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> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. https://news.ycombin

by unmole 3y ago

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

ImHereToVote 3y ago
Soviet style gerontocracy is a fairly new phenomena.
- dundarious 3y ago
  And our gerontocracy is actually substantially older than theirs was.
0cf8612b2e1e 3y ago
Do not upvote it then? It is mostly mob rule, just accept that some "normie-gossip" is relevant to many readers here.
dredmorbius 3y ago
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8339325 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8339325> "Most" implies "some are". Where that line gets drawn is open to debate and discussion, though there are stories which cross the threshold. In Feinstein's case, she was the senator from California, a powerful region unto itself and with high significance to Silicon Valley, entertainment, and other factors with which HN is directly concerned. That much discussion on such news at HN tends not to be highly substantive is ... unfortunate, though that tends to come with the territory of politics. There have been other stories about deaths or transitions of significant political figures: Senators: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=senator%20has%20died&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...> Congressional representatives are more difficult to search but do turn up: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23878741 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23878741> Presidential elections, not limited to the US: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=elected%20president&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4752077 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4752077>

by unmole 3y ago

ImHereToVote 3y ago

Soviet style gerontocracy is a fairly new phenomena.

dundarious 3y ago
And our gerontocracy is actually substantially older than theirs was.

0cf8612b2e1e 3y ago

Do not upvote it then? It is mostly mob rule, just accept that some "normie-gossip" is relevant to many readers here.

dredmorbius 3y ago

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8339325 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8339325> "Most" implies "some are". Where that line gets drawn is open to debate and discussion, though there are stories which cross the threshold. In Feinstein's case, she was the senator from California, a powerful region unto itself and with high significance to Silicon Valley, entertainment, and other factors with which HN is directly concerned. That much discussion on such news at HN tends not to be highly substantive is ... unfortunate, though that tends to come with the territory of politics. There have been other stories about deaths or transitions of significant political figures: Senators: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=senator%20has%20died&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...> Congressional representatives are more difficult to search but do turn up: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23878741 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23878741> Presidential elections, not limited to the US: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=elected%20president&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4752077 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4752077>