In warm weather, lithium ion outperforms sodium ion. In cold weather, sodium ion outperforms lithium ion.

Besides being cheaper, sodium ion cells also last much longer than lithium ion, so for those two reasons battery wear is less of an issue.

Think about how incompetent your local government is at doing, well everything.

Do airlines build airports better than governments do?

Bus-only lanes reduce capacity for cars, which makes cars travel slower

A statement can only be true if its contrapositive is also true. Does adding lanes for cars make them travel faster? Los Angeles built freeways for cars and widened them over and over again, but did it solve their traffic congestion? No, it didn't. The contrapositive of your statement is not true, and therefore your statement also is not true.

So you see, adding lanes does not make cars faster (at least not in an economically vibrant area), nor does removing lanes make cars slower. This defies common sense and that's why it's a paradox.

...is bus-only lanes. Where buses don't get stuck in car traffic, people ride them, freeing up a LOT of road space for people who still have to drive.

Also try not to get your image into the image recognition software's database.

Because many people do in fact lack state-issued photo ID. Ignoring this fact won't make it go away.

ZERO progress

Go away, troll. This is a list of structures that have been built so far.

Being "pro-business" at all costs means being anti-resident, anti-environment, anti-worker, and anti-consumer.

Therefore, being pro-resident, pro-environment, pro-worker or pro-consumer might brand you as being anti-business.

There's a balance to be had among all of these things. Let's find that balance.

It went from $4B to $120BN.

No, the Prop 1A voter guide gave an estimate of $45 billion in 2006 dollars, which is $71.9 billion in 2025 dollars.

The $126.2 billion is in year of expenditure dollars, most of which is still in the future, so let's call it $100 billion in 2025 dollars.

So in constant year dollars, the price went up from $71.9 billion to $100 billion. So there's a little room for improvement.

Now tell me why ID cards used for every other f*cking thing in a blue state, isn’t ever racist or a logistical problem.

100% of drivers have government issued photo ID while significantly less than 100% of non-drivers do. Make it 100% for both groups as they do in other countries with voter ID laws and then there wouldn't be a problem.

The California High-Speed Rail project is plagued by inflation due to being a multi-decade project, land acquisition issues related to eminent domain, abuse of CEQA, obstruction by railroads against sharing or even crossing their right of way, utility relocation delays, and project's early reliance on consultants instead of growing their own in-house expertise from the beginning.

Not much can be done about inflation except completing the project more quickly. Land acquisition and environmental clearances are mostly done. I expect more friction from Union Pacific for the segment from Gilroy to San Jose, and utility relocation delays also continue to be a problem. The project has grown some in-house expertise, so future extensions should be cheaper.

So you see, Republicans still have a lot of power to obstruct the project and drive the cost up, and then they blame the Democrats for it.

Why not sue both and let the court decide?

Democrats are overwhelmingly in charge of California

Not enough to repeal Prop 13!

Consider the state of California which spends increasingly more money on homelessness to poorer results.

Democrats want to spend enough to bring their mental and substance abuse problems under control and to prevent things like medical debt from throwing people onto the streets in the first place. Republicans want to spend nothing to help them out, only to lock them up or ship them somewhere else. So the two sides compromise which means the state spends just enough to keep them alive and dependent on handouts but not enough to actually solve anything.

"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil... In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." - Ayn Rand

If the price goes up because of inflation, that price still went up when they promised it wouldn't.

The real price can stay the same even when the nominal price goes up.

But yes, they should make it clear about which price will never go up!