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How to explain to Americans: If You remove 3 bullets out of an Gen 4 Glock 26 9mm 12-Round magazine, that’s 1/4. If you remove 4 bullets, that’s 1/3. The police can shoot one more unarmed black man with 1/3 of the magazine than 1/4.

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No, they can’t. They need 3-4 full magazines to hit once.

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How do you take a round… out? Is this like where I shoot in the air for holidays or gender reveal parties?

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No, that’s dangerous. You shoot toward the poor end of town, not just anywhere.

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Dude WTF?!

Sometimes (unfairly) other white people are poor!

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That… Is a very morbid, yet perfect example.

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No, the poor Americans will be confused by the inversion.

First removing 1/3 (4 rounds) from a 12 round magazine leaving 2/3 (8 rounds) left … then switching to talking about how a 1/3 full magazine with its 4 rounds has more rounds left than the 1/4 mag with 3 rounds.

They won’t be able to catch on, and are likely to respond with something along the lines of “But the one you took 1/3 out of has just 8 rounds left, and the 1/4 one has 9 rounds left, which is more. The 1/4 one is more.”

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Never used an imperial socket set, and it shows.

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21 points

The cake analogy is better and still appeals to Americans because it is cake.

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The cake is a lie.

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Yeah but they already failed with the burger analogy. And it’s a burger.

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Since you didn’t get it, you can cut a cake visually and have it make sense where you can’t with burgers.

Cut a cake into 4 pieces, another cake into 3 pieces, the cake with 4 pieces, each piece is a 1/4 piece, the other cake for 3 and 1/3, which is bigger?

It’s easy so I’m confused why you didn’t get it.

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To be fair everybody likes cake. Even if pie is better.

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Good pie is better than the best cake, but mediocre pies are worse than mediocre cake. A conundrum.

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Facepalm

!facepalm@lemmy.wtf

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