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Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by bowsamic on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @03:35PM (#40650524)
Can you give an example of an apolitical topic?

EDIT: unfortunately I can’t reply to the comments as I have been banned

EDIT 2: I have been banned to reply to the commenter, dang told me

Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by dpkirchner on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @03:42PM (#40650612)
There isn't one. It's the very nature of politics that it affects everything we humans do.
Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by nicolas_t on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @04:09PM (#40650893)
I don't think you've been banned. There's some mechanism to rate limit replies in HN to prevent flamewars so maybe that's what you're seeing?
Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by tim333 on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @03:52PM (#40650724)
Providing memory safety in computer languages?
Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by darkwater on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @03:59PM (#40650799)
You are making governments secret agencies work harder. So, not apolitical.
Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by analognoise on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @03:50PM (#40650679)
Almost everything can be discussed in an apolitical way - you just don’t talk politics. It isn’t a logic puzzle.
Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by bowsamic on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @03:51PM (#40650698)
Yes you can decide not to mention the politics inherent in the thing but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there. I’m wondering if the person I’m replying to can produce a thing where it truly isn’t there
Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by analognoise on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @08:46PM (#40653308)
But you can say that about anything. There are people whose whole expertise is one area of, say, film production.

You can talk about films and critically analyze them without doing a deep dive into how props are made. It’s OK to have separate contexts.

It isn’t a “gotcha” that “everything is political” - it just doesn’t matter when trying to do most things. It’s distracting and pointless; it’s a null statement.

You can talk about anything without having to include politics the same way you can discuss literature without examining types of paper.

Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by bowsamic on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @01:24AM (#40654827)
It’s not null, it’s true and profound
Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by analognoise on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @11:19AM (#40659097)
In the “I’m 14 and this is deep” way, maybe. Nothing more.
Re:Lynn Conway Has Died by dang on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @04:39PM (#40651207)
I don't believe I told you that, because our software doesn't work that way.

Your account is rate-limited though. We rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments and/or get involved in flamewars. That's probably what I told you.