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Fun fact: anytime you hear a story that boils down to “and then some ABSOLUTE FOOL sued this totally innocent megacorporation for assloads of money AND WON! Can you believe it? Ridiculous. Some people, right?” 99 times out of 100, the corporation super fucked up, the plaintiff 100% deserved that money,.and you’ve just been fed corporate propaganda.

hazeldomain

“Hot Coffee Lady” had to get skin grafts and was at least the 11th customer to be hospitalized. The coffee served to her was in violation of a court order requiring McDonald’s to sell their coffee at a safe temperature.

The “warning: contents hot” label is a passive-aggressive move by McDonalds because they implemented it at the same time that they finally complied with legal requirements to serve safe beverages.

Every time you see “warning contents hot” and roll your eyes because of course it’s hot, you’re assuming that you and McDonald’s agree on the definition of “hot.”

What’s more, you assume you’ve always agreed, which is the baseline for assuming that the lady who sued had unrealistic expectations.

fierceawakening

Yeah. I don’t remember the corporate policy for McDonalds coffee temperature at the time, but i do remember that it was *near boiling.*

Your Starbucks? Not near boiling. Not likely to make you need massive reconstructive surgery on your hoo hah if you spill it in your lap.

mythsandpolitics

Also, please remember exactly how much BS someone would have to go through to get that verdict. Generally speaking, someone has been seriously injured or killed. They have to prove that the company was negligent or knowingly refused to fix an issue. This isn’t like airing something on Fox News - there are actual standards of proof that have to be met. Even so, most consumer lawsuits against corporations do not achieve large awards. When they do, consider how severe the damage must have been. The MCD lady only wanted them to pay her damn medical bills (think about how much medical care costs in the U.S.); McDonalds refused. Toyota eventually had to pay a massive settlement (after being sued multiple times) for issues with the gas pedal causing sudden massive acceleration. Do you honestly believe they would have just fixed it on their own? Toyota lied to regulators and blamed it on “driver error” - because sometimes you just hit the gas really hard when you meant to hit the brake… (see https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/toyota-reaches-12-billion-settlement-to-end-criminal-probe/2014/03/19/5738a3c4-af69-11e3-9627-c65021d6d572_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ab92a7e6b655)

Don’t let them fool you into thinking that people are getting hurt by a company’s product just because they’re stupid.

fandomsandfeminism

Corporations have no qualms about lying and defaming people they have hurt to avoid being held accountable.

augustheart

i have a spiderverse shipping hot take.

augustheart

the people jokingly shipping noir and john mulaney’s assigned fursona (which i think is most if not almost all people) are absolutely hilarious but the people who are doing it seriously (the minority to be sure but they do exist) are following that law that says if no primary white m/m ship exists fanon will conjure one into being out of thin air.

#LMAOOOOOOOOOO

overpricedvodka

Annihilation hot takes.

1) Wow. Y'all really let a sci-fi movie with FIVE female leads just flop like that. It’s not like the reviews are trash. You really coulda come up off the lil $12 or whateva and taken a chance because now we’re not gonna get another one until 2067.

2) Gina Rodriguez is *a star* y'all and she can do anything. I didn’t see Aggressive Butch Lesbian as part of her repertoire, yet here we are.

3) Annihilation is A FILM. This is a “let’s think about it, let’s discuss it, let’s bring our own interpretations” kinda movie, and that’s what great film should be. You should want to talk about it. I want to talk about it. I want to talk about how I think it’s about cancer. You might wanna talk about how you think it’s about depression. Everybody sees this film differently.

4) The Crosby, Stills & Nash song that anchors the movie is not the song I would’ve expected from the trailer (and that obnoxious sound effect in it), but it was absolutely perfect.

5) Y'all slept on this movie so now I will never get the second and third part, so I guess I’ll have to read the book, but this really deserved a trilogy.

6) Alien movies that don’t have creatures with a clear relationship to Earth-like body plans, like Arrival, are always the best alien movies because that extra care to not make creepy-looking humanoids with big heads and eyes means there’s probably extra care put into the story too.

7) I felt joyously uncomfortable the entire time. The movie is an engrossing kind of chaos where you’re not exactly sure what the next scene will be, but you like not knowing. The plot itself is a pretty simple straight line from point A to point B, but the journey has wonderful layers and the pace is great.

8) I would like to STRESS ONCE AGAIN that this is a SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE with FIVE FEMALE LEADS (two women of color!) when every Hollywood, female-driven movie is almost always a comedy dealing with relationships or a sad drama dealing with relationships. If it’s still in theaters where you live, you owe it to all your “let’s change Hollywood” soapboxing to actually take your ass to the theater and give it some money and support.

#just watched it w my gf and wow it was amazing #and now i know theres a book i HAVE to read it

thetrumpimpeachment

The New York Times reported that the Trump regime has moved forward on plans to restrict access to life-saving medications through Medicare Part D. Health insurance plans, the Times reports “would under the proposal, reduce the number of prescription drugs that must be made available to people with cancer, AIDS, depression, schizophrenia”. Robert Pear writes: Approximately …

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