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PoindexterOglethorpe

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7. Right. And the lottery ticket buyers are idiots

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Tue Jan 28, 2025, 02:45 PM

Jan 2025

who don't understand odds.

Every so often astronomers (including My Son The Astronomer) point out that the chances of something of significant size hitting Earth is incredibly small.

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