Anon tells the tale of the Garfield phones

Comments

• TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Awesome when humans litter and then go “Nah, too expensive to clean up…”

  source

  • SARGE@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just once I’d love to see a major government force a company into bankruptcy by making them clean up their own mess.

    Company: “We can’t clean up our industrial mining waste, it’s too expensive and we would go under!”

    Government: okay well we will have the taxpayers pay for it. Here have a bailout. Remember, daddy loves you so much “Oh then I guess you should have factored that into your costs. Get to work. And when you have no more money to pay for others to clean it up for you, we expect to see the executives and management out there with gloves and a can-do attitude”

    source

    • Tyfud@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It happens semi-regularly. Unfortunately it doesn’t turn out like you’d think.

      The company immediately bankrupts itself, but all of its assets and funds are protected by S-Corp and LLC chicanery; so they end up paying less than they would have if they stayed afloat and got fined, and now they’ve got a “new” company with the same people doing the same thing that’s protected from lawsuits.

      Because that’s how we designed the system.

      And by we, I mean the oligarchs that keep us fighting among ourselves instead of at them.

      source

      • -> View More Comments
    • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Happened all the time, that’s why companies need to pay into escrow now (or whatever it’s called).

      source
    • TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’d love that, honestly. Too bad most politicians don’t have the (figurative) balls for that

      source
  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It should only get complicated, if the company who lost the container doesn’t exist anymore.

    source

    • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, the original meme was made … in 1976 so 50 years ago, problem solved.

      source
• Rolando@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They should make it a tourism thing. I unironically want to go Garf-phone picking at Le Mer du Chat in France.

  source

  • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ahaha, I almost believed you that that was the real name of the town, but mer is feminine

    source

    • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Good catch! The actual name is Le Merde du Chat

      source
• toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It looks like somebody’s got a case of the Mondays.

  source

  • RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

    source
• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I always wanted one of these.

  source

  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You should go to France, then.

    source