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Region: Refugia
I love kecleon
Portmanteau, Szalyland, Tiralta
What's goin' on? WA discussion time: Action on Period Poverty
Proposal: https://www.nationstates.net/page=UN_view_proposal/id=tinhampton_1675104480
Forum thread: https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=472844
Pretty straightforward one today. The proposal in question wants to mandate giving menstrual products to people who need them. Good stuff. EXCEPT! a(i) has a questionable "genuine need" qualifier, a(ii) has some sloppy writing with regard to online education as well as some logistical questions about invasions of privacy, b(ii) is very human-centric, and I have to wonder whether there should have been some consideration here for a program to supplement the costs employers and schools are going to incur. Is this enough to be against it? I don't know! Maybe you do. I don't see too good right now, my glasses are giving me trouble, but I hope there are some replies to read later.
Typica, Narwhal, Sylh Alanor, Melenavenia, Araine, Liphia, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Falafelandia, Jazur
testlandia
not bias'd because i use their "The Complete List of NSCodes"
Portmanteau, Tiralta
MY THOUGHTS:
I support this. Most of the problems in this proposal is that it doesn't do enough, but some is better than none. a(ii) is irritating, but not irritating enough to throw it out. And while b(ii) is human-centric, so are most member states of the WA.
Typica, Melenavenia, Araine, Junitaki-Cho, Portmanteau, Jazur, Peaceful Atomia
Hey, I'm new to this game, what's a member state and what are these policies for?
Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta
Hi! Welcome to Refugia, a place where environmentalists come together in harmony.
A member state is a nation whose been in Refugia for 7 days, and is in the WA.
As for policies, you can read the Refugia Revised Statutes (RRS)
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1200707
If you have any more questions, feel free to ask!
-Waywardia
Typica, Narwhal, Sylh Alanor, Araine, Liphia, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur
Yeah, what's the WA?
Tiralta
The WA, Also known as the World Assembly, is a place where it's like the UN, except they get stuff done[/spoiler]
In order to join the WA, you gotta have an email attached to your account, and then ask very politely to get in.
Also, you cannot have multiple WA accounts. They will find them, and you will be banned from the WA.
Again feel free to ask if you have more questions!
-Waywardia
Typica, Sylh Alanor, Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta
I'm for it. My reading of it would that the reason hospitals have a genuine need qualifier is because their primary purpose is to provide more intensive healthcare, to prevent people just rocking up to the hospital for menstrual products because it's closer than the nearest public toilet.
I do agree that wording is sloppy, but not enough to make me vote against. Thanks for sharing, it's nice to read in advance without other peoples' votes informing my decision.
Melenavenia, Araine, Junitaki-Cho, Portmanteau, Falafelandia
I'm not a member yet but I agree that the bill isn't strong enough, menstrual products should be able to be mailed for free to any citizen that asks and be available in every bathroom in any establishment government or otherwise.
Portmanteau, Tiralta
My favourite is toxapex!
Melenavenia, Tiralta, Ouch To The Natives
Referendum Notice:
A referendum regarding modification of the Refugia Revised Statutes has been submitted, entitled In Order to Prevent a More Perfect Union, authored by Sylh Alanor and seconded by A Million Dreams. Having met all requirements, a vote is triggered at this time and all Member States are entitled to vote on its integration into Refugia's system of law.
You can view the text of the measure here: https://forum.calref.ca/index.php?topic=239
Vote today: https://vote.calref.ca/vote/49
Voting ends in one week, on Monday March 6[sup]th[/sup] and 23:35 PDT.
Sylh Alanor, Melenavenia, Araine, Junitaki-Cho, Liphia, Tiralta, Falafelandia, Lycanjeskai
I'm a member state now!
happy dance
Typica, Sylh Alanor, Araine, Liphia, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, Lycanjeskai, Almander, Ouch To The Natives, Magentelane
Im basic so have to say Eevee Btw, whats everyone heres favorite Eeveelution? Ill start Umbreon.
St Leone, Tiralta, Jazur, Lycanjeskai
Congrats!!
I love democracy. Everyone should submit a modification to the RRS. Everyone should run for Councillor next term. I thrive on voting.
