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(I’m exagerrating and understand creators must be paid in some way but this was my first thought seeing the graphic)

“This” comments (on Reddit and Lemmy) are not a bad thing. An upvote is supposed to promote valuable content, not necessarily stuff you agree with. A “this” shows agreement. These are different things, and hunting down the “this” promotes the “upvote to agree, downvote to disagree” mentality.

(For example I said “this” to one comment on this thread, which was an unpopular opinion I agreed with. I upvoted plenty of other opinions I found interesting (and actually unpopular) while not necessarily agreeing with them.)

Listenbourg ?

Obligatory xkcd

Math (I’m a graduate student). And “exponentially more experienced than the average” means nothing as exponential is a progression, not a comparison between two values.

Lemmy, June 2023 : “thankfully we don’t have AutoModerator here”

Lemmy, August 2023 :

(tu testes 1 seule fois à la JDC je rappelle)

Et encore, ça c’est si t’as pas fait ta JDC en plein confinement (on a eu 3 vidèos à regarder sur l’armée, les institutions en France et le devoir de citoyen et un questionnaire en ligne à la fin et ça validait notre JDC)

Lors des émeutes pour Nahel Macron/Darmanin voulait bloquer l’accès aux réseaux sociaux. Je rappelle juste ça en passant…

Ah oui la chaleur humide c’est la pire, là à Paris on tourne autour de 30° mais avec la petite pluie ce matin qui a bien humidifié l’air ça semble tout de suite plus chaud

“Ten times closer” is pretty unambiguously 0.1. What starts getting more confusing is “300% further” which is technically 4 but many understand as 3 (try replacing by 50%, 50% further is 1.5 not 0.5). Also “50% closer” being the same as twice closer while 50% further is only 1.5x further can get confusing too, and it gets even worse with “50% slower” - is speed now 1/1.5 (= it takes 50% more time) or 0.5/1 (= speed is reduced by 50%) ?