Quote from: Dr. Txec Róibeard dal Nordselvă, Esq., O.SPM, SMM on March 22, 2022, 03:36:35 PM

Quote from: Þon Txoteu É. Davinescu, O.SPM on March 22, 2022, 03:22:34 PM
Greetings Scholars,
As this vote has long since passed the membership, unless there are any objections, from this day forward... the following Post-Nominals are available for use by members of the Royal Society:

Associate - RS
Fellow - FRS
Senior Fellow - SFRS

Respectfully,
Gen. Txoteu É. Davinescu, O.SPM, SFRS, MA
Seneschal of Talossa

What entitles someone to use the various levels of post nominal?

I believe the levels are:
Associate Fellow - anyone
Fellow - at least high school diploma
Senior Fellow - at least 2-year college degree

Come to think of it, I'm eligible to advance my membership to Senior Fellow

Found a picture of my dad's arms:

https://talossa.proboards.com/attachment/download/1004

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on March 18, 2022, 09:30:41 AM
Which restrictions prevented the Government from creating any kind of memorial, including the promised stamp, for Art Verbotten?

The Patriot Points program did not raise enough money for us to think that producing the stamp was prudent at this time.

Quote from: Ian Plätschisch on September 29, 2021, 09:09:42 PM

Quote from: Glüc da Dhi S.H. on September 29, 2021, 02:27:17 PM
So if I understand S;reu Perþonest correctly, about 50 usd was raised in stamp sales/donations last year.

On what basis does the government think it is realistic that 200 dollars will be raised this term (noting that a cosa term is less than a year)?

Also, what is the government's plan regarding the stamps now that it turns out 50 dollars for stamps may not be feasible?

Depending on the amount of donations received, we may deem it worthwhile to request the extra money for the full run of stamps, or we may decide now is not the right time to purchase that many stamps.

We have tried several times to rewrite the OrgLaw from scratch and it has never worked
-It takes more than one person to get anything with broad support, and organizing that many people for that long is impractical, based on experience
-Even if an entirely new document we're produced, it would be bound to have a lot of its own problems. At least with our current OrgLaw we already know what most of the issues are.

We did successfully restructure the Organic Law in 2019 to make it clearer. Obviously it wasn't perfect, but it had the benefit of not starting from nothing.

Quote from: Açafat del Val on March 18, 2022, 11:14:05 AM
Might it be nicer to offer coins or stamps in place of IDs? Unless we plan to use the IDs for practicable ends.

I struggle to see why we should add more bureaucracy and vanity (and ministerial burdens on some poor bloke), when we have passports and coats of arms and coins and stamps and so much else already.

Because it's fun and people want them.

"In taste there is no disputing"

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on March 18, 2022, 01:51:07 PM

Quote from: Dr. Txec Róibeard dal Nordselvă, Esq., O.SPM, SMM on March 18, 2022, 01:50:26 PM

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on March 18, 2022, 01:48:56 PM
@Ian Plätschisch I keep looking at the picture of the Pork Sausage and Marmalade sandwich...
The fact that you put the marmalade on the end side of the bread really bothers me...

If we're being honest here, the whole idea of combining marmalade and sausage seems off to me!

Yes lol! The whole thing causes me to twitch

It was actually really good!

COSA: Free Democrats of Talossa

RZ9 - PER
RZ10 - PER
RZ11 - CON

Maritiimi-Maxhestic Senate: Ian Plätschisch

The TNC is right that the FreeDems have overpromised and underdelivered. The TNC is probably wrong in claiming that they can do so much better. Their email claims that "Our team is composed of two former Seneschals, a leader in provincial politics, two former ministers of foreign affairs, a current Senator and member of the Cosa," but in reality:

• Most of these people are completely inactive
• The others specialize in either bugging the Government to do things, rather than actually doing things, or only doing things in the two weeks before the election

Don't get me wrong, the Government needs to be bugged, and activity at any time is very welcome. But that alone will not result in the TNC providing such a better government than the FreeDems have. I encourage voters to see the following post for some of the things the FreeDems did accomplish during the previous term: https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?topic=1206.0. In addition, we also restarted the Patriot Points program and reformed cabinet responsibilities to put a greater emphasis on promoting immigration.

The TNC's 50-word statement claims that they want to "work with King John to implement monarchical reform." I don't see how they can claim this with a straight face:

• S:reu Breneir Tzaracomprada entered the last government promising to support monarchical reform, then promptly reversed himself and offered no explanation
• Sir Alexandreu Davinescu has opposed pretty much all monarchical reform in the past seven years
• King John has vetoed pretty much all monarchical reform in the past seven years

So what reform do they want, exactly? Probably none. If you want to continue to give King John a pass to do absolutely nothing during what we all agree is an activity crisis, the TNC would be the party for you.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on March 16, 2022, 07:24:33 PM

Quote from: Caleb Frenibuerg on March 16, 2022, 06:44:01 PM

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on March 16, 2022, 06:32:56 PM
Oh, it's definitely done?  You said before there might be changes from other people in the Government.  Glad to hear it's all set.  @Caleb Frenibuerg , did you find it helpful when it was sent to you after your oath?  I'd love any feedback.

To be fair, I don't recall receiving any Information Packet 😅

Can the immigration minister confirm sending the information packet?

I can confirm that I forgot to :P

Excuse my interjection, and not to be a party pooper, but the gold chevron on the green background may be reminding you of my arms. The charges are also in the same three positions.

Congratulations!

I'm not sure what the point of such a pass would be, since we are not in a position to enforce a vaccine mandate anywhere even if we wanted to (and personally I hope we would not want to).

Fellow Talossans,

It is well and good to declare support for Ukraine in these trying times. However, being the unrecognized nation we are, we are rather limited in what concrete actions we can take to back up our words. Contributing financially is by far the most practical for those of us who are able.

I encourage donations to the Ukraine Crisis Fund of the International Red Cross, available here: https://www.icrc.org/en/donate/ukraine

Signed,
Ian Plätschisch

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil on February 23, 2022, 07:03:15 PM
Could this perhaps be resolved by "grandfathering" Senators? Think of it this way: Neither Benito's nor Florencia's Senator is removed from office until their original term was up. Yes, this would mean that -- assuming the merger happens during the 57th Cosa -- for a partial Cosa term, Garibaldi would have two Senators. The "balance of power" in the Senate is not (immediately) changed. However, when elections for the 58th Cosa come up, Garibaldi would simply not elect a Senator. The Benitian senator term would end, and then the Florencian senator would be the sole senator from the new province, and Garibaldi would take the place of Florencia in the Senate election cycle.

This would have the unfortunate consequence of leaving formerly Benitian voters represented by a Senator they didn't elect. Maybe the short time period makes that concern not very important though.

The LCC never supported "eliminating the Monarchy." I know you think that subjecting the Monarch to a vote of approval every so often makes it not a Monarchy, but pretending like that's the only way to define it, or even the most common way, is confusing at best (and untruthful at worst).