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[–] 667@lemmy.radio 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 26 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

According to my Google Currency Calculator app, that translates to approximately $14.38 USD.

[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

Best I can do is tree-fiddy

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 12 points 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?

[–] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 23 points 10 hours ago

Totally not a joke-country you guys.
Totally normal.

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 93 points 15 hours ago (3 children)
[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 23 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] undefined@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 12 points 13 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.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 16 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 9 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

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).

[–] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] VonReposti@feddit.dk 4 points 15 hours ago

Or do. It's not like people care if he breathes.

[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TseseJuer@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

asteroid in leui of cash

[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 30 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 18 points 12 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@programming.dev 20 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 12 points 12 hours ago

All made up, just like the reason for invading Ukraine

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 32 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

they could just go for googol dollars

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 4 points 9 hours ago

They're doubling it every week, so a googol is only ~4 years off.

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

The Register has been referring to Google as The Chocolate Factory for almost 10 years. As to why, probably because of google’s confectionary named Android releases, which they stopped at Android 10

https://xiaomiui.net/sweet-names-of-android-you-may-want-to-eat-it-18036/

[–] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Maybe because their company produces pure shit?

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

just tell them it's in the mail, google.

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[–] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 18 points 14 hours ago

Maybe they meant rubles. I think I may find that value in my couch.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] KillerTofu@lemmy.world 20 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (4 children)

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@lemmy.world 16 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 21 points 15 hours ago

20 Decillion

[–] residentmarchant@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 6 points 15 hours ago

What’s that number in words?

Per the article, it's 20 decillion.

[–] finkrat@lemmy.world 13 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 14 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

It's an actual court doing this.. Lol.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 hours ago

Well, a russian one. So not really but ehhhh

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago

Google would therefore have to find more money than exists on Earth to pay Moscow

Well to be fair, I do think it's plausible that one day Google will indeed control all the money in the world.

[–] n3cr0@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago (7 children)

They know this is impossible - even with their worthless currency. I guess they will soon provide their own services or they will revoke internet access from their citizens.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

It is not only more Rubles than currently exists, but more money than currently exists in any currency 😂

[–] db2@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

I guess they will soon provide their own services

Is Yandex not state run? It does everything, the way Musk wants Xitter to, and then some.

[–] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

According to the Article:

Google in Russia has been inactive since 2022 after the search giant effectively pulled out of the country following Putin's special military operation.

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[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

April 1st came early

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

And they only stopped writing zeros only because there was no more space on their paper form.

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