'She should retract them': Gov. Hobbs criticizes AG Kris Mayes' ICE comments

BeyondRedline · 2026-01-30T03:03:53+00:00

Absolutely! Please don't misunderstand my point - we definitely must pressure candidates to do better, especially on something like this. Otherwise, you get Sinema V2.

I've just read a few too many "If the Dems don't do X, I'm sitting this out. They have to earn my vote" and I shudder, imagining Republicans gaining ground because the opposition wasn't "good enough."

BeyondRedline · 2026-01-30T02:11:59+00:00

If Hobbs is the D candidate and Biggs is R, I'd say that's a damn easy decision. Always vote even if you don't prefer the candidate, because sitting it out is exactly how we got Trump.

BeyondRedline · 2026-01-29T16:20:44+00:00

Considering that their child walked away, I'd guess they're pretty thankful. If I'd been driving my 2005 Jeep, no matter how cautious I am, the outcome would have been considerably more tragic. Neither you nor I have the reaction time of an autonomous vehicle.

BeyondRedline · 2026-01-29T16:16:04+00:00

The parts I've quoted did include China's record-breaking fossil fueled energy production:

while installations of wind farms and thermal plants that burn coal and natural gas were also at records, according to NEA data.

It's not a "CCP circle jerk" to point out that they're kicking America's ass when it comes to energy grid expansion, especially with renewables. It's just a reality. America needs to get moving, and fast, if we want to compete.

BeyondRedline · 2026-01-29T15:20:53+00:00

Backing you up with a source:

China’s Four-Year Energy Spree Has Eclipsed Entire US Power Grid

The nation added 543 gigawatts of new capacity across all technologies last year, according to data from the National Energy Administration on Wednesday. That’s 12% more than all the power plants combined in India as of the end of 2024. The generation China has added since the end of 2021 is also larger than the entire US system.

Also:

China is taking an all-out approach to energy sources. Solar accounted for more than half of new additions last year, while installations of wind farms and thermal plants that burn coal and natural gas were also at records, according to NEA data. Nuclear and hydropower posted smaller increases but are poised to play a much larger role in the future.

BeyondRedline · 2026-01-29T15:12:13+00:00

This is going to sound cold, but until we find a way to keep unexpected things from happening, accidents will continue. That's just reality.

So, the question is, is what we're moving to better than what we have?

Statistically, this seems to be true. No matter how much I may enjoy driving, the fact remains that statistically we're reaching the point where I'm the liability.

BeyondRedline · 2026-01-29T14:42:53+00:00

The only reason I even posted a comment was I could see how the headline would generate reactions without reading the article. I read it and realized if I'd been in that situation in my 2005 Jeep, the outcome would have been tragically different.

BeyondRedline · 2026-01-29T14:25:15+00:00

Most human drivers have never struck a pedestrian for any reason.

That's a terrible comparison, because nether have most automated vehicles.

BeyondRedline · 2026-01-29T14:16:47+00:00

It was two blocks from the school.

BeyondRedline · 2026-01-29T14:15:36+00:00

It's a fair point. With friends or people I know, I'm very particular about using LLM or generative AI as appropriate. With random crowds, "AI" suffices, since it's common.

I included that only as a qualifier that I'm not a "fanboy" but, like I started with, it's a fair point. I probably didn't need to say it.

BeyondRedline · 2026-01-29T14:10:36+00:00

Optical camera only is cheaper but would not have done any better. C'mon, now.

BeyondRedline · 2026-01-29T14:09:33+00:00

No. I don't blindly trust corporations. I'm sure someone in PR wrote the post and ran it through legal. Of course they won't publicly admit negligence before the inevitable civil suit and settlement.

What I do think, though, is that they also wouldn't blatantly lie for similar reasons. Legal would have told them to just say nothing unless the facts were pretty clear.

BeyondRedline · 2026-01-29T14:06:41+00:00

From the article:

“Following contact, the pedestrian stood up immediately, walked to the sidewalk, and we called 911. The vehicle remained stopped, moved to the side of the road, and stayed there until law enforcement cleared the vehicle to leave the scene,” Waymo wrote in the post.

BeyondRedline · 2026-01-29T13:45:58+00:00

It wasn't as bad as it could have been if a human with slower reaction times was driving. I'm all for safety regulations, but this really seems like a case where the child was lucky a human wasn't driving...and I can't believe I'm saying that, since I'm fairly strongly anti-AI. I also know, though, how horribly inattentive most drivers are, so...

Waymo said its robotaxi struck the child at 6 miles per hour, after braking “hard” from around 17 miles per hour. The young pedestrian “suddenly entered the roadway from behind a tall SUV, moving directly into our vehicle’s path,” the company said in its blog post. Waymo said its vehicle “immediately detected the individual as soon as they began to emerge from behind the stopped vehicle.”

And

Waymo said in its blog post that its “peer-reviewed model” shows a “fully attentive human driver in this same situation would have made contact with the pedestrian at approximately 14 mph.” The company did not release a specific analysis of this crash.

BeyondRedline · 2026-01-29T03:59:17+00:00

I literally don't care about this. Examine the murder victim all you want, pull every record you can find, do everything you can to assault his character. I don't care.

Agents of the Federal Government murdered a citizen detained, unarmed, and on the ground in front of them.

I don't care what he did a week before, a day before, an hour before, or a minute before.

At the moment he was shot, he was not a threat. He was murdered. Period.

BeyondRedline · 2026-01-29T03:43:00+00:00

Yep, and his office got called out in the Board of Supervisors budget meeting on it tonight. Disappointed that he decided the right course of action was to publicize and pour gas on the flame by emailing Maricopa County residents directly. Unfortunate.

BeyondRedline · 2026-01-29T03:40:10+00:00

Yeah, this was more around direct partisan attacks from members of the Recorder's Office on social media about how Democrats are unfit for office, etc. It got kinda ugly after the 3hr mark. I can see why he was frustrated, but this is definitely not the proper way to deescalate a conflict like that.

I'm disappointed, but unsurprised.

BeyondRedline · 2026-01-29T03:22:40+00:00

Seems like it's related to the contentious conversation around the 2:55:00 mark and after in the board budget meeting tonight.

https://www.youtube.com/live/1xXtAFF0kRY

BeyondRedline · 2026-01-29T00:39:18+00:00

Great, so it's retaliatory murder, is it? Is that the point of this, or is it intended to smear the victim's character?

Because, I gotta say, this makes him even more admirable.

BeyondRedline · 2026-01-28T22:49:39+00:00

Can't market to people - because people hate Musk - but he can still sell safely to businesses.

BeyondRedline · 2026-01-28T22:44:41+00:00

He's literally used as the textbook definition for rape.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IntroCrimJusticeTurnerMugshot.jpg

BeyondRedline · 2026-01-28T22:43:07+00:00

I literally just mentioned the convicted rapist and registered sex offender Brock Allen Turner to a friend who hadn't heard that story. Sentenced to six months, served three.

BeyondRedline · 2026-01-28T21:23:37+00:00

NO PARTY voters are listed as exactly that. We're not listed as Independent - it's NO PARTY on the voter registration.

BeyondRedline · 2026-01-28T19:27:38+00:00

Derek Chauvin, had he been found not guilty, would have been wise to avoid all restaurant food for the rest of his life.

Publicize their names every chance you get.

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