Key performance indicators: February 17
Deaths from car crashes fell in Utah.
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Stat: Deaths from car crashes fell more than 18% in Utah in 2019, the year after it became the first and only state to lower the cap on a driver’s blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) to 0.05%. The move has received pushback from alcohol industry groups, who say it's a misguided approach, but advocates are hailing it as a road safety breakthrough.
Quote: “It’s like some venereal disease or something. I just regard it as beneath contempt.”
When 98-year-old billionaire Charlie Munger starts bringing up STDs, it could only be in reference to one thing: cryptocurrency. At the annual Daily Journal shareholders meeting, Munger, a longtime crypto critic, said he’s “proud” of the fact that he hasn’t invested in it.
Read: As Covid recedes, what do societies owe immunocompromised people? (The Atlantic).
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