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 "Slings and arrows of fortune" is an allusion to the "{{w|To be, or not to be}}" soliloquy in William Shakespeare's ''{{w|Hamlet, Prince of Denmark}}''. Hamlet asks himself whether it is "Nobler in the mind to suffer / The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune" (to resign oneself to one's fate and endure what may come), or to "take Arms against a Sea of troubles, / and by opposing end them" (to commit suicide and end suffering); he ultimately concludes that we would rather face the dangers and pains we know on Earth than whatever unknown new ones may come in the afterlife. Cueball appears to agree with Hamlet, thanking "the people who refused to gracefully accept the ineffability of reality": Religion and spirituality can give him the moral courage to face his death, but he'd much prefer to not die in the first place, and won't have to, thanks to medical and scientific innovation. (Actually he will have to eventually.{{Citation needed}} Medical and scientific innovation simply delay the inevitable events of death and entropy.)
-Someone can make a hypothesis about something (such as a vaccine reducing the chance of getting infected by a certain disease), and that can be tested. In the title text, a “probability value” is mentioned, which is basically the likelihood of certain results appearing assuming the hypothesis is not true. A p-value of less than 0.05 is commonly used in areas of science as a good indicator of significant results, basically meaning a <5% chance that the results were created by random chance and a >95% confidence that a hypothesis is true. This could be a pun on cueball’s newfound confidence with science, or simply a correction to the last line that some tools may not be guaranteed to work.
+Someone can make a hypothesis about something (such as a vaccine reducing the chance of getting infected by a certain disease), and that can be tested. In the title text, a “probability value” is mentioned, which is basically the likelihood of certain results appearing assuming the hypothesis is not true. A p-value of less than 0.05 is commonly used in areas of science as a good indicator of significant results, basically meaning a <5% chance that the results were created by random chance and a >95% confidence that a hypothesis is true. This could be a pun on Cueball’s newfound confidence with science, or simply a correction to the last line that some tools may not be guaranteed to work.
 ==Transcript==

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 "Slings and arrows of fortune" is an allusion to the "{{w|To be, or not to be}}" soliloquy in William Shakespeare's ''{{w|Hamlet, Prince of Denmark}}''. Hamlet asks himself whether it is "Nobler in the mind to suffer / The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune" (to resign oneself to one's fate and endure what may come), or to "take Arms against a Sea of troubles, / and by opposing end them" (to commit suicide and end suffering); he ultimately concludes that we would rather face the dangers and pains we know on Earth than whatever unknown new ones may come in the afterlife. Cueball appears to agree with Hamlet, thanking "the people who refused to gracefully accept the ineffability of reality": Religion and spirituality can give him the moral courage to face his death, but he'd much prefer to not die in the first place, and won't have to, thanks to medical and scientific innovation. (Actually he will have to eventually.{{Citation needed}} Medical and scientific innovation simply delay the inevitable events of death and entropy.)
-The title text is a pun based on Cueball's newfound confidence, asserting that his statement "because they work, bitches" has a 95% ''confidence'' interval.
+Someone can make a hypothesis about something (such as a vaccine reducing the chance of getting infected by a certain disease), and that can be tested. In the title text, a “probability value” is mentioned, which is basically the likelihood of certain results appearing assuming the hypothesis is not true. A p-value of less than 0.05 is commonly used in areas of science as a good indicator of significant results, basically meaning a <5% chance that the results were created by random chance and a >95% confidence that a hypothesis is true. This could be a pun on cueball’s newfound confidence with science, or simply a correction to the last line that some tools may not be guaranteed to work.
 ==Transcript==

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 Also, any sentence is instantly funny if, at the end of it, you address your audience as "bitches". It may also be a reference to [[54: Science]].
-"Slings and arrows of fortune" is an allusion to the "{{w|To be, or not to be}}" soliloquy in William Shakespeare's ''{{w|Hamlet, Prince of Denmark}}''. Hamlet asks himself whether it is "Nobler in the mind to suffer / The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune" (to resign oneself to one's fate and endure what may come), or to "take Arms against a Sea of troubles, / and by opposing end them" (to commit suicide and end suffering); he ultimately concludes that we would rather face the dangers and pains we know on Earth than whatever unknown new ones may come in the afterlife. Cueball appears to agree with Hamlet, thanking "the people who refused to gracefully accept the ineffability of reality": Religion and spirituality can give him the moral courage to face his death, but he'd much prefer to not die in the first place, and won't have to, thanks to medical and scientific innovation. (Actually he will have to eventually{{citation needed}}. Medical and scientific innovation simply delay the inevitable events of death and entropy.)
+"Slings and arrows of fortune" is an allusion to the "{{w|To be, or not to be}}" soliloquy in William Shakespeare's ''{{w|Hamlet, Prince of Denmark}}''. Hamlet asks himself whether it is "Nobler in the mind to suffer / The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune" (to resign oneself to one's fate and endure what may come), or to "take Arms against a Sea of troubles, / and by opposing end them" (to commit suicide and end suffering); he ultimately concludes that we would rather face the dangers and pains we know on Earth than whatever unknown new ones may come in the afterlife. Cueball appears to agree with Hamlet, thanking "the people who refused to gracefully accept the ineffability of reality": Religion and spirituality can give him the moral courage to face his death, but he'd much prefer to not die in the first place, and won't have to, thanks to medical and scientific innovation. (Actually he will have to eventually.{{Citation needed}} Medical and scientific innovation simply delay the inevitable events of death and entropy.)
 The title text is a pun based on Cueball's newfound confidence, asserting that his statement "because they work, bitches" has a 95% ''confidence'' interval.

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 Also, any sentence is instantly funny if, at the end of it, you address your audience as "bitches". It may also be a reference to [[54: Science]].
-"Slings and arrows of fortune" is an allusion to the "{{w|To be, or not to be}}" soliloquy in William Shakespeare's ''{{w|Hamlet, Prince of Denmark}}''. Hamlet asks himself whether it is "Nobler in the mind to suffer / The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune" (to resign oneself to one's fate and endure what may come), or to "take Arms against a Sea of troubles, / and by opposing end them" (to commit suicide and end suffering); he ultimately concludes that we would rather face the dangers and pains we know on Earth than whatever unknown new ones may come in the afterlife. Cueball appears to agree with Hamlet, thanking "the people who refused to gracefully accept the ineffability of reality": Religion and spirituality can give him the moral courage to face his death, but he'd much prefer to not die in the first place, and won't have to, thanks to medical and scientific innovation. (Actually he will have to eventually. Medical and scientific innovation simply delay the inevitable events of death and entropy.)
+"Slings and arrows of fortune" is an allusion to the "{{w|To be, or not to be}}" soliloquy in William Shakespeare's ''{{w|Hamlet, Prince of Denmark}}''. Hamlet asks himself whether it is "Nobler in the mind to suffer / The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune" (to resign oneself to one's fate and endure what may come), or to "take Arms against a Sea of troubles, / and by opposing end them" (to commit suicide and end suffering); he ultimately concludes that we would rather face the dangers and pains we know on Earth than whatever unknown new ones may come in the afterlife. Cueball appears to agree with Hamlet, thanking "the people who refused to gracefully accept the ineffability of reality": Religion and spirituality can give him the moral courage to face his death, but he'd much prefer to not die in the first place, and won't have to, thanks to medical and scientific innovation. (Actually he will have to eventually{{citation needed}}. Medical and scientific innovation simply delay the inevitable events of death and entropy.)
 The title text is a pun based on Cueball's newfound confidence, asserting that his statement "because they work, bitches" has a 95% ''confidence'' interval.