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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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People who are lucky (never get sick etc.) shouldn't be the ones to buy lottery tickets (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you're lucky in one area, what's the chance that you'll be lucky in another?Instead, it should be those who are really unlucky, the lottery might balance out their luck 💀

edit: I forgot about ~~mutually exclusive~~ independent events probability ty everyone

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I guess this goes into how you imagine luck.

Is it one stat that gets balanced all around? How do you know you didn't spend all your luck surviving something you didn't even know about. Does it take into account how the world affects you or just your actions? Maybe it's a general stat that affects everything by the same amount, which is the framework that goes with the "wow I nearly died, I should buy a lottery ticket".

Easiest is to determine it after the fact, as a relative value for all the stuff that happens to us outside our direct control.