I'd have to hear her argument, but...

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Are.. you high? You know that back when I last checked in 2020ish there were 8 billion people, right? Maybe that's what you meant

Edit surely you had to have meant that. The US alone has almost half a billion people. Most countries have well over that number so I'm attributing it to mistype

They might not be a native English speaker. In my language (Norwegian), the word for “billion” is “milliard”. I think that’s also the case in German.

That's obviously what they meant. There was probably some translation error. Just cut people some slack, everyone makes small mistakes from time to time. There's a few (atleast 2) languages where the native word for billion starts with an m and the word for trillion starts with a b.

Yeah that's why I added my edit.

I shouldn't have led with the "are you high" either. Yesterday was a bad day for me. My apologies to the commenter.

Oops. Yup, utter failed to put Bs! Put it down to not having had enough coffee today!