Oh, I see. Well, that wouldn't be closing a loophole, that would be a significant change. In the past, some provinces have chosen to have their Constable also serve as the ceremonial head of state or the head of their government. So I don't want to prevent provinces from doing that. Provinces will already be now enabled to pass their own restrictions on who can hold the office, and they can add this restriction if they so choose.

That section is the current language from existing law, as it has been for many years. And respectfully, I find your version actually a little bit more confusing than the simpler version. Invalidating candidacy sounds like you just can't run for the office or something. I'm open to the idea, but could you explain to me why you think this is an improvement?

lol... Back in 2013, I cosponsored a bill with you to do something similar.  Sometimes you just need to be patient and try again.

Quote from: Barclamïu da Miéletz on Yesterday at 01:28:24 PM

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on Yesterday at 01:18:00 PMBut the cow looks so chirpy and happy!

"Tylko jedno w głowie mam, koksu pięć gram." (I only have one thing in my head, five grammes of cocaine.)

Well, that explains the chirpy part.

But the cow looks so chirpy and happy!

I am listening to something apparently called the Polish cow song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hhMUT2U2L4

I will wait and vote during the Seßiun Rustitsch.

Quote from: Barclamïu da Miéletz on Yesterday at 04:49:53 AMWe ended 2025 with a police report. Happy new year!

Oh no! I hope everyone is okay?

¡Feliceu Nov'Anneu!

Okay, updated to include el Lexh and to specifically state that it doesn't revert old PDs.

Whereas the role of Cunstaval is decades out of date and mostly out of use, and yet there is a place for His Majesty in every province, and

Whereas the provinces are probably best-equipped to decide what the role might be, and

Whereas the limit on cross-provincial power seems unnecessary at this point, since we don't know what provinces will want to be doing,

THEREFORE the fourth section of the ninth article of the Organic Law, which currently reads

Quote1. Every royal power that the King possesses as granted by this Organic Law shall also apply to the provincial governments; with the exception that the provincial royal powers need not include a right of dissolution if provincial elections are held concurrently with Cosâ elections.

2. The King may appoint a Cunstavál (or Constable) for any Province to exercise these powers on his behalf, for a term not exceeding three years. The King may reappoint a Cunstavál. The terms of existing Cunstaváis shall expire no later than three years after the adoption of this amendment.

3. Until such time as the King or Cunstavál proclaims a provincial constitution providing otherwise, the King or Cunstavál shall serve as Military Governor and may exercise all the powers of the provincial government.

4. The King or Cunstavál shall not proclaim any provincial constitution, nor shall any province pass a constitutional amendment, which conflicts with any provision of this Organic Law or with any other national law.

5. The King or Cunstavál shall not proclaim any provincial constitution which has not been approved by a referendum in which at least either a majority of all citizens of the province or a two-thirds majority of votes actually cast is in favor of the constitution.

6. No person shall be at the same time Cunstavál of one province and the leader of the provincial government of another province.

shall be amended to read

Quote1. Every royal power that the King possesses as granted by this Organic Law shall also apply in a commensurate fashion to the provincial governments.

2. The King may appoint a Cunstavál (or Constable) for any Province to exercise these powers on his behalf.  A province may pass laws setting a term of office for its Cunstavál, specifying who is disqualified from the role, and assigning the Cunstavál a role in their government.  Unless otherwise fixed by national or provincial statute, the term of office shall be three years.  No person shall be at the same time Cunstavál of one province and the leader of the provincial government of another province.

Following up on my last announcement, and now that all the work is complete: I'd like to announce that the new immigration system is live and working smoothly.

For years now, the immigration application has been handled by a custom web form through WordPress.  It required several specific plugins to function, many of which were no longer updated and were not compatible with newer WordPress.  Worse, it seems like it kept records on the plugin that were openly accessible in plaintext to anyone with the rights to edit the national website.

I don't think we ever had a problem because of this, but it wasn't a good situation.  However, it was also really challenging to do anything to improve it.  Any edits or changes were likely to make the whole thing inoperable.  This happened a while ago when the immigration form was entirely broken for months -- it took a lot of fiddling to get it working again.

Anyway, it was apparent that we needed something new.  And a week ago, I got started trying to update the backend of things... and the whole form immediately broke.  And because I was sufficiently annoyed with that, I ended up abandoning it.  Instead, I replaced it entirely.

The new system automatically takes in data and sends it to a secure online spreadsheet, where a script parses it each time and generates the necessary emails.  This information is then pulled to another sheet, where it is stored with fields for notes about the process (eg, which applications were rejected as incomplete with an explanatory email, which applications were complete but missing a Witt account, etc).

The benefits:

• Records will now be much more secure, and we're no longer exposing five years' worth of names, addresses, emails, and phone numbers.
• The website is now fully updated, making it also more secure from security vulnerabilities.
• We're now keeping automated records, making it much easier for Immigration to keep track of all applications.
• Data on failure points will now be easily available.  We'll know exactly where people tend to fail when they drop out of the immigration process.
• No applications will be lost.  Government will be fully accountable.
• It will be much easier for Immigration to post applications, since a lot of the manual labor is now done by a machine.
• Future work will be much easier.

I'm sure there will be bugs to work out, but it's been a few days and I'm fairly confident that everything is working the way it should.  Please contact me if you have any questions or suggestions.  I'm here to serve you.

Okay, I think that the announcement's all set.  I might suggest editing the first post here to include some of the same information?

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on December 31, 2025, 05:04:55 PM

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on December 31, 2025, 08:21:17 AMI believe PMQs are usually answered spontaneously, instead of being sent the questions and having the answers prepped in advance.

This is inaccurate. PMQs in my country and I believe in Britain are submitted with a few days notice so that the Government can prepare a proper answer. That said, supplementary questions are extemporary.

I'm happy with whichever.

His Majesty also mentioned you'd like a copy of our speech ahead of time?

I'm not actually giving my speech, so really that should indicate that the king will be doing it. I'll fix that soon.

I have updated the front page of our website (talossa.com) with an announcement, time zone table, and itinerary.  Please let me know if you see anything I got wrong or that I can improve, anyone.

I'll be happy to oblige with a time for live terpelaziuns. No prior notice is necessary.

I have asked for a word to be coined for this new approach, and we intend to do them fairly regularly.

As much as possible, we need to begin expanding the ways in which we interact with each other. We have to move beyond words on a screen and start seeing each other's faces. This will help bridge gaps as we begin to see each other's common humanity.

It's surprising! People have generally used this power in a responsible way, but I still think it's a real danger and undemocratic.

If you would be willing to defer this bill, I have some ideas about reforming the whole process.

Quote from: Barclamïu da Miéletz on December 29, 2025, 02:44:12 PM

Quote from: Mximo Malt on December 29, 2025, 02:41:02 PM

Quote from: Barclamïu da Miéletz on December 29, 2025, 02:40:01 PM

Quote from: Mximo Malt on December 29, 2025, 02:15:11 PMThe funny thing is, I don't really know how to make a fandub, can someone give me a helping hand by DM?

You just... record the necessary lines and put them over the audio whilst having first isolated the dialogue from a video?

Ok. First, I need to find a free app to do that, do you know of one?

Your phone should have a recording app already preinstalled. Record on there and just send the files to your computer.

Audacity is also a wonderful free app to use for recording and editing audio.