He already did. It didn't go as well as he hoped:

I like Lauda's story better. Anyway, since I forgot to make this thread self-moderated, I'm going to have to lock it because I think I've learnt everything I'm going to before this thread descends further into idiocy (that didn't take long). Anyone with additional, non-idiotic information can make a new thread about it.

It's perfectly allowed for untrustworthy users to have alts; that's why I only gave them negative trust instead of reporting the tell-tale PMs and getting them both banned.

You know, you might have had a chance at convincing me to remove your negative trust had you not got your accounts mixed up when PMing me about it. What a way to burn an alt.

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It would have made no difference, at least not to me. H8bussesNbicycles didn't even have negative trust before making that thread, and I didn't even know who he was (I still don't, but I'm pretty sure he's no newbie).

Real absinthe tastes primarily of anise/liquorice with varying degrees of bitter herbs - if you've tried other anise-flavoured spirits such as ouzo, sambuca, or pastis, you've got the basic idea. Fake absinthe tastes like cheap vodka mixed with Windex, and I'm not even exaggerating. It's worse than mixto tequila.

Real absinthe has recently been quietly legalised in many countries following the discovery in 2006 that its psychoactive properties are due to its extremely high alcohol content (typically 60-70% abv) rather than its supposedly hallucinogenic herbs (yes, drug laws really are that stupid). Given this, I don't understand why the nasty fake stuff still exists.

I respectfully disagree. While I figured their scheme would never work and that you would blacklist the lot of them if it did, I really don't see it being attempted for any reason other than to scam people, or to help other scammers, hence my feedback. This is way more than just politics, even if they try to make it appear that that's all it is. I stand by my feedback, and invite anyone who disagrees with it to exclude me from their trust lists. It's all right; I've never given negative trust simply for disagreeing with me, and I'm not about to start now.

I'm presently sipping an absinthe martini. Rinse cocktail glass with 1/12 oz Swiss absinthe (I'm using Duplais Balance), drain excess into shaker, add 2 oz London dry gin (Bombay Sapphire in this case) and ice, shake and double-strain. I don't normally shake martinis, but the absinthe benefits from the extra dilution. I also don't bother with garnishes, but if I did, a lemon twist would be appropriate. Duplais Balance, being a somewhat wormwood-forward absinthe, gives the drink a crisp bitterness that is strongly reminiscent of a Vesper, if you're familiar with the famous (and quite excellent) James Bond cocktail.

Speaking of martinis, do these drinks (the absinthe martini and Vesper) deserve to called such? What about vodka martinis? There are a number of people who feel that only gin and vermouth can properly be called a martini, but I feel these drinks are just slight variations on the same theme, so they're in the same category as far as I'm concerned. Certainly there are a number of drinks calling themselves "martinis" that aren't even in the same ballpark, but since we're trying to keep things civilised, we shall not discuss them.

The aTriz debacle? Did my name ever come up in that? I don't see why it should have, but I honestly wasn't paying attention.

(Wait, am I going to have to start paying attention to every drama that goes on around here, just so I can keep track of what I'm being falsely accused of?)

According to the trust feedback I got from Bazinga442, I'm an "ALUU pet", whatever that is. The false trust doesn't bother me, but I would like to know what it means. It must mean something, since Bazinga442 has given that same feedback to several others, but Google, Urban Dictionary, and forum search all come up empty. Is this something I'm supposed to know as DT? Was Lauda's "gang" supposed to send me a memo about this? I feel like I'm missing something here.

Not now, but he will be once the H8bussesNbicycles conspirators (which Thule is one of) succeed in overthrowing you. @Thule, did you actually bother to look at that trust list before you started using it?

Actually an engineer would be highly suspicious of a measurement with but a single significant figure and no specified tolerance. OP (and, to be fair, common core) seems to forget that numbers are not arbitrary things that can be defined however we want, instead they have meaning according to their real-world use, and the definitions must match this true meaning, even if it requires making exceptions for exceptional numbers like 0 and 1. Many theorems involving prime numbers simply don't work if 1 is considered to be prime, so for the sake of math actually working instead of being a meaningless bunch of scribbles on a blackboard, the definition of primality must exclude the number 1.

Well, "confused" was perhaps too strong a word. I was just a little... unclear as to whether I should lick Lauda's arse or suchmoon's first.

Okay, thanks for clearing that up. Sorry, suchmoon, you'll have to wait your turn.

An internet forum is not a nation-state, and an account on one is not a life, therefore losing an account is not a death sentence. Rather, it is a mere dismissal from a private organisation which you never had any particular right to be a part of in the first place.

Wait, I'm confused. Are we the merit gang or the trust gang?

It does seem legit, but I suppose it could just be scammers pretending to be Hamas, like those phoney dark-web hitmen-for-hire a few years back. You can't trust anyone these days.

Only 20, actually. Cryptohunter seems to have his own agenda, despite (probably) being an alt of some of the others. Not fair to count him. I've tagged the rest.

My, there are a lot of you, aren't there? No matter. Time for this pussy-petting ass-licking bitch-fox to give negative trust and chew gum, and I didn't bring enough gum for everybody. Sorry.

Which is another way of saying your relationships only last 12 days. I think I can do better than that without your help.

Is it a business vendetta, then?

That didn't save Zin-Zang from my red paint. My spies are everywhere.

Fixed your subject for you. This is a problem of cosmology, not religion. Religion has nothing whatsoever to do with the Big Bang unless you subscribe to the self-defeating "God of the gaps" doctrine; self-defeating because one day cosmologists may well determine the cause of the Big Bang, and everyone who used its mysteriousness as evidence of the existence of God will look even more foolish than they already do.

"If in fact the frontiers of knowledge are being pushed further and further back (and that is bound to be the case), then God is being pushed back with them, and is therefore continually in retreat. We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know." - Bonhoeffer

You got me.
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