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Are you a human being?

Ever had one of these days? Are you a human being? We apologize for the confusion, but we can’t quite tell if you’re a person or a script. Please don’t take this personally. Bots and scripts can be remarkably lifelike these days! Enter the CAPTCHA displayed below, and we’ll be out of your way. If…
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Ever had one of these days?

Are you a human being?

We apologize for the confusion, but we can’t quite tell if you’re a person or a script.

Please don’t take this personally.

Bots and scripts can be remarkably lifelike these days!

Enter the CAPTCHA displayed below, and we’ll be out of your way.

If you’re a Stack Overflow user, you have lots of soul-searching to do. Sometimes these requests can tell you what you already knew.

stack overflow recaptcha: reportedly geekiest

(Courtesy of Dave Webb)

Other times, they might be uncomfortably accurate:

stack overflow recaptcha: climax received

(Courtesy of Lara Eagle)

If you get a particularly great ReCAPTCHA, send it our way. (But the bar is high — it needs to be as good as these two, at least.) Consider it our punishment for being human.

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