I play multiple woodwinds, including recorder. Kids aren't taught how to play it right and the recorders they give the kids are kinda junky so they sound bad. The recorder is a quiet instrument, one doesn't "blow" through it, they touch it to their lips and exhale, least amount of air to sound the note is always the right way to play it, it fell out of favor because it's dynamic range is so limited.

This one is one of the best, and I've tried nearly all of them since they are so cheap:

https://earlymusicshop.com/products/mollenhauer-prima-soprano-recorder-in-blue-plastic-and-pearwood

Recorder is a gateway to other woodwinds, flute, saxophone, and clarinet, in particular.

When I was young, boxelder bugs used to come stick to the houses in the fall seeking a warm spot--hundreds of them. Haven't seen them in over 20 years. Also, used to have tons of milkweed, grasshoppers of all species, crickets and other insects all night long, and butterflies and bees galore.

Now it seems, all we have is mosquitos and flies.

When I retire, I'm moving North so I can try to live in a similar climate as my youth, maybe eastern Montana or western North Dakota.

Nah, no splurges, just dried beans and rice from the bulk bins. Sometimes you gotta pick up small stones, but that's the cost of freedumb. Oh yeah, canned corn was 3 for a dollar with a coupon, so I got some of that the other day, makes a decent addition to my rice and bean soup.

He's wrong. The U.S. was full of genocidal maniacs in the military leadership and Presidency throughout the cold war. In fact, War criminal Eisenhower threatened to nuke China in the first Taiwan Straight Crises, which led to China building their own nuclear weapons to avoid being pushed around, making the world that much less safe. If you really want to know how bad things were, the leaked Pentagon papers is a good place to start.

It's a miracle that we didn't have a world-ending nuclear holocaust.

This is animal abuse. That poor cat, torn from it's lovely farm life and all its family, to be thrust into a high stress living situation with those abusive dogs. Just terrible.

This is really good, because it might open the door to additional lawsuits against public officials.

Conspiracy to advance US interests: It was a cyber attack by state actors that led to the ship malfunction.

Conspiracy to blame Captain of the Port as a scapegoat so US won't admit fault: Captain of the Port didn't mandate use of harbor tugs for moving past the bridge (it should be a regulation, that its not is ridiculous).

Conspiracy theory to advance private economic interests: Like 9-11, it's better to take out skyscrapers and critical infrastructure using accidents so the public bears the costs rather than the owners.

Stay safe. I hope posting here doesn't put you in any danger.

U.S. will give billions of dollars to support genocide, but won't feed it's own children. We've surpassed biblical levels of evil.

Steak is literally one of the easiest things to cook. You can easily buy a nice USDA prime steak from a local butcher, pay 25% the cost, and cook it in 20-30 minutes. If you're fancy, and it's a thick cut, dry brine it overnight with salt, and then sous vide or bake in oven at like 250, then finish by searing in a hot pan with butter (or ghee) that was infused with rosemary and crushed garlic. Still stupid easy to do.

I only go out to eat for things that are a pain to make, like many Indian dishes.

Yeah, I grew up in the corn belt. First, he's not from there, so they are going to be polite and have polite conversation. Because that's what you do with company, especially weird-o strangers who want to talk about white nationalism. Most of these people aren't as dumb as this chud might think, they're probably wondering is this guy is some sort scam artist or federal agent trying to rope them into something. Second, these are salt of the earth working class family farmers that grow corn and soybeans, these people spend their lives working, like, never going on a vacation, having a farm, and having a second job, and working until they're like 70-75 and physically can't work anymore. They don't have time for such bullshit.

Yes I agree. Only us true hexbears should be allowed here.

Have Canadian police been reading about degrading material conditions leading to revolution?

This is what StarTram is, the launch system maintains a vacuum. The system won't work without that feature.

You're correct, but hypersonic is an important term because there's different design considerations for machines that operate near and above the sound barrier, usually they commonly broken into transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic, used in aerospace industry and science. My physics master's degree is in compressible fluid dynamics. With supersonic, you want something that pierces the air like the Concord, with hypersonic, you want something that is more blunt and can withstand the heat (think space shuttle or space re-entry capsule)

China is definitely the leader in hypersonic anti-ship missiles, Russia is second. Also Russia/USSR was a major leader in supercavitating torpedos launched from submarines, probably still the leader today. All-in-all, it doesn't matter too much who's in the lead, the very existence of these technologies makes all surface navy ships nothing more than targets to be sunk within hours, the asymmetry between offensive and defensive capabilities is extreme.

If you really want to know what the US so-called experts admit to when it comes to US vs China capabilities, the best things to read are the "national defense strategy" the "DoD budget request" and the actually budget bill, known as the NDAA, that's where they admit that China is ahead in many technologies, or that the US has no way to defend against them.

https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/us-army-unlikely-to-meet-end-of-year-hypersonic-goal

https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/us-army-unlikely-to-meet-end-of-year-hypersonic-goal

YES YES YES YES YES YES OMG I'M GONNA BLOW!!! :WHALE

https://hexbear.net/comment/4678292

Unfortunately, more toxic than that. Green potatoes contain high amounts of solanine,; its toxic. I can't eat potatoes because I've had solanine poisoning from eating green potatoes and now any amount of potato skin triggers hives.

I can't think of a worse way to prepare food. More than half that food is going to waste, so nasty and disgusting. I'm going to invent a time machine, find the mother of the person who came up wtih seafood boil, and teach her to teach her child not to play with his food.

Then I'm going to do something more productive with that food, like not mix it with animals from the sea.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/samanthawieder/we-need-to-talk-about-how-fucking-gross-seafood-is

I'd build the world's first international spaceport. If it was USA, I'd build it up the side of the Hawaii volcano. The goal is to get it as high as possible, as close to equator as possible, to take advantage of earth's angular velocity. If possible, building in the Andes would be even better.

Startram gen 2 or bust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarTram

Humanity has to cut the cost of space launches by 99% or more if we are ever going to advance to the next phase of history: Mining the asteroid belt for necessary minerals. All progress comes from raw materials in some capacity and the asteroid belt is a near unlimited source.