For example, cheese is mold and mold that grows on food after it sits for a while is also mold, but that mold is disgusting whereas cheese is edible.

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    You can make just about anything from corn.

    Food, sugar, fuel, sextoys, plastic… The list is pretty long.

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      The neat part about that is it also ties fuel and food together as (partly) interchangeable items.

      During fuel shortages, ramp up corn -> fuel production. During food shortages, reduce/cease corn -> fuel production.

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    I remember some food preservative used at Subway is also used in floormats and everyone freaking out saying subways has rubber in their food.

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    Linux distro derivatives of existing Linux distros, such as an “Arch-based” or “Debian-based” distro.

    E.g. EndeavourOS is an Arch-based distro (derivative of ArchLinux). Ubuntu is a Debian-based distro, etc.