Really HN? The top voted comment is "this country has gone downhill"? This isn't Reddit. We're supposed to at least say something novel here, and hopefully interesting. How has the country gone downhill? Why is this decision so uninteresting? This comment also completely ignores the very interesting geopolitical aspects of this bill. On the surface it does look like something innocuous, as implied, which is why people might double-take and want to look deeper.
Pathos-heavy comments like this one with no real meat disappoint me. Surely we can do better.
The comment seems pretty clear to me: Despite very serious issues legislators are focusing on unimportant fads.
I increasingly think interesting geopolitics are a trap for a certain type of brain. When I was in high school I followed that sort of thing closely, and felt very smart. But it all had no connection to me, and it didn't matter to me at all. I realized I prefered geopolitics to domestic news because I could feel detached from the tradgedy.
It's a 4 paragraph comment that's basically throw away and everyone will forget exists by tommrow. How much effort should people be putting into these comments. Especially when there's no return. There's no guarantee you'll get a smart responses
Sorry, I'm calling bullshit on this. Look at every single thread that discusses cryptocurrency. If you haven't noticed the Redditification of Hacker News, then I envy you.
Pathos-heavy comments like this one with no real meat disappoint me. Surely we can do better.