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[Fauxia]

37.2 currently installs "No Internet". While I see where that’s coming from, the option only censors internet, it doesn’t ban it altogether. If anything, I would think it might remove Public Protest, but I don’t think No Internet matches here.

If it allows only government-approved sites, technically, you don't have the internet (which is a worldwide web); you have a local intranet, where citizens can access local websites and government-controlled sites only.

Currently, there's no way to differentiate between a local intranet and no network connection at all. This could potentially be added, if there were ever issues enough to necessitate it.

Working as intended.

In future, please could you please ask questions about unexpected results here. This thread is for objective spelling, grammar and punctuation errors and suspected errors with macros and validities.

Yeah, sorry. The other one doesn’t mention policies much in the OP and this seemed wrong enough that I thought it was worth doing here.

Will do in the future.

[The Free Joy State]

Option 754.3:

“But East Lebatuck started it!” whines Gretel Parke, one of your more petulant advisers. ”Cuttlefish-4 was just fine until that stupid Sputnak-3 hit it. We shouldn’t have to do anything other than tell the world where we’re putting satellites. It’s up to East Lebatuck to move out of our way!”

Third quote mark is smartified wrong.

Well-spotted. Fixed.

[Leppikania]

emergency services had been delayed by a stampede of wild cuttlefish

This seems uncharacteristic of an aquatic national animal.

[Sedgistan]

emergency services had been delayed by a stampede of wild cuttlefish

This seems uncharacteristic of an aquatic national animal.

All the more reason for the emergency services to stop and gape at the spectacle.

[Leppikania]

Following new legislation in Leppikania, the dish 'poisson avec poison' is only available on the black market.

My French isn't that great, but if this is supposed to be "poisoned fish" (or something similar) shouldn't it be "poisson au poison"?

[The New California Republic]

Following new legislation in Leppikania, the dish 'poisson avec poison' is only available on the black market.

My French isn't that great, but if this is supposed to be "poisoned fish" (or something similar) shouldn't it be "poisson à poison"?

"Poisson avec poison" means "fish with poison".

[Leppikania]

My French isn't that great, but if this is supposed to be "poisoned fish" (or something similar) shouldn't it be "poisson au poison"?

"Poisson avec poison" means "fish with poison".

I'm aware of this, but I think "poisson au poison" would be a much better fit.

[Leppikania]

Option 1308.4:

“Have I got a free-market solution for you?” rhetorically questions Kirby Scrooge, the CEO of Clinton Motor Company. ‘’With a few government subsidies, all new vehicles could come standard with the latest safety features to alert customers when they’ve left their little rugrats behind, deliver dashboard safety tips and maybe even open the window automatically. What could go wrong?’‘

The quotes around the second part should be double quotes (instead of pairs of single quotes) so that they smartify correctly.

[Sanctaria]

Option 1308.4:

“Have I got a free-market solution for you?” rhetorically questions Kirby Scrooge, the CEO of Clinton Motor Company. ‘’With a few government subsidies, all new vehicles could come standard with the latest safety features to alert customers when they’ve left their little rugrats behind, deliver dashboard safety tips and maybe even open the window automatically. What could go wrong?’‘

The quotes around the second part should be double quotes (instead of pairs of single quotes) so that they smartify correctly.

Fixed, thanks.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

"Poisson avec poison" means "fish with poison".

I'm aware of this, but I think "poisson au poison" would be a much better fit.

Yeah, but "poison" isn't a French word anyway, so it's meant to be reminiscent of the wave of 1980s menus that used bad French to make themselves sound classier. Those dishes used a lot of "avec".

Terry Pratchett used to satirise this a lot with his characters believing that "avec" was some kind of classy ingredient that only the best restaurants used.

As is its restaurant Frenglish, I actually think "avec" works better than "au".

[Leppikania]

I'm aware of this, but I think "poisson au poison" would be a much better fit.

Yeah, but "poison" isn't a French word anyway, so it's meant to be reminiscent of the wave of 1980s menus that used bad French to make themselves sound classier. Those dishes used a lot of "avec".

Terry Pratchett used to satirise this a lot with his characters believing that "avec" was some kind of classy ingredient that only the best restaurants used.

As is its restaurant Frenglish, I actually think "avec" works better than "au".

"Poison" is a word in both English and French, having the same meaning in both, though pronounced differently. That said, I had no idea it was supposed to be intentionally bad French.

