LeoTinnitus

Believe it or not, there are more cities under 10-20k in the US than there are large metropolitan areas. In the area I'm in, you can only get a cab in the city. Good luck getting one 15-25KM outside of it.

Also being America, home of what feels like the home of capitalism which a lot of Europeans make it out to be, since the law only prosecutes you if you get caught, people take the risk. Because there is that cultural precedent, cab's don't bother competing cause nobody pays for it anyway.

Also for reference, you're only getting a cab in an area that is within city limits no further than like 5-10km outside of it. Any further, you're on your own.

You'd think that there'd be a "thriving" cab market, but cabs literally only exist in major cities. They do not exist in the places 20-30km out. Why would I go to those bars? Well...weddings, events, parties, where people live, etc. Also cabs charge out the ass so risking a DUI is oftentimes worth it. If you take a cab, you're out like $30-$50 bucks sometimes in those rural areas. If you get a DUI, in my state, it's like $150 for a first time offense. So in essence people drive normally, avoid main highways or take backroads where cops don't camp out.

This is what happens when the government regulates hospitals just like they do banks. At this point they might as well single payer the whole thing. It save everybody loads of time and energy. Not to mention the abhorrently massive data entry.

You can blame US law for that. Why not treat them like a prosecutor once they've reached a certain expertise or status? It keeps them from any absurd liability because it's guarded by the state. I'd like to ask why doctor is going to intentionally put someones life at risk cause they're lazy? Sure you'll find some in government work, but if it's government, they'll easily have oversight.

Most of the time when I interact with a doctor, they're just entering in information into a database.

Maybe we could bust this guild of ridiculous standards to maybe squeeze in a few others? I don't get why we gotta firstly work our doctors to death, and secondly ensure they are "the best." Seriously, sometimes "good enough" is just that. Just don't let junior doctors make critical decisions for people until theyve got a few years and show skill. I don't know, kinda like every other job. I'm not saying like let any schmuck do it, but any I crazy or is it not obsessive how high the barrier to entry is? That's bs purported by lobbiests and guilds of doctors trying to keep people out to keep their demand and wages high. It's the inverse of how a union (whereas this is a guild of skilled laborers not paying dues) abuse this.

Not often in Wisconsin. It's not uncommon to hear a news story of a person who has had their like 8th DUI.

It doesn't even phase me anymore to be honest.

However life back then was incredibly different. We can look at it in hindsight and judge it with the morality of today but that's somewhat unfair of how life was. I mean slavery was commonplace, death sentences for most crimes, and not really any "true" justice system.

Although as of today? Yes I totally agree.

It's not some libertarian ideal saying companies should survive over people, it's if a large portion of the economy gets halted, other people will become impoverished too possibly leading to other devolving societal effects.

Remember that the black death cause such population decline among the peasants that the equivalent of wages increased dramatically. Artisans as well as they were skilled. Leftists always claim they want higher wages, well a dramatic death toll and innumerable job openings will put a massive premium on labor. Even bad labor.

I say that in reference to the type of job I like, not in the sense that I'm anti-social. Those jobs just never appealed to me. I've always worked with people who did those jobs, but they made it sound like you are constantly at the customers mercy. I always hated doing that type of work in like early retail stuff because I don't like the customer at my neck. I don't work well under pressure that way because I feel I can be overly objective in those scenarios.

I like programming and skill based roles. I like to come to as a resource and someone who is competent. I don't like being some faux salesman with no skills except how to talk to people. That doesn't have a realistic value to me and I can't drive myself to get better at...nothing.

I currently use Music Volume EQ for android and it works. It's annoying sometimes cause I may need to restart every once in a while or reinstall it, but it allows me to turn the equalizer at the lowest level, turn it on, and then listen to that base "quiet" as the new lowest level.

The podcast didn't mention where she got here DUI in. She was just applying to a company in California.

However I am from Wisconsin and I can vouch for that. DUI's are like misdemeanors, no matter how many felonies of them you've gotten. So long as "DUI" is after it and you're not doing a driving job, nobody cares.

That is never the case in the US. Imagine half the population size of your country, then space out the distance between where you are and everything else by 10 or more. The reason we drive everywhere isn't because we want to, it's because we have to. Driving is our second pair of legs basically because everything is a minimum 10-25KM away from everything...if not greater.

Take a German, but make his road from the bar to his house 20-25 KM away. Multiply it by 100,000 people in the same scenario. Now eliminate their public transport.

How many Germans do you think will take the risk of a DUI to drive home as opposed to walking? Granted not everybody is driving over the limit here, but a large majority of them are teetering at it. I mean I've done it, but I knew I had to drive so I held off and waited for some of the affects to subside. Still, I gotta get home, and a cab is not an option often times.

It's a cultural thing that we'd gladly get rid of, if we could afford the alternative of a robust public transport system. But we don't, so it's a risk people often take.

Yes absolutely and nobody is arguing that. What is an issue with the US is that we're a motor vehicle country and there is virtually no public transportation. Hell even cabs or ubers are non-existant in a large portion of the rural areas. So DUI's are kinda you're only option.

I actually live in Wisconsin where I probably can't count how many times I've seen on the news someone getting pulled over for their n'th DUI. It doesn't even phase me and the funny part is they never get jail time, major fines, or felonies.

It's what happened to the original SE. I lose like 20% battery on my original SE from 2 years use on iOS 13 just from web browsing for 30 minutes.

Apple has been making some just flat out awful design decisions in terms of their hardware for the past, what feels like a decade at this point but it's much shorter than that. While form can be greater than functionality, why would I ever want a phone that blatantly has printed on it "Planned Obsolescence?" The things I care about on an iphone are not "the best processor" out there. I want efficient ram usage and long battery life. Ram was never an issue with iOS so they just needed a great battery. What did they give us? A better processor...that's going to drain the battery in a year with the next iOS update because they keep pushing software updates that demand more of the system. I won't be shocked if malware get's into iphones any time soon showing how lazy they've been with MacOS in the last few years.