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If you're talking about the great highland bagpipes, circular breathing can be really helpful while learning. Because of the "practice chanter," every piper have one or two and use it to learn new tunes or just practice technique.

I don't ear these in the discussion about AI and robots. If AI is there to releive humanity of tedious work or a big chunk of it, then there should be a real push for the 4 days per week and Universal Basic Income.


It worked so well on the browser already


> I am no fan of Donald Trump, but it doesn’t follow that everything he supports is bad (e.g. the First Step Act).

First Step Act is bipartisan. Did he "really" supports it? According to Wikipedia:

Budget: Though the First Step Act authorizes Congress to appropriate $75 million per year between 2019 and 2023, only $14 million was explicitly earmarked for funding the legislation when President Trump released his 2020 budget priorities in March 2019. This lead First Step Act advocates to worry that the bill's underfunding represented an attempt to "starve it to death".


You lucky, on Firefox mobile it does nothing.I can only see the one random flight, in this case already on the ground


Most cars sold in the US are not aerodynamic so it seems a couple of mpg isn't the focus anyway


The US is filled with bubble cars like everywhere else. There isn't really much difference between cars across the world. Well, China is unique with like 100 automakers all searching for customers, but for most of the world, it's Toyota, VW, Hyundai/Kia, Stellantis, GM, Renault/Nissan, Ford as the top global producers and they sell everywhere. Sure there are some special models in local markets, but those are mostly rebadged versions you can get elsewhere.

Fun Fact: Along with the "Bees are disappearing" scare, which was just measurement error, there has been an "insects are disappearing" scare, due to the fact people's windshields are not covered with bugs like they used to be. However that is because cars have gotten more aerodynamic so fewer insects are hitting the windshield.


> However that is because cars have gotten more aerodynamic so fewer insects are hitting the windshield.

According to this research the opposite is true:

"The survey of insects hitting car windscreens in rural Denmark used data collected every summer from 1997 to 2017 and found an 80% decline in abundance. It also found a parallel decline in the number of swallows and martins, birds that live on insects.

The second survey, in the UK county of Kent in 2019, examined splats in a grid placed over car registration plates, known as a “splatometer”. This revealed 50% fewer impacts than in 2004. The research included vintage cars up to 70 years old to see if their less aerodynamic shape meant they killed more bugs, but it found that modern cars actually hit slightly more insects."

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/12/car-spla...


> Along with the "Bees are disappearing" scare, which was just measurement error

Or fixed? The suspected cause at the time was pneumatic planter dust-off and addressing that was as simple as adding a baffle to direct the dust to the ground, so it was quickly adopted once identified.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations?...

Um I’m pretty sure that’s not the only evidence for insect population declines.


I think oil filter located somewhere sinful usually in cars that are aerodynamically sound.


Not only that, but Israel financed Hamas to politically destabilize Palestine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_support_for_Hamas


I remember when we needed 4 gifs to make rounded corners on a div


div tags? pah, I remember when all this were tables lad.


Tables? Bah. I remember when all of this were image maps instead.


I use the app on Gnome and it works fine, at least for the replacement of Skype (non pro)


Please use it only for lazy dev website, as it hides the global usage of Firefox


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