It’s honestly been one of the most disappointing games I’ve ever picked up. Civ 6 was my first. I would play it well into the night. I was addicted.

At this point I forgot civ 7 even came out until I saw this to remind me. I played maybe 250 turns total over a couple games and dropped it. I have no desire to pick it up. The map generation is bad and the age system is formulaic. Makes it feel like on the rails for the same thing every single game.

Luigi was a wakeup call as to just how heavily information can be censored when it affects the powers at be. I really don’t know what to believe anymore. It feels like there’s no objective reality.

“Sorry I just took off my leotard. Allow me to retard”

Removed by mod

When half the population doesn’t realize just how good they have it.

As far as I’m aware the encryption can’t really be broken given the current amount of compute. Is anyone aware of what potential vulnerabilities there could be to the Signal protocol outside of brute forcing? How hard is it to crack a private public key exchange?

The mere fact it was possible to invite a random journalist to the chat is ridiculous. That shouldn’t be an option in a secure environment.

Free to be white, Christian, submissive, and breedable.

My friend told me about this show he was working at. It was a pharmaceutical meeting with lots of c suite execs.

They told him to not mention to anyone that the execs would be there on account of “recent news”.

Empathy has it’s price, and it’s far less than even a billion dollars, let alone hundreds of billions.

Reddit removed a picture of 3 people standing around a cybertruck from the front page today because it “went against community guidelines”

People in the military are less likely to disobey corrupt orders as long as they come from the correct chain of command.

Power comes from a politically consolidated military. The larger the military the greater the reigns of power become.

That’d be one incentive for the people in power to force citizens into the military.

Whoops meant to say helped give us the telephone

Specifically was talking about this

"It was Alexander Graham Bell who patented the telephone in 1876. But Edison, with his knack for building upon others’ innovations, found a way to improve Bell’s transmitter, which was limited in how far apart phones could be by weak electrical current. Edison got the idea of using a battery to provide current on the phone line and to control its strength by using carbon to vary the resistance.

To do that, he designed a transmitter in which a small piece of lampblack (a black carbon made from soot) was placed behind the diaphragm. When someone spoke into the phone, the sound waves moved the diaphragm, and the pressure on the lampblack changed. Edison later replaced the lampblack with granules made from coal—a basic design that was used until the 1980s."

https://www.history.com/articles/thomas-edison-inventions

No he wasn’t. I intend on the same.

He was also a prolific inventor that worked tirelessly to help give us the telephone and the lightbulb.

He’s certainly a controversial man.

I learned this from the anthology of heroes podcast. There’s a three part episode on the Sobibor Concentration Camp.

I hope his story skips to the ending. Preferably live streamed to twitter.

Nah, elons actions and behaviors are justification plenty.

I’m convinced everyone on Lemmy works IT

I know people that have had to take an Uber instead of an ambulance because of the costs.