Well said! A wonderful speech!

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Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on December 21, 2025, 12:15:22 PM@Breneir Tzaracomprada , do you still have the chain?  I'd like to have it for the Living Cosa and official oath.

I do, it's still sitting in my closet. PM your address and I will send it off

Were you able to get this in the mail? I sent you my address. Let me know how much it is, and your venmo, and I will reimburse you. Not trying to rush you too much, but I would really very much like to have it for the start of things.

Okay, but I was really first asking about the phone number thing. You don't explain that in the bill or anywhere else. Could you please unpack that for us?

If you're going to see Avatar 3, then you will already be receiving sufficient punishment!

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Quote from: þerxh Sant-Enogat on Today at 03:28:00 AMToday is the 41st anniversary of the creation of the Kingdom of Talossa!
Our Seneschal wishes everyone a happy Independance Day on X/Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, Instagram, TikTok, r/Talossa and r/Micronations

It is the 46th anniversary, not the 41st.

-Txec R

What I usually end up doing is looking up the year template on the wiki! I don't know why I can't remember what year we're on at this point.

@þerxh Sant-Enogat , for most of the socials you'll probably be able to edit them without much trouble. Thank you for your hard work!

We have so many citizens who celebrate Christmas, either because of their religiosity or because of cultural reasons. To all of them, a very merry Christmas! I hope you get everything you asked for this year!

@Sir Lüc , please move this to the CRL.

@Sir Lüc , please move this to the CRL.

@Sir Lüc , please move this to the CRL.

At a first glance, this looks extremely similar to the Public Process Act, except that we would no longer be asking for phone numbers? But that's not really mentioned in the explanation. Could you unpack that for us and explain any other differences that might exist?

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be on December 22, 2025, 09:42:07 PMMic'haglh Autofil and Sir Marcel Tafial are proud to announce l'Institüt del Agroïcismeu Political (the Institute for Political Nerdery). What we want to do here is basically "nerd out" about a subject we enjoy -- the various ways to analyze elections, look at different systems of voting, etc. More serious atmospheres might call this psephology, but we're pretty sure the Talossan name is actually easier to pronounce!

Congratulations!!!!  It's always wonderful when someone starts something new, and I wish you the best of luck!

For most people, a new initiative can seem pretty steep, but you guys are both high-achieving and well-organized people with a lot of institutional knowledge already, so I bet you don't need much assistance.  However, I'd love to pick your brains about support you can imagine a newbie needing.  This is exactly the kind of thing we want to help make happen.

I was thinking that in instances like these, some of the following might be helpful to offer:

• Promotional announcements via the Kingdom's social media accounts.
• Guidance on what BBCode might be helpful.
• Advice on what services exist, like special forums, wiki entries, and the like.
• Image resources with common colors and symbols.

Again, you guys personally probably don't need much of this, but I'd love your feedback about what you imagine might be helpful for a less experience or savvy citizen.

I don't want to derail your interesting conversation any further, though, so please feel free to just private message me if you'd prefer.  And congratulations again on your new effort!

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It does, but in a clunky and kind of temporary way. The old method of a web form that fires off an email was easily broken, as we know because it broke last year. It required server-side dependencies that made it hard to manage since one person was operating each side of the system. And the way it would output a chunk of text that would then have to be manually edited in a bunch of places in order to post was also clunky. It all worked for years, but it also caused problems and limited our options.

This ministry has the most sizable workload of any, as you well know. Making it more manageable is going to save us hours and days of time in the years to come.

In my capacity as Minister of Immigration, I have begun to rework the immigration process to improve it from top to bottom.  The first step was the immigration form.  Unfortunately, the software for our website and the associated plugins were all out of date and starting to break -- it had become impossible to edit the form at all without causing problems.

To address this, the entire form has been rebuilt with a different software.  The resulting new system will now automatically keep records of all applications, it looks more modern and nicer, it's much easier to edit and improve, and it works better for the user.  It will also make it a heck of a lot easier to post immigration applications, although that's really only something that benefits me and my successors.

Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions!

I wish to modify my choice to Béneditsch Ardpresteir.

Certainly. A few zips on her machine and it'll be hemmed and the ends will be joined.

This is nowhere near a finished piece of legislation... it's a broad proposal asking for feedback.  The main feedback from the URL is that they're very opposed to the basic concept.  They like things the way they are.  I think my plan is a good idea for reform, though, and I'll work to convince our conservative friends across the aisle to support this step towards progress.

Right now, we have eleven ministries of various size and scope.  This means we always need to stack multiple jobs on a handful of people, since it's the best way to handle that situation (as we promised in our campaign).  But that system wasn't handed down from on high... the government should serve the people's needs!

Accordingly, my proposal would maintain just a few statutory ministers.  These would basically operate as before.  Otherwise, the list of necessary tasks would be divided up by government as needed among these few ministers or however many new ministers might be needed or wanted, and then publicly posted.

This has a lot of advantages.  For one, it would make it a little more likely to have specific people given just one or two tasks, increasing accountability when compared to the current system of general deputies.  This allows people with specific expertise but not much time, or who want to just do one bit of something, to contribute without a significant commitment.

Additionally, it means people are less likely to need to round out the Government with less active people, just for the look of it, and we won't need to have people with five Cabinet job titles all at the same time.

Now, this reform isn't do-or-die -- since it seems like we don't have the numbers for this right now, we can just keep doing things the traditional way.  But I do think it would improve things and better reflect the real needs of the government.  I hope to be able to change some minds on this in the future.

Oh, of course!  I would never never change it without authorization of the Ziu.

OKAY whew.  After like an hour of negotiating, there's a deal.  @Béneditsch Ardpresteir for Mencei and Tafial for Tuischach.