https://www.reddit.com/r/StockMarket/comments/13gddmj/china_spying_on_coca_cola/jk1l2ys/

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    edit-2
    2 years ago

    secrets that cost nearly US$120M to develop

    I guarantee he stole a slip of paper that reads "You put the lime in the coconut and shake it all up", then translated it into Mandarin, badly.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Literally what was that money spent on? This has to be kickbacks and money laundering, because it takes real research with industrial equipment and test groups and molecular gastronomy, but that shit doesn't cost 9 figures in a sane world.

      • mittens [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        probably a bunch of redundant taste test focus groups

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Okay but, like, are a million people in these focus groups? Do they need to drink the sample in Antarctica? Is one of them Drake? Otherwise I can't conceive of how that puts a dent in this cost.