Typica, St Leone, Falafelandia, Jazur
Glaceon (I think thats what the ice type is called lol)
Tiralta, Lycanjeskai, Ouch To The Natives
My allegiance is to the republic, to democracy. -hehe
Tiralta
Glaceon is cool!
Jazur, Lycanjeskai, Ouch To The Natives
My favourite Pokémon is Lapras, the water type cute looking turtle 🐢
Tiralta, Falafelandia, Lycanjeskai
BY FAR glaceon
Tiralta, Ouch To The Natives
Turtles for the win!
Szalyland, Tiralta, Jazur
Tiralta, Jazur, Ouch To The Natives
A member state is a nation that's been in Refugia and is in the World Assembly, as far as I'm aware,
and policies? I'm not exactly sure, but I do know that if you have the MWD policy, then you can get the MADness issue chain.
Falafelandia
I'm gonna have to go with Leafeon.
I'd say that my favorite Pokémon in general is Dragonite.
Tiralta, Jazur, Lycanjeskai, Ouch To The Natives
I have no idea why this went from beaver army to nuclear war to favorite Pokémon, but I am not going to complain
My personal favorite is magmazone
Portmanteau, Tiralta, Huliunov, Lycanjeskai
ooh cool!
Tiralta, Jazur, Lycanjeskai, Ouch To The Natives
my favorite eeveelution is espeon, and my favorite overall pokemon would have to be piplup (cute penguin with a badass evo line)
Tiralta, Lycanjeskai, Ouch To The Natives
Flareon is my favorite Eevee Evolution
my favorite overall is Eevee
Rupika, Tiralta, Lycanjeskai, Ouch To The Natives
evees cute looking :D I like that rhino bone looking one
Tiralta, Jazur, Lycanjeskai, Ouch To The Natives
True dat i havent played pokemon in a long time i just like eevee since I have pokemon cards
who else had cards but didn't know how to play?
Tiralta, Jazur, Lycanjeskai
I had a bunch of cards, a whole box thing, but I used them to do WWE fights with each other
Tiralta, Jazur
ooh lol
Tiralta
Long story short, somehow with both mtg and Pokémon being my special interests for a while I never learned how to play the Pokémon tcg
I did collect the cards though
Tiralta
i just got into mtg last december, though i first played (and beat) my older cousin in august of 2019.
[sub]they were very mad[/sub]
Tiralta, Lycanjeskai
Nice! It's funny how on the Internet I find so many other mtg players and yet there are like 3 I know In real life
Tiralta
whats MTG?
Tiralta, Lycanjeskai
magic the gathering
Tiralta, Lycanjeskai
Thoughts on my factbook about the religion of LM?
It's loosely based on slavic paganism (names are just butchered versions of actual names), half-gods and human lovers are completely made up by me, relationships are also made up and not actual slavic mythology. I was too gay to not include a greek classicist statue so don't mind that. There is also a family tree of the pantheon if someone's interested.
If someone has a question, just ask :)
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=lovoreus_magnus/detail=factbook/id=1836190
Rupika, Tiralta, Falafelandia, Jazur
That's super detailed!
Rupika, Jazur, Lovoreus Magnus
I only got one vote from the candidacy ;-; but hey one guy liked me :D
Jazur
I don't think it was that people don't like you, just that you were up against two experienced candidates. I'd be super excited to see you participating in the WA discussions over the coming term, so we know what to expect from a potential term of your own in the future!
Araine, Junitaki-Cho, Rupika, Tiralta, Jazur, Lovoreus Magnus, Lycanjeskai
Hi everyone :) I just moved to this group from the 10,000 islands.
Tiralta, Ouch To The Natives, The Orcastani Islands
Tiralta
I barely know how to play and yet I have a ton of the cards.
Tiralta, Jazur, Casna, The Orcastani Islands
So anyways hello people, I am a colony of Koliland, and I have a huge population of orcas
Tiralta
My nation has a really bad economy and every time I answer an issue it gets worse. But that's the cost of true progress, everyone will be equal, even if I need to crawl through the fires of the underworld to deliver us there.
