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[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 57 points 2 months ago

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

[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 months ago

As long as you have the ability to speak, the phrase 'Im up to 100% dead' will be true.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago

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

[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 2 months ago

I guess if it over-performs you could always return it as defective.

[-] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 2 months 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

[-] emerald@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 2 months 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

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 7 points 2 months ago

Yeah I've definitely heard "up to [amount] or more" used in advertising. Which is just completely meaningless.

[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 18 points 2 months ago

That’s XCOM, baby!

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago

Consider working up to 8 hours a day at work.

[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 months ago

At up to 100% productivity...

[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Up to 100%... or more!

[-] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 months ago
[-] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

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

[-] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

Would also work with

Glasses off: 85%* of customers agree!

Glasses on: *of 56 customers surveyed

[-] coffee_whatever@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months 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!

[-] PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months 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.

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 4 points 2 months 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.

[-] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

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

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[-] w2tpmf@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months 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.)

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 points 2 months 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)

[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 2 months 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.

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 points 2 months ago
[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 months 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.

[-] Rubisco@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago
[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

Hell yeah! Entire movie at freemium pricing.

[-] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Nothing in human history has ever been 100% effective

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago
[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago

Hard to say, bunch of people haven't died yet

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

True. I intend to live forever and so far so good.

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

I dont know anyone who was able to completely stop moving relative to the sun

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Sex Panther marketing there. morshupls

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

It's usually used to convey elaborate bullshittery, but here's the original CDi game clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en5Kgc9Be3g

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

Woah, didn't think I would guess the CD-i thing.
Wonder who downvoted me and why.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Not Hexbear. There's no downvote function in Hexbear except the sort-of-joke use of this emoji: downbear

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

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?

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I think that's how it works

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, those are other instances coping, seething, and malding.

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

I usually see downvotes on comments that go against hexbear. Maybe bears with accounts on multiple instances.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

I have no idea. I can't speak for other people there. I'm just Hexbear and Hexbear has no in-house downvotes.

[-] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

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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