53 points

The article seems to believe the church is using a legal sub-corporation to protect the Church’s “E-Meter” device which is some sort of mumbo jumbo dousing rod sort of thing they use in their auditing (ritual?)

Right to repair is never a bad thing and it’s unfortunate that all these bad actors are fighting it to protect their interests

permalink
report
reply
34 points

Louis Rossmann pointed out that it’s effectively an ohmmeter 🤣

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rQ62s87jvw

permalink
report
parent
reply
23 points

It measures skin conductance, which basically is perspiration rate. It’s used in lie detector tests (which are not credible, by the way) as when your perspiration rate increases, so does your skin conductance.

Lie detectors use this to test if you’re fibbing and I’m sure Scientologist use to to enhance their manipulation when they know you’re talking about something that makes you uneasy.

permalink
report
parent
reply
16 points

I wandered into a Scientology center back around 2004 or so, they had left an e-reader sitting out.

It’s an analog ohmmeter. The one I saw had fucking alligator clips attached to two tin cans to act as handles.

My day job at the time used multimeters, and one of them was an old analog meter. I played with it, and the e-reader. They’re the same thing.

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=2rQ62s87jvw

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.

permalink
report
parent
reply
45 points

If Scientology is against something, we should probably try to implement it at all costs. I consider this to one of the general tenets of humanity.

permalink
report
reply
29 points

Not sure why it’s unlikely, they’re on the wrong side of most things

permalink
report
reply
20 points

Hey, it’s the sci-fi religion that WILL steal all your money!

permalink
report
reply
11 points

I personally call them an actual legal cult that pays their way into not being shut down. They’re like the dodgier version of Mormonism, except more dangerous because they’re all babies who will try to sue you into the ground for not saying nice things about them all the time.

permalink
report
parent
reply
10 points

They are the caricature of organised religions.

permalink
report
parent
reply
5 points
*

Yeah, it’s actually kind of impressive how they’ve retained all of the negative aspects of organized religion and none of the positive ones.

permalink
report
parent
reply
7 points

The leaders of a scam religion seem like just the people to oppose self sufficiency and free thinking…

permalink
report
reply

Technology

!technology@lemmy.world

Create post

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


Community stats

  • 17K

    Monthly active users

  • 12K

    Posts

  • 543K

    Comments