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Those are all very interesting. Hmm. 3? Maybe it snowed or it stormed, but I doubt it did both unless you live near a Great Lake!
I go with 3) being the lie. The ball wouldn't bounce on a soaked, muddy pitch.
Mount Seymour, Lord Dominator, Middle Barael, Nation of ecologists, and 1 otherGarbelia
I had never heard of Toki Pona until you guys had mentioned it, I have quickly become enamored following some research. I think I'll try to learn the vocabulary for fun!
I love to learn languages, but often feel "too busy" to learn any into even the lowest levels of fluency.
Alcantaria, Lord Dominator, Middle Barael, Nation of ecologists, and 1 otherGarbelia
Today we have 12.34 billion citizens. Nice number.
Effazio, Ordealius, Verdant Haven, Einswenn, and 9 othersCuillin, Jutsa, Mount Seymour, Lord Dominator, Terrabod, Simbolon, Middle Barael, Nation of ecologists, and Garbelia
Frieden-und Freudenland, Lord Dominator, Terrabod, Middle Barael, and 3 othersNation of ecologists, Garbelia, and Arklanda
You were all wrong! In the UK, in March, snow followed a thunderstorm. We abandoned the game after the snow set in, but the thunderstorm sort of happened around us. Lightning everywhere, but not a drop of rain. Until the snow.
Murmuria, Frieden-und Freudenland, Lord Dominator, Terrabod, and 3 othersMiddle Barael, Nation of ecologists, and Difinbelk
Alright, I am officially beginning the process of making the GII. I'll make the factbook sometime today, and I will start giving the definitions soon after. The ideologies I am including are identical to the list I gave, just with social ecology added.
You were all wrong: I do eat my Brussel Sprouts raw, and although my brother and my mother both pet a tamed cobra at the Amer Fort, I did not.
3 seems incredibly unlikely
I don’t think you’ve pet an echidna. Being in line for the Swedish throne could make sense, considering that your nation seems Swedish and also so many people are distant descendants of old monarchs. Petting an echidna sounds like something you made up on the spot, plus they only natively live in Australia and I doubt a zoo would let you pet their animals.
Number one I think is a lie. Maybe you got ran over and left almost unscathed, but I doubt you’d be completely fine. I also do not know how to use a laundry machine (though that’s because I’m only in HS), and I think that’s pretty believable. The third one for whatever reason feels like it’s true (part of it’s probably that I hope it’s true, ngl).
Number three I doubt, since a thunderstorm turning into a snowstorm is pretty rare, and I anyways the first two seem pretty believable.
Luckily there are only ~125 words, and you don’t even need to know all of them 100% to be understood or understand.
toki! mi sona e sina la mi pilin pona. nimi mi pi Toki Pona li jan Sen. nimi sina pi Toki Pona li seme?
Anyways, this is my first real conlang. I’ve tried making them in the past, but I always ended up abandoning them. This conlang that I’m making now uses a Featural script, Triconsonantal Roots, derivational morphology, noun-adjective matching, both formal and informal grammar, and it has gender for verbs and pronouns but not for nouns.
An example sentence would be:
Mə shongəɾəsh omwəq nən pəwənəwə hə wənəwə, ə mə showənəw omwəq brəbr ləɡhəpə
/mʌ ʃoŋʌʁəsh omʍəq nʌn pʌʍənʌʍə hə ʍənʌʍə ʌ mʌ ʃoʍʌnəʍ omʍəq ʙʌʙ ləɣʌpə/
The dyer-man will get 7 bottles of wine, and the winemaker-man will get 5 clothes.
Ordealius, Alcantaria, Frieden-und Freudenland, Mount Seymour, and 4 othersLord Dominator, Terrabod, Nation of ecologists, and Garbelia
Oh, I've completely neglected to answer this question! Sorry about that.
I probably couldn't produce it as a font because of the considerable complexity of the characters. I can write it sure, but typing it wouldn't really work. The number of characters is identical to that of English (26), and each letter has a parallel in the English alphabet. It's a very simple language structure. I'm still trying to think of how to pronounce the letters. I first tried doing it like "ah", where a letter just has an h added to the end, but that proved way too complicated and tedious to pronounce. Maybe I can work it out later.
Anyways, I have posted the very rough starts to the GII. Take a look!
