• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    $20 decillion isn’t just more money than exists. The amount of money that exists is a rounding error of a rounding error of a dozen more nested rounding errors compared to $20 decillion. The nominal GDP in 2022 was $100 trillion (and even then, calling this “all the money that exists” is a wonky metric). For comparison, $2 undecillion is only 100x more than $20 decillion. So while looking at this XKCD, just chop off two zeroes from the $2 undecillion figure, and boom.

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      20 days ago

      I’d call that imbecillion for they aren’t really well in the head. Doubling the price for each day is not a real way you calculate pennies even by russian law, it’s a custom decision by a judge to push Google off with a cover of questionable legality.

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    20 days ago

    Remember when you cried, as a baby, because you had to share some stupid shit? This is billionaires crying

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    20 days ago

    Washington Post subscription costs $170 a year, so 42.5 million dollars a year. Nice. I mean he probably doesn’t even realize such a tiny sum, but you could buy a lot of candy for this amount of money.

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      20 days ago

      That is an insane amount to pay for a newspaper subscription considering you can pay a quarter for a paper out of those little boxes.

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        20 days ago

        I think the WP print edition costs $3 for normal editions and $5 on Sundays. Buying it every day in the stands would cost you more than $1000.

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    20 days ago

    Can’t remember the source, but Putie’s suing for 2 undecillion rubles.

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      20 days ago

      Everybody expected a Harris endorsement, so I guess she’s saying that he’s afraid of Trump and that makes him a coward. It doesn’t seem to fit with the other stuff, though.