I am looking for a word that is similar in nature to humankind, but not doesn't focus specifically on humans.  The need arose from a discussion about the meaning of life, where a possible answer is "The betterment of humankind" (what ever that means, doesn't matter).   I am however looking for a word to replace 'humankind' that is more inclusive term, encompassing all kinds of intelligence/forms of consciousness (e.g. other animals, artificial intelligence, aliens).  I preferably looking for a layman term (if possible) that is viable in a non-fiction context.
I'm creating a historically inspired campaign where the standard fantasy races are extremely intermingled, and conflict is usually based on politics or religion, rather than species divisions. I can't, however, think of a good word to separate the PC races (Elves, dwarves, humans, halflings... you guys know.) from the monsters and creatures who live outside society. Basically, if in the real world someone would say: "I refuse to kill another human." in this setting I need a catch-all word to replace human.  Sentient sounds too sci-fi. Kindred sounds too... Vampire-y. Any suggestions?
What would you call someone who imposes on other people's generosity? What would you call someone who isn't afraid to ask for money or any kind of favor or who misinterprets someone's generosity for a consistent resource for what they need? According to  and my own understanding, the tilde expands to the home directory:  $ echo ~ /home/braiam   Now, whenever I want the shell expansion to work, i. e. using variable names such $FOO, and do not break due unexpected characters, such spaces, etc. one should use double quotes ":  $ FOO="some string with spaces" $ BAR="echo $FOO" $ echo $BAR echo some string with spaces   Why doesn't this expansion works with the tilde?  $ echo ~/some/path /home/braiam/some/path $ echo "~/some/path" ~/some/path How to do integer & float calculations, in bash or other languages/frameworks? The Download CSV link seems broken in SEDE query result window I've created   which works nice. I would really like to download those results as an CSV file. Therefor I click on the provided link on the right hand side of the screen called Download CSV. The result is:  The webpage cannot be found  https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/csv/202355?UserId=187606 I expected: A file in CSV format. It looks like a regression of  Queries without a parameter work as advertised. Can this be fixed? Which tag is used in the title of a question?   It does not seem to be the most popular It does not seem to be the first in the tagging order:   This question   is prefixed with NGINX (which is actually completely fine)  And it is tagged with "php nginx fastcgi magento" in the order of popularity.  Can we choose the tag to use in the title manually? "Continuity" of stochastic integral wrt Brownian motion Algorithm to see if two voxels are interconnected Where is .bash_profile? I want to put new aliases to my .bash_profile file, but I cannot find this file. Where is it supposed to be? Who killed Ra's Al Ghul first, Batman or Arrow? I am working on the following problem asked in an examination: "What is the maximum number of cylindrical pencils of 0.5 cm diameter that can be stood in a square shaped stand of 5cm × 5cm inner cross section? 1. 99    2. 121   3. 100    4. 105." A simple calculation yielded me the answer 100.  But the answer in the key is 105. I don't how such an answer is possible. Any hint please.....Thanks in advance! Convert bytes to a string $X$ and $Y$ i.i.d., $X+Y$ and $X-Y$ independent, $\mathbb{E}(X)=0 $ and $\mathbb{E}(X^2)=1$. Show $X \sim N(0,1)$ $X$ and $Y$ are independent and identically distribued (i.i.d.), $X+Y$ and $X-Y$ are independent, $\mathbb{E}(X)=0$ and $\mathbb{E}(X^2)=1$. Show that $X\sim N(0,1)$.  We should use characteristic functions to prove this. Any ideas? Is there a catch-all place on the Stack Exchange network where one can post any question that does not obviously belong to the Stack Exchange sites? Is there a catch-all place somewhere on the Stack Exchange sites where one can post a (any) question that does not obviously belong to any of the Stack Exchange sites?  Sometimes I have questions but I don't want to ask them on other sites (no need for names). I prefer to post it on the Stack Exchange network for various reasons.  If there isn't, are there plans for one? I imagine that if such a site exists, questions on that site can also be moved to other more specific sites when they exists, and it's not to be used to post questions which obviously belong to a specific Stack Exchange site. I'm not sure how to go about this. Does it involve using MVT?  I got as far as saying $e = \frac{e^x - e^y}{x-y}$. My dconf/gsettings installation is broken. How can I fix it without Ubuntu reinstall? I run Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS x64 in VirtualBox. After one very unfortunate misclick (reset saved state instead of load saved state) I got a very annoying problem.  Almost all applications (unity, synaptic, gedit, etc.) print on start:  Using the 'memory' GSettings backend.  Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications.   And all GUI settings reset after reboot.   Another symptom:  $ GSETTINGS_BACKEND=dconf dconf-editor (dconf-editor:2353): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: Can't find module 'dconf' specified in GSETTINGS_BACKEND GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend.  Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications   But /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/libdconfsettings.so is present.     What I tried (and it didn't help):   sudo apt-get install -f --reinstall  dconf-tools libdconf0 libdconf-dbus-1-0 dconf-service Build dconf-0.5 from sources and make install it Create empty user profile and start programs there   I have to keep current Ubuntu installation so a complete reinstall is not an option for me.   How can I fix it? What is the use/meaning of 'swap area' while linux installation? When i installed ubuntu in my x86 machine, I had to configure some memory as 'swap area'.  What is the use of this memory and what is the importance of this memory in linux file systems?  How can I determine the exact size of 'swap area' in a machine for the safe working of linux inside in it? Why does the SARS-CoV2 virus not remain infectious forever? Or does it? Given that the majority of biologists do not currently consider viruses to be alive, a virus can never die.  It can, however, get destroyed by long exposures to soapy water, alcohol, and apparently certain frequencies of UV light.  Why is an individual SARS-CoV2 virion not infectious forever?  Or is it? Update Windows 10 to 1809 manually Trying to hide spam/offensive deletions on user profiles announces them Spurious @ symbol at start of bash prompt in Debian Jessie