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Canaltia wrote:I actually don't know how it started, but we go to a lot of trouble to stay rat free. Like, the provincial government gets involved if a rat is spotted. So because there are no rats, any that wander in either get killed or die without being able to reproduce.

Wow, that's quite fascinating. I'm going to have to look into this more...

Alberta wouldn't happen to have been founded by the Pied Piper, would it?

Canaltia wrote:I'm in Alberta, one of the only rat free places in the world. I guess I'm pretty lucky from what I've read here.

I love your country.

*Googles How do I emigrate to Canada?*

Digedingdangdong

Boston has lots of rats. Some neighborhoods are truly infested, others just have a few going through the trash -- but there are always those few going through the trash.

Digedingdangdong wrote:Boston has lots of rats. Some neighborhoods are truly infested, others just have a few going through the trash -- but there are always those few going through the trash.

As long as they're keeping to themselves, it should be fine
Unless they're coming into houses and nibbling things

Turbeaux wrote:

http://www.mwq.dds.nl/ns/results/policies.html is your friend!

I didn't know about that. Thanks a lot! :)

Mount Seymour, Ruinenlust, Lord Dominator, Hixoelop, and 3 othersTurbeaux, Kinectia, and Mer-folks for change

Northern Wood wrote:Interesting. Do you think it's the colder climes? Or perhaps, is Canada simply as clean and nice as everyone makes it out to be?

Nah - we have rats in Scandinavia - big ones. Or maybe it was something else I saw... all I know for sure is that I have seen tiny little deer (not fawns) and enormous hares (not rabbits) and coming across a gnome while out walking the dog in the early morning would not surprise me at all.

Could be worse. In London we have tiny people under the floorboards, fighting for survival, as evidenced in multiple sources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Borrowers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nome_Trilogy

Englishmen are also adept at locating said vermin while overseas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels

Frieden-und Freudenland, Chan island, Mount Seymour, Hixoelop, and 8 othersDarths and Droids, Turbeaux, Canaltia, Northern Wood, Feline Masters, Kinectia, Superbunny, and Mer-folks for change

Candlewhisper Archive wrote:Could be worse. In London we have tiny people under the floorboards, fighting for survival, as evidenced in multiple sources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Borrowers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nome_Trilogy

Englishmen are also adept at locating said vermin while overseas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels

Not to mention that the rodents commute on the underground.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kE1FeERn7E

Chan island wrote:Not to mention that the rodents commute on the underground.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kE1FeERn7E

Naaa, that's not what they look like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haevGvS9E9g

yeaaahhhhhhhhh

As always, humans need our help for rodent control.

Pathetic.

We have roof rats in certain areas of Phoenix, AZ, USA because a lot of people ignore their citrus trees.

NYC has pizza rats though!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPXUG8q4jKU

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/white-nationalists-discover-the-environment/595489/

An interesting (and angering) read.

Hey guys, I was working on the Forest map recently so as to get a rough estimate of my country's area.
(https://imgur.com/a/mD38wOn)
Does the math check out? I know it's not entirely accurate but it's what I thought was the best way to figure it out. Any suggestions or better methods?

Plifte wrote:Hey guys, I was working on the Forest map recently so as to get a rough estimate of my country's area.
(https://imgur.com/a/mD38wOn)
Does the math check out? I know it's not entirely accurate but it's what I thought was the best way to figure it out. Any suggestions or better methods?

I saw the image, and got flashbacks to high school Calculus, so thank you for that. You could probably use more smaller rectangles and triangles if you want to, but it's too nonuniform to use the fancy calc formulas I learned.

Mount Seymour wrote:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/white-nationalists-discover-the-environment/595489/

An interesting (and angering) read.

I think there's a tendency in some strands of racist thought to reject modernity and its uncertainties and look back to a fictional pastoral idyll in a fictional time before migration, in which a close link is imagined between territory and race. In this mindset care for the land and care for one's own race become intertwined - literally blood and soil. When Nazism had a green tinge it was along these lines.

I do wish, however, that the media would stop expending so many words and so much screen time on the manifestos of mass shooters.

Mount Seymour, Ruinenlust, Lord Dominator, Hixoelop, and 5 othersTurbeaux, Canaltia, Plifte, Kinectia, and Superbunny

Mount Seymour wrote:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/white-nationalists-discover-the-environment/595489/

An interesting (and angering) read.

