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Blue Heeler puppies

That’s a hard question. Something without claws because otherwise I’d probably be scratched to death by terrified animals. But also that rules out like all my favorite animals. Maybe capybaras hmm yes

I think I would like an apartment full of chickens because they need a lot of help.

bees.

I have no idea.

WOW Emily, way to give away my old sleepers.

Edit: OH NO ALPHA DIED

Haha! Finally an unemployment rate lower than 2%

Up for vote in about an hour and a half, Commend Kenmoria, meaning Honeydew will have a GA and SC proposal up for vote at the same time :P

Resolution: (https://www.nationstates.net/page=UN_view_proposal/id=honeydewistania_1605852123)

Thread: (https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=494250)

Honestly it seems fine to me. I've seen Kenmoria around the WA forums and they always seem friendly enough. Obviously their accomplishments have been reasonably substantial, and I think it's nice to see variety in an SC proposal for the first time in a little bit!

The only downsides I think are echoes of my message yesterday. It's another thread with very few posts and the posts are mostly concerned with technical issues. I feel like it might have been rushed for the purpose to get passed before S3 starts :P

That being said, unlike yesterday's argument, I don't see any big issues with this one. Commending a person who's been helpful in the WA forum seems like a lovely goal.

I approve of this one. When I attempted to draft a WA resolution for the first (and only) time back in the stone age, they were really helpful and welcoming. I also like the sound of the resolutions they have co-authored, like "promoting natural sciences" and "ensuring effectual recycling," though I can't say I'm too familiar with the details on those.

Unfortunately, the nomadic peoples of Bellerre have yet to determine a suitable place to call home. However, observers predict that they will select a rough territory in which to continually traverse in about a week or so's time.

Refuge Isle, I love how you painted [nation=Narwhal]. It looks all cute and fishy and regal. I hope they like their mapped image as well.

Today, we have added Dracarystan and parts of our enemy, West Arland, into our fair territory.

If you're wondering about the "regional referendum" mentioned in the world factbook entry, that has already been decided. Every time there is an embassy connection under consideration, all member states get to vote on whether or not it should happen.

:D

Thank you Lulu!! tacklehugs

Also, I just want to say that I'm really glad I met all of you dorks ^_^

Y'all make life better! AND SILLIER! Much much sillier >:D

Heeheehee I'm glad you like it :3

A truly glorious demonym

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Also welcome to Emojitheft, it's always nice to have more friendly faces around!

I'm not sure a nation can be managed by a group of managers, this might be a violation of NS's TOS, but otherwise... Yeah, I guess a Dominion is a valid type of government.

They can? A nation managed jointly by more than one person can give them an unfair advatage in raiding/defending, Z-Day & N-Day. Especially if one person lives in Australia and the other in Europe.

I stand corrected.

The school management is usually appointed by the Board of Education or by whoever is in charge of the school, but you can run your school any way you choose! If you make it work as an oligarchy, I guess it is one.

Congrats to the winners <3

Ayyyyy congrats to the winners ^-^ And I hope you all are having a spectacular day

Oh, it may be a benefit to the region for me to post here that I suspect that the snapshot of your nation for Season 3 (which is used to set rarities), will be taken some time within the next few days with the cards being released possibly within a week.

This is speculation on my part, but it's reasonably well founded by precedent. If there's anything last minute that you're aiming to do in order to up your stat badges or what have you, now would be the time.

We're very close to the time it happened last, yes: https://www.nationstates.net/page=news/2019/11/28/index.html

I took a look at their region recently, and it seemed odd that Refugia would have an embassy with a region like that. So, even though I can't vote, I'd like to say that closure is a good call.

Good day, I'm the School management

Sup!

I already supped, thank you very much. I had fish n' chips, and then some cheese. How was your own Dinner (or Luncheon), sir? Did you (or will you be) celebrating Thanksgiving? (I don't since I'm on the other side of the Atlantic).

Because that's how I was taught to politely address others. It is not intended to presume gender, just to convey politeness. In the army, a female officer is addressed as "sir," too.

Sorry, sir Ma'am. I'll try to avoid gender-specific titles when unsure, in future.

