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.

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.

The US will blow a trillion dollars on a failed F-35 program, but won't even build up its own semiconductor manufacturing industry. The US truly is fucked.

America won WWII through recycling model Ts and other crap we had laying around in landfills and turning it into ships planes and tanks. We shipp all our scrap to other countries these days, there is no reserve to quickly ramp up new production lines. In fact, China built some of their infrastructure on the bones of American waste, even including the scrap we sent over from the world trade center and the solar panels that Carter put on the white house. America is so fucked in any conflict with China. America couldn't even beat Illiterate Afghani with busted-up AK-47s who never even heard of 9-11.

But also, he's the second worst of 2 choices. And if you're Palestinian or Houthi, he's the first worse.

Trump on Bolton: "A total & unhinged WARMONGER, the red faced 'boiler ready to explode' was one of those very stupid voices that got us into the Middle East quicksand, Seven Trillion Dollars, & Millions of deaths later, NOTHING!" the former president went on.

My work uses Tableau. It's a data visualization program, so you can present live data on dashboards, instead of creating weekly powerpoints. My work still creates powerpoints.

So I just posted a post about Biden's attempts to censor the internet via the "combating misinformation and disinformation" initiative, for which the Biden admin has been sued, and the mods removed it. Go figure. That place is so propagandized, the userbase never had a chance.

Of course there's more behind it, but they're not wrong. Groceries are something people tend to buy on repeat, so they notice when the prices go up.

We've been lied to for decades about inflation (much higher, official numbers are gamed through substitutions), and after covid, the lying was blatant, many items went out 50-100% in less than 2 years and no signs of ever coming down.

I recall in the early 90s, rice was 10 cents a lb, wild caught alaskan pollock 2 dollars a lb (frozen), sirlion steak 2,99 a lb, etc. eggs were 35 cents a dozen, a gallon of milk was 99 cents, turkey was free if you bought 50 dollars in groceries.

All traditionally cheap staple foods are no longer cheap, rice, dried beans, eggs, milk, flour, etc. Used to be you'd be fine if you shopped smart and didn't have a lot of money, those days are long gone, and studies show it's mostly greedflation, not rising costs of production.

Marxism comes through once again.

Russia created an eastern jewish oblast, likely as part of a plan to populate the east. If that had became the Jewish state, the world might not be in this predicament.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast