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Lifelong Texan here. I’m tired of the 100°+ summer days. I’m about to retire. I don’t want the winters to be too cold. A little snow is ok, 2 months below freezing is a no-go.

It needs to be fairly LCOL. I’ve got about $500k home equity, but they’ll be lots of moving costs and ideally I’d keep some money back, so a place where I can get a sub-2000sf house for around $350k and still feel safe would be ideal.

We’ve been looking at High Point, NC. Some say the humidity is horrendous there in the summer, but I’m not sure how that compares to Texas heat, tbh. HP otherwise seems to check most of the boxes (LCOL, not much snow, lots of trees, etc).

I’m open to new ideas. Where should I m

It’s nice to know how much you’ve made. Hey, I’ve made £14 today, cool! You can kinda go in and add it up, but it’s a pain.

Related, it’d be nice to have a total of all approved and expected totals as one grand total. “If all your studies are approved you’ll have $63.18”.

So I got my first rejection the other day, after more than 1,000 approvals. The reason was "Didn't answer essential questions". In most studies you can't even advance the page without answering all questions. But in this study you were shown a question. Then you were shown 2 possible answers. 1 supposedly generated by AI, 1 supposedly human. You had to pick which answer was the truest. These questions were not like "why is the sky blue?". They were on esoteric topics I almost always had no clue about.

Here's the kicker - you only had 15 seconds to answer the question - well, 15 seconds to read the question, read the two possible answers on a subject you know nothing about and decide

I hope this is allowed, just seeking advice, really.

So, a lot of surveys want you to judge people on virtually no information. I usually pick the middle option. For example:

Mary is unemployed.

This person is nice: 0 = definitely not 7 = absolutely

I usually pick 3 (neither yes nor no) since I don’t know. Or maybe I should pick 5 because I think most people are nice?

But sometimes the question is worded like:

I think Mary is nice

I generally treat the two the same, but really I disagree that I think she’s nice since I really have no opinion. It’s all very confusing, tbh.

I could see myself answering the same question anywhere between 1 and 5 depending on how I happened to interp

So, sometimes, like with McDonald’s, a sealed bag contains both hot food items and iced drinks. Seems odd to me, but whatever.

My question is in this situation what do you do: put it in a hot bag, or not?

I tend not to. I figure the hot bag would be the perfect environment for allowing the ice to melt and the food cool.

Just in my car, exposed to the air, the hot stuff should cool less, and the cold stuff should warm less, since it’s being exposed mainly to room temperature, and not “pitted” against each other.

What do you guys do? Is one way better than the other?

What do you do during the slow times? Ideally, it’d be great to remain semi-productive doing something. Now I usually just play games or listen to comedians on pandora. What do you guys do? Podcasts? TED Talks? Are there any decent apps where you could make a buck or two while sitting in a parking lot?