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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It was .10 pretty much everywhere when I was a kid, .08 became a thing little by little during the 90s, I think. MADD, mothers against drunk driving, is the reason behind this and many of the things surrounding drunk driving some find too restrictive or punitive. They were a very effective lobbying group.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone confirm accuracy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If this is a whole genome thing, and not just looking at a small group of alleles, it is incredibly unlikely that two of the grandchildren would have no contribution from the white grandparent. It’s so unlikely that I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that it’s unlikely to have ever happened throughout all of human history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flock of scissors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a meme guy. I’ve never posted nor stolen a meme. I’m tempted to make this my first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have they tried a tik tok with margorie taylor green souting q anon bullshit?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Russia has been one big slow societal collapse since forever. In The Big Book of Russian History every chapter starts with “and then somehow things got even worse.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨References: [1] out of his ass⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  40 years, it can’t be that long, I’m only…fuck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨References: [1] out of his ass⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Shit, he’s 80? I guess I haven’t seen him in a while. Back when the cable stations with educational names actually had educational programming, and not just reality trash, he was pretty dope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF is this???⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that strong, vibration and a little force in the other direction that is easily overcome, especially when you’re turning hard to move quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF is this???⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to oversignal in modern BMWs or the wheel vibrates and tries to correct the other direction. Forced merges, lane splitting, any deviation from straight down the middle even when it’s obvious that you have to do that thing, the car bitches at you if you don’t signal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't fuck them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I have zero in my house now. I have over 1k on my ereader, in my pocket, and on my tablet. Even when I read physical books I never had this many, every time I got to a couple hundred I’d take them to Goodwill for others to enjoy. My reading list is so long, it’s not like I’m likely to reread anything. Every book I reread is one other book I won’t get to read before I die.

  I see bookshelves like this these days it’s like someone with a lot of vinyl. They’re either old (old to me and I’m almost 50), or just into an old format for some reason. Nothing wrong with that, it just doesn’t mean the same thing it used to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is Alexander the Great so great he gets that name, but not so great that just “Alexander”doesn’t disambiguate him?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In context people often do drop the “the great” and just say Alexander.