Alcohol is responsible for about half my problems. The other half are from not drinking enough.
Here is to alcohol! The cause of and solution to, all of life’s problems!
Don’t make me eat the bottle
I heard they are making biodegradable plastic from potato starch now. So eat up!
Bro, they’re making potatoes from plastic starch right now, that’s what they’re working on
Ahh the circle of plastic life! Now those blowup dolls that are my harem will experience true life!
I like you. I you ever see me again, reference blow-up dolls. I will have a response then. Make it lengthy, it will be funnier.
wow if only we had any idea like since the dawn of time
I still want a martini.
Nice (drinking my corona 6pack)
Nice
On the other hand, why do you think we gave up the hunter/gatherer life style?
Cultivating grapes for wine and grain for beer was the origin of civilization!
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!
Like the link points out, we were drinking before we had written language.
It’s a matter of dealing with life on life’s terms. The reality is that people like drinking. Sometimes people drink too much, and a few unlucky folks can’t drink anything without risking death.
I ocne read a story about a Vietnam era war correspondent. He was a pacifist before going to cover combat and seeing combat up close made him hate war even more.
At one point a publisher asks him to contribute an article that ‘deglamorizes war.’
He wrote back that deglamorizing war would be as easy as deglamorizing sex.
Let’s fire up a peace pipe with tobacco then!
/j
A ha ha ha Cheech & Chong?! That’s an old memory 😁😁😁 loved it, but I don’t even dare thinking how badly it could have aged 😬😁
Cool, let’s. /nj
I hate that existence, such an obvious health detriment, is so ingrained in culture that people don’t even question it…
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.
Less strong, but since they drank beer instead of water overall consumption was higher. Lots of people should still drink less though.
Yeah! It was seen as an everyday good feeling healthy thing back then and not just something to get wasted on, though that happened a lot too. I’d take the ancient mindset of moderation over today’s alcohol addicted society anyday.
Not sure it was so much about good feeling. From what I read it was more about booze being less likely to grant you a plague debuff than water back in the days.
It’s almost certainly both. It’s not like alcohol is the only drug humans have used. Most do not have that justification, yet they’re still used.
Thankfully we haven’t progressed since then!
The oldest recipe we have found was a recipe for beer.
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…
No one is forcing you to brush your teeth.
True, but its illegal for me to wander my neighborhood and pick berries from “private property”
Realistically, if you eat out of trash cans you’ll have the same experience, and if you’re quiet and neat, no one will report you.
Found the racoon
We prefer “opportunistic omnivore” but yes
The “dying at 25” thing is the result of a common misrepresentation of data. Infant mortality rates were significantly higher in the past, so the average gets thrown off. But, if you remove those data points (to reflect post-infancy mortality), you’d be living roughly the same amount of time.
Good thing someone else did the work long ago, so I don’t need to keep drinking it.
Back when life expectancy was 45.
Popular misconception.
There were a lot of people who never made it out of childhood, which skews the average down.
But if you made it to adulthood, you had a pretty good chance of making it to 65 or so.
That’s how averages work. Math.
That’s also why averages aren’t a good measure of a lot of things and are misleading.
Damn, glad I quit drinking.
(Hits vape pen.)
(/s, just in case it wasn’t clear.)
Glad I quit drinking and am currently quitting the vape pens.
Right on, it took some doing but I’m glad I quit nicotine. It’s worth it!
Had to do a double take with that image, the last time I saw it was in the instructions for how to use a menstrual cup. 😳
Left: wine glass with broken off foot.
Right: chess piece reveal party.
A cup? I usually just drink straight from the bottle
Life is the number one cause of death.
Its the worse sexual transmissive disease.
The only cure is death.
I’ve been working on fully cutting out alcohol from my diet. I tried for years but I think I am finally succeeding. Haven’t had a drink in almost two months.
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
I don’t know what a five minute chip is?
I stopped srink8ng for four minute yesterplay and that is the besters I can do
Well its a start.
Gotta go sometime and I’d rather do it having enjoyed a little bit of wine
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.
While all of this is true and concerning, now is not the time to raw dog reality.
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!!
Lsd
Not legal everywhere unfortunately. Alcohol is because it must be “safer” right? RIght?
Most drugs were scheduled to incriminate the lower income groups (i.e. mostly not white folks) They tried to ban alcohol once too. It didn’t go very well. Marijuana is less addictive and far less destructive, plus anyone can grow it, it’s like a fucking weed. Also, hops and Mary Jane are from the same family of plants.
They also found that drinking raises the risk of:
…sexually transmitted infections
This statement really made we wonder if they thought about actual causality at all.
Stop. Fucking. Your. Beer. Bottles.
I’m more partial to whisky bottles.
Now you’re just bragging.
1984 calendar meme
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.
Didn’t know liver and immune system are that connected
Lol I bet they just drunk fuck a lot. It’s fine. Don’t be a nerd.
Good point, highly likely the PhD students who authored this review were never taught about causation and correlation.
Welp. cracks open another one
I’ll drink to that
