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  • Taldan@lemmy.worldtoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldSad but true
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    6 days ago

    In the US, deaths deaths cars are treated less harshly than deaths involving firearms. One common example used to teach about jury biases is deaths due to drunk driving. Many jury members can empathize with driving drunk because many Americans have driven after drinking, even if they were under the legal limit

    IDK if you should be calling other people ignorant if you didn’t even know that much













  • Taldan@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzwe are creators
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    10 days ago

    Eh, there were a dozen different guys that invented flight (or were close to it) around the same time. The Wright Brothers were just the ones to successfully defend their patent

    The technology had just progressed to a point where fixed-wing flight was viable, so the invention became inevitable