[Fauxia]

Option 1 of Issue 604 still appeared for Lagrodia, which talks about ex-husbands, despite the fact that Lagrodia does not allow divorce

[Sanctaria]

Option 1 of Issue 604 still appeared for Lagrodia, which talks about ex-husbands, despite the fact that Lagrodia does not allow divorce

I'm on the fence on this. On the one hand, I think that even if divorce isn't legalised, people can still separate and relationship can still end (especially when one party is behind bars!) so saying someone is an ex is fine. On the other hand, ex-husband is still mainly used post-divorce, even if it's becoming more common to say ex-husband pre-divorce and still in separation period.

I decided to split the difference and have changed this to ex-partner. No point needlessly fiddling about with validities.

[Fauxia]

That works. Cheers!

[Merni]

Effect line of issue 705 option 1:

It is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma.

Should "cookies" be capitalised here? I don't know if that is the practice in the US, but it seems strange to me.

[Australian rePublic]

Do you think this would be an interesting issue?

Should it be legal to operate snowmobiles (skidoos) in national parks?

Also, I know that CWA said that my issue snowed under is something that leader should care (even these kinds of discussions make the news in his country), so what if I changed it to this: some guy with snow chains wants to drive on a closed road?

[TalAkMaChen]

Do you think this would be an interesting issue?

Should it be legal to operate snowmobiles (skidoos) in national parks?

Also, I know that CWA said that my issue snowed under is something that leader should care (even these kinds of discussions make the news in his country), so what if I changed it to this: some guy with snow chains wants to drive on a closed road?

This should be in Writers' Block, huh?

[Ender VI]

Effect line of issue 705 option 1:

It is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma.

Should "cookies" be capitalised here? I don't know if that is the practice in the US, but it seems strange to me.

Probably the only time I've seen it capitalized is on the branding. Colloquially, almost never.

[HOLYDIA]

Greetings. I just received the issue “Warning, Fatigue,” and picked the second option. The talking point was “[a]eroplane cockpits no longer have altimeters or airspeed indicators.” However, my nation has a complete ban on aircraft. Is this an issue? [no pun intended]

Thanks!

[TalAkMaChen]

Greetings. I just received the issue “Warning, Fatigue,” and picked the second option. The talking point was “[a]eroplane cockpits no longer have altimeters or airspeed indicators.” However, my nation has a complete ban on aircraft. Is this an issue? [no pun intended]

Thanks!

Even if the nation has banned flights, there are still cockpits (of the grounded airplanes). It makes little sense, as so many lines, but yeah.

Speaking of #1331, the second option involves a lot of technical devices which might just seem in place at Leader's place even when the nation has banned all sorts of device (computers, video games, etc.). Sadly there is no "Has banned Television" policy, some primitive nations would surely activate that as well.
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I recently encountered #1135 on a nation with compulsory Nudism. Interestingly, option 4 was hidden while the third (also speaking of clothing) was visible: "wear a flattering dress" which I doubt describes an undressed person in some way.

[Trotterdam]

Maybe diplomatic immunity allows her to skirt your nation's nudity laws? (Pun intended.)

[HOLYDIA]

Even if the nation has banned flights, there are still cockpits (of the grounded airplanes). It makes little sense, as so many lines, but yeah.

Speaking of #1331, the second option involves a lot of technical devices which might just seem in place at Leader's place even when the nation has banned all sorts of device (computers, video games, etc.). Sadly there is no "Has banned Television" policy, some primitive nations would surely activate that as well.

Fair enough... but I still don’t get it? Grounded airplanes? In my nation, all airplanes were burned years ago!

Ha-ha, like me. No internet, no computers, no video games, but my Leader has a mobile phone? Actually, I did once pick an option that told me “Leader signs the laws but abides by none of them,” so there’s our loophole!

[Candlewhisper Archive]

No, it's a good point. I'll amend the validities to exclude nations with banned airplanes.

Lack of computers doesn't preclude all antibiotics though. You can still have alarm circuits without microprocessors.

On a related note you can also have cellphones without computers. Not smartphones, but mobile phones I think is possible.

Texting, probably not, but we'll handwave that.

[Trotterdam]

Lack of computers doesn't preclude all antibiotics though. You can still have alarm circuits without microprocessors.

Umm, is this a typo? Antibiotics have nothing whatsoever to do with either computers or alarm circuits.

On a related note you can also have cellphones without computers. Not smartphones, but mobile phones I think is possible.

Nowadays it's easy to forget that non-smart mobile phones were ever a thing

[Fauxia]

Lack of computers doesn't preclude all antibiotics though. You can still have alarm circuits without microprocessors.

Umm, is this a typo? Antibiotics have nothing whatsoever to do with either computers or alarm circuits.

Candlewhisper’s too busy with his doctor work to not insert medical terms into sentences every now and then