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[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 78 points 1 year ago

So... how do you reduce something like people crossing a border beyond one hundred percent ?

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 121 points 1 year ago

People trying to get out of the country, I guess

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I thought of this one but a deportation or just leaving aren't illegal crossings.... So it wouldn't work!

And trying to get out of the country crossing illegally is still an illegal crossing, so, it doesn't make sense

[-] Goun@lemmy.ml 57 points 1 year ago

They're crossing on the opposite direction now

[-] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

And bringing additional people with them!

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

I also considered this one, illegally crossing in the opposite direction is still illegally crossing, so, it doesn't explain the math

[-] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

For some reason, people will sometimes flip the fraction when calculating decreasing percentages, so this roughly means that the old number of crossings is beyond one hundred percent greater than the current number of border crossings. It's really dumb

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Ohhhhhh omg now this makes sense. Thank you!

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