So all the carbon emissions are from the production of gasoline, diesel, etc, not the actual consumption of that gasoline, diesel, etc, right? Whew, that's a relief - I thought I might have to give up my ICE automobiles, but since the issue is Exxon Mobil, not the countless millions of people that burn Exxon Mobil products every day, there's no need for me to change my behavior!
I guess that takes me off the hook, since I only burn gasoline driving around town - the problem is the greedy oil companies that keep restocking the local gas station for me? Great! Guess it's not my fault...
It's not the folks driving the ICE automobiles, the tractor-trailer trucks, or running ocean cargo ships that are causing the carbon emissions, it's the folks that sell them the gasoline, diesel fuel, and bunker oil? Interesting.
By the same logic are hostess bakeries responsible for the obesity crisis in America, not the consumers that eat their products?
Regardless, clearing brush will not stop the wildfire problem
What? Because it won't "stop" the wildfire problem we choose to not clear brush in California forests? It's not enough that it *might* reduce the severity of wildfires? If it won't stop them all we won't take any action?
This is the same brilliant logic that had one political party refusing to do anything to moderate immigration in the last administration because we failed to craft a comprehensive solution to immigration issues? That said we couldn't put up a wall along the border because it wouldn't end all illegal border crossings...
And rather than simply upgrading existing RR tracks between SF and LA and running the trains a bit faster, we needed a ten-stop, high-speed rail line that added hundreds of extra miles to the trip and promised to make it up by going faster, at a cost so exorbitant it was shut down with ZERO usable track being laid at a cost of tens of billions of dollars.
Can't we just clear out underbrush/kindling? Please?
As a reminder, this is a NY State regulation, not federal - you'd only have to drive out of state to buy a gun-part capable 3D printer...
According to TFS (which is always accurate):
require 3D printers sold in the state to include built-in software designed to block the printing of gun parts used to make "ghost guns."
Note the words "built-in software" - no internet access needed for your printer to access govt gun part databases... your 3D printer "will just know" it's a gun part, I guess...
They were making guns 250 years ago without 3D printers, CNC machines, high-tech lathes, etc, why couldn't a motivated person do the same in 2026?
Making a single-use, single-shot gun is almost trivial - all you need is a way to strike the firing and contain the explosion of the cartridge as it propels the bullet down the barrel...
Prisoners used to make zip-guns in prison, why couldn't someone with access to a modern hardware store do the same?
Meant to add - https://www.porsche.com/usa/mo...
The Macan is an SUV - people DO use them to haul groceries and pick up kids.
I wonder if there are any subsidies for buying EV/Hybrids in Europe? I wonder if that is skewing the numbers?
Similar to steel/aluminium tariffs against Canada in Trump's first administration - the purpose was to reduce dependency on foreign sources of these strategic materials, to spur on domestic production. That's why we had tariffs on our neighbor to the north -we weren't mad at them, we needed to be able to produce these materials domestically.
This makes no sense - Amazon is giving a mining company commute services and cash to secure raw copper, which it will in turn hand off to wire/cable manufacturers in exchange for finished cabling to wire future data centers? This is crazy. I think it's more likely just an investment intended to increase supply and drive down costs - I can't believe Amazon actually want raw copper.
Don't nuclear power plants use copper wire?
Please, define a ghost gun.
How does requiring a gun to have a serial number keep them out of the hands of undesirables?
Oh, it means guns that can't be detected by a metal detector? That's already a law, how does this change anything?
If I go into my workshop and build one of these unregistered, undetectable guns, how will anyone know what I've done until I use it in the commission of a crime?
Yet three or four years ago a couple were busted in Alberta for making MAC-10 submachineguns and selling them to criminals.
Of course, anyone illegally buying a gun is a criminal - they couldn't legally sell the submachine guns they produced.
Prisoners call them "zip guns"
WW2 resistance fighters had shitty stamped-metal single-use guns that basically destroyed themselves when fired.
Aren't there something like 300 million guns in circulation in the U.S., anyone that wants a gun can get one, what's the benefit of printing one?
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them WHAT to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. -- Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
