Overnight Soak for Beans: Soaking your beans overnight is the most traditional method, and it yields the best results. It allows you to cook beans on the stove quickly without sacrificing flavor or texture. To soak beans overnight, put the beans in a pot and cover with water by about two inches. Add 2 tablespoons kosher salt per pound of beans and allow them to soak for 4 to 12 hours, or overnight. Drain and rinse the beans before cooking.

Short Soak for Beans: If you didn’t plan ahead to soak your beans overnight, don’t fret. You can still get similar results using this quick soak method. To start, put the beans in a pot on the stove and cover with water by two inches. Add salt and bring to a boil. Turn off the heat and let the beans soak for an hour. Drain and rinse the beans before cooking.

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I also add half a yellow onion to my beans while they cook.

I voted for her but don’t like her.

Primarily, because of her stance on prison labor which is just slavery with extra steps.

Anyone who values their mental health and acuity would do well to stay away from TikTok and other short-form media.

Once you lose your ability to focus and pay attention for long periods of time, it’s incredibly difficult to get that back.

I once worked for a CPA who asked me what a balance sheet was for.

He was from a wealthy Tibetan family dynasty and clearly paid his way into the industry, but who knows why he would choose to do that because he clearly was completely over his head.

We used to call him Michael Scott sans charisma.

Not in Gravesandestraat.

Not in Amsterdam.

Almost ate shit last month while riding.

We have a set of criteria for what constitutes a cult, and scientology is unequivocally a cult. If there’s any debate, it’s from the church trying to deny the fact.

Likewise, we also have the scientific method that disproves the health claims regularly made by homeopathy practicioners.

Unfortunately, it is paywalled. Can you copy the text for the rest of us?

Decades ago, a video game mod is what led me into computer programming.

Intellectual curiosity comes in all forms. What we lack is the time to pursue it and explore where it leads us.

Lol, did we work at the same place?

“Empty suits” it’s the realest statement.

I resigned my position because I couldn’t take it anymore. I told leadership that I refuse to use my skills and talents for those who I do not respect, and they responded by saying that there was a lot of money on the line.

They can fucking keep it. Fucking ghouls.

Imagine all the artworks, music, and scientific discoveries that would be made if people were just paid a basic income and set free to pursue endeavors that strike their curiosity.

Clearly the work of wizards.

When experts across multiple disciples, all across the world, are sounding the alarms about AI that is not being hyperbolic.

You are basically learning from something incapable of teaching you the fundamentals, and who will never challenge you and help you refine your own critical thinking and research skills like a mentor or a professor will.

When you use AI, all you are really doing is helping your employer make a profit and lay the groundwork to justify firing you and your colleagues down the road.

You know what I made with my programming and coding skills?

Patches and updates so you could have more fun playing with your computer, making digital art apps more streamlined and easy to use, adding accessibility features for the disabled.

AI is just there to make you more “efficient” so you can make someone else a profit, all while the billionaire owners continue to rape the planet and everything in it.

You and I are on the same team as far as I’m concerned. I’m trying to look out for you, not fight you.

I may be a tax professional today, but I’ve been passionate about computers since before computers had GUI.

Your computer most likely uses plugins that I wrote back when I was obsessed with programming, especially if you use Linux systems.

Basically, I was one of those who wrote the documentation you depend on when you are troubleshooting your AI code.

To do your vibe coding, you depend on tools that people like me designed and maintained over decades. And once we go, these tools will break and you will be helpless if others do not step up with the same level of passion and intellectual curiosity that is critical to problem solving processes.

AI cannot simply build new tools because it lacks the intellectual curiosity that drives humans to understand their environment, identify problems, and work collaboratively with others.

AI is not intelligent. It is only capable of looking backwards, not forward. It is a performative regurgitation of information gathered and synthesized by others, and it does that very poorly.

All LLMs are hallucinating and going psychotic even when there’s billions of dollars being thrown at the problem, because it is a problem that cannot be fixed because of the very nature of how LLMs are put together.

My advice to you is to reduce your AI usage and practice making things from scratch.

Not just coding, but other processes too like baking, cooking, repairing objects, writing, painting, etc.

Thinking and learning are literally the best parts of being human, and all AI will ever teach you is how to avoid thinking and it will steal all the opportunities for you to genuinely learn something new.

Because even after a twenty year hiatus, I can probably do whatever coding you are doing-- but I can do it without relying on AI.

Corporations are firing and laying off labor, but that labor is not being done by AI-- it’s simply falling on those who are still employed or not getting done at all.

I resigned from an international public accounting firm due to having AI forced on very sensitive and delicate projects in order to lower costs. As a professional, every alarm bell went off and I left because I could be held liable for their terrible managerial decisions.

They told me they were sad to see me go, but AI is the future and hope I changed my mind-- this was all back in April.

Not only did AI fail to do a fraction of the work we were told it was going to do, it caused over $2MM in client damages that the firm then used to justify the firing of the remaining members of the projects’ team for failing to properly supervise the AI, even though every manager struggles to open a PDF.

AI is not the future because it is literally only capable of looking backwards.

AI is a performative regurgitation of information that real people put the time and energy into gathering, distilling, refining, and presenting to others to evaluate and contribute to.

Even worse, AI demonstrably makes its users dependent and intellectually lazy. If you think about it, the more prevalent AI usage becomes, the less and less capable people will be left to maintain it. And to all the fools crying out that AI will take care of itself or robots will, I say:

All LLMs are hallucinating and going psychotic, and that is not something that can be fixed due to the very nature of how LLMs work.

AI is not intelligent. And while it could be, that would take far too much energy and resources to make cost-effective machines with as many neural connections present in the brain of an average MAGA voter-- and that is already a super a low bar for most of us to clear.

AI made a $2M mistake at the public accounting firm I worked at.

Management responded by blaming and firing an entire team for not double-checking the AI output, even though it was literally impossible for them to do so due to the volume of the output and lack of experience.

This will be you, sooner or later.

“What do you think you should do?” is not about requesting a solution a problem.

It’s an invitation to self-reflect, which is something that is difficult for almost everyone-- especially those trapped in a mental spiral.

In cognitive behavioral therapy, you learn that thoughts are what shapes our emotions and our emotions are what drives our behavior.

This is why it is important to identify cognitive distortions that will exacerbate unhealthy emotions, and consequently, unhealthy behavior.

I have had to drop a few friends who use their time in therapy exclusively seeking validation and nothing more, because they are afraid of challenging the way they think and behave. They live and breathe cognitive distortions and they really do not like who they are without them.

Validation is important, but it’s not the end goal of therapy.

That said, everyone traverses life at different speeds so it’s important to exercise patience and compassion whenever possible.

GNU Cash is an excellent alternative to QuickBooks as long as you do not need payroll services.

Accounting:

Intuit products. They mislead people into thinking they are saving money by not paying an accountant or taking a class or two at the community college.

Depending on the situation, it can result in heavy fines and fees when the books or tax returns need to be corrected.