Oh, this is just fuckin' ridiculous! 🤦
Russia has fined Google 20 undecillion (2*10³⁷) rubles - yes, you read that correctly - that's $20 decillion (2*10³⁴) dollars, for removing several Russian YouTube channels from the platform. For reference, that's
$20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
in American notation, or:
20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 rubles
and several orders of magnitude greater than the entire GDP of every nation on the planet combined.
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@POOetryma Back in 2007-2008 I was one of about 10 thousand people worldwide who--due to a computer hardware failure--got hit with a temporary overdraft of 35 quadrillion USD. I though our collective record would stand . . .