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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For perspective, that's over 400,000x as much. As in 40,000,000%.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

When no one was looking, Lex Luthor polluted forty million percent more than an average person. He polluted 40,000,000% more. That's as many as four tens (times a million)%. And that's terrible.