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"brutally efficient" - I'm surprised cnn.com is still permitted on Hacker News, with manipulative headlines like that.

• FabHK 7y ago
  Eh? What's manipulative about it? I'd call it descriptive and evocative, even.
  • bubblewrap 7y ago
    It suggests that Aldi is winning by unfair measures, exploiting workers and what not.
    • FabHK 7y ago
      Oh ok, thanks for clarifying. Interesting - I didn't interpret it that way (unfair, exploitative), as in brutal violence, but rather as stark and focused, as in brutalist architecture.
• elPorkchapo 7y ago
  bru·tal direct and lacking any attempt to disguise unpleasantness.
  • bubblewrap 7y ago
    So what is unpleasant about it? Isn't it manipulative to suggest Aldi's way of conducting business is unpleasant?