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The entire upside of alcohol use is social lubrication. Frankly, I think our society could benefit from a bit more peer pressure.
by OkayPhysicist 1y ago
The entire upside of alcohol use is social lubrication. Frankly, I think our society could benefit from a bit more peer pressure.
- littlexsparkee 1y agoYou can get the social upside with adaptogens which are increasingly showing up in canned drinks or drinking kava with friends. Alcohol doesn't have a monopoly on that.
- OkayPhysicist 1y agoWe could, but we don't. Alcohol currently has a defacto monopoly on lubricated social spaces. Distant second is nicotine. Nothing else comes anywhere close.