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Ah, but are we measuring efficiency through gross domestic product, utilization of resources and labor, or the amount of happiness it produces or promotes?
By some measures, this economy of theirs could be... rather inefficient...
Sunrise from the Sea and Utsang
We have three nations with more than 30 billion citizens: 
Terra Amore 34.3, New old new new york 32.1, Dr george 31.1.
I call fraud.
Pet rocks don't count as citizens.
They prefer to be referred but not labeled as "non-citizen stationary sedimentary nationals".
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Leave a basket of flowers on the doorstep to celebrate May Day
Hey everyone! Recently in 10000 Islands we had a delegate switch-off, so transitioning everything has taken a bit of time. No worries! The most recent XKI update is here:
XKI Update - March/April 2019
by 
The Eternal Democratic Monarchy of The United Royal Islands of Euramathania
10000 Islands Emissary Update
Date: March/April 2019
Population: 1,116
Delegate Endorsements: 286
Forum: http://10000islands.proboards.com
Has your region been invaded, or do you want to get in touch with TITO? If so, contact one of the following nations:
~Chief Executive: Markanite.
~Field Commander: Kanta Hame.
~Tactical Officers: Kortexia, Shy Guyia, Smugglers and Mercs (EF), Sorya.
~Executive Officers: Aschente, Hakketomat.
March saw an unusually busy election season, with a Delegate election and a vacated Senate seat meaning that we'd need to hold a total of four contests. Islanders hoping for a hard-fought election with plenty of fireworks were surely not disappointed by the Delegate election, which featured Lower Columbia, The United Royal Islands of Euramathania, and Witchcraft and Sorcery.
In the first round of balloting, no candidate won a majority, with Lower Columbia receiving 3 votes, and United Royal Islands and Witchcraft & Sorcery each receiving 24, sending the election to a runoff. This runoff was one of the more intense elections in recent memory, with both candidates and their supporters campaigning vigorously on the forums, the RMB, and our regional Discord. Further, the runoff saw a live Delegate debate on Discord, which is perhaps the first debate of its kind in regional history. During the debate, the candidates made their case to the voters, exchanging competing ideas on foreign affairs, transparency and reform, and the R/D game. The runoff election was a real barn-burner, with the two candidates remaining within 3 votes of each other for virtually the entire 3-day runoff period. In the end, however, United Royal Islands carried the election, with 27 votes to Witchcraft & Sorcery's 22.
In the other elections, Twobagger emerged victorious against Hakketomat in the campaign to fill the shoes left behind by Sargon reman, while Kuriko and Triora both ran successful (unopposed) campaigns for the other two senate seats. At the time of writing, the Council of Nine is as follows:
Chief Executive: Markanite
Delegate: The United Royal Islands of Euramathania
Ministers: Paffnia (Labor), Sargon reman (Immigration), Tuga nation (Education)
Senators: Jabberwocky (Senior Senator), Triora, Twobagger, Witchcraft and Sorcery*
While many Islanders were busy paying attention to the regional elections, others were enjoying the wide variety of regional games that 10000 Islands has to offer. March saw the newly knighted Mingulay isle host a Cold War-themed Werewolf game, titled "WW63: Werewolves and Rockets." This game ended with the Americans securing their advantage in the Cold War, prevailing over the Soviets. Thanks to Mingulay isle for hosting, and for everyone (guests and Islanders alike) for participating in a great game!
Also wrapping up in March was our region's take on nation creation competitions, the Fifth Annual Hahiha Contest for Nation Creation! Named for a prominent Islander, this contest had a total of 17 different nations vying to create the best (or least worst!) nation, trying to stay away from the bottom of each day's World Census Report. In the end, the Republic of tikistan outlasted the competition, taking home the grand prize. Close behind were Mingulay isle in second, and Neutrality United in third place. Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to Taco Island Charities for hosting, and to all participants for helping to ensure that the competition was a success.
Finally, our regional baseball league, the 10KI Baseball League, heads into its first ever postseason. The Maple Bats (from Cromwell protectorate) emerged from the regular season as heavy favorites after rampaging through the regular season. The Peoples Players (True pacific) and New Austin Express (The texas faction) also qualified for the playoffs, with the Sola City Bandits (Twobagger) juuuuust squeaking in to the last playoff spot. As of this writing, the Maple Bats and Peoples Players have advanced to the World Series, with the Maple Bats holding a 1-0 edge in the best of 3 series.
If you think playing games with friends sounds like fun, or if some of these games mentioned above have piqued your interest and you want to see what it's all about, or you just want to see your nation's name in articles like this one, why not take part in the games yourself? Most games are open to the public, including Werewolf games. Feel free to hop on in to our regional forums or Discord for information on how to sign up for the next round of games.
March's Nation of the Month was none other than Free Earthian Yap, who is new to our forums and discord this month. Despite being new, Free earthian yap hasn't been shy about wading onto the WA part of our forum to debate some of the resolutions with other Islanders. Congratulations!
