Because Hitachi was embarrassed about their innocent personal massager being used for such unwholesome activities. Literal PR move.

Just like TI... They no longer make the famous calculator

Wich turned it basically into an US exclusive product, and pretty much impossible to get outside of there

They fucked up San onofre so bad it's now being decommissioned 😡

https://newsroom.edison.com/stories/sce-formally-serves-mitsubishi-with-notice-of-dispute

It was a $680mill job, and SoCal Edison (SCE) had such an inept legal team, they missed a term in the contract with Mitsubishi which limited payout for failure within the 20yr warranty to $125mill.

Can you fucking believe that shit? I only found this out after investigating why there was a $3 "decommissioning fee" on my first electric bill after moving to California.

"Yeah can I get uhhh, a medium sized family sedan, an air conditioner, and a capesize containership?"

Just Zaibatsu things...

GE

They own the Sheinhardt Wig Company and NBC!

Has any company of any size ever done something actually envrionmentally friendly?

Capitalism baby! If nobody buys your environmentally friendly aluminum cups they won’t do much good, and people are more likely to buy a product with “luxurious” feeling packaging. They’re likely still a net benefit vs plastic solo cups, but the market leads to perverse incentives.

those aluminum cups make milk taste fantastic. also taste colder for some reason.

For US government contracts that secret echelon is called the lowest bidder lol

They purposely try to spread it around as much as they can to avoid unbalancing the economic and academic equilibrium of the states.

They would save a lot of money by just building everything in one place, say, Texas or New Mexico, but the cost of running NASA, and the academic expertise required to do so would pull so much economic activity, companies, jobs, taxes, and all the knock on effects to that state that local businesses, residents, land values would all spin out of balance, and the states who missed out would have a noticeable dip in business and income tax revenue. They didn't need to build the Saturn 5 first stage in... Wherever, and then ship it all the way down to the Panama canal and back up to Port Canaveral, but they did it to share the load and the economic stimulus.

Yeah! I didn't know until I visited with a friend of Gary Dealy (nicknamed Big Deal.) They have framed photos of the whole process. You should ask about it if you're in there, Gary told us the whole story. Very nice, cool, hilarious people.

I took a class on Tiffany style. Super cool stuff. Expensive for the material, but the skill level to get started and have something decent is super low. Glad I learned about it!

That's a great story.

Of curse, today the supervisor would be arrested and put on a terrorist watch list.

Would love to know the name of the doc if you can remember!

Is there any situation where Seinfeld is inappropriate?

Suffer like the pig you are!

https://youtu.be/gLTnzo-nd8Q

[jk]

Same with Ball and canning jars.

They also made balloons!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDs8rz7pRLQ