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Hot takes don't have to be political. Sport (X team deserve to win more than the current leaders), food (flats are better than drumsticks), etc.

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I fully agree, but in an office of 100 people, I'm surprised everyone else agrees.

They don't need to agree! That's part of the fun of it!

A regular on my service is hotdogs are sandwiches or emacs is the superior text editor

I recommend "every food is either a soup or a salad".

or a meat

No, meat is a salad

I think the original argument was a meat because a meat is a single, semi-solid, blob of a single item. Salads are non-mixed collections of goods and soups are homogenized(?) liquids.

Or did they collapse the state of matter for soups and meats?

That wouldn't match salad, though.

Well, everyone probably does need to agree on what is off-limits for work conversation. Putting something like "Joe Biden is a communist" or "Black lives matter is just a front for foreign agitators" into #hot-takes is probably not something you want people getting into at work in most cases, right? (Note that I am not making either of those statements, they were purposely chosen to be extremely provocative.)

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