Both the Mica and the Apartment and Duplex defects issues are a result of the government's lax approach to building regulations, and various corporate companies acting like cowboys to maximise profits! It's scary that we may still be only at the beginning of this scandal... https://t.co/yQqVIIcdzM #MicaScandal #BuildingRegulations #CorporateGreed #Nocountrycodesarespecificallymentionedinthetweet.
🚨 BREAKING: US Airman Jason Watson has been hit with MULTIPLE criminal military charges after he called for President Trump to be impeached while in uniform at the US Capitol He is now IN CUSTODY. FAFO! The charges are: - 3 violations of Article 88: Contempt Toward Officials - 5 violations of Article 92: Failure to Obey Regulations - 2 violations of Article 133: Conduct Unbecoming of an Officer Make an example out of him! https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2092039634255495477
Bitcoin surged 11% in two days, surpassing $71,000, thanks to the optimism generated by the Clarity Act bill in the United States and the decline in bond yields, while the White House met with leaders in the cryptocurrency sector to discuss potential regulations. (translated)
Cold Beer and Hot Showers - Not Kilowatt-Hours All That Consumers Want The energy sector spends an extraordinary amount of time talking about generation, transmission, storage, flexibility, markets, tariffs, balancing, ancillary services, carbon emissions, batteries, hydrogen, demand response, electrification pathways, system costs, capacity mechanisms, investment signals, market design and regulation. All of these things matter. Some of them matter enormously. But there is a simple question that often disappears somewhere between the conference room, the policy paper and the technical model: What does the customer actually want? The answer is surprisingly simple. Most people do not wake up in the morning thinking about kilowatt-hours. They do not dream about capacity markets. They do not worry about frequency stability. They do not spend their evenings comparing balancing mechanisms. They want cold beer and hot showers. They want a warm home in winter and a cool home in summer. They want the lights to turn on when they press the switch. They want their phone charged, their food refrigerated and their car ready when they need it. In other words, they do not want energy. They want what energy allows them to do. That distinction may sound trivial, but it changes almost everything. For more than a century, the energy industry has been organized around the production, transportation and sale of energy itself. Electricity became measured in kilowatt-hours. Gas became measured in cubic meters. Fuel became measured in litres or tonnes. Markets, regulations and business models were built around those units. The customer, however, never experienced life in kilowatt-hours. The customer experienced comfort. Convenience. Mobility. Reliability. Security. The units used by the industry and the outcomes desired by the customer were never the same thing. For a long time, this mismatch was not particularly important. Energy was relatively scarce, flexibility was limited, and the dominant challenge was supplying enough fuel to satisfy demand. The system could afford to focus on production because production was the central problem. Today the situation is changing. Electrification is transforming energy systems around the world. Renewable generation is increasing rapidly. Batteries are appearing in homes, businesses and vehicles. Buildings are becoming smarter. Heat pumps are replacing boilers. Electric vehicles are becoming mobile storage assets. Customers are increasingly able not only to consume energy but also to store it, shift it, manage it and sometimes even sell it. As this happens, the most valuable question is no longer simply how much energy is produced. The more important question becomes: How well is energy aligned with what people actually need? A family does not care whether its water heater operates at noon or at two in the afternoon if hot water is available when someone steps into the shower. A homeowner does not care whether a battery charges at 1 p.m. or 3 p.m. if electricity costs less and reliability improves. An electric vehicle owner does not care when charging occurs as long as the vehicle is ready when needed. The objective is not the kilowatt-hour. The objective is the service. This is why many of the most important developments in modern energy systems are not really about producing more energy. They are about matching energy to the service required, at the right time, in the right place and in the right form. The technical term for this is often hidden behind complicated language. Experts discuss flexibility, demand management, dynamic pricing, distributed energy resources and system optimization. Consumers experience something much simpler. They experience agency. They experience the ability to save money without sacrificing comfort. They experience the ability to make choices. They experience the ability to benefit from technologies that work for them rather than asking them to work for the technology. This is where many debates become confused. Consumers do not want to be coordinated. They want agency. Good energy systems do not force people to behave differently. They make beneficial behaviour easier, more natural and more rewarding. The best systems do not rely on control. They rely on alignment. When the customer’s interest aligns with the system’s interest, remarkable things become possible. Demand shifts naturally. Storage becomes useful. Flexibility appears. Costs decline. Reliability improves. The customer does not need to understand the complexity underneath. Just as nobody needs to understand how the internet routes packets around the globe in order to send a message, nobody should need to understand wholesale electricity markets in order to enjoy affordable energy services. Success is not measured by how much complexity consumers are asked to absorb. Success is measured by how much complexity the system absorbs on their behalf. The future energy system will undoubtedly involve more digital technology, more electrification, more storage, more automation and more coordination. But none of those are the destination. They are merely tools. The destination remains exactly what it has always been. Cold beer. Hot showers. Comfortable homes. Reliable mobility. Affordable bills. Everything else is infrastructure. And perhaps that is the simplest way to understand the energy transition. People do not want kilowatt-hours. They want the life that kilowatt-hours make possible.
