Oh… so what you’re saying is that it isn’t quite as simple as the picture makes it out to be…?

My line of thought for this is that stressing about whether you’ll have enough money to cover rent won’t make it any easier to cover rent. Happiness is more about mindset than circumstances

No… but if you don’t worry about it at all, you won’t pay it. You need to be able to pay it. Which means having to get money. Which means having to do things. Which means having to plan. Which means thinking about the future.

I do not see how your millionaires explanation is in any way relevant, as they are still won’t be living from paycheck to paycheck.

Oh yeah I do, like a silicon scraper. But one of those wouldn’t fit into one of those tiny shop mayo squeezer bottles.

The openings on these generic mayo bottles is like 3cm, whereas on the squeezer mayo bottle, it’s like less than one.

But aye, the silicon scrapers “mini-spatulas” are great at scraping anything. Saves me like 5% of loss on with my blender, lol. Also really goot when you’re prepping things for freezing.

Everything’s a dildo if you’re brave enough.

Eugh.

If you have enough money to not worry about your next month’s rent, it’s rather easier to “live in the present”.

This feels like a live laugh love vibe, no offense. I’m not just at a place to accept this… uh, “wisdom.”

This bottle design is an utter bastard. You simply can’t get the last bits out of there no matter how much you wait or bang or make it cough and splutter to your food.

I’m sure someone has actually designed it that way as opposed to designing it in a way that would be best for the consumer.

Most people would still say they’re going to a grocery store, they wouldn’t specify “hypermarket”.

It’s mostly to due with sizes. There’s three levels, and the leading chains in Finland both (or “all” before one got bought up by the second biggest and now there’s generally only two) have a small store, which have their own names, Sale/Alepa and K-market, then there’s the larger ones, S-Market and K-Supermarket (formerly KKK-supermarket, really), and then the largest ones, Prisma and K-Citymarket.

It used to be only the small grocery stores had the longest opening hours, but some years ago they released those regulations and now even the hypermarkets are 247. But the small and medium sized usually don’t. Some small ones are in larger cities, I think.

But yeah it’s generally just about the size, and “just” supermarkets not having department store shit as much. Like the supermarket K-Supermarket 1.2km away from me has their own fish& meat counter for instance.

The grocery store near me has a pharmacy, but the hypermarket has a pharmacy, a few restaurants, large deli and meat counters, and of course an a liquor store as in a government store that sells specifically alcohol. They’re allowed to sell any alcohol, whereas grocery stores are just allowed to sell drinks up to 8%, and that’s up from like 4.9% for the most of my life. Some years ago they changed it so grocery stores can sell up to 5.9, then when that didn’t break society, it took like 2 years for the limit to change to 8%. And I’m pretty sure someone’s gonna push for it to go to like 14 so we got proper wines in grocery stores.

The 8% crap is just awful wine. But drinkable if you carbonate it a tad. Sounds weird perhaps but I enjoy it.

Anyway the department store part of the hypermarkets is often kinda meh. Like if you want electronics or something, you’ll usually go to a store that specialises in them. Like a large electronic store for clothing store or whatever. But you can sometimes get decent deals or some store brand clothes for a nice price. But like in general electronics, hardware, general hardware. There’s kind of a lot of places with a lot of stores like that.

Like 2km from me by bike is an IKEA and then lots of similarly sized stores selling hardware / electronics / and always a few competing ones. Like there’s several furniture stores within literally a stones throw from the ikea parking lot. (You’d have to be pretty good at throwing, but I maintain the assertion. Like frisbee golf throwing distance, definitely.)

Same with electronics stores. Like three huge stores in the same area, all within like 2-3min drives from each other. Some almost next door to each other.

Also hardware stores.

And sports stores.

Tons of others.

There’s even I think like a horse-supply store, but that’s a bit to the side. Not as mainstream.

