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bashmelek
6y ago
I'm using Word Version 2102 Build 13801.20294, with Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise
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I wasn't able to get it to run on Microsoft Word or Adobe Flash CS5, but finally got it running on paint.net, and have to say I am amazed!
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Too often, I feel that when articles and the like discuss different human experiences, it is designed too much as being for an outsider looking in at something alien. People are different, but I wish there were more care to present the cent
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"If you want to train a longbowman, start with his grandfather." Being a longbowman took extensive training and practice.
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My experiences with searching for older music precede this trend, a few years back I researched bardic tradition and that lead to me exploring traditional Welsh music and it really opened my mind to how much is out there. The internet helps
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As enjoyable as this is, I still can't help but to worry that it's another imitation of something historical or traditional eclipsing the actual thing it is meant to pay homage to. Let's not forget the original, else we run
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7y ago
If anything, I wonder how it speaks to the need of having common heroes. It can be difficult to find living, or even quasi-legendary heroes we can all share. We are growing very diverse and fragmented, but underneath it is the commercial co
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Is it just coincidence that the name is a lot like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_Lin
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Another interpretation is that fairies (and their Scandinavian equivalents, trolls) represented prechristian, or unchristianized, peoples. They were an "other" and that means something strange and foreign, and likely but not nece
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>Selection for tallness could have happened because of peace time. This is an important observation and should be explored more deeply. When there is more equality for gender/class, and more economic security, people, viz. women, ar
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I've had a few wacky ideas for fixing the problem of overpackaging. Theory: the greenest packaging is none at all, the second greenest is the one you eat. In medieval times they would bake and transport food in a "pie", a ha
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Makes me wonder about how these games evolved over time and why we have the modern versions we do now. Are the games we have today really more "fun" or is there something in these that we've been missing and have to experien
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Growing food in one's yard is a good use, better than the USA's biggest crop: grass. In the log term, we ought to also build housing that has smaller lawns. Those who do have large lawns could help by growing their own food, tree
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Trees are the best tool modern technology offers to sequester carbon. As it stands, the largest "crop" we have in america is grass. Lawns, though better than nothing, are a poor substitute in terms of taking in carbon. This and al
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There is also the market for selling digital goods. People wanting to make real money outside of the game will automate farming gold, items, sell an account with a great character or one that unlocked a lot of perks from wins