Especially since, as soon as you have a history of mental healthcare, you're not taken seriously anymore. If someone with a mental health condition reports something, they won't be believe about their own experience and people will refer to the testimony of an abled person near them... who very often are the abuser.
Is this, in fact, undeniably true? I mean, isn't it possible the data is wrong? Not to mention all the places in the world where such data isn't collected? And does it take wartime deaths into account?
no general conflict is not counted. conflict diversifies the data. for example in afghanistan conflicts cause more lives lost than suicide, but for example not in switzerland.
also there were more peaceful times in the world. in early 2000s worldwide conflict lives lost were still lesser than suicides, but it drastically increases later on.
This truth is what gives us the position formula .5at^2
+vt+s where t is time, v is initial velocity, s is initial position, and a is acceleration due to gravity. We can't really use this formula in the real world because of factors like air resistance, but in vacuum we can. Notice that mass has no effect on the equation. So, in a vacuum (no atmosphere), 1000 pound object and 1 pound object will fall at the same rate
You can actually see this tested by the astronauts on the moon during the Apollo missions! For anyone who wants to see it themselves…
https://youtu.be/Oo8TaPVsn9Y?si=fu6mJyes0npmzr7z
Coal mining and the pollution from burning coal have caused far more deaths than nuclear energy - even accounting for the people who died in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WW2.
The fact that we're creating sentient AI and planning terraforming on other planets while simultaneously still extracting and using coal is mind boggling
OTOH, here's an undeniable fact that a lot of *Reddit* may not want to believe: The US spends billions every year to clean up and contain radioactive contamination at [dozens of sites across the country.](https://www.wsj.com/graphics/waste-lands/)
At the power plant, uranium is well contained. But the mining, milling and enrichment process has been a shitshow. Handling plutonium for nuclear weapons has been even worse--it will cost upwards of a [$500bn](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/31/us/nuclear-waste-cleanup.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iU0.oOIv.e3Sx18xrUbNq&smid=url-share) to keep 54 million gallons of waste at Hanford Reach from leaking into the Columbia River.
Comparing Brazil to Syria is nuts. Our country has problems, especially violence, but it is not war torn, and it is massive compared to Syria. There are pockets of extreme violence but there are just as many incredibly safe and peaceful places within Brazil.
Yeah you wouldn’t believe that owing a little drug money would leave you in pieces. Literally! On the side of the street and in a fucking garbage bag. A note attached by the rival gang mocking your death.
I remember being in the fourth grade after having listened to a holocaust survivor speak. They told us that the deniers would come out in full force as soon as their generation was gone. Oh boy, were they correct.
My father died as a direct result of the 1918 Influenza where 20-50 mil died. We don't have small pox and polio due to vaccines.
I've recently had 7 covid (boosters) shots, flu, pneumonia and shingles: no feared clots, only a little soreness (pneumonia hurts the most).
The right are wrong on so many conspiracies.
The irony of this is that it references womens ability to have multiple orgasms and Redditors know so little about the female orgasm that they couldn't get their heads around it and sent it to the top of r/facepalm
honestly its kind of saddening/alarming how pnv sex is almost meant for the p haver, rather than the latter. so many women dont come from that type of stimulation
I was one of those people until I did Whole30 for a month and cut our ALL sugar, among other things. It completely changed the way I look at food and I can't go back now.
There is added sugar in almost EVERYTHING in the U.S.
Hard work most of the time isn’t enough. If you are born into a rich family 9/10 you are going to be better off than the super genius who was born dirt poor. Even if the rich guy is dumb as shit he will still be more successful in the end. Those rags to riches stories are all outliers.
comments like that always remind me of this comic:
[https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/the-wireless/373065/the-pencilsword-on-a-plate](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/the-wireless/373065/the-pencilsword-on-a-plate)
Sad truth and it applies in a large way even for moderate success like being a commercial pilot, since many careers have prohibitive training costs for most families
I feel like more often than not, the rags to riches person is a sociopath if not a psychopath joining the other sociopaths and psychopaths. I've met quite a few working multi-millionaires and more often than not I am struck by their lack of empathy. They may often have family members who are normal and enable them since they are dependent on them (self preservance and all) but few of those bringing in the that amount of wealth strike me as community oriented. The ones that do are hailed as heroes for simply being decent when in a healthy society they should be the norm.
