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by hrafn 2112 days ago
Here's some context: https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/n7wg3w/paypal-tardigr...

Likely not due to the Scunthorpe problem like one might expect, but due to an arms dealer having sold weapons through a shell company named Tardigrade.

2 comments

What’s wrong with Vice?
There's many things wrong with Vice. In addition to the story in the sibling comment, they have a consistent track record of misrepresenting their reporting to sources, heavily editing interview responses to change the meaning of what the interviewee said, and in at least one case I directly witnessed inventing the entire content of an interview that never happened and publishing it. I would simply consider anything they write at least misrepresented and possibly entirely fictional.
what's the problematic substring of "Tardigrade"?
Probably not "grad", maybe "tard" ? ;p
Reminds me that around 2006 you couldn't say "Saturday" on runescape because it contains "turd"