Well no, not just produce. You’ll find a section for general shit even in the smaller stores. Like tape, glue, underwear (at least for women, usually really thin cotton ones and I’m furious they don’t sell the same for men, but I’ve still used them very comfortable). You can find basic household items like cleaning stuff and diapers and everything you need. but like the selection of tapes or glues won’t be anything akin to a proper department store or a hardware store.

You can definitely find dog food and laundry detergent in all stores. And I mean it, I’ve worked in a bunch basically Kwik-E-Mart style shops and they all had those as well

But hypermarkets will be like almost on the level of specialised hardware stores in their selection of actually usable things. And they’ll have bikes and whatnot.

Basically the sizes go with the square footage of the market in Finland at least, I don’t think it’s to due with what is being sold. And at one point only smaller stores were permitted 247 opening hours or sunday opening hours, whereas larger stores would only be open from 7-21 or something. Nowdays they’re actually open 247 as well.

But they can only sell alcohol from 09 to 21

Well a hypermarket is to a supermarket what a supermarket is to a small grocery store.

So just a very large supermarket that families would usually use for “the big shop”. I assume the equivalent is one of those markets you need a card to enter in the US, idk.

Except you don’t need a membership (but usually there’s good benefits if you have one) and you it’s not all family size products.

Oh my bad, actually the definition is just supermarket+department store, basically.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermarket

I think that’s more “adult diaper-man”

500m to a small one, 1.2 to a fairly sized supermarket, some 3 km to a hypermarket.

Walking to the hypermarket and back is something I used to do quite frequently with a friend or another, but it is a slight chore, and I wouldn’t enjoy going in -25C.

Usually if I have to walk I’ll go to the supermarket, 1.2km is a very reasonable distance to walk.

Or 500m for some quick stuffs like a few beers or tobacco from the closest small store

You misspelled “efficient”

No, I never said I was in a debate. Did I?

argumentum

You use words you don’t understand? (That’s a rhetorical question, I can see you do.)

“Dogma”, “sacrament”? It’s all Greek to me…

Name one “Christian value” which you can and should take from Christianity. And that is specific to it. Not like “Christianity teaches us that you shouldn’t kill everyone you see on sight” like the golden rule I mentioned earlier.

No.

A Christian value.

Go ahead.

I’ll wait.

No, you just keep defending this bullshit and then you wonder why we have to go through wars and shit.

Stand up and call monotheism the cancer it is. There’s nothing inherently good in it. Nothing. But there is a lot of inherently bad things, like dogma, and straight up anti-LGBT values.

Alright, sure, "the topic of this thread, which you’re defending, is", does that make you feel better, and can you now you start answering, or is just that you’re arguing in such bad faith you have zero intention of answering ANYTHING?

“Soapbox”.

Again, I’m not an atheist, buddy. I’ve simply asked very simple questions, like “please elaborate on what you think ‘Christian values’ means” which you keep avoiding, because you can’t define it. Because it’s all hypocrisy and not a genuinely held belief. Which just proves what utter bullshit it is.

Monotheism is cancer, yet you keep defending it.

edit oh and why would I give two fucks about who you block?

Deflecting again? Wow. So surprised. You can’t answer anything or define anything.

Yet you imagine you’re in a “debate”? Thanks for the laughs.

What I’ve been telling you is that you’re wrong.

Name one “Christian value” which you can and should take from Christianity. And that is specific to it. Not like “Christianity teaches us that you shouldn’t kill everyone you see on sight” like the golden rule I mentioned earlier.

No.

A Christian value.

Go ahead.

I’ll wait.

No, you just keep defending this bullshit and then you wonder why we have to go through wars and shit.

Stand up and call monotheism the cancer it is. There’s nothing inherently good in it. Nothing. But there is a lot of inherently bad things, like dogma, and straight up anti-LGBT values.

a failure of power, it’s a failure of language.

And what is scripture made out of again? God … or language?

You’re really gonna make me go through all the tedious examples of how illogical monotheism is? No thanks.

Yes I have read the Bible

The whole Bible, not just bits which you found through googling it? The actual, whole book, from cover to cover?

