politics

Luckily, if pipes freeze and burst in my apartment building, it is literally not my fault and they had bigger issues

Also I cannot cool my apartment because there is no cooling system

So my options are heating, and off, and I just choose off when I am gone

my dorm freshman year of college was like that

Fuck you Spooky, why is it no longer 1:30

I guess I am not watching anime

ok Pika, last plug question

if you had a drink cooler or second fridge

would you leave that plugged in

main frige, obvious yes

but this one is just for drinks or non-perishables

I unplugged the minifridge I had next to my desk in kitchener when I left for kingston, but that is less fair because I was leaving for a majority of the time

for you, ig it's lemonade and root beer

If it was full, I'd not unplug it. If it was basically empty, yes I probably would

and just move anything left to the main fridge

you know, I didn't consider consolidating the contents

you win this round

Lol

idk Pika, I forget if I mentioned this in the server or not

I do not even fill my main fridge in Kingston, so I would feel so stupid buying a mini fridge

but before I moved out, we had 11 fridges in my parents house

Spooky, I knew about the multiple freezers and how much meat went bad because of it

11 fridges is hilarious and stupid

???

You are the polar opposite of me in a lot of ways. I do not like wasting things, even if wasting it is inconsequential

I got that great depression era grindset in my heart

I live in an area where there is a central toll road (Max can back me up on this decsion btw)

and to get anywhere, taking this toll road saves 10-20 minutes

never more than that, but never less

literally anywhere you want to go

You live in a hellscape beyond my imagination

it costs more than it should, but I decided long ago my time was worth more, and I never make the decsion whether to take it or not

Time is something balanced in the weighing of wasting things though to be fair

I take it every day, multiple times a day, and never weigh the pros and cons

so I do not disagree

I try to reduce the number of value decisions I have to make, so I just determined what the yearly "toll" budget was roughly

Meanwhile, I optimally planned my eating for the week before I left and consumed literally every perishable thing, so nothing will go bad

same for water, electricity, gas or w/e me hyper conserving will save me at most 10% on that bill

and will involve 100,000 micro decisions about how to save a cent or less

and I just don't want to think about it

and don't buy stuff that's stupid

my energy costs are way higher than yours spooky

food waste I'd like to be better on, but most of what I waste is produce or hyper-perishable stuff like milk

which feels kind of inevitable

when you buy a box of strawberries or w.e

Milk is crazy

I have never had milk go bad because I drink it all before it goes bad

I mostly mean milk to cook with

Oh

drinking milk, yeah I'll just drink that

like, I threw out some buttermilk and whole milk this week,

and sour cream

that I used 75%+ of

but I'm not going to just chow down on sour cream, to avoid wasting it

I typically just don't but shit if I am not pretty sure I will use all of it

I'm trying to think of anything else that fits there

honestly, sour cream or cream cheese are like #1 and #2

of things I don't think I ever fully finish off

before they go bad

You should see if your groundhogs will eat it

lol

oh

salad dressing

oil/vinegar lasts forever

Feed your groundhog only sour and fermented foods

but god forbid you have a thing of caesar dressing

that will never get fully used

Better not be made with seed oil

Gent funilly enough, I think the fact I buy the non-seed oil version

means it's 10x as perishable

caesar dressing goes well on chicken sandwiches

idk, I think I'm more concerned about "wasteful spending" when it comes to food

versus 5-10% of it going bad before I can use it

Spooky, you literally didn't know what seed oils were earlier this year

I was arguing with you specifically about peanut oil

which is not the same as vegitable oil, in terms of how bad it is for you

Only oil I use for cooking is olive oil

that was the argument

I remember that post from spooky lmao