Sadly you are misinformed. Christianity, prior to the Martin Luther stuff, was already split into several groups: Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and the Coptic Church are a few that come to mind.

I think this would be a similar question to asking "do my headphones die faster if I listen to things louder", which I don't think is a big enough effect to worry people, I've never heard of it anyways. There's pretty much never not sound. Surely headphones have a lower level of reception or tolerance where it doesn't bother or can't pick up those noises, but it would always need to be listening and ready to generate them, so whether it does and how much it does seems like it'd be the smaller part of the process

And that's because spending the money in short delay when the necessity arises is too complex and suspicious for the CFO to approve it.

Which is not that complicated when you're working in a small shop and the owner actually understands what the equipment is for.

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Not entirely true that it’s losing money due to inflation. Companies to keep cash on hand and market investments for a variety of reasons. Airlines and logistics shipping companies for example tend to trade heavily on oil futures since one of their overhead costs is fuel. If they own a good part of the market, when their operating expenses go up because of inflation, so do the value of their investments which can either offset or even reduce the overhead substantially. Professional services companies similarly diversify in the types of companies they do business with so when one market sector is slow, others can pick up the slack. Having money on hand can help work as a reservoir to buffer the slower sectors at the same time.

Everyone is saying Catholicism is a subset of Christianity but if I’m not mistaken all other branches of Christianity are a reaction to Catholicism. As far as I know all modern branches of Christianity are subsets of Protestantism which came about because Martin Luther was big time pissed at the Catholic church.

> Catholicism is a branch of Christianity. Used to be the only one until the Protestant Reform.

Er...no. The original split was between Catholicism and the Eastern Orthodox church. Protestants then split from Catholics later on.

It seems a bit crazy but part of the measure of success of a capitalist economy is how quickly money cycles around the economy. You might be spending on useless promo items but that money is paying your supplier and their employees and some of that flows back into government coffers straight away in payroll and sales taxes and more later on in company tax. The rest of that spins out into the economy as those employees spend on groceries and cars and xmas presents.

Think of it like how taps work - you have to keep a high level pressure in the water mains to ensure that when you turn on your kitchen tap that the water comes out immediately and with decent strength. Government Taxes and Spending functions like a pump for the economy in general. Taxes draws the money in and Budgets and their Spending pumps the money out

I get your point and the other points in this thread about the morale boost from getting new things earlier than expected, but I think it’s still wasteful overall. Upgrading every time earlier than you need means you spend more and waste more in the long run—e.g., replacing the PPE every 2 years instead of every 3 years (however long it’s good for) is more expensive and wastes good PPE. If they donated the old but functional equipment, it would be more excusable (but more work since they have to find somewhere appropriate to donate to).

Christianity is the belief that Jesus Christ was the son of God sent to save us from sin, he died on the cross, then was resurrected and taken to heaven by God.

Catholicism is one of many sects of the christian religion. The differences between the different sects are varied. In the broadest of strokes the differences comes down to the way they interpret the bible and the way they practice their religion. To get into more specifics than that and you go deep into the theological weeds.

The rationale is "it may make you feel better 🤷‍♀️". There is no evidence to indicate it's therapeutic, but if it causes you to drink more fluids, and if you subjectively feel better even if you aren't necessarily getting better, then there's no harm in recommending it.

There is actually no product on the market, prescription or over-the-counter that is known to meaningfully reduce your cough symptoms or the time it takes for you to recover from a cold. This includes things like Zicam and OTC cough syrups (dextromethorphan, etc.). The more these drugs are studied the less confidence there is that they a single thing to help you. A lot of these remedies came into use before we have today's standards for establishing their safety and efficacy.

The placebo effect is a very real phenomenon. It's not just "you're imagining that you're better". The belief that you are being helped can result in very real, measurable, physiological improvements. This typically happens because of a reduction in stress associated with the illness. When you anticipate more (and worsening) symptoms, your apprehension can release stress hormones that exacerbate them. The certainty that taking a drug will make you feel better can reduce or eliminate that stress, giving you better outcomes.

I'm surprised it took so long to find your bottom two paragraphs lol. Hot drinks are great when you're sick. Is someone tryna put oranges or limes in their tea?

The interests of the company and the manager are not always perfectly aligned.

Overspending is bad and so most budget owners will aim to underspend for the year especially in the early months, so for example after 6 months of the year they’ve spent only 5/12 of their budget.

Having reached the final few months of the year, the manager now knows the risk of overspending has passed.

They now have a different risk - if they underspend this year then the base expectation would be the next fiscal budget would based on this underspend. (Budgettjng rarely starts from scratch and is an adjustment of them prior fiscal).

Therefore spending often increases in the later months so that over the full year the actual spending is within a few % of the planned spend, ideally on the underspend side.

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I just watched a Call the Midwife Christmas special where a sick character was drinking onion tea. Didn’t realize this was a thing people actually do!

Catholics are a subset of Christians. Like chicken is a type of poultry.

Catholicism believes that Christ is one with god and that through the power of the priest that the eucharist is the true body of Christ.

May be a little off, recovering Catholic

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All Catholics are Christians, not all Christians are Catholic. The Catholic Church is lead by the Pope in Rome. Over the centuries, there have been Christian group that have broken ties with Rome for various reasons. At first there were just Christians, then the Schism broke Christians into the Orthodox in the East, and Catholics in the West. The founders of the first Protestant Churches were originally Catholic, but then they broke off into their own churches.

All Catholics are Christian, but not all Christians are Catholics. Catholics are a sub-type of Christians.

All Christians believe in the spirituality/holiness of Jesus Christ, as either the son of God or as an aspect of God. Catholics recognize the Pope as the living representative/authority on God and the Bible. Other forms of Christianity, like Orthodox Christianity or Protestantism, do not recognize the Pope in that way.

As someone who works in this area, you're definitely right. It's more than just revenue goals though since every department isn't directly linked to revenue but they all have goals and expectations. People just have a tendency to spend everything that's given to them in a corporate setting, particularly if it advances one of their departmental goals, even if it isn't efficient or financially sound.

That's why it's important for companies to link funding to plans and have proper controls in place to make sure money is being spent in accordance with that plan, or changes are being properly reviewed and approved.

I had the same question a few years ago, this video did a great simple explanation that helped me understand what's going on

https://youtu.be/F7D_pnaexG0

Yes, all plants put lots of protein in their seeds to give their offspring plenty of resources to get off to a good start. This does not mean that there are not major differences in protein content between the seeds of different types of plants. OP asked about legumes vs non legumes, not seeds vs other parts of plants.

Comparing protein content on a per cup of the food as it is eaten is going to give you a misleading answer to the question. We add water to black beans while cooking before we eat them, which increases the volume of the beans, so fewer beans and less of the protein they contain, fit in a cup after cooking than before. Eating a half cup of pistachios will leave you much more full than eating a cup of black beans. It is more meaningful to compare foods on a dry weight basis, so how much protein per 100g of dry peas, wheat, rice or nuts.

Peas and beans have 20-25g of protein (there are lots of different species, so some may be higher or lower), wheat is 8-15g (some may get higher, different types of wheat have different protein contents), rice is 10-12g. Tree nuts are in the 20g range, so close to legumes, but remember they are trees with huge root systems. It is not surprising their seeds are different from non legume annuals like rice and wheat.

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