Siiick. Fingers crossed that takes off

Neat!

I do wish there was a company selling “dumb” EVs. No cellular, no OTA updates, no cameras and so on. Just battery, motor, motor controller and auxiliaries. Like a cheap car from 2005. A DIY conversion is the only way to achieve this as far as I know.

Get ya a job in real estate quick as.

Well supposedly the AI company is the one who has made the copyright strike against the artist - so the copy or style thing doesnt entirely matter - they’ve stopped her income and are trying to take it for themselves. (I’m also a tad suspicious of the story btw)

Crohns disease owner. Nope. Feels bad.

Actually a pretty decent article. Straight to the point. Found it really interesting the e-truck completed the journey 25mins faster than diesel due to steep hills that slow diesel trucks to a crawl.

“However, researchers found given participants were likely to slightly reduce their reliance on cars, it showed experiencing car-free living, even briefly, could help people break away from automobility.”
I think this is an important secondary take away here. Reducing car use is still much better than continuing at current rate. (Similar to eating less meat vs going vegan cold turkey).
Owning a car does come with large sunk-costs tho - so you won’t feel the full financial benefit from just reducing car use (still have to pay rego, insurance, maintenance etc.)

Is it weird that i kinda feel sad/disappointed at this uptake, despite being a big fan of EVs? A fucked up war causes oil prices to go up and now everyone’s clamouring to consume? Cool
/offmychest

But also kinda punk. Promoting de-googling on googles own platform.

100%. Latex for side sleeping is so good.

Yup. I bailed on my YouTube subscription this year and shifted to community radio and bandcamp.

I did when I travelled to Finland in summer and learnt they dont have public drink fountains in parks. I got so fuggin dehydrated that day 😆

Sports clubs and hobby clubs for sure. In Australia we have clubs called Men’s* Sheds that are for things like woodworking, but also a place to talk about mental health - things like loneliness. (*I don’t think they’re all so exclusively Men’s sheds these days).

I play disc golf and that sometime feels like a church haha. Trying tk convince people it’s an awesome sport amd get them to try it feels like trying to convert someone 😂

I dunno, but driving thru the insanely rich neighbourhoods definitely depresses me out.

Be Kind Rewind is a quirky movie where they end up making these Mockbusters. Don’t recommend if you don’t like Jack Black. Do recommend if you like Mos Def.

That’s definitely one of the more unique methods of finding new music haha

Not answering your question exactly, but finding community (non-commercial) radio shows in your local area that you like is a good way to find new music. Find a few shows/presenters that play music/genres you like and they should play local artists that you might not have heard. They’ll also mention upcoming gigs etc.

I’m right there with ya. I’m thinking it might be a case of picking easy pieces (projects) of the puzzle to start with and then building from there. Like I’m considering setting a pi-hole soon - seems like an easier networking project. But yeah, I’m not really sure what’s the best order of eaiest to hardest projects in terms of self hosting etc.

Cornball was the Pangram in the NYT spelling bee the other day. This was my first thought.