gramie
@gramie@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Romance scammers are now in the fediverse 9 hours ago:
Also, the term “pre-health science”, that “she” used has never been used in Canada as far as I know. We don’t even say pre-med. Either you are in med school, or you are trying to get in, taking a variety of courses. There is no defined set of courses that we call pre-med.
Other differences between us and the US regarding post-secondary education:
Canadian universities are also almost completely free of fraternities and sororities.
We have sports scholarships, but they are nowhere near as lavish as in the US. Sports in general is a minor sideline for Canadian universities.
And to us, college always means community college. University is university (and never “uni” as some benighted countries call it).
- Comment on in 1994 Takeshi Kitano's Minnā yatteru ka! (Is everyone doing it?) we see a car dealer hitting a child's head with his parents present, but the parents don't react. Why is this funny in Japan? 2 weeks ago:
Hitting inferiors in the head (especially for doing something foolish) is certainly a common trope in Japanese comedy.
It’s been a couple of decades since I lived in Japan, but I don’t know if they have experienced the same campaign against childhood violence that we have in North America. A few years ago, corporal punishment was made explicitly illegal both at schools and in the home. I’m not sure how much it has changed.
- Comment on If you save, we will charge you more 3 weeks ago:
They are outrageously expensive compared to my hydro Quebec rate of USD $0.05/kWh, or even my previous rate in Ontario of (varying by the the time of day) USD $0.06-0.12/kWh.
96% of Quebec electricity is generated by hydro power, which of course doesn’t require any fuel. The other thing, though, is that power generation and transmission is done through a public corporation, not a private one. The profits go into general government revenue.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like the position of Mistress is now open.
- Comment on Anon is a winner 3 weeks ago:
I thought that it used up all its good insights covering the first couple of books, and then limped to the ending.
- Comment on Anon is a winner 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like someone needs to read “Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality”.
- Comment on I got into the wrong career lol 4 weeks ago:
That is one of the funniest things I have seen in a very long time!
- Comment on I'm seriously proud of this 4 weeks ago:
Starbucks may deserve all the stick that they get for their labor practices, but here in Canada on holidays they pay double time and a half (or about CAD $50/hour).
- Comment on Not enough people buying Premium, eh? 5 weeks ago:
I just lost my premium subscription after about 2 years of paying $3/month in Argentina. Here it’s $24/month (family plan). YouTube is unbearable with all the ads. Sometimes a 10-minute video has 3 as breaks. I’m only using it for precise purposes now, not scrolling and exploring, and finding alternatives as much as possible.
- Comment on Paramount will be releasing "GLADIATOR II" on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on March 4. 5 weeks ago:
Hailed by reviews from Fox TV Houston morning news and a station in The CW network, what could be more reliable than that?
I guess they didn’t want to influence people unduly by quoting respected reviewers and journalists.
- Comment on The Automated Bot of Experian support phone line, refuses to let me to a real person... 🤬 1 month ago:
I tried that recently on a call to, I believe, the bank. It ended up just disconnecting the call. Clearly they know about this trick.
- Comment on I have been told ever since I was a little shit that when you die you go to heaven first wait in line for St Peter to judge you at the pearly gates? Is this in the Bible? I thought god did judging 2 months ago:
There was a time, not that long ago, when cremation was not an option for Catholics. At some point, the church changed its mind. Maybe in the seventies or eighties?
- Comment on US Elections question: Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats abandoned the working class, and the working class abandoned them. How is this true? 2 months ago:
I can understand being frustrated and angry with the Democrats for essentially being a status quo party that favors their corporate benefactors.
What boggles my mind is thinking that voting Republican would make any of that better, when in fact it seems pretty clear that it is going to make everything much, much worse.
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 2 months ago:
The problem is that nowhere is safe now. I’m Canadian, and I wish I had somewhere to go. And just imagine how the poor sods in Palestine, Ukraine, and so many other suffering countries, are feeling right now.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Vladimir Putin’s armies weren’t occupying large swaths of Eastern Europe by the end of this term.
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 2 months ago:
But given infinite time, could OP spell “infinity” correctly?
- Comment on Straightforward. 4 months ago:
The “Mission” paragraph above the highlighted text is even more ludicrous!
- Comment on [Discussion] Of all the films you’ve gone into blind, which one truly stands out as your favorite find? 5 months ago:
I went to a double feature because I wanted to see The Tin Drum. First I had to sit through another movie I had never heard of that sounded really corny: Runaway Train.
Starring John Voight and Eric Roberts, and with a screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, it was extraordinary. Certainly not just a cheap action flick.
- Comment on I'm the developer of WalkScape, the RuneScape inspired fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL. We're now accepting more people to the Closed Beta! 5 months ago:
I’ve been using this for about 3 months. I would estimate that my dog walks are now about twice as long as they used to be. I don’t really enjoy walking, but this gives me just enough incentive to do it everyday and, if I feel like taking a shortcut, taking the long way instead.
- Comment on WordStar 7, the last ever DOS version, is re-released for free 5 months ago:
There is a modernized version called WordTsar (I love that name!). Still in alpha, but looking good. I think I can read all the old versions of Wordstar files.
It would be nice to have more people testing it and sending in bug reports, I’m sure.
- Comment on Anon visits Canada 5 months ago:
I could actually see the point in learning both, because there is a very good chance that engineers are going to be facing both systems in their professional lives.
- Comment on Anon visits Canada 5 months ago:
I went to university in Canada for engineering in the early 1980s. We had to learn both Imperial and metric, because almost all the textbooks and equipment came from the US. We would usually convert into metric to do all calculations and then convert back at the end because to do otherwise is insanity.
I would guess that the same is still true today, because the equipment and textbooks still come from the US.
- Comment on Secondary Succession 6 months ago:
Then the way you have seen it spelled with an accent is wrong. It comes from French, and in French there is no accent there.
- Comment on The FCC wants to force carriers to unlock phones within 60 days 6 months ago:
A couple of years ago, Canada required all carriers to cell unlocked phones, or allow them to be unlocked for free. Nothing bad has happened because of that. Our cell phone plans are still too expensive, and the companies are wildly profitable.
- Comment on 'Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga' Rides to VOD Victory After Stalling at Box Office 6 months ago:
Did you see the version of Mad Max where they dubbed the Australian voices into American ones, because they felt Americans wouldn’t understand the Aussie accent? That made the movie 100x worse.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution? 6 months ago:
Are you saying “Whatabout…”?
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution? 6 months ago:
instead of death
Unless you count birds that abandon their nests, and other animals that flee their homes. Or the heavy metals and other chemicals that are added to the environment. Or the significant increases in particulate matter in the air.
- Comment on Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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.