Every day: There is a 1 in 1 trillion chance that a gamma ray burst from a celestial event will kill every living thing on earth.
There is a 1 in a billion chance that an asteroid will kill 9/10 of humanity.
There is a 1 in 10,000 chance you'll die in car accident this year. - 100% chance that *multiple people* will die in a car accident today.
There have been 21,000 flu deaths this year.
There have been 2,800 cases of coronavirus.
Perspective.
Put another way: more than three times as many people have died of the flu JUST IN THE US, JUST SO FAR THIS YEAR, as have been simply diagnosed with Wuhan coronavirus.
I've never been able to figure out how the people who panic about stuff like this manage to navigate REAL threats to life and limb, like staircases and showers.
@Heucuva8 @mcfate @0x56 I think people donβt understand numbers that big on an innate level, which is why we strive to humanize with anecdotes. That also can have a backlash. Remember stranger danger in the 80βs? Or now Fox News trumpeting that immigrants are going to murder you. (But only the brown immigrants) π
@mcfate @Heucuva8 @0x56 well, yes. Whatβs the alternative? But even on the 80βs, if you look at it from a statistical perspective the numbers still werenβt all that big, my point was that people tend to conflate percentages and assume chance is a certainty that some thing will happen. Sometimes thatβs a good thing, I.e. get your flu shot. Sometimes not.
@misterfive @mcfate @Heucuva8 @0x56 True, the fact that itβs coming from a foreign source isnβt helping either due to peopleβs fear of the βotherβ.
@misterfive @catie @Heucuva8 @0x56
I try to understand that life is uncertain, and every time I exhale, it could be the last.
But the odds don't strongly suggest that's an immediate likelihood. I'd be at as much risk of just dropping dead hiding in my closet or under my bed.
@mcfate @misterfive @Heucuva8 @0x56 I think weβre coming to the logical conclusion in this convo of existential dread and the inevitability of death and inventing an afterlife.π whatβs our unique afterlife going to be? π
@catie @mcfate @misterfive @Heucuva8 - Mine... kinda like Valhalla - lots or eating, drinking, and perhaps more than a few sparring matches.
<slowly shuffles out of frame>
@Heucuva8 @misterfive @0x56 @mcfate how dare you Misterfive! This is lich erasure! πππ
@catie @Heucuva8 @misterfive @mcfate - Liches are free to do as they please, as long as they don't try to convert me to some sort of *dead state. π
What would an Undead AI even look like? @0x56 @catie @misterfive @mcfate
@Heucuva8 @catie @misterfive @mcfate
It's not a pretty sight. Racks all over the ground, Knotted network cables being chewed on by mice. The cases that are still there are dented and rusting. Somehow there's still power, and not enough shorts to keep the processor going. Any status LEDs are weakly flickering.
@misterfive @Heucuva8 @catie @mcfate
No. They'd just try to use the drivers to connect to any SMB drives they might be able to reach.
They cannot be killed without removing their CPUs.
Isn't that also the case if you catch a virus? π€
@Heucuva8 @0x56 @misterfive @mcfate no itβs
ββββββββBA(Start)
@misterfive @0x56 @catie @Heucuva8
"In the long run, we're all dead."
@mcfate @misterfive @0x56 @catie @Heucuva8
βNo one here gets out alive...β
Okay, gonna go open up a vein now guys, youβve convinced me life is futile.
@TheAbbotTrithemius @mcfate @0x56 @catie @Heucuva8
Hm. That wasn't MY point, certainly. Knowing we will die eventually (again, for the undead YMMV on that statement) is not the same thing g as Life is futile.
(And I do have to ask this: you are joking, right?)
@misterfive @TheAbbotTrithemius @mcfate @0x56 @Heucuva8 youβre welcome to come visit me in my afterlife of wine, cheese, and naps on soft couches! ππ
@catie @misterfive @TheAbbotTrithemius @0x56 @Heucuva8
You know, I can do all those things RIGHT NOW.
Maybe I'm dead and I went to Heaven and missed the memo. Dunno. They keep delivering weed when I text 'em.
@catie @misterfive @TheAbbotTrithemius @0x56 @Heucuva8
Me, I'd've thought a pack of smokes'd be cheaper in Heaven...
In heaven you can smoke delicious and tasty, fluffy white clouds.
βMy girlfriend used to smoke after sex, so we started using lube.β
β Jimmy Carr
@TheAbbotTrithemius @mcfate @misterfive @0x56 @Heucuva8 oh are we doing pithy quotes now? Iβm game.
βGive a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.β
β Terry Pratchett, Jingo
@TheAbbotTrithemius @mcfate @misterfive @0x56 @Heucuva8 gods dammit. Thatβs an insight Iβm going to have to sit with for awhile.
@catie @TheAbbotTrithemius @mcfate @misterfive @0x56 @Heucuva8
This Pratchett quote has always been a personal favorite!
@TheAbbotTrithemius @catie @misterfive @0x56 @Heucuva8
"Do you mind if I smoke?"
"I don't care if you BURN."
β Oscar Wilde and Sarah Bernhardt
@TheAbbotTrithemius Wait. Was the Lube for you, or her?
@TheAbbotTrithemius I thought that's what the lube was for.
So sorry.
@TheAbbotTrithemius @RandomUsr @mcfate @misterfive @0x56 @Heucuva8 Cigars? lube? Addams Family?*ears perk up* go on....
@mcfate @catie @RandomUsr @misterfive @0x56 @Heucuva8
Well, that certainly puts Morticia in quite an interesting light...
π
@TheAbbotTrithemius @catie @RandomUsr @misterfive @0x56 @Heucuva8
I was actually looking for a clip of Gomez pulling an already-lit cigar out of his jacket pocket...
π
@catie @mcfate @TheAbbotTrithemius @RandomUsr @0x56 @Heucuva8
It's always useful to have a degree in physics before enslaving a minister and being captured as a witch. Then you'll know how best to break the laws of thermodynamics at the bonfire.
βI have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.β β Zach Galifianakis
@TheAbbotTrithemius @misterfive @0x56 @catie @Heucuva8
"I used to think my brain was the most important part of my body until I realized who was telling me that." β Emo Phillips
βI had to stop drinking, cause I got tired of waking up in my car driving 90.β β Richard Pryor
@TheAbbotTrithemius @misterfive @0x56 @catie @Heucuva8
"Yeah, I used to have a sort of a drinking problem, I kept waking up naked and spread-eagled on the hood of my car. 'IT'S OKAY, I'M JUST WARMING IT UP!'" β Robin Williams
@mcfate @TheAbbotTrithemius @misterfive @0x56 @Heucuva8 considering the weird turn of this long conversation.....βsquirrel!!!ββdog from βUpβ
βThey lie about marijuana: βMarijuana makes you unmotivated.β Lie. When youβre high, you can do anything you normally do just as well. You just realize itβs not worth the fucking effort. Thereβs a difference.β β Bill Hicks
@TheAbbotTrithemius @misterfive @0x56 @catie @Heucuva8
"I don't think marijuana should be legal, I think it should be MANDATORY. Just imagine, every street in America at night, quiet and peaceful, nothin' but Domino's delivery trucks goin' back and forth..."
@TheAbbotTrithemius @misterfive @0x56 @catie @Heucuva8
"People aren't violent on weed because IT'S IMPOSSIBLE! 'HEY!!' 'WHAT!?' 'Uh.....'"
@0x56 Mine...cheese, wine, books, and soft couches for naps.
@0x56 @catie @mcfate @Heucuva8
Well, as I told my son once, the death rate is one per person. (Assuming no vampires, sombies, etc.)