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recapitulation · 2 years

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meal ideas!

low energy ("do not ask me to do any prep work at all, so help me god")

mozzerella cheese wrapped in pepperoni ("pizza tacos"!)

hummus and pretzels or naan (putting the naan in the microwave for like 10 seconds...heavenly)

canned chili (with shredded cheese and sour cream if you have it! boom done!)

instant miso soup (warm and lovely! put tofu in it for protein!)

cheese and cured meat, olives, canned fish, crackers, dried fruit, or whatever easy "charcuterie" type items you like

alternate bites of apple and spoonfulls of peanut butter (mixing honey or chocolate chips to the peanut butter is my favorite)

a "deconstructed sandwich": bites of lunch meat, pickles, cheese, cherry tomato, etc (I love roast beef and white cheddar for this)

yogurt and granola or fruit

put frozen potstickers + frozen edamame in the steamer/rice cooker, chill elsewhere with a timer set, then boom

tortilla chips + canned refried beans + cherry tomatoes + cilantro + jarred salsa con queso (or warm shredded cheese on top of the chips in the microwave for 30 seconds)

bagel + cream cheese + lox

microwave scrambled eggs (add things like green onion, soy sauce, or anything else you like!)

cottage cheese and fruit (mixed together or just on the side)

bowl of shredded rotisserie chicken + buffalo sauce + a bit of mayo + green onion (use a kitchen scissors to cut them right in!)

medium energy ("I'll boil water but don't ask me to chop shit")

boiled eggs and fresh veggies (put a little salt on top of the eggs!)

buttered noodles (my go-to nausea meal, it has never failed me. ideas of things to add: frozen peas, imitation crab, roasted garlic)

baked potato with toppings (I like cheese, bacon, broccoli, green onion, and sour cream)

quesadilla (add some canned beans, cilantro, or avocado!)

pot roast (requires a lot of time but not a lot of actual work. I love it with peas!)

cuban sandwich (bread, swiss, pickle, mustard, ham... my favorite thing to panini-ify by far)

pan-fried tofu with scallion sauce (this sauce goes well with everything and tofu is no exception)

pancakes or waffles! (I love mine with jam)

ham, pickle, and cream cheese roll-ups

fried eggs (with toast and lots of butter...so comforting)

fruit smoothie (bananas, frozen strawberries, yogurt...or whatever!)

I hate salad but could write essays on this copycat olive garden salad (throw it in a bowl! chopping required if you use onion)

spaghetti (controversial maybe but angel hair > spaghetti noodles)

pasta salad (olives broccoli fresh mozerella... those little mini pepperonis... yeah)

stir-fried thai garlic shrimp (I like using the mini frozen salad shrimps, it's easy! use jarred minced garlic to avoid chopping!)

tuna mayo onigiri

slow cooker ribs

buffalo chicken wrap (or any number of other wrap options! shred pre-cooked rotisserie chicken to make it easier)

if your local grocery store sells pre-cooked gyro strips, that can turn into an easy wrap with store-bought pita & tzatziki with tomatoes and onions!

couscous and chickpeas

tortellini + pasta sauce + spinach

high energy ("I don't mind chopping some things up!")

stuffed shells with spinach

chicken and roasted garlic (oh my god.....one of my all time favorites)

beef tacos (I like mine with cilantro and onion, and when I'm feeling especially high energy I love a tomatillo salsa)

chicken alfredo

tom kha gai (a thai soup and my absolute favorite! you just need access to galangal)

lasagna! (freezes well and then boom! low energy meal for later)

pad thai! (not as hard as you'd think, as long as you have access to tamarind paste!)

potstickers! (this is a lovely group activity if you want to cook with housemates!)

rice and beans

bang bang shrimp (ogughfhgfuh I love it. you can also do bang bang tofu!)

minestrone soup (so many nice veggies!)

fried rice (put whatever you have on hand in there! broccoli, peas, carrot, and beef is my favorite combo)

broccoli cheddar soup

spring rolls and peanut sauce

skewers (such as beef, onion, zucchini, bell pepper... you don't need a grill, oven works!)

