• @AdamEatsAss
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    You owe the Russian government $20 that’s you’re problem. You owe the Russian government $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 that’s their problem.

    • Suzune
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      1222 days ago

      Exactly. I’m still missing the comical “or else…”.

  • @foggy
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    Lmao

    That’s… More than all of the value of everything on earth, combined.

    By a lot.

    • @[email protected]
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      They were smart and accounted for 6 months or so of Russian inflation as their currency collapses.

      • @foggy
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        N = { value of everything in the Earth’s crust, including art, wildly inflated for tax purposes }

        N^2 < [(this fine)/(the U.S. GDP)]

        This number is so comically large it only makes sense in astrophysics.

        • @meco03211
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          922 days ago

          Miss me with that astrophysics ish. Come holla when you on that Ramsey theory and Graham’s Number.

          • @foggy
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            rips bong

            We are the projection of a higher order dimension, being sucked into a higher order dimension black hole.

            We passed the event horizon which gave all static mass a direction of motion from which they cannot escape.This is the arrow of time.

            It wasn’t everything all at one point for the big bang, it was just the tip of a higher order dimension iceberg. This 0-100 moment is what caused the CMB.

            All of this information is being compressed. The universe is not expanding. The only thing that expands is the nothingness between all massive objects as they further compress towards nothingness, giving the illusion of infinite accelerating expansion.

            All invisible forces, from the 'dark matter’s to electromagnetism, are dimensions projected into this Allegory of the cave of a universe we’re stuck in.

            Miss me with that real shit let’s get high and make shit up.

              • @foggy
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                I’m familiar, been watching mumberphile for close to a decade 😎

                Edit: shit, over a decade. I saw this vid when it was new…

            • SolidGrue
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              822 days ago

              You, uh… You do a newsletter?

    • @Zess
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      2222 days ago

      Value is relative. My cat is worth way more than that.

      • @Agent641
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        I would sell my cat for a bag of pretzels.

        • Eunie
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          922 days ago

          I would sell your cat together with the cat of the guy above you for a single pretzel.

    • @Mango
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      222 days ago

      I wouldn’t give a quarter of Earth for that much. 😤

      • @foggy
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        1522 days ago

        No, it literally does not.

        That’s how ridiculous that number is.

        Convert to Shiba Inu, Dodgcoin, idc. Still not even fucking close.

        • PlzGivHugs
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          The the infamous Weimar Republic mark was only one 4.2 trillionth of a dollar. This is a quadrillion x quadrillion dollars.

          • @foggy
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            It’s closer to quintillion x quintillion.

            Just like 6 orders of magnitude larger.

  • I Cast Fist
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    For those wondering how the hell the number got so stupidly large, starting somewhere in 2022:

    The court imposed a fine of 100 thousand rubles ($1,025) per day, with the total fine doubling every week.

    By week 20 Google was already “owing” over 1 billion dollars and over 1 trillion by week 30. So expect the funny number to keep growing just because.

    In any case, I don’t think Google will come back to Russia anytime soon. Probably nothing to be gained there anyway.

    • @[email protected]
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      1622 days ago

      Doubling every week means an interest rate of almost 5 × 1017 %. That can barely offset the ruble’s inflation.

    • @AnUnusualRelic
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      1022 days ago

      I thought some court clerk had fallen asleep writing out zeroes and that’s what they’d ended up with.

    • @[email protected]
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      122 days ago

      Google Russia filed for bankruptcy last year, and Alphabet filed a claim against whatever Russian ministry is in charge for wrongful asset seizure in a US court to prevent any filings against them in the US. So nothing will ever come out of it.

  • @[email protected]
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    9422 days ago

    Lol it’s not an onion article!
    How do you do this as a country and think anyone will respect anything you threaten again?

    • @meco03211
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      1922 days ago

      There’s still a window you could “fall” out of…

    • @slaacaa
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      Like seriously, how would google pay more money than the world has? At least pretend to be serious, and fine them for a few billions only

  • [email protected]
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    To put that into perspective, the World Bank estimates global GDP as around $100 trillion, which is peanuts compared to the prospective fine. Google would therefore have to find more money than exists on Earth to pay Moscow.

    Seems a bit suspect.

