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You are being willfully obtuse as a pretext to make low effort in-group signaling comments ("look guys, I have a zero tolerance stance on drinking and driving")
by dsfyu404ed 4y ago
You are being willfully obtuse as a pretext to make low effort in-group signaling comments ("look guys, I have a zero tolerance stance on drinking and driving") and it is fooling nobody. You are just as responsible for bad online discourse as any one person who litters in the park is responsible for the state of the park.
I am going to restate my prior comment (which was already quite clear) with more verbosity for the benefit of good faith readers. Trivial amounts of alcohol (e.g. two bud lights) affect a person's performance at any given task less than day to day variation from other factors (last night's sleep, how your day is going, etc), it is "below the noise threshold" so to speak. Thats why it's basically impossible to attribute any given degradation of performance to a couple beers but if you were to do a big study with many participants you could see an effect. Hence my point, if you are an unsafe driver after a couple water-beers or any other thing that gives you a BAC that's solidly below the typical legal maximums (.04-08 depending on country or US state) are an unsafe driver sober.
- Arnt 4y agoNo, not wilfully, sorry about that. It was during working hours and I wasn't, uh, really focusing on HN. There's no in-group when one posts as late as I usually do, BTW, the readers have moved on. As I read it, your statement implies that people who drink (a bit) and drive should be overrepresented in accidents when sober too, because the bit of alcohol isn't what makes them risky. I pay a bit of attention to this area and have never seen any studies that support this. Granted, I only pay a bit of attention.
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