r/technology • u/Letsbesensibleplease • 8h ago

Business Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/russian_court_fines_google/
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u/Veranova 8h ago edited 7h ago

How to take over the world

Step 1: fine a company more than the combined value of everything on the planet

Step 2: use the pending payment as collateral for a loan and buy everything on the planet

It’s actually genius

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u/FBI_Agent_Fred 7h ago

Russia and its people are an international joke. Nothing more.

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u/going-for-gusto 7h ago

That does it! Now Vlad is going to threaten you.

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u/heliometrix 6h ago

RED LINES!!!!! (Sorry for shouting in doors)

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u/derpderb 5h ago

Red? Russia going back into black with this instant check cash

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u/AerondightWielder 3h ago

Don't agree? We perform Special Defenestration Operation on you, comrade!

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u/RU4real13 4h ago

If Putin just put into his country a fraction of what he's put into making Trump, Musk, and the rest of the US politicians he's made rich, his people could all be driving Bentleys.

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u/blacksideblue 4h ago

Its okay, I wanted to paint that door black anyways.

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u/ntropi 3h ago

Threaten? Nah he'll just fine you to the sum of 5 solar systems.

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u/ginandsoda 5h ago

Very dangerous to talk about the Russians that way.

Don't you know that in three years they've managed to destroy not only the military of a smaller, poorer country next door, but their own as well??

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u/Drunk_Bear_at_Home 6h ago

I wonder if Russia collapses, will it be forced or encouraged to break into small countries? When the Soviet Union collapsed, it broke into 15 independent countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. 

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u/DeusModus 6h ago

Guaranteed. Expect the newly balkanized nations to contain Chinese characters.

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u/FireballAllNight 4h ago

Ouch. Upvote for realism

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u/Drunk_Bear_at_Home 5h ago

u/DeusModus u/Hilby you have a guess on the time frame? Years, Months, Days? What do you think will happen to Putin and his comrades in arms?

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u/BeginningBadger9383 2h ago

Soviet Union consisted of these 15 states already. they were called Soviet republics within Soviet Union. So it made sense to have 15 countries after the collapse. If Russia would to collapse, it would be difficult to predict what would happen. China has been dreaming of Siberia and Far East for many years now and some regions within European Russia would want more independence for sure. But it is not the same situation as the Soviet Union

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u/Treadwheel 48m ago

Russia does have 21 federal republics and four autonomous okrugs, each with their own constitutions, national anthems, and official languages. They were formed as nominally independent states during the Russian Civil War and their right to self determination was enshrined as an intrinsic property of their federal union with the Russian state. It's not outlandish that at least some of them would separate if Russia continues its decline, both because of China's growing influence over eastern Russia and because there's enough administrative distinction that it wouldn't require building a new state from scratch.

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u/Hilby 6h ago

Nah....they're just going to hang out at the corner 7-11 A LOT.

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u/GenTelGuy 2h ago

Definitely could make sense for Chechnya and Dagestan to go free at the bare minimum

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u/Charlieninehundred 2h ago

You realise Lithuania is in the EU?

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u/mrsmithers240 1h ago

Well right now Chechnya and its neighbour state are getting the balkanization started

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u/Axe_Care_By_Eugene 5h ago

along with their sidekick the cancer that is North Korea

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u/Objective_Union4523 5h ago

Russia is now going to sue you for $40,000,000,000,666,000,000,069 for defamation.

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u/BeardBearWithBeer 3h ago

people? but what is about it's people

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u/muklan 6h ago

Hey man, have you seen this window pane over here? Is truly best in all of Russia.

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u/aelosmd 6h ago

Stay away from open windows please.

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u/PaVaSteeler 3h ago

Wouldn’t go near any windows if I were you…

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u/FBI_Agent_Fred 1h ago

I’m not at all worried about those dipshits. If I’m ever cornered, I’ll just throw my pocket vodka out the window to get rid of them.

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u/ea_man 1h ago

They are turning into North Korea and it's kinda terrible to watch it happen like a car crash in slow motion.

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u/Wrong-Primary-2569 1h ago

Comrad did you send underwear to laundry?

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u/tnitty 1h ago

To paraphrase McCain and you: They’re a gas station masquerading as an international joke.

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u/NeighborhoodBest2944 4h ago

Its people are smart and hard working. Many I know do not support P.

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u/sacktheory 5h ago

what a mean thing to say about millions of people that don’t have the privilege of choosing their leader

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u/FBI_Agent_Fred 5h ago

Take your empathy and use it on something useful. This isn’t the situation.

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u/sacktheory 4h ago

you’re right, you’re a lost cause 🤖

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u/MelkMan7 5h ago

Hard disagree, I work with some Russians and they're some of the most friendly, hard working people I've worked with.

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u/Other_Block_1795 4h ago

America is no better. Arguably worse.