PetteriPano

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Louis Theroux tried to make a documentary about them. He's done some really good work showing the worst groups in the world as, you know, actual human beings. Like the westboro baptist church.

The Scientologists refused to talk to him. Him talking to ex-members unleashed a stampede of harassment both against them and him.

The result is called "My Scientology movie". It's worth a watch if you're interested in their techniques to keep people from leaving.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

Inspired by xkcd's thing explainer I generated a list of how often words appeared in subtitles on opensubtitles for my target language.

I whipped those into a database, added manual translation for the top-1000 and started quizzing myself with a tiny php script.

It was more fun to code than to actually quiz myself. I think I played the top-100 before I got bored.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (3 children)

They were never a thing in Europe.

The sewage treatment is not built to handle that kind of stuff. The sewage pipes aren't too happy about it, either. I might flush some carbs down the toilet. The poop-munching bacteria at the treatment plant get a nice growth boost from it. Grease not only clogs your own pipes, but causes issues for the whole city. I think it's possible to get fined for it if you'd get caught starting a year or two back.

Food waste goes in the trash or compost. If it goes in the trash it's burned at industrial temperatures to burn clean. The heat is used for district heating networks.

[–] [email protected] 255 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Gee, I can't imagine why they chose to drop this bomb today.

It's like they wanted it to be drowned in other news.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

My wife is definitely team 'make it from scratch'.

She is also a very slow cook. We also have an infant that is currently taking up 110% of our time.

It's hard for me to justify spending two hours a night preparing a lunch for the next day. She likes to sleep in, so I never get to eat it fresh.. it's always leftovers.

I don't mind cooking something fresh for lunch or dinner, but I'll do something that takes 20 minutes of prep and then take care of itself on the stove or in the oven. Chilli, pot roast, or a casserole.

I think frozen dinners probably have a better balance of protein/carbs/veg than either of us makes, and at half the price.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'd go somewhere in-between to keep things dry.

Condensation around windows and outer walls make great growing grounds for mold. 15°C is the recommendation here.

Shit can happen. Boilers break. Leave your faucets dripping and run your circulation pump off of a battery and inverter to save your pipes.

[–] [email protected] 231 points 2 weeks ago (21 children)

The theorem holds true. The theorem states that the monkey has infinite time, not just the lifetime of our universe.

That's just lazy science to change the conditions to make sensational headlines. Bad scientists!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

A lot of software did not run under windows NT4. Especially stuff that used the soundblaster directly.

Plug-n-play never worked, and drivers for hardware usually only came on floppy for DOS/win3/win95.

For some reason USB-drivers were not installed by default, either. That's after swapping through 18 diskettes during installation. Just copy it all if you're going to have me be a human jukebox.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't use make-up, but I make an exception for the soap from the hardware store.

My routine goes a bit like this:

  • get into shower
  • turn on water
  • get wet
  • turn off water
  • lather up
  • turn on water
  • rinse off
  • turn off water
  • rub dry with that same old towel

I do this as necessary, but at least before Christmas and midsummer (even if not necessary).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Currently on a CMF phone 1.

Best phone is a tie between Nokia E70 or the HTC Dream. Suitable form factors and physical keyboards <3

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I'm driving a 2007 which I guess I'll move on from in a couple of years. I loathe the day when my only options are cars that get OTA updates.

Everything smart has shown their true colours about altering the deal. My TV didn't use to have ads on the home screen. Now it's 80% of it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I wanted to name my daughter Zelda. Mrs Pano vetoed it.

The Z makes it sound sexy. Also Moxy got shot down.

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