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Liberty and Unity wrote:Yeah, there was a livestream on YouTube about it. Someone recorded most of it

I didnt hear about a livestream. Not sure I'd want to watch something like that.

New vedan wrote:God I hate tornados.

They speak highly of you.

Free market buisnesses wrote:My favorite thing about this nation is that we have recognized AI personhood and have slavery. It's like, "sure, you can be a person. Now back to work!" No benefits for being recognized lol.

I'm thinking of bringing back slavery to keep with the ancient Egypt theme.

Hraban and Free market buisnesses

Divine Egypt wrote:They speak highly of you

I'm afraid I dont get the joke.

Free market buisnesses and Divine Egypt

Cocky region, imma head out to Asia

Arclandia

The minister of the interior has accused the Pharaoh of being an autocrat and has been trying to garner support for a coup.

Um, yes. The Pharaoh is an autocrat. That's the point of the whole system.

Hraban, Trontasky, Free market buisnesses, Arclandia, and 1 otherVeautopia

Divine Egypt wrote:

What would put you off an alliance?

Well your death by disappearance numbers are too low. Can't have a divine dictatorship without something that makes people "disappear" for whatever reasons you see fit.

Free market buisnesses and Divine Egypt

Free market buisnesses wrote:
My favorite thing about this nation is that we have recognized AI personhood and have slavery. It's like, "sure, you can be a person. Now back to work!" No benefits for being recognized lol.

Same here, my economy even used to be AI planned. But then I decided to switch to a more religious route. Kind of like medieval Germany. The population enjoys quite a bit of freedom and simple lifes but also have to be subservient to church and state and of course the ruler by divine right. I see my disappearance rate as the equivalent of the Spanish Inquisition but in even more murderous combined with the thousands of people who burned as witches in medieval Germany. The capital I chose is a reference to that, Bamberg alone burned like 2000 for witchcraft.

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That's the kind of tech that we enjoyed, albeit we tend to go for safer and more amenable to control.

Nonetheless we have a sizeable minority of the population that opt (willingly, we promise) to have highly heteromorphic bodyplans.

(Of course the majority use a enhanced human variant (according to our values) for our biological citizens plus the virtual spaces for our digital ones. They prefer to be operate drones in remote from their servers).

Free market buisnesses and Veautopia

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New vedan wrote:God I hate tornados.

I see you hate tornadoes as well. They are such a major nuisance. Just last week, one of them managed to tear the roof of my FHS Hat Shrine clean off. Even with the youkai hat saint abilities that come with being the shrine master to FHSHS, it took me a full week to find and re-attach the thing. This will not affect the profits (shrine donations) well.

Free market buisnesses and Veautopia

New vedan wrote:I didnt hear about a livestream. Not sure I'd want to watch something like that.

you really wouldn't. It's very graphic

Free market buisnesses, Arclandia, and Veautopia

Liberty and Unity wrote:but they have to explain both sides of political stories as to prevent bias and fake news

This is a form of media regulation and tells the media what they are allowed to say about any topic. It also forces them into a binary system of law-abiding that ends up corrupting the truth anyway: when a story doesn't have sides, they now create sides because of this law, and when a story has three or more sides, they stop at two because the law doesn't obligate them beyond that. What's been suggested here as media regulation is perfect evidence of how government involvement inherently creates an unnatural media and works counter-intuitively against itself. If a ruling body wishes to ensure fairness and a lack of bias while having a direct hand in the media, it would do better both by itself and by the media to have a competing outlet by means of the internet, public television, public radio, and its own print medium while leaving the privately owned publications to do as they please.

Free market buisnesses wrote:Forcing the media to anything is an infringement of free speech. If people want it the government and/or private organizations can do fact checking and perhaps introduce fact checking into the nations curriculum for children?

This is an exquisite suggestion. Regulating the media truly does nothing to keep a publication accountable to accuracy. Its subscriber numbers will do that, and a government manipulates those numbers through teaching the people how to be critical thinkers (or often how not to critically think in more corporatist systems). If the people are incapable of being lied to, a media outlet won't remain in business when it lies.

Free market buisnesses and Veautopia

Arclandia wrote:This is a form of media regulation and tells the media what they are allowed to say about any topic. It also forces them into a binary system of law-abiding that ends up corrupting the truth anyway: when a story doesn't have sides, they now create sides because of this law, and when a story has three or more sides, they stop at two because the law doesn't obligate them beyond that. What's been suggested here as media regulation is perfect evidence of how government involvement inherently creates an unnatural media and works counter-intuitively against itself. If a ruling body wishes to ensure fairness and a lack of bias while having a direct hand in the media, it would do better both by itself and by the media to have a competing outlet by means of the internet, public television, public radio, and its own print medium while leaving the privately owned publications to do as they please.
This is an exquisite suggestion. Regulating the media truly does nothing to keep a publication accountable to accuracy. Its subscriber numbers will do that, and a government manipulates those numbers through teaching the people how to be critical thinkers (or often how not to critically think in more corporatist systems). If the people are incapable of being lied to, a media outlet won't remain in business when it lies.

You make a good point, but some media and news stations twist the truth to fit their own beliefs and to spread their own beliefs. A perfect example of this BLM, the Capital riot, and the 2020 election, as well as Donald Trump's entire executive term. Many news stations twisted the truth about Trump to have people dislike him without knowing the full truth. Some also mislead the public so that the viewers believe in the media more than themselves.

New vedan, Hraban, Arclandia, and Veautopia

Free market buisnesses wrote:I wish you luck.

Thank you! We really need it. As it seems now, we are headed for a 5th round of elections, after which there will most likely be another impasse.

