Thorny_Insight @ Thorny_Insight @lemm.ee

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I check sahko.tk in the evenings to see if it's going to be particularly expensive the next day. This is mostly in the winter time, at summer I hardly pay any attention to it. They usually warn people in the news too for the handful of really expensive days in a year. Depending how high it gets I might turn off the heating for the peak hours but generally not because it doesn't really make that of a big difference as the prices average out over a long period of time. Some people have automatic thermostats that turn off the heating after the electricity price passes a certain limit. My water heater for example is set to go on during the night when electricity is at its cheapest.

According to ChatGPT:

15% on the first $49,275 of taxable income.

20% on the next $49,275 of taxable income (over $49,275 up to $98,550).

24% on the next $19,170 of taxable income (over $98,550 up to $117,720).

25.75% on the taxable income over $117,720.

What's so neat about it?

I live in Finland and me like a large number of other Finns have a plan in which the price changes every hour according to the market price. Typical price for electricity is around 4c/kWh in the summer and around 15c/kWh in the winter. However it's not uncommon at all for the price to spike into 30c/kWh or even 70c/kWh. Last winter there was a day that it spiked to 200c/kWh.

How do we deal with it? By turning down/off the heating if possible and burning wood instead. If not then you just deal with it and have to pay significantly more for a few months. Then again if your plan has a fixed price to like 10c/kWh then that also mean you're paying that even when the price drops to zero which also is not uncommon at all. Often happens several times a week during the summer time. Sometimes it even goes into negative. It's still not literally free though since the transfer cost is around 6c/kWh plus energy fee and taxes.

They're not fake guns; they're real guns with what was supposed to be fake ammo. Because the gun in question was a revolver, the ammo must also look real since you can see the tips of the bullets in the cylinder. Typically, there's a hole in the side of the casing indicating that it's a dummy round, but you can no longer see that once it's been loaded into the gun.

Just a reminder that inflation slowing down doesn't automatically mean the prices will drop too. It only means the prices stop increasing. You'd need deflation to make the prices come down and that would be even worse for the economy.

It was among the best shows when I was a kid

Most layoffs are an effort to boost stock prices because some executives made a dumb fucking decision.

..what? You want to elaborate on that a bit?

Anti-rich/billionaire/capitalism agenda is quite widely subscribed to by a large amount of Lemmings

None of this addresses my question

I can pretty much count with one hand the times I've talked with a black person ever. Don't see them around much where I'm from.

Tesla Model Y 2024 scores near-perfect in IIHS’ crash tests

What are you talking about? Who has he kicked out for that?

Calling someone a Nazi is quite a serious accusation, and it's going to need a lot better justification than that. I post gay porn on Twitter, and Elon lets me do that. Does that mean he's gay too?

Well it wouldn't exactly be the women's fault but it is true that women are in general higher educated than men and what is also true is that in general women want a man whose higher educated than them. This is going to be a major issue in the future though in the case of south korea they're absolutely screwed anyway due to aging population and ever decreasing birth rates.

Around 800€ would be the absolute maximum I'd be willing to pay. I don't think there's anything you could do to a smartphone that would make it worth 1000€ or more in my eyes.

Less news and politics and more activity on communities covering niche topics as well as more of just general discussion about everyday stuff.

I believe the vast majority of people are using twitter on phone. Or are you implying that instead of social media we should be calling our friends by a phone? Ew..

Ironically that's not too different from the content we're seeing on Lemmy as well. I never fully figured out why that is but it seems like we're somehow addicted to outrage and when there's no algorithm to serve us that we do it ourselves.

I only use twitter for porn and I almost never get anything else on my feed but when I do it's usually either cat videos or political content, generally right-wing, but not even once have I seen anything racist there.