▲ 112 ▼ Justice Department Makes It Easier to Bypass Pollution Controls on Pickups (www.nytimes.com) submitted 1 month ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/politics@lemmy.world 6 comments fedilink hide all child comments It has stopped criminal prosecutions of people who install “defeat devices,” which make diesel trucks faster and more efficient but also dirtier. By "dirtier" they mean the exhaust kills people.
[–] RotatingParts@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago (1 child) Its all about them short term benefits. Live for today, screw tomorrow. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* They all think they'll be saved by the rapture, despite being the most disgusting wretched humans on earth. Additional reading about how they think it'll happen, salivating imagining they'll be the pilot or the driver getting beamed up heaven while the nonbelievers fly off the road or crash from cruising altitude. Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (1995) Or Calvanists to the Catholics in the 1600s: We are the pure and chosen few, and all the rest are damned. There’s room enough in hell for you — we don't want heaven crammed. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* They all think they'll be saved by the rapture, despite being the most disgusting wretched humans on earth. Additional reading about how they think it'll happen, salivating imagining they'll be the pilot or the driver getting beamed up heaven while the nonbelievers fly off the road or crash from cruising altitude. Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (1995) Or Calvanists to the Catholics in the 1600s: We are the pure and chosen few, and all the rest are damned. There’s room enough in hell for you — we don't want heaven crammed. permalink fedilink source parent