Would love it a ton more if it could offer an experience similar to BitWarden where you can view notes linked to logins or autofill credit card details with a single click from the browser extension. But overall it's really helpful.

Maybe a sheet metal "band" around the trunk, several feet off the ground, would be enough to stop the scorpion from being able to make it to the treehouse. If the surface is smooth, the scorpion's tarsal shouldn't be able to find purchase.

Like a 12 to 18-inch wide band of smooth stainless steel or aluminum wrapped around the trunk.

Scrape x-inch bark off > apply metal mesh > 100% silicone sealant > butyl tape > wrapped aluminum > lock in with stainless steel hose clamps. Could even get a design lasered into the metal which might be cool.

Kind of like this from Reddit, but with those add'l steps: https://archive.is/yHYdj

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They definitely leaned into being a cultural artifact. Jokes, anecdotes, stories, how-tos, homeopathic recipes for things like cough syrups, etc. They all look kinda the same so either brand consistency or to keep the nostalgia factor.

Their sun/moon/eclipse is rooted in real math foundations but their “proprietary” weather forecast model was developed when the publication began in 1792.

It’s like 30% hard astronomical data, 30% proprietary models that they’ve been using for generations and 40% storytelling.

edit for context on scientific side:

WRT forecast modeling, the publication claims ~80% accuracy [1] but it’s been found to come out to about ~50%+ under scrutiny [2]

[1] https://www.almanac.com/2026-old-farmers-almanac

[2] https://climate.colostate.edu/blog/index.php/2024/08/23/shou...

Artificial intelligence chip startup Groq Inc. raised $750 million at a post-funding valuation of $6.9 billion, highlighting investor interest in companies seeking to alleviate a shortage of chips and computing power for AI workloads.

The round was led by Disruptive, with “significant investment” from Blackrock Inc., Neuberger Berman Group LLC and Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners, as well as existing investors including Samsung Electronics Co., Cisco Systems Inc., D1 and Altimeter. Participants also included a “large US-based West Coast mutual fund,” Groq said in a statement.

The company will use the funds to expand its data-center capacity, including new locations this year and next, according to Jonathan Ross, chief executive officer. Groq plans to announce its first Asia-Pacific location this year, he said.

Nvidia Corp., which dominates the market for processors that train AI models, is trying to keep a large lead in the market for inference — running models once they have been developed. Startups including Groq and companies like Alphabet Inc.’s Google are developing their own rival chips and in some cases selling computing services that use them.

“We’ve had customers come to us asking for more capacity than we can satisfy at the moment,” Ross said in an interview. Groq, which sells chips and data-center computing power fueled by its processors, operates 13 facilities in the US, Canada, Europe and the Middle East. The company powers some of the Saudi AI company Humain’s services, including the newly released Humain chat product, according to Ross. Groq also supported the release of OpenAI’s GPT-OSS model in Saudi Arabia.

The company has expanded its capacity by more than 10% in the last month and all of that is already in use, Ross said. He declined to say how much capacity the company has in total.

The funding round was originally closed at about $600 million. Groq asked investors to reopen it for additional participants. Details of that deal were reported earlier by Bloomberg and the Information.

The Information reported in July that Groq had slashed more than $1 billion from its revenue projections for 2025. A person familiar with the matter said Groq expected the revenue that was trimmed from its projections this year to be realized in 2026, Bloomberg reported in July. Ross declined to comment on sales.

Fletcher: Your honor, would the court be willing to grant me a short bathroom break?

Judge: Can't it wait?

Fletcher: Yes it can. But I've heard that if you hold it you could damage the prostate gland, making it very difficult to get an erection, or even become aroused!

Judge: Is that true?

Fletcher: It has to be!

Judge: In that case I'd better take a quick break myself.

A somewhat embarrassing but relevant example: my friends and I used Grindr for years (many still do), and we remained loyal despite the company's terrible track record with user data, privacy, and security as there simply wasn't (and still isn't) a viable alternative offering the same service at the expected level.

It appears Tea saw a pretty large pop in discussion across social channels over the last few days so I'm pretty hopeful this will lend itself to widespread discussion where the users can understand just how poorly this reflects on the company and determine if they want to stick around or jump ship.

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I was ~8(ish) when my parents took me to their last World Series. Now, I'm a fan fueled by nostalgia and a deeply ingrained belief that 'THIS is the year they will go ALL the way!'

One day it'll pay off

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For what it's worth, working as a server can be really helpful for loneliness though - at virtually every place I've worked, the coworkers become very close and good friends as we all commiserate together throughout the shift haha

Serving did help me a ton with getting comfortable speaking in large groups of people; was a huge benefit - being able to strike up a conversation with just about anyone, build rapport and make a connection has been infinitely helpful in my personal and professional life.

I'm sure there is a better way to frame this but when I approach a table of guests I kind of pull from a "rolodex of personalities" to instantly make them comfortable and build rapport (since it's kind of awkward on the guest side, too, if that makes sense) - it's like having hundreds of small, genuine conversations a day. Some tables can be toxic but they are quickly forgotten by another group who are incredibly fun to wait on.

Definitely recommend trying it out at a non-corporate location if you have one! I work at a Rock Bottom which is a definitely a corporate owned brand but it's a lot less suffocating than a chain like Applebees, Olive Garden or others in that vein. A local place will give you a lot of agency and autonomy on how to manage your tables - the owner at the Mexican restaurant I worked at would walk up to your table and tell them to 'get the hell out' if they were being hostile towards you

Our floors aren't ever really filled with trash though! We're one of those 2010s-era brewpubs so it's a large, open space but these things are so awkward to navigate around and I wish so much that they would send them to the basement.

There is a comment here that I regularly look back at as it remains evergreen:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31363953

> My take is, if a community is constrained by quality (eg moderation, self-selecting invite-only etc) then the only way it grows is by lowering the threshold. Inevitably that means lower quality content.

> To some extent, more people can make up for it. Eg if I go from 10 excellent artists to 1000 good ones, chances are that the top 10% artwork created actually gets better.

> But eventually if you grow by lowering quality, then, well, quality drops.

> I suppose for very small societies, they may be limited by discoverability/cliquiness and not quality, so their growth doesn’t mesh with quality and so they could also get better with size.

> Note, “quality” doesn’t have to mean good/bad but also just “property”. When Facebook started, it was for kids from elite schools. It then gradually diluted that by lowering that particular bar. Then it was for kids from all schools. Then young people. Then their parents too. Clearly, it’s far from dying in absolute terms, but it’s certainly no longer what it initially was. To many initial users, it’s as good as dead though.