“That humans didn’t evolve under strong alpha selection, meaning that 99% of us don’t get eaten by birds in our first moments of life as we crawl down the beach towards the ocean, which is nice.”
The first atomic test did not ignite the atmosphere. No Carrington-scale solar flare has fried the grid lately. Antibiotic resistance costs bacteria something. The list is a reminder that most of what keeps civilization running is luck nobody voted for, and some of it is running out.