These "Third-World" migrants are often arriving from nations with few or no environmental regulations, so I argue that the environment benefits if they choose to come to the US. I have seen plenty of trash out in the wilderness near the US/Mexico border but there are no recycling bins or trash cans out there. Of course, neo-Know-Nothings would rather demonize the people rather than examine some obvious context surrounding their situations. Also there is far more litter on the sides of interstates put there by "nature-loving" American truckers who love "cleanliness".

Lord Dominator, Hixoelop, Canaltia, Kinectia, and 2 othersWestern continental divide, and Superbunny

Mount Seymour wrote:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/white-nationalists-discover-the-environment/595489/

An interesting (and angering) read.

Yeah, the whole thing is kinda annoying. There are a lot of groundless statements, from people quoted and the author themselves, including "Large corporations and the wealthy consume the most environmental resources, not poor immigrants. But rather than support policies that would burden white Christians..." Talk about profiling. I do kinda appreciate that the author didn't discount environmentalism as a byproduct of racism outright though.

Canaltia wrote:Yeah, the whole thing is kinda annoying. There are a lot of groundless statements, from people quoted and the author themselves, including "Large corporations and the wealthy consume the most environmental resources, not poor immigrants. But rather than support policies that would burden white Christians..." Talk about profiling. I do kinda appreciate that the author didn't discount environmentalism as a byproduct of racism outright though.

Note "far-right propagandists" in the subtitle. The author is sane and a sane person would never claim that all environmentalists are racist. The Atlantic has had good writers since I started paying attention to it in the mid-2000s.

Plifte wrote:Hey guys, I was working on the Forest map recently so as to get a rough estimate of my country's area.
(https://imgur.com/a/mD38wOn)
Does the math check out? I know it's not entirely accurate but it's what I thought was the best way to figure it out. Any suggestions or better methods?

Based on the map's scale, 491 pixels length = 1000 units (miles or km, your pick - let's say km). That means that each pixel in your nation represents an area of 4.15 square km. I copied the map of your portion of the region in to Photoshop, and used the histogram to count the pixels within your nation - 430906 pixels. That gives a final area of roughly 1,787,391 square km.

Cameroi, Lord Dominator, Hixoelop, Turbeaux, and 3 othersCanaltia, Plifte, and Kinectia

Lompe steen haha

My other nation @dehork is trying to collect a global set of the nations in his region tiolet arsonist appreciation society. If any of you has the following cards, please give of sell them to him:

@de hork
@squathead ted
@koaln aske
@kotexas jokelahoma

Canaltia wrote:
I saw the image, and got flashbacks to high school Calculus, so thank you for that. You could probably use more smaller rectangles and triangles if you want to, but it's too nonuniform to use the fancy calc formulas I learned.

I would have used Riemann sums but
1. too lazy
2. yeah I hate calc too - who wouldn't?
Thanks though!

Verdant Haven wrote:

Based on the map's scale, 491 pixels length = 1000 units (miles or km, your pick - let's say km). That means that each pixel in your nation represents an area of 4.15 square km. I copied the map of your portion of the region in to Photoshop, and used the histogram to count the pixels within your nation - 430906 pixels. That gives a final area of roughly 1,787,391 square km.

Now that's something that never crossed my mind - thanks a ton!

Lompe steen haha wrote:My other nation @dehork is trying to collect a global set of the nations in his region tiolet arsonist appreciation society. If any of you has the following cards, please give of sell them to him:

@de hork
@squathead ted
@koaln aske
@kotexas jokelahoma

I think if you're expecting folk to remember those names and to make a point of sending you the cards, you're misjudging human psychology, and if you're thinking that posting to one region is going to have much of a chance of creating a success with this strategy, you may not understand probabilities.

I'd suggest instead putting standing bids on the cards you want that are 20% higher than the trash value, and when someone stumbles across them, they'll see that there's a bid in place and will almost certainly sell to you, just out of self-interest.

Hey, Forest!

As the ambassador from Pacifica, I thought I'd check in and see how everyone was doing.

In Pacifican news, the Ministry Reform Amendment passed yesterday (on the sixth, for those seeing this later). It disbanded the Ministry of Defense—which was deemed to be unnecessary and to have no real purpose—and regional security was handed over to Home Affairs. The amendment also installed yours truly as the first Minister of Information. The Ministry of Information is the office which, as it is worded in the amendment, "shall oversee the integration of newcomers into the regional community and the distribution of regional news".

Yours truly,
Wiskawga

Western continental divide

Ransium's been our delegate for 12 years? Wow.

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