Free market buisnesses

I wonder what would happen if the media only presented the information without applying emotions and assuming things and presenting their theories on what the information at hand might imply. Just pure information. For example: When there is a statistic, only present the statistic and list on how the values were calculated and so on and so forth and let the people decide alone on what the information at hand might imply. Also they would have to present all the information available and not just certain parts.

But then again we do have a saying that goes "Don't trust a statistic that you didn't fake yourself."

Basically don't trust anyone but yourself.

Arclandia

Free market buisnesses wrote:Sounds like you need an enema! While no particular companies that offer enemas in Free market buisnesses have paid for international advertising, I'm sure you'll find some here and when you do that you'll also buy some other things while you stay within our glorious lands!

Our glorious leader, Small Brother, needs an anathema. Does your corporation have an anathema device for sale?

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Arclandia wrote:This is a form of media regulation and tells the media what they are allowed to say about any topic. It also forces them into a binary system of law-abiding that ends up corrupting the truth anyway: when a story doesn't have sides, they now create sides because of this law, and when a story has three or more sides, they stop at two because the law doesn't obligate them beyond that. What's been suggested here as media regulation is perfect evidence of how government involvement inherently creates an unnatural media and works counter-intuitively against itself. If a ruling body wishes to ensure fairness and a lack of bias while having a direct hand in the media, it would do better both by itself and by the media to have a competing outlet by means of the internet, public television, public radio, and its own print medium while leaving the privately owned publications to do as they please.
This is an exquisite suggestion. Regulating the media truly does nothing to keep a publication accountable to accuracy. Its subscriber numbers will do that, and a government manipulates those numbers through teaching the people how to be critical thinkers (or often how not to critically think in more corporatist systems). If the people are incapable of being lied to, a media outlet won't remain in business when it lies.

Hmmm... Usually people run screaming when I say that. It's good that you didn't, but it's still very strange.

Liberty and Unity wrote:You make a good point, but some media and news stations twist the truth to fit their own beliefs and to spread their own beliefs. A perfect example of this BLM, the Capital riot, and the 2020 election, as well as Donald Trump's entire executive term. Many news stations twisted the truth about Trump to have people dislike him without knowing the full truth. Some also mislead the public so that the viewers believe in the media more than themselves.

And what is that full truth and how did they twist things?

Hraban wrote:I wonder what would happen if the media only presented the information without applying emotions and assuming things and presenting their theories on what the information at hand might imply. Just pure information. For example: When there is a statistic, only present the statistic and list on how the values were calculated and so on and so forth and let the people decide alone on what the information at hand might imply. Also they would have to present all the information available and not just certain parts.

But then again we do have a saying that goes "Don't trust a statistic that you didn't fake yourself."

Basically don't trust anyone but yourself.

They would go out of business.

Delta Vega IV wrote:Our glorious leader, Small Brother, needs an anathema. Does your corporation have an anathema device for sale?

Sure thing, what sort of people do you hate?

Arclandia

Free market buisnesses

How often do you guys dismiss issues?

Hraban wrote:I wonder what would happen if the media only presented the information without applying emotions and assuming things and presenting their theories on what the information at hand might imply. Just pure information. For example: When there is a statistic, only present the statistic and list on how the values were calculated and so on and so forth and let the people decide alone on what the information at hand might imply. Also they would have to present all the information available and not just certain parts.

But then again we do have a saying that goes "Don't trust a statistic that you didn't fake yourself."

Basically don't trust anyone but yourself.

It's a shame that the media is financially incentivized to create a climate of anxiety - the more anxious the populous is the more news they watch as to not miss any 'important' developments.

Delta Vega IV, New vedan, Hraban, Free market buisnesses, and 1 otherVeautopia

LAAAAAAZ - r - US

New vedan, Free market buisnesses, and Arclandia

Free market buisnesses wrote:How often do you guys dismiss issues?

Most of the time, because I have committed many of their effects to memory, so I know that certain issues will royally screw up my nation stats.

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The New California Republic wrote:Most of the time, because I have committed many of their effects to memory, so I know that certain issues will royally screw up my nation stats.

There is a website that tells you the ranges of changes that might occur. Just google "NS issue results" and you'll find it.

Cianlandia and Free market buisnesses

Cianlandia

Divine Egypt wrote:They speak highly of you.

I'm thinking of bringing back slavery to keep with the ancient Egypt theme.

Which is strange, because slavery in Ancient Egypt was pretty light compared to other regions, especially Babylon, areas of Rome, and the not contemporary Aztecs.

Domais wrote:There is a website that tells you the ranges of changes that might occur. Just google "NS issue results" and you'll find it.

I've been here since 2013 and I only learn this now?!?!?

Domais and Free market buisnesses

Free market buisnesses

Domais wrote:There is a website that tells you the ranges of changes that might occur. Just google "NS issue results" and you'll find it.

Doesn't that take away some of the fun?

Cianlandia wrote:Which is strange, because slavery in Ancient Egypt was pretty light compared to other regions, especially Babylon, areas of Rome, and the not contemporary Aztecs.
I've been here since 2013 and I only learn this now?!?!?

I think it was the Greeks who thought that the Egyptians used slaves for everything, but from what I know modern archeologists think otherwise. Not that I know much about it though.
Same, but see above.

Domais wrote:There is a website that tells you the ranges of changes that might occur. Just google "NS issue results" and you'll find it.

Yes I'm aware, but I've been playing this game for that long now that I know the strategy in regards to issues. I occasionally check NSIssues, but for most of them I know what their effects will be.

On that note, I dunno if anyone here has ever had Issue 1202, called "A Timely Intervention". I hope people found it interesting...

Free market buisnesses

Free market buisnesses wrote:Doesn't that take away some of the fun?

No, what would ruin the fun would be me choosing something that will mess up my nation.

Free market buisnesses

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