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As someone who's currently doing two master's degrees, thank you for letting me know this important info!
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most paywalled papers are never actually read, but if they get quoted in a free article then the quote and reference is just copy pasted ad nauseum , to the extent that if the original quote is wrong it’ll be repeated in dozens of papers anyway lol
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Oct 2, 2020 22:27
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Unintended side-effect of  ing at least some of my textbooks back in college is that besides saving a ton of money I still have them. All my other textbooks got traded in to the bookstore for like sixty bucks at the end of the semester or I got rid of em' later because I didn't feel like hauling them when moving apartments, but the PDF ones I still have and can refer back to (which I've actually done now and then)
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From a mostly boring article on investors dot com that I stumbled on:quote:President Trump paid a seemingly low $750 in federal income tax in his first year in office, news reports say. But you might ask yourself, "If a billionaire can pay that little, how do I or my tax preparer whittle my tax liability to something that small?" Yep, that's definitely my first thought, thanks. quote:Follow Paul Katzeff on Twitter at @IBD_PKatzeff for tips about retirement planning and active mutual fund managers who consistently outperform the market. Wow, I too am interested in cryptids
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Oct 2, 2020 22:45
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I like how baffled this reporter is that PepsiCo could sell disgusting mac and cheese: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pepsis-new-cheetos-mac-and-cheese-is-flying-off-the-shelf-cfo-164833751.html quote:And who said soda giant PepsiCo (PEP) couldn’t make a good box of mac and cheese. Who said PepsiCo couldn't make a box of mac and cheese huh??? Nobody? Literally nobody? Oh. Anyway they saw the global pandemic, sent their marketers into a room to come up with a devious plan to make all the money, and they came back with... 
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Oct 2, 2020 22:58
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Quad-post lol, I checked Pepsi's wiki page to confirm they owned Frito Lay and I wasn't just imagining that (they do) and saw this section:quote:In 1959, the USSR held an exhibition of Soviet technology and culture in New York. The United States reciprocated with an exhibition in Sokolniki Park, Moscow, which led to the famous kitchen debate. One of the American products exhibited was Pepsi Cola. After obtaining a photo of U.S. President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev sipping Pepsi, Pepsico executive Donald Kendall was able to capture the attention of the Soviet people and, in 1972, negotiate a cola monopoly in the USSR. Due to Soviet restrictions on transporting rubles abroad, PepsiCo struck a barter deal whereby Stolichnaya vodka would be exchanged for Pepsi syrup. This deal lasted until 1990, when the USSR and PepsiCo re-negotiated a $3 billion deal to exchange syrup for vodka and a small fleet of Soviet warships including 17 submarines, a frigate, a cruiser and a destroyer.[42][43][44] This deal fell through before it could take place due to the fall of the Soviet Union and was renegotiated with the former nations of the USSR. The new trade deal included receiving cheese from Russia to supply its Pizza Hut locations and receiving double-hulled tankers from Ukraine. ... what exactly was PepsiCo planning to do with 17 submarines, a frigate, a cruiser and a destroyer? 
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Oct 2, 2020 23:00
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Shame Boy posted:Quad-post lol, I checked Pepsi's wiki page to confirm they owned Frito Lay and I wasn't just imagining that (they do) and saw this section: Sell them for scrap.
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Oct 2, 2020 23:04
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Shame Boy posted:... what exactly was PepsiCo planning to do with 17 submarines, a frigate, a cruiser and a destroyer? 
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Oct 2, 2020 23:09
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Shame Boy posted:Quad-post lol, I checked Pepsi's wiki page to confirm they owned Frito Lay and I wasn't just imagining that (they do) and saw this section: the cola wars became all too real.
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Oct 2, 2020 23:39
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Shame Boy posted:I like how baffled this reporter is that PepsiCo could sell disgusting mac and cheese: https://twitter.com/rosepalestine48/status/1308621749207080961?s=09 its so amazingly red that i had to read the ingredients to check for some sort of horrifying petrochemical kinda disappointed it wasnt the case and it was all bog standard poo poo lol edit: wtf the tweet got deleted like seconds after i posted it? it WAS a pic of the hot and spicy cheetos mac and cheese
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Oct 3, 2020 00:15
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Shame Boy posted:Quad-post lol, I checked Pepsi's wiki page to confirm they owned Frito Lay and I wasn't just imagining that (they do) and saw this section: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExXM_rTSlo8
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Shame Boy posted:Quad-post lol, I checked Pepsi's wiki page to confirm they owned Frito Lay and I wasn't just imagining that (they do) and saw this section: Have you never seen the movie Demolition Man? The Franchise wars, obviously.
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Oct 3, 2020 01:55
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Pepsi is all just an elaborate shell game for a massive coke smuggling cartel
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How many shells, though? And how would you use them?
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Marx Was A Lib posted:Pepsi is all just an elaborate shell game for a massive coke smuggling cartel That’s the cocaine‐cola company.
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Going to share the poo poo out of this very important information on how not to do wrong things.
