Then that’s what the article should have said, because that makes a hell of a lot more sense than presenting a Trump-esque half-truth. United is shitty enough already, and including madeup shit just weakens the author’s otherwise great examples.

Yeah, exactly. The inclusion of employees’ family members breaking rules is unnecessary, considering how shitty United already is without including a half-truth.

I think they meant full refunds to the customer for the customer cancelling or changing flights, not the airline cancelling flights.

It’s the front-facing camera, so it acts like a mirror.

She’s being a stupid bitch. He’s only being truthful.

That only affects punitive damages, but has no bearing on the injunction itself. Even if Uber unknowingly bought the stolen technology Waymo would still get the injunction, thus resetting Uber’s self-driving unit. The only difference would be Uber would be able to sue Levandowski personally to recover damages for…

Exactly. The issue isn’t Johansson’s casting. It’s the fact that they followed much of the original film and parts of the series, but neglected the heart of the story.

I’m not disagreeing with you that the movie itself has a lot of issues, just that the casting of a white actress to play Kusanagi is not an issue. The entire theme of GitS is that The Major’s background is a mystery, and that her physical form is fluid.

Pretty much. It’s ignorant to think all manga characters have to be Japanese just because of a name.

It’s not the character’s real name, and she often swaps bodies (including male, children, blonde, etc.). People outraged at the casting clearly only have a cursory understanding of the Ghost in the Shell universe. Motoko Kusanagi is not really Motoko Kusanagi. Even her childhood body was a shell.

The difference being this time they pissed off someone that’s not a group of cabbies needing the settlement money or government agencies that are too slow/indifferent to react.

That’s actually Taiwan, since it’s traditional Chinese. Another difference is tags in China have a character on the left denoting district, while license plates in Hong Kong are a horrendous yellow.

On a side note, this is pretty normal for Taiwan. The surprising thing is how quickly you get used to it. I was kicking off the sides of buses after a week or so.

Every store clerk should aspire to be this store clerk. Purse-snatcher crashes into wall? She’ll nonchalantly finish pumping your gas for you.

Man, I love Serious Eats. Kenji Lopez-Alt is awesome. Their chicharon recipe is also a godsend.

Welcome, fellow-Postal-hater.

How have I never heard/seen/thought of PedanticsAreTheBestAntics? That’s glorious in all the right ways.

Action RPG starring Destiny, the stripper?

If you remove the tentacles, it kind of looks like a more exhilarating version of this.

Japanese genitalia are returning to the Marvel Universe? I dig it.