I like wine with dinner, maybe a nice homemade cocktail on weekends. All this talk of prohibition makes me uneasy. Ban alcohol today, what will you ban tomorrow?
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I never had any interest in drinking alcohol, the smell is horrible and while you can supposedly push through and acclimate to it fairly easily and there are mixes that will mask that harsh scent/taste I never really saw a reason to do that since there were very clear examples around me of people screwing up their entire lives with alcohol.
I had to make a choice about 5 or 6 years ago, keep drinking and die, or stop drinking and live.
Trump had just been voted out.
I wish I hadn't quit.
Health concerns? Maybe being priced out of the market? Canada stops buying, price goes up for americans, easy-peasey, lemon-squeezy.
I think social media has affected this as well. Video and pictures mean people don't want to embarrass themselves as much. Also, marijuana is legal in a lot of places and doesn't mix with alcohol as well for everyone.
I wonder how the percentages for marijuana have changed and whether they make up the difference.
I think you're right that it's social media, but it's for a different reason. Social media is now the drug of choice.
Exactly got to look good for the gram or TikTok.
Most people where I live are sticking to body conscious cocaine!
I wonder how this currently matches the actual quantity people are drinking. Historically the "how much do you drink" and sales records indicated massive under estimation to the point this might really be people are drinking what they said they were in 2001.
That said alcohol is a mood amplifier for me.. So I avoid entirely if not in a good mood.. And really have been enjoying the na beers, not as good as a nice craft beer but when I feel like a beer while watching something at home or playing video games hits close enough without the mind altering part (and if I want to do anything later in the evening and its a weekend this is a good thing)
I certainly am not avoiding a good drink at the bar, see no real reason to think one drink day is particularly bad if that is what you are actually doing (the headlines on the recent health studies are overblown, not saying the science is wrong but nuance in science reporting is awful as usual) but if you are not enjoying it really no reason to have it just because.
There is not a lot of nuance. No amount of alcohol is beneficial to your body's function. Any amount is harmful. Pulling out the magnifying glass looking for additional nuance smacks of motivated reasoning.
If you had to pick either healthy or unhealthy, a drink a day would fall under unhealthy, but it also might be statistically irrelevant due to having such a small impact.
I do think its worth noting that alcohol does actually change its effects the more you drink though. The effects of intoxication don't just increase, they cascade to other parts of the brain. Someone who consistently stays under one drink is essentially on a different drug than someone who draws the line at three.
IT'S FUCKING EXPENSIVE AND LETTUCE MAKES YOU SHIT TO DEATH NOW.
Ah, well. At least they can't tax the air.
Polluted areas will have cheaper rent and cleaner areas we will be priced out of. So many dystopian tropes about this and I truly believe it will come to pass.
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I don't drink booze, because it seems like an expensive habit. I don't got any friends nor go to bars, so it is likely going to be a miserable experience. Also, one of my parents was an absolute boozehound, and certainly not someone to be respected. So I avoid alcohol, because I don't know what kind of person I would be.
It is just disadvantages all around, with no upside for me.
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When it comes to American society at large, I suspect that capitalism is the root of why alcohol use is dropping. Third spaces are going extinct, budgets are tighter, time is limited, and work demands greater effort to make ends meet, and most people lose their childhood friendships as adults. The opportunity to enjoy booze is dying.
It's pretty easy to tell you are in a room of people having fun and enjoying themselves. The last time I enjoyed going to a bar was in March of 2020. It is nothing like it was before. Prices are sky high, and the average bar is still relatively empty, in comparison dead, and the energy level is pretty non existent. The age mix skews much older than before.
For busy, packed bars that have lineup in the streets, the age is much lower, prices are even higher. After waiting in line, which feels absurd since there are so many empty bars even across the street, everyone seems most concerned with updating their social media allegedly having a good time. The DJ is there, music is loud, but the patrons aren't.
So have a couple drinks, spend 100 bucks, and wake up with a headache.
Yeah, it's shit.
We are also in a pure surveillance state, everything we do is recorded so it is risky. What used to be a gaffe could be a career ending viral moment today.
Conversations with strangers is now the worst, complaining about rent, prices of everything, Trump, late stage capitalism, immigration , woke is destroying the world, libtards, investing in gold, or actually more enjoyable - an inebriated 60 year old with intentions, that constantly repeating themselves like an llm with 2 messages of context history. Until they finally make their move you see coming like a train wreck in slow motion.
And finally, the alcohol companies have lost control of the narrative, like tobacco, they spent heavily on funding studies that found alcohol has health benefits (in some amount) and rained legal threats on anyone saying what has been known for decades:
Alcohol consumption causes cancer.
This is in addition to what everyone has known forever, even moderate consumption often results in injury from falling or assault, get in a car - death (of other people), and while men don't usually think about it, sexual assault.
It's all a buzz kill.
Alcohol causes more than cancer, it's behind most liver diseases and it's a potent neurotoxin.
and thats why they lobbied against weed and glp-1.
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