I was Baptised in my early 20s

You read the whole Bible before deciding everything in it is true and thats definitely possible, despite there being sentences like “God can create triangles with angles of ≠ 3?”

Alright, well, you do you m8.

Rapes happen in hospitals and schools - does that mean proponents of healthcare and education are defending

If you show me a healthcare system that has as much systemic rape in it that Catholicism does, I’ll show you a healthcare system which I criticise and advocate to reform.

If you had a criminal court case, and you only had one witness, it would be less reliable than one with two witnesses.

I’m sorry but I’m not smoking crack and can’t keep up with you.

If you had one witness with red paint on their face, saying “a guy threw red paint on my face”, and then you went on to lool for the guy mentioned, and found him, with an empty bucket of red paint and red paint all over his hands, it would be more believable than having a two guys — one with blue paint on him and one with yellow paint on him — saying “a guy threw red paint on us”, especially when you then don’t find any red paint anywhere, and even the local stores say they don’t even recall ever seeing any.

I don’t care for your personal history, it had absolutely nothing to do with Christianity, which is the topic of the thread.

Monotheism is bad and religious people, monotheists especially, are usually dragged into progressive values despite their resistance to them.

It’s beyond insane how much of the world you’re having to ignore just to keep identifying as a Christian despite not believing in single tenet of the religion.

So I remind you of the argument I said before; it genuinely wouldn’t make any rhetorical difference what religion you changed into this conversation for Christianity. You ask whether Christianity is compatible with being trans, but then you refuse to say what notion of being Christian is.

So I’m to just take it that you just like to think your Christian, despite deriving all your personal moral from the world, like people do?

You can’t name what these “Christian values” are that you’re asking about. Yet you insist that you have them.

Wtf?

I need to verify them actually being contradictions to answer your comment

That would require actually reading the Bible. Have you? I have. As I told the other person, I’ve had a Christian confirmation when I was 15.

don’t see how other self professed monotheists raping little boys disproves monotheism

Disproves? As in, we’re going to argue whether a single God actually exists? Don’t be childish.

My proof is that the the Bible isn’t the word of God is the Bible itself.

Eventually God can’t make a triangle which doesn’t have three angles. Because then it wouldn’t be a triangle, see? You can go ahead and start looking into those contradictions, although I assume that if you actually do, that will be the most Bible you’ve ever actually read.

would love nothing more than to see these people drowned with a millstone… Although that’s probably too kind to them.

Yet you defend the system which makes it possible in the first place, became the act of rape is so disconnected from you supporting Christianity that you think it’s morally alright to still “believe” despite the massive and SYSTEMIC raping of children the Catholic Church did.

It doesn’t matter what hour Jesus died in. It matters that there’s contravening accounts. If there’s a contradiction, both obviously can not be correct and thus the Bible can not be the infallible word of God, despite claiming so.

Sent “you”?

No, I posted one, and no I’m not saying that’s the reason.

You’re saying that the Bible being literally filled with contradictions doesn’t matter, and you base that on there being too many contradictions to answer in a Lemmy comment.

If you were arguing in good faith, you could arbitrarily pick some and show why they’re not actually contradictions. But you can’t. You can’t do it to a single one, let alone all of them.

And despite that, despite whatever, there is NOTHING that you would accept as proof of Christianity and monotheism being bad.

Literally nothing.

It doesn’t matter that historically monotheism is obviously violent and crazy, it doesn’t matter that the Catholic Church has been systematically raping little boys for God knows how long, NONE OF IT MATTERS TO YOU.

You’re literally arguing in bad faith. Yet you pretend as if naming a fallacy makes you right. Then you get even more ashamed when I point out how nerdy and wrong it is to larp a philosopher by answering with a pretentious latin form of a fallacy. I point it out with a pretentious Latin form for the fallacy you used. Then you still refuse to actually produce any rhetoric.

Like I said, there is NOTHING that would change your mind in this. The ultimate bad faith.