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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 amount of magic.
It's a societal issue more than a healthcare issue.
Something many musicians don't understand is that music is not primarily artistic nor technical but cultural.
The question is, do you trust the PRC with your data?
Personally, I avoid most social media sites since I want to reduce the amount of information about me floating around in databases.
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 convenient case in a "cube" shape that feels smaller despite being similar in volume.
One of my builds uses an AM4 motherboard with unregistered ECC. With AM4 motherboards you're limited to any "pro" AM4 cpu, four SATA3 ports, and 2.5 gbe.
The other uses a used SuperMicro X10SDV-4C-TLN2F with registered ECC. With the Supermicro board you're stuck with an old integrated Xeon with insufficient cooling but get dual 10gbe ports and six SATA3 ports.
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 generating assets.
The issue of witchcraft is not unchecked beliefs, but the combustible mixture of politics and economics.
Early witches weren't old women performing secret rituals in dense forests. They were the bourgeoisie, who found themselves newly rich during a time of political and economic uncertainty.
The "Malleus Maleficarum" never caught on among the religious elite. Why would they care about the imagined threat of witches when Protestants were out in the open and gaining ground amongst all levels of society?
Where the book did catch on was amongst secular courts. The book provided a convenient justification for condemning political and economic opponents. There it was used to great effect.
CO2 is important to track as high concentrations can impact sleep quality and critical thinking ability.
VOCs is important to track as they are associated with asthma and allergic reactions.
CO2 can only be removed by opening a window.
Most VOCs come from household chemicals and are only removed by using lots and lots of charcoal filters as the HEPA filters in household air purifiers aren't able to capture it in significant amounts.
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 to them.
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 their creative works.
See: https://aeon.co/essays/the-ancient-world-teemed-with-birds-n...
Now, the artificial has intruded itself into the natural world. When I open the window of my urban apartment, the bird songs I hear have melodies like jackhammers and car alarms. The birds in cities now make the same sounds as the cities.
The natural world has adapted, and in doing so has become the same as the artificial.
Signs and warnings rank very low in the hierachy of engineering controls.
The safest option would be to physically prevent vehicles able to travel at greater than 15mph from being in areas with children.
The next safest would be to redesign the street to prevent high-powered vehicles from being able to travel at greater than 15mph.
There are plenty of mutually unintelligible dialects and plenty of mutually intelligible languages.
I suspect over the course of his life Tolkien became more and more frustrated with technology, and removed most overt traces of it to bring his stories closer to what he read in Medieval folk lore.
There are brilliant performances hidden amongst the studio meddling.
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 actually is.
What California needs is flexible zoning to allow mixed-use medium density development connected by safe bicycling paths and public transit.
Too much space is taken by automobile parking and there is too far of a distance between places people live and the grocery stores, shopping areas, and gyms they frequent.
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 2 am.
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 slash get enthusiastic reviews from motorheads and represent a realistic alternative.
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.
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.
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 word for "wild ox". Buffalo is an old greek word also meaning wild ox. They've been used interchangeably for as long as greek and latin have been spoken together.
Some scientist coming along and naming some animal a "Bison bison" doesn't overwrite thousands of years of history.
Even a billionare will find himself running against trillion dollar interests trying to make real progress.
Eradicating malaria is a problem able to be sovlved.
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 a reoccuring game of Dungeon World every other week.
In just ten to fifteen minutes I can throw any random group of friends into a scenario that feels like a tv show.
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 sex becomes rarer and riskier as partners are more unknown.
Giving birth and raising children also feels riskier as individuals don't have a community to rely on and absorb the added burden of child rearing.
By your criteria the vast majority of that country wouldn't be classified as a "society".
At least in the US, the government is paying vast and unsustainable sums of money to prop up a failing and inefficient form of transportation.
That inefficiency was created at a time when the US was the only significant industrial power.
We no longer have extra factory capacity from the second world war or armies of returning GIs to work in those factories or buy those products. We now have to compete on the world stage against other economies we're poorly matched to beat.
It is time to move on to the 21st century and design our solutions to fit our current capabilities instead of what existed 70 years ago.