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What petty hill will you die on? (self.chat)
submitted 1 year ago by thrawn21 to c/chat
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For me I say that a truck with a cab longer than its bed is not a truck, but an SUV with an overgrown bumper.

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[–] Usernameblankface@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"times less" is not an intuitive, easy to understand way of referring to a decrease in some amount or percentage.

[–] Narrrz@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right? If something has "100x less" something, does that mean it has 1%? 0.99%? Some other random figure?? What are you even trying to convey???

[–] Usernameblankface@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I usually hear numbers less than 10 used with times less. Do you have an example for 100 times less? I'm curious to see this figurative trainwreck.