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      1 day ago

      No, I don’t think it was an opinion. My point is in a lot of cases something really bad would never hit 1%. Like commercial airlines, most do several hundreds of flights a day(just a guess but for the large ones seems reasonable across all airports). If one airline had say 3 crashes in a year I can’t imagine them still being active.

      Population of us in 2024 was 340,000,000. If it effected 1% that would be 3.4 million people. That’s like 1/2 of the holocaust victims.

      I believe most companies would be done at 0.01% if that. Only company I can think of with that body count is nestle… I don’t even think Raytheon has killed that many.

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          14 hours ago

          Possible but back when smoking was much more common (not like 2010s, I mean like 1930s when a pack was included in mre kits given to soldiers in ww2 and the Flintstones cartoon had sponsored segments where Fred and barney had “smoke breaks” and talked about the “smooth and delicious taste” of I think it was camel cigarettes ) There were many more companies making cigarettes. It was only really consolidated in I think the 80s due to lawsuits for causing cancer, false advertising, lying to congress etc. Most of the companies couldn’t afford all the fines and were bought out.