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Region: Refugia
卫 斯理 让 壤 平日泥土 var 啊 绕绕 提 粗
WE(i) S(i)L(i) RA(ng) P(ing)RI N(i)TU VAR A RA(o)RA(o) TI CU
Waywards Edge
If you add the letters in brackets, you can pronounce them in Chinese (but they are still a lot of meaningless gibberish)
Jazur, Waywards Edge
Yay!
Edit: Small thing I want to say because I don't want to double post,
So, if any of you have read Percy Jackson, there is this one character, Thanatos, who is the embodiment of death. Now, what I find funny is that he uses a tablet. Why? Well, so does the Sims 4 Grim Reaper.
Tiralta, Jazur, Chong Qing, Lycanjeskai
Omg I never made the connection even though I play the sims 4 and have read all the rick riordan books like 8 times
Chong Qing
Welcome, both of you!
Chong Qing
Because I am dumb and dont know how to quote two posts at once I shall use Rejakhta's post lmao,
sooo *ahem* WELCOME TO WESLR PEOPLE! :D
Rejakhta, Chong Qing, Uwuguaya
how to quote twice
St Leone, Tiralta, Chong Qing
Thank you for joining our region! This post is not only to welcome you, but also to give you a basic introduction to Refugia and ways to interact with the community if youre interested in doing so.
Refugia is part of a larger community, Calamity Refuge (or CalRef for short). If you want to hang out with us, check out our Discord server: https://calref.network/chat/. You can find a list of CalRef services on our Network Site: https://calref.network/. From there, you can access our forum (for RP and spam games), Wiki (to collaborate on RP and regional documents and information), a full list of our Discord bot Dot's commands, and more!
There are a lot of things you can do on NationStates and in Refugia! Become a Member State by joining the World Assembly. Once youve joined the World Assembly and have been in the region for 7 days, youll be able to get a spot on the map of Refugia, as well as vote in our regional elections and run for Council positions! You can also endorse other nations in the region easily by using our custom tool, Tart.Calref: https://tart.calref.network/ For more information, please check out this dispatch, which includes information on what the World Assembly is and why its important.
If you are visiting on a puppet nation, please disclose your main and reason for visiting to our Operations Councillor, A Million Dreams.
Finally, if theres anything else youre interested in learning about our region or NationStates, feel free to ask! Ill incorporate feedback into these welcome messages in the future, so youll be helping other people as well!
Zukchiva, Typica, Araine, Junitaki-Cho, Portmanteau, Tiralta, A Million Dreams, United Crystalia, Chong Qing
thank you thank you, very helpful :D
Chong Qing
Thanks.
Typica, Sylh Alanor, Tiralta, Ullrani, Chong Qing
"Literature classes frequently go on field trips to rock concerts."
Welcome to Waywardia
Typica, St Leone, Antimai, Chong Qing, Uwuguaya
for non-chinese speakers, this translates to: "Wesley makes soil weekday soil var ah round round mention rough"
Huliunov, Waywards Edge, Chong Qing, Uwuguaya
It seems more accurate than Chinese pronunciation.
SiHu'Bi'ZhongWen'De'FaYin'Gen'Zhun'Que.
似乎比中文的发音更准确。
似乎比中文的發音更準確。
Uwuguaya
it's what google told me
Uwuguaya
I will gift you all of my cards, current and future, if you add a new letter for every new member. Do it for the memes.
Uwuguaya
But I'm not Chong-Qing,Im Chong Qing.
Uwuguaya
ich bin ein kartoffel
nah, I want to keep it orderly, just so I don't break it. WESLR is actually pronounceable, and I'd like to keep it that way.
Amiyoka, Chong Qing, Uwuguaya
WESLRLGBTQABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
On a more serious note, if you wanted to include everyone anyway you could add a + like with LGBT+. WESLR+. Im not sure if that looks stupid or not, Im pretty tired.
