The conversation in Discord got me thinking. Some mentioned an interest in homebrewing and I am wondering if there has ever been consideration of creating a recipe for a "national beer?" It would certainly be an interesting cultural project where people could on their own reproduce it perhaps to celebrate important national holidays.

With the caveat that not all Talossans are drinkers it might be an interesting venture.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on July 02, 2026, 08:41:39 PM

Quote from: Moses Henry Emefiele on July 02, 2026, 04:48:15 PMHow would I do it? I want to left URL. please, help me on that.

What is so attractive about the Progressive Alliance that you decided to quit us after a few hours?

Is it only that they're the government party?

I want to know too Moses. ;)

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on July 02, 2026, 04:28:57 AMThe Union of Free Reformists Cosă and Senäts delegations will deliver a firm and unanimous CONTRA to this impertinent middle finger to public opinion. This is the kind of behaviour that - should the sex pest unanimously condemned by the Ziu be re-elected - will lead to a swift expulsion by a rightfully-disgusted Cosa supermajority."

Folks, no need to link to the censure resolution. I've helpfully added it to my signature for easy access along with my public apology, which was made just before you decided to go ahead and Clark the censure resolution.

I will be running for the Cosa in the next GE so you will want to prepare your arguments as to why a resolution supporting the Me Too Movement and also linking to your censure resolution on my own allegations is wrong and deserving of expulsion. Especially since the latter was added after consultations in the Hopper.

Quote from: Iason Taiwos on July 01, 2026, 01:31:02 PMI just realized that today is the fifteenth anniversary of my gaining citizenship in our glorious Kingdom. https://ibb.co/Cs3tV900
And I think I'm the only person with three IDs...

If we are still doing the citizenship milestones project then this would be a great occasion for a certificate. Might actually be a good idea for a page on Talossa.com too.

Quote from: xpb on March 14, 2026, 10:23:19 PMnote: data collected by Breneir duing impulse #1 for Asgardia not including SWOT analysis has been submitted to their foreign ministry for review of accuracy - this is an information gathering step only, not establishing any specific relationship

Hey @xpb

In starting to finally get to work on the second report for the Dominion of Vancouver Island I noticed this note concerning the Asgardia report. Have you heard anything back from Asgardian Foreign Ministry?

I tend to root for the underdog and I have been informed this will make it quite easy to root for Canada in Saturday's match against Morocco.

IMMIGRATION

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Should the overdue revival of the TalossAssistant prove unsuccessful in increasing the success of immigration applications then we will need to consider alternative solutions. A review of InfoTeca data shows a steady rate of applications between January and May 2026 (in the low to high 20s) but the drop-off especially in the past three months has been in successful applications.

The concern, based on reviewing the data, is in retaining applicants and making them into successful citizens not in attracting applications. The Government has attempted to make a connection between its publication activity and immigration but that is not where the current problem lies. The PA will need to answer to voters why it took months to reactivate a program (at some urging by the Opposition) that will hopefully address the real immigration issue.

The Posse looks forward to checking out the finished Sagrada Familia before the race's start.

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be on June 28, 2026, 06:23:43 PM

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on June 17, 2026, 09:31:42 PMWelp, with no word from the PA senator I hope to get to the Governor's comments this weekend.

Good evening - have you been able to alter your proposal to address any of those comments?

Sadly no, not yet. Extra-Talossan commitments have been occupying more of my time recently. I am going to try and post the alterations by the end of this week.

IMMIGRATION

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Should the overdue revival of the TalossAssistant prove unsuccessful in increasing the success of immigration applications then we will need to consider alternative solutions. A review of InfoTeca data shows a steady rate of applications between January and May 2026 (in the low to high 20s) but the drop-off especially in the past three months has been in successful applications.

The concern, based on reviewing the data, is in retaining applicants and making them into successful citizens not in attracting applications. The Government has attempted to make a connection between its publication activity and immigration but that is not where the current problem lies. The PA will need to answer to voters why it took months to reactivate a program (at some urging by the Opposition) that will hopefully address the real immigration issue.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on June 26, 2026, 09:37:48 PM

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on June 23, 2026, 10:41:06 AMSince the PA blocked Mic'haglh's bill I am proposing an amended version.
S:reu Secretary, I am pleased to request Clarking of the following:

The Citizenship Oath Reform Act

Hi Luc, not trying to nitpick but I wanted to be sure you saw it. I noticed it is not in the Draft Clark.

Thanks, I see in the Hopper title that it has been Clarked now.

Quote from: Glüc on June 25, 2026, 08:03:14 AMBy my (quick and potentially not very accurate) count we are on track for the following group stage point counts:

(min-max)

Lüc 22-41
Glüc 21-39
Braneu 22-43
AD 19-37
þerxh 24-43
Danihel (late entry) 23-42
Breneir 21-40

There are a lot more points to be earned in the knockout stage, which the group stage obviously has implications for, but I'm gonna wait until after the groupstage to do an update on that.

Based on that range I didn't do as bad as I predicted.

I would like to request Clarking of Sense of the Ziu: Contributing to Me Too as well. It is eligible on June 28th but hope you will allow the early request.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on June 23, 2026, 10:41:06 AMSince the PA blocked Mic'haglh's bill I am proposing an amended version.
S:reu Secretary, I am pleased to request Clarking of the following:

The Citizenship Oath Reform Act

Hi Luc, not trying to nitpick but I wanted to be sure you saw it. I noticed it is not in the Draft Clark.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on June 24, 2026, 02:45:02 PM

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on June 24, 2026, 10:44:29 AMPlease do not try to inject partisan politics into something like this. It's poisonous, and it goes against the spirit of this apolitical program. Future posts of this nature will be moved to your party forum.