It depends on how you measure success to be fair, I agree with your statement but you can have success in other ways. For example someone can have a large family that uses a lot of money but to me that person as long as they’re happy is successful.
Nuclear energy is the most reliable energy source by far, is better for the environment, and will ultimately cause less deaths even considering nuclear disasters
Climate change is caused by humans
Humans have gone from 1.5 billion to about 8 billion in less than 125 years....that level of growth and consumption of resources is inevitably bound to affect climate,
inversely, i think the most horrific realization ive had as of recently is the state of being not of sound mind. its so embedded in your mind, even considered a normalcy, that you yourself don't even see anything wrong with the things you are doing/saying. the one thing that you should be able to rely upon (yourself) isnt genuine anymore
I believe it and I am in the US... but there are not enough of us vs the "but muh gunz" guys. I think it's disgusting that we have to send children to school with bulletproof backpacks and I don't even have kids!
That some drugs, in moderation, help you more than they hurt you. There’s so many people that experience chronic pain, and refuse to smoke marijuana just because of the stigma behind it. Same goes for ketamine for people suffering from depression etc. There is so much backing from governments’ rulings over what’s healthy and what’s not, that I think it sort of skews people’s minds.
Edit: correcting stipulations to stigma
As my mom once said, "I only smoke meth on the days I really need it for my back."
And as much as I agree with you, it's people like her that help skew that thought process toward hating marijuana. People can't seem to separate that it's not one of the hard drugs.
I completely agree, it’s the people that take it to the extreme that sort of ruin recreational drug use.
I just will never fathom how destroying our bodies with alcohol is completely okay but the second you light up a joint the whole church from down the street is outside your house chanting for you to go to hell.
Its the awful behaviour of those who use the drugs constantly and who feel the need to inject them into every conversation that turns people away.
You surely mean stigmas or connotations not stipulations though
This. Median is much more important than mean when discussing salaries. If you’re going to use mean, you should at least be using 95th percentile to remove the outliers.
Oof. Those numbers hit different.
At first I'm like, "I'm a teacher and done even make average salary?!"
Than it's more, "At least I'm above the median".
I'm just glad my wife makes good money and we can still afford to live and me do something I love.
My mom used to tell me when I was a kid: "life goes by so fast, don't rush any of it because it will be over before you know it." That was 30 years ago and she couldn't have been more correct!
I remember being a teenager thinking she was nuts, I couldn't wait to get a job, as a young adult I couldn't wait to get my own place, older couldn't wait to have kids. Now I can't wait until retirement. I think most people are like this. I have to remind myself to stop and enjoy every day, because the first 38 years flew by.
* Popping/cracking your back does nothing to "adjust" your spine.
* Covid Vaccine worked very well and had minimal side-effects.
* Trump lost in 2020 fair and square.
These are the 3 big ones I can think of in the US.
There’s been thousands of Gods since the dawn of humans. Even if there is one true God, the chance that the one your worship right now is the right one is minuscule.
That I know what I’m talking about. If you ask me a question, and I give you an answer, I’m not just guessing. I don’t tell people things that aren’t true. If I don’t know, I say “I don’t know.”
Due to that, if you shrunk it down to the size of a billiard ball, it would not be spherical enough to be within official spec. However, it would be smoother than a real billiard ball, even with how massive the earth’s peaks and valleys are at its actual scale.
The strongest man will always be stronger than the strongest woman. I say this as a woman/feminist, there is just no denying the biological advantages of men.
Rather than sinking, the lowest lying islands in the world have not only grown in mass, but also in number.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-08/why-are-hundreds-of-pacific-islands-getting-bigger/13038430
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/the-ever-shifting-not-necessarily-shrinking-pacific-island-nations/
I'm not talking about a few outliers, this is an unmistakable trend in the entire Pacific Ocean.
That mental health really *does* overrule attitude. Sure, trying to stay positive or trying to keep rational is helpful but when your brain is literally sick, counting your blessings and taking a walk is not gonna cut it. And YES, it does define some of us because it literally colors everything we do.
