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Kowani
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Postby Kowani » Wed Mar 31, 2021 3:07 am

Stagnant Axon Terminal wrote:
Kowani wrote:i
don't know how to respond to that
it's just
dumb

take the games away :p

I would love to take away their games lmfao

do it for the memes
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The Cosmopolity
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Ex-Nation

Postby The Cosmopolity » Wed Mar 31, 2021 3:45 am

I’m supposed to be working on my nation’s various factions and the ways in which they oppose and cooperate with each other.

Instead I spent an hour making tables recording which species belongs to which faction. It’s already information listed in the species dispatch! Everything comes back to biology! There’s no escape!

Help me!
I got bored and made a galaxy.
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Ethel mermania
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Corrupt Dictatorship

Postby Ethel mermania » Wed Mar 31, 2021 4:17 am

Kowani wrote:
Stagnant Axon Terminal wrote:No it does not. I kept trying to point this out, and one of them just kept saying "I trust my own judgement more than I trust the people who make up speed limits" and I just

more than engineers?
ah, anti-intellectualism
truly, the most fascinating of disappointments

Speed limits in the US are not set by engineers but politicians. The interstate highway system is designed for safe driving at 80 mph. Yet most states cap it at 65 or 70
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger

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Valentine Z
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Scandinavian Liberal Paradise

Postby Valentine Z » Wed Mar 31, 2021 6:49 am

Stagnant Axon Terminal wrote:I would love to take away their games lmfao

If all else fails, run the games over with your wheelchair!

Seriously though, I know it is a bit late for me to say, but I am sorry to hear that you had to go through that ordeal. :hug:

And yeah, people thought they are doing good until they suddenly are not.
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Immoren
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Postby Immoren » Wed Mar 31, 2021 7:09 am

Stagnant Axon Terminal wrote:someone tell me if i'm overreacting.

but i really feel like since i spent the better part of the last seven months either in a hospital, in a wheelchair, or learning how to walk again, i deserve better than my friends justifying their speeding and driving high by saying "I'm a good driver." the guy who crushed me inside of my car and deleted my kneecaps also thought he was a good driver.


I know this can also be explained with better cars, better roads, etc. And this is from another country, but I guess speed limits do have positive impact on road accidents.
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discoursedrome wrote:everyone knows that quote, "I know not what weapons World War Three will be fought, but World War Four will be fought with sticks and stones," but in a way it's optimistic and inspiring because it suggests that even after destroying civilization and returning to the stone age we'll still be sufficiently globalized and bellicose to have another world war right then and there

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Valentine Z
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Postby Valentine Z » Wed Mar 31, 2021 7:11 am

Immoren wrote:
Stagnant Axon Terminal wrote:someone tell me if i'm overreacting.

but i really feel like since i spent the better part of the last seven months either in a hospital, in a wheelchair, or learning how to walk again, i deserve better than my friends justifying their speeding and driving high by saying "I'm a good driver." the guy who crushed me inside of my car and deleted my kneecaps also thought he was a good driver.


I know this can also be explained with better cars, better roads, etc. And this is from another country, but I guess speed limits do have positive impact on road accidents.
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But the 1985-1990! /s

I do am curious on what happened back then.
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Immoren
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Postby Immoren » Wed Mar 31, 2021 7:16 am

Valentine Z wrote:
Immoren wrote:
I know this can also be explained with better cars, better roads, etc. And this is from another country, but I guess speed limits do have positive impact on road accidents.

But the 1985-1990! /s

I do am curious on what happened back then.


We had economic boom back then so I guess yuppies were buying new sports cars or something.
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discoursedrome wrote:everyone knows that quote, "I know not what weapons World War Three will be fought, but World War Four will be fought with sticks and stones," but in a way it's optimistic and inspiring because it suggests that even after destroying civilization and returning to the stone age we'll still be sufficiently globalized and bellicose to have another world war right then and there

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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Wed Mar 31, 2021 7:17 am

Immoren wrote:
Stagnant Axon Terminal wrote:someone tell me if i'm overreacting.

but i really feel like since i spent the better part of the last seven months either in a hospital, in a wheelchair, or learning how to walk again, i deserve better than my friends justifying their speeding and driving high by saying "I'm a good driver." the guy who crushed me inside of my car and deleted my kneecaps also thought he was a good driver.


I know this can also be explained with better cars, better roads, etc. And this is from another country, but I guess speed limits do have positive impact on road accidents.
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And seatbelt laws, anti-lock brakes, built in crash zones, automatic vehicle dynamics, less drunk driving, etc. All have a bigger role in accident reduction. The one place car construction laws (raised hoods) and speed limits play a strong role is in the reduction of pedestrian fatalities.
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https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger

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Porotia
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Postby Porotia » Wed Mar 31, 2021 7:45 am

Immoren wrote:I know this can also be explained with better cars, better roads, etc. And this is from another country, but I guess speed limits do have positive impact on road accidents.


based Finns being speedy
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Hurdergaryp
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Postby Hurdergaryp » Wed Mar 31, 2021 8:09 am

Porotia wrote:
Immoren wrote:I know this can also be explained with better cars, better roads, etc. And this is from another country, but I guess speed limits do have positive impact on road accidents.

based Finns being speedy

Which is how they removed themselves from the gene pool.


