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Thursday, May 9 is day two of the Eurovision Semifinals, and your intrepid correspondent from Lloenflys's Gavel (the world's Most Dependable Legal Entertainment magazine online blog collection of random essays on things that catch my fancy at the moment is here with your prediction needs...

I did pretty darned well for my first ever Eurovision predictions! I correctly predicted 9 of the 10 competitors that advanced into the finals. The only miss for me was that I had Poland making it in, but they did not make it - instead, the dreadful Portuguese song advances into the finals. I...

Lloenflys's Gavel is taking a break from its ... uh ... exhaustive legal coverage to focus for the next few days on the most remarkable cultural event of the year ... Eurovision! On May 7, the first night of the Semifinals goes down, with 15 nations vying to get a place in Saturday's final...

I have resigned form the Senate - please unmask me as Senator and Senate Speaker.

In the Official Unofficial Europeian Book Club subforum, can the "Book Recommendations" subsubforum be changed "Games and Contests"? I am finding that we aren't really using "Recommendations" at all, and people could use the "General Book Talk" subsubforum if they really wanted to post that...

As Senate Speaker I should have control of the Joinable Group "Senate Guest" but I do not appear to have this. Can someone take a look and make sure I have the power to give those privileges?

I'm open to that idea. It always seemed to me that the consequences of being non-responsiveness were better as political consequences than as legal consequences anyway. Legal consequences for someone not providing sufficient answers is fraught with subjectivity and never set particularly well...

I don't necessarily disagree - I guess in this case I'm not convinced that handing this responsbility over the PA actually fixes the problem and carries with it what I see as significant negative consequences, but this does at least provide one possible answer for what "oversight failure" would...

You are ignoring my question though - what is an effective oversight program? I've asked multiple times in this thread what it is that you want out of oversight, because it appears what you want is just ... "more questions." And I don't think that is a pathway to success ... it's just...

We will agree on this 100%. If I'm alone on an island in thinking that this is bad, counterproductive, and problematic for the health of the region then people should absolutely ignore me and implement it anyway. That's how democracy works! But I'm going to do my best to convince people that I...

I'm trying to shut it down because I think it's a bad idea that would make being a minister more onerous, leading to fewer people wanting to do it. Not everything is worth trying, and in my opinion, this fits into that category. What exactly is the goal? What do you want oversight to be that...

I don't want to be misunderstood - I think you are doing an excellent job, and are most definitely doing more with the PA Chair role than ... possibly anyone I've seen since my early days in the region when there were some exceptionally active chairs. But some of the things you mention are the...

This is a long post. TL;DR - (1) The PA hasn't really been that active recently, Igualla has; (2) The purpose of Oversight needs to be defined more clearly before we do anything with it; (3) Minimal oversight may well not be the bad thing some people seem to think it is; and (4) Unless there's...

This was really fun Istillian, thank you for having me on!

Hi all ... just uh ... poking someone here to update the Elections in the Region tab, it has said the Presidential Election and the VC Rotation have been TODAY for awhile now :oops: Could that be updated? Asking for a friend ...