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.
Comment on Apple told to pay back €13bn in tax by EU
kippinitreal@lemmy.world 2 months agoThey 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
Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 2 months ago
kippinitreal@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fixed & noted. Thanks!
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 months ago
So it takes you half a second to remove the “m”?
filcuk@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
And people using mobile can go stuff themselves? It doesn’t switch automatically either way.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It does for me. On mobile if Wikipedia notices you are using a mobile browser, it automatically redirects you to the m. URL.
ripcord@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 2 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.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 2 months ago
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?
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 months ago
They get to tax those trillions at an extremely low rate, right?
massacre@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m pretty sure Ireland is now the richest country in the EU
ripcord@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Technically Luxembourg. But Ireland is #2 by both GDP per capita and by mean income.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 2 months ago
This is my impression whilst visiting Roscommon.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 2 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.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
95% of corporations and 100% of multinationals are greedy parasites who only display virtues when it’s profitable (mainstream) to do so.
Those that had any real virtue have been destroyed or acquired by the parasites.