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Every reason on the floor, next to the question it answers. Follow an argument about something you have never opened — and take a position without leaving.

60 of 103 on the floor

    • Invoked18%
    • Not invoked82%
    910 answered1y 3m left

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    Tomas B.@tomas_b· 10 SeptInvoked

    Once you are logging violations monthly, the question stops being whether and becomes which one. I would not put this under one in ten.

    • Before 20278%
    • First half of 202718%
    • Second half of 202727%
    • 2028 or later33%
    • Not in this decade15%
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    Daniel O.@daniel_o· 10 SeptFirst half of 2027

    The famine reporting is what changes it. Armies that can no longer feed the territory they hold start talking, and that pressure lands next year.

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    Gustav H.@gustav_h· 10 SeptNo, it drags everybody in

    The clause only means anything if everybody knows what it will cost. Admitting a member mid-war means nobody can price it, including the attacker.

    • Noticeably more65%
    • About the same27%
    • Less9%
    1,127 answered11 months left

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    Marie T.@marie_t· 10 SeptAbout the same

    Both sides of this are real and they roughly cancel. Wholesale is down, labour and energy are up, and the shelf price is where they meet.

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    Wes A.@wes_a· 10 SeptNormal within ten years

    Retention is the number employers actually act on. When the finance side started quoting it, the argument stopped being about wellbeing.

    • Under a quarter17%
    • A quarter to a half31%
    • Half to two thirds32%
    • Two thirds to four fifths15%
    • More than four fifths5%
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    Ingrid S.@ingrid_s· 10 SeptHalf to two thirds

    The top two bands are older homeowners, and there are more of them than this room thinks. It skews the national number upward.

    • Down more than a tenth7%
    • Down a little21%
    • About flat28%
    • Up a little33%
    • Up more than a tenth10%
    1,212 answered8 months left

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    Hal N.@hal_n· 10 SeptDown a little

    Every forecast I have read this year assumed cuts would pass through. They have not passed through yet and I do not think they will in twelve months.

    • Boots down before 203045%
    • Not this decade55%
    1,113 answered3y 3m left

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    Kenji S.@kenji_s· 10 SeptBoots down before 2030

    Two crewed flybys are manifested first, which is how you retire most of the risk. If both fly clean the landing is a scheduling problem.

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    1,348 answeredNo closing date

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    Beatriz L.@beatriz_l· 10 SeptAlways

    If the label only applies to publication then every private use is exempt, which is most of it. Either the reader is owed it or they are not.

    • Already does4%
    • Within two years18%
    • Within five years38%
    • Within ten years31%
    • Not in my lifetime9%
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    Christine A.@christine_a· 10 SeptNot in my lifetime

    Weather is not a detail. Half the year here the lane markings are under water or snow, and no fleet has solved that anywhere.

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    Elias R.@elias_r· 10 SeptYes, wrong

    The message is not the words. It is the four minutes you spent on it. Outsourcing that and sending it anyway is the part that is wrong.

    • No39%
    • Only a limited phone46%
    • Yes, it is their world14%
    1,303 answeredClosed 7 days ago

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    Meena V.@meena_v· 10 SeptYes, it is their world

    Every adult answering this had unsupervised access to something their parents disapproved of. We turned out fine and we are legislating against our own childhoods.

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    Bea S.@bea_s· 10 SeptLate is worse
    @miguel_aLate is an accident. Cancelling is a decision, and it is a decision about you.

    A decision about me that I hear in time is a courtesy. Twenty minutes on a pavement is a decision about me too, and I hear it last.

    • One6%
    • Two or three31%
    • Four to six37%
    • Seven to ten11%
    • As many as you can keep15%
    1,640 answered11 months left

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    Jonah F.@jonah_f· 10 SeptAs many as you can keep

    The question assumes a fixed capacity. Mine has changed three times with circumstances and I do not think there is a number to find.

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    Erin C.@erin_c· 10 SeptNo, not mine

    I voted for it in the game because the budget was the problem. My own child is not a budget.

