"All limits are self-imposed." - Icarus
this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2025
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They teach you to fly Boeing planes.
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Begging on my hands and knees to see one last paragraph written by a human and not a syntactically valid but otherwise dead-sounding lexical mélange. Even if it’s for stupid bullshit like this. Just because most of these words are relevant to aviation it doesn’t mean they create a convincing blurb. Half of these words do nothing to make me think positively about the thing they’re breathlessly advertising.
I know no part of my complaint is novel. I know this is about the easy dunk on the flight school named after history’s oldest failed “pilot”. But this is so blatant. Multiple people have signed off on making this very critical training sound as low effort as possible.
With a passion for aviation, you'll take on the responsibility of ensuring passenger safety, enjoy professional growth, and have access to travel benefits
is this supposed to be a sentence in English?
is this talking about things you need to be able to do the job, or job responsibilities, or job benefits?
"As an office enjoyer, you will need to bear the weight of cubicle life, go to meetings, and have access to a paycheck"
If the corporate world’s shockingly uncritical adoption of LLM-generated text isn’t the most damning example of how capitalism is its own most scathing self-parody I don’t know what is.
These sentences don’t convey meaning. Even good advertising (as in it’s good at being advertising) transports an idea from a sender to a recipient. What is this? What the fuck is this?
At least your cubicleslop is funny. Compare that to
you'll take on the responsibility of ensuring passenger safety
Would a writer, even an atrocious one, imply that the person looking at the details of a flight school needs to be informed that the job of a pilot is in fact not to crash the plane?
There’s no point in being upset at senseless machine output. But the continuous abdication of common sense by people accepting it blindly is absolutely maddening.
I was looking around at job postings and I noticed a credible ad for position that was some sort of upper-level administrator of a big library that was unquestionably written by an LLM with contrastive framing twice a sentence and all that shit. It was amazing.
(Not my field, I just like looking at postings now and then because there's some really funny stuff, like gameshow hosts and private detectives)
"alright, you're here to learn ONE lesson"
Aside from the general idea that Icarus is famous for fucking up flying, the really funny thing to me is that he's specifically famous for defying directions on safe operating procedure and dying for exactly the reason he was warned he would. Like, Icarus Airlines would already be pretty bad, but Icarus Flying Academy?
Just sent them an inquiry asking if I need to learn to land if I take lessons from them.
Ahh Icarus. Famous for being highly successful at flight and definitely not crashing into the ocean and drowning.
F-35 flight school.
There's a song lyric that goes "Will it burn me if I touch the sun? So big. So round." Ignore the naysayers. Here at Icarus Flying Academy - you can never go too high.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
starting a rival pilot school called daedalus
Why not just name it Wright Training Center (WTC) in honor of the Wright brothers?
Wu-Tang Clan owns the acronym
business killing regulations were destroying the airline industry.
thanks to recent reforms, we can finally build airplanes out of wax
Just be mindful of your altitude
Why is its logo giving me the finger?
Artistically flipping you the bird
My investment firm is called Hubris
American planes were already falling into the ocean. This flight academy just makes it seem like it's on purpose.
"Oh another plane fell into the ocean? That was on purpose, it's a part of keikaku"
[Translators note: keikaku means cope]
omw to pilot school
Travel close to exotic detinations.