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“Surprised?” I’m sincerely curious. Based on all of your experiences with how tech journalism covers tech, why are you surprised that this article doesn’t add

“Surprised?” I’m sincerely curious. Based on all of your experiences with how tech journalism covers tech, why are you surprised that this article doesn’t address an issue unrelated to health? I am not trolling or attacking personally- I am sincere: I’m super interested in understanding how divorced from other people’s perspective I am. I think this journalist was tasked with writing a story about how the health fears for 5g have not planned out in any reproducible study. It is obvious to me that there are powerful economic forces on both sides of this issue, and it is poisoning reporting. It seems outrageously obvious that talking about weather is not going to be addressed in this article

kccqzy 7y ago
Feigning surprise is a rhetorical device, and a useful one. I'm surprised that more people didn't know about this.
- DaniloDias 7y ago
  When @dang has a history of claiming legitimate questions are a personal attack, it bears some context.
  - DaniloDias 7y ago
    fix the behavior HN tries to correct, address it forthrightly, watch the response.
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  - dang 7y ago
    When people make these claims, they never supply links. What's an example of "claiming legitimate questions are a personal attack"?
    - DaniloDias 7y ago
      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20289975 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20289975
      - dang 7y ago
        "You are out of touch", "Labeling people that you don’t understand", "get out of your bubble", "You are deluding yourself", and "tossing a mr. yuck sticker on people you don’t understand" are all examples of personal swipes.
        DaniloDias 7y ago
        There is a huge difference between calling someone an asshole and calling out shitty behavior. If you can’t call bad behavior bad, then what is the value of your ethics? There is right and wrong- but you can call it out without demeaning people. I don’t have any shame for this and I think you are wrong.
darkpuma 7y ago
> "I’m sincerely curious." Feigning curiosity in response to somebody feigning surprise is... interesting (...or maybe I am feigning interest to convey my incredulity that you were sincerely curious. :-)
TeMPOraL 7y ago
GP's point - or at least a point that can be drawn from their comment - is that weather is actually more related to health than what the article is about, because weather forecasts have a measurable health and safety impact, whereas body absorption of low amounts of non-ionizing radiation doesn't.

kccqzy 7y ago

Feigning surprise is a rhetorical device, and a useful one. I'm surprised that more people didn't know about this.

DaniloDias 7y ago
When @dang has a history of claiming legitimate questions are a personal attack, it bears some context.
- DaniloDias 7y ago
  fix the behavior HN tries to correct, address it forthrightly, watch the response.
  - deleted 7y ago
    [deleted]
- dang 7y ago
  When people make these claims, they never supply links. What's an example of "claiming legitimate questions are a personal attack"?
  - DaniloDias 7y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20289975 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20289975
    - dang 7y ago
      "You are out of touch", "Labeling people that you don’t understand", "get out of your bubble", "You are deluding yourself", and "tossing a mr. yuck sticker on people you don’t understand" are all examples of personal swipes.
      - DaniloDias 7y ago
        There is a huge difference between calling someone an asshole and calling out shitty behavior. If you can’t call bad behavior bad, then what is the value of your ethics? There is right and wrong- but you can call it out without demeaning people. I don’t have any shame for this and I think you are wrong.

darkpuma 7y ago

> "I’m sincerely curious." Feigning curiosity in response to somebody feigning surprise is... interesting (...or maybe I am feigning interest to convey my incredulity that you were sincerely curious. :-)

TeMPOraL 7y ago

GP's point - or at least a point that can be drawn from their comment - is that weather is actually more related to health than what the article is about, because weather forecasts have a measurable health and safety impact, whereas body absorption of low amounts of non-ionizing radiation doesn't.