roasted turkey with garlic parmesean asparagus

pork chop with mashed potatoes

panang curry

chicken gnocchi soup (use store bought gnocchi or make your own if you have a high energy day!)

bibimbap (super customizable depending on what veggies you like best)

butter chicken

plus! things that have helped me meal plan:

whenever you think of a meal you'd like to make, take 3 seconds to google search it, take a screenshot of the image results, and put it in a "food ideas" folder. instant visual menu!

the concept of "meal prepping" makes me recoil but I've learned that it can simply mean preparing shredded chicken, boiled eggs, or some other simple protein that you can customize throughout the week. shredded chicken can turn into wraps, salads, pasta dishes, etc... you don't have to meal prep yourself into the same meal all week!

when I have difficulty working up an appetite, I'll scroll through my favorite restaurant menus! there might be some foods I can't make at home, but many times they're very simple to recreate because the ingredients are literally listed!

#brought to you by: i see people complaining about coming up with meals for the week #and im like..this is my favorite thing to do........let me be your meal brainstormer #additionally brought to you by: eating something is better than nothing so some of these may not be complete textbook 'meals'#but sometimes you feel like shit and just need something! so!#also this energy scale is tailored to me personally so if some categorizations dont make sense to you thats bc its about me <3 #food #i might update this with dessert ideas too later. or just add to it in general

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hellooosailor · 9 months

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the two sides of the modern tf2 fan works scale:

#edit THANKS FOR 2K??? 😭😭 we love creative exploits here #THEY LOOK LIKE THEYRE LOOKING AT EACH OTHER #😭😭😭#lil pootis s3 leak!#tf2 #tbh. the scale is a circle. lil pootis is fucked up!!!! love it!!!!!#emesis blue #team fortress 2 #team fortress two #lil pootis

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batmanego · 2 years

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my pain scale invention. it goes from 0-16. you fill it out like this:

i made this because i find pain to be a multifaceted thing that influences me in different ways. i can accomplish lots of small tasks while in pain but that doesnt mean i can move around or even think clearly. its name is the goldstein expanded pain index or gepi. you can use it if you want. or not.

#i might divvy it up Another time nad make the scale go to 20 to add Fatigue #greatest hits #Gepi

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vaxxman · 26 days

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Could I request Medic having The Mom Grip on Scout’s shoulder after the speedy moron almost let a mercenary secret slip while they weee getting groceries?

Three Europeans and two Americans walk into a grocery store in New Mexico.

I hope this is the right meme.

More silliness below.

This comic is the antithesis of the "wtf is a kilometre" joke.

The faces they make when they can't quite identify the type of brown bread in the bread aisle.

You don't know how [insert nationality here] you are until you go overseas and things are different.

Spy obviously has no problems with pretending to know how much a gallon of milk is, he just peeks into his conversion chart notes, pretending it's his shopping list.

I want to think Heavy is completely fine with having to readjust to a new unit system, he just eyeballs most practical things anyways by holding them up and mumbling about how they approximately weigh like a chicken or his kettle bell etc. He's always been living in practical ignorant bliss.

Medic has a peer reviewed meltdown the first time he realises there's no uniformity in "a cup of ____" because every object has different densities. He's diligent about memorising the conversion rates for ounces, pounds, the most common things etc., and recovers ok. He goes through the same stages of grief rage when he finds out about distances and lengths.

Just remember four inches are 10.16 cm and pray no one asks you to specify anything bigger than inches.

Everyone does a mental victory lap when they manage to guess how much Celsius the weather is because they keep forgetting it's Celsius*5/9+32=Fahrenheit, Engineer reminds them patiently.

The true victories are the correct temperature guesses we've made along the way.

One time, a friend asked me if I actually knew how much a tablespoon of flour was in gramms to convince me that metric users also make use of volume based units without thinking about them. But little did she know a heaped spoonful of 405 flour is about 15g and a level tablespoon is 10g.

They claim Oolong just tastes better when it's boiled to 80°C exactly with a Bunsen burner.

