The Head of State should for sure be Talossa's top diplomat. Well done.

Yup, right, but that would require a Cort order rather than the Chancery's say-so.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on February 10, 2025, 07:54:42 PMThe sanction must extend exclusively to Wittenberg, by my reading, and could not (since you're a legislator) include suspension or banning from the "necessary infrastructure to allow the Ziu to fulfill its functions, including proposing, debating, and considering bills and the posing of Terpelaziuns."  So until the Cosa is dissolved, you probably couldn't be legally barred from the Government boards, since that'd probably be inorganic. 

I would actually go further. I don't think he can be banned from any boards which are necessary to exercise his rights as a citizen, without those rights being officially curtailed by a Cort judgement - because that would be giving Witt moderators effective power of banishment. So even once the Cosa is dissolved, I don't think he could be banned from the Corts boards, or probably the Immigration forum. (Florencia province board would be up to the discretion of its local moderators IMHO - as would the Corts boards, come to think of it.) But the main Wittenberg, the Chat Room, other boards which are not necessary to access to exercise his rights under Organic and Statute Law - definitely yes.

Well, it doesn't need to be offensive language, does it? It just has to violate Wittiquette Rule 8:

QuoteDon't be a troll or otherwise post in a way that is intended solely to annoy people or infuriate them.

We just need to enforce that IMHO. And Witt moderators can be the judge of that, they don't need the poster to say "ha ha yes, I'm just doing this to bug him"

QuoteAt times it gets difficult to call sexual harassment from compliments. The main difference between the two is motivation. When one compliments someone, their primary motivation is to make a person feel good, valued and appreciated. Compliments are typically given when trying to establish a relationship and build trust.

Harassment, on the other hand, is a primary motivation of power, intimidation, and violation of a person's boundaries. It can make a person feel uncomfortable, or as the definition of sexual harassment says, it can make a person feel offended, humiliated or intimidated.

https://www.sentrient.com.au/blog/the-difference-between-a-compliment-and-sexual-harassment

For me, AUS is a signal for "I don't care, let the majority decide". That's still valid if the majority is 1 seat. So, let things stand.

I am honoured and flattered by the nomination, but I have to decline because I personally don't think Cunstaváis are necessary or useful.

RZ20: austáneu. This bill needs repair, as Senator Plätschisch mentions, and I don't mind one way or another if we pass it now and repair it later, or wait for later to pass a repaired version.
RZ21: për. I'm neutral on the actual "fixed term" issue, but other repairs in this bill are necessary:
- making it clear that the Cosa can elect a Seneschal at other times than at the beginning of a term;
- making the VoC mean something, even on the last Clark
- removing the power of early dissolution which has never been used.
RZ22: për
RZ23: për
RZ24: për
VOC: üc

This seems as good a time as any to announce the Cabinet reshuffle.

The new Minister of Foreign Affairs is @Antaglha Xhenerös Somelieir. so I think she is the one to take care of this approach. The roles of Deputy Immigration and Home Affairs are currently unfilled.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on February 06, 2025, 01:20:56 PMI have spent almost the entire sum on a new toaster, after our previous toaster broke.  This new toaster is the most patriotic appliance in the Kingdom.

Paint it red and green and label it "D:nă Tosteir"

Quote from: Barclamïu da Miéletz on February 03, 2025, 04:01:07 AMas outside influence in a country's politics is illegal, so if the AfD were to win, the results would be invalidated because of influence from that weirdo Afrikaner.

... I really don't think there's anything in the German constitution that says that.

That said, I can only hope that German voters are watching Musk's goon squad of teenage groypers (inc. one who literally goes by the name of "Big Balls") running around Washington, DC accessing top-secret information and financial systems looking for things that aren't there, and deciding they DON'T want that happening in Berlin.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on February 02, 2025, 10:23:16 AMAs the Clerk, I feel uncomfortable with that provision.  If I get no response, the appropriate thing for me to do is to tell the Ziu.

Understood; but removing this clause means that there is now no way to "force retire" a Judge unless they get assigned to a case first.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on February 02, 2025, 01:22:29 PMEven I left Twitter, since it's entirely owned by a proto-fascist transphobic ketamine addict and also kind of a mess these days.

On a personal level I agree 1000% with these sentiments (and would like to take the opportunity to retract things I said about Bluesky being a "crypto honeypot", which I now realise as coming from an infamous conspiracy theorist).

That said, the Ministry of STUFF informs me that Twitter remains Talossa's second most engaging platform.

Quote from: Glüc da Dhi S.H. on February 02, 2025, 12:20:04 PMShould Talossa consider moving off twitter (and onto bluesky)?

This is a question that has already been introduced to Cabinet, and the first part has not gotten consensus, while the second part has.

I can't believe we got all the way through this debate without any comment on the fact that this bill repeals El Lex G.11.1.1:

Quote11.1.1 A Justice of the Cort pü Inalt shall be declared inactive, and to have vacated
their seat, within the meaning of Organic Law VIII, if the Clerk of the Corts, contacting
the members of the CpI to assign a case as described in this title, is unable to contact
that Justice or does not receive any response to their enquiries, within 30 days.

...without mention or justification of why that is being deleted, but the other provision for judicial "force-retirement" isn't. Too late now but to vote down, I suppose; my fault for being distracted by other events not to have picked this up until now.