• @Nobody
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    897 months ago

    All this time and energy wasted on chatbots, cancer research, and what have you. What we need is a universal robotic liver, so that we can all stay drunk all the time with no consequences.

  • SharkEatingBreakfast
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    807 months ago

    I only drink a couple times per year. I’m typically pretty introverted and quiet, but once I’ve had alcohol, people keep telling me that I’m so friendly and fun and how they’d like to have some drinks with me again.

    Dangerous.

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        7 months ago

        I’ve had people bring up my completely legal, never-abused, responsibly used, doctor-prescribed medication out of “concern”, while my then-partner would down a couple 40s before noon and no one would fucking bat an eye.

        Shit’s fucked. Alcoholism is so normalized and socially accepted that folks just treat it like a fun quirk.

    • @[email protected]
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      237 months ago

      My family has a history of the bad kind of alcoholism, so I didn’t even try alcohol until my mid-twenties.
      I was very introverted at the time, and I have to admit, I loved the person I was when I was drunk.

      Fortunately for me, I had the willpower and the awareness to realize that just because I liked it didn’t mean I needed more. For about 10 years, I drank socially, in moderation, maybe about once a month on average.

      I’ll admit it did get a bit dicey in University, where I had a drink most days with my friends after class, but I very quickly dropped that habit after graduating.

      Not that it’s relevant (is any of this story?), but I recently discovered I have an issue with my liver - presumably not alcohol related - and as a precaution I’ve just stopped drinking entirely. Fortunately I’m a lot more “extroverted” these days, but I’ll admit I do miss it sometimes.

      • SharkEatingBreakfast
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        167 months ago

        Mine has a history of un-fun alcoholism, as well. Apparently it was used to self-medicate our other family history of depression. 🎉

        I’d drink more if I had folks to go out with, but I’ve cut off a lotta people in the last few years.

        It seems that social pressure to drink kind of doesn’t go away as you age, huh?

        • @[email protected]
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          117 months ago

          Honestly, since weed was legalized here, my entire social group pretty much entirely ditched alcohol in favor of cannabis. Definitely makes it easier for me to not feel pressured to drink, thankfully.

    • @[email protected]
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      37 months ago

      Yeah for introverts the options in life are basically forever alone, or learn how to use alcohol responsibly. Or irresponsibly if that’s your thing. I go back and forth.

      • SharkEatingBreakfast
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        27 months ago

        I’ve learned to be okay with alone-ness. Not sure that self-destruction is the better route, tbh.

  • no banana
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    247 months ago

    Seems good and probably has zero bad sides to it, go for it. 👍

    • The Picard ManeuverOP
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      67 months ago

      Glad to hear you’re feeling better now. That’s one habit that can gradually sneak up on you over time.

    • @[email protected]
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      67 months ago

      I started doing 1 or 2 drinks pretty much every evening during the pandemic, and more during the weekend, and much more when going out. I didn’t really see any issue at all, but very gradually I became sadder, slower, less motivated.

      Of course I didn’t notice that until I’d stopped for a few weeks. Now I can’t think of a single reason to drink. At this point in my life, it takes more than it gives.

      I feel like it’s probably always been that case, but I doubt I would have thought so as a young man.

      • @RBWells
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        This happened to me in the pandemic too. Working from home is kind of a drag, and building a division between work and home, logging off and sitting on the porch with a drink was such a lovely way to do that. But it quickly felt like too much drinking, alcohol is literally a downer, a central nervous system depressant. So I started going for a Pokemon go walk instead, and keep the drinking to weekends, except some weeks a half glass of wine with one supper, if it makes it better tasting. Never a full serving though.

        We do joke at work about logging off and drinking when it’s stressful but most of us are not really daily drinkers and I have literally never touched alcohol at a work party or happy hour at any job and nobody cares, nobody makes a big deal about it.

        • @[email protected]
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          27 months ago

          Yeah people are really underestimating how much work from home can fuck people up. I could never do it. I need to get out and change up that context. I am fully expecting an organic backlash at some point where people start demanding upscale office space again.

          • @[email protected]
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            17 months ago

            There are coworking spaces that are a good, flexible arrangement for this. I know a couple people who will grab a desk downtown at their own expense. It’s probably nice getting to know folks from outside your company in the same coworking space.

            But I’m a loner and I’ve got my little workspace at home just perfect now, so I don’t really go in unless it’s to meet over lunch or something.

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          27 months ago

          Working from home is kind of a drag, and building a division between work and home, logging off and sitting on the porch with a drink was such a lovely way to do that.

          That’s exactly what I said to myself. Although I am very good at working from home, and have since found healthier ways to create that division. The biggest one being: just don’t work outside of working hours lol.

          Glad you were able to put the booze in its place. Pandemic hit a lot of workers like that.

          I tried having a solitary drink here and there, but found even that left me feeling bummed and sluggish the next day. So I just stick to the fun drinks for now.

  • @[email protected]
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    197 months ago

    Gonna be honest, alcohol is kinda overrates. I dont really drink it and if I do its not that much with lots of water in between, because I don’t want to fucking die the next die. But I think that the effect of alcohol isn’t very appealing to me. I myself think, that the high you get from weed is much better than being drunk.

    • @RBWells
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      77 months ago

      I have the opposite effects. Alcohol in moderation (like one drink, about 1.5 “units”) makes me feel very gently relaxed but not much else, it’s pleasant. Weed makes me feel tired, stupid, and irritated, I have never found the “high”. I just feel annoyed and want it to be over. Everyone annoys me because I am myself annoyed. Actually getting drunk drunk is also annoying as fuck but weed I tried even very small amounts, no high. Except one time when young but I suspect that was laced, it was psychedelic. I’ve tried it a handful of times before and since and no, it feels yucky.

      • @[email protected]
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        67 months ago

        If I’m high i become relaxed and start smiling because everything is just good. No problems and no worries.

  • @Shadowedcross
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    167 months ago

    I only really like myself and how I behave when I’m drunk, I’m much more outgoing and confident, not to mention it just makes me feel good. I feel like if I had less self control, I could very easily become addicted, but as it is I don’t drink that often, and when I do drink I don’t drink much.

    • @[email protected]
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      87 months ago

      I hate drunk me, he says the dumbest shit and likes yo air his grievances with people via text at 3am and then sober me has to clean up his mess.

      I still say dumb shit, I just don’t send paragraphs of a text pointing out why people I like are dicks.

    • @RBWells
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      17 months ago

      I feel like there must be another way for you to accomplish that feeling while sober, though, you are still you when you have a drink. Letting go a little.

  • @LANIK2000
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    127 months ago

    Mmhm, alcohol makes any dumb activity fun, and any person interesting, to you that is, the drunk. It’s the reason why I still occasionally drink, but only at weddings and what not, as not attending would cause more issues than just drinking once.

      • @LANIK2000
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        47 months ago

        Yep, not arguing there. Alcohol sucks and I only use it when I have the pleasure of experiencing a social event I didn’t wanna attend.

  • synae[he/him]
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    127 months ago

    Hm, I don’t remember posting this… Probably cuz of all the confidence and extroversion.

  • @Matriks404
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    127 months ago

    With enough practice you probably trick your brain and be extraverted (to some extent) without alcohol. Or at least that’s something I tell myself.

    My biggest progress is not attending language lesson while being after a beer or two 😁.

  • macrocarpa
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    97 months ago

    Man wait till you meet Charlie

      • macrocarpa
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        27 months ago

        Memory’s a bit sketchy but yeah sounds about right