Freeciv Unciv on Android is an almost feature complete re-creation of Civilization 5 with minimal graphics. You can also download the JAR and run it on a desktop if you have a Java SDK installed. As a Civ player that started with 4, I found it easier to pick up than freeciv which is trying to replicate something more like Civ2.

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Honestly I don’t try to change my older relatives’ minds on things. After a certain point your views about life/politics get fixed and then that becomes part of your identity.

Fortunately I don’t know any scrum masters personally so they would not even get the experience of being let down last time by a dev. Exceot in a purely metaphorical sense I guess.

Letting down people I love somehow

Controversial one: I thought Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was a bad book. And I liked Thompson’s Hell’s Angel’s book that he wrote prior. The metaphors like “the great wave” of hippiedom coming from the west which crashed and receded make up about 0.1% of the contents and are not that interesting. The rest could be extremely niche satire I’m missing since I wasn’t alive in the 70s but I doubt it. For the most part it reads like a blog post on one of the 90s drugs forums where someone has just boofed meth or something.

When I saw them in the wild their faces were covered in tumours. Sure would have been cute without those though. I think our tour guide might have said it was due to intra floral/fauna contamination between species like these who were historically isolated.

This sounds extremely plausible. I am culinarily challenged.

In scotland I would have no fuckin idea where to get it lol

seems like it would be hard to track down to me but idk

Someone got fired making an “inspirational” Andrew Tate inspired speech on slack about how depression doesn’t actually exist. This was on a company wide channel about promoting/raising awareness for mental health issues. Two comments prior someone had described in heartbreaking detail how their stepchild had committed suicide last year.

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I have some empathy I remember posting on /r/drugs when I was 16 too…

Man you had a lot more effort to dedicate to this guy than me lol

I wonder when he’ll realise that everyone he’s been rude to was basically agreeing with him

I like any of the Nujabes albums. He makes chilled, mainly instrumental, hip hop music.

lol we get it you like drugs

No, that’s just your opinion.

I don’t think there is a correct answer to the question you are posing. You asked for people’s opinions and I gave you mine.

Sustainable growth is popular but we are going to need to invest in unpalatable energy sources like nuclear power in order to power it. We also need to make sure recycling actually happens as opposed to local authorities shipping the materials overseas for “processing” (i.e. being dumped or burned).

Human populations tend to decline as an economy becomes more advanced and people are able to plan their families. We are already seeing population growth stagnating much more quickly than expected in countries like China. That will cause demographic challenges so we are going to need to rethink how we manage immigration so it can happen sustainably with public consent.

Lastly, increasing economic output doesn’t necessarily mean consuming more resources. If a country becomes more productive, by for example integrating a new technology, then you can increase output with the same or fewer resources.

In my opinion it’s because in the past human beings needed to be constantly working or assisting with a group in some capacity in order to ensure mutual survival for the group. Let’s say a village.

Activity which is not seen as being productive or could be construed as lazy has a stigma around it because it casts doubt on your ability to contribute to society.

Obviously none of this applies in the same way these days but there is a kind of primal conflation of intoxicants and laziness. Laziness is bad and so consuming intoxicants turns into a moral issue.

These attitudes are very deeply ingrained and although they can shift a bit as people become more liberal the deep suspicion remains.