Also we have free poutine booths every 20mins on bike in every city, they're really good.
Edit: The economy won't get worse because I don't think I can go lower than zero.
Tiralta, The Orcastani Islands
Tiralta
The new WAA office dispatch is up. It coincides with Melenavenia joining the team as WAA Correspondent! I'm looking forward to working with Rask on these most esteemed matters.
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1844161
Chacapoya, Typica, Sylh Alanor, Melenavenia, Araine, Liphia, Tiralta, A Million Dreams, Falafelandia, Jazur, Waywards Edge, Almander
My economy is negative
Tiralta
I appreciated the nonbinary star system joke!
Chacapoya, Melenavenia, Junitaki-Cho, Tiralta
New official FA dispatch as well! https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1843049
We could use more envoys if anyone's feeling up for it. This is going to be a very active FA term, so getting in on the ground floor will be good experience if you're wanting to potentially run for something later on. If you want to be an envoy to TEP, XKI, Yggdrasil, or Caer Sidi, either send me a telegram, ping me here, or ping me in the discord server and we'll get you set up.
Chacapoya, Cheesy Tots, Typica, Narwhal, Melenavenia, Araine, Junitaki-Cho, Tiralta, A Million Dreams, Falafelandia, Jazur, Waywards Edge, Amiyoka, Ullrani, Lycanjeskai, Almander
A vote for the beavers!
Araine, Tiralta, Falafelandia, Jazur, Waywards Edge, Lovoreus Magnus, Lycanjeskai
Refuge Isle CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARL MAARKS
Chacapoya, Sylh Alanor, Tiralta, A Million Dreams, Jazur, Waywards Edge
Refuge Isle RIP to the beavers but I vote for Marx v_v
Chacapoya, Sylh Alanor, Tiralta, Falafelandia, Waywards Edge, Lycanjeskai
I HIT 2 BILLION
Chacapoya, Sylh Alanor, Araine, Liphia, Tiralta, Falafelandia, Waywards Edge, Amiyoka, Lycanjeskai
join the embassy team so we can be cooler and get better relationships with our embassy partners
also we are maybe looking at expanding so who knows maybe more embassies in the future?
Chacapoya, Narwhal, Sylh Alanor, Melenavenia, Araine, Tiralta, Falafelandia, Lycanjeskai
What is everyone's opinion on the current SC proposal?
Nashfilla
parts of it are too vague (especially in the Toasting clause), and I don't really like the framing of 'defeating a deceptive condemnation of the LKE', given that the deception clearly wasn't the main reason why Europeia was against it (at least originally). Otherwise it's solid so if I had a vote I'd be for
Chacapoya, Sylh Alanor, Araine, Tiralta, Nashfilla
Subadent, a name I haven't heard in a long time
That said, i'm open to be an envoy to Caer Sidi :D
Chacapoya, Typica, Sylh Alanor, Araine, Tiralta
Manifesto?
Tiralta
Should be fun!
Delta Vega Iv, Chacapoya, Narwhal, Sylh Alanor, Araine, Junitaki-Cho, Tiralta, Jazur
Tweet
Nashfilla
Post self-deleted by Nashfilla.
God darn it! This is the second time 5,000 million Kiwis escaped and formed there own nation!
Delta Vega Iv, Rupika, Jazur
Absolutely accepted! I've got you added as an envoy in discord and I'll add you to the dispatch now.
Chacapoya, Typica, Narwhal, Araine, Tiralta, Jazur
that's weird that it happened twice
Delta Vega Iv, Tiralta, Jazur, Nashfilla
Delta Vega Iv, Jazur, Nashfilla
Having just noticed that I apparently misspelled the word vicious somehow, it stands to reason that these arent just normal vicious attack beavers, they are vicious and viscous attack beavers.
They possess the ability to disguise themselves as a thick liquid. Not sure how that works with all the water, but maybe thats how theyve killed so many people. They just become puddles and ambush their prey.
Delta Vega Iv, Chacapoya, Araine, Tiralta, Falafelandia, Jazur
oh boy they work perfectly in muddy water
Delta Vega Iv, Tiralta, Falafelandia, Jazur, Lovoreus Magnus
Have you ever thought "wow, our map is looking pretty full!"?
