You owe the Russian government $20 that’s you’re problem. You owe the Russian government $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 that’s their problem.
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Exactly. I’m still missing the comical “or else…”.
For those wondering how the hell the number got so stupidly large, starting somewhere in 2022:
The court imposed a fine of 100 thousand rubles ($1,025) per day, with the total fine doubling every week.
By week 20 Google was already “owing” over 1 billion dollars and over 1 trillion by week 30. So expect the funny number to keep growing just because.
In any case, I don’t think Google will come back to Russia anytime soon. Probably nothing to be gained there anyway.
Doubling every week means an interest rate of almost 5 × 1017 %. That can barely offset the ruble’s inflation.
I thought some court clerk had fallen asleep writing out zeroes and that’s what they’d ended up with.
To put that into perspective, the World Bank estimates global GDP as around $100 trillion, which is peanuts compared to the prospective fine. Google would therefore have to find more money than exists on Earth to pay Moscow.
Seems a bit suspect.
this also puts in perspective how dystopian all of the “this person might be the world’s first trillionaire!!!” articles are
Seems a bit suspect.
Typical for the Russian legal system
Google buys Russia
Oh this is even worse! Imagine if we transitioned to Nation Company states!? The United States of Apple…hey. We don’t gotta change anything…USA! USA!
There’s a reason why all the cyberpunk stories are about corporatacracies and/or spacefaring feudalist states running human society in the future. Life imitates art.
Neal Stephenson has entered the chat.
I don’t see the problem, it will be just like the days of company towns, except way bigger, they will control the banks, hospitals, prisons and military, and you cannot leave unless they let you!
You laugh, but we’re getting closer and closer to this every day
It is de facto already the case, thanks to bad campaign finance laws.
Probably on the cards at some point when a company exceeds the gdp of a country.
It’s essentially an asset purchase
It’s much cheaper to buy the politicians than the whole country.
Yes, but most if not all countries in the world run on deficits. Not a good investment.
That might be an improvement over Putin.
30 second unskippable ad before an oligarch accidentally falls out of a window.
No. I will not live in a Shadowrun campaign without the dragons and orcs to keep me company. Just no.
Sorry bud, best RL can do for ya is kinda ok-ish VR. At least you can rock an 80s punk-glam style!
Thought this was Ludacris so I googled the Russian gdp and google networth and yeah google could legitimately bye Russia with some change.
They need Nuclear power plants and think of the passive cooling of a Siberian data=centre!
Just wait a while and I’ll be nickle. Althout Musk might be interested now.
considering the track record they should start putting “courts” in quotes when discussing Russia.
They should start a payment plan. $5 per day.
The current amount would be paid off by Saturday, April 11, 10951628027954030802047011389440
So it’ll be paid off sometime between the last star dying and the first black hole evaporating.
Please learn to exponent. 20 • 10^33^ So much more clear
But not nearly as interesting seeing the big number. Also, who is that supposed to be clear to? The raised numbers are so small I can’t even read them on my phone.
It’s your phone! You can change the font size or your lemmy client if it renders these numbers incorrectly.
Apparently not on boost lol
Or just in the browser. Whatever app they are using is not following the same markdown as Lemmy, which supports only one level:
10^33^= 1033.
Lmao broke css that’s how long the number is
20 decillion is more than the GDP of the entire earth by many orders of magnitude.
But the fine is 20 decillion rubles, not dollars.
So like half a tic tac and a stick of bubblegum. Got it
Is that in USD or in rubles?
Since everyone is just giving you joke answers, it appears to be USD.
I mean, I was mostly making a joke myself, the conversion rate is what 1 usd to 97 rubles?
While an entire order of magnitude is insane- especially at that large a number, the difference isn’t really meaningful.
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Robux since that’s more valuable than the Russian ruble
Do you think they accept Linden Dollars?
First one, then the other.
That’s in Ruzzian Rubles, in the civilized world we refer to that as: two flat stones.
Imagine Google just goes completely rampage mode and buys a fuck ton of drones and these Robot-Dogs with guns attached and lays fucking waste to Russia. This would be such an Deus ex machina to end this war.
“The court imposed a fine of 100 thousand rubles ($1,025) per day, with the total fine doubling every week. Owing to compound interest…”
Russia helping the US government force google to boycott russia.