You only asked for one scene but somehow I came up with a bunch of other things. This post was drawn across 2 months so the artstyle is all over the place. Thanks for your ask!

#team fortress 2 #tf2 #tf2 medic #tf2 scout #tf2 spy #tf2 heavy #tf2 soldier #Medic's reaction to a stick of butter is 100% based on my own reaction after reading an American recipe for the first time #Like I didn't know butter in America came in this normed stick-form I genuinely thought it was some arbitrary unit like ??? A Stick??#As in I didn't know if the recipe required the butter to be in this specific shape; like sometimes you have to add butter in shaves or molt #no biggie lemme whittle away at my butter block until it's shaped like a stick? And then I learnt it was the portions that butter comes in #Cut me some slack; I'm used to recipes using eggs as the scale-up ingredient; not butter #I also learnt that medical labels is where metric units are mostly encountered simply because medicine is international #But that is the main reason why I think Medic would not realise he'd have to deal with imperial units until he goes grocery shopping #The man's just been ignoring the “oz” information right below everything he's ever used; out of sight out of mind #I want to think Engi is the most normal person about the entire metric-imperial-units thing he just does some mental arithmetic and done #King just learned système international d'unités during one of his 11 phds; it's not unrealistic

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tallmanbusiness · 1 year

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Welcoming the dawn of a new era. The AI Revolution.

Read time: approximately 7mins-16secs-ish.

It’s New Year’s Eve. This post marks the month which saw the consumer launch of Chat GPT. Here’s an entrepreneur’s perspective.

I have been immersed in the innovation/entrepreneurial eco-system for more than two decades. Over that time we’ve seen global ups and downs in the world’s economy, some of which arguably the most severe in history. We’ve never seen so much change, transformation, and new technology.

Literally all our established orthodoxies are being challenged.

I think people are hardwired to resist change. For many, sadly that resistance worsens with age - which is a problem in an ageing society. I saw a recent video interview in which Elon Musk observed that humans don’t simply resist change, sadly “humans tend to ossify, and then die”. To which I’d respond with my observations about entrepreneurs:

Whether or not we like change, entrepreneurs have a demonstrable knack for translating change into opportunity.

Entrepreneurial success is sometimes admired, occasionally celebrated, and often envied.

Entrepreneurial talent is sometimes revered, but often mistrusted.

Entrepreneurial competence is often regarded as mythical, unacacdemic, instinctive, eccentric, and exclusive - all of which I frustratingly believe to be completely untrue.

It both saddens and maddens me that in an era of unprecedented opportunity for innovation and progress so little is understood about entrepreneurialism; how to cultivate it; how to teach it; and how to democratise the benefits of an entrepreneurial mindset so that everyone can leverage the opportunities available. Particularly the lack of entrepreneurialism, innovation, intuition, and financial literacy in the formal education and curriculum of our kids.

I think this is important:

To help counteract and pacify the genuine and legitimate concerns and anxieties I hear from people contemplating their future careers, incomes, and livelihoods. By contrast, entrepreneurs have a talent of managing uncertainty positively.

I am a passionate egalitarian. I am greatly concerned by the apparent disproportionate growth of socioeconomic inequality. I believe that an entrepreneurial mindset helps drive prosperity individually and collectively.

To maximise the potential positive impact of new technology and accelerate the mass adoption of technological advances to help people, businesses, and the planet to flourish.

My belief is that the more that entrepreneurialism is demystified and codified; the more that entrepreneurialism is understood; the more that entrepreneurialism is democratised and made inclusively accessible - the more these issues of anxiety, inequality, and ecology can be tackled.

Global issues such as the environment and the economy are debatable. Whether or not you agree with the scientific evidence regarding global warming - and whether or not you care about the consequences of this issue. Whether or not you have concerns about your future financial health and stability. From the perspective of an entrepreneur what I see is a world in which:

There are potentially more jobs than there are people.

There are jobs that the majority of people just don’t want to do. Justifiably so.

The cost of living is a significant burden for many people, (below a threshold of indulgence).

Average expectations fall significantly below average outcomes.

Inefficiency and poor productivity holds us back.

