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Honestly I'd leave it empty and cap the gap with pavers or similar. What it sounds like you are describing is how you build a smokeless fire pit and you'd want to avoid interrupting the airflow in that case.

I feel this way sometimes, then remember what the alternative was and don't feel as bad. (To save the lookup for those that don't know, Mehmet Oz was the republican candidate in 2022).

One of the risks around monetizing hobbies is that while you may enjoy that hobby now, doing it to make more adds level of stress and responsibility that can quickly make it into another job that you no longer love. Places like Etsy are competitive and reward consistency in listing and sales, so to have any real success you can't really list just one or two items and wait for them to sell. You'll drop far down in search rankings and suddenly your store dies because Etsy stops sending people to it.

This isn't to say don't try, but be aware it isn't as easy as "hobby but get paid for it".

Yeah, I am very familiar with the clearance process. Not saying lower wage jobs don't exist with clearances (I mean buildings need custodians and janitors, cafeteria workers, repro office workers, etc), just that I can't imagine Dominos requesting, getting sponsored, and then paying for a delivery driver to be cleared, it just isn't needed.

While I understand the note on Kagi requiring an account making it less private in theory, in practice you can pay using OpenNode and use an anonymous email to sign up which makes it impossible to really tie anything to the real person you are at that point (and functionally like other engines that may use backend fingerprinting to help personalize your results, just in the open).

Kagi provides a bit more detail in their FAQs: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#why-trust

That said it's still an American company, so that may be the deal breaker for some which is fair.

Not in my experience, clearances are really expensive (last I saw it was in the $5-6k range per initial clearance package, and about 2/3s that each reinvestigation). Most secure workplaces will have a lobby for receiving things like this where they will call either a central mailroom to deliver it or whomever ordered it to come grab it (especially if it still needs paid for).

This is a fairly known way reporters track activities around DC. I recall a similar story about the raid on Bin Laden and food deliveries to the pentagon and White House.

Sharpening a blade that's in decent condition on a stone should only take a few minutes. If it's badly dinged up or needs a new edge entirely it can take a lot longer though. I spend about an hour every couple months to sharpen all of our kitchen knives, it's 100% worth it.

Agree 100%, Ars Technica syndicates those stories (they do it for Wired and FT stories too), so they paid ProPublica to republish the story and give full credit to them.

Ars also has traditionally operated very independently of Condé Nast, and their authors, editors, and staff are incredibly active and as up front as possible in their comments and forums. Perhaps Conde is doing something shady, but if so I have decent faith that Ars isn't in on it.

Banks don't really create it out of thin air. Banks are letting you borrow money they otherwise hold, meaning they can't lend indefinitely. This is the exact same way say a library works, they can only lend you books they have, and while you are using that book they cannot lend it to others. Paying back the principal on your loan doesn't make the money disappear, it's you giving back the amount you borrowed, plus extra to compensate the bank for lending you the money. This all matters a bit more in non-fiat currencies since those are backed by something intrinsically valued (such as gold), but even in fiat currencies banks that lend more money than they have access too are over extended and generally need to borrow themselves from either other institutions or the Fed in the US. This is why the Fed interest rate impacts loan rates.

And macOS, though they are starting work on porting it to Linux, I worry they are going to abandon WebKit for that.

Worth noting here that Orion is made by Kagi, a privacy focused search engine.