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Amazon Fires Employee Who Tested Positive For Having Food In Their System (www.theonion.com)
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[–] phorq@lemmy.ml 138 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That took me a dystopian amount of time to realize it was the onion...

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

They got me too for a few moments.

[–] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's a "dystopian amount of time"?

[–] phorq@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An amount of time that would only be expected if you're living in a dystopia.

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Idk if I were living a dystopia I would quickly assume is true because is a dystopia. The issue is now that are in-between.

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Haha. I thought the same at first. Sounds about par tor the course.

[–] java@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Same. This is what makes this one brilliant.