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Quote from: Moinul Moin on Yesterday at 02:08:16 AM

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on June 21, 2026, 08:58:31 PMMoinol, what a fun question to ask everyone!
I've visited India,

I think you have faced some strange experinces.

India was one of my favorite places to visit!  I wrote my thesis there while living with @Béneditsch Ardpresteir for a few weeks, plus I traveled all around the country for months.  Delhi was great, but also we had a particular love for Varanasi and Sikkim.

Quote from: Danihel Txechescu on Yesterday at 12:45:04 PM

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on June 21, 2026, 08:58:31 PMI'd actually like to go back to a lot of those places[...] Maybe now that the kids are getting a little older, I'll be able to.

I went the opposite direction: Once my kids grew old enough (they started paying full fare) we didn't travel anymore all together. Even before then, just the logistics for getting us all from one side of the planet to the other were not very enticing. Last trip like that was to Hong Kong, and that was only with two kids.

Yeah, my wife and I haven't traveled anywhere significant -- outside of a few places in America and to Canada -- since we had our twins.  Partially it's the expense, but also it's because all the kids are still kind of too young to appreciate it.  We plan to remedy that in a couple of years and go down to Mexico... I'll be hitting you up for advice on where to go!

Quote from: Sir Lüc on Yesterday at 04:10:38 PMGaping holes in the map and/or new places I want to visit next:

The States isn't in your list, probably for understandable reasons right now, but if you ever want to come visit (probably post-Trump) you'll have a free place to stay in Massachusetts!

Sikkim was absolutely wonderful! (When I have visited)

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on Yesterday at 12:56:12 PM

Quote from: Moinul Moin on Yesterday at 02:10:13 AM

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on June 21, 2026, 09:26:50 PM

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on June 21, 2026, 06:44:03 AMFor me, it's Japan, Canada, Colombia, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, France, Hungary, Greece, Turkiye, Italy, and Switzerland.

Palestine (coming up in October hopefully)

How can it be possible?(I mean in this war)

If you want to make a difference, Moinul, there are times when you need to determine the amount of acceptable risk. My personal limit is probably higher than most when it comes to human rights especially.

When I was in Colombia for another delegation the village we were observing was bombed by the ELN. There are ideals that one must be willing to put oneself on the line for.

That's a powerful perspective. Your experience in Colombia shows the kind of courage and commitment that human rights work sometimes demands. I have great respect for people willing to stand up for their principles despite the risks.

The call for bills for the July 2026 Clark (the sixth of the 62nd Cosă) is now open. You may post a link to a bill's Hopper thread underneath in the usual fashion, provided it has passed the Hopper according to Lex.H.2 and you are entitled to Clark bills.

I will accept for Clarking any such bills (except for any that fall foul of H.2.7) that are presented between now and June 30th 11:59 PM TST, as I will begin assembling the Clark on the European morning of July 1st.

Recently, I've been listening to a lot of Les Miserables and Rent again.  One of my daughters has those albums on her iPod and so we've been singing the songs and talking about them a lot.

I've noticed I'm considerably grumpier about Rent than I used to be... Benny seems a lot more reasonable than when I was a kid!

Quote from: Moinul Moin on Yesterday at 02:08:16 AM

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on June 21, 2026, 08:58:31 PMMoinol, what a fun question to ask everyone!
I've visited India,

I think you have faced some strange experinces.

India was one of my favorite places to visit!  I wrote my thesis there while living with @Béneditsch Ardpresteir for a few weeks, plus I traveled all around the country for months.  Delhi was great, but also we had a particular love for Varanasi and Sikkim.

Quote from: Danihel Txechescu on Yesterday at 12:45:04 PM

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on June 21, 2026, 08:58:31 PMI'd actually like to go back to a lot of those places[...] Maybe now that the kids are getting a little older, I'll be able to.

I went the opposite direction: Once my kids grew old enough (they started paying full fare) we didn't travel anymore all together. Even before then, just the logistics for getting us all from one side of the planet to the other were not very enticing. Last trip like that was to Hong Kong, and that was only with two kids.

Yeah, my wife and I haven't traveled anywhere significant -- outside of a few places in America and to Canada -- since we had our twins.  Partially it's the expense, but also it's because all the kids are still kind of too young to appreciate it.  We plan to remedy that in a couple of years and go down to Mexico... I'll be hitting you up for advice on where to go!

Quote from: Sir Lüc on Yesterday at 04:10:38 PMGaping holes in the map and/or new places I want to visit next:

The States isn't in your list, probably for understandable reasons right now, but if you ever want to come visit (probably post-Trump) you'll have a free place to stay in Massachusetts!

