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U.S. Supreme Court to review 1868 federal ban on home distilling of liquor

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Where I live in Western Europe beer is legal at 16 and hard liquor at 18. Illegal alcohol is close to non existent. You get the occasional hobby brewer and that's about it. There's a little crime in fake expensive liquor but even that is occasional.

What you noticed is what we see here with tobacco though. They keep trying to phase it away by increasing taxes and upping the age limit from 16 to 18. They're also trying to ban e-liquid flavors. But what really happens is that there are now a lot of illegal cigarettes and vapes making their way to teenagers. Not to mention stuff like unregulated THC vapes that actually contain synthetic weed and can be extremely dangerous.

Governments have always been making things worse.

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A Belgian driver killed a teenage cyclist and walked away scot-free -- and then sued the kid's parents for €8000 for "damage to his car" [Article in Dutch]

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Belgium's minimum limit is a third of surrounding countries. So 4 times the legal limit would only be 33% above the legal minimum limit in the Netherlands and Germany.

The minimum limit doesn't imply any sort of intoxication though. It is the amount where usage of the drug becomes proven in a legal context. This of course means that none of these drug tests prove driving while intoxicated as you can easily get a positive test while being sober.

I personally already had multiple positive tests while driving sober. It's an awful system that punishes drug users for their drug use and not for any DUI. The fact that they focus more on the test than actually talking about stuff like his speech and mental state when police arrived on the scene shows a lot. They just want to punish the guy as hard as possible and make him look like a criminal.

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Diplomacy dies on live TV as Trump and Vance gang up to bully Ukraine leader

I checked a few parts for a few minutes. It was too painful to watch.

Troomp and JD couch showed the worst traits leaders could have. The obvious ones are the American superiority complexes and the toxic need to escalate and talk down upon others.

In all of the bits I saw when skipping trough it, Zelenksy deescalated the situation multiple times while Trump and especially Vance escalated and started talking like some pretentious teenager bullies that gotten themselves a country.

Fuck the USA.