Environmentalism
Environmentalism is the primary ideology that drives the ecological movement. The major tenet that environmentalism espouses is the protection of the environment, obviously. As such, it is a very broad encompassing ideology that is compatible with most ideologies, all the way from communism to fascism. Besides environmental protection, it doesn't really specify anything else that it supports. It is implemented in a variety of countries, such as Iceland, which gets almost 100% of its power renewably and has a good track record for environmental protection. New Zealand and Sweden are also examples of environmentalist countries, given that they both get a large amount of their power renewably and have strong environmental laws.
Green Politics
Green politics, as the name suggests, is basically a more politically charged version of environmentalism that has more finite political positions. Along with supporting protecting the environment, it also supports non-violence, equal rights, grassroots democracy etc. The ideology has inspired parties to form across the world with similar platforms, with considerable electoral success (Green-Left Movement of Iceland, Green Party of New Zealand, Green Party of Sweden, Alliance 90s-The Greens in Germany are some examples of considerably successful "green parties").
Green Liberalism
Green liberalism is an ideology that supports strong social liberties with environmental protection. It does not support directly mandating people change their way of life to protect the environment, rather it instead supports regulating pollution, establishing better green areas, encouraging recycling etc. Some prominent "green liberal" parties are the Green League of Finland and Politics Can be Different of Hungary, which see relatively large electoral support.
Eco-Communism/Eco-Marxism
Eco-Communism, or more commonly known as eco-marxism, is an ideology that combines environmentalism with the ideology and doctrine of Karl Marx, or the broader communist movement. It believes that a communist society is the only way to achieve true environmental sustainability because it gets rid of the ideas of materialism and consumerism. While it hasn't really been implemented anywhere, it has been gaining traction as an alternative to eco-socialism. Still, it remains a relatively niche ideology.
Eco-Socialism
Eco-socialism is an ideology that combines socialism with environmentalism. It believes that the only way to achieve sustainability is through socialism and government control of the economy to protect the environment, and that capitalism is inherently anti-environmentalist. It also supports alter-globalization and social justice. The ideology enjoys quite a large support base in mainstream politics, and many parties identify as eco-socialist, such as the US Green Party, Antarsya in Greece, Green-Left Coalition of Croatia, the Italian Left, Red-Green Alliance of Denmark and Socialism and Liberty Party of Brazil, just to name a few.
Eco-Social Democracy
Eco-Social democracy is an ideology that combines environmentalism with social democracy, and is mostly seen as a more moderate version of eco-socialism. The main tenets of eco-social democracy are state intervention within in a capitalist economy to protect the environment and consumers. Eco-social democracy is practiced widely in Nordic countries and other European countries, and enjoys status as a considerably well-known contemporary ideology.
Green Conservatism
Green conservatism is an ideology that combines environmentalism with conservatism. Green conservatism often supports a measured, incremental response to the climate crisis and environmental protection, such as introducing environmental protections over a period of time and is often less ambitious in it's plans for environmental protections. Green conservatism does enjoy broad support in a variety of countries, such as Canada where former Prime Minister Stephen Harper was a prominent member of the movement, even if he rejected environmentalism later in his career. Other prominent green conservatives are Winfred Krietschmann, the Minister President of the German state of Baden-Wurttemburg, Jobikk, the major opposition party in Hungary and former Prime Minister of the UK David Cameron, though it is debatable how "green" his conservatism was.
Radical Environmentalism
Radical environmentalism is a radical form of environmentalism that seeks to radically alter how society runs in order to protect the environment. It believes that the current way the world runs is very harmful to the environment, and that changing the fundamentals of society to increase sustainability is the only way to save it. As such, it would support sweeping protections of natural areas, strong regulations on industry and changing how industries run to better suit the environment and banning fossil fuels. Because it is a decently niche ideology, it does not enjoy broad support in contemporary society, however one could say that Bhutan uses a form of radical environmentalism, as they are going to be one of the first countries to have net zero carbon emissions by 2030, along with Iceland.
Anarcho-Primitivism
Green Anarchism
Green anarchism is an ideology believes the only way to protect the environment is through an anarchist society, and believes that anarchism and environmentalism are mutually inclusive. It aims to bring about an anarchist society that is environmentally sustainable. while green anarchism has little contemporary support currently, some prominent green anarchists are John Zersan and Layla Abdel-Rahim, and the ideology itself is similar to anarcho-primitivism, just less skeptical of technology.