Uwuguaya
WESLRECQ(Strange pronunciation)
为啥冷热出去
we sha leng re chu qu
Uwuguaya
as much as I would like to say I can change the name at will, I cannot. (vagueness, didn't write it in, I can legally accept nations, as one of my OC's is the Gen Sec.). Because we are all fans of Democracy, there are 5 people who can decide, 3 of whom currently hold veto rights, and that veto is overriden if 2/3 of the people say nah. 2/3 is nearly the same as 3/5, so i may use them interchangeably. whoo imagine if the UN security council could overturn veto's. life would get easier really quickly.
Thanks for the suggestion though, I might actually think about this further.
I guess, if you think about it, Estebere is technically the E in WESLR, because canonically, Wayards Edge is a mouthful, and it's shorthanded to Waywardia. might be able to fit a C in there somewhere.
Chong Qing, Neurodiversity
How can this thing be pronounced? ( https://fanyi.baidu.com/#it/en/WESLRECQ )
Yeah.
WECSLR? Names are hard, especially because a C has "k" or "s" sound.
then again, we could go with WESLR+, neat, clean, and it's like a streaming site (Cough Disney+, Cough)
Though, you could make the C have an S sound, and it could replace the S, and it could retain pronounciation.
WECLR
interesting ideas
Chong Qing
hey if somebody quoted or sent a message in refugia concerning me I did not see it through the hundreds of endorsements ive been getting
Typica, Chong Qing, Furraria, Lycanjeskai, Uwuguaya
suffering from success
Typica, Jazur, Chong Qing, Uwuguaya
also if anybody wants their card and me or my puppet Pacific Anarchist has it ill give the card to you in return for another card of the same value or higher
Typica, Tiralta, Uwuguaya
y'all gotta watch school of rock if you haven't already
Typica, Remnants Of The Pacific, Tiralta, Chong Qing, Uwuguaya, Cooee
Bruh i just allowed dr*gs to be put in soda and my pizza industry went up by 900%
Chong Qing, Neurodiversity, Uwuguaya, Cooee
gotta have spiked soda with pizza...
Chong Qing, Uwuguaya
potheads:
Chong Qing, Uwuguaya
In tonight's news, euthanasia is now legal and a space program has been established.
Cheesy Tots, Typica, Araine, Tiralta, Jazur, Chong Qing, Furraria
And here I was joking(in my head) Estebere would be added to the end and that part could be pronounced AIR-a(And then there would be more letters)
Edit: We allow Euthanasia within limits to be exact, mostly the option when undergoing severe health problems that would make life miserable for the person.
Cheesy Tots, Typica, Avatar Webby
"saltwater humpback Crow"
That's not how Crows work
Cheesy Tots, Chong Qing, Cooee
welcome to space, just be wary of the giant meteors.
Cheesy Tots, Typica, Avatar Webby, Tiralta, Chong Qing, Furraria
the time has come to befriend the giant meteors and wage honorable war upon the stars
Tiralta, Rejakhta, Chong Qing, Dyrand, Cooee
I accidentally abolished my space program the other day so I think Im defenseless in the coming war with the giant space rocks.
Cheesy Tots, Typica, Tiralta, Chong Qing
Good day all! I am pleased to share with you the results of the Factbook Writing Competition's voting!
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1799745
Hooray writing!
Cheesy Tots, Typica, Araine, Junitaki-Cho, Liphia, Tiralta, Jazur, Antimai, Chong Qing
You too, huh?
Cheesy Tots, Chong Qing
Cheesy Tots, Chong Qing
It,s my birthday
Cheesy Tots, Araine, Junitaki-Cho, Liphia, Imperve, Remnants Of The Pacific, Tiralta, Rejakhta, Chong Qing, Neurodiversity, Almander
Happy birthday!
Araine, Remnants Of The Pacific
Happy birthday to you!
I abolished mine on accident the other day too. I seriously didn't expect it, and it also reclassified me. Presumably because it absolutely demolished my economic freedom.
Cheesy Tots, Tiralta, Uwuguaya
so with the new season 3 cards can u still get season 1 cards from packs?
Cheesy Tots, Tiralta
W
I have several anti asteroid railguns, should be fine if they come near again
Happy birthday!!
Cheers to you!
Yup! They're just rare.
Tiralta, Uwuguaya
Happy Birthday!
