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B8MGHCBekDuRi
4y ago
> Americans are much more compliant now American health issue are mostly class based. Black and brown people are poorer on average, hence they face more issues regarding health issues in general. Alcohol abuse is a well known addiction a
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It is entirely possible. But "research" as this paper here are mostly useless. They are good for nothing. It's like researching the fact that "there is no amount of soap that can be considered harmless for the environmen
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4y ago
> Both can be true at once, for exactly the reason described: the causal effect goes in the other direction. still non drinkers do not live longer on average. which totally defeat one of the few benefits associated to not drinking, unle
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4y ago
publish another paper in two years fully financed. or find another job. what would you chose?
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4y ago
this article is doing an even worse job though: there are a lot of people i the comments that are convinced that if they do not drink at all, they will live longer. They won't. > The facts are facts. Alcohol is a poison that wrecks
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yeah, prohibition totally worked. Why not call McCarthy back too? Alcohol problems are not the same thing of alcohol consumption. Also: Scotland's alcohol consumption is among the highest in the world, according to World Health Organi
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> Id be interested in a source as it is my understanding that most of this research was disinformation from the alcohol industry it's independent scientific studies alcohol industry doesn't need to convince people, they sell al
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> Moderate drinkers tend to be healthier on average because they're well-educated and more affluent, not because they're drinking a bottle of wine a week on average the point is that non-drinkers live less. Which totally contr
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> The average Italian, for example, should, and definitely, would just laught this off. we don't even drink that much, compared to other countries. we simply enjoy it, even if it doesn't make our life longer, like many other ac
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4y ago
You nailed it. Nobody does everything they do because they think "this is good for my health". We usually avoid stuff that is very bad for our health, but life is not just about going on for years avoiding any risk at all cost.
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4y ago
if you think that enjoying stuff is bad, I'm sorry for you. I also don't need carbonara, pizza, gelato, the beach, snowboarding, my friends, my family to survive...
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4y ago
no need to debunk the truth. It's like drugs. Take too many pills, you die. Take them when you need them and their benefit will surpass the risks. Alcohol works the same way. We know for a fact that moderate drinkers live longer than n
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4y ago
> What if alcohol is actually just bad for you full stop It is. The point is it is not so bad that you should worry so much about it, just use moderation. Like everything else in your life, especially past 40, you should use common sense
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4y ago
> beef with wine sauce, carrots in bourbon sauce, salad greens tossed with a champagne vinaigrette, and amaretto apple crisp. these are all very different kinds of alcohol. for example "beef with wine sauce" it's cooked us
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> I'd be curious if cooking with wine falls into this category of affecting others alcohol evaporates very rapidly at very low temperatures.
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> reduced lifespan said it before, this one is not true. Epidemiological studies indicate that moderate drinkers live longer than non-drinkers and heavy drinkers.
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4y ago
actually people who drink moderately live longer. Epidemiological studies indicate that moderate drinkers live longer than non-drinkers and heavy drinkers. https://www.med.unc.edu/alcohol/education-prevention/alc
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4y ago
> To refuse a beer in Germany is an affront I don't think that stereotypes add anything to any discussion.
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> Denial, in a word. I think it's more like: yeah, we know, but people are able of being responsible too. So don't assume that living a week more in a lifetime should be a goal, I assume these studies are published to get some
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4y ago
It's the same all over the World, the majority of car accidents happen during daylight, caused by drivers' distractions, AKA smartphones nowadays. So WHO should publish a paper where it says "no amount of smartphone usage is
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For the year ending December 31, 2013, WhatsApp had $10.2 million in revenue and a net loss of $138.146 million. Net cash used in operating during this period was only $9.9 million, while share-based compensation amounted to $98.8 million
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> Can you imagine if some newspaper interviewed a recent lottery winner [...] But to the ignorant, it all sounds very impressive the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect described by Crichton comes to mind here. It is quite potent when media talk ab
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4y ago
> The seller claims they don't see the transfer on their end, who keeps the car you, if you transferred the money. the seller, if you did not.
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4y ago
made up Latin adage is more than enough to identify you as a monero spammer. sine intelligentia non sunt secreta
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4y ago
unless you print the money at home, it always gonna involve three parties. I believe that by anonymous you meant secret. It's not anonymous, the person who sold the item already learned a lot of things about you and you about the buyer
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4y ago
the marginal value of small transactions is negligible. If you want to evade taxes by skimming 5 cents on each coffee, you have to sell 200.000 unregistered coffees to save 1.000 euros. Which is more than 3 times what an average Italian bar
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4y ago
in cash? for more than 10k? if someone has 10k cash they will not buy a used car, they will buy a new car, pay it in the next 5 years 200 euros a month and then sell it to a used car reseller. No sane minded person would sell their more th
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4y ago
> It's a cashier's check. cashier checks are equivalent to cash and follow the same limits.
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> This approach of treating everyone like criminals is pervasive in current times if you usually keep 10k of cash in your pocket, you're probably someone who's not scared by criminals. And I only know two types of people with t
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4y ago
> Rights are not a for-profit balance sheet, the right to use large amounts of cash is a fictional right.
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