I’m just this guy, you know?
You might also want to strip the part of the URL that starts with ?si= since it’s probably a referrer hash. For example, the URL for this popular Rick Astley video (which is not technically a Rick Roll now that I’ve told you)
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Your alternatives aren’t shelf stable. That’s all there is to it.
Its called a benchmark, used by surveyors as a known point from which to take readings. We had a benchmark on the edge of of our property in the town where In grew up. It was a square, white marble column, like a truncated obelisk with the point cut off to make a 4" square flat top, buried at the roadside and standing a couple inches proud of the grass. It had a cross with a dot in the middle, and a geodetic ID number engraved on the top.
Nailed it with the lawnmower once or twice. That’d really put the Fear in you.
Looks like Python, but in an editor with a weird TUI scrollbar
And we all get a share!