This is why Elon's claim that Tesla was using photon counting to overcome the dynamic range limitations of camera only sensors was complete rubbish. Actual photon counting sensors are extremely tricky to do well.

But hey ho, Tesla stock goes up.

Why are you still beating your wife and children?

Our voting system does not know the difference. It explicitly states: silence == consent. Yes, for a human, there is a difference. For a ballot, there is none.

That little mushroom is a real pain in there, said Stormy.

It does not only seem so, it's right there in the description.

Whatever I think of Newsom as a candidate still I hope more and more governors start using his playbook. What he was able to do on Prop 50 was impressive.

The crypto thing in general I think is enough it really should be more out in front, it's so blatant, there is zero justifiable reason that venture should exist.

Yeah you're probably right about Ukraine not resonating and it'll always be tied into that now it's really more the fact that even if you support a negotiated end to the war right now the guy doing it is supposed to be representing us and our interests as America and trying to get a fair deal and this guy absolutely has such obvious conflicts of interests all over the place.

It's like how Trump has so many of his own private attorneys acting in official capacities it's unbelievably corrupt.

Also Dems should really be working stuff like this clip of Noem and the deported combat vet. in front of people whenever possible.

That goes along with making new laws, this can all happen if Congress wants it to. While the concept is 3 co-equal branches in reality and in the writings, one of them is more equal than the others.

There's a lot of rules and norms and decorum but if 75% of reps and senators want something to happen Federally outside of new amendments they can do it. They can keep impeaching and removing Presidents until we get whoever in line they want. They can reduce or expand the size of the Supreme court, they can disband many Executive agencies because technically they still operate under a mandate from Congress.

Congress has a lot of power they just don't want to use it, usually for craven political reasons and the fact it is so wildly partisan, there is basically zero crossover so all those real power moves are just never in reach. There really does need to be reforms because the system as designed isn't quite set up to deal with politics today.

We need to get them 67 Senators and getting even close to 60 seems impossible, particularly in '26 which is not a great map. In a better world there should be 10-20 Republicans who have spines and principles and a sense of duty but alas.

Usually you go with a process like that to "get everyone on the record" for the public to see but it is theatre because we all already know they're worthless. If they wouldn't do it after Jan 6 they ain't gonna do it now.

That's a bit up the voters, more so in 2028 than '26 but there should be a wider spread of candidates and that will be an issue.

Pretty sure some Senators and Congresspeople have talked about it and Newsom has mentioned it and the 2028 Democrat primary is going to be wild and I expect at least a few candidates to run on the out-for-blood message and if it's got support then who knows. Republican's had the "nice guy" in Biden, he was by the book in regards to the DOJ and look where that got all of us. Next person can't be so cordial, I think more have learned that lesson and others just need to hear it more.

I think it's well deserved that some members of this admin will have to be investigated and trialed. Others, particularly if they are pardoned we should use the 14th amendment and bar them from future office.

I saw a video of a DJI drone with a mounted LIDAR scanner and it was mapping down to the power wires so that might just take another 10 years to get everything.

Are Trump coin purchases able to be tracked? For any other admin in the past century, either party, this pardon is 0%, at least for a decade or so at a minimum but this one, this is easy, 1-in-5 I'm giving this this guy legit gets a pardon in the next 24 months. The President of the United States built himself a bribery system and we're just A-OK with that. Unreal.

And that fucknut Witkoff is Trump's partner in it and is also the guy we have negotiating with Putin while he also represents a number of Russian interests? In a not so different world this alone is impeachable and it's just one of many.

How do you square up that you support the party that has been pushing this number higher and higher and pretty much runs on that idea? It wasn't always this way and it doesn't have to be, we've been making that choice, we made it again in 2024. It's not headed in a positive direction either.

Yeah, probably.

Yeah I guess when you look at it that way then yeah it's got as much teeth as the governor is willing to give him. These are state governments so they have a lot more tools and leverage than a University does. Let's not forget the law firms too, god it's been a long year.

The usual suspects, Newsom, Pritzker, Hochul will ignore and Desantis and others will play along.

Then again he's already threatening to strip Federal funds from blood-red Indiana because of the voted down redistricting so maybe he's up for making even more enemies.