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[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 73 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 117 points 4 months ago (1 children)

People trying to get out of the country, I guess

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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

[–] CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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 4 months ago

Ohhhhhh omg now this makes sense. Thank you!

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] higgsboson@dubvee.org 1 points 4 months ago