Which French Fries do you like best?
- The perfectly golden ones
- The ones that are a little darker
- The ones that are a little lighter
- Fries! Harumph! Kale for me, please.
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Favorite daily online puzzle:
- Wordle
- Quordle
- Waffle
- Blossom
- Spelling Bee
- Sumplete Daily Challenge
- Other
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Let’s settle this.
Which came first?
- The chicken.
- The egg.
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Your favorite Doper memes
- Hi, Opal!
- Orson Bean
- Blawnox
- When come back, bring pie
- Penis ensued
- Stoats
- Band name!
- Mods’ hobnailed boots
- Profit!
- Other
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At your job you are given the choice between two supervisors. Supervisor A is personable and makes an effort to come around at least twice a day just to chat pleasantly. Supervisor B only ever comes around when they need something from you, otherwise they may as well not exist. Assume that they are otherwise identical in supervisory ability. They’re both easy to contact, they understand your needs, and they’re quick to help when necessary. Who would you rather work for?
- Supervisor A
- Supervisor B
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You have a new supervisor at work. He or she seems fine. They have the expected qualifications, and there is no office drama about who got the job. You have no complaints. You go home and tell your partner/spouse (imaginary one if necessary for this poll), that you have a new boss. Do you mention that they are African American?
- No, that isn’t likely to come up in the discussion
- Yes, I think I’d mention that
- It depends
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I’ve got a deal for you. You get 100 million dollars, tax free. The only condition is you must never utter the word “the” for the rest of your life. If you say that word just once, you lose not just the $100 million, but everything: all of your money, your house and all your possessions. Deal?
- Sure, for that much money I’ll manage somehow
- Forget it, I’m sure to screw up at some point and lose everything
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You ever have one of those days?
- Almost every day
- Quite frequently
- A lot
- Sometimes
- Rarely
- Never
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I last ate cold cereal:
- Today
- This week
- This month
- This last year
- It’s been years, I don’t even remember
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I last ate hot cereal:
- Today
- This week
- This month
- This last year
- It’s been years, I don’t even remember
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You have been paying a freelance transcriber to convert several thousand audio recordings and YouTube videos into Microsoft Word transcripts. She is paid by length, not by time. Having done manual transcription before way back in your own day, you know how exhausting it can be, and you pay her a very substantial rate accordingly. Money isn’t an issue; you have a big budget.
It’s been a month now. Her work is of great quality - virtually no errors, the transcripts are just as you asked for. But it eventually emerges that she’s been using ChatGPT or some similar AI bot to do nearly all the heavy lifting - she is hardly exerting much effort at all, other than scanning each transcript to catch the odd flaw here and there. What do you do?
- Jettison her and do all the work yourself for free, with ChatGPT
- Keep her, but insist on a big pay cut
- Keep her at the same pay rate, no change
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I’ve received:
- Food stamps/SNAP
- Paid family medical leave
- Unpaid family medical leave
- Social security retirement benefits
- SS survivor benefits
- SS disability
- SS benefits for minor children
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
- Unemployment benefits
- Long term disability benefits
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- State Supplemental Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
- Pell grant
- None of the above
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(Non US folks if you see an equivalent program in your country, vote for the closest match please.)
How are you with chopsticks? (the utensils)
- They’re like extensions of my hand. I can pick up loose, wet Jell-O.
- Pretty good I think. I can pick up individual grains of dried rice.
- Average I guess. I probably won’t embarrass myself.
- Not great, but I’ll still use them.
- Please tell me there’s a fork I can use.
- I have a completely different answer than any of those.
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Not Everyone Has An Internal Monologue. Here’s What To Know. (bustle.com)
I have an internal monologue and I thought that everyone did. Turns out I’m wrong.
Do you have an internal monologue?
- Yes
- No
- Sometimes
- I’m not sure
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I feel like my life is being narrated by
- George Clooney
- Lily Tomlin
- Werner Herzog
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Lewis Black
- Nikki Haley
- Gerard Depadieu
- Annie Lennox
- Morgan Freeman
- Aishwaria Rai Bachchan
- J. K. Simmons
- Terry Gross
- Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- Martha Stewart
- someone else
- silence, only vast, reverberating silence
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You’re waiting at a traffic light and see 2 Canada geese cross at the crosswalk. You think:
- Those geese are smart, they know to cross at the light!
- It’s just a coincidence that they’re crossing at the light
- If the light turns while they’re crossing I’ll run them over
- If the light turns while they’re crossing I’ll wait so I don’t run them over
- If the light turns while they’re crossing, I’d like to run them over but it would be messy and risky
- I hate geese
- I like geese
- I don’t mind geese
- I need to post about this in the why is there hate for geese thread
- goose bacon atheist
- something else
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Your favorite Doper memes - expanded list:
- Hi, Opal!
- Orson Bean
- Blawnox
- When come back, bring pie
- Penis ensued
- Stoats
- Band name!
- Mods’ hobnailed boots
- Profit!
- BadbadbadbadSomething
- Evil Nazi Groundhogs
- Cow-orkers
- Og smash!
- Lord Og
- Hal Briston and the sheep
- 1920s-style Death Rays
- “Rio,” by Duran Duran
- Once, in 1960, for 20 minutes
- 18-inch double-headed ice-blue jelly dong
- Other
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Which best applies to you? For the sake of this poll, I’m talking about a primary physician who you use for routine medical care not a specialist or a doctor who treated you for an emergency.
- I’m a man and I’ve only had female primary physicians
- I’m a man and I’ve only had male primary physicians
- I’m a man and I’ve had both female and male primary physicians
- I’m a woman and I’ve only had female primary physicians
- I’m a woman and I’ve only had male primary physicians
- I’m a woman and I’ve had both female and male primary physicians
- I’ve never had a primary physician
- None of the above apply to me but I like to vote
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In the “national dish of shame” thread there was some discussion about how Americans will deep fry pretty much anything and sell it at the State Fair. What deep fried treats/novelties have you eaten at a fair, carnival, amusement park, boardwalk, or similar?
- Funnel cake
- Deep fried Twinkie
- Deep fried Oreo
- Deep fried Snickers bar
- Deep fried bacon
- Deep fried hamburger or slider
- Deep fried hot dog
- Deep fried pizza (I’ve never actually heard of this, but come on, I assume someone must have thrown one in a frier at some point)
- Deep fried artichoke hearts
- Deep fried butter
- Deep fried beer (They put it in a pretzel pocket like thing and fry that)
- Deep fried Coca-Cola (Done with a similar technique as the beer)
- Deep fried spaghetti and meatballs on a stick
- Deep fried ice cream
- Deep fried Jell-o
- Deep fried bubblegum
- Deep fried pumpkin pie
- Deep fried jelly beans
- Deep fried asparagus
- Deep fried scorpions (Yes, really, according to Google the Arizona State Fair served them)
- Some other unusual deep fried item
- I have never had the pleasure of eating any of these deep fried treats.
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Working in a foreign country with likable surroundings, amenities but you have to pay 34% in income taxes, versus working in America with less-likable surroundings and amenities but you only have to pay 16% in income taxes:
- go foreign but 34%
- stay in America and 16%
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How are you at swallowing pills?
- I can swallow a mouthful of pills of almost any size
- I can swallow a single pill of almost any size
- I can swallow a single small to medium size pill
- I can swallow only a very small pill
- I cannot swallow any size pill
- I’ve never tried to swallow a pill
- Something else
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