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[–] [email protected] 248 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (21 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (16 children)

They greedy af. They've lobbied (bribed?) to keep the corp taxes as low as possible. Then they go Double Irish with Dutch Sandwich and NOT pay the low taxes anyways. If we were to tax them appropriately then it'd be a helluva lot more than 13b imo

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Fixed & noted. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So it takes you half a second to remove the "m"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Outside of posting archive links to paywalls content people should make it a habit to share as canonical a link as they can imo, but yes this is a very much not important in the grand scheme of things.

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