Lilac Veritas

o shit waddup

We've always been weebs, now we're just open about it

Running econ makes my heart go doki doki

Love it! End of warchest checkins, on with the age of automation / a heckton of copy and paste while we figure out how to automate and then spend the next month debugging

Yeah I've given out 1 mill to newbies before, and sometimes they ask for more and I'm like how about if you're still around in like 20 days. Don't want to drop money on a nation that deletes! It's like investing in OBL

Can't believe we won a war Time to go full steam ahead on econ

@VE @t$ someone remade paragon without us :C :C

Needs more aussies "In order to wage war effectually, there has to be . . . a determination on the part of the people to pledge themselves to the cause because the cause, when won, will have been worth the winning." - John Curtin “We cannot measure the cost of this terrible war in money and material things. I doubt if there can be any spiritual assessment of the loss.†- John Curtin "The game is not lost - or won - until the last bell goes." - John Curtin

It's been a good run, o/ Rose, and I hope you all find a safe harbor

You're telling me I could literally ghost like a high taxing alliance full of whales or something for the 5 minutes before I got beiged and it would loot them? oh boy this is a whole other level of broke

Mensa are pretty chill peeps, as long as you hate snow

https://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/18021-beiged-applicants-loot-bank/ Seems Alex is on to it, but oooooooooh man the stuff we could do with it

brb joining t$, sketchy declare on me when I get there

This is straight up the best thing I have seen all year (and not just cause it reminds me of myself, quite literally in my PJs in a blanket at 1:40 in the afternoon playing a nation sim)

fixed that for ya

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Mensa looking at SK trying to fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muOVF89VfLw

I gotta say, I'm just a little bit extremely disappointed I didn't get a response to my thing about broadness and defining stuff, cause I don't really think this debate has been framed well thus far. But look thats a minor issue, and I'm going to go on a bit of a tangent cause of who I am as a person but its kinda related. One of the debates in (post?) modern feminism is around the aims of the "third wave" which began in the 1990s, however some also argue we're now in a 4th wave. So one of the main things that has been touched on here is that things are pretty good for women in western countries. Can vote, lots of legal barriers down etc. All well and good right? Some disagree and say hey the movement needs to be less about upper middle class white women and more about the experience of all women. How does feminism combat say, the combination of racism and sexism? How does it address how gender roles affect men? Going off a stat I half remember hearing today is 70% of homeless people are men (in aus) but one of the highest reasons for homelessness is domestic violence. So on one side you've got the third wave talking about intersectionality and stuff, and on the other side you've got the post-feminists, and they argue that the 2nd wave basically achieved its goals and are critical of the goals of the third wave and more generally the need for feminism in todays society. But then you've also got a lot of smaller groups like African feminism cause there's a need for stuff there (along with economic development, though africa is growing at the same rate or faster than asia iirc, gotta love the rubber band effect from skipping obsolete tech and stuff). So what's my two cents? Well first I'll mention another viewpoint of a marxist friend of mine. She doesn't care that more women aren't in boardrooms, she's concerned that more of those boardrooms are not on fire (marxism hates identity policies cause like 90% of the time its really just classes and capitalism at it again, but i digress). My viewpoint is that feminism is still needed in western nations, just its not going to play as a large a role. Things still need to be done, especially with domestic violence in australia, for men and for women. Whether this and wider problems are fixed by mens rght activists, feminists, religious groups, migrant groups, lgbt groups etc, doesn't really matter as long as we all keep working towards some kind of wider objective of equality and not get too caught up on insignificant issues. I don't really care if a well paid ceo gets 400k or 500k, I care more about the regressive impact GST on menstrual products has on poorer women, and I care even more about the economic and social liberation of all people in developing countries. idk I think I made some kind of point

I think one of the problems is that feminism is very broad these days. As such its almost hard to define it as any one thing anymore cause you've got a diverse range, including some quite radical groups. Like I'd call myself a feminist cause I believe in the simple definition that genders should be equal. Copying and pasting wikipedia's list of variants we have: Amazon, Analytical, Anarchist, Anti-pornography, Anti-prostitution feminism, Atheist, Conservative, Cultural, Cyber, Democratic Confederalism, Difference, Eco, Eco Vegetarian, Equality, Fat, French, French post-structuralist, Gender, Global, Hip-hop/Hip hop, Individualist, Labor, Lesbian, Liberal, Equity, Lipstick, Marxist, Material, Maternal, Neo, New, Post, Postcolonial, Postmodern, Pro-life, Pro-sex worker, Post-structural, Racial [black, Chicana, Indigenous, Native American], Radical, Radical lesbians, Religious [buddhist, Christian, Neopagan (Dianic Wicca, Reclaiming), Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, Jewish Orthodox, Mormon, Sikh], Separatist, Sex-positive, Social, Socialist, Standpoint, Third world, Trans, Transnational, Womanism, Africana Womanism Now I don't even know what most of these are, and I disagree with a bunch of others

I feel personally offended by this. Rose currently is working on implementing a progressive taxation system. To do this, we need to log tax data on every nation, extrapolate over a week, work out a tax return and send that out to each nation at the start of each week. Its a lot of copy and paste.

Limiting by the minute certainly seems better, as is restricting to VIPs for the super serious stuff as it would be relatively cheap for a decent taxbase alliance to fund that for the data members. A side thought for limits, could perhaps implement a sort of on-peak off-peak sort of thing ie have less requests available on the turn/day change. I'm not a big user of it but we've got a few programs, and incentivising people to request on the off peak could help

??? ok? So I'm thinking something like this will happen like a week or two after you exit vacation mode:

Democracy shouldn't start and end at the ballot box. As an Australian I can't really comment on US politics (first past the post? wtf, the whole system is alien to me), but I do believe people should continue to lobby and be politically involved

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Greetings comrade