If this thread were about the effect of Star Wars on technology and tech culture, it would be on topic.
But the death of a celebrity is exactly the sort of mainstream, intellectually vacant news that this site is supposed to avoid.
The death of a woman who was chained in a bikini to a pretend space slug gets this much attention, but the death of the woman who confirmed the existence of dark matter in the actual, not fictional universe is barely being discussed, on what's supposed to be a forum that values substantive intellectual content over trivia.
But the death of a celebrity is exactly the sort of mainstream, intellectually vacant news that this site is supposed to avoid.
The death of a woman who was chained in a bikini to a pretend space slug gets this much attention, but the death of the woman who confirmed the existence of dark matter in the actual, not fictional universe is barely being discussed, on what's supposed to be a forum that values substantive intellectual content over trivia.