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The other soup recipe. Electricity required.

1. Get an Instant Pot.
2. Add 2 cups of dried beans (such as black, pinto, etc.) and 8 cups of water. Manually pressure cook (High) for 5 minutes and leave it for 10 minutes before releasing the pressure. This eliminates the need to soak the beans for hours.
3. Drain, return beans into the pot, add a 15 oz can of diced tomatoes, and whatever spices you want (get bulk granulated garlic). Add 2 cups of water or broth (or water with bouillon).
4. Manually pressure cook (High) for 10 minutes. Release the pressure after ~20 minutes.
5. Mash the beans a bit with a potato masher. Add iodized salt or spices to taste.

I can breathe again, but not the best, and still sick, but able to function a bit, so I went in to volunteer today and asked my boss if she needed me or if I should go back home.

I had gone in last night, but there were only three of us, and we were working in different areas, so I wasn't putting anyone at risk of catching a sinus infection, pneumonia, or a damn wicked cold.

I got the usual "you should go to the hospital for your rib and the other stuff. You sound awful." I explained that broken ribs have to heal on their own, I'm a lot better than a few days ago, and that the last time I went there with pneumonia they kept me for 10 days over Christmas and New Years, so I try to avoid hospitals, especially during cold and flu season.

Everyone asked what's wrong, I told them that they don't really want to get close to me, sinus infection, pneumonia, and a cold. Then I said, "No, actually, I ate Chinese food and caught coronavirus." That got a laugh every time.

Which brings up a question: How long can the coronavirus survive in the environment?

how long can the new coronavirus linger on surfaces, anyway? The short answer is, we don't know. But if this new coronavirus resembles other human coronaviruses, such as its "cousins" that cause SARS and MERS, it can stay on surfaces — such as metal, glass or plastic — for as long as nine days, according to a new study. (In comparison, flu viruses can last on surfaces for only about 48 hours.)

In the new study, researchers analyzed several dozen previously published papers on human coronaviruses (other than the new coronavirus) to get a better idea of how long they can survive outside of the body. The authors found that these coronaviruses can linger on surfaces for over a week but that some of them don't remain active for as long at temperatures higher than 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius). The authors also found that these coronaviruses can be effectively wiped away by household disinfectants.

Hmmm ... not the best news.

It's possible that a person can be infected with the virus by touching a contaminated surface or object, "then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "But this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads."

I haven't seen anyone mentioning this on the news - it's all about direct contact transmission or from airborne droplets from sneezing or coughs.

When everyone resumes shipments of phones and laptops from China, you might want to consider sanitizing them really well before putting them near your face.

Or wait until next fall/winter when it goes from pandemic to endemic.

First Mac to Use Apple’s Custom ARM-Based Processor Said to Arrive in H2 2021

Apple has made some very powerful ARM processors, and they will be among the first to get "5nm" from TSMC. 8 cores? I guess iPad Pro is the sneak preview of what the experience would be like.

Alleged AMD Next-Gen Flagship Navi ‘Radeon RX’ GPU Specifications Leaked – 5120 Cores, 24 GB HBM2e Memory, 2 TB/s Bandwidth

24 GB of VRAM would match what has been rumored to be the shared GDDR6 RAM pool of next-gen Xbox or PS5.

Some games already use over 10 GB at 4K, and machine learning workloads could use all of it.

As for the rest, they can dethrone the RTX 2080 Ti, but Nvidia will strike back with Ampere at some point. All product launches mentioned could be delayed by the coronavirus.

Four years ago, the Nevada caucuses were the moment Hillary Clinton began to turn the tide against Sanders in his upstart bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. This time around, the results could be further evidence that the Sanders surge is very real and very durable.

Caucus entrance polls show Sanders won a dominating 53% of the Hispanic vote - a demographic he struggled with against Clinton. That bodes well for the senator in the two biggest prizes coming up, Texas and California, with their sizeable Hispanic populations.

Sanders also, not as surprisingly, carried a majority of those ages 18 to 27 and voters who said they want someone who agrees with them on the issues.

If Sanders has a winning formula this time around, it could be that he has successfully diversified his coalition, while keeping his loyal support from the young and those who want a president who is with them on issues like major healthcare reform, aggressively combating climate change and addressing income inequality.

Nevada caucuses: Who won and who lost?

Nobody for President!

You know who is the only person on the list that has a chance, right? This has nothing to do with opinion, mine or yours.

It's probably the only peaceable way out of this

Broke the stupid rib again

In the last month, I must have re-broken the rib I broke in February of last year, because it hurt more than usual, and it was interfering with my breathing to the point that I was getting dizzy after an hour or so of light labour. Same as when I broke it and ended up with a hemothorax/pneumothorax.

I've been toughing it out. People say "why don't you go to the hospital", and I can think of two good reasons. (1) It's a rib - there's nothing they can du; and (2) no way am I going to the hospital ER during cold and flu season with a compromised lung. The last time I had pneumonia they kept me for 10 days. Only went the last time because I was hallucinating. As long as I can breathe, even with difficultly, I'll wait until it's safer.

The two cutest babies I've seen in ages

One of my co-workers showed up late and didn't come in. Turns out she had two REALLY REALLY cute infants in her car. I offered to take them on the spot, but they are already spoken for.

Big ears - would put Prince Charles to shame. Everything you expect from baby kangaroos and more. Really obvious when they're sucking away at their baby bottles (they're really young, after all).

