Which means nothing in terms of likelihood of events happening or not happening.

Every picosecond, anything and everything has a 50/50 chance of happening

Not true. Is the Anthropic IPO happening this picosecond? At 50/50 odds, I'll bet on no. I'll bet on it for the next million picoseconds. How much are you willing to put on yes?

I've just been very unlucky in the last 1000000 picoseconds that's all

Here I am saying “well, shit”, over and over again, but so quickly that not even dogs can hear it.

What you’re describing is a stochastic process, and that’s not how stochastic processes work at all.

Odds easily manipulated by those with money aren't useful. When you're playing around for a trillion, a billion isn't much money to lose