BastingChemina @ BastingChemina @slrpnk.net

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Articles are mostly AI slop. For a bit YouTube was actually the best way to have information written by an actual person.

Not anymore unfortunately, now I honestly don't know how to reliably find AI free information online.

It's now required by law in Europe that spare parts needs to be available for at least 10 years.

I'm still sour about the fact that the expensive Bosch electric bike my wife bought 6 years ago is now e waste because the motor stopped working and display an error. Other than that all the mechanical aspect of the bike is still in perfect state. The gravel with a steel frame I bought at the same time is still as good as new.

I brought it to repair but basically every shop told me that they are not allowed to open the Bosch motor, the only thing they can do is send it to Bosch SAV, which they did, the SAV responded that the motor was shot but they could send a new one for 750€.

So I don't even know what is wrong with the motor but I need to spend 750€ + the cost of assembly by the bike shop and hope that this solves the issue, that the issue is not in the battery.

So we got a new cargo bike to carry our newly arrived kids but this time we got a non-electric bike as a base and our local bike shop added an electric motor to it. The motor is repairable with simple tools, we can replace it with a motor from another brand, the battery is standard and if we want to remove the motor we still have a fully functional bike. This way I know the bike will still be usable in 30 years if needed.

What I've learned from Dutch friends is to have two different kinds of locks on your bike.

So when I for an electric bike I for a string u lock plus a horseshoe lock

Yes, they also decided to change the time to decimal time.

The day was divided into 10 hours, each hour was 100 minutes ...

BMI isn't perfect but it's still a good tool to compare two large, similar populations.

And no, being morbidly obese is not healthy.

Ha!

I found the village where I'm currently living!

Yes! Fat by itself isn't unhealthy.

The best example is Italy, it has the lowest obesity rate of Europe, (1) but also has the highest consumption of cooking oil of Europe (2)

I was surprised in Italy when I saw how much olive oil they used while cooking. For me oil was just like a cooking aid so stuff does not stick to the pan, in Italian cuisine olive oil is not just an aid, it's part of the ingredients

1. European Obesity Rates by Country 2025. (2025-11-14). World Population Review.
2. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2024);Eurostat, OECD, IMF, and World Bank (2025)

Congrats, you are now Flemish!

To give some context: in Belgium there is two main regions, Flanders and Wallonia. Flemish people speaks Flemish Dutch and Walloons speak French.

Since Flemish Dutch and French are the two official language of Belgium a lot of Fleming are learning French as a secondary language to be able to communicate with Walloons. Walloons on the other hand don't care to learn Flemish Dutch at all.

So as consequence a lot of Flemish do know French but refuse to speak French with Walloons.

So as a French person I ended several time in a situation where I'm trying to communicate in English with a Fleming who refuse to use French with me, until he realize by my accent that I'm not Walloons, then he would start speaking to me in French.

There is a free repair cafe near me and I'm thinking of creating one as well.

Since they get money from the city to do so that don't want to overlap on professional repair shops. So they only repair things that professional shop don't repair because it's not economically interesting for them.

Despite this rule they get a lot of repairs to do.

Because currently in rich country, repairing things is not a viable career outside of few niche areas.

I think in on Wayland now.

But honestly I don't know, I'm just doing updates as they come and it just works.

Moderation is the issue with pizza, at least for me.

I've been making pizza and pasta from scratch. It's basically the exact same ingredients:

• flour
• tomatoes
• cheese

But when I'm making pizza I know that I can almost double the amount of flour because we are eating way more pizza than pasta.

One option could be to find a bank that you actually trust.

If you don't want someone else to invest for you and want an easy way to invest I guess the best way is to find one or several indexes that fit your requirements and invest in those.

For example there is the "MSCI Europe Select Green 50 Index

It's probably worse.

In the 90s Boeing and McDonnell Douglas were the two major aircraft manufacturers in the US.

One was thriving, renowned for it's engineering excellency and the quality of the aircraft there produced: Boeing.

The other one was facing technical issues, development cost overruns, growing unit costs, and delays mostly due to leadership and management decisions: McDonnel Douglas.

In 1997 they merged, the new entity kept the name Boeing but most of the leadership positions were filled by executives coming from McDonnel Douglas.

For a lot of people this merger marks the moment Boeing started to spiral downwards.

Heart of palm as well

I believe the vast majority of cultivated human cells are cancerous cells anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks

Only the next day ?

There is regulation about rainwater management for parking lots as well.

Parking lots manager are required to setup systems to let the rainwater infiltrate the soil