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by DaiPlusPlus 40 days ago
> And who ever heard of this in the majority of the world? It was news to me, I'm white and European btw.

It's a recurring headline on the rolling news channels on broadcast TV right now - and it's on the front-page of Reddit for me as well.
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Almondsetat 40 days ago
So a project should change its name because when it will be production ready 6 years from now the 1% of the 1% of the 1% will think for 1 microsecond about a piece of news from today?
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Lerc 40 days ago
Just that remember that there were people that said calling the second LOTR movie The Two Towers was disrespectful.
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DaiPlusPlus 40 days ago
Hollywood retitles movies based on books all the time[1], for the silliest of reasons ("Sorcerer's Stone" was contemporaneous to LOTR too); so given there's precedent, it follows that those wanting to retain the original title from the books should defend their position.

[1] https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/book-movie-titl...

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DaiPlusPlus 40 days ago
> So a project should change its nam

Potentially... supposing the criminal investigation into this uncovers a hitherto unknown organ harvesting scheme operating within the global music records industry; the subsequent police dragnet implicates significant proportion of the world's music stars and record labels and generates continual major headlines and criminal convictions - with all their lurid details - all for multiple decades from now on.

It's quite ridiculous when I put it that way, but this is basically the same thing as Epstein's network, just with a different crime; and Epstein was already in the news almost 20 years ago from his first conviction.

...so back in 2009, back when everyone was building their own social-network websites and online dating services, and supposing your real-name was also Epstein, so you called it "EpsteinLoveIsland.com" - would you have changed the name back then?

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dingdingdang 40 days ago
Gotta admit this was the first thing I thought of as well. Hard to focus on the code implementation with that in mind!
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encom 40 days ago
>news channels on broadcast TV

So no one below the age of 60 is aware of this.

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zimpenfish 40 days ago
It was above-fold on the BBC news website[0][1] several times over the past couple of months.

[0] highest reaching uk language news site in March 2026 - https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/...

[1] >400M visits weekly - https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/bbc-response-to-globa...

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