• modernangel@sh.itjust.works
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    if all the icecaps and glaciers melt, which they currently are, Florida is going the way of Atlantis. Never mind making liberal heads explode or throwing marginalized outgroup profiles in prison for fun and profit; you’d think sheer simple self-preservation would mean something.

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      The mouth breathers either don’t believe in global warming, or don’t care because they figure they’ll be dead by the time the bill comes due. Basically the classic conservative take of “fuck you, I got mine”.

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        or don’t care because they figure they’ll be dead by the time the bill comes due

        I don’t get people who think like that. Don’t they have kids, grandkids? They might not have to suffer the consequences, but their descendants do.

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    Makes no fucking sense. Also this lame ass “government” shouldn’t be even allowed to dictate this shit to businesses.

    All I can think of is coal lobbyists paying for this shit to happen. Fuck you all; wish you the worst.

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    There’s gotta be some kinda German word for what Florida represents.

    horrifyinglyembarrassingexcrementeken.

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      I don’t know one that sums up Florida, but I know one that sums up how I feel about Florida: Fremdschämen.

      Edit: Actually, I guess we could just add Höllenloch to it and get what you were trying to say: Fremdschämenshöllenloch or Vicariously embarrassing hell hole. I’m sure someone whose German is much, much better than mine will breeze through here and correct me.

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    This is simply a fuck you to the rest of the world. “We care so little about climate change that we’re going to intentionally make it worse”

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    I mean… Sooner or later cat 5 will struck again, they don’t seem to give a shit…

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    I don’t understand the purpose of so many restrictive policies. Very overbearing to have a government like that

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    HB 1217 also prevents local governments from purchasing items such as vehicles or appliances based on the fuels they use

    Technically this allows for malicious compliance “actually we wanted to buy a gas powered engine but the law didn’t allow us to specify the fuel”

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      I mean… EVs don’t use fuel?

      All in all, wtf is even the point of this? You have to assume some fuel people gave him money.

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    America and their governments get dumber by the minute. It is amazing how much stupidity one can cast into a law, being blinded by ideology (or better, idiocity).