Drunk Drivers' Rights?

[Ben Kenobi]

And I personally don't think those dope smokers robbed him to pay for their pot. They probably robbed him because they thought he was a douche.

Interesting. Rah condones stealing from people who he personally doesn't like.

No, rah. What part of "they broke into the house", is hard to understand? I wasn't even living there at the time. I was at school.

They stole some of my mother's jewelery (which she can never replace), broke some of her cabinets (but couldn't figure out how to take the television), and my father's blower and a bunch of his tools.

My father said he later found some of the items at a house of the known dealer.

[N35t0r]

sucker baiting


Obama hates little kids

[Lorizael]

Did you know that there's only been one El Niño since Obama was elected? I'm not saying there's a connection or anything, but I am going to write an article for a highly respected national newspaper with the headline, "Since Obama's Election, Only One El Niño." It's a fact, and that makes it newsworthy.

[N35t0r]

You mean it isn't! :shocked:

[Lorizael]

Yeah, it's clickbait, and it takes advantage of the fact that people believe post hoc ergo propter hoc must be true because it's Latin.

[Sava]

seems like you're the one extracting meaning


The title is pure fact:

Since marijuana legalization, highway fatalities in Colorado are at near-historic lows

I don't see "... because weed is legal" anywhere in that title or the piece itself

It's definitely clickbait, but that's another argument

[Lorizael]

Yes, but consider the headline of the article and that he bothered to write it at all. He's certainly extracting some meaning from the data.

[Sava]

It's true. I just wish people would stop pretending you can extract meaning from a couple data points.

The author did not do this and specifically calls out people who did.

I mean, the last sentence...

it still isn’t clear what any of this means for road safety.

[dannubis]

Pot. Obviously...

R² of 1.

[Lorizael]

It's true. I just wish people would stop pretending you can extract meaning from a couple data points. On July 5, I saw a local news report comparing the number of murders on this July 4 to the number of murders last July 4. They were down 200%! It was amazing! What was the cause, the news reporters wondered?

[rah]

In all fairness he did spend almost a whole paragraph saying that there could be many other (more reasonable) explanations.
Without that paragraph I would have disregarded the the entire article.

[Lorizael]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/t...historic-lows/

There's graphics and stuff or else I would have posted the full text.

Those graphs do an excellent job of completely omitting any data about whether or not driver fatalities were already going down.

[N35t0r]

What about avreage speed? I bet that's at an all time low... Good if you DON'T WANT TO GET THERE, EVER.

[Sava]

Since marijuana legalization, highway fatalities in Colorado are at near-historic lows

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/08/05/since-marijuana-legalization-highway-fatalities-in-colorado-are-at-near-historic-lows/

There's graphics and stuff or else I would have posted the full text.

[rah]

And I personally don't think those dope smokers robbed him to pay for their pot. They probably robbed him because they thought he was a douche.