Alright GA community, I've heard it said in regards to Covid, jab mandates and general government overreach world wide, that things will get worse before they get better. To me, this comes across as a vague platitude that offers very little in the way of real help. It's already looking pretty grim in many parts of the world. Australia and New Zealand look to be experiencing the hardest treatment from their governments, but in other places many people are being forced by their jobs to get the jab or lose their job.
All that said, I want to challenge this community and ask: How specifically will things get worse? Who do you think will be most affected by things? How would one prepare? Do you have an opinion of what will be the turning point for things to get better? Open discussion, please share your thoughts and opinions. I don't want this to be a doomer thread. Just share what you think people could realistically expect to experience over the next few months or years. I'm genuinely interested to hear what you have to say. How bad will things get before they start getting better?
EDIT: Let's keep this based on Q posts as much as possible. I'm actually fairly new to Q and have watched a lot of the videos provided by the GA mods, but still researching a lot and learning from you all. I've been with the MAGA movement since 2016 back when The_Donald was on Reddit. I started coming over here to GA back in January after the 'Inauguration'. You all provided a lot of hope when it all seemed lost.
To cook rice with less energy, boil water, add rice, take from heat, wrap in towels or blankets and put in cooler. The rice will continue cooking with no additional fuel usage. Cooking under glass in the sun is also free and easy.
Which one of those worked best for you?
I haven't done either of those on purpose, but my wife was cooking rice and porkchops one time when the power went off. She just left it on the stove covered up. After a while we ate it, and it was good. So I know rice will continue to cook without added heat. You can also put rice and boiling water in a Thermos bottle to cook.
Right now, I just have plenty of propane for the stove. If the electricity goes out, I can light the burners with a match like with our old stove. The oven won't work, but I can cook most things on top of the stove. If it goes on for a while, I'll build a solar oven. I have materials to build almost anything I can imagine. That's one of the advantages of living in a really old house where no one ever threw anything away. That came from Depression thinking. And I have learned from others without having to experience it all myself.
The reason I ask is that I've tried the vac bottle method several times with poor results using different units. All are high quality and keep water & coffee hot all day. Every time the rice was tough, even crunchy. It was edible but not good. I can't see the sunlight method working at all and would have been surprised if you said it worked for you. Pasta OTOH comes out great in either a vac bottle or sealed non-vac container. Immediately after boil dump it in and in 12-15 minutes it's ready. It might be because pasta is made from flour and more easily permeated whereas rice is a whole thing.