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posted by martyb on Thursday February 17 2022, @02:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the has-it-been-that-long? dept.

Exactly eight years ago, HTTPS was uncommon, COVID-19 never existed, the 2014 Winter Olympics were under way, and ... SoylentNews was born!

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!

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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! ;)

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday February 17 2022, @12:46PM (2 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday February 17 2022, @12:46PM (#1222455) Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday February 17 2022, @05:52PM (1 child)

    by hendrikboom (1125) on Thursday February 17 2022, @05:52PM (#1222553) Homepage Journal

    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

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 18 2022, @06:54AM (#1222715)

      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.