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I don't know what you're doing but it sounds cool.

Down with the blending, bring back solid food!

What is this... freedom of the press you speak of.

Queen Elizabeth II is victorious by the way. All other combatants are dead or missing (and presumed to be dead).

F to Vanessa Carlton's piano. It never made its way downtown.

You dorks 😋

TANANANANANANAN

TAN TAN TANANANANANANAN

In another installment of Maddie's life is a Sitcom, a guy I played DnD with for 2 years in College is the POI in a shooting at a protest in Colorado.

I Am Losing It.

D: I don't even know if it's a sitcom at this point, you're at the centre of, like, a crime drama or something at this point. The innocent person who knows all the killers in the show.

I'm sorry you're being hit with these things, friend.

Hey comrades, I've founded my own region and are moving there (Northeast Akavir).

Behind who?! :o

At some point, I did something that cut my eco-friendliness by like half and I have no memory of it at all

I am so unbelievably lucky with trading cards... I just opened this up via pack: https://www.nationstates.net/page=deck/card=363/season=2

That really depends. With this nation, I'm really pushing for primitiveness. I'm not really sure why, but I'm pretty sure it's the novelty since not many people seem to want to touch that stat. I could probably do eco along the way, similar to how Ransium has done it, but I think it would take quite a few months.

Congrats on the legendary find!

You are too good to me.

Relatable

...wait

She is the Founder of this region.

:P

No worries, I was just making a joke. In all fairness, I've been incredibly busy lately, so I haven't had as much dedication to mindlessly h*ckposting per normal 😜

I agree that trying to run a region on NS is a little bit on the stressful side. There's a lot of pressure to keep things up, especially when people in other regions are watching to see if you'll flop. The thing that gave me a lot of motivation for running Refugia last year is that it's always been difficult for me to feel like I fit somewhere if I don't make a place, myself. So probably other people feel that way too, right? So naturally, the biggest goal in Refugia is that this is a place where you're allowed to be even if you're not blowing people out of the water with everything you do.

Outside of that, may we can do something interesting that people aren't expecting every now and then~

Don't look now, but there's three TBH sergeants one one council member in the region.

I would, but it looks like Refuge Isle left the region ;-;

Looks like she has a sweet new repeal though https://www.nationstates.net/page=UN_view_proposal/id=refuge_isle_1596349264

The only giant explosion I had on my bingo card for 2020 was Yellowstone. I saw just the before/after pictures for this on a news article and it looked devastating.

What's worse is that it appears it could've easily been prevented if the substance that caused the blast which has been identified as ammonium nitrate which was stored at the port after being taken off a Russian Moldovan-flagged ship MV Rhosus which had docked at Beirut in 2013 (the ammonium nitrate was stored in 2014) had been safely disposed of in some way rather than in a big 2,750 ton pile at the port.

Ammonium nitrate is a chemical vital for fertilizers and explosives which can only be set off in this form via explosives or fire (fire in this case caused it to explode) so it was highly irresponsible of the port authorities in charge of storage to leave it there in such massive quantities. The blast left a massive crater in the port. https://newscdn2.weigelbroadcasting.com/EPhW4-1596645408-171116-blog-hypatia-h_6e7433f9171ff0c6cf45429f89eb4b46-h_39e07d778d16ef93187f4510f36cede4.jpg

The blast damaged most of Beirut either through directly impacting it with the explosion or causing damage with the massive shockwave and damaged hospitals throughout the city making some of them unable to treat patients normally. One hospital had to resort to treating patients outside in the elements due to the extensive damage that killed several staff members and injured many patients. The blast also destroyed much of the country's grain (and they were already experiencing food shortages due to the economic collapse from the COVID-19 pandemic) and it was reported that it left Lebanon with less than a month's worth of grain in reserve.

I can say that if Yellowstone exploded it would be much bigger than this. If I were to think there would be a massive explosion I would imagine it would be related to Iran and/or Saudi Arabia and their Middle Eastern Cold War.

