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Why am I not Irish

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨alina@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • Pudutr0n@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    not lucky enough

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    • alina@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      D:

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  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How hard have you tried?

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  • Redacted@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Skill issue

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  • GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Just gotta wait until Tuesday

    Image

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  • BladeFederation@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Oh my God, you can’t just ask someone why they’re not white

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  • CallMeAl@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    When it rains, why doesn’t it rain lemon drops and gum drops?

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    • Pudutr0n@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Cause you personally are not throwing enough of em from the sky.

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  • Auk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Irish I was Mexican.

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    • Auk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      O - O - O- O’Really?

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    • Sagan_Wept@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Lol, I am Irish and Mexican

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Why am I not born in an advanced space-faring alien civillization? 😥

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    • Pudutr0n@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Based on your username… ermm… Aren’t you?

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      • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oh I’m an alien alright, but I’m not an ALIEN like you know… roswell… area 51 type of alien… certainly not an advanced space-faring civilization… probes into space DOES NOT COUNT as “ADVANCED SPACEFARING CIVILLIZATION”, jesus christ they haven’t even put a human on the moon yet… 🤦‍♂️

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  • glasratz@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well, if you’re like me it’s because all your ancestors 15 generations back all sat in the same small region and probably never came close to meeting anyone from Ireland.

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  • Bakkoda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ever had any Irish in you?

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    • TrippinMallard@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Last night I did

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      • Bakkoda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Aye

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  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s unlikely.

    The probability of a random English speaking person being Irish is approximately 7.1856/1493 ≈ 0.00481, which is a pretty low number. There just aren’t that many Irish people.

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    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Oh yes this “birth statistics” thing… like this line of thoughts is causing me a sort of existential crisis…

      Like… me being born ethnicallt Chinese in Mainland China was literally a statistic… its like amongst the top 2 countries in terms of births, even account for one child policy… like its over 10% chance… and oh yea there were like 400 million that were born against policy… like me 🫠

      In terms of world population…it’s a 1 in 7 chance

      So… yea I’m just a statistic…

      But what’s not a statistic is the fact that I’m a diaspora… that’s kinda rare for China in terms of percentage…

      But then again I’m Taishanese (台山) ancestry… so that’s just standard for us… most of Chinese Emigration have Taishanese ancestry…

      I wish I was Norweigian… but the odds of being orn norweigian is like impossible… sad 🙃

      Why am I here?

      I think about The Egg by Andy Weir sometimes… what if I die now then get reincarnated as a woman in the middle east, then spawnkilled… 👀

      okay sorry I’m just rambling now xD

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      • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Probabilities can be counterintuitive. Just because something has a low probability doesn’t 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 “unique” snowflake.

        The counterintuitive thing is, even though the stacked probability of you existing might be astronomically small, you’re still here. Unlikely things happen all the time. If you expect to see a specific rare event, you’ll be waiting a million years. If you look at events that have already occurred, you’ll find their probabilities were just as tiny.

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      • alina@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I wish I was a huge bearded Irish dude.

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  • JTskulk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Because you know how to grow food?

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  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The Irish have no trolls. It’s the Nordic who have them.

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Maybe you are

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  • Griffus@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Is it because you a USian?

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