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  • Not youtube, but check your local library for productions by The Great Courses/The Teaching Company.

    They produce videos of actual college courses by professors from schools like Columbia, Harvard, etc.

    There used to be one on multiple religions, it was very long (probably 40+ 30 min videos). They’ve since split it into separate courses on each religion.

    It’s really amazing, the professors are completely neutral (or perhaps sympathetic/understanding as to the circumstances that birthed each religion). They all approach it from an historical context to develop an understanding of each religion.

    TGC also has a couple courses on Pagan beliefs, Nordic religions (for lack of a better word), etc.

    I’ve collected about ten of the courses and ripped them to Mp4 and Mp3 so I can watch or listen as I want.

    Not sure why so many people decided to downvote your question - it’s good to want to understand human history and the paradigms that developed over time to bring us here today.

    I gave you an upvote when you were zero, and someone has already downvoted that. Bunch of Luddites.



  • I think that’s just movies - kids just wouldn’t like coffee because it’s bitter. No one I’ve known has said kids can’t have coffee, just recognize they won’t like it.

    Hell, my father let me taste his coffee and beer when I was 5-ish because I was curious. I disliked the coffee completely, but the beer had something…

    I stumbled on liking coffee in my 20’s.

    Edit: caffeine effects people differently. As a young adult caffeine wouldn’t keep me from sleeping, today if I have coffee late in the day it may impact my sleep. A sibling can’t have any caffeine after lunch or it definitely messes with sleep.



  • As someone in the “older” crowd, I can learn just about anything, I’m just sick and fucking tired of lazy ass devs who can’t be bothered to write proper fucking docs.

    Note: I’ve been writing docs for going on 40 years as part of my job. It’s fucking tedious to do it well, to verify what you wrote actually works.

    No, it’s not that it’s harder to learn (it may be) it’s that I have other shit to do too, and some dumbass has made using whatever tool way fucking more obtuse than it needs to be and hasn’t bothered to even explain their approach, their paradigm, in the all but non-existent docs.

    Github’s website is an example - it leads with changes, the intro is halfway down the page, even then most descriptions are terse. Tech writers the world around are having strokes every time they have to look at it.










  • Joy is the Bible, but I’d never offer it to someone as a starting point.

    Yes, it does “start from the start”, but finding the start with it is overwhelming.

    Today I’d recommend watching America’s Test Kitchen (especially the old stuff) and getting their cook book, as it’s a LOT more approachable, and they explain the how’s and why’s of the recipes.

    Good Eats is also a good watch for learning how things work.