@theogrin @KevinLikesMaps Yeah, for a big sample you'd...

@theogrin @KevinLikesMaps Yeah, for a big sample you'd need a nationwide study for sure.

Like 19 Jun 2023 at 0:53 | Open on hachyderm.io

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We are implicitly distrustful. We have to be. Our lives demand it. We've been burned time and again.

In a city of 2m people, 70 is the most we can honestly hope for.

How fucked is that?

19 Jun 2023 at 1:42 | Open on chaosfem.tw

@Impossible_PhD @KevinLikesMaps
Shit, fuck and damn, it's the Fermi paradox writ domestically.

19 Jun 2023 at 1:48 | Open on chaosfem.tw

@theogrin @KevinLikesMaps yeeeeeep. Percentages of percentages of percentages of percentages do that *really* quickly.

19 Jun 2023 at 1:50 | Open on hachyderm.io

Intellectually, I know this full well.

One of the problems with being human, though, is that we have zero scope of scale.

Tiny little bacterium can't hurt us, suddenly we're all dead of Black Death.

Lions, how terrible! Mosquitoes, meh.

And so on. Smol things multiply... and get ignored.

A 1% chance also becomes a certainty in time, and people don't grok how often they roll the dice.

19 Jun 2023 at 2:00 | Open on chaosfem.tw