If we get a choice on which side of Trump, exterior or interior, is to be the only side of this Bottle, I vote “interior.”
We’d never have to gaze on that orange skin, ever again.
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Years ago, I read a pretty good SciFi story (I think it was in a Hugo winners anthology) about some folks at a college or work reunion. Someone had brought in a statue of an approximation of a Klein bottle. Some joker had also swapped it out with an actual Klein bottle and one of the key characters in the story climbed “into” the sculpture and instantly became a Klein bottle himself; I think that killed him, but I don’t recall the exact ending. Sorry..
Is it wrong of me to dream that happens to Tanoramus?
How does climbing into a Klein bottle cause someone to turn into a Klein bottle?
Beats me. All I could figure out was “It’s Science Fiction, with a bit of an emphasis on fiction there”.
I’m positive there’s a snappy retort to this but I’ll be damned if I can think of it
One hops in and pulls the covers up to his chin.
I see that the Orange Peril continues to demolish previously enacted environmental regulations, especially if they were Obama’s. The most remarkable recent development is that California will no longer be allowed to set vehicle emissions standards which they’ve been doing for decades. Conservatives like to whine about “states’ rights” in their quest to minimize the federal government, but that apparently doesn’t apply if the rights are things they don’t like. These bastards are absolutely shameless hypocrites.
I don’t know where to put this, so here it is:
I’m assuming it should be ‘male’ driver.
What is the stated rationale for this, even if it’s something completely ridiculous. Which it surely is. Why don’t the Pubbies like this? It’s only one state out of approximately 48 or 49 or something.
Is it ONLY because it’s something Obama supported? Nothing more than that?
The stated rationale is that with the Orange Peril’s rollback of emissions standards, federal standards and those of California would be radically different. The real reason is that the Orange One hates California and hates anyone and anything that supports the mitigation of climate change, and of course doesn’t give a shit about states’ rights. He would love to see LA smog return on a yuuge scale – it would be the greatest smog, the best smog in history, believe me.
Furthermore, with signs that forward-thinking automakers would voluntarily conform to California standards nationwide, it would make the federal rollback in this area ineffective and greatly piss off the Orange Cheeto by reducing auto pollution, smog, and cardiorespiratory diseases not just in California, but nationwide. Thus, the Trumpster’s DOJ is now harassing automakers who voluntarily agreed to an emissions reduction deal with the California Air Resources Board, accusing them – get ready for this – of antitrust violations!
It’s re-curse-ive?
Wait just a minute here! Doesn’t the tan turd just positively love Xi Jinping? The People’s Republic of China happens to have rather strict emissions standards for their motor vehicles. Since T[sup]2[/sup] is copying his dictator heroes, one would thing he’d support California on this!
I really think at least a portion of it is that automakers hurt his feelings by agreeing to follow California’s standards and not his rolled-back ones. Now he’s lashing out to hurt not only California and Obama but also those automakers that flouted his “orders.”
He carries a grudge better than anyone - believe me! :rolleyes:
I don’t suppose there’s the tiniest chance that if California loses the legal battle that will ensue, automakers would go ahead and follow its intended emission standards anyway rather than going with Trumpelstiltskin’s ridiculous worse ones that are harmful to everyone just out of spite?
Yabbut historically Xi Jinping has presided over some of the world’s best smog – yuuuge smog – especially in Beijing – and the Cheeto doesn’t like being outdone. He won’t rest until the residents of LA are going around with face masks or gas masks and keeling over from lung disease like the folks in Beijing.
Not any more, though. Our very own JoseB loves telling anybody that since China built two nuclear reactors beyond the hills and removed the ring of coal burners around Beijing, the air has cleared up and then some. Sounds like something out of a SimCity game, but hey, it works.
Washingon Post article from this same month.
Which standards are closer to those in other markets of interest, such as Japan, Australia or the EU? If you can create a single design which fullfills all requirements, having two designs each of which is limited to part of your market will generally not make sense (the savings in materials etc would need to make up for the added cost in engineering, supply chain management etc). Note that right-hand/left-hand double design is a situation where you cannot have a single design, as the two sets of regulations are mutually incompatible.
But what Trump knows about OpEx fits inside the shadow of my little finger’s nail. With the lights off.
I like the jib-cut.
But I fear all this administration’s diligent, well-trained new EPA regulators will go around making sure all regulations have been properly de-regulated, and then heads will roll in a most Halfordian way.
Nava: The government here is kind of, shall we say, interesting when it comes to certain things. Apparently they react pretty quickly when the air quality reading gets pretty high (it’s like a score in golf, the higher, the worse), shutting down factories, restricting which cars can be driven, etc. Just five years ago, I looked out my apartment window and I couldn’t even see three feet. Yet the air quality reading was in the 30s. I wondered how that reading could be so at odds with the evidence of my eyes. Then it hit me.
Do you remember the term “wind chill factor” in weather reports? For example, the meteorologist would announce “Tomorrow morning the temperature will be 37 degrees, but the wind chill factor of 10 will make it feel like 27 degrees”. It’s similar to the air quality reading here, but what you have to do is add the corruption factor.
Imagine, for a moment, a party that was actively trying to destroy the country. Actively trying to get as many people as possible killed. Actively trying to cause the apocalypse.
How would their actions look different from the current republican party?
They’d open the borders?