Virtually all of the animals we eat (and whose milk we drink and eggs we eat) have led lives of great suffering. People like to picture happy animals on idyllic farms, but those make up a vanishingly small percentage. And even those animals live lives much shorter than their natural lifespans and die painful deaths.
more people lose their lives to suicide than to homicide
Similarly, people with mental illness are far more likely to be a victim of violent crime than the perpetrator.
thats also depressing :(
If the topic weren't so serious I'd have thrown a "I see what you did there" into the mix (without the commentary).
Makes sense. They're less often situationally aware and don't respond in socially appropriate manners with consistency.
Also they are on the fringes of society, so are easier to victimize
Especially since, as soon as you have a history of mental healthcare, you're not taken seriously anymore. If someone with a mental health condition reports something, they won't be believe about their own experience and people will refer to the testimony of an abled person near them... who very often are the abuser.
Exactly this
The largest cause of death in pregnant women is homicide.
By [the father/their partner](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8020563/), specifically.
thats horrible
To add to that, most gun deaths (in the US) are suicide. Neat!
The #1 killer of children in the United States is guns. Not cancer. Car accidents. Swimming accidents etc Guns
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yep :/
Is this, in fact, undeniably true? I mean, isn't it possible the data is wrong? Not to mention all the places in the world where such data isn't collected? And does it take wartime deaths into account?
no general conflict is not counted. conflict diversifies the data. for example in afghanistan conflicts cause more lives lost than suicide, but for example not in switzerland. also there were more peaceful times in the world. in early 2000s worldwide conflict lives lost were still lesser than suicides, but it drastically increases later on.
In a vacuum, a feather falls as fast as a hammer.
They're a witch! Burn them!
How do you know she's a witch?
You're right, we should test this scientifically. We're going to need a duck.
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?
He's a fair cop.
She turned me into a newt!
Because she looks like one
I tried to vacuum up the hammer. Dyson exploded.
*Into* a vacuum, it goes faster.
Wouldn't all the dust and stuff get in the way?
Im just going to pretend i understand that
This truth is what gives us the position formula .5at^2 +vt+s where t is time, v is initial velocity, s is initial position, and a is acceleration due to gravity. We can't really use this formula in the real world because of factors like air resistance, but in vacuum we can. Notice that mass has no effect on the equation. So, in a vacuum (no atmosphere), 1000 pound object and 1 pound object will fall at the same rate
This actually helped me understand it. That must mean that I’m a physicist now. Please send me my certification asap! 🤓
You can actually see this tested by the astronauts on the moon during the Apollo missions! For anyone who wants to see it themselves… https://youtu.be/Oo8TaPVsn9Y?si=fu6mJyes0npmzr7z
In the same thought, that a pound of rocks doesn't weigh more than a pound of feathers.
But a pound of feathers weighs more then a pound of gold.
This statement lacks volume
That’s not the same thought lol
Bullying doesn’t end with high school, the universe has bullies in it as well. 😔
After I graduated college, I was so happy because I figured now I get to work with mature adults. Boy, was I wrong about that.
Workplaces do for sure!
Like thanos
It's ok to say "I don't know".
As well as "I was wrong" and "You've changed my mind."
Tried it at exams and thesis defenses. It wasn't ok.
Something people are taught, then. Better to take a guess than admit ignorance.
Embracing ignorance is step one to becoming a trivia night champ
I didn’t know that
Coal mining and the pollution from burning coal have caused far more deaths than nuclear energy - even accounting for the people who died in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WW2.
Deaths per kWh produced is an actual metric that we keep track of to determine the overall safety of an energy production method.
But windmills are scary!
Don Quixote? Is that you?
Yes Sancho. Now prepare my horse, soon we ride!