I approve.

Other than my home country, I've been to, in rough order of first visit:

• Austria (all landers except Voralberg; 3x Vienna, among my favourite cities)
• Germany (2x Munich, 2x Berlin, 6x FFM/Mainz/Hesse)
• England (4x London, shamefully)
• France (I really need to visit again)
• Czechia
• Portugal
• Belgium
• Vatican City, fwiw
• Slovakia
• Ireland
• the Netherlands, visiting dear friend @Glüc last year

Gaping holes in the map and/or new places I want to visit next:

• Anywhere outside Europe (but I will travel to Istanbul in September for PhD related stuff)
• Spain (too hot. I don't like hot.)
• Switzerland (almost visited once, but the composer/conductor friend who invited me to play for their national holiday concert fell ill. Probably too expenso to visit in the near future, just like Scandinavia.)
• Slovenia/Croatia (if you live in NE Italy, pretty popular for beach holidays. Not with my parents, apparently)
• Hungary (but I am determined to pay homage to Magyar Peter by sneaking in a trip soon)

All of this contingent on my meagre PhD salary and saving up to fund my expensive skiing habit.

Quote from: Moinul Moin on Yesterday at 02:10:13 AM

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on June 21, 2026, 09:26:50 PM

Quote from: Breneir Tzaracomprada on June 21, 2026, 06:44:03 AMFor me, it's Japan, Canada, Colombia, Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina, France, Hungary, Greece, Turkiye, Italy, and Switzerland.

Palestine (coming up in October hopefully)

How can it be possible?(I mean in this war)

If you want to make a difference, Moinul, there are times when you need to determine the amount of acceptable risk. My personal limit is probably higher than most when it comes to human rights especially.

When I was in Colombia for another delegation the village we were observing was bombed by the ELN. There are ideals that one must be willing to put oneself on the line for.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on June 21, 2026, 08:58:31 PMI'd actually like to go back to a lot of those places[...] Maybe now that the kids are getting a little older, I'll be able to.

I went the opposite direction: Once my kids grew old enough (they started paying full fare) we didn't travel anymore all together. Even before then, just the logistics for getting us all from one side of the planet to the other were not very enticing. Last trip like that was to Hong Kong, and that was only with two kids.

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on June 14, 2026, 09:29:43 AM

Recommendation for Membership

Your essay's central thesis is fascinating, not an area I could have spoken to, and sheds light on Diasporic Coping Mechanisms that I had never considered. I can, however, speak to the "absence-guilt", having felt it myself when my grandparents died. My Nana died 4 months before I attained citizenship, and her funeral was the day I left for my gap year, and I was unable to attend. It is heartening to me that this is not just something I feel but indeed is part of cultural and spiritual practice in cultures I am not even familiar with, truly eye and soul soothing to me.
Autoethnography is often a fascinating form of study, and in terms of this society's future work, it offers an accessible yet meaningful alternative to wider academic forms of phenomenology. Our pool of potential participants is relatively small, but it offers greater insight than many quantitative studies can capture.
I do, however, have some Peer Review Feedback.
Although not a failing in writing, I do feel that the ontological or philosophical alignment between the specific drumming tradition and the Bon Odori may not quite be clear. To elevate this past the risk of aesthetic extraction, the paper needs to briefly explain if/how these two traditions share a common understanding of rhythm as a spiritual portal or community anchor. Speaking as a media academic, the drum beat and its representation and use in such applications as horror is often used to represent the heartbeat and the feelings on an automatic level of the characters being portrayed, fast for high tension, slow for despair, etc. There is something primal about this, and I'm sure transcendent across many cultures; I just feel that your essay should attempt to state it outright.

To conclude, I find your paper to be an excellent fit for the society. Your qualitative research methods, somatic studies, and advocacy for a structural shift away from sedentary, silent, and internalised sorrow toward active, expressive, and cross-cultural physical performance is truly inspiring. The Talossan culture as a whole lacks some of our funary traditions, and this could be explored further in future study and an opportunity to look into how we might learn from other cultures, considering the diasporic nature of our nation.

I, therefore, as President of The Royal Society for the Advancement of Knowledge, Commend to the peers of this society and call upon its members to second my nomination for Crement Itravilatx to join our ranks as Senior Fellow, having offered a paper as their form of lecture and having attained at least a 2-year college degree. What say we?

Hi @Tierçéu Rôibeardescù

Is the voting period for Crement's membership open-ended?