Deep Ecology
Deep ecology is an environmental ideology/philosophy that promotes that all living beings have inherent value regardless of their worth to humans, and that human society should be restructured to follow this principle. It believes that human development should not impede or profit off of nature in any way, and that humanity should instead work with nature to develop. It also believes that the living environment and other non-human living beings should be given basic and legal rights to protect them. It can be seen as a more moderate version of anarcho-primitivism. Some notable deep ecologists include: Arne Naess, who is credited with founding the movement and Pentti Linkola.
Eco-Libertarianism
Eco-libertarianism, or green libertarianism, is an ideology that holds the view that the main sector of the economy it should get involved in is the environment and that the main thing the government should legislative on is environmental protection. As such, it would support de-regulating the economy while holding companies accountable for environmental protection. It is a relatively niche ideology, though it has a few modern supporters such as Garvan Walshe, who is credited with being the forefather of the modern eco-libertarian movement.
Eco-Capitalism
Eco-capitalism, or green capitalism, is an ideology that holds the view that the environment and capitalism go hand in hand and that a capitalist economy is best to protect the environment, and that businesses will protect the environment without the need of too much government intervention. As such, it supports environmental motives such as carbon tax and carbon trading to help the environment. Some notable contemporary eco-capitalists are Paul Hawken and Lester Brown.
Eco-Fascism
Eco-fascism is an ideology that supports individuals sacrificing their liberty and interests in favour of protecting the planet. It believes that a dictatorship must be installed to protect the environment and keep humanity from destroying it any further, and that genocide and population control might be necessary to reduce human impact on the planet. It has been associated with some modern terrorist attacks such as the 2019 Christchurch shooting and 2019 El Paso shooting, and it has links to more far-right ideologies such as nazism and the alt-right. Some modern "eco-fascists" (or people who have been considered to be eco-fascists though they deny it themselves) are Garrett Hardin, Pentti Linkola and disputably Ted Kaczynski.
Eco-Feminism
Eco-feminism is an ideology that combines environmentalism with the feminist movement. It emphasizes the similarity between nature and women, such as both nature and women being viewed as property and both of them being viewed as something to be dominated by a man. As such, it believes that both nature and women must not be dominated and they must all be viewed as equals. Some prominent eco-feminists include Charlene Spretnak, Francoise d'Eeaubonne, Adrian Parr and Starhawk.
Social Ecology
Social ecology is an ideology that believes that social and environmental problems are inextricably linked, and is related to both communalism and green anarchism. It supports a decentralized society that is ecologically sustainable that is run by direct democracy in multiple communes. Two major supporters of social ecology are Murray Bookchin (who is credited with being the father of the modern movement) and Abdullah Ocalan (who is credited with being the father of the modern Kurdish nationalist movement and starting an off-branch of the ideology called democratic confederalism). Currently, social ecology is only really somewhat in use in the Rojava region of Syria, though it is also popular in the broader Kurdish nationalist movement.
Bright-Green Environmentalism
Bright green environmentalism is an ideology that holds the belief that technological and social change is the best way to environmental protection and sustainability. It supports making new technologies and investing in technological infrastructure to better protect the environment and learn more about it. It promotes green energy, electric vehicles, bio and nanotechnologies, dense urban settlements and sustainable products. It believes that Earth can hold billions of people as long as technological innovation is sustainable and promotes the protection of the environment, and is opposed to population control. Some notable bright greens include Alex Steffen and Jonathan Bate.
Here’s one for me
1: I once threw a box filled with mirrors with a small hole over a cat and put a laser pointer in.
2: I do not play Fortnite.
Frieden-und Freudenland, Lord Dominator, Middle Barael, Nation of ecologists, and 1 otherGarbelia
My take
1. I never rode a motorcycle
2. I had a girlfriend from Kentucky
3. I'm a college dropout
Frieden-und Freudenland, Jutsa, Lord Dominator, Middle Barael, and 1 otherNation of ecologists
I'm gonna guess option 2. I'd be genuinely astounded.
I'm... not sure. I want to say 3 but something someone else said made me suspect maybe 2. I'm going with 3 though cause that seems more fair.
3!!!!!!!!!
3. "Can you pick anything other than three?" No.
B... uh. Actually, I want to say 2. "but" TWO. "ok"
2. I'd be curious how you'd know it'd be a heron for certain. Playing cricket in March during a thunderstorm before it started snowing is too real.
Where's option 3? Also probably 2.
1. actually I have no idea but I have yet to pick 1 for any of these
My turn my tg-0wait there are so many going on I'll wait.
