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  • Top CDC covid vaccine adviser quits after RFK Jr. ended recommendations

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  • 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).

  • 'Stakes are too high': Trump drives former Tea Partier into the Democratic Party

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  • 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.

  • OOPS: Trump Trade War Has U.S. Automakers Looking to Move Manufacturing to China, Per WSJ

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  • 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.

  • 'Stakes are too high': Trump drives former Tea Partier into the Democratic Party

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

  • OOPS: Trump Trade War Has U.S. Automakers Looking to Move Manufacturing to China, Per WSJ

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  • 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.

  • OOPS: Trump Trade War Has U.S. Automakers Looking to Move Manufacturing to China, Per WSJ

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  • 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

  • OOPS: Trump Trade War Has U.S. Automakers Looking to Move Manufacturing to China, Per WSJ

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  • 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.

  • White House Mocked After Admitting They 'Sent Letters' to Remind Countries About Trade Deal Deadlines: 'We Resorted to Begging Now?'

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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

  • Godaddy is pissing me off. Which registrar is decent for selfhosters these days?

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  • 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.

  • Get to it

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  • What if I prefer Postgres to MySQL?

  • No True Star Trek Fan would fail this test

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  • In my headcanon Tom was rotting in a Cardassian prison cell when Cardassia finally turned on the Dominion on Cardassia Prime. A trained Star Fleet lieutenant is a powerful asset in a battle. Seeing the Dominion as a worse threat to the Maquis interests than Cardassia, Tom convinced his jailers to free him in exchange for him fighting to defend Cardassia. The combined Alpha Quadrant forces succeeded in defeating the Dominion. While Cardassians would have wanted to re-imprison Tom, the destruction and chaos was too great and Tom was able to slip away and make his way back to a rim colony that supported the Maquis.

    The colonists, aware of the sacrifices Tom made to defend them hid and housed him. These colonies were far off the radar of the Federation at this point, so there was no one in power caring what they did, including if the Federation discovered Tom's whereabouts there. Tom had everything he could build a happy life with there, and a community that loved him. He could have lived there happily for the rest of his life...but that's just not the temperament of a Riker, so he left the safety and comfort of that work and once again threw himself into the fire for a cause..

    ...but that is another story.

  • No True Star Trek Fan would fail this test

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  • Luckily he was a different rank so they were never dressed the same.

    Ooohhh, you just failed the Star Trek test. Do you even DS9, bro? /s

  • No True Star Trek Fan would fail this test

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  • You failed the text. That one is Will, its the other one that is Tom.

  • Who is a celebrity you used to really like, but don't anymore?

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  • 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.

  • Trump says ‘extremely hard’ to make a deal with China’s Xi as trade stalemate fuels calls for leaders to talk

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  • 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

  • Steve Bannon warns Ukraine risks escalating war after drone strikes

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  • 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?

  • [ColmsComics] Marathon

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  • I wasn't going to talk about it, but since you brought it up, my VO2 max is...

  • New federal employees must now write essays praising Trump's policies

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  • 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

  • New federal employees must now write essays praising Trump's policies

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  • Couldn't you write your essay tearing down the trump administration, not get the job, then immediately have standing to sue the government for 1st Amendment violation?