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funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Road deaths & accidents in the USA are like twice that of Europe.

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  • teuniac_@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But that’s okay. Accidents are just that—unavoidable and random. There’s absolutely nothing else that can be done, so we might as well shrug and accept our fate. When a poor kid gets flattened by an SUV, the only reasonable response is to sigh, feel sad for a moment, and then move on. After all, questioning the design of our roads or the size of our vehicles would be an affront to the gods of chance and the sacred right to drive anywhere, anytime.

    Europeans might obsess over safety, but we know better: the universe writes its own traffic plan, and sometimes the ink is a little redder than we’d like…

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    • bob_lemon@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      When a poor kid gets flattened by an SUV, the only reasonable response is to sigh, feel sad for a moment, and then move on.

      Not true. You could also call into question why the kid was outside in the vicinity of motor vehicles! Surely the parents can be blamed as well.

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• BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Probably also doesn't hurt that the US is generally far more reliant on driving to get anywhere. There's a higher tolerance for doing it dangerously since there's no alternative

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  • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What are we supposed to do?? NOT DRINK?

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    When I suggest taking drivers licenses away, my fellow Americans act like I’m suggesting the death penalty.

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  • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I used to live way outside of town and there weren’t any night buses on weekdays, so I got a moped at 15. I just didn’t drink at all when I hung out with friends on weekdays, even when I turned 16 and it became legal, because I had to drive. It wasn’t hard to do and nobody batted an eye. So, the alternative is not drinking. Having no alternative transport is a poor excuse for drunk driving.

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    • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This.

      Drinking is not a requirement. And if it is, you need better friends.

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• QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Legally speaking in the USA anything after the first is driving while intoxicated/under the influence (different states use DWI or DUI).

  Working in the booze biz you are sadly correct though. I had a wine rep a few years back offer to pay for my parking in NYC if I went to a tasting. I told him I was taking the train and he was surprised. He shouldn’t be.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    driving while intoxicated/under the influence (different states use DWI or DUI).

    I thought it was a matter of severity, with DUI being over the limit but not obviously impaired and DWI driving while there’s no doubt that you’re drunk, leading to more severe punishment?

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s actually been a trend of shifting the language to “owi” or “operating while intoxicated” since the law is the same whether you’re operating a car, a bike, a boat or a dump truck

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    • QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That is not my understanding though I am not a lawyer.

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You really don’t need to swallow at a wine tasting. In fact you’ll be able to taste a lot more without starting to affect your judgment if you don’t.

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    • QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Even spitting you still swallow a bit. Most in the trade spit at tastings into the spit buckets. You’ll be fine trying 5 wines in an hour but I would be tasting dozens of wines for hours. It adds up after a while.

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• teslasaur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah. You’re not gonna find many Swedes getting behind the wheel regardless of alcohol amount. There used to be a HARD stigma against it, since we know what happens. People used to get so drunk that we had to create a state monopoly of alcohol sales, in an attempt to reduce it. People argue about the actual effect, but i know that it’s cultural suicide to get behind the wheel drunk. The legal limit is 0,2 ppm alcohol.

  The Danes however… They could drink 3 halfliter lagers before reaching the legal limit of 0,8

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  • ArcaneGadget@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Danish limit is 0,5 like most of Europe. Most people here have a rule of thumb of 2 regular beers.

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    • teslasaur@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My bad. I mixed it up with the uk. They actually never had a limit until 1998 😬

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• BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  in wisconsin you arent legally considered an adult until you get a dui

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• socsa@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There's a time factor as well. One standard drink per hour will keep a normal sized adult below about 0.05 bac indefinitely.

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• Vinstaal0@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In NL you are allowed to have 0,05% of alcohol in your blood, which is about 2 Dutch classes. We often server 0.2L glasses these days, it sucks …

  rijksoverheid.nl/…/mag-ik-met-alcohol-op-deelneme…

  And waith you can have almost of litre of beer in your blood and it is still not drunk driving? Yeeeez, especially considering the US is a shit place to walk or bike. No wonder why there are so many drunk driving accidents

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    to clarify I am speaking “culturally” not legally.

    Most people go out for drinks and drive home.

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