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Amazingly, almost no one will read this and see alcohol as being a significant part of the problem. The reason for this is the extremely successful marketing t
by ilaksh 5y ago
Amazingly, almost no one will read this and see alcohol as being a significant part of the problem.
The reason for this is the extremely successful marketing that has saturated the culture.
You don't need to be an alcoholic, a wife-beater, or anything to get drunk. You just need to have one too many drinks a little too fast, and then its that much easier to make another wrong decision about the next drink.
- ponow 5y agoProblem drinking isn't due to marketing, and precedes modern marketing by ... millenia.
- paganel 5y agoIt highly depends on the culture, also, there are cultures for which binge drinking is still seen as acceptable (for lack of a better word), especially if you're still bellow a certain age, i.e. "young". For example in Europe there's a certain divide between Northern (and technically some port of Central, from a latitude pov) Europe and its Southern parts, there's also a strong divide when it comes to how acceptable women getting shit-drunk during a night out is. The thing is that those Northern and Central European cultures are highly successful from an economic point of view, i.e. compared to other cultures, so whatever shitty thing they have with their culture of binge drinking is sort of hidden under the rug, instead of being put front and center and trying to fix it.
- goodpoint 5y agoCitation needed.
- standardUser 5y agoSome of us are good at getting drunk, enjoy it, and don't make regrettable decisions when drinking.
- ilaksh 5y agoYou don't ever make regrettable decisions when you are drunk?
- standardUser 5y agoNo. At least not for many, many years.
- epgui 5y agoMedically speaking, getting drunk is objectively a regrettable decision.
- standardUser 5y agoThat's not what the word regret means.
- kjkjadksj 5y agoSo is stepping into the sunlight
- eloisius 5y agoSunlight is healthy in moderation. Binge suntanning until your skin is blistered and peeling, you become incoherent, belligerent, or unable to tell someone how to get you home is another story.
- standardUser 5y ago"become incoherent, belligerent, or unable to tell someone how to get you home" I don't what types of god-awful cretins you are hanging out with, but you should know that are countless adults who can get drunk, act kindly and coherently, and get themselves home with any issue whatsoever. Maybe find better friends?
- refurb 5y agoSitting in front of a computer all day is too but hey it pays well.
- Animats 5y ago... alcohol as being a significant part of the problem. There's a startup working on this. "Seriously, isn’t it time we came up with something beyond ethanol?"[1] They've developed something called "Alcarelle"[2] which has alcohol-like effects, but the effects max out around the 3 drink level. They are trying to get this through clinical testing. They're looking for high net worth investors. The amusing thing is that they have something that works, but it's a synthetic. They're trying to make it "natural", for marketing reasons, so they're trying to find some plant-based product they can bash into doing the same thing. They have a product out, called "Sentia". It's not as good as Alcarelle, but it's "natural".[3] [1] https://gabalabs.com/ https://gabalabs.com/ [2] https://www.menshealth.com/uk/nutrition/a30117412/alcohol-hangover-alcarelle/ https://www.menshealth.com/uk/nutrition/a30117412/alcohol-ha... [3] https://sentiaspirits.com/ https://sentiaspirits.com/
- kjkjadksj 5y agoYou can buy drinks with thc in them
- marssaxman 5y agoThere are many things which are better than alcohol, but the absurdity of War-on-Drugs prohibitionism means that most people can't get them. 1,4-B comes to mind.