Not sure that I’m on board with the aesthetics of those flag colours…
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Depends.
Does Gitmo count as getting into the USA?
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Considering the nature of this post and of the PVL*, it’s best to prove Godwin right and get it over with.
The aesthete in me hates the colours of my flag, but the slogan is okay:
*Popular Vote Loser
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To me, the phrasing is an artefact of how the poll was written in French and then translated into English. Out of développement durable they wrote “durable” instead of “sustainable [development]”.
Well that’s your problem right there! Taking it four times proves your hard work and diligence!
You could have bravely accepted the result, or cleverly tricked the scoring algorithm, or thought more about your answers the first time.
I got an eco-queer take on the Cuban flag. Yeah, fair enough.
I’m pretty sure it is talking about patents.
Hopefully everyone took care that their tests couldn’t be pinned to their identity.
I always assume that any kind of cheap online personality test is going to end up in a profile somewhere.
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I suspect it doesn’t make a difference any more. Still, we shouldn’t make it easy for them to profile us.
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TornPaperNapkin mentioned hesitancy - was time answering part of the test?
Also, I bet that BoingBoingers are a sample that will be heavily biased toward progressivism and pragmatism.
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So basically we’ll be eating yeast products and bug guts kinda like people in Caves of Steel. God, Asimov was pretty on the nose it seems. >_>
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For fun, I took the quiz and responded “absolutely disagree” to all statements:
The axes were all split 50/50, which is encouraging
I then retook the test, responding “absolutely agree” to all statements:
So, does Fatherland just simply mean “hopelessly and utterly opinionated?”
And are these stars/lilies just thrown in at random or something?
And for what it’s worth here is what I got by responding to the best of my own understanding:
I didn’t see much black in others’ flags and mine is 50%, what does it all mean?
The axes had a lot of white middle ground in them, but they are all left-leaning.
I’m averse to tests in general, online in particular. Fortunately, I already have a flag!
”I recognized at once that we had never understood the meaning of these words, so common and yet so sacred: Justice, equity, liberty; that concerning each of these principles our ideas have been utterly obscure…”
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If it’s the question I’m thinking of, I think they were talking about addressing privacy concerns in how the government stores data. If you give the government personal information for the purposes of applying for a permit of some kind, are they allowed to cross reference that personal information with their existing databases to learn more about you, or is sharing personal information across departments restricted?
The one that threw me was “delocalization”. I googled it and found things about it’s use in chemistry. I couldn’t quite tell what they meant from context.
So you get Humanity - Equality - Justice and get stars, and I get Equality - Justice - Humanity and get this dumb thing:
I had a couple of not-0%s that baffled me. I know how I got a little reformism, but where my small amount of nationalism or essentialism came from I have no idea.
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Woh, harsh!
I didn’t think anyone here was going to get that result by doing the quiz honestly.
(Or if they did, they might not choose to share it!)
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Yeah now that you mention it. As much as I want to see purple it kind of is magenta. Oh well! lol
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