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G-rated donger themed houseparty would be pretty odd.

I don't even remotely remember the term for it, but what you're talking about is something studied in regards to stuff like welfare -- SNAP, that kind of thing. There's some kind of term of art for the delay between economic stimulus and second order effects like you seem to be talking about, though.

Pretty sure they were eating slowpoke tails in the next gen after yellow, too? Think that's what they were doing with the things, anyway.

Yeah, checking, it's noted specifically as being "very tasty", and shows up in various meals in later games. Eventually (whatever generation is Sun & Moon), it's noted the tails can fall off naturally and harmlessly, but prior to that every indication was that they were chopped off.*

There's apparently implication (in the Sun/Moon demo version) they're a controlled substance, too, with a cop staking out a rumored tail trade deal, which would mean slowpoke trail trafficking actually has laws against it.

Quick list I found was here, noting a pile of cases in the series and games where pokemon of various sorts are shown as food.

*E: Actually, from reading a bit more, it's the Alola region slowpoke specifically that lose their tails naturally. Other slowpoke, you gotta' cut.

And if the the question was how can we reduce greenhouse gas emissions you'd have clear cut solution.

I mean, short-term effective start (or ramp up, where it's already started) steadily shifting the massive subsidies we're feeding into fossil fuels into... not fossil fuels. Even beyond various sorts of regulation or direct investment opportunities in renewables or emission capture/reduction, you do that and suddenly the market becomes even more interested than it already was in building infrastructure et al that puts less emissions in the air.

And that's just one pretty bloody straightforward solution to greenhouse gas emissions, maybe not a silver bullet or "best" solution, but an effective one that isn't some kind of convoluted 20 year plan or whatever.

It's not exhaustive, folks more plugged in to the renewable et al field have been beating their various drums on stuff like that probably longer than either of us have been alive. There's a pile of pretty bloody clear cut ways to help on that front if certain folks with more money than sense would stop getting in the friggin' way.

Y'know, I went and double checked their online stuff, and I guess it's a memory hiccup of some sort. I'm not finding any all-purpose stuff with sodium in it where I normally shop.

... if I had to guess what was happening is I was thinking of the baking shelf in general, which is piled with much more than just all-purpose and it's the other stuff I was thinking of it. 'Cause eyeballing the other stuff, the all-purpose is the one that's consistently unsalted, with everything else being... not that.

Nah, again, like... most of the all-purpose flour around here has salt in it, too. It's not just the self-rising stuff. It's harder to get unsalted flour than not.

Near as I can tell from a quick check of junk left over in the food stuff at home, it's at-minimum common with self-rising flour in/around north florida. 200 something mg of sodium per serving. I'm pretty sure from checking in the past better than half the just plain all purpose flour around here has a similar amount. Pillsbury, offbrand, whatever.

E: And it's not store limited, far as I can recall the spread's about the same in places other than walmart around here. It may be a south-eastern US thing for flour in particular, I'unno.