I’ve seen an article about submerged concrete spheres being used as pump energy storage. Here’s the relevant press release.

75% efficiency seems pretty decent considering you’re not as reliant on geographical locations (or at least get a lot more options)

How does bologna only score 49% for the speed limit, when the entire city was switched to 30 in January 2024. they even mention that project themselves.

Did they use older data for some reason? Then why title it 2025?

Sehe ich auch so. Der erste Verkaufsversuch wurde nicht bestraft, da gab es höchstens Gerichtskosten für den Widerspruch.

Aber der zweite Versuch ist einfach in (mutmaßlich) voller, wissentlicher Absicht unternommen worden, das Verbot vom Ulmer Zoll zu umgehen.

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Damit unterscheidet sich der Begriff inhaltlich von den meisten anderen “-sexuell”-Begriffen. Die Verwendung der gleichen Endung für etwas fundamental anderes ist sprachlich kompletter Mist. Insbesondere wenn es mit “Transgender” eine gute Alternative gibt.

To be fair: it’s really hard to notice of you are completely bound in your right eye, which the BfV traditionally tends to be.

Small correction: the NPD was not banned because they were largely irrelevant. They had little to no influence on politics, which is why the court argued that a ban would be inappropriate.

Der Kriminalstatistik ist es ja egal, ob das Ziel einer polizeilichen Maßnahme rechtswidrig handelt oder nicht. Geht ja nur um die Maßnahme selbst, nicht um das Ergebnis.

Cultural and media affairs will be steered by Wolfram Weimer, a well-known journalist and publisher

(The guy used to be editor in chief of Welt, which belongs to the same infamous Axel Springer publishing house as Politico)

Just so everyone knows what kind of guy this is, I’ll just go and translate a direct quote of his from 2018, that is found on his German Wikipedia article:

The term “climate denier” has been used by red-green (note: this refers to Social Democrats and the Green party) people for years to stigmatize people that dare to doubt the theory of man-made climate change in its claim to be absolute. Thee term “climate denier” is meant to kill open discussion because it is reminiscent of “Holocaust denier”.

Wenn ich (als Teil der Öffentlichkeit) sehe, wie jemand Drittes auf der Straße entführt wird ist mein Frieden definitiv gestört.

Laws banning the mislabeling of products? A.k.a. label fraud?

Offtopic: I think this was the first time I actually used my eID I activated two years ago to log in to anything (#Neuland). Had to look up the PIN, but other than that it worked nicely.