Friday, November 01, 2024
Tumbled Gyros
I know it's Thursday but between the weather completely changing, plus yesterday's holiday, and the calendar rolling over to November, today feels like Second Monday.
Monday through Wednesday were unseasonably warm and sunny, yesterday was overcast and rainy, with temps returning to seasonal norms. Today will be sunny but cool.
It doesn't feel like tomorrow brings the weekend, but here it is.
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Ты с ума сошел, бро?
Russia is big mad that some Russkie channels have been removed from YouTube, so a Moscow arbitration court has fined the tech giant a jillion squillion hojillion dollars, which is roughly a bazillion times more than all the money in the world.
This certainly makes me take Russia seriously and not think of them like a cross between a comic opera kleptocracy and the fictional bad guy country from an Austin Powers movie.
The fine, imposed after certain channels were blocked on YouTube, which Google owns, has reached more than 2 undecillion rubles, Russian business newspaper RBC reported this week. That’s about $20 decillion — a two followed by 34 zeros.
The fine is significantly more money than the combined total global net wealth of $477 trillion, according to Boston Consulting Group, and the worldwide gross domestic product last year of about $105 trillion, according to the World Bank.
Google’s parent company Alphabet — one of the five most valuable companies in the world — is valued at about $2 trillion, about 10 billion trillion times smaller than the fine.
LOL.
ROFLMAO, even.
(The post title is, of course, Google Translate's attempt at "You mad, bro?" in Russian. Is it accurate? I don't know, and I also don't care, much like Google doesn't care about bogus fines issued by some phony-baloney court.)
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