• Tiger Jerusalem@lemmy.world
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    Jesus Fucking Christ, this fucking company can pay 13 billion and it still will not do a dent on their TRILLION dollars value. Imagine all that society could benefit if those fucking assholes just paid their share, instead of us having to hear how green and socially conscious these bastards are.

    Tech companies are the most disgusting corporations in their sheer greed, right up there with oil corps.

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        Please, anyone who reads this, stop posting links to the mobile version of Wikipedia. It doesn’t switch automatically on PC, and I see it happen all the time. Just take the half a second to remove the “.m” from the beginning of the link, save everyone else from the pain of having to be surprised by it and taking the time to do it themselves.

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          And people using mobile can go stuff themselves? It doesn’t switch automatically either way.

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            It does for me. On mobile if Wikipedia notices you are using a mobile browser, it automatically redirects you to the m. URL.

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              While I agree this is inconvenient, this sounds like something on Wikipedia to address.

              I think it’s going to be a losing battle to try to not only make everyone everywhere aware of the problem, let alone convince them to put in the (admittedly minimal) effort every time to deal with it.

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                3 months ago

                I agree it would be best for Wikipedia to address this on their end, but I have actually no idea where to begin with asking them to make a change like this.

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            3 months ago

            It actually does switch automatically on mobile, just not desktop, which is why I get annoyed enough when it happens to mention it.

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        95% of corporations and 100% of multinationals are greedy parasites who only virtue signal when it’s profitable (mainstream) to do so.

        Those that had any real virtue have been destroyed or acquired by the parasites.

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        Fuck that’s depressing reading. I understand what US corporations get out of this but I’m still unsure why Ireland goes to this length to be a tax haven. What’s in it for them?

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        3 months ago

        Don’t worry, if I believe the internet the EU will save us from Big Tech… checks where Ireland and The Netherlands are… Bugger.

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      Can I interest you in an iPhone 16? It’s the 16th generation of their pocket depressions rectangle and now costs more than it did last time.

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      13bn dollars in missed taxes while already abusing a tax heaven.

      When our stupid politicians will grow some balls (metaphorically, and independent of their gender-balanced commission/parliament), and we’ll actually introduce a proper minimum corporate tax for the entire EU market, it will be 50bn. At least.

      Combine this from all the big tech companies that are dodging our taxes, and we could quadruple our defense budget, double our education and healthcare spendings, and still supply every citizen with a bottle of champagne to celebrate.