Hapankaali
@Hapankaali@lemmy.world
- Comment on Just a few 7 hours ago:
It isn’t accurate anyway, the Bible certainly supports living together with people while not married in certain situations, for example with (sex) slaves.
- Comment on halal paintball 2 days ago:
No, that’s just an ad-hoc rationalization. Before refrigeration, people didn’t just leave fresh meat lying around. Either it was consumed immediately after cooking it, or it was smoked, cured or dried right away after butchering (people used much more salt than they do nowadays for e.g. modern hams to make sure the meat lasted a long time). The climate doesn’t really matter - in temperate climates fresh meat goes bad rapidly as well.
- Comment on halal paintball 2 days ago:
The origin of Abrahamic dietary laws is not certain. There is no obvious benefit in terms of hygiene, also not in ancient times (they long predate “medieval” times). Keep in mind that poultry carries a significant risk of salmonella poisoning.
It has been suggested that the origin might have simply been that pigs are viewed as unclean due to their own diet including carrion. Another speculated reason is that rulers might have wanted to promote poultry due to it being a more economical way of raising livestock.
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 1 week ago:
Drug use, and especially problematic drug use, has low price elasticity and the US is a relatively high-income country. The cost of living is almost certainly a negligible factor in the decline of alcohol consumption.
Although most of the gains have gone to top earners, US real median household income has trended slightly upwards over time and is not “way [down].”
Moreover, high-income European countries where even fewer people are budget-constrained when it comes to drug use have also seen dramatic declines in alcohol consumption.
- Comment on Ubisoft Randomly Gives Far Cry 3 A 60FPS Current-Gen Upgrade 2 weeks ago:
The definition of insanity: continuing to run your game company horribly and expecting different results.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 4 weeks ago:
English is one of the easiest languages in the world to learn.
- Comment on Do you have to deal with this during your morning commute? 4 weeks ago:
I have never commuted by car, but I plan to get a car when I retire so I can drive around in the mornings.