Th4tGuyII

You make a good point. Even disregarding how well known Itch is, their registrar acted woefully incompetently by not even attempting to contact Itch.io about the takedown request (which is what Brandshield should have done in the first place)

Don’t be fair to them either.

Iwantmyname acted incompetently, but so did Brandshield, who decided to go straight to the nuclear option of a registrar takedown, rather than issuing a takedown request to Itch themselves

Yeah, if Iwantmyname are so neglectful as to pull the entire plug on your website over a singlular copyright claim, then I’d move right the fuck along too. They’re clearly not a trustworthy registrar.

To make things worse, Itch.io isn’t exactly a small company either. If this happened to someone smaller, with less outreach to fight back with than Itch, I can only imagine they’d have no recourse against this neglectful behaviour.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if you have any doubts that Trump is in bed with Russia, wait until his peace deal comes out - I guarantee you it’ll be the almost exact same abhorrent “give me your all your land or else” peace deal Russia already offered to Ukraine. Ukraine will (again) vehemently refuse, because what moral country would abandon its land and people to Russia, and Trump will use that refusal to pull funding from Ukraine “because they don’t want peace” or “they refuse to negotiate”

So Funko issued a non-apology blaming Brandshield.

Brandshield issued a non-apology blaming the registrar (Iwantmyname), and saying their AI tool definitely had nothing to do with it

And Iwantmyname hasn’t even put out a statement.

Fucked all around, yet it seems nobody will be facing consequence for this except Itch.io who got their website nuked out of nowhere.

Though if I were Itch, I’d get a new registrar ASAP.

While I honestly believe nobody can get that kind of money ethically, the fact that he actually put his money where his mouth was on philanthropy whike still alive, and almost all anonymously, is very admirable

Damn, $50,000 - Gov really don’t like the idea of someone being able to kill a rich person and getting away with it

Considering how many people a year die at the hands of insurance companies delaying and denying life-saving treatments to make a quick buck, the glee over this insurance CEO’s death is a fairly rational response - a reminder to the 0.1% that they’re not quite as immune to consequences as they think they are.

Man, to think that $260M could’ve been used in so many better ways to benefit society… Yet was instead used by a power-hungry billionaire to “contribute” to that POS

It goes to show how morally bankrupt these people are that it takes the fear of death being out into them to get them to do something even remotely good/ethical.

It also unfortunately proves, once more, that violence can absolutely be the solution.

So essentially his plan to “end the war” is to force Ukraine into submitting to all of Russia’s demands?

He couldn’t be much more overtly in bed with Russia if he tried… Might as well just wait for the photos to leak of him in a rather grotesque threesome with Elon and Putin at this point.

Ugh. I work in the public sector and let me tell you, there are SO many companies that send the most dogiest, scammiest looking emails telling you to follow a link, only for it to turn out to be perfectly legitimate.

I honestly can see now why people end up falling for these things when even legitimate companies send emails looking just like phishing scammers

Honestly I’ve never gotten the desire to do one of these things. You give away arguably the most uniquely valuable and private part of yourself to this company (or companies like it) to do god knows what with in exchange for these results that are (IMO) ultimately just unnecessary trivia about yourself.

That’s a bit bullshit isn’t it…

Rob someone of half their life for a crime they didn’t commit, then cap what they can be awarded from you to slightly more than a $33,000 a year salary.

It’s especially aggregious when false evidence was used in this conviction. That POS police chemist knew they were fabricating evidence, potentially putting an innocent man behind bars.

I don’t know about “STEM Influencers”, but in this age of rampant misinformation, we NEED science communicators in as many formats as possible to reach as many people as possible!

I’d rather too many than not enough.

Only if you assume the object was round. I mean it was almost certainly meant to be round, but it could be right ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You’re not wrong. It is literal objectification of people haha … Just not in the way the OP meant

Of all the traditions one could use to point out objectification of women, statues was not it. People really do just like getting frisky with statues, regardless of gender

They had “no idea” what the Nazis were but moved from a country against Nazis to a country with a strong base of Nazi sympathisers…

I wonder why people might think they were Nazis hmmm.

Elon was always “embracing” this side of himself, just that before 2016 he had to be more covert about it, as did all the other racist woodlouse that came out of the woodwork

Nowadays I barely use Reddit, but sometimes you end up forced to use an app, so I use Infinity with a custom API key