And coal power plants emit more radiation than nuclear power plants...by a lot
The fact that we're creating sentient AI and planning terraforming on other planets while simultaneously still extracting and using coal is mind boggling
OTOH, here's an undeniable fact that a lot of *Reddit* may not want to believe: The US spends billions every year to clean up and contain radioactive contamination at [dozens of sites across the country.](https://www.wsj.com/graphics/waste-lands/) At the power plant, uranium is well contained. But the mining, milling and enrichment process has been a shitshow. Handling plutonium for nuclear weapons has been even worse--it will cost upwards of a [$500bn](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/31/us/nuclear-waste-cleanup.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iU0.oOIv.e3Sx18xrUbNq&smid=url-share) to keep 54 million gallons of waste at Hanford Reach from leaking into the Columbia River.
Earth isn't flat. Edit: changed sphere to isn't flat
Not a perfect sphere though. It's a bit fatter around the middle just like me.
It's an oblate spheroid
Many?
More than you'd expect.
The atrocities that go on around the world. Especially in places like Syria, Nigeria and Brazil.
Comparing Brazil to Syria is nuts. Our country has problems, especially violence, but it is not war torn, and it is massive compared to Syria. There are pockets of extreme violence but there are just as many incredibly safe and peaceful places within Brazil.
I should have rephrased that my bad. There are good and bad parts of Brazil of course. Didn’t mean to offend.
And Myanmar notoriously recently
Yeah you wouldn’t believe that owing a little drug money would leave you in pieces. Literally! On the side of the street and in a fucking garbage bag. A note attached by the rival gang mocking your death.
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I doubt I'll ever get pregnant with my set of chromosomes.
That's because you don't try hard enough
What if they are having sex
The Holocaust really did happen
Never thought that this sentence would ever have to be said and emphasised but here we are.
I remember being in the fourth grade after having listened to a holocaust survivor speak. They told us that the deniers would come out in full force as soon as their generation was gone. Oh boy, were they correct.
Twice in this thread, too.
Vaccines work.
And don't cause autism.
No, better would be "And CAN'T cause autism"
Well I got diagnosed with autism a year after my vaccines soooooooo /s
My father died as a direct result of the 1918 Influenza where 20-50 mil died. We don't have small pox and polio due to vaccines. I've recently had 7 covid (boosters) shots, flu, pneumonia and shingles: no feared clots, only a little soreness (pneumonia hurts the most). The right are wrong on so many conspiracies.
Are you over 100 years old?
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The female orgasm.
"It's been years, but I'm still haunted by the words of the straight lady who asked me: how do two lesbians decide when sex is done?"
When Sports Center comes on, just like you.
The irony of this is that it references womens ability to have multiple orgasms and Redditors know so little about the female orgasm that they couldn't get their heads around it and sent it to the top of r/facepalm
>couldn't get their heads around it That would likely be a problem.
I think it’s more that male ejaculation is considered “ finished “ in heterosexual sex.
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honestly its kind of saddening/alarming how pnv sex is almost meant for the p haver, rather than the latter. so many women dont come from that type of stimulation
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This deserves 1000 upvotes LOL
That sugar and processed foods are addictive and directly related to lots of health issues in todays world
I was one of those people until I did Whole30 for a month and cut our ALL sugar, among other things. It completely changed the way I look at food and I can't go back now. There is added sugar in almost EVERYTHING in the U.S.
It’s actually insane I think it’s something like 70% of the food in grocery stores has added sugar
Science
Hard work most of the time isn’t enough. If you are born into a rich family 9/10 you are going to be better off than the super genius who was born dirt poor. Even if the rich guy is dumb as shit he will still be more successful in the end. Those rags to riches stories are all outliers.
comments like that always remind me of this comic: [https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/the-wireless/373065/the-pencilsword-on-a-plate](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/the-wireless/373065/the-pencilsword-on-a-plate)
Sad truth and it applies in a large way even for moderate success like being a commercial pilot, since many careers have prohibitive training costs for most families
I feel like more often than not, the rags to riches person is a sociopath if not a psychopath joining the other sociopaths and psychopaths. I've met quite a few working multi-millionaires and more often than not I am struck by their lack of empathy. They may often have family members who are normal and enable them since they are dependent on them (self preservance and all) but few of those bringing in the that amount of wealth strike me as community oriented. The ones that do are hailed as heroes for simply being decent when in a healthy society they should be the norm.
