Astraios wrote:
The Language Fairy offers you a native-level command of every language in the world, bar one. Which would you choose to be not fluent in?
Inuktitut.
Zapcon wrote:
It is time to elect the world leader, and yours is the deciding vote. Here are the facts about the three leading candidates:
Candidate A: He associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologers. He's had two mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks up to ten Martinis a day.
Candidate B: He was ejected from office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a large amounts of whisky every evening.
Candidate C: He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and hasn't had any extra-marital affairs.
I abstain. There shouldn't be a "world leader." If I cannot abstain, Candidate B. Even if I
hadn't read the link and thus already knew who they were, vegetarianism is a deal-breaker. I don't care what my leaders got up to in their youthful years.
vampireshark wrote:For some odd reason or another, your native country no longer wants you (in other words, you're being expelled). Where would you choose to settle, and why?
Australia, because... it's there, lurking, on the other side of the world from me.
You MUST choose one of the following two options. You do not have the option of choosing "neither"; if you do, you get the drawbacks of both and the benefits of neither.
1. Tomorrow, a source of extremely cheap, squeaky-clean, carbon-neutral, totally renewable energy is found that could power a civilization of 1 trillion people each of whom use twice as much energy per capita as the average American, and all environmental damage to the planet since 1900 is undone, but the feminist and gay rights movements completely disintegrate, and all their accomplishments since 1900 are irreversibly rolled back - laws repealed, executive orders rescinded, constitutions amended, etc.
2. Tomorrow, all prejudice against people on the basis of biological sex, sexual identity, sexual orientation, etc. ends forever, worldwide... but the environmental movement completely disintegrates, and all its accomplishments since 1900 are irreversibly rolled back; governments will ignore the plight of any and all endangered species and dismiss even the most irrefutable scientific research claiming any climate change is anthropogenic, etc., etc., and the fossil fuel reservoirs are restored to pre-industrial levels, meaning you won't have peak oil to bail you out either, not for a long while.