In Tibetan Buddhism, sky burials involve offering the bodies of the deceased to vultures, seen as a valorizing act in certain regions of Tibet where death is perceived as a passage to a new life, although this practice is regulated due to the declining populations of scavengers and tourist regulations. (translated)
The crash of a stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket on the Moon raises concerns about space pollution, highlighting the accumulation of debris in low Earth orbit and the lack of international regulations to address this growing issue. (translated)
Myslím, že to vyšetřování pro mě dopadne dobře, protože tak nějak ty předpisy znám... řekl @DolphSegal A já bych k tomu chtěla dodat už jen tohle👇🏽 #stopstupidpeople #fuckFíla https://t.co/0IYlX1EBR6 #investigation #regulations #opinion
🚨 FA statement on Chelsea. "A financial sanction of £10 million and a suspended two-window registration ban have been imposed on Chelsea FC for breaches of The Football Association [The FA] Football Agent Regulations, Regulations on Working with Intermediaries and Third Party https://t.co/kLE0a66ZWi #ChelseaFC #FootballRegulations #FASanction #GB
🚨 L'ALLEMAGNE 🇩🇪 SE SENT PRÊTE À ACCUEILLIR LE MONDIAL DÈS 2038 !!! 🌍 C’est Axel Hellmann, membre du conseil d'administration de la Fédération allemande de football qui l’explique : « Nous adorerions, et il y a une initiative de Bernd Neuendorf, président de la Fédération, et de la DFB pour candidater pour l'édition 2042, peut-être même 2038. Ça va dépendre des régulations de la FIFA. » 🗞️ @TheAthleticFC #Mondial2038 #Football #Allemagne
L'essor de l'intelligence artificielle suscite désormais des doutes et une résistance croissante, notamment en France et aux États-Unis, face à la crainte qu'elle n'oblige l'humain à l'obsolescence et menace l'environnement, appelant à une régulation urgente pour maîtriser cette révolution technologique. #IntelligenceArtificielle #Régulations #Souveraineté
Les PFAS, également appelés polluants éternels, sont des produits chimiques omniprésents dans notre environnement, mais leur impact sur la santé humaine demeure mal évalué, en raison du manque de données scientifiques et de régulations appropriées. #PFAS #PolluantsÉternels #SantéEnvironnement
Trois réacteurs nucléaires en France sont actuellement à l'arrêt et sept fonctionnent à puissance réduite en raison des fortes chaleurs, conformément aux régulations environnementales visant à protéger les écosystèmes aquatiques. #Climat #Environnement #Canicule
Trois réacteurs nucléaires en France sont à l'arrêt et huit autres fonctionnent à puissance réduite en raison de la chaleur excessive, selon EDF, qui souligne que ces mesures visent à respecter les régulations environnementales. #Nucléaire #Chaleur #EDF
Les Gardiens de la Révolution iraniens ont annoncé avoir attaqué un deuxième navire dans le détroit d'Ormuz pour violation des régulations, tout en ayant également lancé des missiles sur une base américaine au Qatar. #MoyenOrient #Iran #Guerre
🚨⚠️ Inter must wait for new tests for their supposed new signing Anan Khalaili after CONI requested for extra checks. Deal on stand-by for the right wing back, verdict to follow early next week. Strict regulations in Italy request extra tests for the player, as Gazzetta dello https://t.co/SQXppg8VNX #Inter #Khalaili #SerieA #IT
$1 a day to clean a detention center: The ‘labor exploitation’ of aimed-to-be-deported migrants in US jails — A settlement between California and private prison operator GEO Group affirmed that detainees are protected by the state’s labor regulations https://t.co/8fFezmrYyb #LaborExploitation #MigrantRights #DetentionCenters #US #CA
Le géant des jeux en ligne Soft2bet utilise des méthodes controversées pour opérer illégalement sur le marché français, en lançant des sites de jeux d'argent non autorisés comme Frumzi, qui ciblent les parieurs français malgré les régulations strictes, et en générant des revenus massifs issus de l'addiction des joueurs. #JeuxEnLigne #Soft2bet #SitesIllégaux
Une vidéo virale mettant en scène un robot frappant des employés humains s'est avérée être une mise en scène, soulevant néanmoins des questions sur la nécessité de régulations lorsque les robots acquerront réellement cette capacité. #Robotique #IntelligenceArtificielle #Technologie
US government is scrapping more than 36 firearms regulations: no more crackdown on illegal sales, gun rights to people with mental illness, loosening oversight of private weapons transactions. US also targets gun regulations at state and local levels https://t.co/qTFzqRAxnl #GunRights #FirearmsRegulations #SecondAmendment #US
Supreme Court dramatically reshaped elections in recent months and give the GOP a midterm boost, sharply limiting a law that has been a cornerstone of minority voter empowerment, allowing states to gerrymander maps, loosening campaign finance regulations https://t.co/QKDphYCsf3 #SupremeCourt #Gerrymandering #VoterEmpowerment #US
