• kristina [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    so anyways thats how i donated to the ukrainian communist party :lenin-sure:

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I don't feel too bad about relief orgs, a few of them are actually worth it and are genuinely just trying to help people.

    Really depends on which one of them though, some are just scams and some are probably also used for smuggling weapons, spies, etc.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I don't trust any Redditor to choose the UNICEF Emergency Fund for Ukraine over Vlacheslyav the Jew Slayer's MiGs for Ukraine Program.

    • RATMachinespirit [he/him,they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, like, I’m about as pro Russia as comrades come, and a local religious charity passed the hat around to send money to a polish branch with the intent of buying food and warm clothes for widows and other needy people and then going across the border to distribute. Direct charity for people just trying to survive is a good thing. Food and sweaters won’t cause any harm.

  • kissinger
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    1 year ago

    deleted by creator

  • rubpoll [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    "This story is becoming quite heartwarming"

    THE. MOST. BRAINWASHED. PEOPLE. IN HISTORY.

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Just use one of the novelty .endings. It's more fun to be Sasha.Town than Sashatown.com.

  • Civility [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I mean, that's genuinely heartwarming.

    I'd much rather pay $1000 to feed and house war orphans than to reward some digital rent seeker, and it's super cool the rent seeker had a change of heart and was okay with that.

    • pastalicious [he/him, undecided]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Anyone who has a grand laying around to give to an NGO on a whim chills my heart. Beats playing 6 grand but I’d have trouble justifying more than $15 or whatever the going rate is now to privately register an unclaimed domain.

      • chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        I don't know, that's not the kind of money that's actively harming the world. I've seen much more grotesque uses of 1k$ than a donation in exchange for a .com domain with one's actual surname. I'd probably do it, not in support of UA though, maybe MSF or something.

        I'd never pay someone 1k$ for a domain, but I did sell one to some rich asshole for 10k$ once. They're still trying to flip it asking 1mil$ over 8 years later.

        • RATMachinespirit [he/him,they/them]
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          2 years ago

          Without doxxing, you able to explain how a domain is worth that? Sounds wild. Like, did you scoop up a really good one early on?

          • chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            I used domain privacy at the time, so sure. It was def....w.xyz (the whole alphabet minus abc as that was already owned by the XYZ NIC folks so you could put abc. as a subdomain and it was the whole alphabet)

            • RATMachinespirit [he/him,they/them]
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              2 years ago

              That’s wild, like I think you probably got the good end of that deal. Who would pay the price the current owner is asking lmao.

              Glad you got the bag by being creative.

              • chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]
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                2 years ago

                I think he's hoping Alphabet Inc wants it or something, as I recall.

                Here's the old page I had on it with a link to Chomski.info and some open source stuff I worked on at the time: https://web.archive.org/web/20150815224423/http://abc.defghijklmnopqrstuvw.xyz/