BRING IT ON NITPICKY NUKE NERDS

    • @bitofhope
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      112 months ago

      Fortune named Enron “America’s Most Innovative Company” for six consecutive years.

      Some Wikipedia editor has a nice sense of comedic timing, placing this right before the article picture and the infobox before dropping the

      At the end of 2001, it was revealed that Enron’s reported financial condition was sustained by an institutionalized, systematic, and creatively planned accounting fraud, known since as the Enron scandal.

    • @Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world
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      -112 months ago

      Man the internet is wild. I say MS probably has a plan to profit from AI based on their 20 year contract for nuclear power and you guys are like “but Enron failed!” Holy fuck ya really reaching to pick those cherries now

      • @blakestaceyA
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        102 months ago

        Your blithe trust in capital fails to be endearing.

        • @selfA
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          102 months ago

          it’s weird that Enron of all things was the line for them

        • @Soyweiser
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          62 months ago

          I’m also impressed that the bailey they retreat into (‘I just said that they would have a plan to make money over 20 years’) is just as badly defendable as the motte ‘they must be making money’. Quality work.

      • @V0ldek
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        52 months ago

        has a plan to profit

        You say “plan” but I think what you really mean is that Satya crossed his fingers and hoped for the best