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Hey here's some free Sims games. Don't pay for digital media in this economy.

Sims 1

Sims 2

Sims 3

Sims 4

Here is also all non-PC sims games. As well as links to a variety of emulators:

PS2

PS3

XBOX

XBOX 360

PSP

DS

Wii

GameCube

Game Boy Advance/Other emulator

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ive gotten so much mileage out of this tweet. every time i see something on the internet that makes me mad i just think to myself "people in real life: hey man how's it going" and i keep it pushing

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Watching polycules form in real time is like watching an earthquake and a tsunami strike at the same location

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guy i saw on train today

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guy

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on purpose!!! love people on purpose!!! find someone wonderful and love them and tell them it wasn’t an accident, you had a choice, you saw who they were and realized how lovely it would be to love them, and it is!!! i made a good decision! i love you on purpose!!!

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See in theory I'm allowed to have the same needs as other people but in practice other people never stop having needs and SOMEONE has to stay stable enough to take care of them all

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great news everyone- new kin unlocked

its literally the all-seeing supercomputer from person of interest :o3c

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parenting 101 brought to you by phoenix wright

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Quiet joys w/ Marge

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if i’m ever brutally murdered and everyone feels like they need to do something productive in my memory, all i want is for you to pass legislation banning LED headlights in my name. regardless of how irrelevant it is to my murder. it’s relevant to my heart.

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at the mariners bar: sorry mates i cant go out today.. My boat's transmasc now. He's more comfortable with he/him. He just went through top surgery to get his sails removed and he's recovering. Bluebeard-and-Pronouns the woke pirate: arrg so he's gotten a mastectomy. well i'm glad that he's discovered himself.

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JordBallata's fetish art of cartoon characters mid-spin. conceptually pure

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The Falkirk wheel: A unique rotating boat lift

This boat lift connects, like many boat lifts, two canals, in this case the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal in Scotland, allowing boats to overcome a height difference of 35 meters. However, it uses an unique mechanism not seen anywhere else in the world: boats enter one of the caissons (the large water-filled box that holds the boats in a boat lift) at the top or the bottom and then are lifted or lowered via rotation. Aside from being traffic infrastructure, it is also a popular destination for visitors.

It was opened in 2002 as a replacement for the flight of 11 locks that had been used until the early 1930s, having been dismantled in 1933. Traveling through them was a slow process that took about a day. Planning for a replacement only started in the 1990s and at first also included ideas for a rolling egg or an overhead monorail. The rotating lift that was finally chosen is said to have taken inspiration for its design from a Celtic double-headed spear, among other things.

About 1000 workers used 1,200 tons of steel and 15,000 bolts to build the boat lift, and the two caissons, weighing hundreds of tonnes on their own, hold 500,000 liters of water. The water isn’t spread equally between the two, instead the top one takes more water to make gravity help push the lift down and thus save a high amount of energy that would otherwise be necessary. As a result, it only uses 1.5 kWh per turn, less than is necessary to boil 20 liters of water in typical electric kettles.

More information:

Timeline and general information on the boat lift on the official website

Len Paterson, From Sea to Sea: A History of the Scottish Lowland and Highland Canals (2013)

Video giving a detailed explanation on how the lift works

Video explaining on how the Falkirk wheel uses a principle first known to be described by Archimedes

Image sources:

First photo from the top: Sean Mack, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Second photo from the top: AndiW on Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain

Third photo from the top: Pjt56, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons