cjet79
Anarcho Capitalist on moral grounds
Libertarian Minarchist on economic grounds
User ID: 124
cjet79
26d ago
If the history of a user is part of the ban reason I'd usually list it out and link to it.
Sometimes I'm seeing a bad trend and I'll increase punishment. This has happened a few times before with low effort top posts, which are usually just a warning or one day ban for repeat offenders. The latest offender might just be unlucky more than anything.
That last paragraph was an afterthought, on its own it doesn't really stand well and the rest of the post is just describing how fucked up the politician is, which is boo out group material.
cjet79
26d ago
The point is that this is not a culture war battleground that needs to be fought over by deploying arguments as soldiers. We fall short of the ideal of a neutral discussion area, but I see no reason not to whack down obvious "battleground" type posts where the whole point of the post could be summed up as "my out group sucks". That's boring and it happens literally everywhere else on the internet.
The point is not to be a courteous battleground. It's to be not a battleground at all.
cjet79
26d ago
the very first clause reminding us that that Ingroup has some boo-worthy members too..
One sentence doesn't undo the entire point of the post. And we don't want some magic set of words to allow someone out of an otherwise rule breaking post.
And the entire point of the post is to point out that someone in the out group is doing something bad.
Someone is always doing something bad and I don't want this place to turn into a battleground where we all just publish the worst things that members of the out group are doing.
Parts of the Platner discussion struck me as much more nuanced than this. In the sense that they weren't about the veracity of the allegations but how others were choosing to respond to those allegations. Some of the Platner discussion was the boring "oh look an out group member turned out to be terrible" and that discussion should have probably been shut down.
cjet79
26d ago
This is just boo outgroup stuff. We just banned someone in the last thread for doing this.
Three day ban for you as well.
cjet79
27d ago
Im not a doctor and you are probably better off asking an AI. But I do know that the problem with distilled water is the leeching of minerals. It's not that water is supposed to provide a bunch of minerals, it doesn't.
The water that goes into you will balance with the water in your system. Which is why drinking salt water can dehydrate you. Or why Gatorade was designed to be an effective sports drink, it's supposed to mimic the balance of water in your body, to prevent the leeching of minerals or water to balance out what is being added.
If you are in the US tap water is safe and fine.
Hmm, somewhat the opposite. Or at least you have the causation direction mixed up.
I assume I might have to do this again soon if not enough people noticed the first two bans. Its not that I'm punishing magicalkittycat for not noticing the examples. Its that magicalkittycat is one of the examples. And hopefully the last example needed.
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