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throejd84mrifmron Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone"

How about we enforce existing laws first?!!!

It is dangerous for pedestrians to walk on sidewalks, because cyclists on their electric motorbikes are driving there 30 mph!

Aggresive off-leash dogs are everywhere! Entire cities, parks and streets are one big dog toilet!

throejd84mrifmron How to study people who are drunk

> A blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0.15% is considered a very high level, resulting in severe impairment of balance, coordination, and muscle control, making walking and talking difficult. At this level, you may experience confusion, vomiting, loss of consciousness

How this intoxication level was measured? I seriously doubt they carried scales and analyzed blood samples, before asking for consent!

throejd84mrifmron How to study people who are drunk

> And if they did, a team of neuroscientists from the local university was waiting to gently torture them.

> The researchers were on site to test how well alcohol can numb pain.

> “Ethically, we can’t ask people to drink alcohol to levels they do in their day-to-day lives,”

> the point beyond which they felt proper consent was hard to establish.

How is this study ethical? Researchers declared they do not need formal consent, because that would be too hard, and just went on, to torture impaired people!

Universities were going on and on, how drunk people can not consent, and even saying hi to someone in a bar is unethical! And now serious research institute pulls this stunt with torturing people without their consent!