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[โ€“] Donkter 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Probably bad reporter math and it was in the 10s of thousands which the reporter thought was almost 1 million instead of 100,000

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I guess I could see if someone really messed up their numbers. From thousands to tens of thousands and rounding that (lol) to hundred thousand and then mistaking that for a million.

It's like pyramid scheme accounting