    • @[email protected]
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      1222 days ago

      this also puts in perspective how dystopian all of the “this person might be the world’s first trillionaire!!!” articles are

    • @werefreeatlast
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      2022 days ago

      Oh this is even worse! Imagine if we transitioned to Nation Company states!? The United States of Apple…hey. We don’t gotta change anything…USA! USA!

      • @kautau
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        1922 days ago

        There’s a reason why all the cyberpunk stories are about corporatacracies and/or spacefaring feudalist states running human society in the future. Life imitates art.

      • @Agent641
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        222 days ago

        I don’t see the problem, it will be just like the days of company towns, except way bigger, they will control the banks, hospitals, prisons and military, and you cannot leave unless they let you!

        • @krashmo
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          222 days ago

          You laugh, but we’re getting closer and closer to this every day

          • @Gradually_Adjusting
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            322 days ago

            It is de facto already the case, thanks to bad campaign finance laws.

      • @MrNesser
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        122 days ago

        Probably on the cards at some point when a company exceeds the gdp of a country.

        It’s essentially an asset purchase

        • @Plagiatus
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          122 days ago

          Yes, but most if not all countries in the world run on deficits. Not a good investment.

      • @CatZoomies
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        522 days ago

        30 second unskippable ad before an oligarch accidentally falls out of a window.

    • @[email protected]
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      722 days ago

      No. I will not live in a Shadowrun campaign without the dragons and orcs to keep me company. Just no.

      • I Cast Fist
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        322 days ago

        Sorry bud, best RL can do for ya is kinda ok-ish VR. At least you can rock an 80s punk-glam style!

    • @stupidcasey
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      Thought this was Ludacris so I googled the Russian gdp and google networth and yeah google could legitimately bye Russia with some change.

      • Destide
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        422 days ago

        They need Nuclear power plants and think of the passive cooling of a Siberian data=centre!

    • Random_Character_A
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      222 days ago

      Just wait a while and I’ll be nickle. Althout Musk might be interested now.

    • @Mango
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      122 days ago

      Putin only wishes he could be bought out and become an American oligarch.

  • The Pantser
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    5322 days ago

    Twenty decillion rubles, best we can do is $3.50

  • Dr. Moose
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    3622 days ago

    considering the track record they should start putting “courts” in quotes when discussing Russia.

  • lazynooblet
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    3122 days ago

    They should start a payment plan. $5 per day.

    The current amount would be paid off by Saturday, April 11, 10951628027954030802047011389440

    • @Wogi
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      1222 days ago

      So it’ll be paid off sometime between the last star dying and the first black hole evaporating.

  • Scott
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    2923 days ago

    Lmao broke css that’s how long the number is

  • FuglyDuck
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    2523 days ago

    Is that in USD or in rubles?

  • Weirdmusic
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    2422 days ago

    That’s in Ruzzian Rubles, in the civilized world we refer to that as: two flat stones.

  • @Tabula_stercore
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    2122 days ago

    Please learn to exponent. 20 • 10^33^ So much more clear

    • @Kbobabob
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      But not nearly as interesting seeing the big number. Also, who is that supposed to be clear to? The raised numbers are so small I can’t even read them on my phone.

      • babybus
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        It’s your phone! You can change the font size or your lemmy client if it renders these numbers incorrectly.

      • JohnEdwa
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        Or just in the browser. Whatever app they are using is not following the same markdown as Lemmy, which supports only one level: 10^33^ = 1033.

    • XIIIesq
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      Not really. Most people aren’t familiar with scientific or engineering notation. Writing £1,000,000, one million pounds or £1Million is a lot clearer than writing £1×10^6.

      My cars odometer says 91,584, not 91.584×10^3

      • @Tabula_stercore
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        422 days ago

        Your examples are with small enough numbers that indeed it can also be written out. Now if you please, write out 7.45•10^16

        • XIIIesq
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          It’s not about the size of the number, it’s about presenting information in a way that the average reader can understand. The best way to do that is to present it in the way that they’re accustomed to and I don’t think I’ve ever seen scientific notation used to refer to a sum of money.

          It’s great that you and I understand scientific notation, but it’s worthlesss when you’re trying to get the average person to understand what you’re writing if they don’t know it themselves.

          To make myself clear, I’m not saying that scientific notation isn’t useful, I’m just saying that most people don’t understand it.

          For extra credit, 74,500,000,000,000,000 aka seventy four quintillion, five hundred quadrillion.