I can only speak for myself, but hope other Florencians might agree, that non-Florencians who wish to contribute their expertise should also post their ideas.

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Quote from: þerxh Sant-Enogat on January 18, 2026, 01:54:30 PMSorry for late answer, I prefer to wait for the full Digest, rather than delivering bits one by one, especially when latest post was also from Fora Talossa. Thanks for all your work in providing quality content.

You mentioned wanting to wait for the full Digest episode, which is ready now. Would you be willing to share it?

@þerxh Sant-Enogat Thank you for commenting on the Abbavilla Digest post on Reddit. Would you be willing to share the episode on Talossa's social channels?

Many years ago when I was in college I was quite good at C+ and later Visual Basic. As a teen I was quite adept at Batch (MS-DOS) programming. I've also worked at times in website development back when you had to know HTML and CSS. These days, I could code if I so chose to, but I have other things to do :-)

-Txec R

With six out of eleven total members having voted PER, Mximo Malt has been accepted to SIGN.

Quote from: Mximo Malt on December 08, 2025, 05:33:47 AM

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on December 08, 2025, 01:49:42 AMI approve, of course, but why isn't he making the application himself?

Probably because I wasn't aware of its existence previously


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Idk why this is being done on behalf of someone else but sure.

Actually, I've specifically stated fairly clear objections to this bill, and have suggested at least one pertinent amendment to improve it: the first sentence should be changed from "The Senäts shall have equal powers with the Cosa in respect of all proposed laws" to something like "The Senäts shall will be subordinate to the Cosa, advising and offering suggestions." 

While currently there are only a few exceptions to the equality of the houses, this bill would change the situation so that there would be only a few exceptions to the Senäts' subordination to the Cosa.  The law should be honest, since otherwise we'll run into very practical problems in the future (since the law will clearly say one thing, yet in a practical sense will dictate the opposite).  Just as a matter of good legislative practice, that should be changed.

I'd also note that the bill's author and sponsor was unable to identify any "truly vital" legislation that would have been helped by this change.  Instead, the only bill offered as evidence that this change is necessary is the Public Process Act... which passed in an improved version after being rejected by the Senäts and after serving as an important election issue!  In other words, we just had a showcase of why the current system is a good idea.

The benefits on offer here are few indeed.  The main argument is actually an aesthetic one, but the real goal of abolishing the Senäts entirely.

The first one I learnt in uni was Python, but I mostly futz around in Javascript nowadays, as my Neocities page will attest to. Something about code just... running seamlessly in a browser without any additional setup required really appeals to me.

I have experience with several different ones although I'm pretty rusty as I don't use them regularly, but I like to dabble!

• LISP
• Prolog
• Python
• Perl
• C/C++
• Java
• Javascript
• etc.

Quote from: xpb on Yesterday at 10:19:53 AMwhether the delightfully unique structure of the Kingdom should be adjusted

This is sheer conservatism with no justification. The status quo is Talossan, therefore it must be preserved.  But conversely - whatever we change it to will also be Talossan.

Both XPB and the Baron have said plainly that they think that *any* change is tantamount to a revolutionary change and thus must be resisted.  But the world didn't end when we abolished the hereditary monarchy - nor when we changed monarchs, despite XPB's strenuous efforts to argue that that would be a catastrophe.

There will continue to be "a voice" for provincial representation; just no longer a final veto.