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Comment by eajakobsen | Hacker News Reader

There is some fine print at the bottom of the screen in the shot where the phone is connected to the handlebars:

> Always use a dampener with your iPhone when riding as shown. Use only with low-powered bikes and avoid prolonged use.

That disclaimer is shown for exactly 1.5 seconds, or 38 frames, mostly as white text against a white background. Yes, I downloaded and checked as I'm that sad type of person :-) No one can notice the text is there and read it that fast, so for all practical purposes it might as well not be there.

It always disappoints me regulators just let this kind of faux-disclaimer slide. This is just lying with your fingers crossed behind your back.

American "false advertising" law is absolutely toothless.

The fact that drug makers can hawk pills on TV telling you how much you need glockinflexadusal or whatever schizophrenic word-salad name they've come up with for your sporadic knee twinge and show you how you can be young and beautiful and imminently desirable again

(sometimes people who take this pill start pooping and never stop pooping again for the rest of their lives which are thankfully rather short, and on a few occasions people have immediately burst into flames and started screaming in pain but their bodies refuse to die for some reason)

You should ask your doctor if girexamusib is right for you. *images of children wearing white clothing and running through wheat fields and blowing dandelion puff seeds into a beautiful sunset play while the tranquil music of heavens elevator plays softly in the background*

is incredibly terrible for all of the worst reasons.

And the theme song/video is, paraphrased, "doing this all day." Nice touch.

That sounds like "it'll work in a pinch but don't actually do it".

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