Not sure what you are talking about. An encouragement for the URL to participate in a program addressing our very low immigration rates is to be welcomed. Also welcoming the participation of a Green Party member? As the party leader I will raise my glass to that. Did we receive any responses from the URL?

Sadly it appears not. Hopefully soon though.

Additional bills I am hoping the Green Party will support for reintroduction in the 63rd Cosa:

62RZ22 - BHAID: Humanitarian Assistance to Sudan Resolution (Reconsideration)
Rejected by the Cosă 64-96 (20 abstained), by the Senäts 0-7 (1 abstained)

62RZ20 - Sense of the Ziu: Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence
Agreed to by the Cosă 57-35 (111 abstained), rejected by the Senäts 0-1 (6 abstained)

62RZ21 - Sense of the Ziu: Iranian Freedom & Democracy
Agreed to by the Cosă 80-20 (103 abstained), rejected by the Senäts 0-0 (7 abstained)

62RZ02 - Advisory Opinion Removal Amendment
Rejected by the Cosă due to missing the required supermajority 90-70 (20 abstained), rejected by the Senäts 3-5

62RZ09 - Upper House of Review Amendment
Rejected by the Cosă due to missing the required supermajority 94-66 (20 abstained), agreed to by the Senäts 4-3

62RZ12 - Sense of the Ziu: Anticipating the Consequences
Agreed to by the Cosă 78-42 (60 abstained), rejected by the Senäts 0-0 (7 abstained)

Quote from: Sir Lüc on June 26, 2026, 03:58:30 AM

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on June 24, 2026, 06:10:05 PM

Quote from: Sir Lüc on June 24, 2026, 06:06:12 PMPlease don't necropost on threads this old; six months old is bad but tolerable, three years is way too old. I suppose it's not explicitly discouraged by Wittiquette, but it makes historical research much more difficult when threads are suddenly heavily out of order.

--SoS

Thank you for advising on this, Luc. Would it be better for me to request a split beforehand rather than make the post? Or if someone could help me with how to do it?

I think the best thing to do is to simply create a quote from the old thread, and paste it into a new thread. The quote's header will contain a link to the original comment, which can be used to peruse the old thread. (Or if you don't want to quote anything in particular, you can just paste a link to the original thread.)

QuoteAs you mentioned this is not a breach of any etiquette rules but I do not want to make historical research more difficult. I am currently doing exactly that on Old Witt.

To be more specific - necroposting is not a breach of Wittiquette but is one of those things that are pretty much universally discouraged in Internet fora. AFAIK, there's no way to prevent it which wouldn't also prevent legitimate "update threads" - something like the "Holding place for Green legislation" thread getting revived every 2-3 months - and so there's just a red warning in the bottom when people attempt to reply to old posts, but I don't think it's getting read that often.

This is very helpful, thanks Luc.

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on June 25, 2026, 08:53:10 AM

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on June 22, 2026, 11:36:08 AM

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on June 14, 2026, 09:29:43 AM

Recommendation for Membership

Your essay's central thesis is fascinating, not an area I could have spoken to, and sheds light on Diasporic Coping Mechanisms that I had never considered. I can, however, speak to the "absence-guilt", having felt it myself when my grandparents died. My Nana died 4 months before I attained citizenship, and her funeral was the day I left for my gap year, and I was unable to attend. It is heartening to me that this is not just something I feel but indeed is part of cultural and spiritual practice in cultures I am not even familiar with, truly eye and soul soothing to me.
Autoethnography is often a fascinating form of study, and in terms of this society's future work, it offers an accessible yet meaningful alternative to wider academic forms of phenomenology. Our pool of potential participants is relatively small, but it offers greater insight than many quantitative studies can capture.
I do, however, have some Peer Review Feedback.
Although not a failing in writing, I do feel that the ontological or philosophical alignment between the specific drumming tradition and the Bon Odori may not quite be clear. To elevate this past the risk of aesthetic extraction, the paper needs to briefly explain if/how these two traditions share a common understanding of rhythm as a spiritual portal or community anchor. Speaking as a media academic, the drum beat and its representation and use in such applications as horror is often used to represent the heartbeat and the feelings on an automatic level of the characters being portrayed, fast for high tension, slow for despair, etc. There is something primal about this, and I'm sure transcendent across many cultures; I just feel that your essay should attempt to state it outright.

To conclude, I find your paper to be an excellent fit for the society. Your qualitative research methods, somatic studies, and advocacy for a structural shift away from sedentary, silent, and internalised sorrow toward active, expressive, and cross-cultural physical performance is truly inspiring. The Talossan culture as a whole lacks some of our funary traditions, and this could be explored further in future study and an opportunity to look into how we might learn from other cultures, considering the diasporic nature of our nation.

I, therefore, as President of The Royal Society for the Advancement of Knowledge, Commend to the peers of this society and call upon its members to second my nomination for Crement Itravilatx to join our ranks as Senior Fellow, having offered a paper as their form of lecture and having attained at least a 2-year college degree. What say we?

Hi @Tierçéu Rôibeardescù

Is the voting period for Crement's membership open-ended?

With Limited recent precedent, I thought I would allow 2 weeks?
 

Thanks

GENERAL
-I continue to believe, and hope to hear from Green Party members, that our political cycle moves too quickly. The electoral pressures seem to start every three to four months and raise tensions and create incentives for irrational behavior. We need more time for governing with elections every one to two years. Cabinet reshuffling and greater use of the Civil Service should be normalized.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on April 06, 2026, 05:23:44 PMIMMIGRATION:
-Renew the TalossAssistant program

Thankfully, the PA has, after months of delay, restarted this program. Hopefully this will increase successful immigration. And hopefully, the URL will decide to participate.