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  • 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.]

    source

  • 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.

  • 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

  • And EVs are not a particular green or revolutionary technology in the first place.

    I think most agree that, at least, EVs are needed to evolve away from the CO2 generated from petroleum consumption used in cars and trucks. Yes yes, "public transportation better for moving people" but that doesn't work for all countries especially those with lower density population areas. Further "public transporation" does nothing for the "last mile" delivery of goods with regard to logistics.

    In almost every situation an EV is better than an ICE vehicle in respect to being "green" and vehicles are what our current systems are designed around.

  • So trump is telling us he himself "doesn't have the cards" then? trump tells us what happens when you don't have the cards:

    "He's asking for more, just more and more and more. And he doesn't have the cards. He doesn't have the cards, so hopefully he's going to get it done," Trump said. source

  • Russia is using part of that triad to launch conventional weapons killing Ukrainian citizens. Russia lost any grounds to say Ukraine shouldn't target these military assets. Well dang Steve, I guess you need to get on the phone and convince Russia to pull out of Ukraine then before this escalates into WWIII as you claim, right?

  • Contractors (in government or not) aren't cheaper in the "per hour" rate than FTEs (Full Time Employee). Contractors are usually more expensive. However, they're cheaper overall because you can release a contract at the end of the work, or at any time, without employment protection repercussions. You don't have to pay them when there's no work (or not enough). If the only work you have is lower skilled, you can release your expensive high skilled contractor, and pay less for a lower skilled contractor to do the work you have right now. You also generally don't have to pay to train contractors, which FTEs are expensive to train. You hire a contractor that already has the skills you want.

    There's also no such thing as a Performance Improvement Plan with a contractor that you would have to go through with an underperforming FTE. Firing an FTE is time consuming, carries legal liability, and is expensive to have them underperform until you've built up your case for firing. Even then you may have to pay out severance or accrued PTO. If the contractor is underperforming, you call the agency you're getting the contractor though, and you have a different contractor in very short order. You don't even have to "fire" the contractor, their agency will call them up and tell them they've been released from the contract.

    As a skilled contractor on the plus side, if you're skills are in high demand, you can charge egregiously high rates and you'll get the work and be paid handsomely. If the organization had instead cultivated their FTEs and trained them themselves, they would likely be able to get the work done for less money with their own trained FTEs. Further, after the work is done, their trained FTEs would be much better at maintaining the new work, while the org that just got contractors to do it may struggle to keep it running after the contractors are gone.

    This is what is attractive to organizations to use contractors. Source: am in contracting

  • Best case scenario with the honest man: he does nothing and I starve to death. Worst case scenario with the lying man: I starve to death anyway. May as well try changing things.

    With the lying man, as in my example, you won't starve to death, you'll die from exposure long before you die of starvation. If you're seeing dying much sooner as direct result of his actions as an equal outcome, I'm not sure what to tell you.

    At least the lying man admits there’s a fucking problem.

    He's not admitting there's a problem, he saying whatever he thinks you want to hear to give him your vote. This man stiffed his own employees and contractors on a regular basis. On what evidence in his entire life, did you arrive at the conclusion that rich donald trump wanted to do anything at all to improve the life of people like us? Not words. Actions.

    We don't have to speak in theoreticals though. trump won. Are you glad he got voted in? Is your life better now? Or is this now worse than under Biden?

  • That seems like an awfully fringe and roundabout improvement for a law that ruins the fun for everyone else.

    Ruining the fun? That seems to be an incredibly weak argument for gun proliferation. I can see an argument for strong 2nd Amendment proponents as the Constitution grants rights and freedoms, and restrictions on those granted in the Constitution could be a pathway to a bad place. However, I can also see an argument that the evolution of firearms has outpaced our society's safe use of modern firearms and that the freedom of victims of gun violence are also having their even stronger Constitutional rights restricted and spirit of our nation with the Declaration's "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness". In this conversation I'm not advocating a position either way, but I can see the valid arguments on both sides.

    In neither one of those is "ruining" the fun" even a fraction of a thought to consider. You do you though.

    Have a good night.

  • You’d think that if someone was about to slaughter as many people as possible they wouldn’t really be to worried about a 10-round mag law.

    You're missing the point of these laws entirely. No one is saying that passing a law like this is going to remove every possible avenue for someone to get the most destructive gun on the planet and do the most damage possible.

    What these laws are intended to do is make it less likely someone will have access to the most destructive gun on the planet. If someone plans multiple years ahead, they can go to the far ends of the Earth to get the most destructive gun possible. However, if they got pissed off at their boss that morning and decide to commit this kind of crime they'll only have wants available to that morning. If they were a legal gun owner when the day started, that means they'll only have 10 round magazines at most. Even if they drive to the local store nearby, they'd only be able to buy more 10 round magazines.

    Lets even say that higher capacity magazines are available in the next state over. That may mean hours of planning and travel just to get to the other state to get the high capacity magazines, then all the time it takes to get back home to commit their crime. That's a lot of time for someone to consider what they're doing, the impact it will have on others, and even their own lives.

    Will some still do it with all of that planning and bother needed? Yes. Will everyone? Doubtful.