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Which means I doubt there’s going to be a bunch of Republicans suddenly jumping to Team Musk.

GOP grifters avoiding the biggest pile of money to grift, and you're confident grifters will actively avoid it? I'm not so sure. I'm betting a number of opportunistic GOP will sign up on the Musk train if it means getting a paycheck/personal superpac donation.

trump got really bent out of shape with the TACO nickname. If he doesn't follow through with this it will be a prime opportunity to point out yet more TACO evidence.

I don't think either man has thick enough skin to allow insults like this to be made public even if they are in on the joke. They don't see themselves through their own eyes. I'm guessing they only see what they imagine others are seeing.

Every couple weeks or so I seem to find myself behind someone that’s always either accelerating, or braking, with the brake lights repeatedly flashing on momentarily for no apparent reason.

In many EVs and Hybrids the "letting off the accelerator" engages the regeneration drag which slows the car. A number of vehicle makers with particularly aggressive drag (which gets higher regen rates) automatically illuminate the brake lights. So if you're behind one of these it will look like they are braking when they may have no foot on any pedal (brake or accelerator).

Last fall, about 9 months ago, I got the old Moderna Spikevax booster.

This fall, 2025, I would like to get the new Moderna mNexspike vaccine, but I'm otherwise healthy and that won't be allowed in the USA for me to get it.

My most recent is Moderna Spikevax from last fall here in the USA.

No, I haven't gotten it. I wish. For one, because I'm an American and our braid dead administration has determined that otherwise health people, of which I'm one, won't be able to get it.

For two, it will be available in the autumn to regular health people in Canada.

The new one from Moderna is called "mNexspike" and is approved for use now and will be available in autumn.

On a completely unrelated note, mNexspike will be available in autumn in Canada for Americans that travel there for it with the catch being having to pay for it (likely $140ish USD).

I don't know the guy's whole history, and his prior support of the GOP is GIANT red flag to me. However he's saying a bunch of the right things I would want to hear from a reformed GOP:

"I’ve opened my eyes and listened to people who don’t think like me," he said. "And by doing so, I gained a greater understanding of and appreciation for LGBTQ issues, structural racism, the need for empathetic immigration reform, the dangers of climate change, and the role government must play to help care for the neediest and most vulnerable among us."

• support for LGBTQ? - check
• recognition of critical race theory? - check
• seeing the need for immigration reform? - mostly check, I'd need to hear more on his views before I give him a pass on this one considering what little I know of his past
• admission of climate change dangers? - check
• support of a government that helps the weakest among us? - check

He could be a lying bastard, so I don't trust him yet, but these match a whole bunch of my political positions, so I'm hopeful we might have yet another person trying to fight for them. So no free pass, but time will tell.

Oh I didn't say trump's action's were logical. I'm pointing out possibly even worse consequences to his stupid administration's actions.

Sure, but we can't be picky. If we refuse any late arrivals we've handing the world to trumpism forever.

There's an even worse case scenario for the USA on this. To protect the US EV market, there was a prior tariff of 100% on Chinese EVs which largely priced them out of being brought to the USA. With these reciprocal new Chinese tariffs, the increased costs could get closer or even achieve price parity with USA made EVs. So a Chinese EV could be the same price as a USA made one, but worse yet, the high import tariffs the USA would get from the US imposed EV tariff would be collected by the US government. This means that trump would actually be incentised to encourage the Chinese EV (with its massive tariff adding to government coffers) over a USA EV which gives his government nothing execpt brownie points with his base. Encouraning the Chinese EV path also screws Musk, who is currently criticized trump. We know how much trump cares about his voters, so I'm seeing trump take the Chinese EV path.

This would be a political disaster for Trump as well as an economic one for the communities of workers who would ostensibly lose their jobs if such a thing were to occur.

Coming soon to !leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world

This is on-brand. In the same style Putin's war to keep Ukraine from increasing the size of NATO with its inclusion caused traditionally neutral countries of Sweden and Finland to quickly join NATO.

I knew about the Pepsi relationship, but the forced Diet Coke just adds to the absurdity and just had to be included in the joke.

They can't call trump out specifically, but they can really imply it cleverly to give themselves plausible deniability:

Taco Bell presents the Taco47:

• Doritos Loco Taco shell with artificial bright orange nacho cheese dust flavoring
• Grilled chicken that has a tendency to fall out. Resulting in a "chicken out" situation, as always.
• Too much sour creme ruining the meal
• Served with Diet Coke only, but with way too much ICE

Cost is 75 cents each, which you'd expect to be a bargain, but we've decided you've been taking advantage of us for years so there is a 150% tariff we've placed on it resulting in a $1.87 price before other taxes.

This is the end of my joke, but I have to share this part. I went looking for a picture to include in this post and found one on NPRs website from 2012 when the Doritos Loco taco first came out (Wait Wait Don't Tell Me show). They were commenting on it and I'm laughing hard at some of these comments:

• Eva: Everything about this is disgusting, and I love it.
• Peter: I don't like it. I open my mouth and take a breath before biting it, and get a lungful of powder. It's part taco, part asthma inhaler.
• Eva: Dorito's orange powder: The fat man's cocaine.
• Peter: Next time somebody thinks they've hit bottom, they should ask themselves, "Sure, I've lost my job and my spouse, but am I eating a Dorito Supreme? No? Then party on."
• Eva: Just like with regular Doritos, you can't eat just one. Which must be why I just absent-mindedly ate 23 tacos.
• Mike: This is the perfect combination of two things that are terrible for you. As if ammonia and hydrochloric acid, mixed together, tasted like chocolate.
• (Eva is offered another.) Eva: No thanks. I ate the first one, but now I feel really bad about it.
• Mike: Exactly. I'm trying to find an analogy, for something you do, but don't enjoy. It's like shooting Lenny at the end of "Of Mice and Men."
• Peter: Think of the tacos, Lenny! Think of the Tacos!
• [The verdict: If you like Doritos, in all their orangey glory, you will like these, but just a little while later you will regret everything you've done to lead you to that moment.]

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I’m a native English speaker and did very well in English class and I don’t even know what “it” is in this example.

The status (or state) of the weather.

As in:

Q: "What is the status of the weather?"

A: "It is raining."

Another vote for Namecheap. I also like they support their legacy pricing for hosting at time of renewal. Many years ago I subscribed to a small hosting plan for a very low price. I had need to set up yet another hosting plan and went looking for it. My preferred one had been discontinued 6 years prior and the new lowest on was a chunk more expensive with fewer features (for my new hosting plan), but Namecheap still honors my old pricing for my original plan. So I currently subscribe to one "cheap" hosting plan and another "not quite as cheap", and am quite fine with that.

What if I prefer Postgres to MySQL?

It takes 5 minutes to change a 10 round magazine into a high capacity one

Any magazine that can be changed in 5 minutes to hold more than 10 rounds likely doesn't count as a legal magazine even with only 10 round capacity at that time of sale.

Here's an example from the text California law with a piece on the 10 round magazine limits and exceptions:

"With limited exceptions, California law prohibits any person from manufacturing, importing into the state, keeping for sale, offering or exposing for sale, giving, lending, buying, or receiving a large capacity magazine.1 (A “large capacity magazine” is defined as any ammunition feeding device with the capacity to accept more than ten rounds, with exceptions for any .22 caliber tube ammunition feeding device, any feeding device that has been permanently altered so that it cannot accommodate more than ten rounds, or any tubular magazine that is contained in a lever-action firearm).2" source