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Cooking in San Diego: A turquoise, 23-story test of the Permit Streamlining Act's new-and-improved "deemed approved" proviso.
This could turn into a big constitutional battle.
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This could turn into a big constitutional battle.
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Enacted in 1977, the PSA put time limits on CEQA and other agency reviews of development proposals.
If an agency violated the time limits, the project was to be "deemed approved" by operation of law. Wow!
It proved wholly ineffectual.
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If an agency violated the time limits, the project was to be "deemed approved" by operation of law. Wow!
It proved wholly ineffectual.
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As @TDuncheon & I explained, courts first decided that the Leg couldn't possibly have meant for a project to be approved before enviro review was complete.
Ergo, CEQA review must be finalized before the deemed-approval clock starts ticking.
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Ergo, CEQA review must be finalized before the deemed-approval clock starts ticking.
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„While @realDonaldTrump painted a pretty picture of his rally, a report from the WaPo [1] suggested otherwise. The paper detailed the smaller-than-average crowd, punctuated by cash-strapped attendees who couldn’t afford any MAGA merch [2].”
Dec. 20, 2025
„While @realDonaldTrump painted a pretty picture of his rally, a report from the WaPo [1] suggested otherwise. The paper detailed the smaller-than-average crowd, punctuated by cash-strapped attendees who couldn’t afford any MAGA merch [2].”
Dec. 20, 2025
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[1] 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖂𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖙𝖔𝖓 𝕻𝖔𝖘𝖙 (@washingtonpost) archive.ph/2wONh
[2] @thedailybeast thedailybeast.com/trump-79-rushe…
[1] 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖂𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖙𝖔𝖓 𝕻𝖔𝖘𝖙 (@washingtonpost) archive.ph/2wONh
[2] @thedailybeast thedailybeast.com/trump-79-rushe…
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1/ Parce que c'est le week-end, Oldies but Goldies,
Osmose, a VR experience by Char Davies - from the BBC's "The Net" TV show circa 1998
Osmose, a VR experience by Char Davies - from the BBC's "The Net" TV show circa 1998
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmose_(œ…
2/ Comme le dit Wikipedia : " Davies évite les pratiques dites standards dans l'univers de la réalité virtuelle et poursuit une approche plus alternative, qui ne se contente pas simplement de compléter sa propre vision, mais propose également de nouvelles possibilités pour l'évolution du médium lui-même.
C'est pourquoi ce sont des œuvres si importantes dans la carrière de Davies, sans compter l'impact sur la réalité virtuelle et l'art numérique dans son ensemble."
2/ Comme le dit Wikipedia : " Davies évite les pratiques dites standards dans l'univers de la réalité virtuelle et poursuit une approche plus alternative, qui ne se contente pas simplement de compléter sa propre vision, mais propose également de nouvelles possibilités pour l'évolution du médium lui-même.
C'est pourquoi ce sont des œuvres si importantes dans la carrière de Davies, sans compter l'impact sur la réalité virtuelle et l'art numérique dans son ensemble."
3/ Voir aussi : LE GRAND, Jean-Pierre, 1995. Char Davies : osmose du virtuel au naturel. Vie des arts [en ligne]. 1995. Vol. 39, n° 160, pp. 27‑29. [Consulté le 20 décembre 2025]. Disponible à l’adresse : erudit.org/fr/revues/va/1…
"On doit le reconnaître, Osmose dispose de caractéristiques étonnantes et inédites, qui en font un spécimen à part dans le monde techniquement très nouveau - mais esthétiquement jusqu'à présent très conventionnel - de ce qu'on appelle la «réalité virtuelle». Un casque à vision stéréoscopique diffuse des sons et surtout des images, qui défilent si près de l'œil qu'eUes envahissent presque tout le champ visuel, créant ainsi l'illusion d'être «dans» les images.
"On doit le reconnaître, Osmose dispose de caractéristiques étonnantes et inédites, qui en font un spécimen à part dans le monde techniquement très nouveau - mais esthétiquement jusqu'à présent très conventionnel - de ce qu'on appelle la «réalité virtuelle». Un casque à vision stéréoscopique diffuse des sons et surtout des images, qui défilent si près de l'œil qu'eUes envahissent presque tout le champ visuel, créant ainsi l'illusion d'être «dans» les images.
Can RNA explain the Origin of Life?
The RNA World Hypothesis is often portrayed as the solution to Life's naturalistic origins - but experiments show RNA forming Life is just not possible.
Here is is why the RNA World is dead in the water (pun intended)
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The RNA World Hypothesis is often portrayed as the solution to Life's naturalistic origins - but experiments show RNA forming Life is just not possible.
