• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    As someone who rarely drinks and fucking hates being around dumb drunk fucks.

    Good.

    Keep going, don’t stop, fuck alcohol.

    David Nutt knew what was up. He argued alcohol and tobacco should be illegal and marijuana, LSD, and mushrooms should be legal, based on real-world harm (he also had the data to back it up). He got shitcanned for suggesting this.

    Humanity needs to wake the fuck up to how fucking bad alcohol is for us as a species.

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      10 months ago

      I mean, yeah, booze isn’t great for people. But it’s been a fairly important part of humanity since, like, the first city. According to wikipedia, humans have been making booze since the Neolithic period (10,000 BCE). Many, many, human cultures have some sort of relationship with it. Removing it would not be easy or well received.

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        10 months ago

        There are a few theories that propose alcohol tolerance is baked into our DNA. Pre-humans that were able to breakdown alcohol were able to survive off of fermenting fruit when needed and not get so blackout drunk they became easy prey for something else. While that is just theory, the ability for us to process alcohol had to start somewhere.

        I find it strange that a substance that helped us evolve is also a major sponsor of the Darwin Awards.

    • prole@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      Lol people know how bad alcohol is.

      Maybe you’ll understand when you’re a little bit older, bud.