ELI5: "Up to 100" means "<=100". So 0% still falls in that range. Could even be negative (counter-productive).
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At least you know it will never over-work. (What ever does?)
I guess if it over-performs you could always return it as defective.
Places where it would work well:
In packaging of toned milk:
"Max Fat content: 4%" can be "Up to 4% fat"
Similarly, in packaging of full cream milk:
"Min Fat content: 6%" can be "6% or more fat"
Upto x or more is just useless garbage.
As long as you have the ability to speak, the phrase 'Im up to 100% dead' will be true.
I don't remember what it was but I read something recently that said "up to 30+" and I had to reread it a few times
Yeah I've definitely heard "up to [amount] or more" used in advertising. Which is just completely meaningless.
That’s XCOM, baby!
Consider working up to 8 hours a day at work.
At up to 100% productivity...
Up to 100%... or more!
"up to 100% effective" just means it's almost guaranteed not to be 100% effective except by accident in very rare cases lol
Would also work with
Glasses off: 85%* of customers agree!
Glasses on: *of 56 customers surveyed
9 out of 10 dentist recommend!*
*in a questionnaire where we ask dentist which tooth paste brands they recommend, and every one of them recommended multiple!
My baby has diapers that say “up to 100% leakproof”. It does not help my confidence in the product.
Did something change in advertising law in the US in the last few years? I feel like ive been seeing this specific phrase in advertising more and more lately.
I don't think anything changed. This isn't a false statement depending on the product. As long as there's some single rare scenario where it could be 100% effective, they're not lying. Really it's just to make you feel a certain way even if the sentence doesn't actually say anything at all.
This movie (They Live) is awesome It’s on YouTube and also on archive https://youtu.be/W5CT4ahnrnA
The fight scene is one of the best ever, and inspired the Cripple Fight in South Park (which is an almost perfect recreation of the scene.)
Sex Panther marketing there. 
I knew you were a hexbear user because:
a. you used an inline image in your comment
b. you used that image
What the heck is it, what's the origin, and what is it supposed to mean? Looks like some Philips CD-i game.
It's usually used to convey elaborate bullshittery, but here's the original CDi game clip.
Woah, didn't think I would guess the CD-i thing.
Wonder who downvoted me and why.
Not Hexbear. There's no downvote function in Hexbear except the sort-of-joke use of this emoji: 
Yeah, I saw that there are very few downvotes on hb posts and assumed they are disabled for the instance. But I do still see some downvotes. Are those coming from other instances?
Yeah, those are other instances coping, seething, and malding.
I usually see downvotes on comments that go against hexbear. Maybe bears with accounts on multiple instances.
I have no idea. I can't speak for other people there. I'm just Hexbear and Hexbear has no in-house downvotes.
Yeah, I think that's how it works
What the heck is it, what's the origin, and what is it supposed to mean? Looks like some Philips CD-i game.
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it is "morshupls"
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Morshu is a shopkeeper character from Link: The Faces of Evil
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It's generally used to convey someone giving an overly verbose and possibly asinine explanation "Morshu Explains" see also :pronouns:
Nothing in human history has ever been 100% effective
Death?
Hard to say, bunch of people haven't died yet
True. I intend to live forever and so far so good.
I dont know anyone who was able to completely stop moving relative to the sun
I think this meme has the images backwards... He should be taking off the rose-tinted glasses, not putting them on.
(Yes I know they're sunglasses and not rose-tinted)
In John Carpenter's 1988 film They Live, Hoffman lenses are depicted as special sunglasses that allow the wearer to see hidden messages and the true nature of their environment. When the protagonist, Nada, puts on these glasses, he can perceive the concealed presence of aliens and view subliminal messages such as "OBEY" and "CONSUME," which are otherwise invisible to the naked eye. The lenses serve as a symbolic tool for revealing the film's critique of consumerism and social control.
TIL
Xia already gave you the quoted explanation for why you're wrong, but everyone should watch the movie They Live, at least once. It's a riot of a movie.
Fun fact: the Southpark episode "cripple fight" with that long ass fight between Timmy and Jimmy, their fight scene is a near blow for blow reenactment of a fight scene in They Live, between Rowdy Roddy Piper and Keith David.