This is so tense!

Lightning quick restday 2 analysis: Els Talossaes Rexhitais seem like the far and away favourites at this point, especially with Vingegaard retiring, not necessarily for BDC/EVC/VFL being definitely out of the running, but rather because it will make all their GC riders skip up a place: REX now hold the 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th highest ranked riders, in addition to Pidcock in 9th, which would bring an insurmountable amount of End of Tour points - and the 4th placed rider is CFA's Seixas at the moment, who is not held by any of REX's direct competitors.

By comparison, the Mençeis hold 1st, 3rd, 7th and 14th, Cyclohexane holds 1st, 3rd, 5th and 12th, and GHST holds 1st, 3rd, 5th and 18th. I think these three teams will contest the final podium positions, but the contest for second is between CHX and MMM, with GHST the underdog.

Today we resume with the only individual time trial, which unlike the one in Giro will not be pancake flat. The smell test says this goes to either REX, who once again looks like it has high chances with Evenepoel/Ayuso/Lipowitz, or Fieschă, who holds Evenepoel/Pogacar/Seixas. If Team Visma lets Vingegaard's former teammates loose, Affini (BDC/GHS) and Armirail  (CJO) could make their teams competitive, with Cjovani also holding Arensman to boot. Not many more time trial specialists among TCAT teams, to be fair, with good hilly-TT riders such as Vauquelin and McNulty left out of all rosters.

Group 5

3 - Jimi Hendrix
2 - Blur
1 - Jefferson Starship

Group 6

3 - Keith Urban
2 - Muse
1 - Blue Oyster Cult

-Txec R

16,5 hours left!

GROUP 5
Cissy Houston - The Lord Is My Shepherd - 3
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower - 2
Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr. - 1

GROUP 6
Tony Bennett - I Left My Heart in San Francisco - 3
Muse - Knights of Cydonia - 2
Utada Hikaru - Simple And Clean (Marrzaan Remix)* - 1


^{*My husband would disapprove if I did not at least rank his Utada song...}

GROUP 5
3 - Dropkick Murphys - I'm Shipping Up to Boston
2 - Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
1 - Falco - Der Kommissar

GROUP 6
3 - Blue Öyster Cult - Burnin' For You
2 - Alan Parsons Project - Sirius/Eye In The Sky
1 - Tony Bennett - I Left My Heart in San Francisco

62RZ26 - Per
62RZ27 - Austanéu
62RZ28 - Per
62RZ29 - Contra
62RZ30 - Per
62RZ31 - Per
62RZ32 - Contra
62RZ33 - Contra
VOC - Üc

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on July 19, 2026, 04:44:31 PMOh my God! He's OUT?!? Wasn't he like the number two in the race?

Yeah, and it happened so fast. Literally slipped on his own in a right hander while he had four teammates pulling in front. A heartbreaking moment for sure.

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on July 20, 2026, 08:59:51 AMWhoa there, compadres, I know what I can do and want to do. What I want is more structure.

Right, but we're saying that if you want that, you can just create structure.  Or if you want advice from someone else, you can either ask your supervisor @Françal I. Lux or just open up for public comment.

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on July 20, 2026, 08:59:51 AMWhat if i wanted to fold the collage of arms and Büreu del Glheþ and Permanent Secretary of Cultural Development. Technically all have education as part of their mandate; some are more utilised than others; if at all, some are more importent then others. All could be construed as under the remit of advancing and preserving knowledge.

No.  Those are separate entities established by statute with their own governing bodies.  Your charge is the Royal Society.

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on July 20, 2026, 08:59:51 AMShould the libabry of talossa be moved to our remit too?

That's again a question for @Françal I. Lux or possibly me.  I'd want to know what that would mean, why you'd want that, and what you'd do differently or improve.  Right now the Library is a part of the wiki, owned by the Government and administered by a ministry.

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on July 20, 2026, 08:59:51 AMCould we start self-publishing Talossan works?

Sure!

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on July 20, 2026, 08:59:51 AMI kinda dont even care what changes are made, I just want a improvement on our current assignment.

That's just it: you don't have an assignment.  You're the boss.  If you want to start publishing stuff or making structure, you can do it.

If that degree of power makes you uncomfortable, that's okay, and you can ask for guidance or public comment.  But the power is yours... you're in charge of the Royal Society.

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on July 20, 2026, 09:08:31 AMLike, somehow we had a director of athletics at the university in the past, yet even the wiki doesn't mention it (I checked all previous versions), aside from Éovart Grischuns ÁrTal's page.

The wiki only has the information people add to it.  It would certainly be worthwhile to hunt down those details and improve the wiki by adding in the relevant information, and you'd even get to ask for a Day of Observance for such a feat.

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on July 20, 2026, 09:08:31 AMTheres present for Sports to be folded in too?  At that point, maybe we could be a university again? Techically as you Say, I could do that and may even be my right to do so... the law would have to change to my wims?

No, the law doesn't accommodate your whims.  But not everything needs to be authorized or directed by the law.  Do stuff that's within your demesne as the Royal Society, to "to conduct and promote research and academic study in all areas of human endeavour."

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on July 20, 2026, 09:54:41 AM

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on July 20, 2026, 07:37:48 AMI don't know why you would need legal advice, but if you did, you'd ask the person whose job it is to give legal advice to government offices: the Avocat-Xheneral (me right now).  If you needed someone appointed to help you specifically, we'd find a deputy and appoint them to the job to do that.

Say, where should the lines be drawn around ethical study? Ai usege in essays ect?

The laws don't have a lot to say around that, except inasmuch as the Covenants might apply.  If you want to establish guidelines for ethical study or the use of AI, then you have a free hand to do so.

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on July 20, 2026, 09:54:41 AMI would argue/question that this is intended to apply "The government of the Kingdom of Talossa has the duty and responsibility to make public information about and held by the government's cabinet ministries and sub offices within the guidelines set below," which the civil service would possibly find a ajaysecent but not necessarily beholden to such requrst, at least as read in this secton alone. we are not considered sub-offices so much as separate entities with ministerial supervison.

The Royal Civil Service, of which the Royal Society is a part, is not a cabinet ministry or sub-office.  If you want to voluntarily set official policy for the Royal Society saying that they will nonetheless abide by those same rules, that seems fine to me.  Or to set different ones.

I would love to see the Royal Society become active once more, and I will be very happy to help however I can.  I have plenty of suggestions if you're looking for something to do, but I don't want to step on your toes.  You're empowered to create your own vision of the Society.  Make it into what you think it should be.  I'll be happy to help, either in large ways or just by providing legal advice or promotion your work.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on July 20, 2026, 07:37:48 AMI don't know why you would need legal advice, but if you did, you'd ask the person whose job it is to give legal advice to government offices: the Avocat-Xheneral (me right now).  If you needed someone appointed to help you specifically, we'd find a deputy and appoint them to the job to do that.

Say, where should the lines be drawn around ethical study? Ai usege in essays ect? there is such thing as too much knolage as indeed Lexh.D.7 does state.

I would argue/question that this is intended to apply "The government of the Kingdom of Talossa has the duty and responsibility to make public information about and held by the government's cabinet ministries and sub offices within the guidelines set below," which the civil service would possibly find a ajaysecent but not necessarily beholden to such requrst, at least as read in this secton alone. we are not considered sub-offices so much as separate entities with ministerial supervison.

I raise this as a example to do with the civil service as a whole also, not just the RS.