𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠

Yes, but that’s the textbook definition of inflation (being forced to raise wages because the salary becomes less valuable). I’m not sure if that’s really the goal here.

I can understand the case for UBI, but so far most trials have been quite small in scope… that means few national effects have been properly observed.

To be fair, if 8% exits the labour market that would have a pretty severe economic effect, no?

No I was referring to the OP, who stated they’re from Florida. Sorry if that was unclear.

Your sidebar also says:

Small instance with respectful moderation staff

Yet here you are, telling another user who tried to give you constructive criticism to “grow a pair”, “pound sand” and that they’re “tolerant of such bigotry”. That doesn’t seem very respectful to me. You could also have addressed the criticism directly, but opted to instead misconstrue the argument and presented a slippery-slope fallacy.

If you’re not going to treat other users with respect, then that’s a block from me.

Your sidebar rule explicitly talks about “hatred”. But I don’t see that at all in this comment. At worst it’s a critique of the US education system, which at this point I don’t think either side of the political spectrum is really happy with. It’s also well-known that the state of education differs greatly between US states.

If he commented something along the lines of “Probably the USA, because you have to be a moron not to know this”, I could see your point. But they didn’t. They didn’t even pass any value judgment about Americans at all.

It could even be a sarcastic reply, because the OP also posted what state they were from, so they “probably /s” are from the US.

I think you’re making a lot of assumptions about this user and their mindset when they wrote this comment. As you’ve seen from the immense feedback you got, the vast majority of users heavily disagree with you that they violated the sidebar rule. Being too heavy-handed on the moderation damages communities, it does not protect them.

In my opinion, this user should have been let off with a warning, and the comment should have stayed up because it requires a very subjective reading for it to come close to violating the sidebar rule. Alternatively you could have issued a warning and removed the comment if you want to err on the side of (excessive) caution. But a full ban was not appropriate.

… How is this “hatred”?

Indian

because you can be watched or recorded as you were filling it out

You expressly can’t do this. This is why there’s a voting booth and observers who make sure you’re alone in the booth. And after you fill out the ballot, it gets folded inward and placed in a box that is closed off until election day is over. There’s no way to verify who you voted for, as your name isn’t on the ballot.

In your home, someone could force themselves in, force you to vote for someone and verify you did so.

With anonymous voting at a polling place, sure someone could force you to go there, but since the vote itself is anonymous (and there’s people around to check it is), they would never be able to verify that you indeed voted X or Y way. It’s also why most countries ban taking pictures of your vote; no proving to anyone how you voted!

I made it up.

“Turns out all we needed to travel forwards in time is to burn homophobes!”

Trump would send fighters to force the plane to return.

Valve didn’t decide to pull it, and the game is still downloadable if you purchased it before.

That’s a pretty fair point, though I assume a spare powerbank would solve the problem nearly as well (albeit slower and with a cable).

Screwdrivers are pretty entry-level tools though.

I’ve never had one of those actually work…

Why the fuck did he sign it

Clearly the train didn’t yield properly, time to ban trains.

Also, since they’ve been bombing nuclear facilities I can guarantee you that they have boat loads of very shitty (radioactive) chemicals laying around there which with these bombings now will also be spread around everywhere

So far no radiation was detected, so perhaps it was stored more securely (or somewhere else).

Yes, that is the big thing many people are missing. Valve takes a 0% cut from Steam keys sold outside of their platform. The 30% does not apply.

The only rule Valve sets out here is that you don’t sell those Steam keys for less on other storefronts. Which imo seems fair enough if Valve is doing the distribution and asking for nothing in return.

The big sticking point is whether the 30% cut isn’t too high in the first place.