Kushia

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

Taxing profits is a good idea but they'll figure out some creative accounting to avoid making them.

I think we just need to straight up take ownership of a portion their shares that increases based on how little tax they are paying.

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

On paper they don't make anything a year and pay less tax than you or I. The only way that's going to change is a massive world-wide effort to crack down on tax havens and to start taxing their assets fully.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

As an Australian who has to deal with the duopoly of our grocery stores after we let them all merge years ago, it absolutely will drive higher prices and nobody who isn't a shareholder should want this.

They basically "collude" to fix and raise prices here and have whole teams of people who's job it is to monitor and extract as much money out of us as possible. They also force growers to accept shitty deals or they reject their produce due to "not meeting their quality standards" and there's basically nowhere else for them to sell it in the quantities they need to.

Nobody wins in grocery store mergers except the shareholders.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

This is so sadly America it's not funny.

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

Nobody should own a private (personal) jet.

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

They want to actually do it and be the one to do so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's happenend with the AUR too.

Snaps however have a certain expectation that newer/inexperienced users should be able to trust them.

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

Those goalposts shift a lot. You are just guessing at this point despite the evidence being pretty much against any actual simulation happening.

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

What you call a "bug" everybody else sees as fake.

They literally didn't implement a simulation, they simulated the simulation.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's never a good idea to talk bad publicly about your boss.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

You're just making excuses at this point.

No it wasn't finished but they shipped it as a full priced finished game and deceived a lot of people.

They weren't honest about the state of the simulation either, the UI updates as if there's a full simulation running but it's all magic fairy numbers to appear as if the simulation is functional. They faked it and just hoped nobody noticed.

It's like releasing a factory game but you don't have to link anything up to churn out products, instead you can just plop down the final stage factory and call it a day. This isn't just unfinished, it's deceitful and unacceptable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Oh it's fake.

The shops do not need to be connected to industry nor to residential or outside connections to function. It just fakes all of the commerce information.

The devs might call that a bug to save face, but it doesn't mean they didn't deliberately ship it like that.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Well duh you might say but I usually have a policy of no Facebook-related apps at all on my phone. Not long ago however I purchased a Occulus Rift headset for my kids and at some point installed the app for it on my phone. I never logged into it and ran it once but didn't go further than that, eventually using my daughter's phone instead to actually set the headset up.

I do have a Facebook account that I haven't touched in years. Sometimes, I get the occasional email from Facebook in my spam folder with friend suggestions or the like. I just ignore it usually.

The other day I started with a new therapist which involved having to meet them at a pool for hydrotherapy. Lo and behold there's a friend suggestion within 24 hours for my therapist in my email.

You better believe I double checked my phone and removed that spyware. I am shocked how insidious their tracking is though, even though I didn't really use their app it still knew exactly who I was and sent them information that I certainly didn't consent to. Fuck Meta and Facebook.

 
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