Human error accounts for significant loss of life and injury.

We are perilously close to passing ecological milestones that are irrevocable.

For years corporate corridors have been dominated with angst conversation about “Disruption”. My point is, if all we talk about is disruption, then all we will see is disruption.

What if instead all we thought about was: “Liberation” - then perhaps what we would be looking for is ways to enable ourselves to be more free to do what ever it is that we want to do.

At one point ( a while ago) there was a growing momentum in a conversation about “UBI” - Universal Basic Income. The notion that everyone could/should be paid c. $500 per month in order to live. Interestingly, my sense is to a large extent that conversation seems to have gone away (or certainly quietened). I understand the idea as a notion to provide stability; a sustainable alternative to displaced employment; a new mechanism for wealth distribution. But my whole premise is the opposite to this - my premise is not how best to distribute free cash and to remunerate idleness. My whole premise is, how best to pursue technological advancement in order to eliminate costs - for people to be free to do what they want to do.

Recent progress in nuclear fusion - the source of limitless [relatively] impact-less free energy, gives us a tantalising glimpse at a scientifically viable route to delivering such cost reduction, in terms of providing

Free energy to power our homes;

Free energy to heat our homes;

Free energy to power our cars;

Free energy to radically reduce the cost of food production.

Easy to dismiss as fantasist and fiction. Scientific breakthroughs this month in nuclear fusion mean that the industrial application of fusion power is an inevitability within the lifetime of my daughters. My view though is that this is not the most significant technological development to have arrived this month.

In preparing my book I have re-read the c. 175 posts I published over the last ten years. What’s clear, especially in the earlier posts, is the extent to which I was trying to capture the birth of the ‘digital economy’ - whatever that is, and whatever it means. Ten years later it could be debated whether the digital economy has now landed - or whether the ‘beginning’ is now over and we’re somewhere in the ‘midst’ of it. That is not important. What is important is, the public launch in December 2022 of ChatGPT - which delivers explosively the start of the ‘AI economy’.

It is a moment we should all note in our conscious memory: where and when we were when we first made aware of it - and fascinatingly, what we first nervously asked of it.

The difference between the ‘digital economy’ and the ‘AI economy’ is not semantic. Not only is the difference profound - but also, with each new economic-era the consequence, significance, and impact multiplies. In the case of AI I believe the impact will be exponentially more profound than any previous economic era.

When I first used ChatGPT it became immediately apparent to me that both conventional search (eg. Google) and established advertising models/revenue would be completely rewritten. I strongly suspect that is merely the tip of the iceberg. With CHATGPT, for the very first time, the general public gets a real-world practical AI tool that it can play with meaningfully that delivers tangible and interactive results.

The entrepreneurially minded among us will be beyond excited, motivated, and energised by the possibilities that AI now creates. Those that are more attached to an incumbent mindset will be deeply distrustful of this development and will choose instead to operate in either denial or combat (or both).

The hospitality sector. The agricultural sector. The care sector. The medical sector. All have profound shortages of labour. It seems overwhelmingly inevitable to me that the advances in technology, such as AI now need to be combined with the willing/available human capital in order to multiply the productivity and efficiency of those workers to enable them to meet the evident demand. AI can help make our existing workforce bionic. The distress in the health sector in the UK demonstrates that that need is beyond critically urgent. Whole regions of the UK today have announced ‘critical-emergency-cover only’.

I asked ChatGPT a question (as follows) - to which it replied with the six bullet points below, in less than four seconds:

Q. In using AI to deliver a conversational companion for elderly people with dementia, what safeguards need to be in place to protect vulnerable people? For example, in cold whether if an elderly person asked, should I turn-down my heating to save money - how can their safety and wellbeing be ensured and protected?

There are several safeguards that can be put in place to protect vulnerable people, such as elderly people with dementia, when using AI to deliver a conversational companion:

Clear and concise language: It is important to use clear and concise language when communicating with elderly people with dementia, as they may have difficulty understanding complex instructions or concepts.

Safety reminders: The conversational companion should be programmed to provide safety reminders, such as reminding the elderly person to stay hydrated, take their medications, and dress appropriately for the weather.

