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[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 131 points 3 days ago
[-] casmael@lemm.ee 35 points 3 days ago

Now it’s $43.17 - inflation is no laughing matter

[-] wiccan2@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Just need to wait long enough to make it three fiddy

[-] Breezy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Tree fiddy.

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[-] ddplf@szmer.info 8 points 3 days ago

more like rubbles

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[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 103 points 3 days ago

Here ya go, googles. I got your back.

[-] ignotum@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

A billion of those and you're still not even close to paying off that fine

[-] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The Weimar Republic has entered the chat.

Who knows how long that man had to work to earn that much paper? Twelve minutes? Thirteeeeen minutes?

Anyway, until inflation hits at least 4,130,772,540,007,917,373,294% Americans should really stop griping about it.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Because of the period of hyperinflation, one day I had a boss unwittingly hand me $500. She bent down and said, "Ooh! Someone dropped a quarter! Wait this ain't a quarter, what the heck is this?" She then handed me a 1934 500 Deutchmark coin. I told her what it was, and asked her if she wanted it. She said she wouldn't know what to do with it, so after I sold it, I gave her $75 as a 15% finders fee.

[-] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That's actually really cool.

The only foreign coin I have came from a roll of quarters I got in 2015. Back when I visited the laundromat weekly. I stuck my quarters in the machine, but this one kept getting spit out so I checked it. I didn't recognize the characters on it, but I had an Iranian coworker who might so I took it to work and asked if she knew what it was. She immediately goes, "Oh! This is a dirham! It's from the UAE."

Turns out it was worth 23¢ at the time lol

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

One thing I forgot to mention, the thing that gave it away was it was cast out of aluminum, so it was really light. Probably worth a lot more these days, since this was about 16 years ago

[-] Bananigans@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

Honestly looks like Rock Band Bucks.

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[-] ArkyonVeil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 2 days ago
[-] wick@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

The Earth's crust contains a bunch of atoms,[citation needed]

Lmao

[-] Altofaltception@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Well, have you seen said atoms?

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago
[-] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 days ago

Missed opportunity to fine Google $1 googol.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago

Ha ha ha! What a funny Onion headline!

checks the community name

laughs 1000x harder

[-] the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago

Most sensible Russian legal decision:

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 23 points 2 days ago

This is why people don't take Russia seriously.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 8 points 2 days ago

Following Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine in 2022 more channels were added to the banned list and 17 stations are now suing the Chocolate Factory, including Zvezda (a TV channel owned by Putin's Ministry of Defence), according to local media.

How the fuck do you just casually say someone is suing a chocolate factory in stride without providing any further explanation. Wtf

[-] Blackout@fedia.io 30 points 3 days ago

Google should send them a $50 Play store card instead

[-] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

A redeemed one

[-] ApeNo1@lemm.ee 30 points 3 days ago

It should have been $Googol instead.

[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 days ago

They double the fine each week so it will reach a googol eventually.

[-] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 days ago

That means we reach a googol in ~218 weeks ≈ 4.2 years.

I thought it would take longer.

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[-] archonet@lemy.lol 22 points 3 days ago

is there a "non-credible economics" community?

[-] archonet@lemy.lol 12 points 2 days ago

... I mean, yeah. lmao

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

!conservative@lemmy.world

Case in point: the most recent post there as of right now is a video by an Ancap accusing someone else of economic illiteracy 😂

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Which will live longer? Google or Russia?

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Isn't that... More money than the GDP of the world?

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I think that $20 decillion not only blows the GDP of the planet out of the water, it is also several orders of magnitude larger than the entire valuation of the entirety of the planet including the core.

Edit: looked it up, and the GDP of 2023 was just over $100 trillion.

[-] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

So google got fined 2x10 ^ 34?

The earth is made up of 1.33x10 ^ 50 atoms. An A4 sheet of paper is made up of 8.37x10 ^ 23. Let's assume roughly a dollar bill is 1/8th of an A4 sheet, so 1x10 ^ 23.

The atoms in the dollar bill (10 ^ 23) multipled by the fine total (2x10 ^ 34) is 2x10 ^ 57.

This means if every atom on the entire earth was rearranged into dollar bills you wouldn't have enough money. You would need to do that to a million earths to pay that fine.

Disclaimer: I half assed this math on my lunch break and I trusted Google AI results for the atom counts

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[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago

I value trees more than you

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

Twenty putillion dollars

[-] legion02@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Would paying a fine to Russia be a sanctions violation?

[-] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 days ago

Honestly based, EU should do the same

[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 3 points 2 days ago

Even if Google wanted to pay the fine. It'd be all their money, their bills would lapse and YouTube would go down effectively removing their channels anyway...

[-] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago
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[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

How about we just quantify, prorate and scale the damage they've done in Ukraine and give them an adequate amount of rubbles instead of rubles?

[-] edwardbear@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago
[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago

Is that 20 Google dollars, by chance?

[-] jinarched@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Twenty decillion

[-] CluckN@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

If Google pays it they could crash the global economy.

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