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Do you think United Health Care is going to have trouble finding a replacement CEO? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

To be fair, "president of the country whose president got iced last week" is a common enough job. In fact by murders per capita I heard US president is the most dangerous job in the world.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "In fact" and "I heard" don't go well together in a sentence. Unless you're saying it's a fact that you've heard it of course.

    Also, sorry for the pedantry.

    Also, just to give a source, 8 US presidents have died during office, which results in a mortality rate of about 18%. That is of course way higher than any other job.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Fair point. I suppose internally I meant "in fact" as a shorthand for, "here's an interesting thing that complements or counters what we were talking about," and "I heard" to qualify my (lack of) certainty, without going into detail about where I got the information and quite how trustworthy it might or might not be. (Incidentally, it was on QI.)

    Thanks for the source :-)

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