Allah@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoThe AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone.archive.isexternal-linkmessage-square78linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10 cross-posted to: world@lemmy.world
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkThe AI boom is so huge it’s causing shortages everywhere else The $700 billion AI spending spree has few precedents. Good luck finding an electrician or a reasonably priced smartphone.archive.isAllah@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square78linkfedilink cross-posted to: world@lemmy.world
minus-squarelath@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoAnyone remember which country had an inflation so bad, it issued trillion dollar bills useful only as toilet paper?
minus-squareMangoCats@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_Musa
minus-squareFunkyCheese@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoOne sec, let me ask an AI about that
minus-squaree8CArkcAuLE@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoi wouldn’t mind wiping my ass with cheeto-face
minus-squareSeeMarkFly@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoThere is a toilet paper that has his face on it, I bought some. Prayers weren’t working, I’ll try anything.
minus-squarejellyfishhunter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoHyperinflation in Germany after WW1? But I think there must be more examples.
minus-squarerichieadler@lemmy.myserv.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoThey hadn’t mastered the Argentinian custom of changing currency to remove zeros.
minus-squareWanderingThoughts@europe.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoThe closest you can get to that is if you vacation in Vietnam. One Euro is about 30,000 Vietnamese đồng. Yeah, it’s really called like that. Buy a Coca Cola with a 100,000 bill, pull a few million out of the ATM.
Anyone remember which country had an inflation so bad, it issued trillion dollar bills useful only as toilet paper?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_Musa
One sec, let me ask an AI about that
i wouldn’t mind wiping my ass with cheeto-face
There is a toilet paper that has his face on it, I bought some.
Prayers weren’t working, I’ll try anything.
Hyperinflation in Germany after WW1? But I think there must be more examples.
They hadn’t mastered the Argentinian custom of changing currency to remove zeros.
The closest you can get to that is if you vacation in Vietnam. One Euro is about 30,000 Vietnamese đồng. Yeah, it’s really called like that. Buy a Coca Cola with a 100,000 bill, pull a few million out of the ATM.
IIRC it was Zimbabwe?