If they’re main goal of the tax is to promote specific behaviour I doubt they’ve hung their budget on its revenue. That would be bad policy design.

Do you have some evidence to support the position that electric vehicles are more environmentally damaging than ICE ones? I don’t think anyone worth listening to is arguing that there isn’t an environmental cost to EVs.

Ideas like that and “the arc is long but it bends toward justice” have really started to worry me more and more lately. They make people complacent. Things can and do (as we’ve all seen lately) get worse. We can’t just wait for things to get better we have to work and fight for it every day.  I worry that comfortable…

It’s about ethics in chair journalism.

If I was at work and did not have access to a stove.

Yep, where I live it isn’t uncommon for people to refer to any small, unleashed dog as ‘eagle bait’.

They’re vultures with good PR. Go to any dump in BC or Alaska and you’ll see dozens to hundreds of them eating garbage.

I’d love to have a second kitchen for big processing jobs. If I’m canning and drying hundreds of pounds of produce or butchering a deer, or making a big batch of cider it would be nice to have a dedicated space for it so that my smallish normal kitchen is still usable.

My whole house is about 25% of that size.

Having Fireball on there surprised me to be honest. I’ve always thought of it as a redneck drink. 

If you don’t secure your guns properly and someone uses them to commit a crime you should be tried as an accessory to that crime.

Honestly if I lived in the US I would be looking to leave at this point. I’ve got tons of respect for those of you staying and trying to fix things, but fuck it must be exhausting.

My wife has one of those. It is more fun than it has any right to be. That engine has gone 10 years never needing anything more than normal maintenance too.

I guess go for a long hike somewhere without a cell signal.

Yeah, curtido>coleslaw every day.

I’m not sure I’ve ever had a coleslaw that was better than a mediocre curtido.

Yeah, cops and their apologists always pull out the “few bad apples” line, but they never finish it. Not every cop starts out bad, but they’re either assimilated into that culture (spoiled by the bad apples) or driven out. That in turn means that most good people wouldn’t ever consider becoming cops (because why would…

Yeah he was unintentionally honest the first time there.

I’m assuming “would you like fries with that?” is right up there too in this guy’s case.

I’ve seen those a few times (one of my neighbours has on on his car) but have remained blissfully ignorant about what the reference is. Good to know that I should be suspicious of those people.