QuoteBut the last Republic shrank until it was just a small group of like-minded people.

True, though this whole line of thought, even if you didn't meant it to be trolly was trolly.  Ever and anon, you pine for the halcyon days of 2005-2011 when SCA-Talossa ruled supreme.

We took over the disco board and domains out of genuine duress, Alexander.  Our methods were draconian, to be sure, and did not take into account those many Kingdom-people caught in the middle, but had we not done so, Ben would have gotten away completely with falsely accusing Kane of domestic violence not once, but four times without a shred of remorse.

The whole spat between you and Daph over the years has its roots in that we in the Republic were always a threat to the way you wanted to do Talossa.  This is why you did your part to make sure Kingdom society did not look kindly on our return for many years, if ever.

'Betrayed.  Stolen.  Kept.'  Of our genuine mistakes with talossa.com and Witt X, you and the RUMP took full advantage. 

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on November 28, 2020, 09:54:47 PM
Any thoughts on how a Regent/First Citizen should be elected? Free popular vote? Irish-style popular vote (where candidates need to be nominated by legislators or local government)? German-style electoral college? Supermajority of the Ziu?

Right now, I have to agree with Ziu vetting and then a ranked-choice ballot with provision for a runoff, if necessary, though in theory, there should never be a runoff.

Also, how long should a transition period be from one 'consul' to the next?

I can be a host for sure.

And don't forget my Talossan anniversary Zoom at 7pm Central on the 26th.  It will not be recorded, btw.

Zoom link will come day-of. 

The sudden departure of Lüc da Schir this year (may he come back to us) threw us (or at least me) for a loop.  There are too many people I could mention, but they know who they are.  They are all stepping into the breach and up to the plate.

The new talossa.net is but one of the brilliant things that are going on behind the scenes along with the new Witt, the continued excellence and continuity of talossa.ca and the Wiki.

Provided the Abyss is not opened too soon, 2021 could be a banner year for the Regipäts.  Let's all do our parts to make it happen!

GV, former Seneschál

The new talossa.net social-networking site is one of the best digital things I've ever seen in Talossa.

Hearty agreement with Miestrâ - criminally-underused, indeed.

Go ahead.  It's been so darn long (no thanks to me), that if the Senate has a problem with it, they can vote the thing down or throw tomatoes at me.

I've been so busy this month with Archives work I have neglected this hearing.

If there are no objections, I'd like to cast my vote Për for sending this onto the Ziu and open the floor for voting to end on 28 December to allow time for the Seneschal to properly Clark this thing.

GV, Mencei

Too busy with other Talossan stuff to give the job the time and attention it deserves...

Bump.  I know it's rude, but this thread is new-enough and currently not too far down in the basket.

Quote from: Eðo Grischun on December 14, 2020, 05:09:00 PM
A handful of signups already.  Thanks!

I will be crafting an email (perhaps even a bit of an email campaign) to send out to the citizenry list over the next few days with the high hopes that we can pull some of the less active folks back into the Talossan fold with all this.  Fingers crossed.

I've been futzing around with this - Is there a native backup utility?  Such beautiful work.

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on December 14, 2020, 02:59:19 PM
THIS IS THE MOST EPIC THING IN THE HISTORY OF EPICNESS!

YES!!

"For good reason, powerful Monarchies in "real" nations are largely a thing of the past."

Hmm...  Our monarchy still holds the power of legislative veto.  How is it not powerful, then?

You assume the inherent goodness of every single monarch Talossa will ever have.  Ben went bad.  Dobberpuhl was not fit for purpose.  Florence was not the right personality, though she was much-loved.

How we govern ourselves and how we elect our leaders is a skeletal framework in which society can function.  Of course, the undergirding of any society is adherence to common human decency, but we must put together a system of governance that will make it as difficult as possible for bad actors to flourish.

Keeping the Talossan monarchy the way it is is asking for trouble and playing with fire.

HUGE thanks to JKK for scanning TNN this past summer.  Along with various scanning attempts I've done at the house through the years, we were able to cover whatever ommissions each other may have done during scanning.

Unfortunately, Acrobat Pro DC's find-replace function distorted text formatting so much I was never able to use it.  JJ's typefaces were either too blurry or too ancient for Acrobat Pro DC to get ahold of properly.

Ergo, I had to go through each issue with Apple Preview, marking out enough of original-language names so as not to concern search engines, but leaving enough to where I could preserve what I could of JJ's typing.  I estimate I've put it at least sixty hours the past seven days in getting this done.

Eventually, I will create 'omnibus' sets, divided in the year-by-year volume-scheme JJ originally envisioned.  When I do that, I will add the source-notes I know you all cannot wait to see.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QWvE3b7oOuAsmrsKe1ETA-vzxrS8wb53?usp=sharing

For the first time ever, online-friendly editions of the entirety of Talossan National News (TNN) is available online and at the above link.  While I am by no means pleased at the online legibility of some of these digital files, I believe everything prints out decently enough.

I really cannot put words to how important this is for Talossan scholarship.  I've discovered Fritz Bucholtz was more Talossan than he thought.  Part of the reason why annexing Shorewood and Whitefish Bay was considered way back when was because Napoleon's gaming store held shop in Shorewood.  Fritz was well-known to all Talossans even thirty-something years ago, and he is mentioned in TNN at least twice.

Unfortunately, the internet's prediliction for causing trouble has forced me to redact original-language names a great deal.  And in at least four instances, JJ's errant hole-punches did not help.  It's amazing I did not find more JJ-hole-punch carnage in the TNN master-copies.

For the Talossan Royal Archives, this is a singular accomplishment.  At least six-hundred pages of dense TNN text was going through hoping to find original-language names here and there to redact for privacy.  The three individuals who did not get such treatment are Ben (because I know he would not care), Bill Renzi (because he's been dead thirty years) and Robert Dobberpuhl (who has been dead about the same length of time).

Like any human being JJ is biased.  But when he gives statistics, names, dates, and other objective information, as far as I can tell he is accurate.  Detailed source-notes for TNN will be forthcoming.

GV, Oraclâ Press and the Talossan Royal Achives

Alternating Clark still give a future rogue monarch a chance to quell the will of the people and elected legislature by way of the veto as well as appoint UCort justices (subject to Ziu confirmation). 

It's all about the veto and UCort nominations.  Who gets to use the veto?  Who gets to nominated justices?  Are they periodically accountable to the people?  Can they be tossed out?