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New comment by dreijs in "FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive"

dreijs — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:32:20 +0000

Yes, just to add to this: in the article by Nate [0] he says that he tried to buy the IP but Disney refused because they were unhappy with some of his prior comments.

"I did approach Disney a year or two ago, through my agent, about acquiring the remaining IP. ...

We were told to basically get lost: ABC was annoyed with my critical public comments about their management of FiveThirtyEight. It apparently wasn’t a long conversation, so I don’t have a lot more color to report than that."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197703

New comment by dreijs in "Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music"

dreijs — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 02:15:33 +0000

If you zoom in far enough, you can also click on the line segments representing year/subgenre combos

New comment by dreijs in "New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes"

dreijs — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 02:00:19 +0000

That is interesting - I tried the setup you suggested and actually did see something that could be described as yellow++, with maybe a hint of gold/orange

It was also very intense, like staring into the sun. I observed this for both of the two default yellow tints that I could choose via the (Windows?) color picker

I have no idea why this would differ between individuals

Edit: link below with FFFF00 for yellow

https://dynomight.net/img/colors/generate.html?inside=0000ff...

New comment by dreijs in "European word translator: an interactive map"

dreijs — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:10:10 +0000

In Dutch, a porcupine is called a "spike-pig" (stekelvarken)

Edit: and a turtle is also a "shield-toad" (schildpad)