Not sure I could do that. I would have to actually buy the ticket to feel justified in cashing in on a winning one. If I found one, I would attempt to return it to the rightful owner. Isnt that wjwd?
This discussion of percentages and changes reminds me of a lot of the discussion about various health issues, especially cancer and how doing certain things increase or decrease your chances of getting or not getting it by hundreds of percentages. If I have a 0.01% chance of getting some cancer and eating certain foods increases my chances of getting that cancer by 300%. I’m not sure that would cause me to avoid eating that food. I always hated those types of reports, especially for very rare cancers.
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Sure, if that is likely to succeed. Otherwise, you could always divide it between a bunch of good causes.
Still - you get to decide what to do because you have the winning ticket.
Under a generous interpretation of “innumeracy” I think the people arguing that this wouldn’t work in the southern hemisphere qualifies:
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That’s so hemispherist
I mean the diagram is clearly in the northern hemisphere, but the instructions work just fine in the southern hemisphere. 
One guy was all “I’m a pilot and sundials work backwards in the southern hemisphere.”
Uh… sundials are not compasses. 
Talking about hemispheres (and perhaps innumeracy), someone I know in the southern hemisphere said they were thinking of sending me an Australian-themed calendar for next year but didn’t think I could use it because we were a day behind.
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I mean… I started to make an International Date Line error one time, but I was aware that calendars work the whole world over (well… outside of an Orthodox Church anyway). Yours and mine might be on a different day, of course.
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When I worked for a multinational and we’d have onsites, the guy from the Sydney office would fly in and he would always bitch about the time change. He was 19 hours jet lagged! Most people would be like “Wow… 19 hours… that’s so much!!!”
I was WAY less sympathetic. Dude! It’s a 5 hour time change. The poor saps from London are dealing with an 8 hour time change. Do not complain to them… they have it way worse than you do!
For jet lag that’s true. There’s no such thing as more than a 12 hour time change when you’re talking jet lag.
But when I’d try to call him Friday afternoon, obviously he wasn’t there. It was Saturday. Then it really is a 19 hour time change.
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Not sure whether this is an innumeracy, or just a sign that global warming is worse than we thought.
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Well, you see , you’ve got your Fahrenheit, your Celsius, and your Kelvin. This is a new temperature scale - the Clavin - marked with a “°F” just to be confusing
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I’m guessing decimal points matter.
the F comes from Cliff
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There’s a new murder hornet in town. Be afraid…
“It’s a little bit tricky because this species makes their nest under the ground — more than 30 meters — so it is not easy to find,” he said. “We are trying.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/giant-murder-hornets-found-europe-first-time-spain-rcna182534
So i am guessing they mean 30cm, because if it digs 100 ft to make a nest, we’re screwed.
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33-Year-Old Woman Has Been Pregnant For Nearly 17 Years
ByDave Basner
Jun 16, 2022
Most pregnancies last about 40 weeks and by that point, many moms-to-be are ready to be finished with being pregnant. However, that wasn’t the case for 33-year-old Britni Church. Britni gave birth to her first child in 2004 when she was 16 and has had a kid just about every year since then.
The mom of 12 recently told TODAY Parents, “I think I’m done,” but her husband, Chris, wouldn’t mind having more. Britni and Chris share seven-year-old Silas, five-year-old Christopher, 3-year-old triplets Oliver, Asher and Abel, and 11-month-old Rowyn. Britni also has 17-year-old Crizman, 16-year-old Jordan, 14-year-old Caleb, 13-year-old Jace, 12-year-old Cadence and 10-year-old Jesalyn from previous relationships.
It’s not easy having five girls and seven boys to care for. Britni, who has spent nearly 98 months of her life pregnant, spends $200 each month just on milk.
She’s only been pregnant for about 8 years of time, but during the span of 17 different years.
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Ten pregnancies is still a LOT, but I agree that the headline is innumeracy.
Yep. Unless she had some miscarriages she would have at max spent 90 months (7.5 years) pregnant.
Some people like to insist pregnancy is 10 months since it’s expected to be 40 weeks.
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I did know a woman who had 9 kids (no multiple births) with the oldest 13 yo at the time (IIRC) and while my wife and I were talking to her we found out she had one child die within 12 hours after birth and another still born and had at least 3 miscarriages. My wife had extremely difficult morning sickness for the first 1/3 to 1/2 of her pregnancies. This lady said she was never sick at all with any of her pregnancies which made a little more sense to us.
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