NUL

A few planks of wood.

There is a Mastercard ad running during Apple TV+'s MLB Friday’s that really goads me.

It’s an ad about how “we are powerful indivudually” but can accomplish “anything together”. This includes using your Mastercard where they’ll donate a SINGLE CENT per purchase (up to $5m, gotta cap it!) to “fight” cancer. And this commercial… yeah, it stuck with me thus did it’s job, but as the ad wraps up, with music swelling, all of these people come from nowhere to surround/hug an apparent cancer survivor (wearing the appropriate cancer survivor sweatshirt).

Gross. Just gross. Clearly it’s for some tax write off, and technically there’s nothing for you to do or spend, other than what you were already going to purchase.

But still, Mastercard could have just donated $5m outright. Or donated the amount of money they spent on that damned commercial, which was probably in excess of $5m given it’s high quality production values!

Bad move to use reddit in a name for a product that is nearly identical to the other company’s product which has a trademark on the name.

This isn’t the first time reddit has removed moderators – I’m sure everyone remembers the_donald. While the td mods did get plenty of direct warnings from the admins, ultimately the admins don’t need to provide any form of warning. Reddit does own the platform (and your content), after all.

Which is why we’re here!