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Does anyone know what happened?

by blondie9x 6y ago

wsostt 6y ago
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- leethacker3 6y ago
  I read it. So what happened? Drugs? COVID?
- jamesrcole 6y ago
  The tweet says “Please keep speculation to yourself”. Whether you think it’s appropriate or not, asking if anyone knows what happened is not the same as asking for speculation.
  - Ar-Curunir 6y ago
    The former inevitably asks for speculation, especially given the short timeframe and lack of information involved.
    - VectorLock 6y ago
      I think it also unfortunately fuels the darker speculations rather than quells them.
dijit 6y ago
The tweet specifically asks us not to speculate and the parent article makes mention that the conditions of his death have not been made public. I’m not sure how others feel, personally I am conflicted: respect the death of an icon and not pry (even if others are speaking on his behalf) or satisfy my curiosity. I’m going to go with the former, for now.
- deleted 6y ago
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- Waterluvian 6y ago
  There's plenty of time for one then the other. I don't think the curiosity to know is just for curiosity alone. I think it serves a purpose for everyone to bear witness to the kinds of things that take us.
  - samhwr 6y ago
    Unless he was killed by a bear and that bear is still on the loose, or something like that, then I think we can probably wait a few days for his family to be informed. There are a lot of people here making very high-minded comments about how it’s deeply important to the sum total of human knowledge that we learn the cause of his death so that we can reflect on our mortality, and so on and so forth. I can’t help but feel those comments are a bit insincere. It’s morbid curiosity, let’s be honest, and it’s not enough to justify speculating when his family and friends are probably reading these comments and possibly haven’t found out.
    - Bost 6y ago
      > It’s morbid curiosity I guess it's the caveman in all of us who really needs to know what happened to his buddy so that he can avoid it. And I guess those without this curiosity in their DNA died out rather soon... So it might not be insincerity but genetics.
      - samhwr 6y ago
        This is certainly an inventive argument! But I would argue in response that your odds of being killed by whatever killed Dan Kaminsky, in the next 24 hours or so, purely because you weren't told soon enough how he died, are rather low! May you live until tomorrow and may your genes prosper to fight another day ;)
- sneak 6y ago
  Asking for facts is not speculating, it might be the opposite. I'd like to know what happened to my friend, who was himself always in pursuit of the truth.

Does anyone know what happened?

wsostt 6y ago

Read the tweet

leethacker3 6y ago
I read it. So what happened? Drugs? COVID?
jamesrcole 6y ago
The tweet says “Please keep speculation to yourself”. Whether you think it’s appropriate or not, asking if anyone knows what happened is not the same as asking for speculation.
- Ar-Curunir 6y ago
  The former inevitably asks for speculation, especially given the short timeframe and lack of information involved.
  - VectorLock 6y ago
    I think it also unfortunately fuels the darker speculations rather than quells them.

dijit 6y ago

The tweet specifically asks us not to speculate and the parent article makes mention that the conditions of his death have not been made public. I’m not sure how others feel, personally I am conflicted: respect the death of an icon and not pry (even if others are speaking on his behalf) or satisfy my curiosity. I’m going to go with the former, for now.

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Waterluvian 6y ago
There's plenty of time for one then the other. I don't think the curiosity to know is just for curiosity alone. I think it serves a purpose for everyone to bear witness to the kinds of things that take us.
- samhwr 6y ago
  Unless he was killed by a bear and that bear is still on the loose, or something like that, then I think we can probably wait a few days for his family to be informed. There are a lot of people here making very high-minded comments about how it’s deeply important to the sum total of human knowledge that we learn the cause of his death so that we can reflect on our mortality, and so on and so forth. I can’t help but feel those comments are a bit insincere. It’s morbid curiosity, let’s be honest, and it’s not enough to justify speculating when his family and friends are probably reading these comments and possibly haven’t found out.
  - Bost 6y ago
    > It’s morbid curiosity I guess it's the caveman in all of us who really needs to know what happened to his buddy so that he can avoid it. And I guess those without this curiosity in their DNA died out rather soon... So it might not be insincerity but genetics.
    - samhwr 6y ago
      This is certainly an inventive argument! But I would argue in response that your odds of being killed by whatever killed Dan Kaminsky, in the next 24 hours or so, purely because you weren't told soon enough how he died, are rather low! May you live until tomorrow and may your genes prosper to fight another day ;)
sneak 6y ago
Asking for facts is not speculating, it might be the opposite. I'd like to know what happened to my friend, who was himself always in pursuit of the truth.