Society was okay with slavery at the time.

Yes and the bible reflects that.

the mention of the Law of Moses being written due to the hardness of hearts is enough

Enough for what? Enough for it to take 1500 years for Christians to realize that beating people to death for insolence is wrong

It was the Christians who abolished slavery and started questioning it

Sure, but didn’t the advocates of perpetuating slavery use the bible to justify themselves, because the bible doesn’t take a clear position against slavery?

It’s interesting that you point to the reformation as key because Las Casas (responsible for the first law banning enslavement in colonies) was reading the Book of Sirach when he realised slavery was wrong. I mention it because it is excluded from the protestant canon.

You seem to be in denial about how okay with slavery Christianity was. Do you prefer the work of impartial scholars to that from people that think it’s important to protect the reputation of Christianity?

Jesus said divorce was bad, did he say slavery was bad? You seem to be in denial of how okay with slavery Christianity was. Christianity changed between the composition of the bible and today.

Even throughout different time periods of the Bible’s writing, slaves ranged from bondservants to ones sold through debt.

…and chattel slaves like in Exodus 21:20-21

Kinda mad that if you click on his links, he’s citing a very specific translation of the Bible, flip through them and it’s clearly talking about servants as a blessing.

Can you elaborate? He links to the NRSVUE which is the translation academics use because it focuses on eliminating modern biases.

I think the fact that other versions use “servants” is a reflection of the fact that Christians are embarrassed that the bible endorses slavery, and will tie themselves in pretzels to minimize this fact.

Is he trying to convince Christians that slave owning is okay or something

No, I think he is just being honest about what the bible is saying. Christians should know that the interpretive lens they use has a big impact on what they’ll see the bible advocating.

Worse, they think all trade is capitalist

That thing is dope

It doesn’t look very pure

Yeah I understood the quotation marks to indicate Anand was making an understatement.

I like their idea of CPU + MCU

Thanks, I can’t read the notes but the graph is pretty good.

Edit: … Coefficient of drag seems same in laminar regime, the surface treatment seems to only improve efficiency or make no change

Furthermore, the DMR-applied surface consistently showed a drag coefficient lower than that of the smooth surface up to the highest measured Reynolds number (3.6 x 10⁶)

This is the most surprising finding to me. The treated surfaces even exhibited lower drag in the turbulent flow regime.

Wait, is it also lower in the laminar region? Or is it higher in the laminar region, but laminar region lasts longer so overall improvement? Man a graph would be nice…

From the article:

This principle is fundamentally different from the effect of dimples on golf balls. Dimples reduce pressure resistance by intentionally turbulizing the airflow and suppressing backward separation. DMR, on the other hand, delays the transition [to turbulent boundary layer flow], thereby suppressing not pressure resistance but the wall friction itself. They are opposite mechanisms.

It definitely has the bias of someone that has been impacted by racialization.

When IS it acceptable to talk about racism in Canada? I don’t agree with everything he says in the video, and there are some places where he ought to add some more context. But overall it seems like a pretty thorough and generally fair assessment.

IMO If you think racism isn’t a problem in Canada, you’re wrong. If you think it’ll go away by itself if we ignore it, you’re wrong. It’s too easy for people to pretend that Canada doesn’t have a significant problem with racism, but we punch way above our weight class in that category. Lauren Southern, Gavin McInnes, Stefan Molyneux, are some examples that come to mind.

No such thing as unskilled labour

This sounds a lot like what I said would be interesting a few weeks ago. EU membership doesn’t make sense for Canada, we’re too big, too different, and too far. But we do have similar values, so some sort of half in half out scenario could be attractive.

For anyone that doesn’t recognise the irony in this post: China had a very rough first half to the century. It was really bad. Communism wasn’t totally irrelevant prior to 1949, but to pretend that communism was the cause of the strife between 1912-1949 is a lie. And also the Qing dynasty didn’t collapse because of communism either.

I remember laughing hysterically at his bit about Humpty Dumpty being reassembled by horses, “…if you were to design the perfect egg smashing device…”

I also found his portrayal of the titular Derek to actually be quite touching. I enjoyed the show.

Hey I’m Canadian and am proud to say that my Nth great grandfather Godfrey served in an artillery division to defend Canada from US aggression in south western Ontario.

When you say that the Royal Navy had every connection to Canada, what do you mean? Are you arguing that the ships were primarily crewed by people that were already living in Canada when they joined the navy?

Canadian participation in the war of 1812 was mostly service in defensive militias. The burning of the Whitehouse was by the royal navy and I don’t think they had much connection to Canada