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Apple, you have infinite money. Just pay this lady the $50,000,000 she wants so she can move to a nice clean place over in Atherton.

And pay your fines to the government and move your fabs to remote areas so this doesn’t happen again.

There, problem solved. I’ve saved everyone millions of dollars in litigation fees, time, and now our judiciary system can tackle other problems.

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I cannot tell if you are joking or not. But it is obvious she is litigating in public until she gets the payoff she wants:

https://mastodon.social/@ashleygjovik

Of course a big corp cannot give in easily to behaviour like that as it would just open the flood gates.

A big corp can't give in because then they would have to install proper exhaust filtration and monitoring which would probably cost 10s of millions of dollars and require a lot of additional staff that would have to know what Apple is doing in those facilities.

They prefer doing keeping their skunkworks small, and the easiest way to do that is to just install a charcoal filter and call it a day.

That is not how humans work unfortunately. If any word gets out that a settlement like that can happen, then suddenly there is going to be a lot of people sick with such symptoms. It's the same reason why the "not negotiating with terrorists" policy is in place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_negotiation_with_te...

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