips, you’ll feel like a 280-year old when you die.
How many pills would you buy and take trips with, over the remainder of your current life?
- I’d only go on a pill-trip once.
- I’d do it fewer than 10 times.
- I’d do it fewer than 50 times.
- I’d do it fewer than 100 times.
- I’d do it more than 100 times.
- I would never go on such a trip.
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If you ate a helping of insects, what kind of salt would you use?
- Regular salt on a pile of ants
- Kosher salt on a cup of cockroaches
- Fleur de sel on ramekin of ladybugs
- Pink Himalayan on a bowl of bees
- No salt – Franks’s Red Hot
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You are in a tough situation, your train of thought goes like this:
- What would Toshiro Mifune do?
- What would Ronnie James Dio do?
- What would Mr. Snuffleupagus do?
- What would Emma Peel do?
- What would Enik the Sleestak do?
- What would Speed Racer do?
- What would Daria Morgendorffer do?
- What would Jimi Hendrix do?
- What would Zatoichi do?
- What would Roberta Draper do?
- What would Marlo Stanfield do?
- What would WOPR do?
- What would Jane Goodall do?
- What would Cleon do?
- What would Buckaoo Bonzai do?
- What would Randall ‘Pink’ Floyd do?
- What would Conan of Cimmeria do?
- What would Hermione Jean Granger do?
- What would Elbereth Gilthoniel do?
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According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), nineteen music albums have sold at least 15 million copies in the U.S. Which of those albums (listed below) do you own/have you owned, in some format (i.e., vinyl, tape, CD, digital, etc.)?
- Eagles, Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)
- Michael Jackson, Thriller
- Eagles, Hotel California
- AC/DC, Back in Black
- Led Zeppelin, Untitled (“Led Zeppelin IV”)
- Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
- Guns N’ Roses, Appetite for Destruction
- Garth Brooks, No Fences
- Shania Twain, Come on Over
- Elton John, Greatest Hits
- Boston, Boston
- Bruce Springsteen, Born in the U.S.A.
- Metallica, Metallica
- Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill
- Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
- The Bee Gees, et al., Saturday Night Fever soundtrack
- Bob Marley & the Wailers, Legend
- Journey, Greatest Hits
- Steve Miller Band, Greatest Hits 1974-78
- None of these
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Which is better?
- Bloom County
- Calvin and Hobbes
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Do you feel sorry for Prince Harry?
- Yes and I fully support what he is doing.
- Yes, it must suck growing up the way he did.
- Yes but he could have handled it better.
- No, he is full of self pity and has handled it all wrong.
- No, he is a prince from one of the richest families ever.
- No and he is in the wrong.
- Somewhat.
- A little.
- A very, very little.
- Who?
- I don’t care enough to think about him.
- I am too passive aggressive to answer this poll properly.
- Other
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Within the text of The Turn of the Screw, James intended for readers to understand that the ghosts are:
- real ghosts
- merely figments of the governess’ overwrought imagination
- Henry James, you abstruse bastard!!
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When you check into a hotel for a two night stay do you
- keep you stuff in your suitcase while you’re there
- unpack into the drawers and closet
- Some of each
- it varies depending on the type of clothes I brought and other factors
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How many checks do you write (personally, not as part of a business)
- Never wrote a check in my life
- Used to write checks, but no longer
- I write a few checks per year
- I write a few checks per month
- I write a lot of checks, more than 5 per month on average
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How many checks do you receive (personally, not as part of a business)?
- I have never received a check in my life
- I used to get checks, but no longer
- I get a few checks per year
- I get a few checks per month
- I get checks all the time.
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How many paper bills do you get in the mail each month?
- All of them
- The majority of them, but I get a couple online
- A few, but I get the majority online
- Only the ones that don’t offer an e-bill option
- None, with the possible exception of ones that only come once a year like property taxes.
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I’m 60 and my financial planner says I can retire right now. Should I?
- Oh hell yes
- You should wait
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I’m 60 and in the last 3 months I’ve had a deep vein thrombosis, I’ve been treated in the hospital for a pulmonary embolism, and my prostate cancer has returned. My financial planner says I can retire right now. Should I?
- Oh hell yes
- You should wait
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Why did I start the “I like Minute Rice” thread?
- A social experiment. What’s the shortest post I can make that will set off a bombshell of often impassioned controversy. It’s working.
- It only takes a minute.
- I’m tired of snobs who think they’re too good for Minute Rice. They think they’re better than us.
- God loves Minute Rice as He loves all His rices.
- Rice is rice.
- Everyone’s gotta have an opinion! God damn!
- I hope you will try Minute Rice.
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Without googling, do you think Henry Kissinger is
- Alive
- Dead
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You’ve always been struggling with a particularly difficult class/topic, such as organic chemistry or vector calculus. You keep having to re-take the class due to getting F’s.
One month, however, things suddenly “click” for you and you get it all and it all makes perfect sense, and suddenly is a breeze. You can solve every problem. Problem is, if you soar straight from F to A+, the teacher will suspect you are cheating - and the school has a reputation for expelling students with little due process for suspected cheating.
All you need is a passing grade (D). Would you purposefully mark a few questions wrong on your exams and homework so that you get a less-suspicious grade of C or B instead of A for the class?
- I’d score some wrong so that I get a B
- I’d score some wrong so that I get a C
- I won’t score anything wrong. I’ll answer everything correctly and get an A+.
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Do you own a garlic press? Do you use it?
- I own one. Use it all the time.
- I own one. I rarely or never use it.
- I do not own one.
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Do you like Zombies in mediums such as movies, TV, books and video games?
- Yes! I love Zombies!
- Yes, I like Zombies.
- I can take them or leave them.
- Meh.
- No, I do not like Zombies.
- No, I hate Zombies! Zombies are so played out!
- Other
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