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Asking the important questions. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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https://www.iflscience.com/if-you-farted-in-a-jar-and-opened-it-20-years-later-would-it-still-smell-of-farts-78468

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Something about that story smells fishy.

$1k / jar and brought in $100k... so that's 100 jars total. Maybe a little extra in case of an accident during shipping. So why did she need to fart 50x per week? Shit, that would be $2.4 million per year of she could actually sell that.

So the way I see it, she was farting in a jar 50x per week but only selling 2 of them... that's not a business, that's a fetish she managed to squeeze a whiff of money out of.