Frieden-und Freudenland, Lord Dominator, Middle Barael, Nation of ecologists, and 1 otherGarbelia
Nope, I do eat my Brussels Sprouts raw. Also my carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, and onions. And although my brother and mother both pet the cobra in India, I did not.
Alcantaria, Frieden-und Freudenland, Jutsa, Mount Seymour, and 4 othersLord Dominator, Nation of ecologists, Garbelia, and Difinbelk
Argh! You tricked me with your reassurances!
I also eat 3/5 of those things raw. A mini-minigame (microgame) you could try is figure out which of those three things I eat and which two I don't. :^)
Frieden-und Freudenland, Lord Dominator, Middle Barael, Nation of ecologists, and 1 otherGarbelia
Eating brusselsprouts raw should be illegal.
Effazio, Frieden-und Freudenland, Mount Seymour, Lord Dominator, and 3 othersMiddle Barael, Nation of ecologists, and Garbelia
My first thought was that this would fundamentally be a measure of human activity rather than an intrinsic feature of certain ecosystems. I wonder, however, if I'm right in assuming that the movement of invasive species is primarily because of humans. Many examples of it are, knowingly or unknowingly, but how often does it happen without human intervention? And I see what you mean in that some habitats are particularly vulnerable, such as New Zealand because of its lack of native ground-dwelling mammals. Do some habitats produce especially dominant species that particularly damaging when unleashed in a new place? Like Ruinenlust my money is on the Rift Valley or wherever homo sapiens is native to. There's a strong hypothesis that human arrival in places other than Africa coincides with the mass disappearance of large land animals.
It's not. Margaret Thatcher reputedly said that if you were on a bus after the age of 30 you should consider yourself a failure. Many British people would also rather spend their journey in a car on their own than on a bus with other people, though that's probably because we're antisocial rather than because freedom. More and more places that people want to go to are being placed out of town because of lower land prices and the freedom to build, so planning is based on assumptions about cars. Car reliance is perhaps not as prevalent as in the USA though. We don't see residential developments without sidewalks, for instance. A journalist writing a satirical piece on cultural differences said that if you decide to walk somewhere in the US because it's a nice day people will think you're an unusually well dressed and purposeful homeless person.
As well as transporting people our economy is fixated with transporting goods, mainly because transport is cheaper than labour in the regulated markets of the west. So everything is manufactured in developing countries or China, and if you go to a supermarket on the Scottish coast to buy frozen Scottish prawns you'll probably find they were peeled and pack in Thailand. If we really want to reduce the impact of transport we're going to have to reconsider a lot of things.
Unlike others, I would be ready to believe that.
Frieden-und Freudenland, Chan island, Mount Seymour, Ruinenlust, and 4 othersLord Dominator, Middle Barael, Nation of ecologists, and Garbelia
I feel like he had to talk to someone to get a font approved though lol
Frieden-und Freudenland, Mount Seymour, Lord Dominator, Middle Barael, and 2 othersNation of ecologists, and Garbelia
I'm gonna go with 3 but that's a wild guess
I don't believe 2 for a second. 1 sounds real and 3 sounds unlikely, but not outrageous.
I think 2 is a lie, but more than that I'm interested in the story behind 3
3 Sounds too cinematic to be true, therefore it would be an obvious lie, therefore it's true. I think 2 is fake because you totally sound like you would pour water on a cat to stop them catching a bird, so by process of elimination...
3 is a lie
Uuh... 1 sounds the most likely so therefore I think it's the lie
Murmuria, Frieden-und Freudenland, Lord Dominator, Middle Barael, and 2 othersNation of ecologists, and Garbelia
My entry:
1. Three-quarters of countries i have visited were in a single trip.
2. All regions i have been in (besides feeder) have been tree-related.
3. I have never owned any pets.
Murmuria, Frieden-und Freudenland, Lord Dominator, Middle Barael, and 3 othersNation of ecologists, Garbelia, and The most serene republicans
All of you are... wrong! While some of you may know I do a fair amount of graphic design -- and I do spend a lot of time on typography -- I've never created any usable font before, much less submitted one to Google Fonts (where they require fairly high quality standards, if I recall correctly).
