Dozens of diseases are attributable to alcohol consumption—but many can be slowed or reversed by cutting down on or quitting drinking, according to a new review co-authored by researchers at Harvard Chan School.
Yep, it sucks. But it turns out there’s a non-stop drip of terrible fucking news, the planet continues to get hotter with more wildfires every year, my well-paying career in software might be soon over due to the advent of AI coding, I’m working for the worst company I have ever worked for and with one of the worst bosses I’ve ever seen, the president is getting shows critical of him cancelled in order to approve sales of all major media platforms to his fascist friends (and fail sons), the cost of everything is skyrocketing, social security looks likely to collapse before I can ever collect it, and there does not appear to be any relief in sight for any of this.
Maybe I don’t need to go old and healthy at 80+.
It’s obvious that drinking isn’t good for you, but it was just as obvious that smoking isn’t good for you and that didn’t keep my grandparents from doing it until it killed them — and nicotine barely gives you any buzz at all. We all gotta go some time.
consider it this way: getting old may suck. getting old, sick and having strokes sucks way more and just makes you miserable and a burden to a bunch of people who didnt deserve it. you wont be taking it out your enemy. just hurting yourself and finding more reasons to hate yourself.
We have locked everything anyone needs to live a decent life behind a massive paywall, make a habit of eliminating any way besides debt to make it over the massive paywall, and then scientists do research on people’s coping mechanisms so that others can use that as a way to feel righteous condemning a stranger’s habits.
Notice how you didn’t spend a moment discussing where relief for any of the very real problems I mentioned is coming from because you likely know it isn’t.
There are things you are definitely responsible to yourself for. Such as you’re decisions of what you are doing to you’re own body with what you are cognitively aware of consuming. Such as smoking or too much alcohol or food.
You’re just talking about all things that seem impossible to control just to get the focus off yourself.
That’s how an addict would speak. That’s an old addict trick.
Nah, I wrote that and this sober dude, just as I spend the vast majority of my waking time.
The point is that these very real problems have no solutions but somehow the only thing we can do in these threads is handwring and concern troll people coping with them.
There is lots of online encouragement to live a long, sober life in an unaffordable, polluted hellscape.
I’m not attached to a bottle, but having a beer at the end of a long day provides a lot more relief than podcast bro pseudoscientific bullshit about meditation and wellness which is the only alternative on offer. (Because we live in a country where everything is purposely broken and the only way sold to fix it is for each of us individually to be perfect.)
Yep, it sucks. But it turns out there’s a non-stop drip of terrible fucking news, the planet continues to get hotter with more wildfires every year, my well-paying career in software might be soon over due to the advent of AI coding, I’m working for the worst company I have ever worked for and with one of the worst bosses I’ve ever seen, the president is getting shows critical of him cancelled in order to approve sales of all major media platforms to his fascist friends (and fail sons), the cost of everything is skyrocketing, social security looks likely to collapse before I can ever collect it, and there does not appear to be any relief in sight for any of this.
Maybe I don’t need to go old and healthy at 80+.
It’s obvious that drinking isn’t good for you, but it was just as obvious that smoking isn’t good for you and that didn’t keep my grandparents from doing it until it killed them — and nicotine barely gives you any buzz at all. We all gotta go some time.
consider it this way: getting old may suck. getting old, sick and having strokes sucks way more and just makes you miserable and a burden to a bunch of people who didnt deserve it. you wont be taking it out your enemy. just hurting yourself and finding more reasons to hate yourself.
We have locked everything anyone needs to live a decent life behind a massive paywall, make a habit of eliminating any way besides debt to make it over the massive paywall, and then scientists do research on people’s coping mechanisms so that others can use that as a way to feel righteous condemning a stranger’s habits.
Notice how you didn’t spend a moment discussing where relief for any of the very real problems I mentioned is coming from because you likely know it isn’t.
Nope. And that’s not why I didn’t discuss it.
There are things you are definitely responsible to yourself for. Such as you’re decisions of what you are doing to you’re own body with what you are cognitively aware of consuming. Such as smoking or too much alcohol or food.
You’re just talking about all things that seem impossible to control just to get the focus off yourself.
That’s how an addict would speak. That’s an old addict trick.
Nah, I wrote that and this sober dude, just as I spend the vast majority of my waking time.
The point is that these very real problems have no solutions but somehow the only thing we can do in these threads is handwring and concern troll people coping with them.
There is lots of online encouragement to live a long, sober life in an unaffordable, polluted hellscape.
I’m not attached to a bottle, but having a beer at the end of a long day provides a lot more relief than podcast bro pseudoscientific bullshit about meditation and wellness which is the only alternative on offer. (Because we live in a country where everything is purposely broken and the only way sold to fix it is for each of us individually to be perfect.)