Not in real life. And my wife and mother are retired military.

I just had some macaroni so nothing special. I won't be celebrating Thanksgiving, because I'm on the same side of that ocean as you are. :)

Aah okay, I will try and remember this and try to be as gender-neutral as I can when talking to people here. :)

It's lovely to meet you by the way <3

We don't celebrate Thanksgiving today in Canada either, so I'll probably just make normal food.

I try to prepare only curses on Thanksgiving, it's true. Gotta hex out the bad vibes!

Welcome to the veg traaaaaaaain! :D

Good writeup. That's what jumped out at me when I looked it over: it's toothless. I'd rather see a series of metrics to measure the impact of development projects, not a list of effectively optional requests.

0.5

It went so well that despite being absent almost all of Z-Day I had my entire population cured for me before I even made my own Cure missiles! (Forgot to add my rating lol 5/5)

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Welcome again <3

I'm getting a bit self-conscious that all of my GA takes are becoming too similar, but here we go anyway lol.

Protected Working Leave

Proposal: (https://www.nationstates.net/page=UN_view_proposal/id=cretox_state_1606540208)

Thread: (https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=489404)

I mean, I guess the most positive thing I can say about this is that it's a good subject to protect? But, like pretty much everything I've read from Cretox lately (and a few other GA authors who have been spamming proposals), it's weak and highly exploitable. I'm getting a bit frustrated by what I see to be a decline in quality of GA resolutions over the past six or eight months, especially since they keep getting away with it due to an overwhelming number of voters who are happy to rubber stamp things.

So let me stop complaining and show what I'm talking about, I guess:

Reasonable seems to be the new watchword for the GA, as it's the most acceptable stand-in for actually providing any figures or solid ideas. The word is never defined and no limits are placed on this. It's so easily exploitable by the company to just say certain amounts of time aren't reasonable, and the text of the proposal supports that. The fact that people in the forum seem to focus all their negative attention on things they IC don't care for and let dozens of proposals with massive, glaring loopholes through mostly uncontested is grating.

I don't have a crazy lot to say about the GA proposal, but I think that clause 2 is adequately written to provide paid time off. IMO it would have been better off if it was worded slightly more broadly, but I also know that it's on a subject that people are a little less interested on legislating on because of the (arguably dying) concept of national sovereignty in GA resolution votes.

I also think that, for whatever the rest of the problems the resolution has, clause 3 is pretty substantially positive and I was surprised to see that it hasn't been covered previously. So basically, although I do agree that Cretox should be banned from using the word "reasonable", it doesn't create as many problems as it solves, and it's unlikely anything else would have the motivation to be written on the subject. So I've lodged a vote of For.

These are good points. I can see the logic in giving some leeway due to Cretox being the only person who would be interested in writing this. I'm not sure if it's enough to overcome my great fatigue at the fact Cretox is writing everything, however :P

Certainly I'm feeling less against now that I've seen some arguments for the proposal. I just wish he'd never use the word reasonable again.

I think we should stop closing embassies. At the rate we're going, we'll have barely any embassies left.

Voting in favour because I would prefer the region have a few close friends than many relationships that don't mean anything.

Vote as you please, but regions and embassies aren't stamps to collect. They are communities of people. Some of those communities are dead or evolve to have values that go against ours. An embassy collector with five hundred embassies has zero influence in this game. One respectable region with solid opinions, good IP content, and fifty votes at the world assembly, much more.

We do not rely on other regions for our reputation, we make it ourselves.

I believe voting on closing embassies should be decided on a case-by-case basis, not by an inclusive "the more the merrier" policy. I voted against closing one of the previous embassies we have closed, when I was not convinced that that specific embassy needed to be closed. But I see no point in holding on to embassies with dead regions.

Hi everyone! I guess right now might be a nice time for some good news regarding our foreign embassies. This month's Embassy Update for The Leftist Assembly is finished. The nefarious plot friendly international relations are going very well.

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=uwusberg/detail=factbook/id=1469310

The highly classified data publicly-available information I've gathered has actually given me a few ideas. Do y'all have any interest in doing an Among Us game night like TLA sometimes does?