How to (properly) flash SD Cards for use with Raspberry Pi from Linux

Raspberry Pi is an awesome platform, something I am looking into covering more often. There are plenty of tutorials on how to flash SD cards for use with Pi from Windows, but here's one for doing the same thing but from Linux. I'll mention some best practices as well.

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