    61 called it the strongest case for the other sideOpen the thread →
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    Callum W.@callum_w· 10 SeptYes, I would

    Mine came home able to describe what he had done that day for the first time in two years. I am not going to argue against that with a spreadsheet.

    • Another district adopts it73%
    • No new adoptions27%
    699 answered1y 11m left

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    Ed B.@ed_b· 10 SeptAnother district adopts it

    Once the first one survives a full year without a revolt, the political risk for the second is almost zero. That is the whole dynamic here.

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    Oliver K.@oliver_k· 10 SeptFine, it is a phone

    This is a rule people apply to their children and not to themselves. If the call is the hospital you take it, and everybody agrees instantly.

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    Femi A.@femi_a· 10 SeptSchools

    Everything here is downstream of whether the school is any good. The families who can leave over it are the ones you most need to stay.

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    Hugo N.@hugo_n· 10 SeptA record low turnout

    Turnout has fallen in nine of the last twelve and nobody ever calls it. It will be a record low somewhere and it will barely be reported.

    • Invoked18%
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    910 answered1y 3m left

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    Priya N.@priya_n· 9 SeptNot invoked

    Article 4 exists precisely so nobody has to reach for 5. Every incident so far has been absorbed there, and that is the design working.

    • Before 20278%
    • First half of 202718%
    • Second half of 202727%
    • 2028 or later33%
    • Not in this decade15%
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    Aisha M.@aisha_m· 9 Sept2028 or later

    Every pause in this war has been a resupply window. A month is long enough that it would have to be a real settlement, not a breather.

    • Noticeably more65%
    • About the same27%
    • Less9%
    1,127 answered11 months left

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    Owen L.@owen_l· 9 SeptNoticeably more

    Freight always reaches the shelf. It just takes two quarters, which is exactly the window this question asks about.

    44 called it the strongest case for the other sideOpen the thread →
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    961 answeredNo closing date

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    Hannah L.@hannah_l· 9 SeptStill a trial in ten years

    Ten years of pilots and no legislature has touched it. Trials that never become law are a way of not deciding, and that can run another decade.

    • Under a quarter17%
    • A quarter to a half31%
    • Half to two thirds32%
    • Two thirds to four fifths15%
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    1,255 answeredClosed 10 days ago

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    Peter M.@peter_m· 9 SeptUnder a quarter

    Anyone renting in a city this year is closer to the bottom band than the middle. Rent went up faster than the savings did.

    • Down more than a tenth7%
    • Down a little21%
    • About flat28%
    • Up a little33%
    • Up more than a tenth10%
    1,212 answered8 months left

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    Sasha B.@sasha_b· 9 SeptAbout flat

    Volumes lead prices by two quarters and volumes are flat. Flat is the boring answer and it is usually the right one.

    • Boots down before 203045%
    • Not this decade55%
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    Grace F.@grace_f· 9 SeptNot this decade

    The lander has not flown empty yet. Nobody puts crew on a vehicle that has not completed one uncrewed flight, and that alone is two years.

    • Already does4%
    • Within two years18%
    • Within five years38%
    • Within ten years31%
    • Not in my lifetime9%
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    Tobias G.@tobias_g· 9 SeptWithin two years

    It goes from impossible to ordinary in about eighteen months once the first permit lands. That is what happened in every city that has one.

    • No39%
    • Only a limited phone46%
    • Yes, it is their world14%
    1,303 answeredClosed 7 days ago

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    Anders K.@anders_k· 9 SeptNo

    Four countries have moved on this inside two years. Governments do not act that fast unless the evidence is one-sided.

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    1,342 answeredNo closing date

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    Miguel A.@miguel_a· 9 SeptCancelling is worse

    Late is an accident. Cancelling is a decision, and it is a decision about you.

    1 reply88 called it the strongest case for the other sideOpen the thread →
    • One6%
    • Two or three31%
    • Four to six37%
    • Seven to ten11%
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    1,640 answered11 months left

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    Selin O.@selin_o· 9 SeptFour to six

    Two is fragile. One moves away and one is going through something, and you have nobody. Four is the first number that survives an ordinary year.

