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Comment Re:"bravely"? (Score 1) 332

Tammie Jo Shults is the pilot who bravely flew Southwest Flight 1380 to safety after part of its left engine ripped off

So what would have been the cowardly variant? Crashing the plane?

Adjectives have meaning. I mean, I'm glad that part of its left engine hasn't "tragically" ripped off since nowadays everything unfortunate or awful is "tragic". But what the fuck is "brave" about saving your beans? "In an extraordinary display of skills, presence of mind and composure": yeah.

There are a fuckload of reasons to admire her feat. Braveness isn't one.

You know what word also has meaning?

The word "Dictionary"

Bravery : The quality or state of having or showing mental or moral strength to face danger, fear, or difficulty : the quality or state of being brave : courage showing bravery under fire

So I got a question for you:

Who died and made you God? Because the last I checked, people did have a right to call this stuff bravery.

However, this doesn't surprise me. We live in a society where anybody can criticize another person without knowing jack shit about them or what it took to do what they did either mentally or physically. They don't have a leg to stand on. So they find the most pedestrian thing to criticize.

Also the fact this was posted by an AC is just richly ironic.

Comment Re:And then a hero comes along (Score 1) 410

The 61-year-old limo driver converted a mobile home into a ramp and modified it to launch from a vertical angle so he wouldn't fall back to the ground on public land. For months he's been working on overhauling his rocket in his garage.

This dude is a fucking inspiration.

"Mad" Mike Hughes, I salute you.

I don't think "inspiration" is the word I'd use.

"Tosser", "Wanker", "Conspiracy Theory Believing Idiot", "Future Darwin Award Winner" is more appropriate.

The fact he didn't turn himself into a pancake or a human BBQ is what keeps me from saying "Best Comedy Award Winner of 2018".

Comment Re:Nothing to do with net neutrality (Score 1) 246

Not exactly, but they do confuse the issue. If you notice, only the Wopper is being delayed, and it's being delayed despite being able to be served faster. Other sandwiches like Chicken (as pointed out in the ad) do not require waiting in the slow line.

If we assume Woppers are a substitute for torrents then the net neutrality parallel is obvious - unfortunately the target audience for the commercial won't make the connection.

I think you are overthinking and reading way too much into the analogy.

The ad starts off with saying that they are doing this to Whoppers and focusing on the Whoppers as the metaphor for the internet. Then they show in the background that they are charging ~$7 for their normally free WiFi. At the end they interview the "victims" or people that participated in this stunt and they got the point.

If people couldn't get the point, then they are either Anti-Net Neutrality zealots or just flaming denser than rocks.

Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 1) 233

That's so much porn you can't even possibly look at most of it. If you wanted to test Amazon's "unlimited' storage, why not just randomly generate various files. You could probably have a computer make shitty modern art paintings much faster than you could curate a 1 petabyte porn collection, and you still get to test out how much you can store on Amazon's cloud storage service before they pull the plug. And when they invariably do, you won't lose your porn collection.

ANSWER:

Because this brave warrior could.

A BETTER ANSWER:

If you step back and realize the level of facetiousness and "for teh LULZ", you will get the point.

Which is to say: There was no point.

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