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In case anyone needed a reminder, "ass" means donkey, "arse" means buttocks.

Got a question for all you folks, with a hypothetical:

Let's say you're at work, at an information job. You suspect that your coworker, with the same job as you, is turning in ChatGPT output as their own work while actually goofing off all day, but you can't prove it.

What do you do?

In your opinion, are government-enforced monopolies always a bad or good thing ?

Here's a study that shows that modern western society has ingrained upon itself the idea of smalltalk so fervently that if you are naturally predisposed against it, you're going to have a rough time doi.org/10.1108/EJM-06-2021-04

I wonder if phone carriers track data like % of calls placed which are answered or % of outgoing calls which are answered

Here's your regularly-scheduled reminder that "Godspeed" has nothing to do with going fast
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The problem with Big Bang Theory is that while the characters can exhibit accurate behaviour for nerds, the show is about making fun of said nerds rather than having fun with them

How have we not, as a society, made fruit gushers the delivery system for every type of medication? They're basically the idealized form of the gel tablet.

Do you default to "its not" or "it isnt"?

(intentionally ignoring ' here)

Claims like "eating half a cup of beans a day is enough to lower your risk of heart disease" annoy me to no end. If it's something you need to meet a certain quota or land within a certain range for the desired effect, say that. But to say that [quantiy] does [unquantified] benefit sounds lazy. If half a cup lowers my risk, does a quarter of a cup also lower my risk?

Both paying donors for blood and not being allowed to pay them seems weird to me. Not sure how to resolve this

I am becoming increasingly convinced that the primary underlying reason for most sex-based discrimination is rooted in preventing unwanted pregancies

The best thing about cleaning the fridge is discovering which foods last much longer than their expected before date

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