this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2025
758 points (99.2% liked)

Facepalm

3331 readers
39 users here now

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
all 21 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 63 points 2 months ago

1/1000 = 0.001 (which is 0.1%, because 1% = 0.01; like 1¢ out of $1.00).

An easy [yet embarrassing] mistake to make, even for a “math major”.

Let this serve as a warning to you would-be mouthpieces: reread your statements before you go putting your foot in your mouth.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 58 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also the idea that is takes and math major to convert a fraction to a percentage...

[–] RedIce25@lemmy.world 53 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Was Biden simultaneously vice president for his own presidency?

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

He was a former vice president at the time, still is, though being a president is more notable.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think we should refer to him as "Former Community Pool Security Guard Joe Biden" from now on. (Yup, early 60's).

[–] YoiksAndAway@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 months ago

There's a Mitch Hedberg joke in there.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

The date on the article appears to be 9/29/2020, so Biden was not elected president yet. But even if the article came Out on 11/29/2020, Biden still wouldn’t be president; he’d be President-elect. A presidents term does not actually start (or end) until Jan 20 of the following year, after the president is sworn in. To add more dates to the confusion, the Jan 6 date was when congress was meant to certify (make official) the votes from the November election; yup, despite what CNN and all of the other news organizations say on Election Day, the votes aren’t actually certified until much later.

Welcome to America, land of the confusing!

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

About 1 in every 265 Americans has died of covid. Covid continues to account for about 1% of all deaths in the US.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

That was my thought, so right off it sounds incorrect.

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 months ago

Took me a moment but it says "election 2020" so that's why the number is so low. Oh, and also it was before Biden's presidency and he was vice president under Obama

[–] pomfegranate@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

Trust me, I'm a math major in calc 1, I'm basically Ramanujan.

[–] Isa@feddit.org 7 points 2 months ago

Err… 👀

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

#VerizonMath

[–] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

These people lie with a straight face about things they don't understand

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago
[–] rxbudian@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

Name shouldn't be censored so employers that checks this person's social media will see it and reject the application. You don't want this person to be in a role where math is required (and be confident that he's right over his subordinates' correction)...

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Most people can't comprehend a difference between 0.1% and 0.0000000000000001%. It's all just "a very small percentage."