I appreciate your self-awareness here. I don’t really think you intended to come across as you did – Happy Mutants like to geek out over the details, and you got a little stubborn and defensive when you were called on its being inappropriate or off-topic in this particular instance. It happens.
The point people have been making is that these details are about as relevant to the story at hand as an ammosexual’s wanking over the details of the kind of weapon used in a specific mass-shooting, with the same (in your case unintended) result: distraction and derailing from discussion of the main story and its fundamental issues. As the moderator recently said in regard to mass shooting topics:
This isn’t a story about different types of sleeping pills and the regulations and control of them. This story is about a man who obviously and admittedly attempted to seriously harm a woman who was trying to leave him, and – more importantly – about a judge who was looking for any excuse (including the type of sleeping pill used) to let him off with a slap on the wrist.
