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Thank you so much for dropping by and giving us this explanation. I can say the same in the opposite direction; there are some people I met in TLA that I think are wonderful, and I value the time last year I was able to spend in the TLA server. Were things different, and had the wider NSLeft community not decided to involve themselves in our affairs, I think things could have worked out much better. That being said, things are the way they are, and this is definitely for the best. Best of luck Samon, you're a lovely person.

-Em

good evening.

Factory Farming is inherently cruel. This should be a no brainer really. I am in full support.

Quick animal fact: Fish

Me: I should create a futuristic ancient Egypt but inspired by the foundation of Rome and 11th century Japanese warrior castes, haha

Also me, at 4 in the morning:

Also me, at 4 in the morning: butwhy.gif

I think that would be cool, but I think it would be best if it was just their statements on the matter so we don’t get arguments there

Valdonland reached one billion citizens! Hurray!

Ok I’ve got a question or two about the Security Council.

1) What are up with all the “Commend [nation]” proposals in the security council?

To me they don’t really mean much and just look like people patting themselves on the back.

2) I’ve been looking at the proposals in the SC and the ones that are not “Commend [nation]” all kinda look like jokes, is the SC just for posting low quality joke legislation or am I being stupid and missing something?

Is it usual for there to be a lot of commendations/Condemnations?

My god, I AM stupid. I completely forgot that the site legit told me that's what it's for, everyone forget my posts, I'm kinda dumb.

I live in Victoria, British Columbia, which is in Canada :D

I live in a medium sized town in Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom.

If it isn't obvious from my nation and factbook, Sweden is my favourite country!

Western Massachusetts, USA

I live on a wet, windy rock in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean called Iceland.

🎵I am in misery Missouri

Reykjavík, Iceland

Wow, there's a lot of people from more places than I realised. I'm in victoria, canada because I may or may not live with the other person here who does

I'm from schleswig-Holstein which is in Germany

Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.

Istanbul, Turkey

Mostly for the history, also curious to see what cultural and natural beauty is in the area.

I'm from Bournemouth in England

Upstate New York, USA

I have always wanted to live in Germany! Is it fun??

Somewhere in northeastern coastal Brazil. Shout out to everyone else living this close to the equator and suffering with the heat \o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhbcN3ew9z0 Basically this

This is a difficult one... Let's see... Probably Shanghai, I have a bit of a fascination with the place and it's very different from what I'm used to, both culturally and geographically

H E L L O

In order to promote The Battle of All Things, I have launched a rather ambitious version of Refugia's usual WA Development card lottery. If you like expensive cards and if you like 100% probability, check out this dispatch and prepare to have 37MB of mobile data vanquished immediately.

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1576025

I think that depends on where you would live and what you think is fun. Where I am there is not much party and wild things but rather museums and nature.

Moscow probably, that place has always fascinated me.

London probably.I always wanted to go there.I'm a big Sherlock Holmes fan and I'd love to visit the SH Museum in London,among other places.

Hey everyone! Not a lot to say on the current GA proposal at vote, Repeal "On Multilateral Trade Talks", but I wanted to walk through why I'm voting against and why I recommend an against vote to others. This probably won't pass already, but it's still important to discuss everything we can, and to understand why something might be bad.

So this proposal is broken into three main clauses, each making (or attempting to make) an argument as to why the original proposal,

GAR# 221, should be repealed. Let's break them down quickly.

This is incomprehensible, as far as I can tell. I've reread it a dozen times at this point, including very close reading, and I cannot parse it for the life of me. If anyone can explain it, I would very much appreciate that.

This argument breaks down to "we should repeal this because one of its clauses has some similarities to a clause in another resolution that was repealed". On its face, and honestly at any other depth of argument, that's ridiculous. There's no argument as to why the two clauses are similar enough that the repeal of one should lead to the repeal of the other.

This is a natsov (national sovereignty) argument, which is generally frowned upon. If the World Assembly is to be restricted by a nation's right to do literally anything it wants as a sovereign power, then there is no reason for the World Assembly to exist. It is, by its very nature, an international organisation that imposes regulations on the whole to make things easier for everyone individually when dealing with other nations. Like, I don't know, during multilateral trade talks.

This proposal puts forward perhaps the worst series of arguments I've seen in some time from a GA proposal. I strongly recommend voting against.

gamer sentence of the month:

[spoiler]I hope you have a good day[/spoiler]

Guys, my nation is new. Please give assistance!!!

