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[–] krazzyk 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean it's as ridiculous as 3 life sentences 🤷‍♂️😂

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That actually has a function. First is as a life sentence usually isn't actually until you die, but you sit x years (usually 20-30) and then can apply for parole and might get it. Multiple sentences can be set to run one after the other, increasing that time - though usually in that case you just get "life without parole".

Another is if you have committed multiple crimes. Even if later they overturn one of them because of new evidence etc, you still have the others left keeping you in prison, instead of having to bring it back to court to figure out if that part was or wasn't enough to give you a life sentence instead of a shorter one.

[–] krazzyk 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'll admit I wasn't aware of the function they played, not from the states.

The sentences when someone gets a sentence for 100's, or 1000's of years, do they have the same function?

What's the longest term someone has been given for a single crime, I suspect it is still in the ridiculous range.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

The sentences when someone gets a sentence for 100's, or 1000's of years, do they have the same function?

Basically the judge saying that no matter how much time credit your get for good behaviour while in prison you're still intended to spend the rest of your life there.

[–] kitnaht 50 points 3 days ago

Symbolic of just how fucking ridiculous they are.

[–] FlyingSquid 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

My $20 googol fine against Russia is more symbolic considering that's where Google got the name from.

[–] Tarquinn2049 19 points 3 days ago

Ah, I'm out of touch. When I saw the amount, I just assumed that was indicative of how far the ruble has fallen.

Thus, symbolic of how much they would need to charge to mean anything in USD.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes 1 points 1 day ago

Twenty gigajillion.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I mean... it would have to be?

Is there even that much money in the global economy?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not even close, by many orders of magnitude.

[–] benignintervention 9 points 3 days ago

By like 20 orders of magnitude or something

[–] Glitterbomb 5 points 3 days ago

Did rough math elsewhere, you would need around a million piles of cash each the size of planet earth to come close

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

What a stupid move, why not just use a googleplex?

[–] MediaBiasFactChecker -1 points 3 days ago

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