The US managed to issue a stamp with clearly the wrong Statue of Liberty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty_Forever_stam...

Which presumably everyone in the design process should have recognized, if not practically everyone in the world.

The moral being, uh, it's weird how blind people can be when they're not looking for it.

They remind me of the "Brought to You by Carl’s Jr" scenes from Idiocracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAM1rSObk4c

Yes. Or in case of Berlin where whole places and other places get renamed when the sponsor changes. O2 Arena -> Mercedes Benz Arena -> Uber Arena. Even other locations around it changed as well as the plaza name.

Lower league european football kits are my favourite, there is a team behind the ads

https://files.catbox.moe/a3fxhw.webp

https://files.catbox.moe/0op34u.jpeg

E-Sports teams are still the funniest here. From Shopify Black/Rebellion Gold to T1.

It's easy to say behind the comfort of the keyboard. For a sport team to exist and survive, there are only a few options:

- Charge the fans more, revolt guaranteed, "forgetting the root, ungrateful" and all that.

- Merchandise. Now teams change jersey every year -- with home, away, 3rd jerseys. Game, practice, and many more variations.

- Beholden to the leagues. Premier League is prime example, or for a scandal see European Super League.

- Advertising. Well, you know how HN hate advertising.

- Sell out to the highest bidders. Red Bull, private equity (Liverpool, Arsenal, etc.)

- Find a sugar daddy. Oligarchs or nation states (Roman Abramovich's Chelsea, Manchester City, Paris Saint Germain, Newcastle)

Pick the least evils.

I much rather have corporations waste money funding sports that some people enjoy, than wasting it on commercial campaigns that does nothing but burn money and steal our attention.

Wait til you see the names of the actual teams in the Japanese baseball league.

"BC Place" is still BC Place. It was the only World Cup venue that didn't have to hang drapes over its real name.

I get why they do it, but at the very least it should be "sponsor name real name", not "sponsor name generic description of arena".

Spotify Camp Nou is annoying and worse than Camp Nou, but at least there is some soul and belonging. "Spotify Arena" would have been disgusting and empty.

It always boggles my mind when fans say "so and so at the AT&T stadium"... Until a new sponsor comes in.

The race has nothing to do with the stadium, other than running past it. They don’t have to get permission from anyone. Also, there’s no evidence that AI was involved, it could have just as easily been some designer googling for “Allianz Stadium” and illustrating the first thing that came up.

"Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck." - coined by social critic and journalist Donald Horne in his 1964 book The Lucky Country.

Pretty much. A lot of the innovations of our nation, come from that. Things like utes, inflatable escape slides on planes, race cameras, are all "hacks".

But considering you can still see the gold mine which caused the foundation of my town, it isn't that surprising. We might not be the battlers we believe we are, but there's still a history of a people all around us.

For comparison, New South Wales Waratahs logo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_Wales_Waratahs

It'd be a "waste of tax payers money" if they didn't use it so better to just use it and tell us we're all holding it wrong.

"As a horticulturist I know a waratah when I see one," Mr Rees said in a statement. [1]

[1]: https://www.smh.com.au/national/its-a-waratah-rees-insists-o...

You can tell it's an Aussie medal because all landmarks are depicted upside-down.

Actually AI would have probably gotten it right.

The more likely explanation is that the person manually googled all the landmarks of Sydney to get some vector images to cut and paste into a CAD program to extrude, and accidentally got the wrong one.