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look at this quasimodo lookin ass troglodyte. his body is even more fucked up. white supremacists who think they are pure and worthy of preservation are always the fugliest, most rendering error looking types ever.
So what was in the calendar? Can't see the article with an addblocker.
What a dumb story, there's nothing of interest on the calendar.
In January, Sennott attended a 15-minute meeting on DOGE recruiting. Less than two weeks later, he attended a meeting instructing "special government employees" (Musk's official designation) about the federal ethics rules that applied to them.
That's it.
sounds like they couldn't come up with 5 bullet points
Aren't these guys supposed to be...clever?
No, they're supposed to be fall guys.
Only the best people...
Sycophants
DOGE is not yet an official federal agency authorized by Congress.
not yet? could we fucking not?
Completely competent geniuses.
So stable too
In January, Sennott attended a 15-minute meeting on DOGE recruiting. Less than two weeks later, he attended a meeting instructing "special government employees" (Musk's official designation) about the federal ethics rules that applied to them.
Ethics rules? Never heard of them.
Only commenting on the picture: this guy always looks like he wants to give me candy from his van.
So, I've seen this "centibillionaire" title a few times, but I believe it should be hecto(a?)billionaire if I have my metric prefixes correct.
E.g. a centimeter is a hundredth of a meter, so a hundredth of a billion is 10mil.
Shout-out to !anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de
Or maybe I'm out of the loop on the joke.
I totally would agree, except we're using "billion [dollar]" and not "gigadollar", so I think we're already not using a metric term in the first place. It sounds to me like "billion" comes from Latin, and "cent-" as a Latin prefix would mean 100x, so my layman's understanding is still satisfied with "centbillionaire". Totally interested if I'm missing something, though.
Centi is divided by 100. Hecto is multiplied by 100.
That's how it's used with metric prefixes, but in other contexts you have to take into account the original meaning of the latin word. Centum means a hundred.
In the roman context, a single centurion would be 1/100 of an army grouping.
But since we aren't living in roman times, one cent is 1/100 of a dollar.
Language is inconsistent in it's usage of cent, so at best the term centibillionaire is confusing. Hectobillionaire has only one possible meaning, so if we're inventing new words, probably should go with the option that's more precise.
Centi still means one hundredth. https://images.app.goo.gl/PpoMdsfakk26179w7 You don't know latin.
Centi is used in different ways, see centipeda, which means hundred-footed, not one hundredth of feet.
I do admit I'm not a native speaker.
Century, centennial, centipede, etc.
Yes, that's how the Metric prefixes work, that's already established. This is about other contexts where it can go either way.
But 1 percent is 1 per 100.
Decitrillionaire
But 1 percent is 1 per 100.