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[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How so? I mean, they seem to have been successful, in a sense, and nothing bad seems to have happened, but when you say 'nothing happened' I feel like you want to say that literally nothing else of significance happened, neither good nor bad. Seems like a rather boring, depressing life.

[–] dudinax@programming.dev -4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Imagine playing blackjack for decades and getting a standoff every single hand. It'd seem boring, but it'd really be extraordinary.

Also luckier than the average.

[–] FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

Yes but you wouldn't happy with that kind of outcome, you'd spend every day hoping for something more interesting to happen, perhaps even hoping for a loss to make things interesting after a certain point.

I feel like Lucky usually has the connotation that you wanted the outcome.

Also, they might have helped their chances by being very competent, but having very low people skills. I feel like that would improve the probability of something like this.

[–] Frigid@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I get what you're saying but even if someone getting struck by lightning is extraordinary, we don't say they're lucky, we say they are unlucky.