shinigamiookamiryuu

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[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (27 children)

You don't think the EU or its member states have any corruption? The streets of cities like Rome and Paris are filled with scammers whom they just let roam around to do their thing. Spain in particular has a massive burglary problem. UK police don't even necessarily trust themselves during public events. I know that in the very least, Auckland isn't lazy.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago (29 children)

You say that like mentioning happiness and democratic stability in comparison to EU countries is irrelevant to the assertion that EU countries are somehow doing better than it.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (31 children)

New Zealand has ranked higher than the EU in terms of both democracy and happiness.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

It's a proto-chicken egg. It's not a chicken egg until chickens become a breedable species. That one chicken could be sterile/infertile like a mule for all we know.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (33 children)

It depends on what you mean. NZ is better than the majority, if not all of, the world's nations.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

As opposed to what? A friend?

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Its predisposition towards cliques.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe French. I already know enough French to understand what people are saying, though not enough to respond back with confidence.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Kind of. It begs the question "what were they before". They certainly weren't straight.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

I guess Spain, if we're going by their willingness to do things like siestas.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

Still haven't figured this one out myself. I don't even have that experience, not for a lack of trying.

 

So for reasons previously touched upon, Tuvalu is going to disappear in the next century. Because it's required as per protocol, they want to transfer themselves into the informational world as a substitute for what they need to keep all the perks of sovereignty (that moment when we get both such a nation and a Muslim pope before we get GTA 6). This, of course, doesn't come without its own challenges, such as exploitation by bad actors. So I was thinking... what if, in this state of existence, they were federated, mastodon-style? Would this win in the win-win department?

 

So for reasons previously touched upon, Tuvalu is going to disappear in the next century. Because it's required as per protocol, they want to transfer themselves into the informational world as a substitute for what they need to keep all the perks of sovereignty (that moment when we get both such a nation and a Muslim pope before we get GTA 6). This, of course, doesn't come without its own challenges, such as exploitation by bad actors. So I was thinking... what if, in this state of existence, they were federated, mastodon-style? Would this win in the win-win department?

 

I was watching a lecture today about the fact that a number of Polynesian islands will be gone in about a century due to rising sea levels, and the people are currently looking for places to relocate to. And I was thinking to myself about how we're as worried about money as we are while not being worried about land in the same way. Alongside the nations that need to evacuate, there are nations with one person per couple of square kilometers and nations with one person per couple of square meters. There are people in need of a home and homes in need of more people. And there are people on foreign land and land nobody owns that's not claimed. You'd think it would be easy.

Nations have a lot of stuff going on, like overpopulation, war, natural disasters, etc. and half of the world has the potential to help. For example, Russia could receive half of the Chinese population to ease overpopulation, or the US (or even a billionaire) could set aside parts of Alaska for the countries being conquered by nature. But they won't. They see it as a nationalistic issue. But that doesn't mean you wouldn't or couldn't help. You, of course, see everything that's going on. In a world where your hometown could literally save another town somewhere, what would you do for refugees, even if law was on the line?

 

Was inspired to ask because a new Anne of Green Gables anime has dropped. I can't help but strongly connect to it.

 

A common occurrence for some of us, it's the biggest means of my relations becoming complicated.

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