I'm just here

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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Shev Simon, 2026

It is, I BELIEVE, a website intended to be used by restaurants for bulk ordering food and utensils. And this is bringing me such unbounded delight scrolling through and recognizing that I, a single individual, ALSO can order ridiculous obscene enormous offensive-to-all-common-sensibilities shipments of BULK FOOD, to my LITTLE LITTLE APARTMENT, for PENNIES on the dollar. I have this god given power to flood my entire living space with bulk grains and it is one single button click away from my reality.

30 POUNDS of chocolate for $100. 20 POUNDS of peas for $13?? $13!!!! I will wake up every single morning from now on knowing that a box of donuts and a sack of dried split peas heavy enough to bodily injure someone both carry equal monetary weight. 25 POUNDS OF ONION POWDER for $50. Do you understand the enormity? the accessibility? the potential here? With the single click of the button I can put myself in a position of bequeathing more than a humanly comprehensible amount of onion powder in my will. AND IT WOULD ONLY COST ME $50 TO MAKE THIS A REALITY.

But what gets me

What truly gets me

is the 50 POUND BAG OF RICE 

FOR LESS THAN $20

Do you know how much that kills me? How much I’m losing my mind? that I can order MYSELF WORTH OF RICE for something to the tune of $50? I can OUT-RANK MYSELF WITH RICE, DEMOCRATICALLY OVERRULE MYSELF WITH RICE, IN MY OWN APARTMENT for the fucking PENNIES that is $50

🥚: scrambled or soft boiled

🥩: rare

🥛: skim

🍷: …not sure. i like mocktails though, so i’d probably like cocktails?

🥚: scrambled with LOADS of cheese or in a cheesy omelet. Basically I can’t eat eggs unless they are buried in cheese lol

🥩: medium rare. preferably with a bunch of fatty bits the fat is the best part

🥛: chocolate. it’s the only way I’ll drink milk. unless I’m dipping a cookie in it

🍷: I don’t drink alcohol because 1. i’m a minor 2. it destroyed my late aunt’s life :D

☕️: hot chocolate also :3

🥩: medium rare

🥛: I only buy whole milk bc that’s what my parents bought growing up (apparently young boys need the extra fat in whole milk? Or something? And I had a lot of brothers?) and other milk tastes icky and thin to me now lol. Also I just don’t really drink milk but I like to have it around for various uses

🍷: I don’t drink :3 there is a mocktail bar in my town I visit occasionally tho

☕: peppermint tea absolutely SLAPS. Also I recently got an herbal chai type mix from a small business at a local craft fair and boy oh BOY

🥚 - poached (on a bagel with bacon and avocado yummm)

🥩 - i don’t rlly eat steak but i’d probably say medium

🥛- sugar free oat milk - i usually only have it in cereal tho :D

🍷 - i don’t drink either but i love mocktails!!

☕️ - omg you get me, i LOVE peppermint tea too!!! like so much my friends want to get me a kettle lmao. i discovered it after i lost my voice and i’ve loved it ever since

🥚- fried

🥩- i’d say medium rare like literally everyone else mostly because i have no idea about steak

🥛- whole milk, it’s just yummy dude

🍷- i don’t really drink but i rlly want to try beer

☕️- coffee, like any time, i love it bitter and i love it sweet it’s just so good man

🥚 - fried or poached (basically anything goey)

🥩 - literally never had steak but it would probably have to be whatever the most cooked version is bc i couldn’t stand it being raw

🥛 - WHOLE MILK THE OTHER ONES ARE WATERY YOU PSYCHOPATHS

🍷 - don’t drink and don’t want to, i did have one really really nice blood orange mocktail once at a gala dinner that i’ve never found again but for the most part i don’t like them either cos i don’t like fizzy stuff

☕ - hot chocolateeeeee

🥩 - Medium

🥛- 2% milk bc it tastes better than the other ones

🍷- I can’t legally have it so idk

☕️ - Peppermint tea

Tags!!

🥚 - fried or scrambled with A LOT of cheese

🥩 - medium

🥛- I dont drink milk😞

🍷- im a minor so I dont drink but I probably won’t in the future

☕️ - chamomile tea <3

steak: medium rare

milk: 2%

alcohol: i dont drink but sometimes i put grape juice into a wine glass and act like im a professional wine taister (:<<<

warm drink: hot chocolate

🥩 ribs: i prefer medium

🥛: me no like cow juice

🍷: minor

☕: hot chocolate

tags under cut:

🥩 = medium/ medium well

🥛 = cow’s milk I guess? No preference other than that

🍷 = ✨minor, can’t drink ✨

☕ = coffee foreverrrr

🥩: Vegetarian

🥛: Chocolate

🍷: Minor, but I want to try beer

☕️: Hot Chocolate or Black Tea

Tags below the cut:

🥩: Never had it

🥛: Saffron

🍷: Brandy

☕: Tea, I like to try different types, but I’m partial to jasmine, saffron, mint, and coffee. (No milk, mint sweetened, coffee and saffron occasionally sweetened, jasmine never)

🥩: I will eat steak in no form

🥛: Oat, Soy, Almond (lactose intolerant)

🍷: Sake (though it is extremely rare I drink on account of my liver transplant.)

☕: Chai spice (specifically mixtures of black tea, cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, clove, and usually honey or other sweeteners) latte with plant-based milk

🥩: I don’t eat meat.

🥛: Semi-skimmed.

🍷: I don’t drink.

☕: Peppermint Licorice tea :>

🥩: Medium!

🥛: 2%!

🍷: I don’t drink, but I like non-alcoholic strawberry daiquiris!

🥚: Egg - over medium on toast with mayo, sliced tomatoes, onion, salt and pepper.

🥩: Steak- Rare, but not blue.

🥛: Milk -Whole fat. Although I am not lactose intolerant, I do like oat milk.

🍷: Alcohol - semi sweet red wines or stout beer that has notes of bitter dark chocolate or coffee.

If you live anywhere on the Colorado front range, the Colorado foot hills, or basically anywhere East of the continental divide, I cannot stress enough how careful you need to be tomorrow, December 17th, 2025. There is a big wind event predicted and I have never seen them get this wound up about a wind event before. Given the complete lack of snow so far this winter, fire danger is going to be very, very high.

Colorado Emergency Management has already stated they'll be doing preemptive power shutoffs for multiple counties, and this morning our dispatch center got an email from the higher ups saying that we should take today to make sure all our resources are statused properly in the system we use to move resources between the districts, to not have resources working on other projects tomorrow, and to know exactly how many resources we have available where.

This post isn't meant to scare anyone, if anything it's to help you feel safer because of how much we are doing to get ready just in case. I just want to make sure everyone is aware. Here's a map of the effected areas:

(You can see the map for yourself on the weather.gov site and click your county for more specific information on timing and such.)

If you're in pink or the lighter gold, you're in the area of concern. Do not do any open burning of any form. Take today to rake leaves away from your house, check spark guards on any chimneys, etc. And be prepared to potentially lose power tomorrow.

Watch Duty actually JUST TODAY released power outage information for everyone, so that's just another reason to get that app. (And a few weeks ago, they officially expanded to cover the entire country!)

Also, even if you're NOT in one of the marked areas, please still be cautious so that if something DOES happen, resources are free to move around and go help.

Check your county website to make sure you are signed up for emergency alerts as well. Even if you are already signed up, go check again. One of the most popular county alert systems is Code Red, and they were subject to a cyber attack that took them down entirely recently, so your county may have changed how they do things!

““The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can now be cleaned,” announced Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat, the wonderkid inventor who’s spent a decade inventing systems for waterborne litter collection.

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