there was a time when canada had the ability to influence us policy rather than stand directly against it. years worth of stupid policy intended to be confrontational and competitive instead of cooperative and pragmatic have eliminated any room canada may have had to change the outcome.

the best thing canada can do is call for an orderly and prompt transition of power. we don't have the soft power influence in washington that we once did.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11687686/cuba-crisis-canada-ambassador-aid/

i was expecting to get two or three meals out of this. i might get as many as 7.

so, i'm altering this to adjust:

i actually made this last night and then didn't eat much of it. i'm going to try to get through it tonight, but it might be three or even four days of soup.

it's far more like soup, now.

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- take a full package of oxo cubes and let it sit in a bowl with water, stirring until it dissolves. this will be intense beef gravy.

- chop up broccoli florets

- chop up an entire bulb of garlic

- chop up 75 g of kale stalks

- chop up thawed or defrosted broccoli stalks and put them in a blender. use a 375 g margarine container full and refill for next pot.

- add chopped up citrus peels. also use 375 g margarine container and refill.

- add a full carton (1 L) of unflavoured, unsweetened soy milk

- blend a little, just to cut it up a bit

- using a frying pan,

- start with olive oil margarine

- i'm chopping up kale stalks instead of celery. fry them in the margarine for two minutes, covered.

- add the entire bulb of chopped garlic. fry for another two minutes, covered.

- put the contents of the frying pan in a pot

- add the blended mix with a 1/2 box of vegetable or chicken broth (500 ml) and the bowl of dissolved oxo cubes

- add the chopped broccoli florets

 - let this come to a boil (uncovered)

- cook it half-covered on low for 30 minutes. stir regularly, checking for overflows.

while it's cooking, 

put the bacon on first. i'm using an entire 375 g pack.

put the following in a bowl:

- chopped fresh dill

- two avocados (chopped)

- also, grate some cheese (200 g monterrey jack, 200 g mozzarella, 200 g cheddar, 200 g marble)

- chop up some bread (this time, i'm using up the remaining sourdough)

- put the contents of the pan in the bowl

- put the bacon with the grease and oil in the bowl

- add the following: 

- frank's

- pepper

- cayenne

- oregano

- cumin

- paprika

- dried dill

- jalapenos

this bowl of soup cannot be eaten at once and will be stored as is. i was surprised by this.

- partition a small amount into a reasonable sized bowl. fill the bowl, but note that the soup is flling.

- add some bread

- add some amount of the grated cheese

- broil to melt cheese

when done, add the following on top:

- nutritional yeast

- hemp seeds

- ceasar

- fresh broccoli florets

we're happening to get hit with that bit of purple right now. it sucks but it's random; it could have fallen in any direction.

note all the bright red. that is actually a consequence of the purple dissipating, which was the cold we all suffered through. you can actually see where this chunk of purple is pinching off  at the wisconsin-michigan border, in the upper peninsula.

the red will rapidly consume the purple, and the sun is already shining again in most of the polar region.

the american eastern seaboard just got hit with the remnants of a category 2 hurricane. that's why it's snowing. that's not because the oceans are cold, or the amoc is shutting down or anything like that. hurricanes are complicated, but they form primarily due to temperature gradients in the open ocean. all that snow is ocean water that evaporated, cooled and came crashing down again.

it hit a cold front that's a remnant - hopefully the last - of the sun's recent nuclear strike on the earth. the sun has recently nuked the north pole several times, throwing cold air every which way.

cold front  + hurricane = north eastern storm.

the result still holds that all of this experienced cold is actually a consequence of two warming processes, the increased radiation in the arctic (sudden stratospheric warming) and the increased ocean temperatures in the atlantic, which is a longterm trend. 

the fact that the sun is quiet right now is going to dampen this a little, but the data suggests a warming trend. the northern hemisphere is going to take a little bit of time to deal with this cold air everywhere, but when it does lift, the spring will come on suddenly and summer will follow quickly. we're already seeing glimpses of this. we should avoid late cold snaps this year because there's going to be no more cold air to scatter.