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Or it may that this community is international, so you either have tech talks, or a pile of discussions about politics in every part of the world.

>>axioms+(OP)
Not really, there's still the rule of "new phenomenon" that makes it news/discussion worthy - like Canada's quick turn towards fascism, tyranny.

>>loceng+3L
interesting new phenomenon that satisfies intellectual curiosity.

And by interesting - anything good hackers would find interesting.

It's a purposely high bar to filter out almost all mainstream news and even most tech news, and definitely most politics, which tends to satisfy emotional curiosity at the expense of intellect.

Unfortunately, it doesn't always work. These stories tend to brute-force their way in.

>>krapp+IP
Because there may be more emotion involved doesn't negate its intellectual value - that's a scapegoat reason, and people avoiding intellectual interests that have emotion involved is avoiding learning and opportunities to learn. That's arguably quite detrimental to society, and "hackers" avoiding it who have domain expertise with technology and maybe could provide a unique perspective or brainstorm uniquely is then likely reduced. Arguably political issues, policy and information propagation are the main problems we have in society these days.

>>loceng+3L
And why exactly Canada's turn is more intresting than, for example, Ukraine and Russia on a brink on war? I live in country, which for the last 7 years made a sharp turn towards rather literal authoritarism, but probably due to the issue being localised to Europe, not North America no one here would be fighting for the topic to be on the front page. Also, there are thousands of places create to discuss local and global events, less to discuss obscure IT topics.