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IMHO, links on SN should specifically accept target="_blank" so that when a reader clicks on a link, they don't have to be taken away from SN, but instead get a new tab (or window, if that's how they've set their browser up.)

At it stands now, adding that to a link results in it being stripped out.

The default behavior of a link in HTML is to change the current page context. In some cases, that's what you want. Perhaps even (slightly) in the majority of cases. But in the case of a conversation, leaving is not generally what you want.

In fact, I wouldn't be in the least opposed to the default behavior of placing a link on SN always adding target="_blank"

NASA Will Announce Its 1st Commercial Partners for the Return to the Moon Thursday

The selected companies will be revealed Thursday (Nov. 29) during a news conference held at NASA's headquarters in Washington, D.C. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine will lead the news conference. The event will begin at 2 p.m. EST (1900 GMT); you can watch it live on Space.com, courtesy of NASA TV, or directly at the agency's website.

I'll do a sub on it later. Check out the live news conference if you can.

‘Cowboy Bebop’ Live-Action Series Lands at Netflix

The series, which hails from Tomorrow Studios, has been in the works since last year. Netflix has ordered 10 episodes.

Shinichiro Watanabe, director of the original anime, will serve as a consultant on the project. Christopher Yost, who previously penned “Thor: The Dark World” and “Thor: Ragnarok”, will write the first episode and executive produce. Andre Nemec, Josh Appelbaum, Jeff Pinkner, and Scott Rosenberg of Midnight Radio will serve as executive producers. Yasuo Miyakawa, Masayuki Ozaki, and Shin Sasaki of Sunrise Inc.– the studio behind the original series–will also executive produce along with Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements of Tomorrow Studios, Tetsu Fujimura, and Matthew Weinberg. The series is a co-production between Netflix and Tomorrow Studios, with Netflix handling physical production.

The track record for adaptations of anime is not great. Another classic about to be sullied by Netflix?

On a side note, Variety.com has three separate posts about Finland offering incentives to film and TV productions. I guess Variety was offered an incentive, too.

Nubia's latest gaming phone comes with up to 10GB of RAM

Nubia Red Magic Mars announced: Snapdragon 845, 10GB RAM, and shoulder triggers

Not sure if I want to do another submission about a 10 GB of RAM "gaming smartphone". Although it could be amusing.

Dr. Sebastian Gorka, a beautiful man with a very big Heart & Brain who did tremendous work for me at the White House, has just written an excellent book, "Why We Fight: Defeating America's Enemies - With NO Apologies." ZERO apologies, folks. Sebastian has nothing to apologize for. And neither do I. I have this Country running LIKE A TOP. And Dr. Sebastian was a big help with that. He’s a big man. He’s all man. I won’t talk about the weight. I don't know what the weight is. And very frankly, I don't want to know. Maybe it's a problem and maybe it isn't. I won’t go there. But he’s a big man and he’s a great man. So get his Book now. Very good read! barnesandnoble.com/w/why-we-fight-sebastian-gorka-phd/1129292280

Update -- there's a lot of unfairness when it comes to the Books. Amazon is just not on an even playing field. They have a tremendous lobbying effort, in addition to having the Washington Post. What they have is a very uneven playing field. With many Divots for somebody that says, "oh, I'll open a beautiful new Bookstore." I have stated my concerns with Amazon long before the Election. Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state & local governments, use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U. S.), and are putting many thousands of retailers out of business. But, you want to save a little money, right? Maybe you want to save some money. Amazon, very proudly, has Dr. Sebastian's Book for a little less money. And they have what they call Audiobook. For the people that have Modern Cyber. You buy Audiobook, there's a cyber person reading his Book out loud to you. You can be reading Documents. You can be watching TV. Playing Golf (hello Obama). Or having "sex." While you listen to Dr. Sebastian's Audiobook. Amazing! amazon.com/Why-We-Fight-Defeating-Apologies/dp/162157640X

Previously: 4 Gallon Kimchi Ferment

I took it out on the 26th, so about 15 days of fermentation.

This version of the recipe had just 25% of the crushed red pepper I normally use. The resulting taste was much milder, but still satisfying, and still tasted like kimchi rather than sauerkraut or something. You get a more noticeable ginger taste this way.

The biggest disappointment may have been the radishes. By becoming soggy, they lost the crisp crunchiness they had at the start. This should have been obvious but I wasn't thinking about it. They became less spicy, which may be a plus for some. There have been kimchis made primarily of radishes for centuries, so it's not coming out of left field as an ingredient. I cut my red (Cherry Belle?) radishes into thin circular slices rather than cube chunks as seen in the linked recipe.

Rather than the 4 gallons I was expecting, I made just over 3 gallons, filling about 12.5-13 quart jars. I used a slotted spoon to get the veggies in the jars, and then put each jar in the sink so I could pour liquid from the bucket into it. Some minor gas buildup was already evident when I sealed and opened some of the jars. I'd like for it to develop that tangy carbonation I got in the old storebought kimchi, so some of these will be sitting around in the fridge for a long while.

I didn't see any signs of bubbling in the airlock, maybe because the bucket was only just over half full, or because the lactobacillus fermentation process is much slower than say, yeast + beer. I think the airlock may have helped in getting a consistent flavor with less "funk". It also prevented the smell from escaping into the room, until I opened the bucket.

