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Average people can't estimate how much I can drink below the BAC limit. It's basically to ban drunk driving completely.
rather, you mean it is a ban on drinking anything and driving, right?
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All of the vehicle license plates available in America
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#252Earlier quoted context omitted.
Average people can't estimate how much I can drink below the BAC limit. It's basically to ban drunk driving completely.
rather, you mean it is a ban on drinking anything and driving, right?
Yeah I guess that. If it's 0.00%, it may cause false positives with whiskey chocolate cake or mouthwash with alcohol.
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#253A relative had an immigrant colleague that was intrigued by different US license plates. One day their manager had one that had a new colour scheme that he never saw before. The intrigue overtook him and in a big group he had to ask how he got this new beautiful plate. And how could he get one themself? Turns out the state required you to “wear” this license plate after your third DUI or something. Oops. Edit: looks…
I hired someone on Craigslist for something (I don't remember now exactly what it was for) and he turned out to have a breathalyzer interlock on his car, presumably ordered by a judge or something after multiple DUIs. If I remember correctly, he had to periodically blow into the tube while driving. I don't think I had realized that was a thing before that.
Though I have never seen one, I believe it only checks at ignition. Needing to do anything extra while driving is a recipe for disaster.
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#254I recently saw a car with an antique license plate on it. It was a model that was popular among my high school classmates. Time is a bitch, man.
Every generation has their own hooptie. That one budget car of which millions were made, which trickled down from parents or grandparents, and became the defining automobile for the 18 year olds of that generation. Eventually they become more and more rare until the sighting of one takes you right back to your teenage years, and you instantly smell that particular French econobox cloth interior smell again.
Time is a bitch huh.
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#255Earlier quoted context omitted.
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
America literally has an exception for slavery.
People who commit crimes are not entitled to the same rights as everybody else nor ought they to be
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#256If there are so many valid licence plate designs - it's easier to make fake ones. An ordinary cop is unlikely to tell the difference.
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#257Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because literally no prisoner in the USA has been explicitly sentenced to this. If you are in prison your sentence is almost certainly restriction of your freedom for a period of time, and not imprisonment + "being forced to work". The fact that the prison system can benefit off of that should offend you and you should be outraged that this is happening across the country.
> Because literally no prisoner in the USA has been explicitly sentenced to this. False. Arizona law, for one example, specifically provides for sentences of “hard labor”: https://www.azleg.gov/ars/31/00141.htm
Ok, I stand corrected - but I imagine vast majority of prisoners haven't been sentenced to such(in fact have any such sentences ever been handed out in recent times?).
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#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Turns out the state required you to “wear” this license plate after your third DUI or something. This doesn't make much sense because the license plate is attached to the car, not the driver. Couldn't the manager just drive his wife's or friend's car or something? What purpose does the plate serve? "Warning everyone! A serial drink driver might be in this car, but might not be, and if he's in it he might be driving…
The theory is they'll just drive anyway without a license. Plus in many/most parts of the US, a car is effectively required to live, so removing one's ability to drive is a seriously major punishment. The whiskey plate indicates to other drivers that the car could be more dangerous than expected, and yes, I think the shame is supposed to be a component as well. It's harm reduction, not a perfect solution. I don't kno…
In my country the state now confiscates cars of drunk drivers if their BAC is above 0.15%. And they also get criminally prosecuted - having a criminal record can seriously fuck up their lives.
But some people still choose to drive drunk.
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#259Earlier quoted context omitted.
We have ruined people's lives in this country for selling a bit of weed, but we wouldn't want to disrupt someone's life too much if they drove drunk THREE times!
Ruining people’s lives over weed is arguably immoral and not justice. I see no connection between that and penalties for drunk driving, which are necessary. The point is that while a person should lose their driving privileges for driving drunk, we should take seriously the implications of the typical punishment given our car dependent society, and the lack of public transit options in most places that aren’t big cit…
> Driving drunk is stupid, dangerous, and should involve serious penalties. We should not ruin people’s lives over it.
After getting caught 3 times doing it? Meaning they do it very frequently and will never stop doing it? It's not an innocent mistake at this point.
Yes driving privileges should absolutely be revoked over it and if that ruins their life maybe they should have thought about the consequences of their actions?
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#260Earlier quoted context omitted.
We have ruined people's lives in this country for selling a bit of weed, but we wouldn't want to disrupt someone's life too much if they drove drunk THREE times!
Ruining people’s lives over weed is arguably immoral and not justice. I see no connection between that and penalties for drunk driving, which are necessary. The point is that while a person should lose their driving privileges for driving drunk, we should take seriously the implications of the typical punishment given our car dependent society, and the lack of public transit options in most places that aren’t big cit…
I'd argue that we should ruin people's lives over it. Why stop driving drunk if there are no serious consequences?