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Jay Leno’s star power wasn’t enough to persuade a California legislative committee to pass a measure to allow owners of classic cars like him to be exempted from the state’s rigorous smog-check requirements.

Imagine being rich and famous and this is your political cause. What an effing creep.

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[–] Soup@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Or scale. “Leaving a car in a garage is jot environmentally devastating” is true but they also show that they can’t think of what would happen if hundreds of thousands of people started needing parking spaces. It’s always “I’m not personally hurting anyone so should be able to do whatever I want” and never “my activity participates in a net negative and I should seek to figure out if I really need to do continue doing it”.