Do you love the taste of vanilla? What you've been eating probably wasn't vanilla. Vanilla beans supply only about 1% of the world's vanillin, the molecule that gives vanilla its taste. About 88% is made from petrochemicals, mostly guaiacol, and it sells for $10 to $20 a kilo. Some comes from trees. Since 1962, the Norwegian company Borregaard has made vanillin from Norway spruce. It takes lignin, the polymer that makes wood rigid, out of its pulping waste and cooks it with oxygen under heat and pressure until vanillin splits off. No other company in the world makes vanillin from wood. In the US it ships as "artificial vanillin flavor." Some is made by microbes. Syensqo takes ferulic acid from rice bran and lets microbes turn it into vanillin. Because it is fermented from a plant compound, FDA rules count it as a natural flavor. Vanillin from the bean costs about $2,500 to $7,000 a kilo.

1100 likes and only 20k views. Christianity is rate limited and shadow banned?

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American Zionists be like.

Donald Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez. Why?

🚨 #BREAKING: Flock Safety CEO says “I value my privacy” — company asks members of the public to stop taking pictures of them in public, warning they’ll call cops on those who don’t comply with their privacy requests.

Vast majority of Zionist Jews are pussies.

Sheriff Ross Teeple just told Congress what the bureaucrats won’t say out loud: Flock’s AI camera networks are building a warrantless digital prison around every American driver. Logged. Tracked. Stored. No warrant required.

Go Ivy or Go Free!

The Russians built an extraordinary cathedral called "Main Cathedral of Russian Armed Forces." "is a Russian Orthodox Patriarchal cathedral in honour of the Resurrection of Christ and "dedicated to the 75th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War, as well as the military feats of the Russian people in all wars" This was built in 600 days at under $90M. It was finished in 2020.

Global diesel demand is 3%-6% higher from September-November.

Me and @mitesh711 after closing Series C

This aligns with what I’m hearing from lawyers too. There has been an explosion in token spend recently due to models getting a lot smarter but lawyers are still using it mostly for very basic tasks like simple legal research, email drafting and summarisation, which to be fair is a lot of what lawyers do. However, compared to how far agentic coding has come, it seems like we are still barely at the first inning in legal. It’s the equivalent of the summer of 2024 where programmers were still asking ChatGPT questions and copying and pasting snippets into their code base. I think the reason for this is likely due to the following reasons in traditional law firms: 1. General inertia among the profession 2. Lack of awareness of AI capabilities 3. Limitations of harnesses used by them This creates an opportunity for AI native firms to come in and gain market share by using AI wherever possible and feasible to automate what traditional law firms are still doing manually and passing on savings to clients via a flat fee structure.

Highest destruction per diaspora capita = Zionists. 2nd place is really far away in terms of influence and overt control.

The only thing John Fetterman and Republicans have in common is that they’re both subservient to Israel.

These are for sewing equipment not for food.

Remember when Lucy Guo was throwing wild all nighter parties in Miami during COVID? This is her story in case you missed it. #MiamiTech

America had 16 copper smelters in 1976. Today it has only two. We still mine a million tonnes of copper a year, but a third of it leaves the country for refining. Last year we imported twice the refined copper we made. China floods the market with refining capacity, so refining pays almost nothing anywhere else. That's a hard problem to solve. Smelters mostly stay open by selling byproducts, and some only with government support. @nrg91720 might have found a way around that. His startup, Determinant Materials, says it can skip the smelter by sorting ground-up ore with flowing liquid, in small refineries at the mine. We do the same at Solugen, where we make smaller versions of chemical plants that sit next to our customers. If Nikhil pulls it off, the US could again own its copper refining. He explains how in this interview with @jrwolfe: goingdirect.substack.com/p/7…