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    Nadia C.@nadia_c· 9 SeptNo, not mine

    Attainment held flat, which everybody reports as a win. It is not a win, it is the absence of harm, and the fifth day still has to be paid for.

    • Another district adopts it73%
    • No new adoptions27%
    699 answered1y 11m left

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    Tanvi R.@tanvi_r· 9 SeptAnother district adopts it

    Three have it on the agenda already. Agendas are how these things start, and two years is long enough for one of three to get through.

    • Appeals81%
    • Accepts it19%
    623 answered25 days left

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    Yusuf B.@yusuf_b· 9 SeptAccepts it

    An appeal freezes the site for two years and they have a buyer waiting. Accepting it and selling is worth more than winning slowly.

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    1,161 answeredNo closing date

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    Paul E.@paul_e· 9 SeptNever

    The table is the only twenty minutes in the day when everybody agreed to be in the same place. That is the whole point of it.

    74 called it the strongest case for the other sideOpen the thread →
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    Ana S.@ana_s· 9 SeptNever

    The phone does not have to ring. Face down on the cloth is enough to change what people are willing to say, and we all know it.

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    Rosa D.@rosa_d· 9 SeptHousing

    Everything else on this list gets easier when people can afford to live near their work. Nothing else on it does that for the others.

    64 called it the strongest case for the other sideOpen the thread →
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    Ruth E.@ruth_e· 9 SeptBuses and trains

    Housing is the biggest bill and the slowest to move. Buses change who can take which job inside a year, on a budget the council already holds.

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    Fiona M.@fiona_m· 9 SeptNo real surprise

    Almost every election is predicted correctly and then described as a shock afterwards. The surprise is usually in the commentary.

    • Noticeably more65%
    • About the same27%
    • Less9%
    1,127 answered11 months left

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    Sara B.@sara_b· 8 SeptAbout the same

    Price holds were announced before the freight news and they are contractual. The chains cannot quietly drop them in November.

    52 called it the strongest case for the other sideOpen the thread →
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    • Half to two thirds32%
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    Yara D.@yara_d· 8 SeptA quarter to a half

    Survey answers to this are optimistic by about a fifth. People count the credit card, and then they are asked again after they have used it.

    • Down more than a tenth7%
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    • About flat28%
    • Up a little33%
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    1,212 answered8 months left

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    Dermot Q.@dermot_q· 8 SeptUp a little

    Two rate cuts land in buyers' budgets about six months later, which is exactly next summer. Listings are high now because sellers can see it coming.

    • Already does4%
    • Within two years18%
    • Within five years38%
    • Within ten years31%
    • Not in my lifetime9%
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    Noor E.@noor_e· 8 SeptWithin five years

    Licensing is the constraint, not the driving. Eighteen months is the average and nobody has even filed here.

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    Tom H.@tom_h· 8 SeptNot wrong at all

    Half the sympathy cards ever sent were written by a stranger and signed by a friend. Nobody minded.

    87 called it the strongest case for the other sideOpen the thread →
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    Dara K.@dara_k· 8 SeptFine

    Every objection to this is really an objection to being near strangers, which is what a bus is.

    96 called it the strongest case for the other sideOpen the thread →
    • No39%
    • Only a limited phone46%
    • Yes, it is their world14%
    1,303 answeredClosed 7 days ago

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    Rosa I.@rosa_i· 8 SeptOnly a limited phone

    The argument is always framed as phone or no phone. The thing that does the damage is the feed, and you can take the feed without taking the phone.

  • The split is covered until you take a position.

    1,342 answeredNo closing date

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    Bea S.@bea_s· 8 SeptLate is worse

    Cancelling costs me an evening. Being late costs me the evening and twenty minutes of standing outside in it.

    71 called it the strongest case for the other sideOpen the thread →
    • One6%
    • Two or three31%
    • Four to six37%
    • Seven to ten11%
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    1,640 answered11 months left

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    Bryn T.@bryn_t· 8 SeptTwo or three

    The research is pretty consistent that the gain is almost all between none and two. After that you are describing a preference, not a need.

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