Here is is why the RNA World is dead in the water (pun intended)
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Background:
Mainstream scientists have long admitted that modern Life’s complex systems are impossible to explain as-is. Modern cells have more complex interactions going on every second than the entire production line of a space shuttle. This is why they have postulated that Life must have begun with much simpler self-replicating molecules.
According to the story, these simple molecular systems grew in complexity through the evolutionary mechanisms of mutation & selection over lots and lots of time until they eventually evolved into cells, which then evolved into all the diversity of life we see today.
Many ideas have been proposed as to what that original simple self-replicating molecule was, but most would agree that the most probable scenario proposed so far is the RNA World Hypothesis.
Why RNA?
RNA has a unique ability in that it can act both as an information storage unit AND as a catalytic tool for chemical reactions. Meaning, it can carry instructions for function AND act as the tool which actually does the function.
On top of that RNA molecules are thought to be able to copy themselves, allowing for heredity and variation, which might be able to evolve into more complex systems over time.
The hypothesis is that self-replicating RNA arose by chance as simple molecules in a prebiotic soup, then eventually transitioned to DNA for more stable info storage and proteins for more efficient molecular function.
It almost sounds plausible - until one understands the details. This story fails at every step.
Mainstream scientists have long admitted that modern Life’s complex systems are impossible to explain as-is. Modern cells have more complex interactions going on every second than the entire production line of a space shuttle. This is why they have postulated that Life must have begun with much simpler self-replicating molecules.
According to the story, these simple molecular systems grew in complexity through the evolutionary mechanisms of mutation & selection over lots and lots of time until they eventually evolved into cells, which then evolved into all the diversity of life we see today.
Many ideas have been proposed as to what that original simple self-replicating molecule was, but most would agree that the most probable scenario proposed so far is the RNA World Hypothesis.
Why RNA?
RNA has a unique ability in that it can act both as an information storage unit AND as a catalytic tool for chemical reactions. Meaning, it can carry instructions for function AND act as the tool which actually does the function.
On top of that RNA molecules are thought to be able to copy themselves, allowing for heredity and variation, which might be able to evolve into more complex systems over time.
The hypothesis is that self-replicating RNA arose by chance as simple molecules in a prebiotic soup, then eventually transitioned to DNA for more stable info storage and proteins for more efficient molecular function.
It almost sounds plausible - until one understands the details. This story fails at every step.
The Impossible Hurdles of RNA World Research
1. The Building Blocks of RNA Molecules Can’t Form Naturally
RNA stands for Ribonucleic Acid, and RNA molecules are made up of nucleotides. In a functional RNA, these nucleotides link together in long chains in a specific sequence, forming single strands that carry out functional roles.
But here’s the rub: forming Nucleotides from their building blocks (ribose sugar + nucleobase + phosphate) is extremely difficult chemistry and remains a major challenge in origins-of-life research, with no prebiotically relevant pathway demonstrated.
Lab experiments which purport to have created Nucleotides rely on intelligent guidance to do it.
Scientists use highly purified, unnaturally concentrated chemicals that could never exist in nature, specifically timed chemical delivery in complex chemistry recipes, precisely controlled pH/temperature, and even sophisticated chemical selection to avoid side products.
Even with all this intelligent interference, the products created are unusable for Life, and scientists conducting these experiments don’t actually use the chemical products they create to move on to the next step! They’re extremely low yield, often with other unwanted chemical byproducts that would make any further RNA-relevant chemistry impossible.
If even the top scientists in the world have trouble creating Nucleotides from scratch, how can anyone expect them to be made in chaotic nature?
1. The Building Blocks of RNA Molecules Can’t Form Naturally
RNA stands for Ribonucleic Acid, and RNA molecules are made up of nucleotides. In a functional RNA, these nucleotides link together in long chains in a specific sequence, forming single strands that carry out functional roles.
But here’s the rub: forming Nucleotides from their building blocks (ribose sugar + nucleobase + phosphate) is extremely difficult chemistry and remains a major challenge in origins-of-life research, with no prebiotically relevant pathway demonstrated.
Lab experiments which purport to have created Nucleotides rely on intelligent guidance to do it.
Scientists use highly purified, unnaturally concentrated chemicals that could never exist in nature, specifically timed chemical delivery in complex chemistry recipes, precisely controlled pH/temperature, and even sophisticated chemical selection to avoid side products.
Even with all this intelligent interference, the products created are unusable for Life, and scientists conducting these experiments don’t actually use the chemical products they create to move on to the next step! They’re extremely low yield, often with other unwanted chemical byproducts that would make any further RNA-relevant chemistry impossible.
