They could have a similar phenotype without being genetically similar.

All else being equal, yes, less alcohol consumption is better. But I worry that this trend is related to the decline of in-person socializing in general.

> But I worry that this trend is related to the decline of in-person socializing in general

In my eyes, it is worrying that drinking and socializing are treated adjacent to each other, and that there is a notion that people cannot socialize without drinks involved.

This correlation tie-up makes it really difficult for people to quit drinking even if they want to, and for people to reluctantly take up drinking in an (IMO misguided) effort to find company.

> The probability that the bat had rabies is vanishingly small.

Not really, it's something like 5%. Usually if the bat can be captured and tested for rabies you can wait to get the vaccine, but if the bat couldn't be caught, it makes sense to vaccinate just in case.

I don't understand why you would want to take a chance on rabies. What are the side effects of the vaccine that are so harmful?

Post exposure vaccine is costly: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/7/16851134/ra...

The degree to which childhood independence has been curbed appears to be more extreme in the United States than in other countries.

Well yeah, GP's comment obviously only applies in the case that your native language is not standard Italian.

not obvious at all when every sentence uses "you" to indicate a general rule that applies to every Italian rather than "I" to indicate a personal experience

Teaching my toddler to read now and I definitely feel like if we spoke Spanish my work would be done already.

Probably not. Toddlers generally don't have the brain to learn any reading. Spanish's advantages in reading isn't how young you can start learning to read, it is how fast you can stop reading. Spanish schools stop teaching reading takes about 5 years to learn, English 6, and Japanese 9 - after that much training kids are finally considered to read anything. (sometimes we talk about college level reading, but that is more about mastery of topic specific topic - Doctors, lawyers, and engineers each have special vocabulary that needs extra training to read, but they cannot read each other's technical papers)

I learned how to read in six months.

My kid took two and half years.

The Chinese take 10 years.

So what? Are the Chinese terribly educated?

Call me a "party pooper" if you will but maybe you shouldn't be having "fun" with an accident that will have killed hundreds of people.

On a long enough timeline we all die. Guess we shouldn't ever have "fun".

No, that doesn't at all follow from what I said.

The word "keep" here is synonymous with "continue," implying that this is already happening. It's fair game to ask if that's actually the case.

And this is by the way, but English sentences almost always have some degree of ambiguity; to talk about "well defined meaning" in the context of natural languages is to make a category error.

Another niche could be replacing sight-seeing helicopter trips, especially with all the safety issues the latter seem to be having.

> If you don't cheat, you'll be outcompeted by those who do.

Not sure why you keep talking about cheating. What OP described doing emphatically and unequivocally is not cheating.