Why am I not Irish
from alina@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world on 13 Mar 13:43
https://lemmy.world/post/44205896
from alina@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world on 13 Mar 13:43
https://lemmy.world/post/44205896
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not lucky enough
D:
Why am I not born in an advanced space-faring alien civillization? š„
Based on your usernameā¦ ermmā¦ Arenāt you?
Oh Iām an alien alright, but Iām not an ALIEN like you knowā¦ roswellā¦ area 51 type of alienā¦ certainly not an advanced space-faring civilizationā¦ probes into space DOES NOT COUNT as āADVANCED SPACEFARING CIVILLIZATIONā, jesus christ they havenāt even put a person on the moon yetā¦ š¤¦āāļø
Letās call it a grey area.
How hard have you tried?
When it rains, why doesnāt it rain lemon drops and gum drops?
Cause you personally are not throwing enough of em from the sky.
Just gotta wait until Tuesday
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Skill issue
Maybe you are
Itās unlikely.
The probability of a random English speaking person being Irish is approximately 7.1856/1493 ā 0.00481, which is a pretty low number. There just arenāt that many Irish people.
Oh yes this ābirth statisticsā thingā¦ like this line of thoughts is causing me a sort of existential crisisā¦
Likeā¦ me being born ethnicallt Chinese in Mainland China was literally a statisticā¦ its like amongst the top 2 countries in terms of births, even account for one child policyā¦ like its over 10% chanceā¦ and oh yea there were like 400 million that were born against policyā¦ like me š«
In terms of world populationā¦itās a 1 in 7 chance
Soā¦ yea Iām just a statisticā¦
But whatās not a statistic is the fact that Iām a diasporaā¦ thatās kinda rare for China in terms of percentageā¦
But then again Iām Taishanese (å°å±±) ancestryā¦ so thatās just standard for usā¦ most of Chinese Emigration have Taishanese ancestryā¦
I wish I was Norweigianā¦ but the odds of being orn norweigian is like impossibleā¦ sad š
Why am I here?
I think about The Egg by Andy Weir sometimesā¦ what if I die now then get reincarnated as a woman in the middle east, then spawnkilledā¦ š
okay sorry Iām just rambling now xD
I wish I was a huge bearded Irish dude.
I recommend watching Jacksepticeyeā¦ itās very therapeudicā¦
You could try cosplaying as one.
Probabilities can be counterintuitive. Just because something has a low probability doesnāt mean it never happens. You can make those probabilities vanishingly small by stacking specific combinations like ethnic background, first language, country of origin, current country of residence, religious upbringing, and so on. The more you stack, the lower the probability of someone being exactly like you.
I once visited a science expo that demonstrated this by asking questions about traits like eye color, ear shape, and even quirks: Do you write with your left hand? Do you kick a ball with your right foot? Do you peek through a hole with your left eye? When you combine all these factors, everyone turns out to be a āuniqueā snowflake.
The counterintuitive thing is, even though the stacked probability of you existing might be astronomically small, youāre still here. Unlikely things happen all the time. If you expect to see a specific rare event, youāll be waiting a million years. If you look at events that have already occurred, youāll find their probabilities were just as tiny.
When you think of it like thatā¦ an NSA agent can read through all my posts and, without even needing to get my IP, they could uniquely identify me by cross referencing their database.
I mean who else in the world is (these are already info Iāve posted here and am comfortable with publishingā¦ I donāt care about hiding this):
Literally just these 4 datapoints narrow down to likeā¦ probably no more than like 100 people (I assume, I donāt have the stats)
Then you filter for: everything else like ageā¦ citizenshipā¦ how long been hereā¦ cities lived inā¦ favorite Animes, Movies, TV showsā¦
Bingo, Iām the only one that matches thatā¦
Hello NSA, ya got me! š
(Assuming the info is realā¦ who knowsā¦ maybe I obfuscated some detailsā¦)
I wanna publish a memoir some day so Iāll just see how unique/intriguing my story isā¦ š
The Irish have no trolls. Itās the Nordic who have them.
Ever had any Irish in you?
Last night I did
Aye
Irish I was Mexican.
Lol, I am Irish and Mexican
O - O - O- OāReally?
Well, if youāre like me itās because all your ancestors 15 generations back all sat in the same small region and probably never came close to meeting anyone from Ireland.
Nationality is a somewhat nebulous concept.
Sometimes there is a legal definition. Sometimes there is a - often racially influenced - folk definition. There are, of course, others between and perhaps beyond these.
If any manage to exclude you, there's your answer.
That doesn't necessarily mean that they're right, of course, but some hold more weight than others.
Edits: Improvements
Because you know how to grow food?
Is it because you a USian?
Oh my God, you canāt just ask someone why theyāre not white