The Writers' Block

[Australian rePublic]

What. Just, what. How do you get from food allergies to trolley buses?

I did a double take at this too, but I think Aussie was referring to this post and mistakenly quoted the wrong one:

is there a issue about electric cars being too quiet for pedestrians to hear, so many are now getting, well, in accidents?

For the record, I think the idea about food allergies is a good one. It reminded me of that girl who died after eating a Pret a Manger baguette that didn't say it contained sesame (source) and I think it could make for an interesting issue.

Indeed. I quoted the wrong post.

[Australian rePublic]

Any issues about productive policing?

[Silvedania]

Any issues about productive policing?

It sounds like the thing that there would be an issue about, but I'm not sure.

[Golgothastan]

Is there any way of working out how common the intersection of certain policies is?

I was thonking about an issue relating to Haredi legal exemption from conscription (obviously, more generalised) but it would only really be worth doing if there were a significant number of nations with both conscription and state religion.

[Trotterdam]

Is there any way of working out how common the intersection of certain policies is?

I can query this from my database.

(At least when the policy is one that appears on the national policy page. Having a theocracy does, merely having a national religion doesn't. However, Conscription is the most common policy in the game, and the only one to be held by more than 50% of nations (except for Capitalism, which is just the negation of Socialism, so one or the other has to be over 50%), so it can be combined with pretty much anything.

[Australian rePublic]

Is there any way of working out how common the intersection of certain policies is?

I was thonking about an issue relating to Haredi legal exemption from conscription (obviously, more generalised) but it would only really be worth doing if there were a significant number of nations with both conscription and state religion.

Why does this issue require a state religion? Multireligious socieities can also have exemptions for certain religious groups/clergy

[Trotterdam]

The more important point here is that #313 already covers conscientious objection, so how does a religious angle add anything?

[Golgothastan]

Is there any way of working out how common the intersection of certain policies is?

I can query this from my database.

(At least when the policy is one that appears on the national policy page. Having a theocracy does, merely having a national religion doesn't. However, Conscription is the most common policy in the game, and the only one to be held by more than 50% of nations (except for Capitalism, which is just the negation of Socialism, so one or the other has to be over 50%), so it can be combined with pretty much anything.

Thanks! I thought conscription would be popular, wasn't expecting it to be quite so popular though.

OK, off to draft.

[Australian rePublic]

Has the "Florida Man" meme been made into an issue yet?

[UDont]

If you want to have a big econamy its by fixxing issies

[Chan Island]

Quick question: do we have any issues on the statute of limitations?

[Trotterdam]

Quick question: do we have any issues on the statute of limitations?

#1143.

[Jutsa]

RIP, I was hoping the issue title would be "Statue of Limitations" and it'd actually be about a statue representing limitations.

[Chan Island]

RIP, I was hoping the issue title would be "Statue of Limitations" and it'd actually be about a statue representing limitations.

.... That'd be pretty funny ngl.

[Greater Cesnica]

I just did a search in the issues index and couldn't find anything regarding encryption. Does such an issue exist, one that debates the merits of allowing encryption and access to secure digital communications? If not, I'll draft an issue regarding that debate. This idea was totally not inspired by my work on the GA resolution at vote

[Trotterdam]

I just did a search in the issues index and couldn't find anything regarding encryption. Does such an issue exist, one that debates the merits of allowing encryption and access to secure digital communications?

I don't think so. There's a bunch of issues about privacy, but they're light on the technical details of how privacy can be protected or breached.

Except #1199. There's a little there. Aside from that, the words "encrypt" or "decrypt" barely even appear in the issue corpus.

Though realistically, while the notion of banning encryption or installing mandatory government backdoors has been fielded from time to time, I think that would be pretty hard to enforce.

[Eriadni]

Howdy all,

I was wondering if there were any issues that addressed the various potential forms of government that socialist/communist/anarchist nations could possess? A common complaint in NS' left-wing spaces is that there aren't too many issues that go into much depth on left-wing governments and if there isn't much here, I'd love to write something to fill any gaps.

Thanks,
Eri

[Trotterdam]

There's a fair number of issues about socialism, but there's always room for more, given how broad a subject it is. You'll need to offer a more specific idea.

[Eriadni]

More or less what I wanted to hear. Thanks for the help!

[Terrabod]

Postnatal depression: whadda we got, people?

I can't find anything under "postnatal", "post-natal" or "postpartum", and I don't think there's anything about this under "depression"... which surprised me, really. Seems like something we'd have already.

[Dominioan]

Any issues about banning racial/discriminative slurs?

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Any issues about banning racial/discriminative slurs?

1165 mentions racial slurs, from a particular angle.

Any issue about such should try to be as clever as that one.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Postnatal depression: whadda we got, people?

I can't find anything under "postnatal", "post-natal" or "postpartum", and I don't think there's anything about this under "depression"... which surprised me, really. Seems like something we'd have already.

No issues about that specifically, but try to make it more interesting than "what do we do about postnatal depression".

We already have 62 for the general depression question, and there's probably nothing to gain by repeating the issue for each type of depression in turn.So write an issue, but make it interesting.

[Dominos Pizza Restaurant]

Are there any issues about social media platforms being responsible for what its' users post?

[Terrabod]

No issues about that specifically, but try to make it more interesting than "what do we do about postnatal depression".

We already have 62 for the general depression question, and there's probably nothing to gain by repeating the issue for each type of depression in turn. So write an issue, but make it interesting.

Well, that's a tall order. I guess I'll keep mulling this idea over until something comes to me.

The other idea I had is this - about how safety standards are based on the "average male" body. For example, a woman is 47% more likely to be seriously injured and 17% more likely to die in a car crash than a man, even when controlling for factors like height, weight and crash intensity. This is because, generally speaking, women sit in a different position than men when in the driver seat (this is not taken into account when doing crash tests) and because women have different muscle mass distribution, lower bone density etc to men which is also not taken into account when doing crash tests (even the "female" dummy, if it is used at all, is a scaled-down male dummy which doesn't account for physiological differences). Another good example is protective equipment like body armour - women are given male body armour in a small or extra-small size, which obviously doesn't account for breasts. The bad fit is not only uncomfortable, it leaves the wearer vulnerable. The same goes for protective clothing like lab coats or even respirators (which are designed for the "standard male" face).

It's in part a hangover from the times before women did jobs that required protective equipment, but the fact that this crisis persists to the present day shines a harsh light on the lack of women's perspectives when it comes to safety and design. If ever there was an example of how we still live in a "Man's World", it's this.