Jack-o-lanterns. When i was a kid, you advertised you were giving out Halloween treats with a jack-o’-lantern by your door. That’s a lot less popular now.
I have carved a pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern
I have decorated my house with a pumpkin carved by someone else
I have a real jack-o’-lantern outside my house this year
I have a fake jack-o’-lantern outside my house this year
I have decorated my house with a fake jack-o-lantern
I have carved some other fruit or vegetable and put a light inside it for Halloween
I have carved some other fruit or vegetable as a Halloween decoration, but didn’t put a light in it
I have whole (uncarved) pumpkins as decorations this year
I’ve used whole pumpkins as decorations for Halloween some year
Nope, i haven’t decorated with pumpkins for Halloween
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For this poll, a fake jack-o’-lantern is made of something that isn’t a fruit or vegetable. Like plastic or ceramic. A real one is a carved fruit or vegetable (probably a pumpkin) with a design (perhaps a face, but other designs count) so that you can see the light inside it through the carving. If it’s just thin, rather than carved all the way through, that counts.
You sell an item on Facebook Marketplace. When picking it up, the buyer pays for the item, then hands you a bag of two breakfast sandwiches from the local fast food joint as a tip. The sandwiches are still warm, they smell delicious, and you are hungry.
It’s conventional wisdom that raising prices is a last resort for business, because consumers will compare them with your competitors and mindlessly choose the cheaper option. Efforts to follow this conventional wisdom have resulted in a series of consumer unfriendly tactics, like shrinkflation and cuts on quality, that are often under the “enshitification” umbrella. I get the real sense that the public is noticing and resenting these practices more than ever.
Given that, if some business was to raise prices these days, with public messaging that they are avoiding enshitification (e.g. “We will never compromise on quality. Ever.”), how do you think that would go over in today’s market?
Great; in a world of cutting corners, there’s a major desire out there to punish those who do
It wouldn’t make a difference in the bottom line
Terrible; consumers will compare prices with their competitors and mindlessly choose the cheaper option
I looked at my sample ballot; there is more than one race where candidates are running unopposed.
Assuming you’re going to vote anyway because there are other races on the ballot that matter.
I would vote for an unopposed candidate, increasing their number of votes
I would not bother to vote for an unopposed candidate as their going to win no matter what I do.
Do you look at sample ballots in advance of going to vote?
Yes
No
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If you do, do you then do research on the minor elected officials (judge, school board, dog catcher, etc.) that you may not even know were on the ballot until you looked at it?
Yes
No
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Is that research from the candidate’s / party’s website or some other source?
Their own website
Other source - {list source(s) in discussion thread}
In a couple of the political threads, with the federal edict that stores cannot offer free food to SNAP recipients some stores are offering free food to anyone who asks.
A store in your neighborhood has announced this policy for pretty basic stuff: White bread, bologna, peanut butter, and a pint of milk. Do you take them up on this offer?