Mahogany is a tropical hardwood used in the manufacture of furniture and musical instruments.
Mahogany in its truest sense comes from trees from the genus Swietenia, itself containing three species which are all native to the Americas. Of these, the most commonly used for timber is the South American Swietenia macrophylla, or Big Leaf Mahogany, although the other two species in this genus (S. humilis from Central America and S. mahogani from the Southern United States and Caribbean) are sometimes considered to be genetically indistinct, readily hybridising with one another and being defined mostly by geographical distribution.
Mahogany is especially well suited to musical instrument manufacturing due to its pleasing deep red finish, its pronounced low and low-mid frequencies, and its tendency to sound better with age. Of the large scale guitar manufacturers using mahogany, perhaps the most famous is Gibson, whose Les Paul and SG models have been made from mahogany since the 1950s.
Along with its use as a timber tree, mahogany also has a history of medicinal use. Its seeds (known as Sky Fruits) are reported as having antimutagenic, antitumor, and anti-inflammatory traits, and have been used to treat hypertension, diabetes, and malaria by people across its introduced range.
All three true mahoganies are threatened in their native ranges by habitat degradation caused by agriculture, and commercial overharvesting; this has led to the international trade of American-grown mahogany being heavily restricted (in theory) by CITES, and has led to large scale planting in South-East Asia. However, due to the low ages of most planted specimens, illegal harvesting of old-growth stands continues unabated.
Despite being threatened in its native range, it has proved hardy in the Philippines where it is planted for timber. It is facing calls for its control and removal from native habitats there due to its ability to spread quickly and suppress the growth of native vegetation; this is exacerbated by its allelopathic leaf litter, which along with blanketing the forest floor with shade, secretes chemicals that supress the growth of other plants, much like the leaf litter of the European Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus).
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.... Me too. A creature unto myself, removed from any human consequence let alone interaction. Alone, cut off, detached, secluded, stranded, sequestered. Set to die alone and unloved. Unloved. Alone. Unloved. Alone.
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My favorite part is that tiktok’s rules are completely obscure and inconsistent, so everyone just tries to dance around rules that may or may not actually exist and say shit like “Unalive” and it’s hilarious
It's a fascinating example of how languages evolve rapidly to meet the needs of their users. Le$bean tiktok reads like it's being transmitted in code sometimes.
The Gravel kids need to get some more courage if they're going to make cool videos and then hide / age-restrict them every time libs pitch a fit.
I think they have some DSA lib brainworms where they think their project is to pull libs left by never upsetting them and/or forming some kind of coalition. May they finally realize that this is a one-way exchange and they'll never have peace with them until The Gravel Institute is destroyed or fully coopted.
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say chunder like a normal person
Imagine if they were a draft tomorrow and the age ceiling was raised to now accept people up to like 55. Most people would be drafted, let's say it's to fight for Ukraine against Russia. The fuck are people going to be fighting for, their paycheck to paycheck life back home? The culvert down the road that ends in a sewage plant? The dairy queen with the busted light in the sign back home? Or would it be the Oscars, where we can watch on tv our betters get their reward for working in a fabulously paying job? God damn america. We have no heroes like Iran said, it's Sponge Bob and Spider-Man.
