If you want to discuss major current events, this is not the place for it. It's for discussing stories that stir one's intellectual curiosity, and politics are

If you want to discuss major current events, this is not the place for it. It's for discussing stories that stir one's intellectual curiosity, and politics are mostly a no-go here. I and others who have been here for a while take the content of this site pretty seriously, as it's really one of the last bastions of intellectual discourse on the internet and we're a bit protective of that. HN attracts some of the most talented people in the world because of that very fact. It's been getting harder and harder in recent years to keep the politics out. If you want to talk politics (which a war certainly is), there are places for that, like Reddit. This is not a general use forum.