111 points

Comedy gold.

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31 points

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

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27 points

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

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20 points

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

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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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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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10 points

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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4 points

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

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1 point

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

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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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37 points

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

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7 points

Best I can do is tree-fiddy

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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.

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35 points

they could just go for googol dollars

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8 points

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

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35 points

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

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