btw they changed that in the new game Civ 7. The game is divided into three ages, Antiquity, Exploration, and Modern, and the America civ isn’t unlocked until Modern age.

america is a fictional country created for movies and tv shows. the american cinematic universe is the world’s largest entertainment franchise.

no, people who are a little nerdy aren’t welcome here, you have to be super nerdy to fit in

I went to Catholic school growing up, so they weren’t the young-earth type. They had a more balanced approach of, talk about the biblical origins of earth in religion class, but still teach the scientific origins of life in science class. The Catholic teaching is that when the bible says the earth was created in seven days, it’s not literally seven days, God experiences time at a different scale than humans, so one day for him could actually be millions of years. Interesting how the different denominations get to pick and choose which bible passages are literal and which are figurative.

While I was in high school, a public school near me had a big trial and lawsuits about teaching intelligent design in biology class. Ironic that the Catholic school had a more science-based biology curriculum than the public schools.

In college I had a classmate who was very Christian. He was studying physics and wanted to work in aerospace engineering at NASA, and he did not believe in evolution. That blew my mind when I found out, that he was into science and fully educated on the subject but was just like “no, I don’t believe that macroevolution is a valid theory”. Like he’s read Darwin but just thinks that he was incorrect.

The mods don’t like cumtown, if you post a link to an episode it gets removed for modlog reason “The Racism Podcast”.

petition to ban humans

Do you eat something else, or do you just not eat? I am concerned that this bat has an eating disorder. No matter how invested you are with your work, it is important to take breaks for meals.

Did you know that all billboards within 660 feet of the highway are technically in violation of federal law, but sign companies use loopholes to circumvent enforcement? That is according to Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching, Chapter 8, section “Advanced Billboarding”.

Advertisements are detrimental to mental health. There should be studies to measure the amount of advertising hours the average person is exposed to in a day, and regulations to limit this amount. Websites like Youtube and Facebook should stop showing ads to a user after they’ve hit their quota, and there should be stricter regulations to limit the amount of advertising shown to minors.

Companies like Google and Microsoft should be limited in what percentage of their revenue is from advertising. Ad revenue has warped these companies, every update Microsoft releases for Windows is focused on adding more features to trick the user into searching for something with Bing. All the money they’re burning with their Copilot AI, is just in the hopes that a few more people will use Bing instead of Google. After a company makes a certain amount of money from advertising, all future profits should be donated to a charity or refunded to the users.

We should also get rid of billboards. They are distracting to drivers and make roads less safe. The only public advertising allowed should be, if your band is playing nearby, you can put some posters up.

cinema-style porn

what, did it have like imax dolly shots and a hans zimmer soundtrack?

exbear.net is available and you could make it h.exbear.net

there is already a lemmy instance orcas.enjoying.yachts

yeah and he didn’t even need to get involved, JD didn’t have to say anything about it. The doge guy was like “welp, guess i’m too openly racist to work here, bye” and JD has to chase after him like “no thats what we like about you, please come back.” What was this guy’s special talent that he was so vital that the vice president needs to beg him not to quit?

Well if 7-Zip followed modern Microsoft recommended practices, they would publish their program as a UWP app on the Microsoft Store, which would automatically update. But a lot of people don’t like Microsoft Store Universal Windows Platform apps and prefer installing exe’s.

They just earlier today got a 72 hour temp ban for calling for violence against DOGE employees.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditSafety/comments/1ih9i5h/taking_action_on_ruleviolating_content/

Kurt Vonnegut

Trump should sell California to China to pay off the national debt. Win-win-win.

Actually I’d bet that people could figure out how to run a Nintendo Switch emulator on Windows 98 if they really wanted to, that would probably be an easier way to play Witcher 3 on it.