A close friend or relative gives you a lottery scratch-off ticket as a holiday gift. You win the jackpot, let’s say $100,000. Do you share with the person who gave you the ticket?
No. It was a gift. It’s mine, all mine!
I buy them a scratch-off ticket. Fair’s fair.
I send them a nice fruit basket, or some other token gift.
I give them a token amount, a hundred or so, up to a thousand.
I give them much more than a token amount, like 25-50%.
I make a charitable donation in their name.
I would politely refuse to accept it. There are no good possible outcomes.
A company begins offering “Total Recall”-style implanted vacation memories, fully customizable, affordable, and guaranteed safe by the government. They have years of safe operations and hundreds of thousands of satisfied customers. Interested?
Sounds awesome. Let’s go!
I’d be interested in learning about the technology, but I’ll let someone else get their memories messed with.
You are a movie director and there is a particular social ill (such as racism or sexism, etc.) that you would like to take on. Half of people argue that you ought to make a movie showing oppression and discrimination, in order to highlight the ill. The other half argues that you ought to make a movie showing everyone getting along well in an ideal world (a movie world in which the characters truly show no racism or sexism or bigotry,) in order to showcase to the audience how things ought to be. In other words, a negative-portrayal vs. positive-portrayal disagreement. What do you do?
Make a movie showing the specific bigotry, as a bad example
Make a movie showing the absence of bigotry, as a good example
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(Karen, I don’t know why you are quoted but I can’t un-do the quote function…)
Given the opportunity, would you want to own a famous movie home, e.g. the Ferris Bueller house, the Mrs. Doubtfire house, etc.? Assume it’s in good condition, and you can afford the upkeep.
Yes, that would be awesome!
Yes, but not to live in, more as an investment.
Depends heavily on the specific property in question.
No thank you. Normal homeownership is my appropriate difficulty level.
Do you “subscribe” to any products from Amazon or another online retailer? That is, they automatically ship you more product at a set interval and charge your saved payment method, rather than you explicitly ordering the product. The store usually offers a small discount in exchange for signing up for this service.
According to the internet, which is never wrong, the explosion of usage of “slop” as a pejorative is a deliberate campaign by 4chan to expose and lure young people into their way of thinking, including antisemitism (which is the ultimate origin of the usage). This is something they’ve done in the past to some success, such as with the OK hand gesture and the concepts of “chads” and “alpha males”: using a meme’s spread to prime the minds of others to their advantage.
IF this is true, do you think that the usage of the phrase this way will ultimately meaningfully advance the cause of 4chan and/or antisemitism?
Yes
No
It’s complicated
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Regardless of your answer above, should people be actively discouraging this meme when used in public to counter what 4chan wants (assuming disagreement with it)?
Around here, the TV schedules for various channels show the President’s speech scheduled for 13 to 22 minutes. How long do you think the speech will actually last? NO WAGERING!!!
Two magical buttons appear in front of every adult capable of pressing buttons. A disembodied voice says you have to press one of them, either
button 1: a button that will do nothing if greater than 50% of the people press it, or
button 2: a button that will kill every person that pressed button 1 if less than 50% of all the people pressed it, i.e. if greater than 50% of people press button 2, everyone who will press button 1 dies.
You are not given any opportunity to discuss this situation with others.
