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ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  now only do aluminum cans for :

  • food packaging
  • high end satellites
  • satellite launch systems.

  I find this interpretation funny

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  • ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Aluminum cylinders only.

    Not aluminum? Not interested. Not a cylinder? Not a chance.

    Squared off glass cylinder? Legally prohibited.

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Transparent aluminum? Believe it or not, jail.

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      • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Galaxy watch 5 users start to worry.

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  • Pantrygheist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Most advanced cans in the airspace industry

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    • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well they don’t produce can’ts

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      those 🕘 sweet 🕞sweet🕞 cans🕓

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    • And009@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No monopoly lawsuits in space

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      • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The year is 3506. The Deimos Corporation has expanded into Phobos, Luna, and all the other moons of the solar system.

        It’s… A moonopoly.

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• metostopholes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They don’t even do aerospace anymore. Ball Aerospace & Technologies was bought by BAE Systems earlier this year.

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  • Wogi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well then what would you say you do here

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    • Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Let me tell you. bob.

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    BAE caught them slipping, huh?

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• CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  On December 11, 1939, the U.S. Government sued the Ball Brothers, the Hazel-Atlas Glass Co., and the Owens-Illinois Glass Co. under monopoly charges based on the Hartford-Empire and Owens licensing agreements. The plaintiff claimed that small producers were being frozen out of business or prohibited from entering manufacture by the nature of the licenses. Almost a decade later, in 1947, the justices rendered a final verdict. The court prohibited the Ball Brothers from purchasing or otherwise controlling any other businesses engaged in the same manufacturing processes – in other words, the small jar producers. In addition, Ball had to divest itself of the Three Rivers Glass Co. (already closed for almost a decade) that Ball had acquired in 1936. Ball sold the property

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• affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  oh thats good to know. i’ve got a few satellites lying around that i’ve been meaning to launch

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• NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They really had that industry….by the Balls.

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  • A7thStone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Maybe at a lemon party.

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• Teal@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I wasn’t aware of the jar monopoly situation. Maybe my old Balls will become collectible someday.

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• LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Came here to say this.

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• TriflingToad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  why is the government beefing with mason jar companies and not multi-billionaires

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  • ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So, at the time (1930) ball jar actually would have qualified as big business in the sense that you mean.
    Home canning was very popular and they consistently bought out smaller companies.
    Since they were privately owned, it’s tricky to find specifics about value, but they were “found a university”, “own a company town or two”, “chairman of the federal reserve” levels of rich.

    So actually a pretty good use of government.

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