I'm seeing posts about the bomb-disposal robot and lots of interesting little stories that I'd love to read some other day but this is the one news site I know of that doesn't mention Alton Sterling or Philando Castile. Why is that?
Ask HN: Why aren't we talking about Alton Sterling or Philando Castile?
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Re: Ask HN: Why aren't we talking about Alton Sterling or Philando Castile?
#2Via the Guidelines:
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
Re: Ask HN: Why aren't we talking about Alton Sterling or Philando Castile?
#3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12054230
And many other submissions besides.
Re: Ask HN: Why aren't we talking about Alton Sterling or Philando Castile?
#4Because the topic doesn't belong in a news aggregator about technology, science and business. My heart is near the victims and you can show them respect in other meaningful ways.
Re: Ask HN: Why aren't we talking about Alton Sterling or Philando Castile?
#5Via the Guidelines: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
I would consider using a robot bomb to kill a suspect an "interesting" (for scary values of interesting) new phenomenon: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/dallas-pd-using-a-bomb-robo...
Re: Ask HN: Why aren't we talking about Alton Sterling or Philando Castile?
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Re: Ask HN: Why aren't we talking about Alton Sterling or Philando Castile?
#7Via the Guidelines: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
I would consider using a robot bomb to kill a suspect an "interesting" (for scary values of interesting) new phenomenon: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/dallas-pd-using-a-bomb-robo...
And that aspect of the story is indeed being discussed:
Re: Ask HN: Why aren't we talking about Alton Sterling or Philando Castile?
#8Well, our beloved hero and martyr Micah Xavier "Cop slayer" Johnson did such a great job knocking out the enemy positions targeted, killing an impressive number of satanic whores, that I completely forgot about Sterling and Castile, but yes, you are right. My condolences.
Re: Ask HN: Why aren't we talking about Alton Sterling or Philando Castile?
#9Because the topic doesn't belong in a news aggregator about technology, science and business. My heart is near the victims and you can show them respect in other meaningful ways.
Pretty much this. There are so many places to talk about these things. It doesn't mean that people here don't consider the topic important, I've seen discussions on twitter, facebook, reddit, and elsewhere that explore many of the same points that the news media is exploring.
Re: Ask HN: Why aren't we talking about Alton Sterling or Philando Castile?
#10If I was Mr. Castile, the last thing I would want is to have my good name [0] banded about in pairs with Mr. Sterling who was an armed felon and sex offender with a history of resisting arrest [1].
[0]http://heavy.com/news/2016/07/philando-castile-criminal-reco...
[1]http://heavy.com/news/2016/07/alton-sterling-arrest-record-c...