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I have powdered mash potatoes in a box and I don't have milk, butter, or oil. Welp.

... I haven't made instant mashed potatoes with any of those in... a long time.

Well, maybe butter once or twice in the past couple of years? Definitely not consistently, or much when I did. I mostly do cheese, maybe a bit of soy/teriyaki sauce and/or bullion in the water. Add a bit of pepper, maybe shred in some sort of meat (or bacon bits, those work) in. Point being, just water works well enough for instant stuff.

Actually been using the stuff as a filler for... a lot. Ramen, mac and cheese, potato soup, just about anything. Seems to work pretty well, haha! Plus it seems to last bloody forever. For whatever reason, potential stuff-that-lives-off-it (bugs, mold, etc.) just... don't get in the box. Or something. I left a mostly empty one out for a while, to, like. See? And nothing. _{S'actually kinda' disturbing. What the hell are they doing to that stuff that even the bugs and mold won't touch it?}

Mm... it was reduced/free for low income, where I was at in North Florida. Everyone else, and even some of those, had to pay if they wanted to eat cafeteria food. Varying rules are varying, ha.

Not entirely sure if actually anger, but it's either this thread or the terrified one. Closer to exasperation, so... here. All I really have to say is nonexistent gods save me from the untrained who "know what they're doing".

I'm pretty sure I just came close to touching a live house wire, and even closer to having to call an ambulance for an electrocuted elderly person. They know what they're doing, though. Can't convince 'em to wait for someone who actually knows what the hell they're doing.

Obviously, the first act of united canotland would be to turn their entire research budget to cloning lobsters. We are no longer quite so fettered by the arbitrary whims of biological chance. The entire world could be covered in lobsters, had we but the will.

Also, Congress has discovered Doge.

WTF thread shared that a bit ago.

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Yeah that will negate the environmental problems I guess??

People tend to not waste electricity unnecessarily when they're paying for it. Obviously. That's why you don't have to pass laws against people leaving all of their appliances on, all the time.

They don't. They really, really don't. Really, really, freaking seriously do not tend to not waste electricity unnecessarily just because they are paying for it. Sometimes it becomes an issue when they're extremely poor, but even then you regularly see folks living well under the poverty line leaving lights on all day, every day, or running the TV+ etc. constantly. Even when they're not taking advantage of welfare opportunities! In general, for the majority of everyone else, there's not a concern about wastage or price because even when the effect is tremendous on the net (i.e. on a national level), the effect on an individual is fairly minor. Leaving a light on isn't going to break most people's banks, or even do terribly much to their bottom line. Same for most power-related things. The majority don't have the knowledge or the interest or the flippin' care to worry about the price savings involved in switching to CFL or LED (even with the latter, even with the >=$14 minimum price range, LED costs less than incandescent at this point, from energy savings and massively longer lifespan!), or even a bloody lot of things power related.

So, just. Sorry, GJ, that's not just wrong, it's egregiously so. The fact that it's wrong is part of the reason it's taking stuff like laws and regulations to switch into more environmentally friendly stuff even when there's strong cost savings involved (as there are with switching from incandescent.).

Ooh. There was a log. Yeah, I didn't actually read that, because, well.

So, my bad. Conjecture retracted, move along, move along.