• @[email protected]OP
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    5225 days ago

    ELI5: “Up to 100” means “<=100”. So 0% still falls in that range. Could even be negative (counter-productive).

        • @[email protected]
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          125 days ago

          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

  • @[email protected]
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    2025 days ago

    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

  • @MrJameGumb
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    925 days ago

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

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    825 days ago

    Would also work with

    Glasses off: 85%* of customers agree!

    Glasses on: *of 56 customers surveyed

    • @coffee_whatever
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      625 days ago

      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!

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    524 days ago

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

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    525 days ago

    Did something change in advertising law in the US in the last few years? I feel like ive been seeing this specific phrase in advertising more and more lately.

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      425 days ago

      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.

    • @w2tpmf
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      325 days ago

      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.)

  • @db2
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    325 days ago

    I like this format.

  • @[email protected]
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    225 days ago

    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)

    • @[email protected]OP
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      1625 days ago

      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.

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      625 days ago

      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.