This was effective in stopping me from drinking til age 20. Too drunk to google it right now, can someone enlighten me about this phrase?

In that vein, I propose another slogan: "Capitalism kills brain cells."

  • RedDawn [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    No, it's objectively not at all comparable, you're just way off base in how dangerous alcohol is. In many respects it's the most dangerous and harmful of any of the common drugs.

    so that they can say it increases your risk of x by 300%, or that something else reduces your risk of y by 500% or whatever, and omit what that actually means in practice,

    We can be really clear about what the harms of alcohol use are in practice and it's literal millions of deaths per year.

    https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/alcohol

    I’ve stopped obsessing over all that stuff because the misery this shit causes to people probably outweighs any benefit they may cause

    Literally not a chance in the case of alcohol, the public perception of it is far off from reality due to obscene amounts of propaganda promoting it, so being honest about how dangerous it is is a positive thing for society in much the same way public health campaigns regarding smoking have been a hugely positive thing.

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      In many respects it’s the most dangerous and harmful of any of the common drugs.

      Lmao yeah cool.

      We can be really clear about what the harms of alcohol use are in practice and it’s literal millions of deaths per year.

      Yeah I'm not gonna keep talking with someone who seems to act deliberately obtuse and pretends to not understand the difference between binge drinking and occasional use.

      • RedDawn [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        "Lmao" isn't an argument and what I said is true. Studies consistently show alcohol to be either the most harmful, or one of the most harmful of all drugs.

        • Pezevenk [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Repeating the same wrong thing over and over doesn't make it right.

          • RedDawn [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Good thing I'm right then and you're just a dipshit too lazy to google "most harmful drugs" and see that alcohol consistently ranks at the top. Stop messaging me, drunk ass.

            • Pezevenk [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Oh OK, if you googled it, that's alright. I remember when I googled why my nose was running for a long time and Google told me I had a spinal fluid leak. Thanks Google for always being very balanced, reliable and not alarmist when it comes to medical facts.

              • RedDawn [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                The source isn't "Google" it's every study ever fucking done on the topic, google is just how you can look at hundreds of them which all rank alcohol as among the most harmful drugs, many of them rank it as the single most harmful. You're wrong, you lost an argument on the internet, oh no!

                • Pezevenk [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  There is no such study. You're describing a subjective judgement you saw on articles.

                  • RedDawn [he/him]
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                    4 years ago

                    Here's one. There are many. You're literally wrong dude just shut the fuck up and sleep it off.

                    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31081439/

                    Here's another

                    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.592199/full

      • RedDawn [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        You seem to be missing the part about how alcohol is an addictive drug and anybody using it at all runs the risk of becoming addicted. You're the one being "obtuse" here, but I'll chalk that up to the fact you have very little experience with alcohol overall. Alcohol causes millions of deaths per year, it's extremely dangerous and harmful. You're objectively wrong about it.