Ah yes, that’s the aspect of this situation you need to fix, the employee!

There are also people who are just crippled by test taking anxiety. That’s probably not a good indicator for their driving ability either, though

He’s probably gotta eat that much, though, and nothing makes eating less fun than needing to long term (so not just fries and milkshakes) bulk.

“Son, you know that’s just a metaphorical nickname, right?”

I once spoke to a philosophy professor who pronounced Nietzsche as though it rhymed with itchy. I didn’t correct him because I was 19 and felt intimidated, but at some point along his career, he wouldn’t have intimidated everyone, how does that even happen?

*some exceptions apply (sorry, Afghan translators, we did you so dirty in so many ways)

Penny wise and pound foolish describes most of late stage capitalism

God, that warms my heart

TLDR: Cars are the real problem here, not bars. I hyper focused on this, so it got a little long, but I swear it’s not AI, I just like to write with dashes.

It’s also not really fair to ask bartenders to accurately assess inebriation for large numbers of customers. Legal limits vary, but 0.05-0.08% BAC doesn’t normally make a relatively experienced drinker (not a euphemism for alcoholics, but not 19 year olds or people who never have more than enough to toast) slur or seem even obviously tipsy- similarly, long term alcoholics can seem sober with a BAC of 0.15%. It might be more accurate to judge it based on approximate size and just use a table, but that’s no help for people who recently donated blood or didn’t have dinner. I know that sounds like nitpicking, but I do remember kids in college donating blood together and then going out so they wouldn’t need to spend as much money getting drunk, and skipping dinner to get drunk faster/cheaper was super common for most of my acquaintance circle until our mid twenties (I’m not even really a drinker, so it wasn’t huge for my closest friends, but it’s something people would mention doing pretty regularly).

One possible solution would be to have a breathalyzer with an easily disinfected mouthpiece installed in bars, so that people would realize how much alcohol they actually have in their systems, but that could also be disastrous if improperly calibrated (and even if not, a person with a BAC of 0.04% who’s never had alcohol before is probably not good to drive, but it puts the bartender in an awkward spot to cut them off before they’re over the limit, especially if their boss is shitty). I could see bars tuning them to be more sensitive as a marketing and protective strategy, but if people didn’t think they could trust the results, it would be pointless.

I think we’re looking at the problem the wrong way though- the bars are not as big a problem as the lacking infrastructure, and trying to bandage problems from our reliance on cars through bars is inadequate.

All that is to say, I agree that this is a good idea in places with good non car infrastructure, and places without it should look at implementing it before subsidizing alcohol from restaurants and bars. Especially considering that the initial problem is social isolation, which is only compounded by car centric infrastructure

I’d support this with a huge caveat: it would probably only work in a place not reliant on cars. Otherwise it sounds like a recipe for a drastic increase in drunk driving accidents

There’s just no reason to make them comfortable, so why would you? At the same time, it soothes grievers when they look comfortable, but faking it is much cheaper than actually doing it.

“To suggest that I must divorce my husband over political or social views is not only unreasonable, it’s insulting to the many couples who hold different perspectives yet remain committed to each other,”

Bruh??? I’m not insulted, as a vegan married to a butcher. I don’t think my sister, married to a man of a different religion, would be insulted. In fact, just about nobody I know who’s married would be offended at the idea that you should get a divorce if your spouse literally becomes a Nazi.

Sorry, totally unrelated but fun memory: Iconoclast was the first word whose unexpected etymology I (mostly) worked out on my own. I was watching a vh1 documentary on iconoclasts, and I’d just had a biology class where I’d learned about acetoclastic bacteria. I had a eureka moment wherein I leapt to the conclusion that “breaking the mold” was an older saying than I expected. I wasn’t totally right on that, but I was still psyched to have broken it down correctly.

Yeah, I had to check that it was a real image

Yeah, my internet usage is mostly fediverse, word games, and ao3, none of which were affected

I just assumed they were based out of Colorado, lol.

All hail Ron Swanson. Truly, what an original thought.

They’re talking about health insurance, water safety, and education. I’m not a fan of the Democratic Party, but these aren’t things like whether the US gets chosen for the Olympics or something like that.

They’re all married to each other, too. We really should have planned this better

Spain and españa are also just cognates