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What a ride it's been! As the word changed and swirled about us, SoylentNews has persevered through it all. I thank all the members of the community who have been with us since the beginning and welcome those who only recently joined us!
A special thanks go out to all those volunteers who got the site off the ground and set up a solid foundation upon which this site could be built. Thanks, too, to all who have contributed to the site. Doing coding, writing journal entries, moderating and writing comments, maintaining the support services upon which the site depends. I know of no other site that has the sense of community that I see established here. Thanks to you ALL!
Recent Site Activity:
Funds:
At last check, we have raised $818.64 of our $3,500.00 goal for the first half of the year (2022-01-01 through 2022-06-30). That amounts to 23.3% of out goal for the period! We have all-volunteer staffing at SoylentNews which means that every subscription to the site coes entirely to funding site operations (web hosting, accountant, taxes, business fees, etc.). Please accept a great big thank-you to everyone who has supported our site!
Folding@Home:
The SoylentNews Folding@Home team is still ranked in the top 400 teams in the world!!. Together, we have made contributions in understanding and finding cures for Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, cancer, and COVID-19!
At last check, (2022-02-16 23:32:58 UTC) we stood at 3,263,775,924 points having completed 176,784 work units -- Many Many thanks to all who contributed to the team's efforts!
Super Bowl Party:
It has become a tradition and last Sunday was no exception. SoylentNews hosted its fourth annual Super Bowl party on IRC. I struggled with getting an old laptop set up and running. (I had last used it for last year's party.) This involved installing Ubuntu 18.04 (and then upgrading to 20.04). Then, with able assistance from chromas we got the permissions set up on the channel. All told, we had about a dozen logged into the channel. Had some good chats and good cheer. Was well-worth the effort.
Lastly: Buck Feta! ;)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 17 2022, @02:26AM (13 children)
Don't you mean the Stupid Bowl? Or are we a bunch of bullied nerds cheering for the jocks while they rub eachother's asses and fuck our girlfriends? We shall NOT be humiliated.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 17 2022, @02:29AM
*brandishes Glamdring replica*
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 17 2022, @02:38AM (6 children)
Hi from not-Yankland.
No one cares about your holy war over sports no one else plays.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Thursday February 17 2022, @03:00AM (5 children)
There is a certain charm to as you get to watch gargantuan humans slam into each other and then every couple of seconds or so break, so they can show more commercials. It's like as if it was made for people with short attention spans or TV. What other sport is there where four quarters takes over three hours to play? The only thing worse is probably cricket, a game nobody understands but at least they are all fancy about it with tea breaks and such things.
Still if I do fancy watching gargantuan people fight it out I prefer boxing or Sumo. But are a lot more interesting imo.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday February 17 2022, @12:46PM (2 children)
I second sumo. The best is when one wrestler will flip the other off the doho and onto the spectators in the expensive seats right next to the ring. It's like watching a walrus pirouette in the air and land with a splash of blubber.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday February 17 2022, @05:52PM (1 child)
There are two female sumo wrestlers. They are stuck wrestling each other, since it is considered unseemly for male sumo wrestlers to touch them that way.
I saw them on a documentary once.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 18 2022, @06:54AM
Funny story that. Women's sumo is technically still banned in Japan despite being a fully recognized sport by the World Games and a recognized federation by the IOC. After a documentary on women's sumo (it may even have been the one you watched) became popular, there has been a large increase in the number of girls doing sumo. It isn't uncommon for them to make up almost half of the students at the training centers that will allow them.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Freeman on Thursday February 17 2022, @02:36PM (1 child)
Goooaaall!! Goal, goal, goal, goal gooaalll!!! You have now summed up every commentator's response to someone scoring a goal in Soccer (Football for people not from the USA).
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 17 2022, @08:46PM
I believe it is not uncommon to call it soccer in Wales and perhaps Scotland, at least.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 17 2022, @02:54AM
But my girlfriend is not Giselle Bündchen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 17 2022, @02:57AM (1 child)
Don't be lying to us. You never had a girlfriend for the jocks to fuck.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 17 2022, @03:10AM
It was an unrequited love that the jocks plowed.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 17 2022, @06:28AM
And here I thought #SuperbOwl would be full of fellow ornithological enthusiasts.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday February 17 2022, @12:48PM
I read blue-hair Millennials like that sort of thing.
Washington DC delenda est.