If even the top scientists in the world have trouble creating Nucleotides from scratch, how can anyone expect them to be made in chaotic nature?
@HumanEvents Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote,
"Actually, I debated this issue years ago before there was a Facebook, with the guy who wrote the book about the USS Liberty.
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"Actually, I debated this issue years ago before there was a Facebook, with the guy who wrote the book about the USS Liberty.
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@HumanEvents @rlefraim I had an advantage as the head pilot on the attack was a neighbor of mine in Israel for a while, so I had the facts. The US informed Israel that all its ships were outside the area. So Israel could & did assume that any ship within the 30 km of the coast was not American."
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@HumanEvents @rlefraim The Egyptians and Syrians routinely flew false flags so that was no indication of anything. When the Israeli lead pilot determined that Americans were there, he called off the attack. The investigation, by both the US and Israel, determined that it was a mistake."
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Would you turn up if they gave you a big plate with anaemic looking eggs, flacid bacon, pallid sausages, blanched looking beans in watery sauce, undercooked limp chips spilling over the side of the plate, curly/burnt toast and own brand ketchup. So you can promote British values?
Also, mate/pal/guvnor/me old china/sunshine, have you considered the impact of your absence on the clip on braces industry?They were counting on you showing your boat race to shift several K of units dahn the maarkit. Their gaff's probably full of 'em with more dahn the lock up
Anyway, sorry about your troubles, as detailed in your 10,000 word tweet. Which, to be honest, me old mucker, I ditn't read on account of how it strains me mincers, know what I mean. Still, you're a big man, but in your in bad shape. So be lucky, you slaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag. Oi! Oi!
🧵Here's another little thread for you on overt Georgia election corruption.
This one will blow your mind and should help expose top down corruption in the Peach State that led ALL THE WAY to President Trump's RICO case in Fulton.
It starts in November 2020 when Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger published "results" of a "voting machine audit using forensic techniques" that showed "no sign of foul play."
The link will be provided in the next post.
This one will blow your mind and should help expose top down corruption in the Peach State that led ALL THE WAY to President Trump's RICO case in Fulton.
It starts in November 2020 when Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger published "results" of a "voting machine audit using forensic techniques" that showed "no sign of foul play."
The link will be provided in the next post.
Wayback machine link to Raffensperger's report:
web.archive.org/web/2020111718…
The counties Raffensperger "audited" were Cobb, Douglas, Floyd, Morgan, Paulding, and Spalding counties.
Open Records requests for audit reports, correspondences with the counties and the auditors, correspondences regarding the audit with SOS yieled NO RECORDS in most counties and ZERO EVIDENCE that an audit was done.
Here are some of those responoses:
web.archive.org/web/2020111718…
The counties Raffensperger "audited" were Cobb, Douglas, Floyd, Morgan, Paulding, and Spalding counties.
Open Records requests for audit reports, correspondences with the counties and the auditors, correspondences regarding the audit with SOS yieled NO RECORDS in most counties and ZERO EVIDENCE that an audit was done.
Here are some of those responoses:
So an open records request done with the Georgia SOS office to see if they had correspondences with Pro V&V, who conducted the audit.
Wouldn't you know, they did!!
It was sent from Jack Cobb, President of Pro V&V, and sent to Michael Barnes, the GASOS Director for the Center for Election Systems.
It stated that the SOS office "has requested Pro V&V perform a field audit...to verify the voting system in the requested locations is the certified hardware and software and that no other software is running on the voting system."
It lists out the counties requested to be examined and states at the bottom:
"Pro V&V will need the following:
ICX Technician's Smart Card for the election
ICP Technician's Advisor iButton
Pro V&V will verify that hash values submitted to the state as part of our testing for certification match the three components in the four locations provided above."
There was only one major problem...
The memo was dated 7/16/2021. This was more than 7 months AFTER the "audit" was already performed!!
But just days after the open records request was sent.
Wouldn't you know, they did!!
It was sent from Jack Cobb, President of Pro V&V, and sent to Michael Barnes, the GASOS Director for the Center for Election Systems.
It stated that the SOS office "has requested Pro V&V perform a field audit...to verify the voting system in the requested locations is the certified hardware and software and that no other software is running on the voting system."
It lists out the counties requested to be examined and states at the bottom:
"Pro V&V will need the following:
ICX Technician's Smart Card for the election
ICP Technician's Advisor iButton
Pro V&V will verify that hash values submitted to the state as part of our testing for certification match the three components in the four locations provided above."
