Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on November 16, 2025, 10:06:35 AMLD is almost tied for my number 1 favourite trek behind DS9

I was not expecting to like it as much as I did. The actress who played Mariner is working on another humorous Trek show too.

We still need more votes on the groups currently being voted on before we can add the last two finals. That said, the deadline for these four finals remains unchanged. I don't think theres enough enthusiasm to do an election night tmt broadcast in the discord but I will still post the results here around the same time.

Vote before december 1st

There's nothing official to say, I don't think. In my experience, people usually switch to TDT at that time, even if they still call it TST, because it's more convenient.

Also I vaguely recall that someone had some personal animus against daylight savings time?

Relatedly, does the time seasonally change to "TDT"?

I don't think they need to be abolished, but I do think the restrictions on people holding seats and party lists are perhaps too strenuous.  If the Progressive Alliance had gotten a larger vote share or had more people in the Senats last term, we'd maybe have not been able to hold our seats.  I am skeptical of rules that over-rule the will of the people when it comes to new or smaller parties.  However, it's near the end of my priority list, and I'm more in the "let's take a close look at this" phase.  At a certain point it makes sense to note that it's never actually subverted the democratic vote of the people, even if it threatened to do so in the past.

Speaking for myself, here's what I think:

Our first priority should be passing the new Public Process Act, since it's really important as a question of civil liberties.  We should not permit the government to have a secret veto over who even gets to apply to immigrate.  I think we'll get broad support for it this time, including significant support from the URL and from other parties.

Our second priority should be issues of good governance.  We'd like to fix the merchandise store so people can buy Talossa-themed goods again, fix the broken links on the website and give it a refresh, and work on some basic infrastructure things.  Some of these tasks will take a short time -- a half hour or so -- and others will be a significant task.

Our third priority should be looking at the immigration process and how we can optimize it.  What should our targets be for a monthly average, or do we think it's inevitably stochastic and we need to rethink it?  How can we meet people where they are with the short-form videos that have been such unexpected boons?  I expect to take a personal hand in this.

Other things that we can reasonably get done in a term include investigating past applications, giving positive regular speeches so that the government doesn't end up seeming like a joyless scold, exploring some new sources of funding, and probably some other stuff I'm forgetting.  And we should look at how our effort is expended.  How many people read L'Chronica, for example, if we total up pageviews on the site and email readers?  Something to think about.

Realistically, other things are likely to crop up.  But with strong and inspirational leadership, I expect we can rise to meet the opportunities and challenges ahead.

Hey, since we're not going to get the debate, I suppose I'll throw in my pet Burning Question here.

If the PA lead the next government, are they going to introduce legislation to abolish party lists, as foreshadowed after the last election?

"TST/CST"

Right, but it says Central Standard Time.  Which is not incorrect, since that's the same as TST.  I just thought it would be neat if it referred to TST instead.

If it's a hassle or it doesn't look right, then don't worry about it.  It's truly not at all a big deal, but just something I thought might be cool.

Is that not what happens already? E.g. if I go on https://database.talossa.com/elections/november-2025-general-elections I see:

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Voting will close in
9 days 4 hours 48 minutes 29 seconds
at December 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM CST
(December 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM GMT+1 in your detected timezone)

I wonder if the database could give the time in TST, and then clarify with GMT and our detected time zones?  Is that a bad idea?