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HeartyBeast

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  • Hackney shooting: Girl, 9, critical after four shot in Dalston

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  • It’s not at all weird and very easy to explain. The BBC positions itself as an impartial reporter. Anything that appears to be a judgement call by someone else is (quite rightly) put into quotes.

    In this case, I would have simply left out the words “innocent victim “ myself, as it’s a bit odd - but that is the rationale.

  • Rapid rollout of clean technologies makes energy cheaper, not more costly

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  • Certainly, if you on an ‘agile’ tariff in the UK it can be a lot cheaper. There were times a few month ago when it was particularly windy - they were paying me to use electricity/charge my solar batteries from the grid.

  • German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists'

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  • I wonder how many manufacturers can currently manage that.

  • United Kingdom @feddit.uk
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    Revealed: how touts drew up secret plans to sabotage Labour’s ticket reforms

    www.theguardian.com /money/article/2024/may/29/revealed-how-touts-drew-up-secret-plans-to-sabotage-labours-ticket-reforms

  • The level of engagement on Reddit these days

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  • However, the upside is that there are no bots, dark patterns, or manipulated feeds.

    There’s a huge amount of incoming spam, much of it, I suspect posted by bots. I’ve also seen account posting ‘news’ from sites that are clearly AI generated

  • The level of engagement on Reddit these days

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  • To be honest, it feels much more likely to see posts on the Fediverse with many upvotes, few or no comments

  • Virginia went all in on solar. Then its powerful utility changed the rules. After Dominion Energy required expensive upgrades, many solar projects were put on hold.

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  • It can work where there is real competition. For natural monopolies, not so much.

    Usually it happens because the state wants to sell off family silver to make some short term cash :(

  • Drinkers lose up to £114 a year over beer and wine short measures, study reveals

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  • “It’s a bit lively tonight “

  • Drinkers lose up to £114 a year over beer and wine short measures, study reveals

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  • £115? That’s nearly 3 pints of bitter

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    Germany has too many solar panels, and it's pushed energy prices into negative territory

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  • You need a certain kind of landscape for that. I think the UK only has a couple of pumped storage power stations due to lack of suitable sites

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    Germany has too many solar panels, and it's pushed energy prices into negative territory

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  • No. That’s like saying the UK has too much wind power because our prices occasionally go negative. What Germany might not have enough of is battery and other storage

  • Almost a third of household smart meters not working properly, says Citizens Advice

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  • If you’re on an agile tariff where the price changes ever 30 minutes, it’s a bit of a bummer

  • Government tells Britons to stockpile as part of emergency planning

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  • Hopefully the plughole is clogged with hair

  • Government tells Britons to stockpile as part of emergency planning

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  • Indeed. To be honest, I’d probably fall back on the old idea of filling the bath right up if the shit looked like it was about to hit the fan.

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    A Primer on Mastodon's New Board Members

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  • Yeh. I’m pretty comfortable with this broad mix.

  • Government tells Britons to stockpile as part of emergency planning

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  • I think that ‘resilience in depth’ is a reasonable idea. The NHS exists, but I still have a first aid kit at home.

    In practice, I think it will be difficult fir a household to store 3 days drinking water.

  • What happens when councils take control of buses?

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  • I’d say that the railways were probably more likely to fail because you have the added complication of the rail infrastructure company on top, plus the need for through-ticketing and timetable coordination. Those factors magnified the sheer amount of shit in the show

  • What happens when councils take control of buses?

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  • Counterpoint- the council can mandate routes and frequency in the contract and put it out to tender. The idea is that the private sector is better an innovating to be efficient, though I’m not sure that has ever really been demonstrated

  • Ohhh that's why you run actions in Parallel

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  • Could you give som examples of where it’s desirable ?

  • Ohhh that's why you run actions in Parallel

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  • Nice tip. Thank you. I was similarly confused

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Broadcom to divest VMware’s EUC and Carbon Black units

    www.theregister.com /2023/12/07/broadcom_q4_2023/