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Re:Crossing the Sahara in the Fourteenth Century by mlevental on Thursday November 15, 2018 @11:07AM (#18460349)
why does every article have someone like you commenting on it? what value does this add to the conversation about this topic? is this your idea of an issue submission? do you think the author will rewrite the article now? do you think your reading aesthetic is generic enough that this is a useful warning to others? do you think that difficult texts shouldn't be read?

like literally I don't know the answer to any of these questions and I am struck by them every single time I open the comments to almost any non-tech post (of course the tech posts have their own flavor of perennial criticisms).

what compels someone to complain about free content. I will never understand.

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Re:Crossing the Sahara in the Fourteenth Century by saiya-jin on Thursday November 15, 2018 @11:41AM (#18460723)
Why the knee jerk reaction? It is not that easy to read, maybe only to non-native speakers like me or OP. I still read it, beautiful window to the past we can't ever experience, but it required focus and re-reading some sentences. Is it hard to understand that world is full of people that are different in every possible way to you?

Definitely not for usual glancing through

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