Im probably too sick to continue my day

Alternatively April fools air raid sirens

It’s also the height of install. If you drive a subcompact a lot of vehicles will just have lights so high up to you that what’s a reasonable angle for them is directly in your mirror

I don’t want anything about driving at night to look psychedelic or weird as heck

Ooh a place for the cult of the Honda Fit to congregate

Yeah some was ugly, but sincere, other was not so bad

Lets start with your assumption that it’s fine that a country with .87% of the global population being anywhere near 2% of greenhouse gasses is ok. Especially when first world countries like ours are responsible for the historical majority of them. But also by reducing our emissions we enter the ability to negotiate with other countries to reduce theirs and we have incentives to develop more ecological technology that we can then sell to other countries as China has famously been doing with solar panels and electric vehicles. But significantly, all we can impact outside treaties is our own countries, so when we demand carbon reduction at home it’s because the alternatives are giving up or I suppose you could attempt to take back India and China.

Carbon taxes are more like vice taxes than say revenue taxes. The goal isn’t to raise money to offset emissions, but to make more externally costly decisions less appealing. That way you don’t fly instead of take the train in order to save a bit of time.

And yeah, I can’t speak much for the UK, but in the US I associate the Reagan era with the severance of businesses from their responsibility and value to society. The rot that’s killing my country both financially and socially was fostered and promoted by the Reagan era. We sold off our manufacturing capacity in the form of offshoring and created the conditions of the crack epidemic, government ignoring as more Americans died of aids than in the Vietnam War, and the formation of the religious right who would go on to cause a lot of today’s problems. My part of my country is called the rust belt, and it was decimated by the consequencesof the 80s.

Also I’m pretty sure the UK had great benefits from EU membership. At least considering how bad leaving it has gone for yall.

Think of our perception of capitalism as closer to your great grandparents’. Your statement of thatcher implies UK, so think before the unions and the council housing and for us yanks before the NHS. And with an oncoming doom from climate change. And that’s in addition to the technofuedalism. The benefits of privatization increasingly feel like a bold faced lie to us

Yeah I don’t mind apps keeping track of how I’ve been using them. But if duolingo tells me where my friend got married and congratulates me on keeping my streak through that then we’re gonna have some concerns

There’s probably a crusader saint. Oh st Joan of Arc. Sure she was sanctified for martyrdom (only catholic saint to be martyred by the catholic church yet), but she did do a war as part of her miracles

I read huckleberry Finn in high school, but that was one we weren’t allowed to read out loud

The land of freedom has reached the point that we must ban banning things rather than framing it as guaranteeing the right to d9 a thing.

It exists for advertising like we exist for grains. Yeah that’s what’s powering it, but it wasn’t made with that in mind, it was made iteratively.

It really is weird. Columbus for example is fucking huge to not have a train or frequent bus service.

Ohio has way too many people to be so hostile to rail and bicycle infrastructure

Debian is not easy

That’s fair, we’re both shithole states

Memphis is in Tennessee or Egypt.

I agree, why?

Every ton matters. Every ton buys us time or costs it to us