• paraphrand
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    149 minutes ago

    RT broke a bunch of YouTube rules and should have been banned too.

  • Bob Robertson IX
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    93 hours ago

    To everyone saying “this isn’t possible for Google to pay” really need to take a step back and realize that there’s always a way.

    Given the amount of money we’re talking, it would only take a tiny fraction of that money for Google to deliver a series of small asteroids directly to Russia. Depending on the asteroid, and the conversion rates, Russia might consider the debt paid after a single delivery.

  • @jpreston2005
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    32 hours ago

    Why does the article keep referring to Google as “The Chocolate Factory?”

  • @Red_October
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    224 hours ago

    And the fact that Google didn’t pay them more money than exists in the world will be why Russia blocks Google’s operations in the country and seizes every bit of property they can get their hands on that they say was even vaguely related to Google’s operations. They didn’t even bother with a realistic number, because in the end they don’t really care who does or doesn’t believe them.

    • @Bazoogle
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      112 hours ago

      They didn’t start with that fine, it was just compounding interest

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

      And regardless, Russia can’t block Google’s operations in Russia because Google isn’t operating in Russia since the war. Russia is trying to fire Google when Google quit 2 years ago.

  • Riskable
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    134 hours ago

    Meh. This is but a fraction of what the big media companies think the world owes them for piracy.

    • @mrvictory1
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      04 minutes ago

      On my phone website fits the screen & appears normal, scrolling right reveals rest of the monies

    • @[email protected]
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      186 hours ago

      Wonder if this is just the website not being able to cut the number in half, or whether they did this on purpose

      • @bandwidthcrisis
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        104 hours ago

        The Register kind-of models itself after a tabloid style so has deliberately jokey headlines. It’s been around a long time (I read it in the 90s) and seems to have quality underneath the humor.

        Possibly the only remaining place where you can read the word “boffins” regularly.

      • @[email protected]
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        176 hours ago

        I feel like its on purpose but i also feel like web designers are often incompetent with stuff like that. So im undecided.

        • Dark Arc
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          To be fair the browser default for stuff like this is often kind of bad. Like browsers would rather give you a scroll bar than do a word break (and I can pretty much guarantee that’s what’s happened here as I can scroll right and see the full number).

        • Sentient Loom
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          135 hours ago

          Maybe the boss said, “Remove wordwrap in headline text for this post.”

    • katy ✨
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      13 hours ago

      virtucon alone is worth at least $20 decillion

  • @expatriado
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    275 hours ago

    they could just go for googol dollars

  • @finkrat
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    115 hours ago

    I was going to say Russia must love humiliating themselves but I guess this is painfully obvious the past 2 years

  • @KillerTofu
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    What’s that number in words? Sure. I could use Google, but they just got fined by Russia for $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 so can they really be trusted?

    • Brokkr
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      104 hours ago

      2 x 10^34 for those people who like to use numbers to represent numbers in a sane way.

    • @residentmarchant
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      44 hours ago

      Being fined by Russia is actually a positive stamp of approval in my book!