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  • nBodyProblem@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzHoney
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    1 month ago

    The point is that you shouldn’t base your decisions on whether or not you can say you are “vegan”. You should base your decisions on your own sense of ethics.

    Whether or not beekeeping harms bees is a matter of debate. If a person believes honey is ethical, that’s their decision. Who gives a fuck if it meet someone else’s standard for a particular label?


  • Really depends on conditions. Many “bike lanes” have unsafe road hazards, glass, are immediately in the door zone of parked cars, etc. Getting doored is one of the most common causes of cyclists being sent to the hospital with major injuries.

    A well laid out, well maintained bike lane is a better alternative to taking the lane. However, in the cases where the bike lane is hazardous it’s always better to take the lane than to risk getting injured in an unsafe bike lane.






  • nBodyProblem@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzBurning Up
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    3 months ago

    The only threshold that will automatically get you a reckless driving violation in CA is over 100 mph

    Texas has no defined speed threshold

    Alabama, where I lived previously on the east coast, has no defined threshold

    The guideline for officers in CO is to consider a reckless driving ticket at 26 over the limit and above

    I could keep searching individual states but I guess my point is there are many states where 20 over is pretty much a common thing among drivers and not typically punishable with a reckless driving charge. I haven’t spent much time in the northeast, perhaps things are different there.


  • nBodyProblem@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzBurning Up
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    3 months ago

    Lol no, you have to be going something like double the speed limit most places to get arrested

    You might get a ticket, but almost any judge will throw the ticket out if they write you up for going 5-10 over. Some places will write the ticket anyways in the hopes of making some extra revenue, but generally speaking it’s not a ticket that is worth writing because it’s so easy to get tossed out.


  • nBodyProblem@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzBurning Up
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    3 months ago

    What part of the country are you from? IME that’s far from universal. I have gotten pulled for 20+ over in multiple states and it’s often just a warning, if I do get ticketed it’s just a ticket and that’s the end of it:

    When I had first gotten my license in CA I got pulled over while doing 105-110 in a 65 mph zone. The cop wrote it up for 99 mph, which was a simple speeding ticket without the option for traffic school. I went to court and the judge knocked it down to a <$200 ticket with traffic school so I didn’t get any points on my record.

    85 mph in a 65 is normal in a ton of states, they’d be they’d be writing up people for reckless driving in every other traffic stop if 20 over were the threshold.






  • nBodyProblem@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzChildren is bugs
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    5 months ago

    This, and cultural diffusion is a normal part of human society. It has been for countless thousands of years.

    I understand why cultural appropriation can be problematic but the fact remains that the usual mode of cultural diffusion has been, “that’s really cool. I wanna have that too”

    It’s not a zero sum game because there isn’t some finite limit. By wearing a kimono or whatever you aren’t taking someone else’s right to wear one away from them.