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@interfluidity yeah I've long thought 50 mil is the upper limit of what a mere mortal person or family should be able to accumulate: enough to live total luxury for the rest of your life, but not enough to control too many corrupt pigs.

@barometz @cjpaloma i think you are technically right, but however at variance with metric unit definitions it is, people understand the term i used more than they would the one that you propose.

@cjpaloma @interfluidity I didn't know it was an established term and just read it as an SI prefix. Fair enough! Annoying, though.

@barometz @cjpaloma tbf i didn't know either! it's just the term that came into my head to express what i wanted to express!

@barometz @interfluidity I come from a family where -"cite your reference!" was invoked with frightening regularity and in a wide variety of tones…😆 and we also really did have hand signals to use to categorize our declarations…as in if something was a fact, a theory, or opinion, so I'm quick to check myself…and annoyingly.. others.☮️