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Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (www.theregister.com)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I feel like its on purpose but i also feel like web designers are often incompetent with stuff like that. So im undecided.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago

Maybe the boss said, "Remove wordwrap in headline text for this post."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

To be fair the browser default for stuff like this is often kind of bad. Like browsers would rather give you a scroll bar than do a word break (and I can pretty much guarantee that's what's happened here as I can scroll right and see the full number).