Unless your vehicle has particularly bad emotions, generally speaking that’s the recommendation. All vehicles have a front-facing emissions cost from their manufacture; EVs having more due to the battery materials. While it’s better in the long run to have an EV on the roads than a gas/diesel, there is value in maintaining an existing vehicle.

Like, I’m not sure how to properly convey the point but there’s something about reducing the market demand for a new car and its environmental impact. If someone were to trade in their old vehicle and buy a new one every few years (which is unfortunately pretty normal in the US for middle class’folks), they’d actually have a worse carbon footprint buying EVs because of those front-loaded emission costs.

The best step towards a greener future is cutting out unnecessary production rather than chasing the next gadget that’s supposed to save the world.

At that level of wealth, it is easy to insulate oneself from anyone who would actually give helpful advice, and even easier to find oneself in the company of yes men suckups.

I always thought huntsmen spiders were one of the coolest critters that live over there

Kosova erasure smh

Every (non-Australian) house needs at least one corner spider

I just had a read through the bill and, as written, it would prohibit elementary school children from playing pretend as animals on the school playground during recess. Obviously, if a student were using that as pretext to, like, bite someone, you’d want a supervisor stepping in, but to straight-up ban harmless elements of play-pretend like this is frankly asinine.

Oh, the litter boxes are real…

It’s just that their purpose is to be used during a school shooting lockdown.

On average, disposable plastic bottles shed microplastics much more prolifically than plastic water piping.

If the VIN matches and the vehicle fits the description when it was added to the plan it’s not a big deal… Unless you’re telling me I can’t remove the free advertisement badges from the back of my car and have it still be insured.

Your eugenic sentiments aside, if you want people to have fewer babies, you don’t just tell them to stop fucking; you teach them how to use contraception and make it as accessible as possible.

.loc and .iloc queries are a fun syntax adventure every time

Sometimes things only appear impossible when we don’t think in more complex terms

Just because it isn’t real doesn’t mean we can’t imagine a world where it can work

I’m not Canadian but I greatly support these measures, so if I may I’d like to weigh in.

I think that manufacturing country and ultimate ownership are probably the biggest key factors, as they dictate most where the lion’s share of money flows in a consumer economy. For example, if there’s American investment/VC/private equity for a company but it’s like 10%, it’s not great but definitely not as bad as a completely international company with locations in Canada.

If you want to get super fine-gained, you can even dig into whether a company outsources a significant portion of its auxiliary labor (e.g. digital infrastructure, customer support, shipping) to international firms, as that can make a difference as well.

Component sourcing is also important but there are a lot of cases where domestic isn’t as feasible due to global supply chain reasons. That’s one that’s going to be much more industry specific. Like, if you’re buying furniture and the wood comes from abroad when there’s a robust domestic timber industry in your country, I think that should be a red flag.

Coming to a final determination on any company is going to be one of those things that exists on a sliding scale and probably would benefit from some sort of scoring effort. Either way, my verdict is that any measure that boycotts the US is worth the effort if it’s done by enough people. Even a few loonies per person spent on local vs international over a broad enough group will make a noticeable impact.

bump up the id of old posts every time there’s a new post

That’s probably the worst thing I’ve read today, it’s such a bad thing to do on so many levels wtf

First off, obligatory acknowledgement that political compasses are brainrot content and not a great categorization of real world political landscapes.

Second off, I feel like the bottom two should be switched. Vapes can often be worse on your lungs than cigarettes (depending on the resin used and various factors) and contribute massively to the ewaste problem. They are marketed with bright colors and fun flavors to make them more appealing to children. Even vapes that advertise “no nicotine” often contain a nonzero amount to keep you hooked. All of this was done to innovate past cigarette/tobacco regulations and restrictions.

It’s a right-libertarian’s dream product, a testament to the free market’s ability to give zero fucks if it makes money and move faster than legislation can follow.

I wasn’t referring to the article, I was referring to what Senate Democrats can do in the current situation. At bare minimum, that can do what they were elected for as the opposition party. We don’t get even a noteworthy fraction of that, let alone extralegal measures.

Maybe lol

I could be wrong, but they likely asked because vinyl/PVC is generally toxic to the environment so it was probably a means of asking whether your neighbor replaced the foliage in their yard with a fixture that poisons the ground. I wouldn’t be surprised if the strips in the chain link were vinyl, as that’s a pretty common outdoor filler material.

We can take a look at what Republicans do without a majority: stall for time, attack the moral character of the opposition, find loopholes in the procedural process that you’re technically not disallowed to do but annoy the shit out of everyone, and generally be as obstructionist as possible.