Carrick1973

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[–] Carrick1973 8 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Fear. It's that simple. An authoritarian mindset is one predicated on fear. After 9/11, Dick Cheney and George H. W. Bush used fear to drive their policies of restrictive freedoms. They pushed these through so they could amass additional powers and push government money towards their friends. Once these freedoms are gone, they almost never come back. The Republican party has been running on a campaign of fear ever since. Quite honestly, they've used fear as their driving force since the '80s. Back then it was fear of the Communists, and then it was fear of 'big government" and then it was fear of immigrants, or "the gays", or restrictions of the second amendment, or caravans of people coming up from South America. Fear is the only thing that they can run on since they have no actual plans to move our country forward.

[–] Carrick1973 4 points 11 months ago

Unfortunately, there's a reason that you hardly see many fat, old people.

[–] Carrick1973 5 points 1 year ago

Just wanted to find out what the count of these guys being secret leftist Antifa members is... oh yeah, zero...

Yet Another Imbecile for Trump... I didn't realize just how quickly defunding schools in red states would affect the electorate...

[–] Carrick1973 1 points 1 year ago

That's fascinating. Obviously, there's a series of repeating numbers in there, and one of the numbers would have a highest number of repeats... until further places of pi are determined and another number knocks it off... I assume there's a repeating 1, or 2 that repeats 7 or 8 times,etc... at some point...

[–] Carrick1973 1 points 1 year ago

Well I thought that at first, but it has to be less than infinite since other numbers have to repeat in there as well with at least some occurrence so it's infinite minus something, but since pi goes on infinitely, it's obviously some high number...

[–] Carrick1973 14 points 1 year ago (14 children)

There's a 9 repeating 6 times in there which I'd think is a pretty rare occurrence in pi. I wonder what the longest occurrence of a repeating digit is.

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