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Lets as a collective make a draft a WA resolution to do just that. Eliminate all matter. I pledge my full support behind this resolution!

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Chacapoya wrote:

In some fun weather news, yesterday was 97(36), the high today is 93(33), the low is 33(.5), it is raining ash, and it’s gonna snow tonight.

Joy

What type of weather is that? And if you don't mind me asking--where does weather like that happen?

Sylh Alanor wrote:

Welcome to Refugia, Zarhat and Tenfall! If you have any questions about how the game works or anything, let us know <3

Yeah, welcome to Refugia.

Chacapoya wrote:

It’s unheard of for such a cold snap here to be honest. The ash is from wildfires which are not super unusual, but the ones currently going on are unprecedentedly severe, and exacerbated by the current heatwave.
And Colorado, USA. The Rockies help create some weird weather patterns along the front range.

So in looking up articles on the incoming storms there (stay safe, by the way, I imagine that sort of snap will be hard to acclimate to), I found something interesting. The high-pressure system that's caused the extreme heat for your area moved northwest as the low-pressure one came in from the arctic. They were talking about how it was going to keep moving until it got to southern Alaska... and the graphic accompanying it showed the heat centred right on top of us, lmao.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/376529229392904195/752728592160522320/pressure_systems.png if you're interested.

Chacapoya wrote:

I'm looking at the graphic currently, and that's... wacky.
That may also explain why my friends in Portland are having a record breaking windstorm at the moment.

That makes sense, we had some winds earlier as well. They weren't too bad, but they caused our windows to make the warbling sound.

Sylh Alanor wrote:

That makes sense, we had some winds earlier as well. They weren't too bad, but they caused our windows to make the warbling sound.

Apparently there's power outages going on up there as well so that's fun.

Chacapoya wrote:

Apparently there's power outages going on up there as well so that's fun.

Also our AQHI rating today is 10 (high risk) because of the smoke in the air. I noticed it when we woke up, which is unfortunate because it's kind of nice outside lol.

Elenaraghaenaris wrote:

Promote Atheism and recognize our state religion. You're an atheist if you don't have a religion, but you're not on if you become an Atheist!

lol

Is the holy symbol the darwin jesus fish?

The sul hom laks wrote:

Only been on this website for a few months and I haven't seen a Security Council issue so slanted as this Altino issue. What did they do? Or haven't done, I guess?

A number of the GCRs wanted to get the jump on this resolution by voting against early because a sticking point of this commendation is that Alti believes strongly in meritocracy, argued as a government style where competent and active people are appointed to positions of power rather than elected. Large regions with strong ideological commitments to democracy view this style as autocracy with a theoretical promise towards nepotism. Pre-Refugia, we also supported this ideology because it does allow for competent people to support a well-functioning machine. And Karma certainly demonstrates that working well in practice. The drawback is that it's very hard to bring about major reforms or some kind of revolution because power requires the endorsement of the establishment to provide.

Personally, I like Altino quite a lot and I'm entirely indifferent to the meritocracy controversy because of systems that I'm already used to, even if we don't use it here anymore. But I don't really find the arguments presented in the resolution to be compelling. TWPAF is functionally dead, receiving awards is not itself commendable (the acts behind them are), and staying in power in Osi is not really an achievement. All of these and more could have been resolved if the author had listened to feedback in drafting, but he did not.

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Union of dagestan wrote:

hello,i am new

Yeah, welcome. I'd recommend joining the World Assembly. Also, I'd recommend getting on Refugia's map.