Comment on Rough date

FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• ickplant@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yup, people in, say, Eastern Europe or South Africa never drink and drive. Hell, even Canada has higher mortality rate than the U.S. for drunk driving.

  I get that it’s fashionable to shit on America (and like 99% of time it’s justified), and I will not go as far as to say there is no drunk driving problem here (cause of course there is), but it’s not an “American attitude”

  Source: forbes.com/…/the-worst-countries-in-the-world-for…

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  • Teepo@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Your link does not say that Canada has a higher mortality rate than the US for drunk driving. It says that drunk driving is responsible for a slightly higher percentage of motor vehicle fatalities (34% compared to 31%). Given that the US has three times as many traffic fatalities per capita, this means that the US has almost three times the mortality rate for drunk driving as compared to Canada.

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  • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And if anything drinking culture has become less popular do to cannabis recreation legalization in about half of all states.

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  • ddplf@szmer.info ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Bro don’t try to fool me, I watched Ray Donovan so I know how bad it is!

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, seems pretty clear that the drinking was done in a parked car after getting to the place they were supposed to meet. So not really.

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  • Demdaru@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And then they teleported back to homes <3

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    • 0x0@infosec.pub ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sure, or any of all other ways without driving themselves. If you cant think of any you need to get outside more.

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      • Euphoma@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Explain how they are supposed to take their car home without driving it. Because if they leave it there it would probably get towed

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• Tiral@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  She didn’t drive, she’s sitting in a parked car. But sure, America is bad because of a random story that is probably made up. Where do you live that’s perfect, I’d love to move there.

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  • the_flying_pig@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s safe to assume that if she drove to the place of the date, she planned driving home as well.

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• dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  30 years ago it was more of a “no harm, no foul” attitude. People would regularly drive around while actively drinking and mostly were not bothered.

  Then organizations like Mothers Against Drunk Driving did a lot of lobbying and got politicians to make more laws and police to actively enforce them.

  Now the blood alcohol limits before you can be arrested for DUI are fairly low.

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  • Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And drunk driving deaths are also down.

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      All crime is down

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  • FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Drunk drivers hurt other people because of their selfish stupidity

    You’re fucking dense

    Typical fucking yank. “I’m fine, so fuck everyone else” while being too stupid to know that you’re not fine.

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    • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nothing they said indicates they think drink driving is OK, just that people used to view it like that.

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    • dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t remember saying that

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• FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What are you supposred to do?? Walk? Not drink? Insanity

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  • FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think the obvious thing to do is to make up stories on the internet

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    • nonfuinoncuro@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      youtu.be/ccreGXv2YKI

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