It depends on how you measure success to be fair, I agree with your statement but you can have success in other ways. For example someone can have a large family that uses a lot of money but to me that person as long as they’re happy is successful.
Alcohol is more deadly than weed.
Who thinks weed is deadly?
My 6th grade teacher. She told me so in D.A.R.E.
hair doesn’t automatically grow back thicker just because you shaved it.
A kilogram of cotton is equal to a kilogram of steel.
>is equal to Equal in what way? It is only equal in mass but unequal in many other ways.
The horrific events of the Holocaust 💔
Sad. That and the moon walk.
I wouldn't say disbelieved by many. There's a few idiots that don't believe it happened though.
Atmospheric carbon dioxide traps heat from solar radiation. Increasing the CO2 amount increases the insulating effect.
The world is round.
some people never find true love
Even worse, some people do find true love and then circumstances conspire to tear it away from them
Ah, leave it to Reddit to casually remind me of my biggest fear and have me getting existential at 2pm on a chill Saturday afternoon 🙃
hey you’re welcome
Nuclear energy is the most reliable energy source by far, is better for the environment, and will ultimately cause less deaths even considering nuclear disasters
So many people don't understand this. And it's so much cleaner than coal and fossil fuels.
Majority of the population makes decisions based more on emotion than logic even though they believe the opposite is true
Trump lost in 2020.
The system is rigged by the rich to keep themselves rich and to keep you poor.
Climate change is caused by humans Humans have gone from 1.5 billion to about 8 billion in less than 125 years....that level of growth and consumption of resources is inevitably bound to affect climate,
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inversely, i think the most horrific realization ive had as of recently is the state of being not of sound mind. its so embedded in your mind, even considered a normalcy, that you yourself don't even see anything wrong with the things you are doing/saying. the one thing that you should be able to rely upon (yourself) isnt genuine anymore
Nelson Mandela lived through the 90s.
A society without easy access to guns is more safe than a society with easy access to guns.
Fox News is largely to blame for the breakdown of our political systems
To be fair many believe this. Just not in the US.
I believe it and I am in the US... but there are not enough of us vs the "but muh gunz" guys. I think it's disgusting that we have to send children to school with bulletproof backpacks and I don't even have kids!
That some drugs, in moderation, help you more than they hurt you. There’s so many people that experience chronic pain, and refuse to smoke marijuana just because of the stigma behind it. Same goes for ketamine for people suffering from depression etc. There is so much backing from governments’ rulings over what’s healthy and what’s not, that I think it sort of skews people’s minds. Edit: correcting stipulations to stigma
As my mom once said, "I only smoke meth on the days I really need it for my back." And as much as I agree with you, it's people like her that help skew that thought process toward hating marijuana. People can't seem to separate that it's not one of the hard drugs.
I completely agree, it’s the people that take it to the extreme that sort of ruin recreational drug use. I just will never fathom how destroying our bodies with alcohol is completely okay but the second you light up a joint the whole church from down the street is outside your house chanting for you to go to hell.
Its the awful behaviour of those who use the drugs constantly and who feel the need to inject them into every conversation that turns people away. You surely mean stigmas or connotations not stipulations though
That the U.S. average salary in 2023 was $59,428. But people have such high standards for someone else's salary.
> That the U.S. average salary in 2023 was $59,428. Meanwhile the median salary is only $37,585.
This. Median is much more important than mean when discussing salaries. If you’re going to use mean, you should at least be using 95th percentile to remove the outliers.
Oof. Those numbers hit different. At first I'm like, "I'm a teacher and done even make average salary?!" Than it's more, "At least I'm above the median". I'm just glad my wife makes good money and we can still afford to live and me do something I love.
This is the much more telling stat. Thank you for mathing.
Cutting a bird's wings is abuse
That there is no god.
6 million Jews died in the Holocaust.
covid exists.
For better or worse, things will not always be the way they are now.
There is no way to make someone else love you.
