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If you work for a company that produces a product, do you recommend it to your loved ones?

Yes - Product is like my family! I love my job and I love my coworkers, but most of all I love Product!

Yes - I genuinely believe in the quality of Product!

Yes - out of self-interest. Product pays the bills, if we sell more Product we'll make more money.

Nuance - I feel no particular reason to evangelize, but I do use Product myself

Nuance - I feel no particular reason to use Product or tell my loved ones about it

Nuance - I dislike Product, but if everyone knew how much it sucked then I'd be out of a job

No - I do enough work on Product without doing unpaid marketing on the side

No - I hate Product and actively warn people away from it

No - I am actively trying to destroy Product from within

Other Nuance/Don't make Product/Bald/Vanilla Extract

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I'm not saying I prefer getting transphobic hate mail but it's at least a more interesting thing to find in my inbox than yet another carbon copy of the same message begging for money, y'know.

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last past the post voting system: whoever gets the least votes wins.

advantages: people hate politicians. while someone might be hard-pressed to find a politician they like and will willingly vote for, finding a politician you hate and will happily vote against is much easier.

disadvantages: the winner of most elections will be some rando who registered as a candidate as part of a drunken bet, which is probably not a great qualification for holding office.

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there's a website called makea.fish which if you visit it at 11:11 gives you a randomly generated fish, which i've been peripherally aware of for a while. it's only very recently that i learned that it's a pun on the concept of making a wish at 11:11. which i was not remotely aware was a superstition that existed

i just liked living in a world where repeating digits on the clock was associated with fish specifically

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i think you need a term for the concept of 'these two people were born at the same time from the same parents' that talks about the one-on-one relationship between them and thus is indifferent to whether they also share that relationship with someone else*, and 'twin' is the best term for that. so any two out of a set of triplets (or n-plets) are twins.

*the same way I can talk about my sister and say she's my sister without implying anything about how many other siblings we have, or a polyamorous person can talk about one of their partners and describe them as 'my partner' without that implying neither of them are dating someone else.

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Cannot FUCKING stand when my loose leaf tea says to add tea in tablespoons instead of teaspoons. I'm sorry, bitch. Am I making tea or am I making a table. Let me double fucking check.

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i'm sure this just reveals my complete ignorance and lack of sophistication but I do not get how one meaningfully describes A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night as a Western.

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apparently people on bsky are mad that a woman was like "I kind of like when people talk to you on an airplane. What happened to that?" and i kinda think she's right. we're pretty closed off from people. and idk i've spent two flights talking to complete strangers and I'm a pretty shy girl but I enjoyed it. the people who want to talk usually have something interesting happening in their lives

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i know barely anything about her but if true this would change my opinion for the better

Does knowing Chappell Roan endorses and asks for AI generated art change you opinion of her?

-Yes, I stopped/don’t support her for this

-Yes, but i still like her/her pros outweigh this

-Yes- but something else

-No, this doesn’t change my POSITIVE opinion of her

-No, this doesn’t change my NEGATIVE opinion of her

-No, but something else

-I don’t know/care about Chappell Roan either way

-Other

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it's nice that you can block people who are on anon from your inbox but i could really use the ability to block other people's anons.

if i had to read that incredibly rancid opinion you sent someone else via anonymous ask i should get to say to myself 'ah well, yet another person on tumblr I don't want to ever interact with'

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Do you think you have a weird/unconventional kink?

Yeah

No,,?

No

I'm bald

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A tetrahedron, for the unfamiliar:

Also known as a d4 if you're into ttrpgs

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yeah they totally scrapped the project. yeah I know how much we spent on trying to find genetic markers for honesty. yes I KNOW about the papers on how to define lying, you think I don't remember all the budget meetings trying to explain why we had a philosophy department?? It's- look it's really not up to me! I really believed in this! but the market survey- yes I know you said we should have done that earlier. in hindsight you were right and I was wrong. but how the fuck was I supposed to know people prefer their guards stab fleeing prisoners instead of giving them logic puzzles? in what world does that make sense?

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never heard of it

Remember tumblr?

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A tetrahedron, for the unfamiliar:

Also known as a d4 if you're into ttrpgs