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Jules  

-- but they're nowhere near what a real grocery store or pro stadium would have. We had to do the best we could do and still make the game look attractive.

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Manaugh: You would be making SimParkingLot, rather than SimCity.
Librande: [laughs] Exactly. So what we do in the game is that we just imagine they are underground. We do have parking lots in the game, and we do try to scale them -- so, if you have a little grocery store, we'll put six or seven parking spots on the side, and, if you have a big convention center or a big pro stadium, they'll have what seem like really big lots

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That was kind of a problem, because we were originally just going to model real cities, but we quickly realized there were way too many parking lots in the real world and that our game was going to be really boring if it was proportional in terms of parking lots.

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@pkedrosky

Librande: Yes, definitely. I think the biggest one was the parking lots. When I started measuring out our local grocery store, which I don't think of as being that big, I was blown away by how much more space was parking lot rather than actual store. x

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@pkedrosky Transcript:

Geoff Manaugh: While you were making those measurements of different real-world cities, did you discover any surprising patterns or spatial relationships?

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Paul Kedrosky  

A clip from an interview with one of the original SimCity designers, on how the game would have fallen apart if parking lots in the game were their actual sizes in modern cities.

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Julf  

RT @OxfordDiplomat@twitter.com

One to watch.

Extremely interesting case study.

Finland is testing new ways to teach students about fake news. Media literacy is part of the national core curriculum starting in preschool. Here’s what other countries can learn from its success. nyti.ms/3IAqRzJ

🐦🔗: twitter.com/OxfordDiplomat/sta

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GreenPartyMolly  

I would also like to see minimum service levels for health, transport and other public services

The reason we don’t have them is 12 years of Tory austerity cuts and political chaos

And their refusal to introduce a fair and progressive tax system to fund our public services

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Augie Ray  

Imagine if we relied on “personal responsibility” instead of the law to combat other public health issues like drunk driving. No rules--just “you do you”. If you're comfortable driving drunk and wish to take the risk, go ahead and do it--why worry yourself with harming anyone else?

Wait, that doesn't work? Then why do maskless conferences, flights, and events work at a time when we know #COVID19 risks are rising. Don't take personal responsibility; take public responsibility. #WearAMask

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Jules  

The ozone layer will be almost fully recovered by 2040. If we act together as a species on environmental crises we can fix things.

theguardian.com/environment/20?

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Dreams  
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cairnish  

It's normal to have a favorite index entry, right? #index

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Jules  

@blindscribe @Cassana wood is a definite theme but I've no idea how it got knife, maybe the prow is pointed?

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myrmepropagandist  

Instead of saying "come to mastodon" link the person to a thread here where they would totally want to jump in and join the conversation.

"we were just talking about this here: ***link*** -- could really. use a perspective like yours."

It gives people a starting point and some people who are active and who they'd want to follow.

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@Cassana I rather think it's the other way round and I'm his secretary. His name is Maxi

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@Cassana the diary is on a table though

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@Cassana A fluffy cat sitting, not lying, rather unhelpfully on top of an open diary and cleaning his front paw

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Brian Dorsey  

Turns out the key to solving the mystery of why Roman cement lasts longer than modern cement... was to stop underestimating ancient people.

"...samples of Roman concrete contain small lumps known as lime clasts that are not found in modern structures.

While these have previously been explained as arising from poor mixing of the mortar or other errors, the team suspected there could be other reasons."

theguardian.com/science/2023/j

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Stories and Folklore  

A conversation with my #son this morning —

George: I’m Alfred the Bloomin’ Marvellous
Me: Who is that?
George: He’s like Alfred the Great but better
Me: How?
George: He doesn’t burn his cakes!

#parenting #ParentingJoy

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Jules  

@Cassana that probably was a bit of an unusual one I guess, I just went with what was on my camera roll. How about this one, which is more conventional.

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