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Property rights cannot simply be treated as an afterthought when building regulations change. If new setbacks substantially reduce the use or value of a constructible plot, proportionality and potential compensation must be examined. 📉🏡 #PropertyRights #UrbanPlanning #PropertyRights #UrbanPlanning #Compensation #Nospecificcountrycodesfound.

Finally also ChatGPT will be under regulations from the EU. Its a huge platform, its a search engine! DSA is one of the best laws the EU ever made, here to protect from bad stuff big-tech does or could do. US is not staying behind - inspired by DSA - US court just settled with #ChatGPT #EURegulations #BigTech #EU #US

Babiš's ANO movement did not gain a majority in the towns affected by the tornado, despite winning in the parliamentary elections in 2021, which was reflected in the criticism of its representatives after the disaster and in the paradoxical positive effects of the tornado on the modernization of the towns. (translated)

The Three Words Democracy Borrows Democracy is often praised as inherently good, but Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates saw serious flaws. A better view: rule by one, few, or many each has tradeoffs. A healthy society ideally combines a strong leader, a competent elite, and a virtuous citizenry—because, as Thomas Sowell said, “there are no solutions, only tradeoffs.” Democracy promises three virtues it can’t guarantee: freedom, wisdom, and consent. **Freedom:** Nozick’s thought experiment shows how slavery can be disguised by changing vocabulary—when power gradually shifts from overt domination to rules voted on by others, at what point is it “freedom”? A society can talk endlessly about freedom while restricting rights through taxes, regulations, and suspensions. **Wisdom:** Socrates doubted democracy produces wisdom. If a voyage were dangerous, you wouldn’t let every passenger vote equally on navigation. Yet political voting gives equal weight regardless of knowledge, inviting manipulation by those skilled in fear, emotion, and flattery. **Consent:** “Government of the people, by the people, for the people” can be an illusion. If the state is treated as “us,” coercion can be reframed as self-government. But representatives don’t truly follow your instructions the way a genuine agent must. Freedom, wisdom, and consent are real virtues—democracy just borrows their language, and the biggest risk is believing that choosing rulers collectively makes the ruled free, wise, and consenting.

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

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)

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

🚨⚠️ 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