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Oct 4, 2020 21:57
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Their specialist marketing sure hasn't done poo poo for their google rankings cuz I'm finding several other companies above them. They're right though, I'm A Gay and I wear my baseball hat backwards to be cool:  Also this: quote:Lose the stock images and rainbows please. Is like one scroll wheel turn below this picture: 
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Oct 4, 2020 22:23
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quote:LGBTQ⁺ millennials are highly engaged on apps like GRINDR and HER, spending 50 minutes a day swiping through potential dates. "Potential dates" lmao yep, grindr is just a nice charming dating app and nothing else and your ad definitely won't be running alongside pictures of dicks
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Oct 4, 2020 22:26
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 I see you lurking in the corner there Reddit 
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Oct 4, 2020 22:32
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https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/1312814290143977479 Do you think they'll give you a defeated by coin if he dies?
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Inceltown posted:https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/1312814290143977479 Reminder that the white house gift shop has no actual connection to the white house and is just a store named the "white house gift shop"
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Oct 4, 2020 23:51
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Shame Boy posted:Reminder that the white house gift shop has no actual connection to the white house and is just a store named the "white house gift shop" Is it connected to trump tho? Seems like his kind of grift
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Oct 5, 2020 01:21
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Inceltown posted:https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/1312814290143977479 Germans never got their Volkswagens. 
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Oct 5, 2020 02:01
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Shame Boy posted:
thanks i hate them all
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Oct 5, 2020 02:30
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The discussion here was 'these companies have paid no tax to the Australian government'. This person (who works for one of those companies) responds saying they shouldn't have to pay tax because their employees pay tax on the money they earn, and if these companies had to pay tax as well then they wouldn't be able to afford to pay their employees, and then no one would be able to pay any tax! It was also discussed that since the companies are paying no tax, the people working for them are paying for the company to exist via government subsidy, hence the reply "What is wrong with my taxes paying for the company? They have provided me a job."   
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TheMostFrench posted:The discussion here was 'these companies have paid no tax to the Australian government'. This person (who works for one of those companies) responds saying they shouldn't have to pay tax because their employees pay tax on the money they earn, and if these companies had to pay tax as well then they wouldn't be able to afford to pay their employees, and then no one would be able to pay any tax! Imagine not knowing that "profits" are what's left over after you pay your employees and not the limiting factor to how much you can possibly pay your employees. Also obligatory: 
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https://twitter.com/InternetHippo/status/1312854342626467840
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What the gently caress
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"Smart poor students are less likely to become wealthy by age 25 than not so smart rich students" If you start out with money, you have money, and if you don't start out with money, you don't have money. Weird!
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Shame Boy posted:Also obligatory: So, these are franking credits, then? As ever, lovely Australian right wingers trend a decade or so behind the US with all their lovely ideas.
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https://twitter.com/PogChamp89/status/1313112224072953856?s=20 https://twitter.com/ThisIsBing007/status/1313109327335632896?s=20 https://twitter.com/hldiaz888/status/1313094886736896002?s=20 i could go on and on, but its honestly astounding the amount of people who will defend this poo poo
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Oct 5, 2020 18:24
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Look, all of the other plantation owners have slaves, too; stop making such a big deal out of it!
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Oct 5, 2020 18:28
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I think I read just this morning the title of an article which reported that CDPR is going to give 10% of the sales revenue to everyone doing crunch, I don't know how many other developers would do such a thing
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necroid posted:I think I read just this morning the title of an article which reported that CDPR is going to give 10% of the sales revenue to everyone doing crunch, I don't know how many other developers would do such a thing 10% of "sales revenue" sounds like some hollywood accounting bullshit but ok. Also lmao at the dude stanning for Quantic Dream. Y'know, it's totally normal like Quantic Dream, the place run by a piss fetishist who single-handedly ensured that Ellen Page will never ever be in another video game.
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Shame Boy posted:10% of "sales revenue" sounds like some hollywood accounting bullshit but ok. I just checked https://twitter.com/AdamBadowski/status/1311245204356304896/photo/1 with a reported number of 1100+ employees 10% of the annual profit doesn't sound too bad generally speaking CDPR is one of the least lovely big name devs, but yeah it's always fun when gamers are quick to ignore/forgive/forget bad practices as long as they get to play their games
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Oct 5, 2020 18:55
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necroid posted:I just checked Are profits determined after all expenses and and reinvestment occurs so they could basically make the profits whatever they wanted?
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Shame Boy posted:Also lmao at the dude stanning for Quantic Dream. Y'know, it's totally normal like Quantic Dream, the place run by a piss fetishist who single-handedly ensured that Ellen Page will never ever be in another video game. What did they do to her that would make her never want to be in another game? Creepy whizzard stuff?
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-Zydeco- posted:Are profits determined after all expenses and and reinvestment occurs so they could basically make the profits whatever they wanted? I just did some cursory looking and can't find anywhere that they actually define what they mean by "annual profit" or "2020" (fiscal year? calendar year? Is it going to include sales of this new game or not, because I think that'd be a pretty enormous difference) so good luck I guess.
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dunno I'm just linking what I read this morning and briefly researched now "10% of the annual profit our company generates in 2020" sounds like dangerous lawyerspeak but still, if it's in good faith it's a nice move in an industry plagued by terrible practices in my limited, direct and indirect experience CDPR sounds like a studio that would do poo poo like this in good faith
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