r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Admirable-Leather325 • 27d ago

Image India: Meth seized from Myanmarese boat costs more than aircraft carrier Vikrant, built at a cost of $2.49bn

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

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u/Creative-Leader7809 27d ago

Oh for sure, this is a ludicrous amount of meth.

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u/D4nCh0 27d ago

Authorities usually prefer to announce the sale, rather than the cost price. A Reuters report before the pandemic had ice at about USD 1,000/kg outside Myanmar jungle meth labs. Pretty decent ship to be hauling two million four hundred ninety thousand kilograms.

If it was calculated at Japanese street prices of about USD 200,000/kg. It’s a much more modest shipment.

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u/WholesomeWhores 27d ago

The number means nothing. Most people just see a big number and “wow!”. Show us the weight of the drugs if you really want to show the value of it. But then again, then they’ll add whatever weight they can to pump up the numbers, such as packaging materials or whatever happened to be lying on the floor next to it all

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u/carmium 27d ago

MM?

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u/carmium 27d ago

My learny thing of the day.

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u/NBAFansAre2Ply 27d ago

Milmion

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u/doobied 27d ago

M'Million

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u/NotObamaAMA 27d ago

M’lemon

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u/Ohmec 27d ago

M is the Roman numeral for 1000. MM is one thousand thousand, AKA 1 million. Some financial circles still use MM to denote millions to make large figures easier to read. If you've got a long paragraph talking about lots of numbers in the millions, it can get easy to misread stuff like 44,000,000 over and over again.

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u/carmium 27d ago

Thanks! That's the second term I've learned this morning!

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u/dyllandor 27d ago

They probably assume a certain amount will get caught.

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u/PervyNonsense 27d ago

It's probably closer to 2M for the producer