5 Fabulous Finds and 1 Creepy One

Some things I stumbled across recently...

1. I was in a meeting today and one presentation focused on preparing for planned power outages.  I learned that many power companies have special programs to help medical patients who rely on their medical equipment at home having an uninterrupted supply of power.  One company provides free battery banks to help these customers, another company will send a special notice to these customers ahead of time so they have time to plan.  So if you or someone you know must have power for vital medical equipment, contact your power company to see what services they offer.
2. As I was checking my local energy company's website, I saw that they offer several useful programs.  I then checked my other utility company's websites and found they all offer extra useful services as well (examples here and here).
3. I have been binging this lady's YouTube videos lately.  She has so many great videos about how to save money on food and how to make cheap yet nutritious meals for the whole family!
4. Apparently I am old since I remember several of these "old school" pictures.
5. I guess No Buy July is a thing?  I'd never heard of it before but it sounds like a good idea.

Then there was this creepy thing...

• This popular YouTuber is a polyglot which means he speaks A LOT of languages.  His channel is usually entertaining as he films himself talking to (and shocking) the locals when he starts speaking to them in their own language.  Lately he has spoken to monkeys and dolphins in their language (?) which was also entertaining.  However, in his video today he spoke to ChatGPT in a computer language (hexadecimal) which was weird because #1, the ChatGPT sounds so real in both its conversational tone and choice of words, and #2 the ChatGPT seemed to dislike taking in this computer language (my questions would be why the dislike and how was this programmed into the language model).  I think in a few years we won't be able to tell what is real and what is fake anymore.  eeekkk