Colorado has an ebike rebate program for low income residents: https://energyoffice.colorado.gov/ebike-rebates https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ard95W9boXn4VySxmGwWTYviPlCHdQBd/view

With the aim to increase access to e-bikes, Colorado passed SB22-193 in 2022, which established the “Community Access to Electric Bicycles” program to provide funding for an e-bike rebate program. The e-bike rebate program offered point-of-sale rebates to low- and moderate- income Colorado residents at bike shops around the State. The rebate program launched in August 2023 and over 34,000 people applied, with about 8,000 people redeeming a rebate and purchasing an e-bike.

Basically you apply sometime in a one week application window, and if you qualify and win a random drawing, you get $1k towards purchasing a new ebike through a participating store.

I applied, and won the rebate myself, and bought a low end (for what was available) ebike, I only spent $200 for this very nice one, it's great. Really grateful to the Colorado voters/taxpayers who thought I should have an ebike and bought me an ebike. Now I can drive my car even less, and I hate driving!

If any Lemmy users reading this are low income and live in Colorado, this is the next application window: Monday, October 19, 2026 - Monday, October 26, 2026 so think about putting it on your calendar, it's not a guarantee you get it but a pretty high chance so definitely worth the time to apply if you want one.

I had a dream last night where a misshapen naked bald man with bright red skin was sitting in front of me and reciting a long mostly incoherent rant, so I woke myself up and wrote down the little bit I was able to remember:

You can't say the words but you don't want to hear it

Have you ever had a dream where you were able to bring back some particular words that were spoken or written down? What were they?

Allegedly as part of a scheme to get data for the company to train AI and develop adult VR tech while shielding it from legal liability

“In short, this is a lot for one person to torrent on an average day, particularly one who has a demanding job,” Strike 3 writes. The company believes the pattern makes more sense as AI training data or research.

New Stellardrone album...! Been a while but it looks like it came out yesterday

By demanding the copyright our bosses love, we're seeking the right to be angry about AI, even as the AI companies and our bosses cut deals to train chatbots with our work, which they will use to attack our livelihoods.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ev-2

Gotta optimize for life not just numbers

Maybe ram prices will eventually come down too now?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2707980/PUNK/

I've been playing this currently-in-open-playtest game for the past few days, it's really good. Bullet hell games are normally not my thing but it really nails the roguelike elements, I love a game where there's a reason to think about overall strategy, resources and what you're doing in addition to the direct combat mechanics, having several layers of goals you are working towards at once. There's fuel, which you'll die (permadeath) if you run out of, so you have to keep in mind where the last spots it can be replenished were, and whether those are above or below you since there is gravity affecting travel expense. Health you also die if you run out of and does not regenerate on its own by default, but in contrast to fuel you can't replenish it by going back to base, it's dropped when you kill enemies or open crates and it times out, so being low health is an incentive to do more exploration rather than staying closer to home (maybe in a biome less dangerous than what's at the edge of what your build can currently handle, if that's an option). I haven't played a game quite like this before and I think it's something special.

For example, in college I got a bad grade on a history exam.

The biggest part of why I got a bad grade was mixing up two similar sounding words in an essay question, which I vaguely remembered the professor might have made a big deal about not making that particular mistake in a class one time, but I couldn't remember the answer to the question if the question was using the word I thought it was, so I chose to write the answer as if the essay question had used the other word (I think it might have been about the British vs French versions of Parliament, something like that). This essay question was one of a set that you were free to choose from, as long as you answered a specified number of questions. Because I was pretty sure my answer to the first question was wrong, later in the exam I came back to this essay section and managed to answer enough other questions that I was one over the number that had actually been requested. I figured if it happened to be right it could only help my grade, so I left it there rather than crossing it out, and left a brief explanation as a footnote, requesting that that answer be discarded if only the specified smaller number of answers could be factored into the score.

As it turned out, that answer was marked wrong, and I got a pretty bad grade overall on the exam. The marked exam had no visible points accounting, so I didn't know how the grade was being calculated. I thought it seemed unfair that my footnote hadn't been considered, so I went to office hours to ask for a better grade on that basis. I got one, and I was surprised by how much, a full letter grade higher, just for that one question being discounted. This was actually upsetting to me though, I wanted to complain, because that essay section was just one part of a larger exam, and it seemed like that meant that making this one particular word mixup mistake the professor had a pet peeve about gets people marked down a full letter grade, and so you are penalized heavily from following the exam advice everyone gets drilled into them to always prefer putting an uncertain answer to not answering. Also the idea that he was probably just eyeballing the grades and there was no per question points accounting. It just seemed very unfair. But I kept my complaints to myself, since I had already gotten the best outcome I could hope for from that meeting and didn't want him to change his mind. I wonder if it was worth it though, since these events are now part of a rotation of things I sometimes spontaneously think about and feel a little indignation and imagine things I could have said instead, even though it was years ago and is irrelevant to my life now, and even though I think past me was likely taking grades too seriously.

Is that weird? I'd like to hear about it if other people also have little pointless grudges that they can't let go.

https://www.devilscandycomic.com/comic/ch20p24

I feel like this is a pretty good "in media res" page