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Basically getting the cell walls to pick up nanoscale iron particles
So far it's more durable than untreated wood, but it still has the same structural properties

"According to [iNaturalist], it's the most commonly seen creature in California: the western fence lizard. Why? The answer reflects how humans have invaded its space and how it has adapted to ours."

Boxy low-rise apartment buildings, often with some kind of design or artsy-looking logo on the front, built all over LA during the 50s and 60s.

"free speech in the US is a legal guarantee against government censorship, not a free pass to say anything without consequence in any context."
"Too often, however, the rhetoric of “absolute free speech” is used to criticise moderation or defederation decisions, especially when those decisions remove or limit harmful content. This perspective risks conflating censorship with community safety, and overlooks the very real harms that unmoderated online spaces can perpetuate, particularly towards marginalised groups."

"The latest fad amongst tech CEOs is no longer "founder mode", or taking drugs that they would fire you for taking, or telling everybody to return to the office — it's demanding that all work be AI-first! This is a great idea if you think nobody at your company is great at what they do. It may otherwise be a suboptimal strategy. Let's dive in!"

"I met my friend Hank Kandler in a German class I took at NYU’s Deutsches Haus in 2009. I was 33 and he was 79. I was trying to keep my German skills up after having spent two years living abroad..."

"Report bugs and submit feature suggestions for the Orion browser."

"Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads." Yikes...I'm not sure I'd want to install this even to *test* it.
Maybe in a VM, but there's no way I'd run this as a daily driver for a few weeks like I've been doing with other browsers.

3 of their primary sauces are peanut-based and they just label *everything* as probably cross-contaminated.
On one hand I'm kind of annoyed, because the chain has been growing in my area and I wanted to try it, but on the other hand, I'm glad they say so up front!

"Sometimes you issue a `git commit --amend` only to realize that you didn't really mean to amend the previous commit."
In vi: `ESC :cq!` (quit without saving and report an error). In anything else: Delete the commit message, so git will complain about the missing message instead of continuing.