• Mario_Dies.wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I could be way off base here, but it seems just as likely to me that this woman is motivated by a frustration with the pervasive false advertising that affects all of us, but that she is being deliberately portrayed as being frivolous and selfish.

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      1 year ago

      And the only way to make a manufacturer feel the sting is to make it big enough.

      The McDonald’s coffee story is worth a deep read.

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        1 year ago

        I remember that being reported, and I’m sad to say I was one of the people at the time who assumed she was being frivolous and “sue happy.” The influence these large corporations have on the flow of information is real.

        I learned from that, though, which is why I’d really hesitate to pass judgment on the woman in this article. Even the way the title of the article is worded – “Florida woman…” – seems subtly worded to try to make this poor woman look unhinged.