this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2025
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
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a tomato is both, a fruit and a vegetable, btw.. those terms are not mutually exclusive, because things like fruit, root and leaves refer to the part of the plant, while vegetable refers to how it can be used.
You're in the right direction. The only missing piece is the word "fruit" referring to two, partially overlapping, concepts:
Tomato is a botanical fruit, but not a culinary fruit. And this means that all those "mmh, ackshyually tomato is not a vegetable" claims you see in those discussions are simply a four terms fallacy.
And, more importantly, when people talk about fruits, you typically know which of those two concepts they're talking about, due to the context (are we talking about plant development? or cooking?). And the same applies to "America" referring to the country bordering Canada versus the continent that country controls some territory of. (If you see the whole thing as a single continent, that is. That's roughly as useful as to talk about Afro-Eurasia as a single continent.). And all those "ackshyually" tend to diverge the discussion from shit that matters into things that don't matter.
Your father was a vegetable, Trebek.