Sure. The church was super reach in middle age, they collected taxes on everyone and their monasteries were working hard and were very efficient. Also people made a lot of donations in hope of staying out of hell
Tonight I started a discovery course of Hebrew. Just for me
I checked the alphabet
Similar system of consonants and strong vowels on which you append unwritten short vowels
Then I went on with the words that are close to Arabic, which I started to learn 20 years ago (not seriously enough): I still remember though how to pronounce most of arabic letters, and remember some vocabulary
I post my "course", because I recognize many of the words: THREAD will be LONG
For anyone interested, the kindle editions of The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin and Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Sword are on sale for $4.99 and $3.99, respectively.
Both books are the second in each series but just the kick in the pants I needed to check out The Broken Earth trilogy.
It's been ages since I've visited the hairy elephant! Just ducking in to share this charismatic little toothed mushroom, common name #earpickfungus! Notice how the stem is attached to the edge of the cap instead of the centre! Also this little mushroom is grown out of a Douglas Fir cone. What's not to love? They're so tiny they're easy to overlook. But if you slow down to start taking in the world of the small the world expands.... #mycology#mushroom#mushrooms#funghi#pilze#きのこ#wander
I'm still kinda new to Linux (started using this year 😅) I already made it to my main OS, even if I still missing some things which I used on Windows, anyway. What I wanted to ask you guys, what recommendations do you have for Linux Mint (Cinnamon)? In terms of security, optimization, (a way to make the UI looking modern ;-;) and privacy? I would be very interested in what you do guys to optimize your Linux setup :) I'm pretty technical, so there is nothing which could overwhelm me (probaly).
Regarding the UI and the look and feel, I can highly recommend catppuccin as a theme in basically whatever you want. I use it on Mint Cinnamon as well, and find it very good looking!
Yep, I’ve done it accidentally before. I replied to what I thought was a mastodon account but it was a Lemmy sub. All the comments on that thread come to me on mastodon as replies.
Since I did it by accident, and they also didn’t know it, we were all very confused for a while.
I’ll sometimes tag Lemmy communities in my mastodon posts. The only thing I dislike about it is how Lemmy displays tags in the post title. There’s got to be some way to fix it so it’s not so off-putting.
That these words mean to you what I want them to mean to you is such a precarious conjecture.
Then, that meaningful words, even perfectly arranged in the most meaningful way to you, might in any case result in you envisioning something close to what I see in my own mind seems a foolish hope.
But it works because the words that return are consistent in usage with previous words spoken, despite disparate existential experiences.
I am perpetually irritated, in some fundamental aspect of my being, by the lie of symbolism.
The extreme difference between the fullness of lived experience and the simplicity of, and poor precision of, words and phrases seems to me to be commonly ignored, willfully.
It is not just a philosophical topic, philosophical though the topic may be. The details of experience must be picked and chosen, and human decisions at this frequency are simply mostly not carefully researched.
So what is missing ?
@actuallyautistic unmasked, I get cryptic. Attempting genuine communication produces inaccessibly dense language. I wrote the above last night and now I want to take it down, as if to apologize for missing the audience. But there is no audience for my simplest truths.
As if to stand up from the wheelchair of banality were a sin.
I remind myself. Say less. Reference memetic trends. Start from an ongoing conversation or I'm alone.
The Women Who Rode Miles on Horseback to Deliver Library Books
Librarians are amazing.
They were known as the “book women.” They would saddle up, usually at dawn, to pick their way along snowy hillsides and through muddy creeks with a simple goal: to deliver reading material to Kentucky’s isolated mountain communities.
The Camel Mobile Library Service lends more than 7,000 books to nomads in Kenya's impoverished North East Province, often because camels are the only means of crossing the inhospitable terrain. Many of the books are supplied by Book Aid International.