Also this past month, our University saw a bit of a revitalization under the direction of our Minister of Education (Tuga nation). We've had a plethora of debate threads pop open, with Islanders weighing in on topics from the ethics of assisted suicide/euthanasia to whether or not recreational marijuana should be legal. A hearty thanks to Tuga Nation's Dragon for spurring activity in this oft-overlooked part of our forum!
Last, but certainly not least, Mingulay isle has been knighted this month! Mingulay Isle has been ever-present on our forums and Discord lately, so it came as a surprise to no one when he was knighted. Congratulations to Mingulay Isle, our 110th Knight, on earning membership to this hallowed group of defenders.
A special thanks to all those nations endorsing me at this time!
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Stay Well, and All the Best;
The United Royal Islands of Euramathania
10,000 Islands Delegate
Happy Mother's Day to all the matrilineal ancestors who have shaped (or warped) us to the way we are.
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. Mark Twain
I know someone who has been quite successful living by this quip.
Sunrise from the Sea, Visiting queendom of myself, and Ameteurial outdated philosophia
Such a person has been known to rise to the highest position in the land.
Visiting queendom of myself and Red Star of the West
Explains a lot about recent political events.
What is a thought? If I pause in midsentence within my own internal monologue, is it 2 thoughts? If there is a slight pause betwixt each word in my monologue, is each word a thought?
Or is a thought one whole, complete sentence, or sentence-like construct? Must a thought have a defined beginning and end? What of the stimuli and circumstances and reflexes and instincts which accompany and prompt my thought? Are they thought components, or thoughts of their own?
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I have accepted the Embassy request from The Local Supermarket. Technically, it does not meet the local requirements for an Embassy; however, I believe that the original Dr George would have accepted the invitation in the spirit of fun.
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The best brief answer to your questions is: "It depends".
Wittgenstein has addressed many questions of language nicely. He takes a very function-based approached which coincides with my way of thinking. Skinner's "Verbal Behavior" addresses your last question in great detail, also taking a function-based approach.
To illustrate, your question about each word in a sentence being a thought would be addressed by looking at the context in which the sentence is being delivered, what prompted the sentence, and what effect it has (or is intended to have) on the listeners. So if I am at the dinner table and say "I want the salt, please" we could consider this one thought, even if I took a bite of food mid-sentence that resulted in a long pause between "want" and "the". If I were to say "My boss asked me to go to a conference in Chicago this weekend - please pass the salt" we would likely say these are two ideas even if I am a fast talker and didn't pause a bit between them. For a more complex example, if some love-struck Romeo were to say "The sky is blue and I love you" without a pause between "blue" and "and", we might consider these two unrelated thoughts, but you don't need to be a poet to know that these two "thoughts" are related and have a single function.
This is only scratching the surface to your questions - which is why I referred to Wittgenstein and Skinner for more on the topic if you are interested. I'd recommend Wittgenstein over Skinner for a philosophical account of language, unless you already have a solid foundation in behaviorism.
Sunrise from the Sea, Uan aa Boa, and Ameteurial outdated philosophia
O hai guis!
Whut do u think about incel philosophy?
I have heard a tiny bit about incels, but I don't know anything about incel philosophy.
Technically, I am an incel at this time, but as far as the so-called movement is concerned, they seem like a bunch of big babies, crying and hating because they think the world owes them sex, and they aren't getting it. I doubt there is enough intellect involved for there to be a philosophy.
Well yes, but this assumes that thought is a matter of language. It seems to me that animals, infants and other humans who lack language do think.
As for the question of how we count thoughts, that presupposes that we can count them, that I could in principle correctly say that I had 12,447 thoughts yesterday. That doesn't sound to me to be what thoughts are like.
Thoughts are slippery things, intrinsically private much like the theorised qualia (and with other similarities if we're asking how they're structured). This leaves them likewise slightly unreal - they can be the value of no variable. Just as we have no way to approach the question of whether the red that I see is "the same" as the red you see, we can't easily make sense of asking if what I think about Philosophy 115 today is the same as what I thought about it last week.
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Uan aa Boa Are thoughts like water drops in a river? Is that an appropriate analogy for your conception of thoughts?
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I had to look up what incel is. (Getting old beats the alternative, but....)
I don't know if it has a philosophy. Could you give an example of what you mean? It is interesting to me to see how rapidly language is changing in this generation.
I'd be more inclined to say that purely subjective things such as thoughts aren't anything, and that it's false to think that all nouns have tangible things to which they refer.
Here's a paper by Daniel Dennett that explains this kind of idea far better than I could.
http://cogprints.org/254/1/quinqual.htm
I have just been reading interesting facts on the Internet. I now know that horses can't vomit, all polar bears are left-handed and only female mosquitos bite. I can't find a philosophical thread to tie all this together, but felt like posting something.
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That's cause they're not praying something doesn't hit their head...
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