If you are buying premium butter and you use the byproduct (buttermilk) then it may be close to break even. But yes it does spoil faster

Kids are fairly locked down on their school computers. Connecting to an irc server via some random URL is almost certainly blocked.

If they aren’t on school computers then they probably have a phone anyway

I don’t like cancelling wind projects but there are some incorrect assumptions when you just read this headline.

The company paid $800M for a lease on federal waters to build the wind turbine. This is more akin to a refund than “pay them not to do this”. That, and the money will instead be used to build natural gas power, which is stupid for reasons mentioned in the article.