hey im not sure how many people will see this but what's happening atm with asgardia? I've been locked out of my account is all and just got back in :) also could someone give me some info about how to use the website too, im a bit unsure what to do :) thank you

It seems that relatively few have paid the yearly fee for resident status, compared to the total number of members. I think whoever is responsible for members fees, should consider alternative payment options. If members were initially given their membership card, and then small benefits to encourage monthly allegiance - I believe more would pay, and the membership card would act as an advert for Asgardia.

During 2020 I painted this in a number of layers over several months. Inspired by concepts of seeing in a way which defies time, dimensions and human limitation. It is not narrative, except that I suspect the viewer may well wish to add their own. For some reason the image has been rotated 90 degrees, but I must admit that I am enjoying looking at it this way! The tail of the flame-like shapes should point towards the top of the canvas.

I strongly believe I'm going to habe to stand up in the world i know nothing about, to push us into the future more. The world is in poverty, if your in a 9-5 job its poverty. Humans don't need to work anymore. We can do if we want to but why would you want to. Would you rather spend majority of your consciousness working for a company that doesn't care about you. A robot can and is cheaper, more efficient and drastically better overall. Machine learning offers us infinite ways to progress just help it abit and were set.

I want to keep this post as a place to discuss the limitations of Asgardia's structure and governance as it exists at present. What problems have developed already in the social and political system of this nation we have joined? The first, most noticeable, thing that I see is that social and political decision making is being restricted to a very few Asgardians. Most of those are people who have similar roles/interests in various terrestrial nations. I appreciate that knowledge and experience are important, but those same decision makers are bringing with them the values, priorities and mindset that have been slowly destroying the terrestrial nations over the past few decades. Asgardia had the opportunity to implement a completely new system of governance, decision making and planning - but for some reason chose to try to compete with earthly nations on their own playing field, Asgardia can never compete at the capitalist game with nations who have been in power for centuries. Instead, why not change the game? Focus on those areas in which no such disadvantage exists for Asgardia? Research, Ethics, Diplomacy or Online Communities? Asgardia also has a chance to listen to the people - the true power behind any political system - by opening the political process up to all Asgardians and encouraging engagement from grass roots citizens. Instead, Asgardia has limited all the echelons of power to a few, earthly-minded candidates. Any other examples of where Asgardia is going wrong?

(Stole this post from my blog to use here as a springboard for discussions) For the average citizen of Asgardia, what does citizenship within this quasi-state entail? Access to this website? Is it not little more than a very basic social media site? Worse, it has a paywall that offers nothing in return for your hard-earned money. While many might consider 100 euros a trifling figure, it is a considerable annual fee to get effectively nothing in return. Yes, there are aspects of the site that deal with the implementation of rules, culture, processes and working toward official recognition. But these are no more accessible to the average Asgardian than are those same processes within our respective earthly nations. Shouldn't Asgardia - the first truly international state - be more representative of its people? Otherwise, what are we? What is our role in this nation? What is Asgardia for?

Hi. A small suggestion, but I'm browsing the list of communities on my mobile and it wasn't obvious how to join any community. The button was right at the end of the page, past previous posts, and current members. A join button at the top (where the general info about the group is) would be an improvement. A further improvement would be to also have a short one line description of the group. (The about section is also pushed off to the bottom). Also just noticed, in the profile page section which lists "joined groups", there's no quick link to "browse others". (Confusing as when I had not joined any groups I could go to all the groups). Hope that feedback helps.