Our nation is old. Anne-Marie Juliette offers her assistance. Would you like a Trade Deal?

And how do I trade I am new here

Population expands automatically as you play.You don't need to do something yourself.

Welcome!

Arf arf? (:3=

Also my sc proposal passes in 14 minutes. Pog

If you want to know how to endorse (and why it's important), feel free to check out this dispatch https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1491682

Also, welcome to all the new people. It's been almost three weeks since a proper welcome message, so I thought I'd throw one in and help. If anyone who is new has any questions about anything, please feel free to ask, we're all happy to help people figure out what they like about NationStates and how best to approach those things.

We also have a Discord server and an offsite forum linked above if you want to chat with us. Both of those platforms are mostly removed from NS content, so if you just want to make friends and talk to other people, they're good spots. We also sometimes play games together and share cool pictures of animals and landscapes and plants and stuff!

Hi there, President of Allokyus here, and with big news. Our scientists managed to run trials for our Alcubierre drive and it ran smoothly. They also discovered the mysterious Time Crystals, which are the result of the warp drive. These crystals can be used as fuel for the reactors of the star frigate, and they can also simulate the effects of a singularity without risking being S U C C into a black hole.

The hull of the ship is complete and the weapon systems are being tested. We can expect the ship to be commissioned in about two weeks. President of Allokyus out.

Did the scientists who managed this scientific feat spell "succ" like that too? 😛

Hello friends,

Prepare yourselves, another game night is nigh! Nigh as in about 3 hours. We'll be playing uno! Link will be posted here.

Hope to see you there!

our plans have been thwarted by the evil ghosts once more! Curses!

They cannot stop us however, meet us in this new game of uno to join us once more.

https://play.unofreak.com/game?calref2-goldfish

Hey everyone, thought I'd drop an opinion on the upcoming (as in 30 minutes from now) GA proposal going to vote, Repeal: Preparing for Disasters. It's targeting resolution GAR #105.

I'm not a fan of this repeal draft. I think that it's going after nitpicks, which are a pet peeve of mine when it comes to this current wave of "Let's repeal all of the old resolutions that were never repealed before now because they're actually reasonably solid."

Clause one of the repeal draft is going after a section of the original resolution on the idea that it could possibly be taken advantage of if nobody at the World Assembly Disaster Bureau (WADB) was actually paying any attention or doing their jobs. Araraukar in the drafting thread has a good counterargument to this where they state that, because all departments in the World Assembly are built to be infallible and immune to stupid mistakes, this is a nothing clause.

Clause two addresses a concern that information about disaster relief would have to be shared with everyone. I guess I don't really have to say much on this, it's a long-standing Refugi position that all information should be open-source and widely available so that everyone can mutually benefit. I really hate this scaremongering "malicious actors" talk when what we're discussing isn't nuclear weaponry, it's life-saving technologies to be used in the event of a natural or man-made disaster. No, everyone should be able to survive a disaster, we're not creating an us vs. them dynamic there.

Clause three, finally, is the biggest reach of them all. It states that, because a clause in the target resolution says the WADB must work with "all departments in the WA", that could be a burden on operations. This is actually just a non-issue. It's kind of ridiculous to make this a clause in your repeal draft, because of course they're not going to be working with entirely irrelevant departments.

I'm going to be voting against as soon as this is up to vote.

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dude that's not funny flat earthers are a serous problem.

Not without risking everything

Around the world~

Around the world~

Around the world~

Around the world

We simply negotiate the deal, either on this board (which I prefer) or via Telegram (if you feel more comfortable to discuss trade deals in privet). We ask one another what each nation would like to purchase and what it can offer in return, then announce the deal on this board.

This is pure roleplay; it has absolutely no effect on your game-side statistsics, which are affected 100% by your decisions on issues.

This is so exciting! Please keep us posted. We would like to send a Reserach Scientist aboard your first Inter-galactic ship. President Anne-Marie Juliette out.

Thanks! I'll be changing soon my vote accordingly.

Definitely silver.

(Hot take: Gold looks tacky)

Aside from the regular metal-like colors like iron or silver, I do like rusty and worn-out colors. Silent Hill comes to mind, but also, like, rusty gold.

I use this shade of faded gold in a game as a metal accent and I think it looks really nice. I also really like how greens and blues can look as metal shades.

hai