Uwuguaya
Cheers, I'll drink* to that bro
[sub]*pepsi[/sub]
let's gooooo gender neutral bathrooms
Cheesy Tots, Refuge Isle, Tiralta, Jazur, Uwuguaya, Cooee
all bathrooms are gender neutral, atleast in my high school
Imperve
The Survey because there is no survey
Q: Is Nuclear Power safe?
Only if you pretend the nuclear waste doesnt exist.
St Leone, Tiralta, Waywards Edge, Uwuguaya, Cooee
So is that a yes?
Because it's stored in water for a while then is put underground
Edit: That's why fuel storage pools exist. Fuel rods are removed then put here. Water is one of the best protections from radiation/
are they rarer than before season 3 cards or the same chance?
Certainly more so than the coal and oil-fired power plants that are destroying our planet through emissions
Tiralta, Waywards Edge
well this is a very debatable question...
to keep this short yes. the issue is the radioactive waste is one of the worst materials humans have made this kills anything around it and makes the soil infertile for generations... not only that nuclear power plants when shut off take generations to cool down, and even then those materials are radioactive and need burying to harm the environment further. This has been an ongoing issue since the creation of these plants, not only to say that finding the uranium harms the environment and is very rare. (sorry didn't keep it short)
Tiralta, Waywards Edge, Cooee
I agree with Refuge Isle- it's not perfect, but it's an upgrade from other power plants that are used.
Tiralta, Waywards Edge
the correct answer appears to be yesn't
Imperve, Jazur, Euemeria
I'm not sure if there are actual numbers out there, but I've gotten more s1 packs than s2 packs since the new season came out.
Modern nuclear power plants are certainly safer in terms of meltdowns (unless Russia pulls something) than they were decades ago, and they produce a small amount of waste relative to the the amount of power produced. So while that waste is still a problem that will eventually need a more permanent solution, nuclear power is still much better for the environment than methods that burn fossil fuels.
Hydroelectric power has the drawback of harming the ecosystems dams are placed in and methods of getting migrating fish over them arent perfect. Windmills are often said to be ugly and ruin landscapes (I honestly think they dont look that bad and thats not the biggest concern), and kill birds and bats. Solar panels are also ugly apparently (still dont get it) and contain toxic substances that are harmful to the environment when they inevitably wear out and need disposed of in a couple decades.
Everything has drawbacks, but given the amount of power that can be produced by just a few nuclear power plants I think its a lot more feasible than trying to get everyone to install windmills and solar panels, or trying to put dams everywhere. The problem is its a bit stigmatized.
Imperve, Tiralta, Waywards Edge, Chong Qing, Cooee
One of the worst consequences of Chernobyl is that people still don't trust nuclear. It was even at the time a massively outdated plant, contemporary plants wouldn't have had that problem. And now we've got almost 40 years more experience. Dump the money in, build new (or retrofit) plants, and idk use unmanned space shuttles to shoot the waste into the sun or something
Araine, Junitaki-Cho, Jazur, Waywards Edge
I think kurz in a nutshell made a video on why that was a bad idea
i think it was that like the energy required would be stupid or somethin
Neurodiversity
A large catapault then, and we'll send all of youtube on a trip to the sun at the same time.
Imperve, Waywards Edge
I think it depends on the country, with each country's geographic and ecological circumstances obviously coming into play.
I could be wrong about the UK, but I'd feel significantly more comfortable with them building nuclear power plants than my home country, the Philippines. The last time we tried, we apparently did it right next to a faultine??? Scarily close to the capital with millions of people??? While I bet there were better places to put that power plant, I'm still hesitant about them in general when we're one of the most disaster-ridden countries in the world, faultlines everywhere and typhoons happening all the time. Solar, wind, and water just seem so much better in comparison because of that.
In contrast, based on my time currently living in the UK, I'd feel much safer about nuclear power plants being built here. However, if anyone here is actually British, feel free to correct me.
Oh, and of course, I don't think a country should really rely on a single energy source anyway and there should often be some sort of energy mix.
Araine, Survivors Win, Imperve, Tiralta, Waywards Edge, Chong Qing
me: *logs off for a week*
DMs: We'd like to inform you that rape victims aren't protected anymore and one of the most infamous raiders/griefers ever has been unbanned by his cult. Have a nice day! -world assembly compliance commission
Chong Qing
That's definitely an interesting interpretation of things lol. welcome back
Tiralta, Chong Qing
It was repealed so it could be replaced with a better one. While I havent read it yet, it does appear to be in the queue right now to be voted on sometime soon.
