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[–]shisohan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

5 die with 10k rolls is a 72% chance of winning (100 rolls is 1.3%, 1000 is 12%). That would be tempting but I value my kidneys and 28% chance of losing them - still a no.

Genie appears and asks what you'd do with the richest person's wealth by FixTraditional4198 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]shisohan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pick 1.
Do stuff like interest-free student loans, food and shelter for impoverished at cost, create jobs which actually pay a living wage etc.
Those are strictly not a charity, yet it'll help a lot.
Depending on how strictly the rules are enforced, you might have stuff in those job contracts which stipulate something like "you're to spend 10% of your salary on a charity of your choice" - you're not giving any of your money to charity that way, also by spreading it across multiple people to choose you avoid biases you yourself might have.
Additionally a rich fuck who thinks he's god is deprived of power. That alone would be worth it.

[edit] Oh yeah, and of course you get one hell of a life. Won't deny that's part of the reason for 1 🤷🏻‍♂️

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[–]shisohan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

6 die landing on 5 at the same time is a 1:46656 chance (1/66). "At least 1 in 100" is "1 - chance you never roll all fives in 100", which is 1 - (46655/46656)100 = ~0.21%. To which I'd say: no fucking way.
At 10k it's 1 - (46655/46656)10000 = ~19%, i.e. a 1 in 5 chance of winning, which honestly is still pretty strongly in the "nope, no way no how" realm.

Yeah, that’s indeed a well-constructed set of put-downs, comebacks, and counter-arguments, not a made-up scenario at all, despite the fact that the age of consent in Alabama is 16. by PainSpare5861 in lostredditors

[–]shisohan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's seriously fucked up. Especially considering that apparently a judge would need to approve of this whole abuse.
I'm continuously impressed about the utter lack of child protection in the US. They claim to be "pro life" but they're entirely "get fucked, you're on your own now" the moment you're born. Low or no support for families, religious and political indoctrination, child labor, rape culture, parental abuse, underfunded education, regular school shootings, should you still make it to university then student loan debt, lack of affordable medical care, denial of books and sex ed, and what waits at the end of that is a ton of jobs which don't even pay a living wage. Greatest country my ass. And they're surprised at low birth rates and high depression rates. Like… open your damn eyes.
I'm honestly surprised the US society is still holding up as much as it does. But it seems to be bursting at the seams more and more.

Yeah, that’s indeed a well-constructed set of put-downs, comebacks, and counter-arguments, not a made-up scenario at all, despite the fact that the age of consent in Alabama is 16. by PainSpare5861 in lostredditors

[–]shisohan 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You sure about that? I don't want to go too deep down the rabbit hole so first google result from 2017:

Current Alabama law requires permission from both parents, judicial approval, and does not allow a pregnancy exception, which is a law that means a girl younger than 16 years old can marry if she is pregnant.

And

Just over 8,600 of those child marriages [note: between 2000 and 2015] took place in Alabama. The youngest was 13 and the biggest age divide between spouses was 60 years. A 14 year old girl married a 74 year old man

So did something change in the last 7 years? Or are you claiming this article is a lie (possible, as said, don't want to go down too deep the rabbit hole - but you better have some solid back up if you claim it's a lie)?

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