• taiyang@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Even if the general were like, a week after they both died in a freakish accident? I guess they can always post pone the general though. I’m not sure who would have to make the call or if there are rules in place for DNC or GOP

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      10 months ago

      I mean, these fuckers are old.

      Like way fucking old.

      There is a significant non-zero probability that any given week of theirs, is there last week.

      I mean how many years do we think either of these two has left?

      2? 3? and it doesn’t have to be 🛴🪣 , just total mental or physical degradation.

      So what they’ve got maybe 100, 200 weeks ahead of them max? Assuming a uniform probability distribution, that’s a charitable 0.25% per week (and I do not believe its a uniform distribution), 40 weeks till the election, call it a %0.25 for either of them individually to kick the bucket: I get 18.14% probability that either one of the two 🛴🪣 in the next 40 weeks. Like its not crazy, they are old af.

      I’m sure a student of geriatrics could get us some more informed priors, but I bet thats in the ball park.