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.
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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