People are acting like this man got conned or like they’re stupid. This was a bribe for a get out of jail free card. If you’re rich and make your money in black market ways this is the best possible decision you can make. Your name is on a list in front of the president even if you didn’t meet him. That means a pardon in the future.

In the article it says the CEO specifically called out the political pushback from pulling those programs in their quarterly earnings report..

In this case the main point of his conversation was that raising prices was inevitable due to tariffs, but that they’re going to try and “hold out” as long as possible. Whatever that means, but I suspect it’s trump appeasement so he doesn’t try and call them out. Which is also stupid.

I’ve been doing it for years… the print manager…

Maybe you should read the article then before commenting since it calls out that the car has been on sale for 1.5 years.

If you scroll just a little pass the surface level of their account you can see that OP has posted a dozen times in the Bills community.

The Prius Prime came out in 2012. Only 2 years after the first volt. 100% of the people in these threads are not car people and don’t actually know what products have existed or currently exist out there.

Also, Nissan might have had the first leaf, but what has it done with its EV program since then? They have the Arya and the leaf… and look at the state of Nissan now. Toyota made correct calls on Hybrid tech being better, and it’s paying off financially now too.

https://www.motoringresearch.com/car-news/lowest-co2-emissions-car-companies/

Yes. Most Americans drive less than 40 miles a day. Giving them the ability to do all of that on electric only, and then gas when they have to go further but with better efficiency is statistically better for the environment. Look, mining, shipping heavy ass battery cars, assembling, and them catching on fire and polluting toxic gas is a real thing. In our current obsession with driving everywhere and not investing in public transportation it’s the better of the two alternatives. If batteries had no mining, no net negative shipping weight, and didn’t pollute toxic gas if they caught on fire for a long time wasn’t a thing then yes you would be correct that BEVs are better. You know what’s even better though, real public transportation. You’re letting the small picture get in the way of the real fight you should be focused on. Not to mention the ballooning size and weight of cars.

Toyota LITERALLY launched new EVs yesterday. On top of that what the fuck do you think the prime models are? They’re battery vehicles with less waste because they have generators onboard for longer range. Most people can accomplish their daily driving in EV mode effectively making them EVs. Which is better for the environment currently. Less gas usage when you’re around town, and an efficient motor that allows you to use less battery resources which require dirty AF mining.

Primes are better options for 100% of Americans than a BEV. Less use of batteries and a motor when you need it with 60+ miles of range. Toyota has like 3 Prime vehicles and they just launched a new EV C-HR yesterday and updated Bz today with a new set of trims for various different people.

https://paultan.org/2025/05/15/2026-toyota-c-hr-returns-to-the-us/

They were one of the first companies to invest into solid state batteries. They don’t want lithium/ non-solid state batteries as those batteries are less safe and have more long term reliability issues. Both of which are core principles of Toyota. They also make some of the longest lasting cars on the road which is better for the environment than you buying a new car every few years (which is obviously not as good as public transit options). Just because other brands have the illusion of caring about the environment doesn’t mean you should try and shit on the one that has a track record of actually lowering their emissions.

They were only “anti-EV” years ago when there was no infrastructure and batteries weren’t as capable. Plus they made it a point to say it was better for the environment if all gas cars were hybrids as it would use less resources and be more beneficial, and they aren’t/weren’t wrong. Today Toyota has a range of BEVs and is launching more as I type this.

Every school district IT department has like dozens of these 4050s in service that WONT DIE, and it’s amazing. I wish they still made them.

• voter apathy
• he didn’t win by as many votes as the largest election against him (2020)
• he was never popular among all people, but is among voting people
• electoral college doesn’t make sense

We have a broken election system here in the states, but not a popular president.

This is highly dependent on the state and even the areas within a state. Here in California for instance we have the Williams Act which lays out a ton of guidance. Some of which impact students paying for things at schools. Some districts in the state view Williams Act and 1:1 Chromebook deployments as being something that the student/parents aren’t responsible for paying for even when they purposefully damage it. This can change though from region to region in the state based on how a districts legal team and its board chooses to read the law since no one so far (at least as far as I was last aware and I work in edtech) has pushed to see where it stops or starts. I’ve worked for districts that were on separate ends of that spectrum and even in the district that made parents pay for damages we still would give them a replacement and not charge them since it was added to a “tab” and only if they wanted transcripts did they have to pay.

I know you people in the middle and lower classes don’t understand, but this poor man now has to pull up to yacht club in a smaller boat, and he will only be able to afford 3 additional vacation homes this year. For you plots, that’s like… showing up to a team meeting without a Starbucks cup and having a “coffee shop” cup, or going to work and pulling out a bagged lunch instead of going out to eat. Think of how this will impact his mental health and his social status. Smh.

I believe a Mucci is 1/4 of a Trusses. Although there could be an imperial to metric conversion in there.

This silhouette feels like it’s stolen from every major gun, but isn’t an actual AR. That upper is closer to an AK slant at the rear and the forward barrel shroud is odd. Although I’ve seen some magpul esque 3rd party stuff.

That said, 5.56 is a round I’d be switching off of for everyone else. It’s ubiquitous, but the military is switching away from it due to body armor resistance to 5.56. Now .308 and 300 black out… most of the gun nuts all agree that the best bugout bag gun is an FN-FAL. Excellent stopping power, highly accurate, controllable, and has some great built-in features that make it perfect for survival on the front lines.

Totally forgot it was school shooting season.

For those outside the US, April is statistically VERY high for school shootings. Mostly because columbine took place in April and all copycats have since followed.

I actually think regulation is how we got them, but not in a known bad way. Originally car headlights had little to no standards, but eventually people realized they’re important to safety and so testing started happening to ensure that headlights met a minimum safety rating. The problem is that the testing was done from the drivers seat, and based on light projection in front of the vehicle rather than taking into account other humans looking toward it. I’ve been a big proponent of LED lights that dim when stopped or slowing, and even halogen/ultra dim lights for city driving, and keeping LEDs for brights. LEDs have really made a lot of brights basically useless, but the brightness, and harshness of color temperature is absolutely detrimental to other drivers.

At this point it doesn’t even matter. Whatever I type out will have changed in the last 5 minutes because we let some guy run our country based off social media posts. I think it’s currently limited to smartphones, laptops and computer chips. Which to me is basically all the tech we were trying to “bring back” but who knows anymore.

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