I've given this advice to many new riders and almost no ever takes it, but after a few months they usually say they should have. Buy literally any used bike that's in your budget and is a reliable make/model. Preferably not super powerful or super heavy either. In 6 months time you will A: know if motorcycling is for you, and B: know a hell of a lot more about what kind of bike you want. Plus there's a good chance you'll drop your first bike (happens to most people) and dropping a brand new bike feels bad.

I'm glad they included this snippet in the article:

While recycling is one part of the solution to reducing Australia's waste footprint, RMIT sustainable development expert Usha Iyer-Raniga said it was time to consider systemic changes that would reduce the waste itself.

"You can't just rely on recycling," Professor Iyer-Raniga said.

"You want to be a society where eventually, you don't want to create waste."

It's not a call to action of: Buy more soft plastic for us to recycle! It should be: You can now trust us to recycle any soft plastic you have, but society needs to reduce production and consumption as well.
If this reduction is done successfully then the recycling plants will be in a weird spot of needing to plan to reduce throughput/capacity down the road.

But yeah, I'm also glad soft recycling is back and better.

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Nice! You knew exactly where my mind was heading haha

I'd hope that If he's smart enough to feel tired of repping big oil, and continues to be good enough to play pro baseball for a while, I'm sure he can find a way to live a comfortable and happy life. If he starts actively attacking big oil... that might be harder...

Hell yeah borther!

Are the platform panels the bit the matress goes on?

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.

God I hate news article head lines

Blocked storm water drain puddle mode?

Haha, I was actually trying to refer to some kind of solar panel that would shade pedestrians when it's hot and get outta tha way when it's not. I had forgotten that a tree is solar powered 😂

Yeah, a lot to think about and forward plan. In Australia I think the social engineering required to detach people from cars would be the hardest part 😅

Some kind of "deciduous" solar panel in those pedstrian areas would be cool. Or something to that effect~