Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on February 10, 2024, 04:25:09 PMI've put the details around my party for discussion. At first glance there don't seem to be any obvious red flags, but I'm sure you'll understand that I want to be very careful about to whom we parcel out Talossan funds

Absolutely, there was diligence in the selection of the charity and internal discussion in the TNC initially but differing views on specific organisations are unavoidable and to be respected. There is no hurry but I wanted to be sure I solicited additional feedback.

Quote from: þerxh Sant-Enogat on February 10, 2024, 02:19:22 AM

Quote from: Sir Lüc on February 06, 2024, 06:14:52 PMAnyhow, my opinion is that the bill satisfies the requirements of Lex.D.2.8.3 in form and function.

Is there any particular reason why the louis has been decimalised? Also, very minor note, there's a typo ("Revue") just before the balance changes.

Thanks Sir Lüc
Now edited to use sexagesimal system and correct typo

Approved.

Hello Mr. Secretary @Sir Txec dal Nordselvă, UrB

I wanted to follow up on legislation passed by the last government, RZ18 - National Skills and Social Connections Survey Act. Thanks to your help the last Government was able to get started on this project.

Specifically:

QuoteWhereas, the relevant section of El Lexhatx C.1.2.2.2 is as follows: "Other questions on the Talossan Census shall be identical to the questions on the last census. These questions may be changed by the Chancery, either of its own volition or on request from the Seneschal, but any changes shall be approved by the Ziu, without needing to go through committee. These questions will be marked as optional, and at no time shall a citizen be forced or required to respond to an optional question.", and

Whereas, the Chancery has recently articulated an interpretation of existing privacy laws which allow for government use of the National Census for this effort.

Therefore, the Office of the Seneschal submits this request to the Chancery to include the following additional questions on the next census and submits same to the Ziu for approval.

I believe this was achieved using a Google Form? If so, how would the current Government go about getting this data as allowed by this interpretation for the purposes of further developing the programme?

I haven't heard any additional concerns after posting the information on the EA Funds. Please feel free to give more feedback or suggest a better match for BHAID support.

Quote from: Barclamïu da Miéletz on February 09, 2024, 03:08:01 PM

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on February 09, 2024, 02:59:08 PM

Quote from: Barclamïu da Miéletz on February 09, 2024, 02:35:57 PMAzul, I was wondering if there would be a proper TTS for Talossan. I would need it for another concept of mine.
Best regards,
Barclamïu

What is TTS?

Text-to-speech, it stands for text-to-speech. Would be interesting to have but for Talossan

Thanks. Sounds like a great idea.

Quote from: Barclamïu da Miéletz on February 09, 2024, 02:35:57 PMAzul, I was wondering if there would be a proper TTS for Talossan. I would need it for another concept of mine.
Best regards,
Barclamïu

What is TTS?

Quote from: Sir Lüc on February 09, 2024, 04:54:20 AMMoved out of committee as requested.

Thanks!

Quote from: Sir Lüc on February 09, 2024, 04:58:42 AMI would probably replace the old weirdly-worded bit with a broad provision that the Seneschal may perform any official act on behalf of their ministers; and the latter new part with a new, explicit provision that the Seneschal may at any time name a Deputy Minister to be Acting Minister, until the Seneschal or the absentee Minister publicly declare otherwise, or the absentee Minister is dismissed. (The ability of the Seneschal to appoint a Deputy Minister would be implied by the first bit anyway.)

Thanks @Sir Lüc I have edited just so.
Would you be interested in co-sponsoring again?
I am growing accustomed to co-sponsoring with you.

Whereas, it has come to the attention of learned officials that a certain section of Title D may need clarification, and

Whereas, when it concerns the ability of the Seneschal do any and all cabinet jobs it may indeed be prudent.

Therefore, be it enacted by the Ziu of the Kingdom of Talossa, that El Lexhatx Title D 2.1 which currently reads as:

QuoteD2.1. The Seneschal (in english, Prime Minister), heading the Prüma Ministrà (in english, Prime Ministry), is responsible for the overall operation and performance of the government, and shall perform all duties assigned to his office by Organic Law. All other Cabinet officers are appointed by the Seneschal, serve at his pleasure, are responsible to him, and derive their powers from him. Accordingly, anything that any Minister can do (officially), the Seneschal may (if he desires) do himself.

is amended to read as follows:

Quote2.1. The Seneschal (in english, Prime Minister), heading the Prüma Ministrà (in english, Prime Ministry), is responsible for the overall operation and performance of the government, and shall perform all duties assigned to his office by Organic Law. All other Cabinet officers are appointed by the Seneschal, serve at his pleasure, are responsible to him, and derive their powers from him. The Seneschal may perform any official act on behalf of his ministers. The Seneschal may also at any time designate a deputy minister to be Acting Minister, until the Seneschal or the Minister for whom they are acting publicly declare otherwise, or the Minister for whom they are acting is dismissed.

