[-] h_ramus@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Awesome! New single released before the album release in October.

[-] h_ramus@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

The company routinely shifted production of concentrate to countries with favourable tax rates

Manufacturing is different than IP transfers.

the US parent company that owns the iconic brands. By controlling how much the subsidiaries must pay other parts of the Coke network for use of the brands and marketing, and by setting the prices they can charge bottlers, Coke itself in effect decided their profitability, the court heard

IP is owned by the US. What they're describing is transfer pricing. Subsidiaries are owned by coke hence by definition coke sets the prices under which the US charges for their IP. It's tax advantageous to charge a low amount to shift profits to low tax jurisdictions.

Numbers look massive but overall not large enough. Coke is gigantic and the dispute spans multiple years. The IRS hasn't always covered themselves in glory and they may still fumble a technical aspect on the burden of proof.

Interesting to see it unfold but coke has a history of environmental, business and humane malpractices. This is just another outcome of such business model.

[-] h_ramus@lemm.ee -2 points 3 weeks ago

The intangible property for coke is a secret recipe that is preserved in some vault in the US. There's no transfer of IP here and that's not what's in dispute.

The facts are centred around the profitability of concentrate producers that earn the super profits. Operating entities and the US makes a slim margin.

You can read a better informed analysis here.

[-] h_ramus@lemm.ee 11 points 4 weeks ago

Nothing beats a glass of water. Plus, coke has a history of business, environmental and humane malpractices.

[-] h_ramus@lemm.ee 121 points 1 month ago

Didn't bother going through the hoops and installed EndeavourOS which is arch-based with some additional default applications.

For me, the best thing of Arch isn't the distribution but the Arch wiki. An impressive piece of documentation.

[-] h_ramus@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago

No. Takes two seconds to open or close the tap. However, I do sometimes spend time daydreaming under running water so I guess it evens out!

[-] h_ramus@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

I had issues with Manjaro and WiFi disconnecting. Also, Manjaro dropped hardware acceleration for video codecs. Eventually got too annoyed to deal with the Manjaro direction and moved to EOS. Everything is working fine barring a script to get the headphones volume to work (recognised as bass speaker in alsa paths). So far, EOS has been the set and forget type of OS for me.

[-] h_ramus@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Windows runs my laptop harder, uses more battery and the fans are spinning a lot of times whist it runs almost silent in Linux. I've settled on EndeavourOS which has given me a headache-free experience for my hardware (lenovo yoga pro 7 7840hs). Only keep widows for BIOS updates otherwise I'd have nuked that hodge podge of software melange.

If you're really set on windows you could try tiny11 to remove most of the bloat.

[-] h_ramus@lemm.ee 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Very on-brand for Ocon. Seems more interested in protecting his fragile ego whenever a teammate out qualifies him than playing the team game. In Monaco, this is evidence that there's no limit to human stupidity. Outdid KMag on brainless decision.

[-] h_ramus@lemm.ee 25 points 4 months ago

Well, hello there Don Draper

[-] h_ramus@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago

The AI centipede era has begun

[-] h_ramus@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

Yeah, completely agree. YouTube commodified a certain style, people tend to copy it even when they're not great communicators, and the whole excitement akin to a Labrador salivating is quite undignified.

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