They're amazingly soft, totally tame, and like being rubbed around the neck. Meeting them made my week, and it was completely by chance, because I had decided to stick around for a while, taking a break so I could catch my breath rather than go home.

I thought they were greys, but it turns out they're reds (yes, I am really colourblind). The father is 6 feet tall. Jody was taking them back to the Toronto zoo, an 800 km drive, which gets even longer when you have to stop for feedings, so it was a two-day trip.

Since Jody also volunteers with an animal rescue, I was hoping that these were climate change refugees needing a perma-home. Reds are too big, but I'd take a pair of greys.

Came close to going to the hospital after all

Turns out that always sleeping on the same side (to favour the broken rib) is a bad idea when you catch a cold - your sinuses don't drain properly, so I ended up with a sinus infection. Gross! Good thing I had some clindamycin left over from another series of hospital visits.

It worked, but it also seems to have unleashed the cold's full effects. I finally decided that if things didn't improve I'd go to the hospital because pneumonia is pneumonia, and needs to be treated.

Fortunately, by the middle of the next day I was coughing a bit less, though still out of breathe even when resting. Things continue to improve, and I should be whole sometime next week.

What a week! I still look at the kangaroo pictures from time to time, and they're still really cute. It would have been fun taking them for walks with the dogs. And as a bonus they'd be able to kick the shit out of anyone harassing me.

The Night watch is next! Get paid to snitch...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/21/politics/john-mcentee-disloyal-white-house-staffers/index.html

The aristarchus submission gourmet!

Behold! A Metric Kakaton of aristarchus submissions rejected by petty and vindictive SoylentNews editores and one dirty bird.

Political extremists have found a home on this GOP-backed Facebook group
New Jersey Raises Terror Threat Level for White Supremacist Extremists to High
Hanau: Germany boosts security amid far-right threat
Antisocial by Andrew Marantz review – America's online extremists
'This would be a top news story if the shooter was Muslim'
White extremists are on the rise around the world — emboldened by ‘heroes’ and hate music
Documentary that examines recent rise of anti-Semitism in U.S. and globally will open in NYC
Psychiatrist struck off for alt-right blog
An Alleged Alt-Right Attacker Killed 9 People In Germany
FBI Says White Supremacists As Dangerous As ISIS, So The Alt-Right Is Tweeting About 'Antifa Terror'
GESELLSCHAFTYouTube löscht Kanal des rechten Bloggers Nick Fuentes
Michelle Malkin receives media credentials for CPAC, despite being listed for alt-right conference
„Alt-Right” und neue Medien: Zur Norma­li­sie­rung rechts­po­pu­lis­ti­scher Propa­ganda
Alt-Right Group Handed Out Fliers In East Windsor In 2019: Report
What is the 'boogaloo'? How online calls for a violent uprising are hitting the mainstream
This Researcher Juggled Five Different Identities to Go Undercover With Far-Right and Islamists
In the Trump era, campus conservative groups are fighting one another
This Obscure Foundation Helped Fund The Alt-Right
This college was accredited by a DeVos-sanctioned group. We couldn’t find students or faculty.
Right-Wing Activists Discussed Wiretapping Seth Rich’s Family, Three People in the Room Say
Salvini loses immunity, and could face trial over alleged treatment of migrants
German president warns of racist 'poison' at Dresden WW2 bombing ceremony
Big Swinging Brains and fashy trolls: how the world fell into a clickbait death spiral
Alleged Manitoba neo-Nazi facing more charges
Neo-Nazi behind racist robocalls faces $12.9M fine from FCC
Neo-Nazi Rinaldo Nazzaro running US militant group The Base from Russia
Facial recognition company CEO says he doesn’t need permission to use your face
Is Internet Company Cloudflare Servicing Alt-Right & Pedophilic Sites?
The Long History of the Anti-Abortion Movement’s Links to White Supremacists
Alt-right’s Democrat ‘Mommy’ sues Hillary over Russia claim
Labour leadership campaign: will it be the alt-left media ‘wot won it’?
German authorities investigating neo-Nazi-labeled beer called ‘Reich brew’
Targets of the Groyper Army

Well, that's just mostly February, one of the shorter months. Should be something of interest to everyone, with the possble exception of exaeta. Feel free to discuss! (I particularly like the Seth expose, the anti-abortion retropective, and the "fashy trolls" one.)

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Good discussion, Soylentils, especially about the white genocide of black babies. Better than having the police summarily execute them because of their skin color, I guess. But a few more rejections.

Zeno's Paradoxes
No idea why this would have been rejected, pure philosophy, and, you know, like, logic? Must have teared up takyon, again.
Jeremy Christian Has Been Found Guilty on All 12 Charges for 2017 MAX Stabbings.
This was the Christian man, stabbing other Christians, or at least patriotic American, who objected to him harrassing women, on a train, in Portland. I would have hoped they cut off his endocrine systems. Another report is in the queue, soon to be quashed as well, by the merciless bias of SoylentNews Editores. Poor bastards.

Watch them wrassle a pair of siamese elephants

Still too close to call...

QOTD:

...Gabbard won by not being there. The dog and pony show conducted by corporate news has adult political aspirants panting like sixth graders for teachers attention. Demeaning to all involved.

Extremely so... Looked like they were begging permission to go to the bathroom.

This has to be part of the Trump campaign. He has them doing a Keystone Cops routine, shooting at each other. What a scene!

Big 501(c) scam, all of this