Tiralta, Chong Qing
Post self-deleted by Refuge Isle.
hello
Typica, Araine, Liphia, Chong Qing
Welcome!
Chacapoya, Typica
Welcome! Your national animal is possibly the best I've ever seen on this site. I love it.
Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Liphia
Current'y, no, not entire'y
If more countries invested in research, maybe
Sustainable reduced risk development through research and education will hopefully increase safety for future power generation whether nuclear or not.
Jazur, Chong Qing
Q: on a scale of 1-10 how is your country doing
Q: sur une échelle de 1 à 10 comment va votre nation
P: en una escala del 1 al 10 como le va a tu pais
问:从 1 到 10 的等级,你的国家做得如何
Jazur, Chong Qing
7,I think.
Jazur
pretty good. i'm at like a 6.75
Jazur, Chong Qing
I would say 9! I just want to get rid of conscription...
Jazur
I think the only problem is those civil rights. I always feel that the gap between the rich and the poor is bound to civil rights (insanity)
Jazur
there is a gap of like 3 thousand pesos between the rich and poor in libervillea. and yet. freedom is just average somehow
Jazur, Chong Qing
Chong qing's civil rights are Some, but there is no gap between rich and poor.
try giving them more pizza, the people like that
Typica, Imperve, Chong Qing
why do you think nuclear power is not safe?
my curiosity has spiked
Typica, Jazur
A good suggestion (I will take it)
Cooee
Conscription is good,* but if you need to get rid of conscription, turn your soldiers into astronauts, and explore the great unknown
[spoiler=*][sub]if you are a nation in the middle east, your neighbors hate you, and you are constantly under attack- [/sub]
[sub]I'm describing Israel, I realize I'm describing Israel.[/sub][/spoiler]
Around 6+ would be a 7 but the political freedom is a bit low
Chong Qing
seems to be a common theme
Chong Qing
to be fair, there's a certain amount of risk involved in all methods of generating power, I just see the most risk in nuc'ear, in comparison to other renewable energies
I think one of the problems is that people are trying to replace nuclear plants with renewables, instead of replacing coal and gas powered plants. Even worse, germany is closing all of their NPs. What are they being replaced with? Coal. The risk is significantly less with a nuclear plant than a coal or gas fired plant.
Edit: I really don't want to come across as rude don't yeetus me I really do want to understand the anti nuclear position
Jazur
im vibing here in norway with our <99% hydropower
Feels nice knowing the power fueling my pc comes from pretty good powersources. . .
The electricity prices are a different story tho ive heard lmao
Jazur, Waywards Edge
didn't ask
That's pretty cool, I like the one story from WW2 about the heavy water.
But Dam [sub](buh dum shing)[/sub], thats pretty cool
Illinois has about 50% power from nuclear, though I think are set to retire soon. The rest is gas, then followed by renewables.
I think NY has a pretty eco efficient line, anybody wanna confirm that?
Jazur
ah yea that heavy water thingy
ive been to that plant, pretty cool i guess, i love how they sell heavy water at ridiculous prices as souvenirs xD
Jazur
can't believe everyone on the WA is against regulating business pollution
what a world to live in
Chong Qing
It's less that people are against business pollution, and more that the resolution at vote tells us next to nothing about what regulations should be implemented to make this proposal work, as well as the fact that it says nothing about what extent oceans should be cleaned. Not to mention it's short and vague in its wording. No surprise it's getting absolutely demolished in the WA.
Typica, Sylh Alanor, Tiralta
I just really really like concrete.
maybe if you went to libervillea, where private business is illegal, you'd change your mind
Also, you know, the space debris. And the regular nuclear winters. And the amount of pollution from firing thousands of rockets into space a year. Also yay kurzegagt!
If what my Year 2 teacher taught me is right, the crocodile eats the bigger number and youre using less than 99% hydropower? I think your crocodile got confused.
Delta Vega Iv, Typica, Cooee
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