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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 amount of magic.

The youngest named character would be Nellas who briefly befriended young Turin in the woods of Doriath.

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.

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 cultural.

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 avoid most social media sites since I want to reduce the amount of information about me floating around in databases.

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 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.

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 generating assets.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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 to them.

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 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.

Language vs dialect is a political question, not a scientific one.

There are plenty of mutually unintelligible dialects and plenty of mutually intelligible languages.

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 world.

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.