I didn't write down the cost of materials but it was probably in the neighborhood of $15, or $30 counting reusable supplies, to make the equivalent of maybe $150-300 worth of kimchi. It should be able to stay good in the fridge for up to 6 months, possibly longer. I'll agree with the AC that says it's a waste of time to make bread. You are competing with impeccably baked artisan loaves in the $1-3 range (less for clearance bread). Kimchi or sauerkraut? You can easily beat it on price. Time spent making it isn't too bad (worse for kimchi than sauerkraut since I had to cut up a lot of stuff and soaked cabbage for a while). Simplify the steps for saeurkraut and you can start some in under half an hour. And you can put it on your meat and potatoes.

If any of you decided to make some, or buy some, I'd like to hear how it turned out.

Very honored to have done an incredible job Monday. When I held 2 amazing MAGA rallies in Mississippi. For TRUMP 2020 and for @cindyhydesmith. Huge huge crowd! So many folks waiting in line. You don't mind waiting. Because you love me. And you love Cindy. Cindy has voted with me 100% of the time. 100%. She's always had my back. She's always had your back. Vote for Cindy and send a very special message to the Radical Dems! If we win today, we go 53-47, and nobody can believe it! #RedTide

American Exorcism

Priests are fielding more requests than ever for help with demonic possession, and a centuries-old practice is finding new footing in the modern world.

As per this discussion, I am interested in making it easier to read posts and submissions that contain abbreviations and acronyms.

I suggested that a capability to illuminate such things be added to Soylent, which was met with somewhat of a yawn. Oh well. :)

But I thought I'd do it for my posts, and so I did.

It is a webapp that runs on a webserver, and you can use it as well if you like, presuming you have access to a webserver you can install it on.

Basically what it does is looks at all-caps and/or number sequences and looks them up, surrounds them with <abbr> tags, and pops the explanation into the title element of the tag.

It also provides a powerful macro engine you can use if you like. This can enhance the ability to post quite a bit, provide randomly selected signatures, etc. The limits there are pretty much set by your imagination. For instance, to produce <abbr>, I have this macro in the macro file:

[style tag <tt><b>&lt;[b]&gt;</b><tt>]

To use it in my post, I simply enter:

{tag abbr}

The project is located here.

So the next time you are thinking WTF when you read an acronym or abbreviation in my posts, you can just hover mouse pointer over it and be greeted with a short explanation.

I would be delighted to accept additions to the acronym file on Github, too. The more, the merrier.

And of course, if the coding gods at Soylent wanted to use the acronym file to implement this capability for use with TFS and perhaps even people's posts in general, that would be sweet.

Someone apparently hacked Drake’s Fortnite account and used racial slurs on a charity live-stream

Ninja plays Fortnite with fake Drake after Drake's account is hacked - hacker gets racist on stream

The account 'Duddus647' randomly joined Ninja's game while he was doing a charity livestream to raise money for the Ellen Fund, in collaboration with the Ellen show.

Believing that it was in fact Drake, Ninja attempted to text the rapper, saying "I'm not sure if Drake meant to invite me?" - before jumping into a game.

With the Drake account completely silent at first, Ninja began to play as normal, assuming that the star was maybe just setting up his microphone and audio.

Things seemed perfectly normal (if one of the most famous people in the world randomly joining your game of Fortnite can ever be considered 'normal'), and Ninja quickly got to taking out opponents.

Suddenly however, "Drake" broke his silence, except of course it wasn't Drake at all, but rather a hacker who had gained access to the account - and began saying the N-word repeatedly.

Drake (musician)

Aubrey Drake Graham (born October 24, 1986) known mononymously as Drake, is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur. His rapping ability has been noted as "polarizing", and has contributed to him being named one of the most divisive rappers of his generation by multiple critics and media publications. Drake initially gained recognition as an actor on the teen drama television series Degrassi: The Next Generation in the early 2000s.

[...] Drake holds several Billboard chart records. He has the most charted songs (186) among solo artists in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, the most simultaneously charted Hot 100 songs in a single week (27), the most time on the Hot 100 (431 weeks) and the most Hot 100 debuts in a week (22). He also has the most number one singles on the Hot Rap Songs, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay and Rhythmic Charts. Drake has also won three Juno Awards, six American Music Awards, and fifteen Billboard Music Awards. He is the RIAA's top certified digital singles artist and one of the world's best-selling music artists, with more than 95 million records sold globally.

Trump Fans Sink Savings Into ‘Iraqi Dinar’ Scam

Yes, reading the article it is clear that this is not new -- the scam was operating during the Obama years, and one anecdote does not really tell us about how widespread this is.

But still, I am going to laugh at how Trump fans were conned using Trump's words. In this case, though, it wasn't Trump running the con.

Hillary Clinton calls on Europe to curb migration to halt populists

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling on European leaders to enact stricter immigration policies in order to counter the growing threat of right-wing populism on the continent.

“I think Europe needs to get a handle on migration because that is what lit the flame,” Clinton told The Guardian in an interview published Thursday, referring to the rise of anti-immigrant politicians across Europe.

“I admire the very generous and compassionate approaches that were taken particularly by leaders like [German Chancellor] Angela Merkel," she said, "but I think it is fair to say Europe has done its part, and must send a very clear message — ‘we are not going to be able to continue provide refuge and support’ — because if we don’t deal with the migration issue it will continue to roil the body politic.”

#HillaryGraduatedFromBeingAnNPCBoss :^)