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Abserdia
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Postby Abserdia » Wed Mar 31, 2021 8:18 am

Wii Shop Wednesday is guaranteed to make me smile every time, so I'm sharing it.

Happy Wii Shop Wednesday.
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Recommend me shoegaze and ambient music.

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Alcala-Cordel
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Scandinavian Liberal Paradise

Postby Alcala-Cordel » Wed Mar 31, 2021 8:54 am

Stagnant Axon Terminal wrote:someone tell me if i'm overreacting.

but i really feel like since i spent the better part of the last seven months either in a hospital, in a wheelchair, or learning how to walk again, i deserve better than my friends justifying their speeding and driving high by saying "I'm a good driver." the guy who crushed me inside of my car and deleted my kneecaps also thought he was a good driver.

No, you're not overreacting. It's that attitude that got your legs crushed.
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Heloin
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Postby Heloin » Wed Mar 31, 2021 11:47 am

Why does ever single computer monitor make everything look slightly different?

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Hurdergaryp
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Postby Hurdergaryp » Wed Mar 31, 2021 11:56 am

Heloin wrote:Why does ever single computer monitor make everything look slightly different?

Because certain processes going on in your computer can only be explained with quantum mechanics, which as a side effect tends to alter reality slightly for every single electronic device. There are those who consider the countless millions of individual micro-universes created by our computational devices a potential hazard, but there's nothing to be worried about at all.


“Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.”
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Kannap
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Postby Kannap » Wed Mar 31, 2021 3:00 pm

After many months of will-they-won't-they, seriously finally considering buying a camera, like found one - got it in the cart, just debating pushing the button.
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Heloin
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Postby Heloin » Wed Mar 31, 2021 3:09 pm

Kannap wrote:After many months of will-they-won't-they, seriously finally considering buying a camera, like found one - got it in the cart, just debating pushing the button.

*Palpatine voice* Do it.

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Kannap
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Postby Kannap » Wed Mar 31, 2021 3:26 pm

Heloin wrote:
Kannap wrote:After many months of will-they-won't-they, seriously finally considering buying a camera, like found one - got it in the cart, just debating pushing the button.

*Palpatine voice* Do it.


Suddenly the hard part has become what camera bag to get with it.
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Hurdergaryp
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Postby Hurdergaryp » Wed Mar 31, 2021 3:49 pm

I've been voting in this "The Best Nation In The World" thing, but I didn't get the chance to vote for (or against) any of the TET regulars. Maybe tomorrow.


“Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.”
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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Wed Mar 31, 2021 4:14 pm

Kannap wrote:
Heloin wrote:*Palpatine voice* Do it.


Suddenly the hard part has become what camera bag to get with it.

You won't do it, your afraid.
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger

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Voxija
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Civil Rights Lovefest

Postby Voxija » Wed Mar 31, 2021 4:19 pm

My classmates came up with this cursed nation during lunch. It is the Florida-Texas Republic, or "Flexas" for short. Florida and Texas unite with the Midwest, take over the Atlantic Ocean, nuke the West Coast, turn New York into a gulag for liberals, and ally with Canada somehow. Should I make this conservative "benevolent" dictatorship on NS?
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I'm a woman. Some weird Jew. Trying to learn French and failing. An American who wishes the US would switch to the metric system. Part of a giant conspiracy. Secret pyromaniac? I will never make an OOC factbook!

my politics are confused and muddled
Most of my grammar errors are on purpose. Sppeling errors, tho...
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Kannap
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Postby Kannap » Wed Mar 31, 2021 4:24 pm

Ethel mermania wrote:
Kannap wrote:
Suddenly the hard part has become what camera bag to get with it.

You won't do it, your afraid.


I'm what?
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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Wed Mar 31, 2021 4:27 pm

Kannap wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:You won't do it, your afraid.


I'm what?

Afraid to do whatever we are trying to peer pressure you into doing.
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger

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Kannap
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Postby Kannap » Wed Mar 31, 2021 4:27 pm

Ethel mermania wrote:
Kannap wrote:
I'm what?

Afraid to do whatever we are trying to peer pressure you into doing.


No peer pressure here, only warm advice.
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Nanatsu no Tsuki
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Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Wed Mar 31, 2021 4:32 pm

I want a quesalupa from Taco Bell. Can someone slap me? ;_;
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Kowani
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Postby Kowani » Wed Mar 31, 2021 4:34 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:I want a quesalupa from Taco Bell. Can someone slap me? ;_;

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