Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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The probability of losing your life to a cosmic ray bit-flip is increasing daily (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Since the set of all remaining time only shrinks, the possibility of anything ever happening at least once in all time should also shrink unless it already happened.

And things happening at a rate per second doesn't mean it increases either if it hasn't happened yet. The probability of me being eaten by a dinosaur today is definitely not higher compared to being eaten by a dinosaur yesterday.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Its truly inspiring how you wrote a paragraph to encompass a single sentence. I can’t thank you enough you enough for your useless drivel.