Thanks for explaining why you showed up; but we already knew that.

I've been hearing about the CA-to-TX exodus for 20+ years. And Texas is awash with oil while Cali has to import 70% of what is uses.
Yet the Texas economy is only 14th largest while California is 8th.

What makes you think they don't have "skin in the game"? A huge number of people below the poverty line have jobs, which means they pay payroll taxes.

Which of those are precedents? Almost every president has done or tried to do the same or worse.
Isn't that the point of the checks & balances system?

If he didn't undo what Bush did, which couldn't have been done anyway, with the filibuster being pulled out for every Senate proposal, then he still hasn't established precedent.

Last time I heard that joke, I thought it was so funny, I fell off my dinosaur.

Here's something that is mentioned in the article

"Take Texas for example. For every 100 families below the poverty line there, only six receive assistance, she said. In California, 66 of those below the poverty line are helped."

Only SIX? I knew Texas was hard-assed about helping out poor people but I'm still shocked. Is there any state worse than this?

"when the next Republican president starts abusing his powers based on the precedents Obama has set"

Which precedents would that be? Keep in mind that a precedent means, in this case, something that wasn't done by previous presidents such as, for example, George W Bush, Clinton or Reagan.

Like the Sun? Yeah, that would suck unless you could temporarily store some of that heat.

But the Sun is a nuclear reactor and imagine if we found a flaw that could cause it to prematurely explode.
I guess all we'd have to do is take it offline for up to 8 weeks.

It's hardly a non-issue when you're taking gigawatt-hrs of baseload offline for 2 months.
Granted, it's not such a big issue in summer but that's just dumb luck. This could just have easily happened in mid-winter although it would be much easier to keep a gas-cooled reactor cooled in February than in August. :-)

Taking that many GW-hrs of production offline for that length of time is a serious outage.
Greater modularity would allow for a quicker ID of the scope of the problem, even if the total time to repair or replace would be greater.

I don't recall that ever happening to me and I've done this test about 10 times in the past 1-1.5 years.

That's interesting. Do you think that makes it easier or more difficult to get a better ie lower score?

What monitor(s) have you used? LCD / CRT?
How long does it take you to complete the test?
  I've gotten a perfect score only 4 times, with a pretty good IPS panel in daylight and middling Viewsonic in darkness. With my usual home setup, I've scored 8-16 with ambient CFL lighting, 0-10 in a dark room.
At the office, during the daytime out of 4 attempts, I don't think I've ever gotten below 16.

Isn't that called a blackout? If it's in the daytime, Tesla would have a better chance keeping the lights on with the up to 3500 sunshine hours you can get in CA.
Michigan has wind power & perhaps Tesla could get permission for their own farm but Elon doesn't have any fingers in wind like he does in solar and there's no way in hell Michigan can compete on that basis vs the Southwest.
Palisades may have been granted a license to keep operating until 2031 but it's already 40 years old - it's going to need some major overhaul in the next few years.

Two of its steam generators were replaced in '92 after 20 yrs operation.
Well, it's been over 20 years since that, so there could be more replacements needed soon.