BTW it's been twelve years since the XKCD that introduced the phrase "today's lucky 10,000" into common parlance: https://xkcd.com/1053/
I recently revisited this blog post I made on the day Randall published it, which gets pretty raw and emotional: https://harihareswara.net/posts/2012/common-sense/ : "Today's xkcd approaches it from an unimpeachably quantitative point of view, and I hope that helps prevent some of the qualitative hopelessness and despair I felt."
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