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Cake day: March 6th, 2025

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  • As it turns out, the emergence and popularization of Zoos during the Victorian era was largely driven by the work conducted at the Royal Institute for Volumetric Measurements in London.

    Similarly the expansion of the British empire was mostly driven by the need to find ever larger exotic animals in order to establish comparative volumetric weights for the ever larger ships and constructions of that era.

    “25.678 standard volume foxes”, was starting to become a bit unwieldy when describing a cargo vessel’s size.





  • Yeah fuck the system created by people in their free time for free^^ Not the corpos that still exclusively develop for windows or the mod devs not willing to think about other platforms and building unportable shit that will only work in a narrow set of environments.

    Seriously tho, expecting any random mod to work on a system the OG game wasn’t even built for seems pretty insane to me :D Like, the fucking game works. That in itself is a marvel of engineering