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by x3iv130f 3y ago
Elves are a magical race. Without a source of magic they eventually lose their bodies and diminish into woodland spirits. You can't have elves without magic and still have them be elves. They literally disappear any place without some
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by x3iv130f 3y ago
The youngest named character would be Nellas who briefly befriended young Turin in the woods of Doriath.
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by x3iv130f 3y ago
The average in the US are heavily affected by obese African American women with diabetes lacking a highschool education. It's a societal issue more than a healthcare issue.
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by x3iv130f 3y ago
The exceptions are such because they are able to sell themselves as a "lifestyle brand" with a musical act associated. Something many musicians don't understand is that music is not primarily artistic nor technical but cultur
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by x3iv130f 3y ago
The question isn't "if" they're spying. Every smartphone and nearly app you install is constantly spying on you and using your data for their benefit. The question is, do you trust the PRC with your data? Personally, I a
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by x3iv130f 3y ago
I have built two mini-ITX NAS units. One is a Jonsbo N1. The other a Jonsbo N2. Jonsbo N1 is a pretty good case if the only thing you care about is getting a a small footprint as you can stand the case vertically. Jonsbo N2 is a better more
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by x3iv130f 3y ago
I couldn't agree more. Actual wealth comes from having ownership in wealth generating assets. You can act rich for a season off of a big paycheck but you'll soon be back to poverty if your money isn't converted into value gen
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by x3iv130f 3y ago
Carl Sagan is an excellent communicator but he relies too heavily on literary tropes and popular fiction. The issue of witchcraft is not unchecked beliefs, but the combustible mixture of politics and economics. Early witches weren't ol
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by x3iv130f 4y ago
For home use, you should aim for multiple sensors that can track temperature, humidity, CO2, VOC, and PM2.5. CO2 is important to track as high concentrations can impact sleep quality and critical thinking ability. VOCs is important to track
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by x3iv130f 4y ago
We will continue to have pedestrian collisions until we start blaming those actually at fault: the politicians and engineers who design and build dangerous transit and automotive systems.
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by x3iv130f 4y ago
The dialogue could have used a couple more passes to be more subtle and cleverly written. It is important to remember that Tolkien was like a British gentleman: well-mannered with a sharp wit. All of his characters have that same coloring t
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by x3iv130f 4y ago
I had to stop reading this article when it used the term "unnatural quiet". It is the noise that is unnatural, not the quiet. Ancient cities teemed with birds and bird songs, so much so that birds were often featured heavily in th
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by x3iv130f 4y ago
If you can physically drive 50+ mph down a street signed for 25 mph then whoever built the road may have been thoughtful but they certainly weren't thinking about safety. Signs and warnings rank very low in the hierachy of engineering
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by x3iv130f 4y ago
Language vs dialect is a political question, not a scientific one. There are plenty of mutually unintelligible dialects and plenty of mutually intelligible languages.
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by x3iv130f 4y ago
In the earliest iterations Tolkien imagined Middle-Earth to have steam punk technology. I believe it is because steam ships and rolling tanks are much closer to what Tolkien expierenced in the First World War when he first conceived his wor
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by x3iv130f 4y ago
Don't tell the diehard fans but I prefer the theatrical edition as the story works better in a shorter punchier presentation.
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by x3iv130f 4y ago
If you haven't seen any of the fan edits you are doing yourself a huge diservice. Last one I saw was the M4 edit which went as far as redoing the CGI. There are brilliant performances hidden amongst the studio meddling.
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by x3iv130f 4y ago
The trick is to do an 4:1 dilution of sparkling water and diet soda. You will end up with 1-2 cans of diet soda heavily diluted by water. After you get used to it, ordinary canned soda will start tasting like the carbonated syrup it actuall
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by x3iv130f 4y ago
Most of the new housing I see built are 5-over-1s. Giant 6 story apartment buildings built on already busy streets. What California needs is flexible zoning to allow mixed-use medium density development connected by safe bicycling paths an
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by x3iv130f 4y ago
Sure, we can just keep on increasing taxes until all the top earners leave for cheaper areas. I prefer low taxes. What's there to lose by building towns at a human scale? Personally, I can live without Fauxrari speeding past my door at
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by x3iv130f 4y ago
It isn't a binary between 9,000 lb vehicles and 18 lb bicycles. There is a middle ground with low-weight, low-speed vehicles like 800 lb "golf carts" and 1800 lb Japanese micro-cars. Japanese micro-cars like the Honda n-box s
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by x3iv130f 4y ago
Ephesus was founded after this rise in sea level. Ephesus was founded 3,000-4,000 years ago. The sea level rise occured over a period of 21,000 to 3,000 years ago.
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by x3iv130f 4y ago
A lot of it is bad urban design. Traffic calming measures to keep cars slow such as narrow steets and roundabouts can do a lot. It shouldn't be physically possible to travel at highspeed through residential areas.
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by x3iv130f 4y ago
Consumer grade filters have nicer fans that let them push move more air with less noise. I have multiple in my house and it's amazing how quiet they are.
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by x3iv130f 4y ago
When it comes to semantics there needs to be a clear separation between common and technical terms. I once had someone try to argue can't use the word bison and buffalo interchangeably when sharing buffalo puns. Bison is an old latin
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by x3iv130f 4y ago
Goodluck convincing wealthy industrialized countries to do anything impactful when most of that wealth comes from exploiting the environment (or exporting it somewhere easier to exploit.) Even a billionare will find himself running against
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by x3iv130f 4y ago
I think us as a society may need to accept that there is no safe way to operate 3000+ lb vehicles at the speeds we do now with our current system of roads and infrastructure.
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by x3iv130f 4y ago
There is a lot more to TTRPGs besides D&D. I play lighter and more narratively focused games where the focus is collaboratively creating worlds and stories. Lasers and Feelings has been the biggest hit around my table but I also have
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by x3iv130f 4y ago
My 10 cent hypothesis would be social detachment leads to falling birthrates. It is well known that people don't have the same strong community bonds to those in the same physical space that they used to. In an environmemt like this se
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by x3iv130f 4y ago
I had a recent vacation to Japan where the average person commutes by train instead of car. By your criteria the vast majority of that country wouldn't be classified as a "society". At least in the US, the government is payin

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