• @Disgracefulone@discuss.online
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    1 month ago

    Are… you high? You know that back when I last checked in 2020ish there were 8 billion people, right? Maybe that’s what you meant

    Edit surely you had to have meant that. The US alone has almost half a billion people. Most countries have well over that number so I’m attributing it to mistype

    • @f314@lemmy.world
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      91 month ago

      They might not be a native English speaker. In my language (Norwegian), the word for “billion” is “milliard”. I think that’s also the case in German.

    • @RunawayFixer@lemmy.world
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      61 month ago

      That’s obviously what they meant. There was probably some translation error. Just cut people some slack, everyone makes small mistakes from time to time. There’s a few (atleast 2) languages where the native word for billion starts with an m and the word for trillion starts with a b.

      • @Disgracefulone@discuss.online
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        1 month ago

        Yeah that’s why I added my edit.

        I shouldn’t have led with the “are you high” either. Yesterday was a bad day for me. My apologies to the commenter.

    • Hossenfeffer
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      21 month ago

      Oops. Yup, utter failed to put Bs! Put it down to not having had enough coffee today!