218 points

For those of you contemplating ways of covering up the ads:

This is the same airline that beat the shit out of that doctor because the airline overbooked the flight. For your own safety, do not cross this airline.

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The Chicago Department of Aviation did that. The same way if the police ends up killing someone, it was not the person calling the police.

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United was booting passengers to make room for employee transfers though, the situation was shit before dept of aviation even got the call.

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6 points

Those employees could have stood. Frontier and Spirit give vouchers out when they intentionally overbook…which before the pandemic was everyday. If nobody takes the bait, they up the voucher value. For them it’s essentially monopoly money.

If United couldn’t get anybody to bite at the vouchers, then the employees should have stood the whole flight. Instead, they beat a man who was not fighting back physically. He only insisted that he get to his patient. They LITERALLY dragged him off the plane. By his ankle, as he tried to grab onto anything he could.

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2 points

Sure, but telling someone to leave their plane for some oddball reason is “only bad” not outright crazy like what happened then.

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2 points

it was not the person calling the police.

At this point anyone calling the police in the US is a necessary accomplice, and guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, aggravated battery, and probably several other crimes.

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8 points

And may still get killed by police.

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28 points

That seems incredibly stupid. A doctor can afford to sue.

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47 points

he wasn’t white, so they didn’t assume he was a doctor

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28 points

i think we should make them afraid to cross us

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19 points

I got screeched at for covering up a super bright blinking light on a red eye. Their FAs are next level stupid.

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17 points

They did what?

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“The incident is widely characterized by critics as an example of mishandled customer service.”

Made me laugh, that’s putting it lightly…

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19 points

Holy shit what a ride that was.

It’s clear from a lot of stories like this (severe customer mistreatment) that United employees are miserable people who hate their jobs but this is nuts. I hope Dr. Dao got a huge settlement from United.

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Wow. Even Trump thought they went too far. Damn.

And the CEO who brushed that assault off ‘suffered’ a ‘delayed promotion’. Poor thing. For saying that stuff about anyone, let alone a customer, he should have been fired, no golden parachute.

I think the doctor’s patients should have sued the airline too, since no doubt having their doctor pounded to a pulp caused them to miss their appointments.

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

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Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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9 points

Overbooking should be a mandatory minimum compensation of the greater of 1000x the ticket price or $20k. It’s a truly fucked up practice to disrespect people’s time like that.

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4 points

Oh, we’ll just refund you the cost of the ticket. That was the whole cost, right?

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-39 points

Dude, you can just turn the screen off. Its OK.

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34 points

Please enter your credit card to disable ads

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1 point

Screens don’t hit back

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-11 points

It’s a contactless carrier, they already have my card on file.

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“If you don’t like it don’t fly”

Seriously just shut up.

Edit: LMAO just saw your other comment where you actually said this sincerely. You’re a parody of yourself.

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-25 points

Comedy is an art form. You need to commit to the joke.

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29 points

Have you ever turned a screen off on one of these planes? They turn back on. So you turn them off again. Sooner or later, they turn back on. And repeat.

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19 points

Worse, you will be surrounded by them on all sides, as others don’t bother… :-(

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I have. It usually stays off until they rig the cabin for final approach. Comes back on for landing but hey, whatever?

I’m getting beaten up for my stance here, but seriously: if all it takes to put you over is some midflight ads the do the rest of us a favor and don’t fly. Take a train or whatever.

Y’all are acting like they’re gonna strap us down and tape our eyes open like that Alex Whasisname kid in A Clockwork Orange. I assure you that doesn’t happen for another 22 years in this timeline (give or take).

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6 points

No, you can’t.

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3 points

You can if you’re a Party member

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1 point

You can, there’s a button combo. It changes sometimes but if you spam a few things I can always black it out

But that’s not the point, it still sucks

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169 points
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This should count as violation of human rights. You’re chained to the seat for hours and have no other option than look at this screen or force your eyes closed. Holy shit, people should get really mad. Flashing ads on a screen you don’t look at directly are still very annoying, even if you look on your phone.

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60 points

I need to start a business selling rectangular shaped covers for these displays. I’ll even make one that serves as a holder for an iPad, so you can substitute your own screen.

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I fold the flight safety manual and hang it over the screen with a tab, inserted into the folding gap above the screen.

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2 points

This guy Uniteds

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5 points

Duct tape

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4 points

Make them magnetically attach to the screen.

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1 point

You can turn off the TV dude

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5 points

In my experience, that’s only temporary. The screen will always wake up again on United flights.

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-44 points

I wasn’t aware they glued your eyelids and head directly facing the screen

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16 points

Found the boot licker

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-14 points

You can literally not watch things if you don’t want to.

Read a book.

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106 points

I am just so, so tired of being constantly inundated with being told to CONSUME.

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61 points

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41 points

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20 points

What else would you like to do? seize the means of production?

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10 points

Yeah, but no one wants to join my radical anti-government militia.

Well, they do, but I’m in TN so it’s for the wrong reasons.

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-57 points

If you’re in a plane, you deserve it.

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19 points

thanks, I’ll just abandon my family

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Shouldn’t be that far away from them in the first place if you actually cared.

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13 points

Careful, your ignorance is showing

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90 points

Can it ever just stop?

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63 points

Yes, for a monthly subscription!

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81 points

We tried that in the 80s already. Here’s how it went down.

1980s comes along, and people had been seeing commercials on tv for years. So along comes this new concept. Now you can PAY to watch tv…without ads. GREAT!

So people started paying for this new “cable tv”. Then the cable operators were like “I know they’re paying to not see ads…but what if we STILL showed ads, and STILL took their money???”

So that happened.

Then after some decades Netflix came around, originally with liscensed tv shows from all over tv…except now you could PAY to watch them, without the ads. And then they drastically lost their liscensed content, and produced their own original content.

After a few decades, Netflix said “I know they’re paying not to see commercials…but what if we STARTED showing commercials, AND raised prices every few months.”

Man, I can’t wait for the next guy to charge me money to not see ads. Only to inevitably show me ads a few years later…

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I do look forward to the next generation of ad free media consumption powered by a small VC startup fund that has a bunch of low cost fresh-out-of-university students paid mostly in stocks working in a garage to say “yeah fuck this I’ve seen ads all my life in gonna do make something that doesn’t make people hate life”

Each iteration of the technology eventually becomes hot garbage. But man, for like a decade there shit is pretty good while the rest of the entrenched industry is stuck trying to pay lobbyists to get law makers to write rules that neither side understands just to have them ultimately not get passed or not address the issue and those companies still disappear.

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9 points

What if I were to buy back all my own DVDs and watch them? Would I need to voluntarily show myself ads later?

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83 points

Targeted, individualized, advertising should be illegal. This will gut a lot of the motivations for the privacy invasions and data harvesting. This is how advertising worked for thousands of years. I think it could continue to be just fine.

The amount of resources humanity is spending on targeted advertising is extremely depressing when you consider the opportunity cost. There are thousands of engineers and product managers that spend all day on this stuff instead of anything useful.

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This is an interesting idea!

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