• @Limonene
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    30217 hours ago

    It’s not like there’s a state border check for vehicle emissions. You can visit California in a non-California car without an emissions check. Joy’s claim doesn’t make sense even before fact checking.

    • @jordanlund
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      11917 hours ago

      There is a border check entering CA but they only ask about fruits and vegetables.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          6616 hours ago

          California grows like 40% of the vegetables for the entire country. So they’re very protective of their agriculture.

        • @Carvex
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          3916 hours ago

          Florida has a checkpoint for plants and possible invasive species, definitely not for firetrucks helping people though.

        • @Glitterbomb
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          410 hours ago

          Imagine my surprise learning about them by pulling up to one. I don’t think it was even near the CA/OR, but like 50 miles into Cali on the interstate. All of a sudden I see an officer flagging me at a little booth, I figured it was an emergency ahead or maybe I ended up on a toll road? The first thing he says to me was something along the lines of ‘Got any fruit or vegetables in the vehicle?’ And I just respond ‘I’m sorry, what?’ He must get that a lot, he pretty much waved me through as he was explaining.

          I brought a prepackaged fruit cup my next trip just to see what would happen but I ended up doing the coastal route and never got stopped going that way.

        • @Pieisawesome
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          3416 hours ago

          There are. Especially for commercial vehicles:

          • @SmoothLiquidation
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            1815 hours ago

            A lot of states have checkpoints for vehicles towing boats. Need to check for invasive water creatures.

          • @[email protected]
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            1216 hours ago

            I choose to hold two images of this in my head and they’re both equally real, reality be damned.

            They’re looking for horse rolling papers and they’re going to the trailer and asking each horse to show their papers as the driver is told to stand back and let them work.

        • @zdanger
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          516 hours ago

          They’ve been a thing as long as I can remember

    • plz1
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      2316 hours ago

      It’s meant to sow discord, not be fact checked or taken seriously by critically-minded people. It’s meant to rile up the MAGA’s.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      1516 hours ago

      It makes sense to people who have never left their hometown, like most of her audience.

    • @SlopppyEngineer
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      816 hours ago

      Welcome to modern society where facts don’t matter and all feelings are made up.