• Sibbo@sopuli.xyz
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    8 hours ago

    Oh wow, it was that easy all the time to fix a country’s economy? Why did no one think of that before?

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      15 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

      • Prison Mike@links.hackliberty.org
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        I think it’s a CSS issue. Word wrapping won’t break apart the amount because it’s considered one “word.”

        There are ways to address it though.

        Source: I’m a full stack web application developer

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        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.

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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).

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      9 hours ago

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

      • latenightnoir@lemmy.world
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        Yepyep, did the same on mine, I just zoomed the page out.

        Honestly, really hope they did this on purpose, although I’ve seen plenty of cases where someone forgot to scale the text to Mobile and it went careening off-screen.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

  • KillerTofu@lemmy.world
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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?

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