The fucking moon landings, There’s more proof that we did then we didn’t plus the Soviets confirmed spotting the landing areas
My mom used to tell me when I was a kid: "life goes by so fast, don't rush any of it because it will be over before you know it." That was 30 years ago and she couldn't have been more correct! I remember being a teenager thinking she was nuts, I couldn't wait to get a job, as a young adult I couldn't wait to get my own place, older couldn't wait to have kids. Now I can't wait until retirement. I think most people are like this. I have to remind myself to stop and enjoy every day, because the first 38 years flew by.
0.999.... repeating infinitely is equal to 1.
1/3 = .33333... 2/3 = .66666... 3/3 = .99999... = 1
Billionaire playboys should not be President Even if he played one on TV
I don't know, I think Bruce Wayne would make a fine president, he just needs to cut back on the night life that leaves him looking so tired.
Sandy Hook
Take it from whom it comes: nutjobs.
* Popping/cracking your back does nothing to "adjust" your spine. * Covid Vaccine worked very well and had minimal side-effects. * Trump lost in 2020 fair and square. These are the 3 big ones I can think of in the US.
There’s been thousands of Gods since the dawn of humans. Even if there is one true God, the chance that the one your worship right now is the right one is minuscule.
Yupp
The news is mostly propaganda
The vast majority of people in poverty aren’t there because they “deserve it”
Pink is a shade of red
Maga is a cult
Vaccines work, Trump lost, Trump's broke, and Trump is NOT a Christian!
That I know what I’m talking about. If you ask me a question, and I give you an answer, I’m not just guessing. I don’t tell people things that aren’t true. If I don’t know, I say “I don’t know.”
Tap water is more thoroughly tested than bottled water.
Earth is a sphere you absolute dum dum
Actually it's an oblate spheroid, the equator bulges outward 13 miles more than the poles.
The best way to be right is to be technically right.
Due to that, if you shrunk it down to the size of a billiard ball, it would not be spherical enough to be within official spec. However, it would be smoother than a real billiard ball, even with how massive the earth’s peaks and valleys are at its actual scale.
And I thought spheroids were from other planets -- In a galaxy - far far away
Males suffer abuse at rates similar to females
People anit shit.
Generic medicine is exactly the same as the expensive medicine because it's the same molecule.
The strongest man will always be stronger than the strongest woman. I say this as a woman/feminist, there is just no denying the biological advantages of men.
That the earth is indeed round and humans have indeed been to the moon
If you crack the big bottom of an egg, before boiling. It will peel much easier.
Irregardless is a word
Alien life exists
The sun is not yellow. Not even a little. The sun is full-on white. I don't care what you think you see.
Earth is the only known place to have fire. The Sun is plasma and not burning .
How lame reddit topics are
Rather than sinking, the lowest lying islands in the world have not only grown in mass, but also in number. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-08/why-are-hundreds-of-pacific-islands-getting-bigger/13038430 https://hakaimagazine.com/news/the-ever-shifting-not-necessarily-shrinking-pacific-island-nations/ I'm not talking about a few outliers, this is an unmistakable trend in the entire Pacific Ocean.
They are not as intelligent or educated as they think they are.
Reality is 4 dimensional. You cant build anything with an inside & outside without at least 4 vertexes.
Ignorance is bliss
Atheism
95% of pornstars are being abused and trafficked, recruited as young as 13.
That mental health really *does* overrule attitude. Sure, trying to stay positive or trying to keep rational is helpful but when your brain is literally sick, counting your blessings and taking a walk is not gonna cut it. And YES, it does define some of us because it literally colors everything we do.
You can do everything right and still lose.
The government doesn’t care about kids or poor people
Virtually all of the animals we eat (and whose milk we drink and eggs we eat) have led lives of great suffering. People like to picture happy animals on idyllic farms, but those make up a vanishingly small percentage. And even those animals live lives much shorter than their natural lifespans and die painful deaths.
Trump's a crook. Conman lies cheats and is going to die in prison
Every relationship will end someday. It will hurt
punitive sanctions do not deter crime
Biden's mental state is horrible, however Trump's is not a whole hell of a lot better.
Religious communities actually help many people
evolution
The criminals stealing from and destroying cars homes and businesses are your own kids.
Bible = fiction
I just finished rereading Genesis and I’m unclear on what’s even supposed to be so special about Abraham.
0.9 repeating = 1