This website for SDFL lists 29 district judges that a prospective case could land with (not including the one retired listing), but one of those is indeed Aileen Cannon.
It doesn’t rank that high among the admin’s decisions but it still feels bizarre to me that Gamestop memestock grifter Bill Pulte got to be an important market regulator. I guess the main qualification is being willing to abuse the office for revenge like this.
The article’s 3rd section (“Getting a measure”) is explicitly about alternatives to self reported vividness of experience - citing use of ocular rivalry effect, measuring dilation of pupils when imagining a bright light and sweat responses to a scary scenario. I agree that it’s a difficult thing to make sure people aren’t just experiencing similar things and reporting them differently but there does seem to be effort made to design experiments around differences in how participants form descriptions.
“Sim sala bim” is one you see a bit in the Nordics, popularized by a Danish magician with the stage name Dante. Gibberish definitely does help remove the magic words from what the audience knows a bit.
According to TVTropes (Gratuitous German, AoaB examples page) it looks like they lean less on German names and more on nouns like Angriff (attack) and Leidenschaft (passion). Japan particularly seems to like choosing German as the gratuitous foreign language.
It is stated to be in response to Texas, but the amended constitution as far as I can see doesn’t use language about it being conditional on Texas’ plan happening.
In response to the congressional redistricting in Texas in 2025 (…) the single-member districts for Congress reflected in Assembly Bill 604 (…) shall temporarily be used for every congressional election for a term of office commencing on or after the date this subdivision becomes operative
It’s just that the legislature’s map shall be used for elections between the proposition’s passage and 2031’s regularly scheduled redistricting.
Even some of the good stealth games like Dishonered very rarely punish you.
I guess this is one of those things where Thief and Splinter Cell have just trained me to want that ghost playthrough and enforce it myself. I’m aware you can do pitched combat in Dishonored but I really don’t get why a player would be interested. There’s action games for that itch.
For me, stealth is pretty strongly focused on cultivating that feeling of besting a superior force through knowledge (of place, timings, toolkits etc.) and I definitely love Thief and particularly The Metal Age (my first exposure to the series) for their approaches to that.
If we’re talking generations, Galadriel is in the same one as Turgon, the founder of the city where Sting was made. Splinters and logs, eh?
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Noah is great. I Finished a Video Game also hits this sweet spot very well.
Fun fact, snakes’ adaptations to their feeding style are actually not about the way the jaw hinges. Instead, their lower jaw is two separately moving bones held together with stretchy ligament tissue so that each side of the mouth can be “walked along” the prey item separately.
So the chef could eat the burger… but would follow along its longest dimension to do it, laying it down sideways.
Not one I’ve watched yet, but there definitely is some magic to listening to someone talking about something they really care about, if you connect with them as a communicator.
Like, I don’t have any relationship to Disney’s Buzzy animatronic myself, but I’ve rewatched Jenny Nicholson ranting about it more than once because it’s fun. Captain Disillusion talking about the effects work that inspired him also feels kinda similar.
Really appreciate her work - the educational stuff is good at putting things into a context and giving laypeople some mental coathooks to hang things off of, and I like how she emphasizes the video explainer format is a provider of jumping off points more than a source of real understanding.
Her discussion of media and news is maybe not as relevant here but still pretty on point in my experience.
No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
US Constitution section 9 clause 8.
I’d say that’s pretty clear an official act to the giver’s benefit is not a necessary element of the prohibited conduct. If something is offered, both houses of congress must vote to allow it or the gift must be declined.
It’s the parts of a program’s concepts, rules and behaviours that are specific to the program’s task. For instance
When developing software you deal both with these kinds of specifics and generically reusable concepts that are more purely computational science, so a term to distinguish them is handy.
I think this is partly about giving yourself an out for liking childish things as a near- or young-adult. Kids shows commonly do include some Parental Bonus but extending that idea specifically to dark undercurrent plots that you have to read between the lines of the text seems like a way to feel “in the know” about something adult in the work while still consuming something you feel society expects you to have grown out of.
Then with a bit more maturing than that, you can hopefully just embrace childish joys earnestly, because joys are precious.
It depends a bit on what you want to optimize for, as there’s drawbacks to all the major methods:
It really is a fascinating game, and as odd as the volume view is when you’re new to it, it’s extremely helpful to be able to orient yourself.
::: late game The 5D courses were a nice surprise as well. :::
“Have they no refuge or resource?” cried Scrooge.
“Are there no prisons?” said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. “Are there no workhouses?”
Some computing problems are “easy”* to solve. We call these P.
Some problems let us easily check a proposed solution if we’re given one. We call these NP.
All problems in P are also in NP, since checking a solution proposal works is never harder than solving the problem starting from nothing.
We suspect but can’t prove that some problems in NP are not in P.
It turns out that it’s possible to translate any problem in NP into the boolean satisfiability problem (SAT) using an easy algorithm, so this problem effectively is an upper bound on how hard it could be to solve problems in NP - we could always translate them into SAT and solve that instead if that sequence is easier.
We call SAT, and any problem that it can be translated into easily in the same way, the problem class NP-hard.
NP-complete is just those NP-hard problems which are also in NP, which is many but not all of them.
*: require asymptotically polynomial running time
This does depend on the methodology stated by the institution collating the data. The most recent methodological statement I can find from the FBI’s stats reporting indicates it uses locality population estimates derived from the federal census - which in turn aim to count not the people each locality has registered as a resident, but the number of people who usually live and sleep in a locality regardless of documentation status.
Obviously, undocumented migrants may consciously attempt to be undercounted in that divisor but they don’t necessarily disappear entirely.
The other angle on this I’ve seen multiple times is comparisons of crime rate per capita for populations segmented by migrant status like this, where the usual conclusion is “A person is less likely to commit crime, given that they are a migrant”. It seems pretty believable to me that this reflects a raised background level of caution around crime caused by migrant status.