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not_IO, in In 2025, People Will Try Living in This Underwater Habitat

i legit thought this was some wacky futurist article from 10 years ago that someone posted for fun

BastingChemina, in The Hidden History of Pneumatic Tubes | The Saturday Evening Post

There was a huge network of pneumatic tubes under Paris used by the postal services between 1866 and 1980.

With that you could send a letter to any address in the city that would arrive in less than 2 hours.

https://youtu.be/Ns5SKH-ooy0

HootinNHollerin, in For-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without credit

Guy belongs behind bars

realitista, in Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14%

Nice graph with no freaking labels.

tomsh, in Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14%
@tomsh@lemmy.world avatar

I love it, I like it like my new contract they send me with new prices for electricity (44% up)

jatone,

Are you sure its the actual cost of the electricity or the fact that many other costs are often bundled into your bill?

Sniatch, (edited )

You should change your provider. I do it every year because thats how you can save lots of money.

UnderpantsWeevil,
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Frustrating that these private energy companies can charge whatever they want (cough market rate is a scam cough) and you need to chase teaser rates year to year if you want to keep your electricity prices down.

Shame Western Europe lacks state owned municipalities obligated to sell at cost, rather than a colidascope of private firms looking to maximize the margin on every kWh sold.

unskilled5117,

Like others have mentioned, change your provider. Prices are going down again, as there have been advancements on installing renewables. Energy prices at the end of 2024 were 30,5% cheaper than at the start of 2023 (Source. This is the case even though we are paying more for the modernization of the grid, because renewables are that much cheaper than other sources.

hark, in China to subsidise smartphone purchases in bid to lift spending
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If it works like subsidies over here, companies will just jack up prices to eat up the full subsidy.

cikano, in Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer

Very good video, I despise generative AI slop

SkaveRat, in Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot

This new season of Robot Wars / Battle Bots is starting strong

01189998819991197253, in 2024 Brought Even More Customization To Boxes.py
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This is awesome! Can this be used with a bit-based CNC? If not, is there something like this for bit-based CNCs?

YungOnions, in Mike Shapiro, the person behind G-Man in Half Life, just posted this on Twitter

Sequel to Alyx?

realitista, in Russia admits its homegrown consoles can't match the PS5 or Xbox Series
ButtonMcLemming,
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Is that guy really crying?

shortwavesurfer, in Australia is the first nation to ban social media for under-16s.

Australia is the first nation to fail to ban social media for under 16s.

kambusha, in Bitcoin miner's claim to recover £600m in Newport tip thrown out

I think last time this came up someone posted this awesome video on landfills. Paying it forward.

The Hidden Engineering of Landfills

postmateDumbass, in Tencent says it's not a Chinese military company and is willing to sue the US Department of Defense if it isn't removed from a blacklist

The DoD will pay its fines 500#s at a time.

PixelatedSaturn, in Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes

You got to make a show for the king.

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