Indeed.
As Douglas MacArthur once said, "There is no substitute for victory."
The real solution is for Democrats to start winning elections again.
Unfortunately, that requires Democrats to address the concerns of working-class voters and talk to people in language they understand.
I don't see that happening.
The next president will still have a Supreme Court dominated by conservatives.
Clarence Thomas is 77, and Sam Alito is 75. They might choose to retire during Trump's last year so other conservatives can replace them.
No other justice is likely to die or retire during the next presidential term.
Any amendment requires approval by three-quarters of the state legislatures.
32 of 50 states voted for Trump.
There is no way that red states are gonna vote against their own interests.
The Dems will have difficulty counter-gerrymandering.
Some states, such as California, have voter-approved non-partisan groups (usually retired judges) do the redistricting. The legislature can't overturn that. It would have to go back to a voter referendum, which is difficult, expensive, and time-consuming.
But a bigger problem is that gerrymandering just doesn't work as well for Democrats. Their voters are more concentrated in urban areas that are easy for Republicans to corral into a few districts, while red voters are spread across broad rural and suburban areas.
Street names are not private information.
This is not about privacy. If it were, it would be consumers complaining, rather than competitors.
Pick-and-place robots for circuit board assembly use path minimization algorithms.
The robot moves over a 2D PCB surface, placing components. Cutting a few seconds off the P&P time can mean big savings.
FPGA and ASIC layout engines also use these algorithms.
Nuclear fuel will last us for 4 billion years.
According to your link, that relies almost entirely on thorium, which is 400 times more abundant than U-235.
If we rely solely on uranium, we'll run out in only ten million years. Then what?
That's with lithium, not sodium.
Chemical battery discharge alone has a seconds-to-minutes response time.
It's still early, but this is the stupidest thing I've read so far today.
Have you ever actually used a battery?
Yet it is still a long way away from producing the TWh's the world would need
Well, we're not gonna run out of sodium.
Tesla cars have nine external cameras.
These trucks have twelve.
They have far better visibility than a human driver.
Self-driving vehicles aren't perfect, but that isn't a reasonable standard.
What matters is that they have a better safety record than human drivers.
These trucks are even safer than other SDVs because they're driving fixed routes that have been mapped, with every sign and marker in the database.
They're also safer than human drivers because they drive slower. Human-driven trucks usually drive the speed limit, which is 75 mph on the Texas portion of I-45. A self-driving truck will go slower to minimize fuel consumption, so 55 mph. A truck going 75 has nearly twice the kinetic energy.
Intuit spent $3.8M on political lobbying in 2024.
"I don't care about Direct File. I care about direct audit for poor people"
Most audits are for people with Sched-C or K-1 income.
Those aren't "poor people"
Top income brackets are ten times more likely to be audited than people at the bottom.
How did the hackers get physical access to the bank to plant the pi?
Many heists have inside help.
I consider a new device or technology to have been culturally accepted when it has been used to commit a murder. -- M. Gallaher
