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I still have an original GoPro HD Hero and it still works fine. Battery is like 50% capacity as expected, but yeah, otherwise still working.

Yep. We changed our home lightbulbs to LED, we got more efficient heating/cooling systems and appliances installed in our homes. (My gov provided incentives for these things). I thought it was to reduce our energy consumption and save us some cash on bills. But nup, turns out it just freed up energy to burn on LLM data centres.

Blocked storm water drain puddle mode?

AI feedback loops. Mmm yummy.

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.

“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.)

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.