Welcome to white male America, they are always given the benefit of a doubt.

Because cops are absolutely fucking useless in being proactive in domestic situations like this.  It’s not specific to this situation.

happens literally every day, and practically every time there is a history similar to this one that the cops were well aware of but did nothing about.    Probably because studies show 40% of cops are domestic abusers themselves.

Sadly, that’s completely normal. Most women who get killed by an ex typically have this histories of complaining to cops, being stalked, etc and cops like “well not done anything too bad yet” until finally they die.

Its a large reason of why so many crimes against women go unreported.  Rapes, abuse, etc.  Or why…

I will never understand how someone with a child could think murdering the other parent would be anything but the worst kind of trauma for that kid. Especially knowing you are likely going to be caught making your kid effectively an orphan.

Psst. I got a secret for ya.

So she has a skincare line thats based in psuedoscience. How is this anything unusual from the 5 billion other products out there?

Celebs, both internet and in general, hawk useless and snake oil products all the time. I don’t get why this time it’s a big deal.

Lol I see no difference between this and GOOP by Gweneth Paltrow. The key difference is that Paltrow has an infinitely bigger audience. 

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it agin: “Cancel Culture” isn’t real. At best it’s right wing newspeak designed to frame the wealthy and powerful as the real victims and that they should not suffer for consequences for their actions. At worst it’s a grift already famous people pull to drum up attention for their…

She should try being a Nazi sympathizer or an anti-vaxxer. Those people never seem to get deplatformed. Probably because they’re not doing anything TRULY evil, like being a woman in a hot tub.

This just gives the consumer more autonomy, right? I mean, clearly there is a desire on the part of the consumer for this product. Maybe CDPR did not feel confident enough in the idea to risk the development cost blind. Now they know the market is there.

Do you think you aren’t paying for development costs when you walk into a store and put something on the shelves in your basket?

Sometimes, a large company doesn’t exactly know the demand for a product. This seems like a way to get actual customer interest as opposed to spending the money first and finding out nobody wants the product.

This isn’t different than what Lego Ideas or Hasbro Labs does. On those platforms, they need a threshold of…

“Back the development cost for roughly the cost of the final product, and we’ll send you the final product.”

I don’t really understand what’s wrong with this. Part of any business planning is “how many units of this can we expect to sell?”

Yeah, its basically just a preorder with these guys.

I’d be much more likely to “kickstart” something from a company like CDPR than random nobodies because they’re much less likely to run off with my money.  

Yep. There’s something really juvenile about people making a corporation their “tribe” and defending it tooth and nail. I like Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft’s gaming services, but this flavour of brand loyalty, to the extent that they can do no wrong, that their shitty behaviour needs backing up and explaining away, it’s lud…

Few hates its fans as much as Nintendo does.