they arent profiting directly from the content use or taking away from any profits the owner could make. the content the streamer puts out is the money maker. the copyrighted content is just decoration. suing for that would be like a baseball team suing a guy for wearing their team’s hat in a stream they didnt agree…

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That’s what I thought, but it makes sense to let most people slide. No one probably cares that some random streamer has a Supernatural Dean gif or anime character blocking the in-game chat unless they’re big Twitch names. In which case most of them commission their own art or use fan artwork.

Their assumption that people will think she’s associated with Fox because she uses the words “Zoidberg” and has a small image on her page is ludicrous. Literally no one will or has ever thought that, guaranteed. That said, they have millions of dollars and an army of lawyers, and she doesn’t, so she’s probably…

Doesn’t this mean that—technically speaking—every single person on Twitch streaming an MMO with a picture/gif of some kind covering their chat window in the bottom corner is in violation of copyright, assuming the picture isn’t their own work?

Thanks for your kind words. The difference in outcomes might be due to delays in diagnosis — I imagine people tend to be diagnosed in more advanced stages of colon cancer than with lymphoma. And yeah, my grandma died relatively young of colon cancer. The family always attributed it to her work in a chemical factory…

From 2006:

Not sure where you live, but in America they are allowed to advertise rx medication on tv. They list the side effects at the end, but they’re almost always “infection, diarrhea, loss of hearing, cancer, and death.” Like just totally random list of shit that gets worse until you die and you wonder why you took this…

I believe colorectal cancers are also have less positive outcomes, statistically, too, right? I mean, trading one chance of cancer for another is an incredibly shitty choice to have to make (and I’m sorry you or anyone else has to make it), but colon cancer is its own special kind of scary even for cancer.

Speaking as a person recently diagnosed with Crohn’s, immunosuppresants are prescribed to reduce your body’s inflammatory attacks on your digestive system, which in addition to causing all sorts of exciting problems like strictures (when your bowel narrows with scar tissue, usually requiring surgery) and fistulas…

This is why there is debate over non-lifesaving transplants. We know immunosupresants are not benign, at all.

Having known people that have died of it and it’s complications it can be pretty bad and cripplingly painful.

Yeah, for real. I have a chocolate lab, and I literally never considered that she might bite my face off randomly at night.

I went to school with a girl who went through immunosuppresant therapy for her crohn’s disease and ended up having one leg amputated at the hip. I don’t know how bad her crohn’s was pre-suppression but I don’t think I’d be down with that trade off.

The current thinking is that the immune system destroys most cancers as they arise. By suppressing immunity using immunosuppressants, you are also suppressing the system that can kill cancer. This is a well known risk for people on immunosuppressants, either because of transplants or as a treatment for autoimmune…

There are conflicting reports.

Immunosuppresants aren’t something to take lightly, they get used along with transplants generally because the alternatives are even less desirable. And it does vary, from person to person the acceptance of transplants vary even if the match is very good.

That would be a major bummer for that Russian head transplant guy. Otherwise he should be good to go.

So are we gonna talk about how some treatments are triggering cancer? That also seems like a big deal.