doug

There’s no berating here or superiority being touted. At least that is not my intention.

The entire point of the question was to provide an example of something that is understatedly more harmful to us than originally presented.

I said alcohol and it hasn’t a “net” positive; meaning whatever benefits people think it has is outweighed by the fact it may give you cancer. Your response— as I read it, as it met my statement with a smile— was dismissive of that because you’ve made friends.

I’m now just arguing that that positive benefit is not exclusive to alcohol and should not be in its “pro” column.

At no point have I meant to imply someone is better than others to abstain from it; however, perhaps this is an example to clarify what I think your point was that this is a negative of being sober or opting to not drink, is that you cannot make friends with some people because they will feel judged by your abstinence.

I did say I wouldn’t want to be friends with those people, but that’s more because I don’t enjoy the social pressure or situation in which someone else in my immediacy.is uncomfortable by my personal choice that only affects me.

It being unfalsifiable is the point because it meant to be a pendulum to your unfalsifiable original point that you’re thankful for alcohol because you see it as the reason you have the outcome in life that you did.

Many people have traveled and made friends, they did not need a carcinogen to do it, which nullifies it from being a positive exclusive to alcohol.

Not bad for a modern trailer treatment.

Right? I thought the same thing.

“Only the people who prayed lived” is an easy statement to make as the dead ones can’t speak for themselves.

“Alcohol is why I have friends” is understandably believed because you’ll never know the life you’d have had had you not drank it.

I get it’s the pillar of many cultures and a welcome one at that, but the fact it’s a proven carcinogen should not be dismissed, forgotten, or trivialized.

keyword is "net" -- you made friends, but the health risks involved may considerably offset that benefit.

i'm sober and have made countless friends sans alcohol, many of them drink themselves; and if alcohol was a contingent on them being my friend, I'm not sure I'd want to be friends with them.

“Hey Copilot, what have Putin and Trump been exchanging emails about?”

I really hate that lady.

How to get a cat on the moon: tell them they’re not allowed on the moon

Don’t be fooled: if RAM had the chance it would kill everyone and everything you’ve ever loved.

No, wait, I know that sofa too.

I fucked the shit outta that sofa.It couldn’t hide-a-bed from me.

Bibliographies will cost a fortune! All those sauces being cited 😦

Recliner? I barely know her!

…oh wait, I do know her. I’ve fucked that recliner.

…I really know that recliner.

Please.

It’s not fair. There’s no cosmic karma system. This rat fuck gets to live longer than Jim Henson and Mr. Rogers?

Come on, cholesterol. Come on sodium. Come on obesity. I’ve seen his diet. Do your thing already!

ok fuckhead, but make it include all gender-affirming care for everyone, trans or not.

no boner pills, no hair transplants, no leg-lengthening, no plastic surgery to change your appearance. be hypocritical more you rat fuck.

My criticism fucking sucks.

Destructive destructive criticism.

Yeah but that’s what makes it a fun thought experiment imo is thinking of how the simulation accounts for our reality.

If I’m a Sim in The Sims equivalent, my dying results in the exact same outcome it does in The Sims; my avatar is gone and not resurrectable (without mods).

Maybe the Mandela effect is when we’ve moved servers from one that had different DLC.

God/Jesus/all prophets was just the admin visiting.

Ghosts are bugs in the code only visible to some of us because we have the residual DLC files that weren’t properly removed.

We can’t see far into space because the draw distance is short.

He can have my tax dollars from the lawsuit over the shit-heels he’s taking them from.

Alcohol

iirc it’s a confirmed, 100% proven carcinogen and is a poison with zero net benefits.

Your dynamite is not placed in the correct areas for optimal destruction and would be better located on the support beams.