gramie
@gramie@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? 1 week ago:
Corned beef seems to have originated in Ireland and Scotland, but was commonly used throughout the British Empire for the past 400 years. I assume the cooking and salting process makes it last much longer without going bad, which would make sense for long voyages.
- Comment on Anon fucks up 1 week ago:
There are so many flavors of protestantism, it’s hard to give a blanket answer.
For example, high Anglican practice and theology are almost indistinguishable from Catholic, except that the head of their Church is an archbishop (and above him theoretically the King of England) rather than a pope, and their priests can get married. That makes some historical sense, because the church was created simply because Henry the 8th wanted to divorce and the Pope wouldn’t allow it.
Most mainline Protestant churches believe that it is the individual’s right and responsibility to read and interpret scripture for themselves.
- Comment on Anon fucks up 1 week ago:
I don’t think your quote at all addresses the concept of whether Catholics doctrine declares the Bible to be literally true. Inerrant, yes.
I think there is confusion because the church believes that some passages should be taken literally and other symbolically, and the church will tell you which is which.
- Comment on Anon fucks up 1 week ago:
Almost exactly 50% of Christians in the world are Catholics, who acknowledge that the Bible is allegorical and not literal truth.
If you are referring to fundamentalists (typically evangelicals), yes most of them do believe in the literal truth. Evangelicals in the US are about 24% of the population, and most likely Less in the rest of the world.
- Comment on Why isn't jerking off more valorized as an easy dopamine hit that's also literally good for you? 2 weeks ago:
They also practiced polygamy, so that rich and influential men would have multiple wives and poor men would have none. Imagine the rage when you were a Shepherd tending someone else’s flocks, knowing that you will never have a wife or family.
It makes sense to have occasional wars with neighboring tribes so that excess males can be removed from the system.
- Comment on What do I need to trouble shoot second hand desktop computer? And how? 5 weeks ago:
POST means Power On Self-Test. All motherboards will run some diagnostics and detect basic problems (e.g. missing RAM, no boot media).
If the motherboard beeps, you can look up the motherboard and see what the number of beeps means.
- Comment on Calculus made easy 1 month ago:
- Comment on Calculus made easy 1 month ago:
This exact explanation is in the book: calculusmadeeasy.org/4.html
- Comment on Calculus made easy 1 month ago:
I also studied chemical engineering, and throughout high school and university that was exactly it. Calculus was a kind of magic, and you just had to learn all the spells.
With this book I finally understood why the derivative of x^2 is 2x.
- Comment on Calculus made easy 1 month ago:
The online version can be found at calculusmadeeasy.org
35 years after graduating from engineering school, this book helped me finally understand why calculus works, instead of just learning how to mechanically apply it.
- Comment on When did breasts become a thing that needed to be concealed in public and why? 2 months ago:
But this ignores all the cultures where women’s breasts are not considered sexually. I lived in Africa, and it was actually a big adjustment for me, even though the local people’s attitudes were changing due to Western media. 25 years of Canadian upbringing made it hard not to look when women or teenage girls took off their shirts. But that was my problem, not theirs.
And not just Africa. In rural Japan japan, before WWII, women were often topless.
- Comment on Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button? 5 months ago:
page load
It would be fine if they only loaded a partial page so that it will render in my browser quicker.
However, what usually happens is that the entire page loads, then an overlay pops up to get me to register or pay, or whatever.
Being a web developer, it’s not hard for me to inspect the page and remove the overlay so I can read everything, but it is an annoyance.
- Comment on Hot Cheetos don't taste the same 5 months ago:
The Pakistani chef at a restaurant I went to ask us if we wanted it “white people hot” or “brown people hot”.
- Comment on The lamest countries 5 months ago:
Do you have something to back this up? That wasn’t the feeling I had during the seven years I lived in Japan. There was something of a victim mentality, but it wasn’t as militant as you are making out.
- Comment on Headphones are a crutch 6 months ago:
My son, who is an aspiring composer, can do this. It blows my mind, and makes me think of the scene in Amadeus where Salieri is reading the score and hearing it play in his head.
- Comment on Is a Lemsip Max just a paracetamol? 8 months ago:
Except that phenylephrine has been shown by multiple studies not to have any effect. It’s only there as a replacement for pseudoephedrine, which does work, but can be used to make meth.
- Comment on Something we can all agree on! 8 months ago:
If only we could all agree on how to spell “Australians”!
- Comment on The games industry sucks 8 months ago:
The solution is not for you to show contempt or lack of empathy to these people, it’s for them and you to demand better treatment from the owners and executives.
The system is fucked and it is skewed wildly against anyone who is not at the top.
- Comment on AITA for telling the family about my brother's lewd comment, which led to him being shunned? 10 months ago:
It seems like his actions caused the problem, not yours. People would prefer to just let uncomfortable things die and forget about them, but usually only when it doesn’t affect them directly.