Would you like to have the chance to influence regional lore?
Find out more about Map 2.0, coming soon to a Refugia near you!
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1844436
I will stress this from the dispatch:
"Registering your interest does not mean you're definitely committed to moving, however this will be your only chance to move to the new map. Once the new map is posted, you will not be able to switch between the two. If you don't register your interest now, you are committing to remaining on the current map for all eternity."
Chacapoya, Typica, Sylh Alanor, Araine, Junitaki-Cho, Liphia, Rupika, Duneraven, Falafelandia, Jazur, Waywards Edge, Ullrani, Nahelia, Lycanjeskai, Almander, Ansgar, Ouch To The Natives
yes, new map, I think, but I love rp so I happy :D, I would like to register too
Chacapoya, Tiralta
I would like to register my interest for Map 2.0. Sounds fun!
Tiralta
Your ted talk was very informative, worth the 5 dwarf planet ceres i paid for this
Tiralta, Jazur, Ansgar
what is everybody favorite type of cheese?
Melenavenia, Inaros Opa, Szalyland, Tiralta, Jazur, Lycanjeskai, Ouch To The Natives
all
Inaros Opa, Rupika, Tiralta, Jazur
Parmesean is great!
Portmanteau, Inaros Opa, Rupika, Tiralta, Jazur, Lovoreus Magnus, Florescu
yes
Portmanteau, Rupika, Tiralta, Falafelandia, Jazur, Lycanjeskai
Brie :D
Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, Lycanjeskai
provolone
Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, Lycanjeskai
aight cool thanks
Tiralta, Jazur, Lycanjeskai
parmesan is based
Portmanteau, Jazur, Lycanjeskai, Florescu
Anyone here watched Mighty Machines?
what
this gonna be extreeeemely niche but does anyone here even know what the eurovision song contest is
Portmanteau, Lovoreus Magnus, Lycanjeskai
agree, fresh mozzy also w
Portmanteau
Hi! I'd also like to register interest in the expansion of Refugia. Also I'm a sucker for roleplay.
Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, Lycanjeskai, Ansgar
Hello. I'm from the region of 10000 Islands. There appears to be a very rude country from this region posting on our RMB for no good reason. Their name is Casna. I'll leave it to the staff here to deal with them. Goodbye.
Falafelandia, Ghomerl
I really like feta! My second favorite is cheddar, though. I also like mozzarella and colby jack! Also, quick life hack: One day, I was out of sliced cheese, so I had to use shredded cheese to make my grilled cheese and it's honestly better! Use shredded cheese in your grilled cheeses!
Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur
I know what it is solely because of my time here on NationStates. It seems like a fun occasion for everyone to get all excited and rally around their home country. Like the Olympics of music. Unfortunately, my country is not in Europe, so I had no prior exposure to the event. But I enjoy hearing others' enthusiasm for it.
Tiralta, Jazur, Lovoreus Magnus, Florescu
I don't care any type of cheese, i like them ALL
(u guys like cheesecake btw?)
Lovoreus Magnus
Equality to all cheeses. Don't be so cheesist, please
Tiralta, Jazur, Tidelia
Pretty cheesy of you to say
Narwhal, Tiralta, Tidelia, Lovoreus Magnus
My interest has been piqued o-O
Sign me up!
Tiralta
Is this sarcasm? It's one of the most watched events (not counting sport, which is cheating) in the world
Araine, Junitaki-Cho, Tiralta, Lovoreus Magnus
Favourites: Czechia, Croatia, Slovenia, Finland
Catiania, Tiralta, Jazur, Florescu
YES
YES I DO
I LOVED AUSTRALIA LAST YEAR
IN GENERAL EUROVISION IS AMAZING
Tiralta, Jazur, Lovoreus Magnus, Florescu
Australia is in Eurovision?! xD
Ahh yes, ofc! cx
Tiralta, Lovoreus Magnus, Lycanjeskai
You have caught my utmost interest!
We will watch your career with great interest
St Leone, Tiralta
sign me up
Sylh Alanor, St Leone, Tiralta
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Written by Refuge Isle.