There was only one major problem...
The memo was dated 7/16/2021. This was more than 7 months AFTER the "audit" was already performed!!
But just days after the open records request was sent.
Falling in love is supposed to take time.
But in 1997, psychologist Arthur Aron made it happen in 45 minutes—by asking only 36 questions.
The experiment worked so well, it ended in marriage.
Here’s how he did it: 🧵
But in 1997, psychologist Arthur Aron made it happen in 45 minutes—by asking only 36 questions.
The experiment worked so well, it ended in marriage.
Here’s how he did it: 🧵
In 1997, Arthur Arons at Stony Brook University (NY) was skeptical if love is truly spontaneous and only a matter of "chemistry."
And so Aron got to work on intimacy research:
He set up a study to determine if intimacy can be created and accelerated in a lab setting.
And so Aron got to work on intimacy research:
He set up a study to determine if intimacy can be created and accelerated in a lab setting.
The setup was fairly simple.
College students, who had never met before, got paired.
Basic requirements (e.g., paired with the sex you're attracted to) were met.
Then they sat down in a lab, faced each other and had to follow instructions for 45 minutes—no distractions.
College students, who had never met before, got paired.
Basic requirements (e.g., paired with the sex you're attracted to) were met.
Then they sat down in a lab, faced each other and had to follow instructions for 45 minutes—no distractions.
EXCLUSIVE CONTENT 🚨
Congress. Foreign-Funding. Media. Narrative.
The man character of this story influence the media-narrative in India, controlled by US & Jamaat elements.
At the centre of it – Congress spox Pawan Khera'a wife Neelima Kota.
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Congress. Foreign-Funding. Media. Narrative.
The man character of this story influence the media-narrative in India, controlled by US & Jamaat elements.
At the centre of it – Congress spox Pawan Khera'a wife Neelima Kota.
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Did you know that Congress national spokesperson Pawan Khera's wife Kota Neelima is part of a company that decides which Indian journalists receive US funding?
The answer is going to reveal Congress's entire foreign-funded propaganda machinery.
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The answer is going to reveal Congress's entire foreign-funded propaganda machinery.
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Kota Neelima sits on Congress Working Committee, ex VP of Telangana Congress, simultaneously being a part of PROTO, a Delhi based company that controls selection of Indian journalists to receive foreign funding.
Conflict of interest, is nothing in front of what's coming..
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Conflict of interest, is nothing in front of what's coming..
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IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE was released 79 years ago today. One of the most beloved of all Christmas movies, and among the most popular films of its star James Stewart, the tale of how it was created is like throwing a lasso round the moon…
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In 1941, American novelist Philip van Doren Stern finished his latest book, a Christmas-set story called The Greatest Gift. After two years of being rejected by publishers, the writer had it published as 24-page booklet and sent it to friends and family.
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As a result, the story ended up falling into the hands of David Hempstead. A producer at Hollywood studio RKO Pictures, Hempstead fell in love with the novella and had RKO buy the film rights for $10,000.
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1/ The 1967 attack on the USS Liberty is often used to fuel conspiracy theories. However, declassified evidence points to a tragic case of mistaken identity in wartime chaos—not a "false flag."
Here are the facts debunking the myth. 🧵
Here are the facts debunking the myth. 🧵
2/ The Mission: Declassified NSA docs confirm the Liberty was a high-level signals intelligence platform. Its job was to intercept communications from both sides. As one officer stated: "She was in there to spy for us."
3/ Real-time Confusion: Declassified intercepts of Israeli pilots show them actively debating the ship’s nationality. This confirms confusion on the ground, not a pre-planned hit.
1) I see the usual takes are out on Stefanik and some of the other resignations. Almost all are wrong.
2) Here is what is happening. Trump has so radically changed Washington that these people actually HAVE TO WORK to keep up with him.
2) Here is what is happening. Trump has so radically changed Washington that these people actually HAVE TO WORK to keep up with him.
3) They face a choice: keep up with him legislatively, or be made irrelevant.
4) EXCEPT THEY CAN'T KEEP UP WITH HIM. No one can. Trump has limitless energy, infinite agenda items to make America greater.
4) EXCEPT THEY CAN'T KEEP UP WITH HIM. No one can. Trump has limitless energy, infinite agenda items to make America greater.
5) Think about this: remember all the whining and complaining during the BBB votes, and how idiot Nancy Mace was trying to juggle her social media/pajama appearances with actual votes?
6) I'm not even counting the fact that now they have to actually try to READ legislation.
6) I'm not even counting the fact that now they have to actually try to READ legislation.
