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xia@lemmy.sdf.org to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 个月前

Reading product label claims

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xia@lemmy.sdf.org to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 个月前
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  • xia@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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    ELI5: “Up to 100” means “<=100”. So 0% still falls in that range. Could even be negative (counter-productive).

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      At least you know it will never over-work. (What ever does?)

      • xia@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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        I guess if it over-performs you could always return it as defective.

        • ulterno@lemmy.kde.socialBanned
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          Places where it would work well:

          In packaging of toned milk:
          “Max Fat content: 4%” can be “Up to 4% fat”
          Similarly, in packaging of full cream milk:
          “Min Fat content: 6%” can be “6% or more fat”

          Upto x or more is just useless garbage.

          Anti Commercial-AI license

    • nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      As long as you have the ability to speak, the phrase ‘Im up to 100% dead’ will be true.

  • emerald@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I don’t remember what it was but I read something recently that said “up to 30+” and I had to reread it a few times

    • Malgas@beehaw.org
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      Yeah I’ve definitely heard “up to [amount] or more” used in advertising. Which is just completely meaningless.

  • Ioughttamow@fedia.io
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    That’s XCOM, baby!

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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    Consider working up to 8 hours a day at work.

    • xia@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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      At up to 100% productivity…

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        Up to 100%… or more!

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    • xia@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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      “…on your car insurance.” Gets me every time! :)

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    “up to 100% effective” just means it’s almost guaranteed not to be 100% effective except by accident in very rare cases lol

  • I'll be on ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com@sh.itjust.works
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    Would also work with

    Glasses off: 85%* of customers agree!

    Glasses on: *of 56 customers surveyed

    • coffee_whatever@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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      9 out of 10 dentist recommend!*

      *in a questionnaire where we ask dentist which tooth paste brands they recommend, and every one of them recommended multiple!

  • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca
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    My baby has diapers that say “up to 100% leakproof”. It does not help my confidence in the product.

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      I don’t think anything changed. This isn’t a false statement depending on the product. As long as there’s some single rare scenario where it could be 100% effective, they’re not lying. Really it’s just to make you feel a certain way even if the sentence doesn’t actually say anything at all.

  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world
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    This movie (They Live) is awesome It’s on YouTube and also on archive https://youtu.be/W5CT4ahnrnA

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      The fight scene is one of the best ever, and inspired the Cripple Fight in South Park (which is an almost perfect recreation of the scene.)

  • SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world
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    Nothing in human history has ever been 100% effective

    • Farid@startrek.website
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      Death?

      • Zwiebel@feddit.org
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        Hard to say, bunch of people haven’t died yet

        • Farid@startrek.website
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          True. I intend to live forever and so far so good.

    • RandomVideos@programming.dev
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      I dont know anyone who was able to completely stop moving relative to the sun

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    I think this meme has the images backwards… He should be taking off the rose-tinted glasses, not putting them on.

    (Yes I know they’re sunglasses and not rose-tinted)

    • xia@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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      In John Carpenter’s 1988 film They Live, Hoffman lenses are depicted as special sunglasses that allow the wearer to see hidden messages and the true nature of their environment. When the protagonist, Nada, puts on these glasses, he can perceive the concealed presence of aliens and view subliminal messages such as “OBEY” and “CONSUME,” which are otherwise invisible to the naked eye. The lenses serve as a symbolic tool for revealing the film’s critique of consumerism and social control.

      • xthexder@l.sw0.com
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        TIL

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Xia already gave you the quoted explanation for why you’re wrong, but everyone should watch the movie They Live, at least once. It’s a riot of a movie.

      Fun fact: the Southpark episode “cripple fight” with that long ass fight between Timmy and Jimmy, their fight scene is a near blow for blow reenactment of a fight scene in They Live, between Rowdy Roddy Piper and Keith David.

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        Put these glasses on!

        • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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          Hell yeah! Entire movie at freemium pricing.

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    • Farid@startrek.website
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      I knew you were a hexbear user because:
      a. you used an inline image in your comment
      b. you used that image

      What the heck is it, what’s the origin, and what is it supposed to mean? Looks like some Philips CD-i game.

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        • Farid@startrek.website
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          Woah, didn’t think I would guess the CD-i thing.
          Wonder who downvoted me and why.

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            • Farid@startrek.website
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              Yeah, I saw that there are very few downvotes on hb posts and assumed they are disabled for the instance. But I do still see some downvotes. Are those coming from other instances?

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                • Farid@startrek.website
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                  I usually see downvotes on comments that go against hexbear. Maybe bears with accounts on multiple instances.

              • keepcarrot [she/her]@hexbear.net
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                Yeah, I think that’s how it works

      • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        What the heck is it, what’s the origin, and what is it supposed to mean? Looks like some Philips CD-i game.

        • it is “morshupls”

        • Morshu is a shopkeeper character from Link: The Faces of Evil

        • It’s generally used to convey someone giving an overly verbose and possibly asinine explanation “Morshu Explains” see also :pronouns:

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