FlyingSquid
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world
- Comment on How is my bedroom being heated? 1 day ago:
Interesting! I had no idea. Thanks!
- Comment on How is my bedroom being heated? 1 day ago:
The ceilings here are super high. I wouldn’t be able to reach it. Would a heated ceiling be all that efficient?
- Comment on How is my bedroom being heated? 1 day ago:
Apartment. First floor (second floor for Americans). Heat does rise, so maybe that’s it?
- Comment on How is my bedroom being heated? 1 day ago:
So it’s just really good insulation?
- Comment on How is my bedroom being heated? 1 day ago:
Would the walls and floor still be cold if they were doing that? I honestly have no idea how that would work.
- Comment on How is my bedroom being heated? 1 day ago:
I am not on the ground floor, and I thought maybe it would be some under-floor heating thing like you are saying, but I have walked all over the room in bare feet and felt no heat in the floor.
- Comment on How is my bedroom being heated? 1 day ago:
I’m not sure how else it stays that warm when it is below freezing outside.
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- Comment on I miss myspace 2 days ago:
Tom said he was my friend, but did he offer to help when I was moving to a new apartment?
- Comment on Kevin sounds nice! 3 days ago:
“You either fight the Kevin or you become the Kevin.”
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 3 days ago:
That’s my situation too. Got the Kobo Clara Color as a Christmas present for myself (the color was like $10 more, so what the hell) after resisting eBooks for years, and I really love it.
They take almost any ebook type, but they do have their own proprietary format, KEPUB. That’s what their own store uses. Thankfully, Calibre can convert to and from it. Due to Kobo being able to more easily handle zooming in to images and things like that with KEPUB, it’s sometimes worth converting.
- Comment on Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away? 3 days ago:
Not for many thousands of years afterward.
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 3 days ago:
You’re not learning anything if Copilot is doing it for you. That’s the point.
- Comment on Kevin sounds nice! 3 days ago:
Like pretty much every scene he’s in when he’s in the Spy Kids movies.
People who grew up with those movies must be in for a real shock if they ever end up watching Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
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- Comment on Nomenclature 3 days ago:
Nepsome
- Comment on Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away? 3 days ago:
No, he always flew away.
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- Comment on Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away? 3 days ago:
Are you saying his theme song is a lie? Because it says he’s going to take pollution down to zero!
- Submitted 3 days ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 28 comments
- Comment on P.R.I.D.E 3 days ago:
God damn, was this high school in Canada? What is coming out of them, maple syrup?
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 3 days ago:
Hey, I called it.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 4 days ago:
Oh, well if there’s a rumor…
Also, “Hamashiach” means the exact same thing that “Christ” means- “messiah.” It wasn’t his name. His name would have been his name and then the name of his father, like any Jew. And since people didn’t generally agree with him on who he claimed his father was, he would have been Yeshua bin Yosef.
Incidentally, if you are going to go with Hamashiach as his title, it means “anointed one” (as does messiah). You know who else has been anointed by holy oil? Donald Hamashiach Trump.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 4 days ago:
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 4 days ago:
That’s a ridiculous claim.
Here’s a picture of Jesus’ baptism from Normandy, painted in 1185.
Plenty of others here: smarthistory.org/standard-scenes-from-the-life-of…
Europeans tended to paint Jesus as white because they didn’t understand there were no photos or movies or TV around, so someone in Norman France didn’t know there was an alternative possibility.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 4 days ago:
People also think that Jesus was all love and light and goodness because they ignore or don’t know about the other parts about Jesus.
Like when he says, just two verses after the famous John 3:16 verse, that you worship him or go to hell:
18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son
Then there’s him being super racist:
21 Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22 A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.”
23 Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.”
24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”
25 The woman came and knelt before him. “Lord, help me!” she said.
26 He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”
Mark 15:21-28
Or when he says in Matthew 19 that you can only divorce a woman (and, of course, a woman can’t divorce a man) if she’s cheating on you, essentially condoning domestic violence:
8 Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. 9 I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”
There’s more where that came from.
I’m sure some Christian would be happy to come in here and hand wave it all away with being out of context or misinterpreted or whatever. And yet quoting the Bible out of context happens every time they go to their church and they have no issues.
People most often praise Jesus for the Golden Rule. He didn’t invent it.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 4 days ago:
Please inform these countries that they do not exist.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 4 days ago:
Enjoy your privilege.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 5 days ago:
You neither agreed with what I said nor disagreed with what I said. You did not address what I said at all. I will give you one last chance, but I doubt you will bother:
“Mount McKinley” is “just a name” for what is supposed to be called Denali. Ask an indigenous person if they think changing the name of a sacred mountain to the name of a man responsible for one of them many genocides of their people is “just a name.”
Then ask virtually any black person if they don’t care about Trump and Republicans restoring Confederate generals’ names to military bases. Find out if they think it’s “just a name.”
So, since you’ve claimed you addressed it and all you keep saying is, “it’s just a name,” is your contention that Mount McKinley and Fort Bragg are just names and those people of color shouldn’t get so uppity about them?
- Comment on What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM? 5 days ago:
Same thing you can do with half a hole. Fix it to keep your mind from wandering.
