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Onion headline: "To save $100m a billionaire slashes 10% of staff at a newspaper. Then as charity gesture PR he gave $100m each to two people." (hexbear.net)

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As Washington Post Flounders, Bezos Cuts Check to Celebrity Admiral

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

McRaven was also criticized for the unknown amount that would be needed remediate the soil of contaminates.

It's got to be a grift. I would bet my life savings he gave a ginormous sweetheart contract to a close buddy who has a firm that doesn't even have any knowledge expertise with that stuff.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

A friend of mine worked in remediation, and he joked about how half the job was just doing surveys and saying "Yes, this land is contaminated" because that was a requirement, but never having to clean anything up because clean-up wasn't actually a requirement issued by the state.