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Now your Honor, I may be a simple country lawyer; but my client here isn't running an illegal lottery to influence an election. He's running a fraudulent illegal lottery to influence an election. (hexbear.net)

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 41 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Gober argued there's a difference between "randomly' and "by chance".

What's the difference?

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It's been ~17 minutes and I'm almost disappointed in Hexbear. There's been no snark that one is an adverb and the other is a prepositional phrase.

[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks ago

made-it-the-fuck-up

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

Randomly is when I find an event inside of a probability space. By chance is when I find a $100 bill on the ground.

[-] 2812481591@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

your honor, there's no law saying I can't make a normal distribution with a kurtosis of 1 trillion.

[-] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"Your honor, while there may be such a mathematical concept of randomness we can't produce it as such even in the modern computing era. Therefore, all things considered that there is no actual randomness, we cannot say that our chosen winner has been chosen randomly as such. I rest my case."