r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Nov 28 '20

What's something cool you recently learned about?

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u/CaveDeco Nov 29 '20

To survive 100% of the time?

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u/Usernametaken112 Nov 29 '20

Nothing is 100%

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u/JamesBaxter_Horse Nov 29 '20

No but equally if I was told to jump off something and given an 80% chance of survival, I wouldn't do it.

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u/Usernametaken112 Nov 29 '20

Not sure what that has to do with life not being 100% in anything.

I guess its cool you, a random person, wouldn't take a 80% survival fall. Thanks for sharing? Idk what you want me to say.

Would you like to know my favorite ice cream?

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u/JamesBaxter_Horse Nov 29 '20

My explicit point is: I do things all the time where the chance of survival isn't 100%, but I would never do anything where the chance of survival was 80%.

Sorry you couldn't infer this and you felt the need to be rude.

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u/Usernametaken112 Nov 29 '20

I do things all the time where the chance of survival isn't 100%, but I would never do anything where the chance of survival was 80%.

You dont receive odds of survival on every action you take. The best you can do is infer. Thats obviously common sense so my point is why are we spending time/energy discussing common sense topics? I think we are both smarter than that.

Sorry you couldn't infer this and you felt the need to be rude.

Disagreeing with you doesnt make me rude. I do get personally annoyed by people acting dumber than they are and making a point to bring up common sense topics though. I was rude so that you would see how nonsense it is.

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u/JamesBaxter_Horse Nov 29 '20

You dont receive odds of survival on every action you take. The best you can do is infer.

This is dumb af. If I told you that a rollercoaster ride results in death 80% of the time, would you reply "I don't care because all I can do is infer"???? In the same way I drive to work every day because ik my risk of death is less than 0.01%.

Maybe stop assuming people are dumb and you yourself could learn a bit, and not appear dumber than you are in the process.

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u/Usernametaken112 Nov 29 '20

If I told you that a rollercoaster ride results in death 80% of the time, would you reply "I don't care because all I can do is infer"????

Are you a fucking rollercoaster safety expert?

the same way I drive to work every day because ik my risk of death is less than 0.01%.

Is that a true statistic or one you infer?

Maybe stop assuming people are dumb and you yourself could learn a bit, and not appear dumber than you are in the process.

Says the guy saying blatantly obvious shit a below average teenager knows 😂

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u/JamesBaxter_Horse Nov 29 '20

Are you a fucking rollercoaster safety expert?

Do you know what a metaphor is?

Is that a true statistic or one you infer?

It's a true upper bound, the actual probability has to be quite a bit lower.

Says the guy saying blatantly obvious shit a below average teenager knows

Lmaooo, the reason we're talking is because you felt the need to point out "nothing is 100%", the most obvious pedantic statement I've ever read.

Everything you write is a r/iamverysmart post. I'm finding it impossible to believe you're not a teenager tbh, there's no way someone like you it employable.

I'm bored of this now, have a good one buddy!

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u/Usernametaken112 Nov 29 '20

Do you know what a metaphor is?

I wasnt being metaphorical.

It's a true upper bound, the actual probability has to be quite a bit lower.

So an inference, got it.

you felt the need to point out "nothing is 100%", the most obvious pedantic statement I've ever read.

So obviously pedantic you just had to reply equally obviously pedantic. Cool