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I saw a youtube of a modern cowboy shooting at stuff.
His hand is already near the gun, like in western movies.
When the signal comes, Iirc he simultaneously bends his knees, gets in kind of a hunching position and barely pulls the gun out rotating it in hip height towards the target and shoots.
Unfortunately, I have no link nor a name to the channel.

It really isn't like it's depicted in those pirate movies or the aristocratic era dueling movies.

Glasshole

With a side of rice,
three onigiri,
aand two buns.

Don't let the door hit you on your way out.

Woman can only give birth every year.
A single man on the other hand might impregnate women each and every week, from maturity till his heart stops beating.

So woman held considerable power in any society and it would only be natural for men to seize the means of reproduction.

I think that's what happened, historically speaking.

Mf formed a tetrarchy.

He saw that the empire was simply too big to for one emperor and nominated a co-emperor and both together nominated juniors called caesars.
Hence the name tetrarchy.
Both caesars were to become augusti themselves and nominate new juniors to follow them.
The choice was to be made by ability and merrit.

After diocletian retired and forced his co emperor to retire with him, so the tetrarchy could work, family loyalties caused the death of the system. It was never tried again.

Diocletians failure was not to see, that the aristocrats were unwilling to ignore family ties.

Btw.
Sulla wasn't an emperor but considering in his time he had all the strings of the republic in his hands, I'd like to add him to the list.
He retired to his villa in naples in lived his days out, if we believe our sources, in a litany of sexual perversions.

Alessia?
Legendary siege.

When their supplies ran low, the gauls let the women and children leave the city.
Caesar didn't let them pass through the siege so with no water they all perished within days bedween the city walls and the inner siege ring.

Cleopatra should have done the same.
Pretentious bitch fled the scene "out of womanly anxiety" so we hear.
Her wing of the naval for e followed and from then on the battle went in favour of ~~Anthony~~ Agrippa.

Avoid metal stuff while soaking and don't add salt before they're cooked.
It can harden the hull.
You may add some sodium bicarbonat to soften the hull but you need to experiment with the cooking time.
A pressure cooker is nice but you either need to calculate in the time it needs till you can open the pot.
Or you take the easy route and cook them till they're done and you terminate the cooking process by cooling the pot in water.

I already soaked and cooked 1,8 kg.
That's twelfe more portions of black beans while I still got twelfe left in the freezer.

Soaking 1,8 kg for 24h.
Cooking in three batches in a pressure cooker.
It takes 9 minutes till the pressure is up.
15 minutes of simmering.
Immediately cooling the pot with water to bring pressure down.
Filling pot with cold water and stirring to cool down beans to terminate cooking and preparing for freezer.
Portioning 150g - which now, after cooking the beans, weighs around 310-350g - into freezer bags, flattening them and flapping the excess part of the bag over.
You want them as flat as possible so later on the frozen beans can easily be broken apart and prepared faster. Stacking the bags in the freezer.

Now just put a portion of fast cooking grains or rice in the pot, add frozen beans and kale, enough water and cook them.
Sieved tomatoes and herbs and spices can be added after cooking to cool the meal down a little so you can immediately start eating.

Btw. I need to soak some beans.

Every third shift is an undesired shift.
I arranged my six weeks of time off accordingly spread evenly around the year.
Now the undesired shift gets postponed and I have to tske that in account too when making long term appointments.