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> You need to ask yourself if they would ever run such an ad starring a black man instead, and what the public reaction would be like then.

Ronald Reagan and the GOP are the ones responsible for popularizing the "welfare queen" stereotype and specifically associating it with black women. It has been a part of the playbook for quite some time.

The comment I'm responding to left out the race aspect entirely and tried to frame it like the controversy is about the age of the guy depicted, which is a complete misrepresentation of events.

You conveniently forgot to mention that a lot of the controversy is coming from the GOP side because it was a young white man being used to depict someone that's lazy. You should ask yourself if these people would be as upset if the ad depicted a young black man instead.

I was just exaggerating for effect. Obviously I wouldn't seriously claim nobody ever did something, just that it wasn't what I would consider common behavior.

That being said, I think the particular example you provided is kind of weak. It's my understanding that the behavior you speak of was driven primarily by the Russian government's unofficial policy of ignoring cybercrimes committed by their citizens so long as the targets were not domestic. They were ensuring their ability to continue operation by banning discussion of targeting Russians. This is how groups like the Russian Business Network have been able to flourish.

This type of system is mentioned in the article under the "Destination Dispatch" section.

> I can’t help but feel there used to be honor among hackers. You didn’t go after your own. What kind of jerk would attack Arch Linux?

This has absolutely not ever been the case.

> There’s few things I find more pathetic than trying really hard to show who’s best and ranking things that have no business being ranked.

This seems like a strangely harsh response considering the person you're responding to is just restating the assertion that Carmack made in his tweet.

> Would love to see a metric switch to C en km/h

You can change the units and location by clicking the gear icon next to the city on the screen it shows in between broadcasts.

> Fantasy book are a good example. A Games of Thrones was first released in 1996 but had middling success. It was only after 2011 that the series exploded in popularity. Good Omens main peak was ~15 years after release. Hell, some books like Handmaiden's Tale were published in 1985 but only reached their peak in 2010.

Using your example and the rules suggested in the grandparent post, GRRM's copyright would have been set to initially expire in 2024, where he would be able to pay $100k to renew it until 2038. Handmaiden's Tale works in a similar way, with the initial expiration in 2013.

This still seems very reasonable to me.

> I do wonder though, because I have seen a dozen other brands of Amazon delivery vehicles, is Amazon being 'sponsored' by these manufacturers or just buying cars all the time? I am really confused why there's so many different brands.

Amazon runs a program called "Delivery Service Partners" which basically certifies small businesses to deliver Amazon packages. They are given the option of using their own fleet of vehicles if they don't want to lease the vehicles designed by Amazon.

> Yet when NPR runs non-stop Walmart articles [1], often in a neutral to positive fashion, most are unaware that they've received millions of dollars from the Waltons.

The link your provided has 14 articles written in 2025. Topics covered: listeria outbreak, tariffs raising prices, radioactive shrimp, a stabbing at a store, and a shooting at a store.

Maybe two of the articles could be viewed as mildly positive towards the Walmart corporation, though they are basically just saying that the tariffs weren't impacting prices to the level that many people thought they were, and they were backed up with real-world data. I appreciate you providing an illustrative link to back up your post, but it doesn't really seem to agree with your point.

> A lot of the news gives the impression that your world is over when 14th hits, not recognising that historically legacy software and hardware is a thing.

There was a lot of buzz in the cybersecurity world near Window XP's EOL about attackers potentially holding on to exploits until after support ended, so as to avoid having them patched. Sure enough, CVE-2014-1776 was found being actively exploited two weeks after support officially ended.

Using a closed source operating system after it will no longer receive security patches is just plain dangerous. I don't really think people should be advocating for it at all outside of the purposes of historical preservation.

It works for me. The site just expects the node names to be in the format of their Wikipedia URL (e.g. "Binghamton,_New_York".)

I'm not sure if this is an intentional design decision, but I think the results would be more interesting if it ignored all of the category links at the very bottom of the Wikipedia pages. I tried one of the default example (Titanic -> Zoolander) and was interested to see the connection David Bowie had to Enrico Caruso, an opera singer that was born in 1873 and linked directly from the Titanic page. It turns out that David Bowie is only linked on Caruso's page because they both won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, of which all of the recipients ever are linked to at the bottom of the page.

By excluding the category links at the bottom that contain all the recipients, there would still be a connection, but it would include the extra hop between the two that makes their connection more clear on the graph (Titanic -> Caruso -> Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award -> David Bowie.)

Otherwise, this is a fun little tool to play around with. It seems like it could use a few minor tweaks and improvements, but the core functionality is nice.