• FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    2 months ago

    porky-happy "Well, we made paltry gains to our profit margin by knowingly playing Russian roulette with bird shit during a known outbreak so obviously we couldn't not. And really, it was just better for morale for everyone to pretend there wasn't a bullet in any of the chambers"

    Anyone taking wagers that they did some of that famous capitalist innovation and were feeding birds that had been culled for flu exposure to the cows?

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      2 months ago

      Anyone taking wagers that they did some of that famous capitalist innovation and were feeding birds that had been culled for flu exposure to the cows?

      I can imagine a high level person at the DOJ giving a press conference "The EvilFactoryFarming division of EvilCorp had agreed to pay a fine of $10 million without admitting wrong doing. This is a significant monetary judgment in what the media calls the "sick culled birds recycling project". We believe it will cause companies to think twice before they..."

      What the DOJ neglects to mention is that the "sick culled birds recycling project" was an in-house term because - in a shocker - everybody at EvilCorp is gleefully evil. The execs lampoon the DOJ judgment as a "transaction cost" or if they are being especially playful a "rounding error".