I can make more, I am aware of that, and I am doing that, Im asking for more then 2 lines in El Lext is all... plz

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on July 20, 2026, 07:37:48 AMI don't know why you would need legal advice, but if you did, you'd ask the person whose job it is to give legal advice to government offices: the Avocat-Xheneral (me right now).  If you needed someone appointed to help you specifically, we'd find a deputy and appoint them to the job to do that.

Say, where should the lines be drawn around ethical study? Ai usege in essays ect? there is such thing as too much knolage as indeed Lexh.D.7 does state.

I would argue/question that this is intended to apply "The government of the Kingdom of Talossa has the duty and responsibility to make public information about and held by the government's cabinet ministries and sub offices within the guidelines set below," which the civil service would possibly find a ajaysecent but not necessarily beholden to such requrst, at least as read in this secton alone. we are not considered sub-offices so much as separate entities with ministerial supervison.

I raise this as a example to do with the civil service as a whole also, not just the RS. 

Like, somehow we had a director of athletics at the university in the past, yet even the wiki doesn't mention it (I checked all previous versions), aside from Éovart Grischuns ÁrTal's page. Theres present for Sports to be folded in too?  At that point, maybe we could be a university again? Techically as you Say, I could do that and may even be my right to do so... the law would have to change to my wims?


21 June 1998/XIX – University of Talossa chartered... we even have the act of it too... yet not a charter itself actually exists (at least not any more)

Whoa there, compadres, I know what I can do and want to do. What I want is more structure. What if i wanted to fold the collage of arms and Büreu del Glheþ and Permanent Secretary of Cultural Development. Technically all have education as part of their mandate; some are more utilised than others; if at all, some are more importent then others. All could be construed as under the remit of advancing and preserving knowledge. Should the libabry of talossa be moved to our remit too? Could we start self-publishing Talossan works?

This is more I want the position to be considered as important and be reflected in law.

Even when we were the university and BEER we had very little oversight or presence, which was why it was so easy to fall out of use and be forgotten about... But should someone not have accidentally made a tit of themselves, assigning someone to BEER in exchange for withdrawal of a vote to remove it, it could have stayed as an institution in its own right and not later have been folded into the Royal Society. It's almost like there should be a formal mechanism for accountability but also clear powers and limitations of civil servants so they don't run wild and cause a scene... like checking if the changes they are making are constitutional before doing so?

Talossas never had an education secretary or minister, yet we talk about lack of knowledge and understanding of Talossa, history, language, unbenosnet changes to key details about ourselves (like is Taco Bell even our national restaurant any more?).

this bill is not asking for permition, its asking for movement, change, clarity. And more than 2 paragraphs.

I kinda dont even care what changes are made, I just want a improvement on our current assignment.

Like i shouldn't have to propose an amendment to be able to flag up a need for structural change to get this put on public record

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on July 19, 2026, 09:38:35 PM

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on July 19, 2026, 08:09:10 PMWHEREAS maybe there should be a more formal but public mechanism for civil servant to be able manner akin to a terpz

What kind of help are you looking for?  If you're looking for direction, you can ask your supervising Government official (the Minister of Culture, @Françal I. Lux ).  If you'd like to establish more policies or guidelines, though, I think you should generally just do it.  Or you can do a public consultation if you're just not really sure.

for this particular point about civil service Terps, its more the point that there is few formal mechanisms for the civil service to be interacted with and  to intact with the state, for example we are unable to post in the ziu,  even to relevant changes in policy (SOS withstanding), there exists no mechanism for the civil service to seek a formal legal opinion thought the courts as I recently found out (AG withstanding). Finally There is no form of accountability or even freedom of information requests built in,  less in the way of needing help rather to be `summonedable` as well as to part of public record.

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on July 19, 2026, 08:34:11 PM@Tierçéu Rôibeardescù I recall proposing some kind of ability for terps to be submitted directly to civil servants. I wonder if that effort could be picked up to further the idea you mention in the sixth whereas clause.

the thing about this is possibly its need to be being a kept apart from the ziu/politics as technically we serve his majesty rather then the people?

Quote from: Sir Lüc on July 19, 2026, 10:13:26 AM

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on July 17, 2026, 02:51:35 PMhi luc, under the new model of membership requirements your submitting of your this thesis qualifies you for membership in the Society, should you wish it.

I would be happy to join. I had my qualms with the way the Royal Society was being used as a cheap honours farm for a little while, but I think it's headed in a better direction these days.

Incidentally, my current research interests veered off in a different direction (computer engineering applied to natural risk assessment), which I think would make for a more interesting talk than approximation algorithms, if people were interested.

I am keen to move away from being a title factory also, plus its not like I am in a position to give myself the PHD I dream of so what would be the point. My main reason of necro ing this post, the fact that as now submitting a paper (which we find ourselfs a lot just by being academics) allows for ease not just of membership but also dissemination of knowledge and expertise like never before. If there can be roving relevant that could even be applied here in talossa,  however small in scale, even better!

I raise this to start the discussion and as is quite evident is intended to be modded to suit the outcome of said discussion

WHEREAS, I the president of the royal society feel that the society I represent lacks much in the way of legalistic clarity and clear executive mandate in terms of detail, currently only making up 2 short paragraphs of the nations legal code.

WHEREAS I'm sure we could be delegated more powers and mandates over educational matters from our assigned ministry, and as civil servants we are less surseptable to political tides and engagement wims.

WHEREAS, the royal treasury has 7 sections plus 4 sub subsections which is makes our 1 plus subsection look less significant.

WHEREAS, plz gib us shiny rocks and more law and stuff to do to make us feel big and clever.

