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Boo for the cyber attack but fuck people who drive drunk repeatedly to the point of needing an interlock device. Maybe don't drink and drive you fucking sack of shit.
Fuck the lock, ban them from driving. Inexcusable.
Driving under the influence is a ban able offence (reckless endangerment) in most countries.
So is a proper driver's ed before giving even a learner's permit. US loves giving a multi ton killing machine to untrained people with impulse control. And teenagers
I agree with you, but the difference is that, in the US, people NEED to be able to drive to function in society. That's why the bar has to be so low to get a license.
I'm sure the lives lost were worth it so that alcoholics and irresponsible people can keep functioning in society. /s
Perfect solution. Really needs public transit or walkable cities to work so win-win.
Of course better transit is a better solution, but at least while America is waiting for that, ride-hailing services can help fill a gap. Expensive? I have little sympathy for people who drove drunk on that count.
Comments sections. Where nuance goes to die. All context is flattened and your views must be expressed as black or white lest you get branded as having the wrong opinion.
Better nuance dies than innocent bystanders as the drunk driver plows into people.
Amen, Lemmy is in the starting stages of how reddit went my brother. It's inherent to the format
I don't think alcoholics should be allowed to drive, is that too much to ask?
Driving is a privilege, not a right, and the roads are already dangerous enough as they are.
Not-so hot take: the underlying issue is lack of public transportation.
100% for most places. However I'll say Ive known alot of folks who will go up into the bush and get blasted only to drive home. I doubt transit would stop that shit.
Never knew anyone who had one, but a friend of mine dated a guy who did. He would beg her to breathe into it for him.
That's insane but as an alcoholic I can absolutely see someone doing it.
Some are social butterflies who have to be out and about but talk about not learning lessons.
“Not learning lessons” is a pretty mild way to put it.
The only way it isn’t pure evil is if we allow that the alcoholic is not in control of their actions. And if we allow that, they cannot be trusted to drive, or really to even have their freedom. They are 5150, plain and simple.
They're in control but reaching them is something best done by people like them in my experience.
Logic only goes so far, clearly.
you only need to get caught once for the lock
It's a shame that it's only when they get caught. There's no excuse for driving drunk.
I can think of plenty, just oh shit we have to get to the hospital please take us to the hospital with a legitimate oh shit we have to get to the hospital tends to override most traffic bullshits. Making the judgment of whether something is a legitimate oh shit we need to get to the hospital is why we have EMTs but like, if the Friday night shift knows you have emergencies when you eat buttered popcorn and there's a new bee movie out they might just expect you to drive yourself (or rather, have a trusted friend and swearing team buddy) because you're half expecting a damn emergency at the bee movie and you've had twelve too many, they know which roads to keep clear of toddlers and the elderly. Damn bees.
There's a new Bee movie?
i'm shopping the script to paramount. she loses her bee husband in a drunk driving accident and doesn't know how to handle the steady swarm of bee courting.
If it's Paramount, you'll need a MAGA angle, like the drunk driver was a Trans school shooter running from the scene after murdering a class of special needs kids.
For starters.