# Pitting Honeybadger **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 7, 2018, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183 "2018-03-07T15:40:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 30
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/581 "2023-09-28T15:03:19Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > Well it’s fake news that Venus is a roasting hot pressure cooker. Venus has an atmosphere of about 960,000 parts per million of CO2. Earth had 155,000 parts per million when it became warm enough to melt the frozen oceans. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/582 "2023-09-28T15:08:59Z")
Well obviously the tangent about Venus was tongue-in-cheek. But anyway, the point is we don’t want to screw around with, I dunno, let’s say, **doubling** the level of CO2 in the atmosphere since pre-industrial levels. Especially since there seem to be some runaway effects where increasing temperatures cause further increases. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/583 "2023-09-28T16:31:30Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > Venus has an atmosphere of about 960,000 parts per million of CO2. Earth had 155,000 parts per million when it became warm enough to melt the frozen oceans. [Moderating] This is an official warning for violating your topic ban on the subject of global warming. [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/584 "2023-09-28T16:38:45Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > This is an official warning for violating your topic ban on the subject of global warming. > [/Moderating] I fail to see a connection between this and global warming, but you are the boss. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/585 "2023-09-28T16:40:55Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > I fail to see a connection between this and global warming, but you are the boss. Wow! Do honey badgers have exceptionally dense craniums? ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/586 "2023-09-28T16:42:48Z")
I just want to say that your reply in the Conspiracy Theory thread was really silly. Did you mean to say that the FBI and DOJ are working with the “Administration” instead of the “government”? Because, of course the FBI and DOJ are part of the government. And, of course, it was silly even if that’s what you meant to say, since the DOJ has indicted Hunter Biden and Democratic Senator Menendez, so your bullshit about “sides” remains bullshit. And, of course, it was still off-topic, since you didn’t mention any conspiracy theories. (this is all @ HBDC, of course) ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/587 "2023-09-28T17:03:06Z")
I just want too know what Dr Who’s got to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/588 "2023-09-28T17:18:31Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > And, of course, it was still off-topic, since you didn’t mention any conspiracy theories. Maybe it was intended to be an example of one. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/589 "2023-09-28T17:25:33Z")
I was trying to read it that way somehow, but the post was just too dumb to figure that out. I’m glad that almost no one engaged with that bullshit in the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/590 "2023-09-28T17:29:33Z")
Some garbled offshoot of this, I think. > **[Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biden%E2%80%93Ukraine_conspiracy_theory)** > > The Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory is a series of false allegations that Joe Biden, while he was vice president of the United States, improperly withheld a loan guarantee to pressure Ukraine into firing prosecutor general Viktor Shokin to prevent a corruption investigation of Ukrainian gas company Burisma and to protect his son, Hunter Biden, who was on the Burisma board. As part of efforts by Donald Trump and his campaign in the Trump–Ukraine scandal, which led to Trump's first impeachmen J... ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/591 "2023-09-28T17:30:24Z")
I’m fairly confident it was an unintentional example. The lack of self-awareness in posting a conspiracy in a thread about how nonsensical conspiracy theorists are is perhaps only matched by the example here from an hour ago of not seeing any connection between the ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere and global warming. I’m also fairly confident he did mean to use the word government rather than administration, but most of us just lack his prospective to know when the word ‘government’ means ‘Deep State’ from context clues. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/592 "2023-09-28T17:30:44Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > I’m fairly confident it was an unintentional example. Thus the winky. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/593 "2023-09-28T19:19:02Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > I can just see lines of morons marching up to board rockets for their free trip to Venus with its ham bushes and blanket trees. > > Would you buy that for a quarter? Our Pittee is apparently not especially literate, either. For the benefit of everybody else: > **[The Marching Morons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons)** > > "The Marching Morons" is a science fiction story by American writer Cyril M. Kornbluth, originally published in Galaxy in April 1951. It was included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two after being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965. > In the "Introduction" to The Best of C. M. Kornbluth, Frederik Pohl (Kornbluth's friend and collaborator) explains some of the inspiration to "The Marching Morons". The work was written after Pohl suggested that Kornbluth write a follow-up story t... ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2023, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/594 "2023-09-30T20:48:06Z")
Just to leave it in for probable historical records, the subject of the thread, HoneybadgerDC has requested in ATMB to be banned. Said thread is locked while the mods apparently consider this request. One thing that interested me though - > [@Honeybadger warning over global warming disinformation](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honeybadger-warning-over-global-warming-disinformation/990881/51): > > I would request that you ban me for this site so I won’t be tempted to keep coming back and looking. So apparently, they are indicating some compulsion that forces them to come here AND -respond-. Although AFAIK being banned doesn’t prevent you from viewing the site. Regardless, it is … interesting. If they do have a history of compulsive disorder I hope they get help. I don’t believe it, considering everything upthread, but on the off chance it’s so, best of luck. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2023, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/595 "2023-09-30T23:27:23Z")
Does requesting to be banned happen very often? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2023, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/596 "2023-09-30T23:33:12Z")
In what way does being banned stop him from looking? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2023, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/597 "2023-09-30T23:34:33Z")
It is fairly rare. Though we get request more frequently to delete accounts and all their posts. We don’t do that. These are usually people that posted years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2023, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/598 "2023-10-01T00:13:27Z")
How crazy. I’ve never ever said anything so embarrassing 🫣 that I’d come back xxxyears later and request that. Ever.😊 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2023, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/599 "2023-10-01T00:23:08Z")
The closest I’ve come is saying “I do” that first time. If I could erase _that_ line from history… 😁 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2023, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183/600 "2023-10-01T01:45:42Z")
His Voluntary Banning is now official. This means he can request to be unbanned in the future. But he is gone for now at least. With that I think **Miller** will close this thread when he sees the messages. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183.md?page=29) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-honeybadger/810183.md?page=31)