cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/46115108

133 points

It’s in rubles so $52.11

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35 points

Now it’s $43.17 - inflation is no laughing matter

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4 points

Just need to wait long enough to make it three fiddy

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7 points

Tree fiddy.

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2 points

Damn you, Sonic the Hedgehog!

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8 points

more like rubbles

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3 points

I know it’s a joke, but you’ve missed the dollar symbol. That’s the fine in USD.

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3 points

It’s a joke.

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3 points

Literally the first part of the sentence lol

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103 points

Here ya go, googles. I got your back.

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23 points

A billion of those and you’re still not even close to paying off that fine

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The Weimar Republic has entered the chat.

Who knows how long that man had to work to earn that much paper? Twelve minutes? Thirteeeeen minutes?

Anyway, until inflation hits at least 4,130,772,540,007,917,373,294% Americans should really stop griping about it.

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Because of the period of hyperinflation, one day I had a boss unwittingly hand me $500. She bent down and said, “Ooh! Someone dropped a quarter! Wait this ain’t a quarter, what the heck is this?” She then handed me a 1934 500 Deutchmark coin. I told her what it was, and asked her if she wanted it. She said she wouldn’t know what to do with it, so after I sold it, I gave her $75 as a 15% finders fee.

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That’s actually really cool.

The only foreign coin I have came from a roll of quarters I got in 2015. Back when I visited the laundromat weekly. I stuck my quarters in the machine, but this one kept getting spit out so I checked it. I didn’t recognize the characters on it, but I had an Iranian coworker who might so I took it to work and asked if she knew what it was. She immediately goes, “Oh! This is a dirham! It’s from the UAE.”

Turns out it was worth 23¢ at the time lol

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4 points

Honestly looks like Rock Band Bucks.

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2 points

Oof…can we get separate checks?

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43 points

Relevant XKCD, as per usual: https://what-if.xkcd.com/96/

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4 points

The Earth’s crust contains a bunch of atoms,[citation needed]

Lmao

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2 points

Well, have you seen said atoms?

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40 points

Ha ha ha! What a funny Onion headline!

checks the community name

laughs 1000x harder

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39 points

Most sensible Russian legal decision:

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12 points

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