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('Scuse me if I kinda strawmanned you there btw. I wanted to get that out. :razz: )
May 06, 2019 at 10:25
But is there suddenly a dearth of whacky, objectionable, and generally fucked-up ideas out there? Has the volume on reactionary voices been turned so ...
May 06, 2019 at 10:14
I would like to dedicate my 7700th comment to Harry Potter, who can stick it up his arse for all I care.
May 05, 2019 at 22:15
:up:
May 04, 2019 at 21:50
This misses the point that the reason given for euthanasia of animals is benefit for them, i.e. an end to their pain. It's easier to 'other' animals a...
May 04, 2019 at 21:01
So, are unsightly ivory towers a bug or a feature of a healthy discoursal landscape? I say, on the whole, a feature, as are the marauding hordes of li...
May 04, 2019 at 08:55
I don't want to offend you btw @"Devans99". I just think in this case you fell short.
May 03, 2019 at 16:48
Makes no more sense to me than saying: 4. For the first cause to cause the first effect requires an internal driver, IE A motor 5. So there exists a t...
May 03, 2019 at 16:47
It's true its skeletal low-effort nature was a contributing factor to it being taken down. More attempt at reasoning through even apparently nonsensic...
May 03, 2019 at 16:39
Yes, I did read it. Here is the OP in its entirety for the record. Again, I don't think a proxy debate here is appropriate. But just in case anyone is...
May 03, 2019 at 16:35
Sorry, Devan, but you don't get use feedback as a proxy for debating deleted OPs. A significant number of the responses to your OP characterised it as...
May 03, 2019 at 16:28
It was taken down for low quality. It wasn't even a decent attempt at a logical argument.
May 03, 2019 at 16:20
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Jake was a he I thought. Anyway, for the record, while I found his recent insinuations that he was the only one who cared about quality here annoying,...
May 02, 2019 at 07:08
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:nerd: :sparkle:
May 02, 2019 at 06:51
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:sad:
May 02, 2019 at 00:31
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Do they have boobies there?
May 02, 2019 at 00:25
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A partially clad young lady exposing what he quaintly referred to as her 'boobies'. Mild stuff, really.
May 02, 2019 at 00:05
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(After I refused his initial request to be banned.)
May 01, 2019 at 23:30
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Banned @"Jake" for posting porn.
May 01, 2019 at 23:29
Everyone on the mod team cares about the quality here. In fact, we care about it enough to dedicate a considerable amount of our time working for free...
May 01, 2019 at 22:04
That didn't happen at the old PF and it doesn't happen here. We've always had plenty of knowledgeable posters. That's almost twenty years of philosoph...
May 01, 2019 at 21:53
Even with the resources, it would still a bad idea in my view. It would hurt the community nature of the place, which is based on character, variety, ...
May 01, 2019 at 21:49
Self-respect?
May 01, 2019 at 21:43
Try writing better posts.
May 01, 2019 at 21:41
We only have sticks. You'll have to find your own carrot.
May 01, 2019 at 21:35
Please refrain from insulting janitors by comparing them to us. Those people actually get paid. We are somewhere between drudges and the Borg.
May 01, 2019 at 15:08
Maybe a hidden bunker nuclear war forum?
May 01, 2019 at 15:01
Well, I suppose this complaint is at least an improvement on telling us the only topic worth talking about is nuclear war.
May 01, 2019 at 14:56
:zip:
May 01, 2019 at 10:47
Yes, welcome!
April 30, 2019 at 20:12
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Could be. If so, I wish him well. Here is not the place for him though.
April 30, 2019 at 18:28
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Banned @"Daniel Cox" for being a crank and/or troll. Thank you to whoever reported his recent posts, which have now been removed. (Replies needed to b...
April 30, 2019 at 18:21
There is some justification in the comparison, I suppose. So, I don't want to argue the toss especially as, as I've said, there's a danger of those wh...
April 30, 2019 at 14:58
Believing a position seeks a better result for society has no bearing on whether someone is sexist or not or whether their position is morally support...
April 30, 2019 at 14:39
Existing, in my case. Anyhow, it's a false equivalency. In the case of abortion, there's a balance of rights to be considered between the unborn child...
April 30, 2019 at 14:21
Yeah, probably was a bit overkill there. :smile:
April 29, 2019 at 23:18
Please stop the self-flagellation or I'll have to flagellate you with annoying compliments. Anyway, on a jollier note, the Mark Fisher / Douglas Lain ...
April 29, 2019 at 19:27
Probably because it takes a lot of time and effort and we're too busy and/or lazy. Sounds like a good idea though...
April 29, 2019 at 18:59
(The issue of why and how eyes become near-sighted is an interesting one but maybe a digression).
April 29, 2019 at 18:20
There are literally millions of verified cases of LASIK and glasses correcting short-sightedness, which is evidence that those solutions can be effect...
April 29, 2019 at 17:53
And yet a fox in the woods is no bother to him. Priorities...
April 29, 2019 at 15:23
So on a scale of zero to ten, with zero being no justification and ten being absolute justification, I'm going to give a 6/10 on his sacking as a gove...
April 29, 2019 at 14:24
It's pseudoscience. No amount of faffing about with visualisation and movement is going to match redirecting light through external lenses or burning ...
April 29, 2019 at 08:45
Well, you've promoted it enough now and I think you know we're not going to change policy on where we put OPs solely for your benefit.
April 29, 2019 at 07:56
Just on the last point, that it's difficult to untangle his motives doesn't mean he shouldn't have been sacked. While it's right we ought not make dec...
April 29, 2019 at 07:55
They will now... :brow:
April 29, 2019 at 07:47
It's a fair point to bring up. I suppose if an unscrupulous person lied to help people for money, I wouldn't criticize them. Nor would they deserve an...
April 29, 2019 at 07:26
Anyway, this is a pinned notice not a debate topic, so I'm going to close this.
April 29, 2019 at 06:43
As far as I remember, the original example @"SophistiCat" posted was of someone blocking @"jamalrob", so I wouldn't take being used as an example as b...
April 29, 2019 at 06:38
If you're writing paid advertisements / lobbying for a company or industry, you shouldn't be passing that off as authoritative content. He abused his ...
April 29, 2019 at 06:29