I have in fact been at a pool party with the Secretary of Commerce, though that leaves out some details. This was back when she was State Treasurer of Rhode Island, and her son was in my brother's elementary school class. When my brother had a birthday pool party (which I of course attended), he was invited, and she stopped by to meet the parents and pick him up. ^_^
And it's also true, as Uan suspected, that the very first time I interacted with people or posted online was right here on the Forest RMB. I suppose I had used email before and collaborated with classmates on Google Docs, but I'd certainly never met anyone I didn't know in-person (even friends of friends) or engaged publicly before. Here's the post:
So thank you to you guys for being with me from the very beginning! :P
Frieden-und Freudenland, Jutsa, Lord Dominator, Terrabod, and 4 othersMiddle Barael, Nation of ecologists, Garbelia, and The most serene republicans
This is very true. Brussel sprouts are vile raw.
Frieden-und Freudenland, Jutsa, Lord Dominator, Middle Barael, and 3 othersNation of ecologists, Garbelia, and The most serene republicans
Correct !
Frieden-und Freudenland, Lord Dominator, Middle Barael, Nation of ecologists, and 2 othersGarbelia, and The most serene republicans
No need to apologise for nagging. As a journalist outside of NationStates, I'd be a weapons-grade hypocrite for taking umbrage at some questions! Sure.
Basically, my thinking was that we need a mix of new ideas and proven competence.The cabinet is a complete reflection of this.
New ideas are needed of course before as a founderless region now, we have to evolve. Get better, become a better region than we have ever been before. All of the novices to government I've appointed have been people who, over the course of the past few months, were very vocal and enthusiastic about what we could do differently- exactly the energy we need. I made a point of appointing such individuals into roles where this energy can be best used too, more internal orientated positions where we can regenerate and rejuvenate the region.
On the other hand, we needed some stability, especially in more outwards orientated roles. Our friends in the embassy regions need to be reassured that we know what we're doing, and
The older guard individuals I've appointed, such as Kawastyselir and Verdant Haven have already started to diligently execute the duties of their offices (and I can already say we can expect exciting things from them).
Meanwhile, the newer people are already proving to be fountains of excitement and proposals. Terrabod for example is enthusiastically hammering out the details for the new flag contest as I'm typing and I promise, Middle Barael, you will get the in-full, in-depth response your telegrams deserve, haha.
The exception to this has been the Forest Rangers. Here, mechanics and personality were key. Both Einswenn and Ownzone are individuals with the happy duo of generally sane, 'sober' personalities yet also possessing nations of extremely high influence- which is mechanically essential for the task of removing trouble makers. Both have also, if their response to the recent troll incident remains consistent, shown themselves to be good picks.
At the moment, the government is discussing the matter.
Full transparency: It's going to be particularly delicate to decide this one. Frankly, Forest's had more than one mapmaker who went inactive or even CTE'd in office in the 5 years I've been around, so this time around I want to make sure this decision is a more, um, permanent one.
There are a range of approaches I could take, from appointing some of the potential candidates making themselves known, to the merits even of hosting a contest to get one. However, this isn't set in stone yet, so don't get too excited.
Murmuria, Einswenn, Frieden-und Freudenland, Mount Seymour, and 8 othersOwnzone, Ruinenlust, Lord Dominator, Terrabod, Middle Barael, Nation of ecologists, Garbelia, and Arklanda
Spoilers!
EDIT: And that's no exaggeration, by the way. I'm like a money at a typewriter, smacking away at the keys right this very second.
Einswenn, Frieden-und Freudenland, Jutsa, Ruinenlust, and 4 othersLord Dominator, Middle Barael, Nation of ecologists, and Garbelia
My 2 truths and a lie by the way:
1) I once was locked inside an underground cave with the lights turned off.
2) I went on holiday to Syria in 2008.
3) I was at the Stop Brexit Man's 50th birthday party.
In general, there is a strong reason to think that's right, though from what I have found there are a few other factors. For example, islands almost never export any invasive creatures.
The Rift Valley hypothesis would be a tricky one to figure out, because humans left it so long ago that we wouldn't consider a creature we brought with us as invasive in, say, China even if it actually was when we first moved there. Apples are a big one here. Apples are actually only native to a relatively small area, in Kazakhstan and around the Altai Mountains. But humans have been exporting and growing these plants for, what, 8000 years now? To the point where we don't think much about seeing them growing in Europe even though they are basically an invasive species.
So far, best I can say is 'Eurasia', but that's large to the point of meaninglessness in this search.
Some may call it spoilers. Me, I call this ... strategic leaking! Oh, and transparency!
Frieden-und Freudenland, Ruinenlust, Lord Dominator, Terrabod, and 3 othersMiddle Barael, Nation of ecologists, and Garbelia
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