Re:George Carlin's "Soft Language"
by pauldenton on Sunday October 22, 2023 @03:08PM
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Or selling you products
Impossible burgers
Tofu.
It's like a coordinated agenda to stigmatize the internal combustion engine and promote renewable energy sources like solar and wind. You might just be in the prime demographics for both but a majority of the population isn't.
Re:George Carlin's "Soft Language"
by jabradoodle on Sunday October 22, 2023 @04:54PM
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Nobody has stigmatized engines, people are trying to reduce emissions because the greatest body of knowledge we have access to (science) suggests we should.
Re:George Carlin's "Soft Language"
by pauldenton on Monday October 23, 2023 @04:02AM
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https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/09/23/governor-newsom-announces-...
and outside of just gas powered engines
https://apnews.com/article/berkeley-california-natural-gas-b...
Re:George Carlin's "Soft Language"
by jabradoodle on Monday October 23, 2023 @05:10PM
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It's an inanimate object, it's not being stigmatised, it's being phased out.
... of making me have empathy with sentient beings suffering? Joke's on them, I already had that.