Yes, if they used the franchises to really develop fully flushed out universes and tell new stories, then great! The problems start when franchises are used to "guarantee" sales/viewership while lazily rehashing the same stories and characters and pumping out mediocre high budget slop. I really loved Andor.
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Pretty depressing thread tbh, still the same old misconceptions and that sentiment that anything they have to do is a huge roadblock and means Lemmy is doomed to failure, like picking a server is such a huuuuge hurdle..
More space on the desk for 143 empty cans of monster.
Crazy how different people react differently to things, I don't chew gum often but I did try it again when I started controlling my diet and for me it just seems to activate my hunger, like my brain thinks "I'm chewing something, time to prepare the stomach for receiving food!".
Pretty much the state of gmaps in Germany already.
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Next stop: banning folks just for looking/spending too much time on these posts.
It's so much more complicated than that, but of course they can have "savings". What I will explain, is that profits are only taxed when realized, they're not gonna keep getting taxed until they run out of money in any country I'm familiar with.... They made X amount of profit in year Y, they get taxed Z% on it and that's that. It can then be put in a (business) savings account with interest, invested, or anything else they want to do with it. When they make profits from these "savings" or investments, that profit will be taxed, but only that profit, the sum itself which was already taxed is not taxed again the next year.
You are right that companies will try to reduce their profit as much as they can to reduce the amount of tax they pay by spending as much of the profit within the fiscal year as possible, but that doesn't mean they can't save it (and pay taxes on it, yes). This is because if you're spending the money on things you "need" anyway, then why not?
Profits are basically the company's salary, ignoring the complexities around accounting, it really works very similarly to how it works for an individual..
Here's an article discussing how business savings accounts work in the UK, as an example.
All of that stuff is terrible for you anyway, I wouldn't consume them even if they were made by my next door neighbour.
Lost me at "eye contact".
Oliebollen are fried batter, which is made of flour, yeast, salt, sugar and some liquid (water, beer, milk). I'm not familiar with the American thing but it sounds like they're literally coating a stick of butter in batter before frying it.