Yellowstone erupting would definitely wipe out the entire left half of the USA and possibly cause a catastrophic cascade of events that could kill ~5 billion people. My 2020 bingo board is helping keep me optimistic. Oh, new species of hornet mercilessly decapitating friendly bees? Well, at least Yellowstone hasn't erupted!

My other way to stay positive is by logging on to nationstates and allowing as many immigrants in as possible, but sometimes I don't have issues in my queue, so I make do.

Read the actual news, people.

Impos

Impossible !

Yep.

Speaking of nukes, does anyone want to be our point-person to coordinate N-Day this year? I've received an offer from Canopy, one of the largest alliances, to have us join, but I'd like to have someone in or related to Operations be in charge. It should be super easy; last year Refuge had to coordinate things more or less entirely on her own, since it was more or less over for Refugia by the time I got home from work. Being within Canopy would require our person to more or less have a couple discussions with the highly experienced people there and give the rest of us instructions on what would be expected of us.

This would also be a great way to build up experience if you're interested in eventually getting a Councillor position ^-^

Eyy Refuge Isle, welcome back!

Doublepost! But I'd like to gently recommend Refugia vote for the current GA repeal that I am toootally not connected to in any way.

My positionis that a resolution which aims to provide legal protections for journalists should be written mindful of the perspective of a country that does not wish to protect them, rather than one that does. If a resolution is able to, in several different ways, allow the country to ignore all of those protections if it wishes or doesn't care for press coverage, it doesn't actually provide any protection at all. Additionally, because the exclusions have been explicitly written in, they cannot be resolved by band-aid resolutions, subsequently, and so the whole process must start over.

Hey! I started this nation a few months ago as I got tired with my old one. My nation is centrist and supposed to be capitalist but an issue sorta messed that up. Anyhow, good to be here.

The fact that Victoria gets to remain the capital even when we've enveloped Alberta makes me incredibly smug. Welcome to the region!

Ha thanks!

I highly recommend coming up with a draft and posting it on the NS discussion forum before going straight to submission. In any event, it only takes two endorsements to submit a proposal, so you have the requisite amount.

Also, if you endorse me, our vote in the World Assembly is stronger <3

Done!

Thanks friends <3

One year as delegate was enough for me 😜

When you have a high number in environmental beauty and/or eco-friendliness (I'm not sure if it requires both), it translates as having a lot of forests in your nation. Eventually you may get issues that will help lower the number of people lost in the wilderness, but for now, it's just a tradeoff for having a nation with a healthy environment.

Another question for anybody willing to answer: since I'm new, I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions for getting started? Participating with other Nations? I'm having fun but feel kind of lost so far! Tia!

That's wild. At least now I know it's not something I did to cause it!

I don't plan to! I joined because I like how active and welcoming the various Nations are!

I am! How can I join the map?

Discuss stuff on the Refuge chat, log on as often as possible, get on the map (I already told you how) or vote on WA stuff.

There's trading cards you can get from answering issues, and a whole in-game market based around them, the issues themselves that let you RP your nation, and a whole host of forums discussing everything from WA resolutions to RP threads, to real life politics.

I know there are a couple people in our region that have a little experience with cards and WA resolutions as well, plus some with experience with raiding, the other big cross regional activity.

Congrats to both of you, those are huge collection completions!

Sending out another call for this! Please let us know if you'd be interested!

I recently started wondering if the USSR, China and other nations that have called themselves "communist" are actually communist. I think that they are/were, in fact, dictatorships billed as communist.

Thanks for your well-wishes. Stressful as always, but at least I got it done

Until the next time, anyway 👀

Many forms of government are fine ideas on paper but in practice, this tends to happen. It turns out the main drawback of any power plan is.... corruption.

The premise of my nation relies on everyone taking personal responsibility, being honorable, and vying for respect, but in reality, it would break down almost immediately because of exactly this.

hey guys, not sure where to find this info but i remember hearing something about war in this game? A lot of "Condemn" WA Resolutions reference it, but so far nothing I have found even hints at war/subterfuge. Can anyone clarify?