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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • Growth of new manufacturing for things such as heat pumps and electric vehicles, spurred in part by the Inflation Reduction Act’s climate-change-mitigating provisions, has boosted plans to build power plants to burn methane, a fossil fuel also known as natural gas, or to delay closing coal plants.

    This has always been THE catch-22 facing humanity, and people still don’t understand it. The amount of energy and raw minerals (mining) needed to transition away from fossil fuels at this point is so large, we’ll blow well past 2c just building an initial “stage 1” renewable/carbon neutral energy grid. Some studies indicate all known reserves of critical resources (e.g. copper, cobalt) aren’t enough to even complete stage 1.

    ALWAYS REMEMBER, THOUGH! THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE THE PLANET IS TO CONSUME HARDER THAN YOU’VE EVER CONSUMED BEFORE!







  • Most of their store brands come from the exact same farms and factory lines as the expensive brand name stuff. Corporations want you to believe there’s a difference but the marketing budget (and bonuses) is what you’re paying extra for — wasn’t the case in the 90’s, but thanks to decades of corporate cost cutting, consolidation, and homogenization, that IS the case in the 2020’s.

    The rule of thumb is the more complex the recipe the greater the deviation. Crushed tomatoes? Possibly zero difference. Sugar cookie? Probably 5% difference (that most won’t even notice). Elaborate cookie? As larger difference as between any other brand.