Emergency contact information: The conversational companion should be programmed to provide emergency contact information in the event that the elderly person is in need of assistance.

Limited decision-making capabilities: The conversational companion should not be programmed to make decisions on behalf of the elderly person, as this could potentially put their safety at risk. Instead, it should be programmed to provide information and recommendations for the elderly person to consider, but ultimately it is up to the person to make their own decisions.

Human supervision: It is important to have a human caregiver or family member available to provide supervision and assistance to the elderly person, as needed.

Regular review and updates: The conversational companion should be regularly reviewed and updated to ensure that it is functioning properly and providing accurate and appropriate information and recommendations.

My next question ought to be “please can you code this to work via Alexa?” - which I have no doubt it can do, but then like many of my entrepreneurial peers, I’m just trying to figure out what problem to fix first and where best to invest my limited time and capacity.

I am not eulogising that AI is the answer to all our problems and that the future is going to be amazing. I’m also not saying that entrepreneurs have all the answers and are exclusively placed to leverage this new technology.

What I am saying is, is that the launch of ChatGPT and all the other flavours of AI that follow it, is a watershed moment. A before-and-after moment. More significant than when my parents replaced our black and white television for a colour TV.

From the perspective of business - I can’t think of a single industry that won’t be affected by AI technology. Whole industries will be (and are in need of being) completely rewritten as a consequence of the new capabilities that AI enables.

Like all changes of era throughout history before us - some of us will grasp the possibility that new technology represents as a positive opportunity. Others will fare less well. When we look back through history, so far, without exception the macro economic effect of each transition of era has been overall increased prosperity.

2023 is going to be epic!

Happy New Year.

#Business #Start-ups #Scale-ups #innovation #digital #ai #entrepreneur #coaching #mentoring #investment

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crystalflygeo · 1 year

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Ok but imagine dragon!Zhongli fills you up with eggs and by the time they hatch you end up with a bunch of tiny baby dragons squirming around like worms. What'd you do then??

WHAT'D I DO?? TAKE CARE OF MY CHILDREN OF COURSE???

"Worms", the audacity they are dragons and they are my precious babies omg

But fr tho imagine like a dozen of tiny baby noodles with a bit of fur and tiny stubby horns just curling up on your lap or around you as you sleep, draped around your shoulder, on top of your head (and Zhongli's) that is so cute pls too adorable. 💕

I'd imagine they'd be still too weak/young to fly let alone shapeshift so they're housebound, zhongli and you have to take turns watching them and going out to do stuff. Also since they're dragons/reptiles they wouldn't need milk?? rather probably just smol pieces of meat or like soft food aaaaaaaaaaaa too cute imagine feeding them with a spoon carefully.

Until they start teething that it, then they become lil menaces, biting everything on sight including each other when play fighting and/or their father (lmao) Zhongli would make small crystals they can bite into instead of destroying everything 💕

Speaking of their father imagine Zhongli feeling the urge to take dragon form just so he can curl around them and soothe them in a way they'd be more instinctually comfortable with (PAPA DRAGON ZL INSTINCTS RUNNING WILD IMAGINE HIM LICK-BATHING THEM SVCGAHBAK 🥺💕💕💕) tho they 1000% recognize you as mama and like to burrow in your hair or under your shirt (babies noooo) and just be close to/on top of you at all times

JUST A BUNCH OF TINY NOODLE BABY DRAGONS I WOULD WEEP I WOULD CRY like I did these???? I made them with my husband?? my babies??

smth like this is you will AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

#crys answers #PLS IMAGINE JUST TRYING TO CARRY A BUNCH OF BABY NOODLES AND THEY GET TANGLED TOGETHER AND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #I would adore being a dragon mama #zl can fill me up with eggs yep yep indeed #imagine their tiny scales and manes would have different shades of brown and whatever your hair color is #and at first you tell them apart by that #IMAGINE ONCE THEY LEARN TO FLY THO OH GOD #zhongli and you herding a bunch of floating ribbons #pls this is too cute I love it

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