Uréu q'estadra så
Breneir Tzaracomprada (MC-TNC)
Sir Lüc da Schir (MC-IND-FreeDems)

Quote from: Sir Lüc on February 08, 2024, 06:10:31 AM

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on February 07, 2024, 02:15:42 PMAlso, can this be moved out of the CRL as this seems more appropriate for the Hopper? @Sir Lüc

Do I go ahead with this still?

Yes please. From Miestra's comment.

I am also open to suggestions for alternative groups. I think this is what we did with our last BHAID bill. We started with the Red Crescent and eventually ended up selecting the Syrian Civil Defense. I more interested in seeing the BHAID give to worthy organisations so if there is a different one with less controversy then I am completely open.

Quote from: Iason Taiwos on February 07, 2024, 04:39:39 PMTalossa's Ohio Embassy has a website.
Www.nerdynecessities.net
It's still under construction.
(Interested in trading card and role playing games? Nerdy Necessities is your place! Visit the website and consider doing business with us! Support a Talossan owned business! If you happen to be in the area, drop by for a visit!) (Come on, we need to drum up more business so Vitx can hire me as a full time employee. I'm tired of working in the bathtub factory!)
(Right now we are not offering discounts to fellow Talossans. But maybe someday...)

This is so awesome. Iason, I used to live just west of you in New Philadelphia!

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on February 07, 2024, 02:16:57 PMSorry about that, Brenéir. This proves the value of the CRL, though - the process of "going to committee" means that it's harder for bills to "slip under the radar". Very interested in hearing more about this *specific* fund.

Sure, here is more about the team behind EA Funds here: https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/team I did not do a deep-dive through each member of the team but didn't see any track record in questionable causes.

Our funding would go directly to the Global Health and Welfare Fund which gives grants to project applicants based on the criteria described here: https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/global-development

You can see examples of previous grantees as well.

Also, this bill was in the Hopper for ten days without comment. So it didn't slip through.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on February 07, 2024, 02:07:10 PMOh dear, how did I possibly miss this? Sorry, I can't support Talossa dipping its toes in these waters.

QuoteEffective altruism (EA), and its umbrella concept longtermism, is a quasi-utilitarian[3] movement to change the world through making carefully-targeted charitable donations — not only through making carefully-targeted charitable donations, but that is the overwhelming focus. Philosopher Peter Singer started the idea in 2013 and bought into it big time.[4] Effective Altruism is also pushed by Bay Area technolibertarians, and artificial intelligence existential risk groups, including MIRI.Wikipedia The latter, of course, consider themselves an obvious beneficiary — if not the obvious beneficiary (i.e., self-dealing). ...

Beware of EAs equivocating by responding to criticisms of the EA subculture's behaviours with advocacy of the value of charity or evaluating charities in general.

QuoteThere's a lot of good people in EA, and a lot of terrible ones. For instance, the increasingly well-documented and frankly cult-like abuses inside EA, dominated as it is by rich white men in tech. Who'd have thought a subculture that consciously constructed itself around making rich men feel good about themselves would treat women as commodities?

The subculture is also just a little too tolerant of weird scientific racists and eugenicists, as long as they have money or are old friends from the mailing lists.

There's also the bit where EA movement leaders spent the FTX money on a castle or two. But if you do the numbers, you'll understand that the most effective possible action is to fit out a really nice castle where movement leaders can sit and contemplate the future robot apocalypse.

Hi, these are important points on EA generally but don't seem applicable to the specific organization, Miestra. I specifically highlighted an organization that dispenses grants directly to applicants. Also, can this be moved out of the CRL as this seems more appropriate for the Hopper? @Sir Lüc

Quote from: Sir Lüc on February 06, 2024, 06:10:55 PMGladly!

For the record, the process I'm following is to click on "Move Topic", then select the CRL board as destination, do not post a redirection topic, and change the title of the thread to add the [CRL] prefix.

(Ideally, this will be done again when the bill is moved to the Hopper archives.)

Thank you very much Lüc