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[–] [email protected] 89 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cheers - I'll drink to that!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] xav 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Alcohol also increases your blood pressure, and that has nothing to do with the liver. Still wouldn't be a good idea to be drunk all the time.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 5 months ago (3 children)

No, there are no consequences. I specifically requested it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

Well seeing as Nobody asked for it, I guess we don't have to do anything

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Alcohol is so much work to produce, with many deleterious effects on other parts of your physiology. Cut out the middle man and get a droud implanted. The only extra thing you'll need for the rest of your life is few handfuls of AA batteries.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

Yeah! Screw insulin pumps, we need glutathione pumps.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thankfully, I hate how bloated and disgusting I feel when I drink, otherwise I'd probably be an alcoholic like my mom, who died of alcohol poisoning after being the life of the party for years until it got so bad she wasn't fun anymore.

Shit is bleak out there, no one gives a shit if you have a drinking problem because it's so normalized. Then when you need help and are pushing everyone away, there's barely any support unless you have money. And AA programs have their own issues.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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] 11 points 5 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] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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] 6 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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] 8 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

But it also makes you dumb.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I already am.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 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 😁.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The key is to never get not drunk

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Welcotm to the club!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Man wait till you meet Charlie

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Big white horse? That guy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Memory's a bit sketchy but yeah sounds about right

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

works for me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No, I just feel more tired.