Left: wine glass with broken off foot.

Right: chess piece reveal party.

A cup? I usually just drink straight from the bottle

Great work dude, keep it up 💪

Hell ya! ✊🏻 for my sober homies! I quit consuming alcohol in February. Keep it going Lemmy friend!

nice

keep it up

I'm working on my five minute chip right now

Thankfully we haven't progressed since then!

I hate that alcohol, such an obvious health detriment, is so ingrained in culture that people don't even question it... Your link makes it worse!

The oldest recipe we have found was a recipe for beer.

With one important difference: Wine was often diluted back then and beer was not as strong as it is today, so it was much less dangerous on the whole, and it was so weak that even children drank it instead of the terrible water of the time. Though they also drank water when it was good.

So you're telling me without alcohol I could have spent my life picking berries before I died of a toothache at 25? And instead I'm reading excel sheets and will die a prolonged death after years of chemo at 85?

Damn alcohol really is the cause of all my problems...

Back when life expectancy was 45.

What is the intensity that can’t be replicated, burn of the alcohol?

I like flavored seltzer water.

kombucha is really good for that, it may contain small amounts of alcohol but its really difficult to get it as potent before it turns more like vinegar. but the carbonation and even variations with hops are out there and are great.

I used to do edibles every once in a while when they became legal here and found that alcohol was terrible when high because Id just get dizzy so i started drinking kombucha and it was amazing

Its the worse sexual transmissive disease.
The only cure is death.

Dose makes the poison. Water can kill you. There's nothing wrong with alcohol.

Yup, cause implies mechanism, of which there is very little here, seems a lot more like correlation. Also, it's Harvard nutrition public health, which is, problematic.

The problem with meta analysis of epidemiology is that so much epidemiology is shit, by flunkee MDs, that meta analysis just concludes data is mostly shit.

Of course it's a toxin. Even a few drinks induces ataxia by toxifying the cerebellum.

Owning a gun makes you 12-times more likely to die from a gunshot.

Yep, and having a pool in your backyard makes you 12-times more likely to die from drowning.

You know this already but yeah you are absolutely the rational one here. I drank a lot back in the day because i had a terrible home life as a child and exhibited a few other self destructive behaviors, but in the last ten years or so ill drink one beer or glass of champagne at a wedding or super bowl watch party, but 100% just to be polite and avoid people chiding me to drink. Yes, people will actually get upset and tell me to drink sometimes, work people wcyd. Idk it's like ethyl alcohol is exactly the stuff we used to sanitize surfaces at work because it kills everything and also dissolves the chemicals we work with. It's just madness to drink that stuff!!

I truthfully told him that I don’t drink at all and I guess that was inconceivable to him because he started going, “You WILL drink. EVERYBODY drinks. Don’t lie and…” so on so forth.

There's a lot of social pressure to drink, particularly for folks over 40. My first year at my current company, it was very normal for the department head to take everyone down to the bar and buy them shots. We definitely had folks that declined. But those weren't the ones he got close with. Consequently, they weren't the ones who got fast tracked for promotions and raises and such.

Not saying it's a strict 1:1 correlation, because we definitely have a few teatoddlers in the upper wings of management. But it's the exception more than the rule.

There's also a lot of status in drinking - particularly expensive wines and liquors - such that having a nice bottle on hand when friends are over is considered normal. So I can see why it's frustrating to your dad, talking to someone who isn't in that lifestyle and culture, when he hears "Oh, I just don't do that". Particularly, when he's trying to hammer home how easy it is to go from "I don't drink" to "I drank too much".

It never seemed appealing to me what with seeing people ruin their lives and act foolish, the odor, all the money people spend on it etc.

It's a popular social lubricant for a reason. A glass of wine or beer is great at reducing social anxiety. I've got friends who insist on a drink at big events. It's that or pop a xanax.

I also know a few girls who go from dead fish to horny af after a few glasses. So, when they want to hook up, they will take a few shots first to get in the mood. And "odor" can be a plus (for me, anyway) when it's a petty scotch or rich cherry.

There's also an artistry to the craft of fermentation, such that it's as much a hobby as a habit. I know a guy who brews his own beer and loves to bring different casks to events to show off what he's made. And another who works in the industry. He loves to pull out bottles he picked up overseas and show off different styles, flavors, and techniques of manufacture.

Then there's just a general quality of pairing. My wife keeps a small wine collection, knows what pairs well, and regularly opens a bottle for cooking or to match with a particular meal.

So... YMMV. But there's definitely a big gray area between never drinking at all and being an alcoholic.

Did it on New year's eve. I'm enjoying it so far..

Social life changes a lot. Luckily I didn't have one to begin with.

Here is to alcohol! The cause of and solution to, all of life's problems!

Stop. Fucking. Your. Beer. Bottles.

From a summary:

Drinking damages the liver and may make the body more vulnerable to infectious diseases, including sexually transmitted infections and tuberculosis.

Or from the review itself:

Infectious disease

The causal impact of alcohol on the four broad categories of infectious disease from the last Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health [1] has been confirmed in recent reviews [15, 16]. The main biological mechanism involves alcohol-induced liver dysfunction, which disrupts both non-specific innate and adaptive immune responses through acute and chronic alcohol consumption [80-84]. Lowered immune responses increase susceptibility to communicable diseases. More specific biological pathways are described in the references listed in Table 1.

Good point, highly likely the PhD students who authored this review were never taught about causation and correlation.

Doing weed is also bad for me. It got me quite severe health effects that I'm dealing with right now.

I'm not regretting it for a second and the second my issues are under control I'll use weed again (in much lower doses) because living in the raw reality right now just makes you depressed and suicidal. I'm m neither, and I'll contribute that happily to pot, it made life nice again for a few years

Right? What's to stop one from interpreting these results as "alcohol will get you off of this dogshit timeline sooner"?

Marijuana. None of that shit, only good stuffs!!

Yeah if it's going allow me to relax enough to have a good time on the weekends then it is what it is. No point in living anyway if I'm not able to have a good time.