• @finitebanjo
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    3 days ago

    Okay but there actually was a huge McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine conspiracy that turned out to be true. McDonalds sells the machines made by Taylor Company to the Franchise Owners, then mandates that only Taylor can fix the machines which are needlessly complicated to clean and maintain, and the machines being unreliable was a design flaw known internally the entire time. When a company named Kytch created tools to make fixing them fast and easy: Taylor sued. Then Taylor made their own tool by reverse engineering Kytch’s tool, so Kytch sued Taylor back for $900M USD.

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      33 days ago

      Dude you are preaching to the choir, I’ve been following it at work as some kind of coping mechanism for never getting ice cream lol