“That’s only for people 21 and older. If you’re younger than 21, some states are zero-tolerance, and other states flag you if you blow above .02.”

They’re not unfounded given the way the US and specific states tend to take a mediocre to bad idea and run all the way down the field into the ULTRA TERRIBLE DISASTER ZONE so they can score a truly horrible idea touchdown. This is the US we’re talking about, not a sane country.

“but if the cost was trivial and the accuracy were 100% it would be hard to argue against it”.

You can’t “detect false positives”, that’s what makes them false positives.

“Although there will undoutedly be functioning acoholics that try to game the system, this will help stop deluded people who think they “got this” from driving impaired.”

“In regards to false positives, the amount of the substances you’d have to consume to blow a false positive is usually far in excess of what any normal person would consume.”

Not ones that operate remotely like this. And the existing ones are both:

“Seatbelts can be defeated exceedingly easy. I genuinely hope you don’t need me to prove to you that they’re largely used properly and are effective at reducing harm.”

God forbid Kotaku do pieces in a format they’ve been doing for 10+ years.

I’d second all of this, as someone who play thousands of hours of D2:LoD ladders and so on.

“I’d argue this is standard Diablo.”

Pretty much exactly how I felt, class-wise. I really hope the Druid picks up later, because the effectiveness disparity between them and the Rogue/Sorcerer/Necro was much larger than I’d hoped.

You can’t trust his screenshot because that person is intentionally misleading, sadly, given they intentionally skipped the case Avellone lost due to SLAPP laws. Whoever wrote that certainly has an agenda.

That’s an extremely misleading summary, because it skips the bit where Avellone’s lawsuit against one of the people was knocked out entirely as a SLAPP.

If you’re talking about the US, the US legal system absolutely does not value the presumption of innocence, especially not compared to other developed nations. The US has an extremely slow justice system, and routinely jails people whilst they await trial often for many months (sometimes years) for totally trivial…

Do any contemporary fiction books reach “more than 1-2% of the public”? I honestly don’t know. I know 30-40 years ago books absolutely did, but now? Literary fiction seems to have effectively become another kind of genre fiction in terms of popularity, in that, it has its devotees, but the public in general no longer…

I can agree to disagree on the amount (I could see 200, I couldn’t see as low as just 100 - the pointless and irrelevant cosmere wank alone is 200), but yeah that 4 could have dropped even more definitely fits with what I’ve heard and why I haven’t read 4.

Sure, but that makes the whole book grotesque in a bad way, because the author is clearly rooting for Monza, solely on the basis she isn’t working for a wizard (and indeed is frustrating their plans), but that’s like rooting some murderous thug in a brushfire war somewhere because they’re not working for either the…

This is a “you” problem. You should recognise that from your post.

I mean, it’s partly that, but also see this, from the article: