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joechoj t1_j6kixnj wrote

Reply to It seems like black cops abusing power may bring about laws to keep cops as a WHOLE in check. by Sol-eks

> police charged with murder

Me: Finally, cops not treated as if they're above the law!

> the officers were all black

Me: I see what's happening here.

Look, these men are awful, and deserve to have the book thrown at them, and I hope it leads to police reform. But of course it's black cops who are being made an example of after all the white murderer cops that have skated.

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ThonTaddio t1_j6kios8 wrote

Reply to Considering the size and age of the universe, there must have been a situation where atoms moved in a way so they recreated the shrek movie in 1920x1080 quality somewhere. by Rat_Ramsay

Not true. It’s unlikely that even something so seemingly simple as a deck of cards has, or ever will be, randomly shuffled in the same order. Ever.

There are 52! (factorial) possible random ways to order a deck of playing cards. That number is enormous - 8x10^67 (8 followed by 67 zeroes).

If every person on earth (8x10^9 people) shuffled a deck of cards once per second for the lifetime of the universe (4.16x10^27 seconds), no two decks would be the same. This would still be true if you ran the same calculation, but assumed there was an earth with 8 billion people around every star in the entire universe (1x10^24 stars) sitting there for 13.2 billion years shuffling cards every second.

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