Never done metal, but it looks like what people like for it is called a “fiber laser”

They seem to go for about $1400 but have not shopped around or tried to pick up a used one

A laser cutter could etch “TRAITOR” across his face in bulk

Yes, there is a requirement to buy permits in the carbon market. It applies to large emitters and fuel sellers. It does not cover non-fossil-fuel emissions sources, like some pesticides which are also greenhouse gases, or agricultural methane sources.

About 1/3 of the time. Its very random when it seems to matter

It is, but yet another thing where doing nothing was free.

Forcing companies to buy them creates a financial incentive to not burn stuff. Its effective, but the price you have to make them pay to get rid of all the burning is higher than can be politically supported in the near term.

He can read when he wants to. The problem is that Trump has only ever been seen to read one book:

Last April [Note: article published in 1990] perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.

“Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump.

Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”

“I don’t remember,” I said.

“Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”)

Later, Trump returned to this subject. “If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them.”

The scale of the science cuts doesn’t come near to paying for the war or the tax cuts for the rich. The US is borrowing huge amounts of money to cover both. While borrowing money can make sense, particularly when used to pay for research and infrastructure which will ultimately increase economic growth, this is at a scale which actually carries very real economic risks.

With the current Supreme Court, the law is whatever they make up.

A lot of other states, about half the country by population, follow the California vehicle emissions rules.

Because they desperately need any kind of materiel they can get, and they’re hoping not to be cut off

Just means corporations will try to addict their employees to nicotine instead.

Most likely /ˈseɪ.bəl/ (SAY-bul) like the mustelid

There’s a lot of evidence that it has not moved elsewhere. Let’s look at New York City for example: reducing car traffic inside the zone cut pollution outside the zone by reducing traffic there too

There are very narrow examples where what you describe isn’t impossible, but they tend to involve all-coal electric supply combined with first-generation electric vehicles. Eg: West Virginia 20 years ago.

They don’t care if there’s an attack on US soil; the Trump Regime is already bombing Iran.

Before we had evidence that Tomahawks were used, it could plausibly have been Israel, which is also bombing Iran.

Also caused a regional environmental crisis by bombing oil facilities. That’s likely to kill a huge number of civilians

The bigger deal, which didn’t make the headline of this article, is that making the switch is cheaper than putting up with a single fossil fuel price jump.

Just that they weren’t deployed in a way that prevents a pilot who knows where the mines are from avoiding them. In the 1980s, tankers regularly transited despite a risk of mines.

Full disconnect is fairly unlikely. You really want the wind and geographical backstops to be reliable and cheap