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If New York City Is No Longer Going to Be an Unaffordable Police State Run by Crooks, I’m Taking My Hard-Earned Sex-Pest Dollars Elsewhere (www.mcsweeneys.net)

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[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Just so ya know, the centi- prefix in the metric system denotes 1/100 of a quantity, so a centimillionaire would have $10,000. The prefix for 100x a quantity is hecto-. S'pose we could also call them a decibillionaire. But you probably caught the allusion to wealth inequality faster than I did.

[–] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 10 points 2 weeks ago

But ICE picked up Hecto last week, right?