#Civilization

[foone]

it's interesting how everyone calls out factorio for having the "don't forget to watch out for the natives!" line, but the Civilization series has always had the idea that there are "uncivilized" tribes randomly arranged around the map who serve no purpose and have no value and must be exterminated or they will continually attack your innocent settlers. it's okay, we called them "barbarians", because clearly some humans are just Orcs without culture who only exist to be killed.

Like, how are these not the same thing? Factorio at least has the weak justification that their natives are bugs who don't show any signs of having sapience, but Civ barbarians build settlements and develop weapons. The game just uses its rules to make it so you can't talk to them, you can only kill them or let them kill you.

Unlike, you know, the named civilizations. Even the most warlike civ in the game can be reasoned with, you can make treaties with a warmonger who is currently building nukes, but these nameless local tribes? they must be wiped out. There is no other option.

#factorio #civilization

[futurebird]

We think of the big adaptations of human civilization:

farming livestock grain storage irrigation and sewers dense cities multi-story dwellings specialized labor

As achievements of human intelligence and technology. But considering ants have all of these same adaptations maybe they are a function of massive cooperative populations, rather than intelligence.

#ants #antposting #bugblr #insects #invertebrates #ant #myrmecology #antblr #ant ideas #civilization #technology

[mysharona1987]

I could be wrong here, but is this an admission to war crimes?

That they broadcast on live television.

Oh, right. Why Israel is scared shitless of the UN.

#Crime #israel #united states #democrats #republicans #politics #civil rights #civilization #woc #anti zionisim

[chinesehanfu]

[Hanfu · 漢服]China's national Important Cultural Relics Impression Series By Artist @陆曼陀

 China Neolithic Period:The Hongshan culture(4700-2900 BC)Relics<玉猪龙/Pig dragon>

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After the lamp is lit, the soot enters the base of the palace lantern through the sleeve to achieve the purpose of cleaning the air.

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[littlepawz]

Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.

But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.

A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said."

We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized.

~Ira Byock~

#Margaret Mead #civilization #first sign of civilization #caring for others #ancient history #anthropology #food for though #wow #protecting each other #worth a read

[macleod]

Solar storm confirms Vikings settled in North America exactly 1,002 years ago (as of 2023)

The Icelandic sagas – oral histories written down hundreds of years later – tell of a leader named Leif Erikson and a settlement called “Vinland”, assumed to be coastal North America. But while it is known that the Norse landed in Canada, exactly when they set up camp to become the first Europeans to cross the Atlantic, marking the moment when the globe was first known to have been encircled by humans, has remained imprecise.

This study, published in the journal Nature, made use of the cosmic-ray induced upsurge in atmospheric radiocarbon concentrations during a known solar storm in AD993, which released an enormous pulse of radiation that was absorbed by trees at the time.

The logs, with bark still attached, were from trees alive during that solar storm, and excavated from the site. Such solar storms are reflected in annual tree growth rings. In all three samples, 28 growth rings were formed after the one that bore evidence of the storm, meaning the trees were cut in AD1021.

By Caroline Davies for The Guardian (Oct 21ˢᵗ 2021)

#vikings #history #links #solar #iceland #vinland #leif eriksson #nature #trees #civilization #society #discovery #exploration

[not-your-asian-fantasy]

Barbarism vs Civlization, anti-colonial French cartoon, 1899 x

#colonialism #racism #French #anti colonization #civilization

[pratchettquotes]

These were dangerous thoughts, he knew. They were the kind that crept up on a Watchman when the chase was over and it was just you and him, facing one another in that breathless little pinch between the crime and the punishment.

And maybe a Watchman had seen civilization with the skin ripped off one time too many and stopped acting like a Watchman and started acting like a normal human being and realized that the click of the crossbow or the sweep of the sword would make all the world so clean.

And you couldn't think like that, even about vampires. Even though they'd take the lives of other people because little lives don't matter and what the hell can we take away from them?

And, too, you couldn't think like that because they gave you a sword and a badge and that turned you into something else and that had to mean there were some thoughts you couldn't think.

Only crimes could take place in darkness. Punishment had to be done in the light. That was the job of a good Watchman, Carrot always said. To light a candle in the dark.

Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

#sam vimes #samuel vimes #carrot ironfoundersson #feet of clay #discworld #terry pratchett #vampires #criminals #crime #the watch #watchmen #law enforcement #morality #conscience #self control #dangerous thoughts #crime and punishment #justice #civilization #some thought you can't think #to light a candle in the dark #long quote

[oldwindowsicons]

Sid Meier's Civilization V (2010)

#civilization #games #128x128

[itsfullofstars]

the most important record in the universe

#space #science #astronomy #nasa #aliens #civilization

[philosophybits]

Civilization does not lie in a greater or lesser degree of refinement, but in an awareness shared by a whole people. And this awareness is never refined. It is even quite simple and straightforward.

Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1942

#philosophy #quotes #Albert Camus #Notebooks 1935 1942 #civilization #morality #society #norms #law

[illustratus]

Attack on a Moorish camp - Defeat of the Saracens at the Battle of Tours, AD 732 — by Alphonse de Neuville

The Franks led by Charles Martel attack the Saracen camp at the Battle of Tours, halting the Muslim invasion in the year 732

#charles martel #battle of tours #battle of poitiers #franks #frankish #moors #invasion #germanic #france #art #alphonse de neuville #history #middle ages #medieval #europe #european #islam #muslim #christian #christianity #tent #battle #civilisation #civilization #western civilization #western civilisation #western europe #alphonse marie adolphe de neuville #french #treasure

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

#childhood #civilization #cereal #toys

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Hercules carrying his son Hyllus looks at the centaur Nessus, who is about to carry Deianira across the river on his back, 1st century AD Naples National Archaeological Museum

#fresco #hercules #art #hyllus #greek mythology #cradle of civilization #southern europe #ancient #anthropology #archaeology #fine arts #fine art #nessus #centaur #civilization #western civilization #deianira #european art #classical art #europe #european #oil painting #mediterranean #europa #naples #greece #rome

[protoslacker]

This is not a situation of waging war according to the laws of war and the Geneva Convention — this is a completely different philosophy of war where civilian lives are disregarded entirely.

Pavlo Kovtoniuk quoted in an article by Stephanie Nolen in Japan Times, originally published in The New York Times. In global conflict zones, hospitals and doctors are no longer spared

#war #war crimes #international agreements #civilization

[without-ado]

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#human rights #black lives matter #blm #civilization #african american #african #africa #continent #black people #civil rights #malcolm x #words #quotes #black history