CapitalismsRefugee

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd never heard of CAFE fees before;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy?wprov=sfla1

I think this is the specific bit that you are referencing;

CAFE has separate standards for "passenger cars" and "light trucks" even if the majority of "light trucks" are being used as passenger vehicles. The market share of "light trucks" grew steadily from 9.7% in 1979 to 47% in 2001, remained in 50% numbers up to 2011.

Interesting also;

In addition, a Gas Guzzler Tax is levied on individual passenger car models (but not trucks, vans, minivans, or SUVs) that get less than 22.5 miles per US gallon (10.5 L/100 km).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Neat

"Voyager 2 is programmed to reset its orientation multiple times each year to keep its antenna pointing at Earth; the next reset will occur on Oct. 15"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Mmmm I see you are a person of culture

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

These were the words I used when discussing an upcoming potential termination,

"But the person I'll be on the other side of [this crisis of maybe termination] will be no more absolutely or permanently diminished than the one I became after any other of the subjectively substantial life-changing crises."

I've lived through some pretty painful shit. I feel quite angry about the misery I consider my life to currently be, but I still choose to live. With these words I was explaining that this "disaster" couldn't be any more miserable than the sundry other miseries I've learned to live with. The consequences of this "crisis" may absolutely be something I will hate deeply and bitterly, but I doubt it's going to be the straw that gets me to break this camel's back.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's been years since I played Minecraft, probably version 1.2 maybe, but

Glacier

was always a pretty good seed that I remember being shared a lot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Last night my dad was talking about this "liberal propaganda" about the "supposed climate crisis" talking about the movie Don't Look Up. Fuck it pissed me off, I don't know how to respond to that. Conservatives aren't in reality, every fact that disagrees with their backwards fantasy is just some kind of liberal conspiracy that "wise" men would never bother considering.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I really want to read more about this. The article doesn't mention how this new law intends to target pimps and sex-buyers without punishing sex-sellers. We see time and again laws "intended" to target the worst perpetrators of a crime regularly being used to instead target the victims of it. How is this law phrased to protect against that possibility?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Was that ever in any doubt?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I am no longer a Christian, I came from a super fundamentalist bent of Christianity. The idea of choosing to not sin even if you know your sins are forgiven has to do with love.

"For God so loved the world he gave his only son for our sins" etc

So the pastor tells us that we know we are a real Christian who is really saved by our "good fruits", that is, the good things we choose to do and the bad things we choose not to do. So by choosing not to sin, you're proving to yourself that God is real and that God really saved you, because, as everyone knows, it's impossible to be for even a moment anything but absolutely selfish without God's help.

Most Christians aren't that Calvinist though. That was the church I grew up in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I like that. I've not drawn my personal philosophy so explicitly but if I did, I think it would be a lot like that.

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