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Garden. I think I would just sleep in the sun.

 

Eliminated in the qualifying stage or eliminated in the finals?



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qualifying stage


it's better to win a bronze than a silver, for sure

 

wage slavery or chattel slavery



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Wage slavery, of course. Chattel slavery is pretty much rock-bottom, with arguably nowhere to go downwards from there.

It would have been much more interesting if one of the options was ancient Roman slavery, which seems to rest somewhere between the two in terms of rights and obligations.

Cotton or wool?

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but with chattel slavery you get free lodging and free healthcare tho


cotton because das how we made our first million, on the back of chattel slavery


automatic or stick-shift



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That's not really free lodging and healthcare—you're generally working pretty hard for it. If you want the option of truly free room, board, and healthcare, you're going to want to start life as a nominally free person—and then commit the correct class of felony.

Not that I would recommend this course of action. As with slavery, prison is generally agreed to be, erm, somewhat unpleasant.

Anyway.

Automatic, now that it gets better gas mileage (CVT and all that)

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electric or hybrid (or gasoline)

 

is there full electric these days?so behind in the times



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Gasoline now, electric for the next car after this, is what I think I'd be leaning towards right now (as someone who currently doesn't have a car and has been looking at the options).

There's been full electric available for years, but it's only been a couple years since they became semi-affordable (i.e. < 50k) for ones that actually go a good distance before they run out of charge (which is more important than in gas vehicles because charging, unlike filling gas, takes a significant amount of time—even if you're lucky enough have fancy high-speed charging infrastructure wherever you're charging).

Utilitarianism, or virtues-based decision-making?

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Why either or tho

Think of the wonderful concentration camps of the us japanese or the gulag under Stalin
The former was very utilitarian since it takes too much time to sort out the good guys from the potential bad guys unless you institute some kind of mass surveillance program which they didn’t have at the time
The latter was strictly virtue based because you can’t have some farmers being capitalist and pulling away from the rest of the peasants

Saying happy holidays vs saying merry Christmas

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Think of the wonderful concentration camps of the us japanese or the gulag under Stalin
The former was very utilitarian [...] The latter was strictly virtue based because you can’t have some farmers being capitalist and pulling away from the rest of the peasants


What of it? Different moral evaluation systems arriving at the same result is hardly remarkable. It's usually the edge cases where they disagree.

Now, in this case you're talking about cases where both systems failed to arrive at a good result, which is indeed more interesting to discuss than when both arrive at the same good result. But honestly in this case I think this is more indicitive of humans' ability to bend their own moral systems to suit what they want to do, rather than those systems actually dictating those results.

Saying happy holidays vs saying merry Christmas


I think both are fine—I don't really consider Christmas to be a religious holiday (well, okay—it is technically probably the remnants of a religious ritual but no ancient celtic druids of that particular line of religious observances, are still around to be offended at the appropriation as a commercial holiday. Some Christians also think it's their holiday and I respect their right to believe that, as stealing other people's rituals is something everybody does, and is mostly harmless).

I think I might use "merry Christmas" more of the two, but I'm not sure (I say neither particularly often). If someone would prefer I use "happy holidays", I would certainly try to respect that.

If someone would prefer I say "merry Christmas", without further context, on the other hand, I would work from the base assumption that they were a passive-agressive xenophobic tit.


Cookies or biscuits?

Edited by pokari, 02 December 2018 - 08:46 PM.


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cookies because they're available from the dark side

 

oil or gas


hmm  so the canadians ammended their laws with the infamous c-16 to use gendered pronouns (zir/ zer, i think) Isn't that compelled language, opponents argue? i'm not exactly sure if compelled speech is a bad idea. I mean, the rwanda explicitly forbid mentioning on hutu and tutsi's in speech or in writing, for good reasons. so compelled speech might be necessary in some cases. for religious holidays, maybe not



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? What do you mean? Crude vs gasoline? Petroleum vs natural gas? Lipids vs atmosphere? Greasy vs smelly humans? Considering all the options, on average, I guess I'll opt for gas and hope for the best. owo;

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I mean, the Germans banned Nazi expressions (I believe it's illegal to do the "heil" gesture, for instance) and nobody complains about that much. Though I haven't heard anything about restricted speech around religious holidays, unless you include blasphemy charges in ultra-religous countries.

I wasn't aware of C-16 but Wikipedia's description of it would seem to indicate that it doesn't actually force people to use correct pronouns, but rather does something more like establish the basis for deeming the ill-intended use of wrong pronouns, with malice, as hate speech (much as the ill-intended use of certain words relating to race can be hate-speech in America, but merely saying those words does not by itself constitute hate speech).

Swimming pool or the ocean?

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i think you mean the beach, not the open ocean. Unless you really mean sacrificial rituals involving sharks. Sharks are very curious creatures actually. Great whites are known to ram into boats and seeing if they tip over.

 

 

junk food or keto



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Both right now are completely unviable for me right now (too much fat = pain still). A keto diet would I suppose be just pure pain instead of pain and diabetes (which would be even more pain eventually), but still, I'm going to have to pass on both oxo;

Hughes or Mustang?

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Mustang because it is where cia funded a base of religious zealots to take on the Communist chinese
After the Chinese pressured Tibet and the Dali lama they surrendered reluctantly
Some even slit their throats in despair

Headphones or earbuds

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Earbuds

 

easier to throw around and handle in general

 

also if it breaks you don't feel too bad

 

sitting in the front or sitting in the back



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If it's (actual) science, in the front. For everything else, in the back. uwu

Yeah, one of the big things keeping me away from expensive headphones is that I know they too would break and then I would be sad.

I've got some over-ear headphones right now that have a replaceable cord (double-ended male) that I have some hope for the longevity of, though. (And they weren't especially expensive—about 20$ so only four times what a rock-bottom set usually goes for here, which is to say it only has to last four time as long as my earbuds to be worth it, more or less).

Neodymium magnet or electro-magnet?

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Electro-magnet, fluctuations are cool.

Squish or squash?

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Orange Squash.

Trance or dubstep?

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Dubstep—I often like the sounds of trance more, maybe, but it does the thing I hate most in electronic music, which is to repeat itself incessantly without changing much of anything for far too long. Which is fine for background music, but...

Filigree or lace?