Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act
The HOOHA Act?
this post was submitted on 10 May 2024
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Well yeah. It makes sense when you remember that these people buy that bad things happen because God is unhappy with us. The economy is suffering, because we let drag queens read to children, and that offends God. It's just the same magical thinking as followers of Apollo trying to appease their god. But now it's being hijacked by much bigger and more complex political and propoganda machine.
Taking bets on the next hill these fools try and die on.
My guess is it'll have something to do with trucks having a minimum height requirement of 3ft from cab to ground or it's not 'Murica.
Krugman writes some great stuff for NyTimes… but he linked to his own textbook? That was kinda cringe lol
Krugman writes some great stuff for NyTimes
Hard disagree.
That was kinda cringe lol
Hard agree.
Do you carefully read the EnergyGuide labels when you’re out shopping for appliances? I don’t.
From this we can infer Krugman does not subscribe to Technology Connections
Maybe Congress should get on that immigration reform that hasn’t been updated since 2013.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
MAGA Republicans say that America is in crisis: The economy is collapsing while the nation is being overrun by hordes of violent immigrants.
But as I noted the other day with regard to the crusade against lab-grown meat, the deep silliness of one of our major political parties is itself a serious issue.
Health and wellness writers constantly tell us that the best diet or exercise regimen is the one you’ll actually follow; similarly, the best environmental policy may be the one you can actually get implemented.
Regulations ensuring that the appliances on offer are reasonably efficient reduce people’s cognitive burden — you might even say they increase our freedom.
Probably more important, however, is the way energy-efficient appliances have been caught up in the culture war and conspiracy vortex that has swallowed American conservatism.
But it seemed pretty clear that what really bothered conservatives was the very suggestion that American consumers should take into account the adverse effects their choices might have on other people.
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