WHEREAS the following amendment... (TBD)

WHEREAS maybe there should be a more formal but public mechanism for civil servant to be able manner akin to a terpz

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on July 18, 2026, 05:18:17 PMIs a sex pest the same as a sexual harasser? One is pestering for explicitly for sex, the other is saying someting that is making the victim feel harassed by using provocative and inappropriate language.

For clarity, both are bad; just one is explicit

Is a sex pest the same as a sexual harasser? One is pestering for explicitly for sex, the other is saying someting that is making the victim feel harassed by using provocative and inappropriate language.

Quote from: Sir Lüc on December 13, 2022, 11:17:58 AMAzul,

although not a Royal Society member, yesterday marked the official end of my academic career**, and I'd like to share my master's degree thesis for consumption by our scientific community. (The presentation was a bit less low-level and might have been more understandable by laypeople, but I don't have a full recording of it.)

Since my graduation coincided with Llimbaziuă, I'm extremely tempted to release at least some abridged version of it in Talossan. In the meantime though, here's the full stuff as submitted in English:

Streaming algorithms for center-based clustering in general metrics

Abstract: Center-based clustering is an important yet computationally difficult primitive in the realm of unsupervised learning and data analysis. We specifically focus on the k-median clustering problem in general metric spaces, in which one seeks to find a set of k centers, so to minimise the sum of distances from each point in the dataset to its closest center. In this thesis, we present and analyze efficient techniques to deal with the k-median clustering problem in the streaming setting – where the dataset is presented one point at a time and not accessible in its entirety* – by leveraging the dimensionality of the dataset's underlying metric space.

(*: not accessible in its entirety all at once, I should have written. Yay for writing it at some ungodly hour of the night :p)

(**: sike! in February 2023, I accepted a position as (non-postdoctoral) research fellow, so my academic career is not actually over yet.)

hi luc, under the new model of membership requirements your submitting of your this thesis qualifies you for membership in the Society, should you wish it.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on July 13, 2026, 04:19:33 PM

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be on July 13, 2026, 02:22:04 AMTalossa has been online for so long that not only did we probably have a website with a good Frutiger Aero look when it was the norm, we probably had something even older-looking, haha

Behold - in its glory - Talossa's national website as of March 1999.

Note that this was when Sir Tamoran dal Nava, was Seneschal, and KR1's favourite person, before KR1 rewrote the history Big Brother style to turn him into a monster.

"They are trying desperately to avoid an heir to the throne."

At long last, I formally have submitted my application for membership of the Royal Society.
Now, a pre-warning: it's a doozy, as it is about conflict resolution here in Talossa.

I call upon @King Txec, to abrate on my membership, as the most senior fellow of the society.

I hope that with this essay, it may in some small way contribute to the growth of knowledge about ourselves, and hopefully be useful to the powers that be should they wish to... steal ideas xD

Abstract: This essay utilises principles of sociology, psychology, and conflict resolution to analyse the recurring interpersonal and political friction within the Kingdom of Talossa—a long-standing online micronation operating as a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy. Characterised by a compressed, "high-contact" social environment with fewer than 400 citizens, Talossa suffers from systemic role collision where institutional disagreements rapidly degrade into personal feuds. The study examines how modern digital phenomena—such as algorithmic filter bubbles, neo-tribalism, and the Dunning-Kruger effect—interact with a demographically unique "digital cultural stasis" where mature users continue to utilise adolescent conflict behaviours. Guided by Simmel's classifications of conflict and developmental meta-analyses of peer conflict resolution, the paper diagnoses why Talossan legalistic structures frequently escalate rather than resolve disputes. Finally, it proposes concrete structural interventions, including forum partitioning, demilitarised cultural zones, and mandatory mediation frameworks, to safeguard the community from terminal exhaustion and collapse.

Lemon Juice Robbery, Corporate personal feuds, Caveman jocking and The Terrarium that is Talossa

Deodato - Also sprach Zarathustra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJKsp9_L24Q&t=20s

Now I am aware that this design philosophy in itself limits, as all schools can use the same concepts and elements as others; a philosophical text on religious practices can include empirical evidence, yet be about a constructivist topic within a rationalist foundational framework. I feel, however, that dealing with each subject's base/foundation framework of said knowledge means that we as a society hold to our mandate of "The function of the Royal Society is to conduct and promote research and academic study in all areas of human endeavour."

If forced to assign Education to exactly one school exclusively, it belongs to Constructivism.

Why Education fits here exclusively: Knowledge is Built, Not Given: Modern education relies on the fact that students do not just passively absorb facts like a sponge. Instead, they learn by taking new information and actively connecting it to their own past experiences to build their own understanding. Social Interaction Drives Learning: True education happens through language, culture, collaboration, and dialogue. This aligns perfectly with social constructivism, where truth and meaning are co-created within a community or classroom.The Role of the Teacher: In a constructivist framework, a teacher is not an all-knowing lecturer filling empty minds. They act as a facilitator, creating environments and experiences that allow students to discover and construct knowledge for themselves.

My design philosophy here is to avoid limiting specialisms purely to just knowledge bases alone (like just "science", "literature", etc.) and instead to the wider knowledge expansion within each field.

Another example could be philosophy, which cannot be empirical because you cannot put a concept like "justice," "beauty," or "the meaning of life" under a microscope. It cannot be constructivism because it actively seeks to critique how we build concepts. If forced into one box, philosophy is pure rationalism: it is the practice of arriving at fundamental truths entirely through logic, reason, and deep internal thought.

For example,

Health and Health science would fall under constructivism, as health itself is fundamentally a human construct; "wellness," "illness," "disability," or "mental health" changes completely depending on culture, societal standards, and individual perspective. This is separate from the study of biology, which is foundationally empirical.