You have two presidential candidates to choose from. One would do great on practical issues (economy, healthcare, transportation, environment, energy, taxes, income equality) but push a horrific social agenda (on matters pertaining to LGBT, feminism, religion, race, political speech, abortion, etc.)
The other candidate would be the opposite - great socially, but terrible on practical issues.
Vote for the candidate who’s strong on practical issues but socially awful
Vote for the candidate who’s socially terrific but awful on practical issues
A genie grants you a unique power: as long as you gently press the tip of your tongue on a particular spot on the roof of your mouth, a countdown timer appears above every living person in your field of vision. This timer shows the time remaining (in years, days, hours, minutes, and seconds) before that person’s death. Only you can see the timers! How do you use this new power? (Check all that apply.)
I keep this power secret from everyone.
I disclose to a select group of people that I have this power.
I make it publically known that I have this power.
I commit to never using this power.
I use this power on rare occasions.
I use this power frequently.
I use this power while looking in a mirror.
I never ever use it while looking in a mirror.
I use this power on my friends and family.
I never use it on my friends and family.
I use this power to win friendly competitions like the SDMB Celebrity Death Pool.
I use this power to place large bets with bookkeepers on celebrity deaths.
I go into business as a psychic or fortune-teller, winning huge sums for my famously accurate predictions.
I sell my services to my government’s military or intelligence service.
I make it generally known that I have this power and if anyone asks for it, I tell them their time remaining without charge.
I use this power on passers-by and casually warn the ones who are about to die soon.
We spend about one-third of our life sleeping; for most adults this roughly corresponds to a cycle of a 16-hour period awake followed by an 8-hour period asleep. A mischievous genie obliges you to permanently change the length of your own cycle, but not the relative proportion of wake–sleep periods in it. Which new cycle do you select for yourself? Assume that, even for very long sleep periods, your body will cope without eating, drinking, or going to the bathroom; you’ll wake up just as healthy and rested as you normally do.
How do you feel about people who make declarative statements by asking a rhetorical question and then immediately answering it? Like “Am I proud of what I did? Not really. Would I do it again? Yes I would.”
It’s annoying.
It’s perfectly fine.
I have no strong feeling about it.
Do I think it’s an effective way to communicate? Yes. Do I talk this way myself? Yes I do.
You come across someone hanging over the edge of a cliff with two hands. They’re an average sized person weighing roughly 150 pounds (68 kg). They have a good handhold and can probably assist about 10-15% of the burden, but they can’t possibly get themselves over the top. Can you rescue them?
No problem! I got this.
Odds are pretty good that I can.
If there’s some kind of solid handhold I can grab or brace against, I can probably save them.
I might need one other person.
If I try alone, we’re both going over. With one more person, we can probably save them.
I can probably at least somehow buy them some time until more help arrives.
I’m not confident that I could, even with another person’s help.
I’d probably worsen the situation by doing anything more than calling for help.