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[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 43 points 3 days ago

Is Anon talking out their ass with those stats, or is this actually true?

[-] Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

Theres definitely a truth to it, younger people are drinking less and less every generation, which takes its toll on bars and to some extent clubs too.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago

Isn’t it also because going out nowadays is expensive as hell especially if you live in a big city. Young people working part time aren’t going to waste one month’s salary on one night out. And just hanging outside in public sharing a beer will make a nosy boomer call the cops on you for loitering. So the younger generations have learned how to have fun at home without booze.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 19 points 3 days ago

There's never been a point in my life where going out drinking all night has made financial sense. A meal and a beer at a pub, sure, but bars are expensive. And loud. And cramped.

The kids are on to something.

[-] jaycifer@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

You just have to live in the right city with sufficiently high rates of alcoholism! In Fargo, ND you could get a tall 200 lb+ man proper sloshed over an evening downtown across 5-8 bars for $50 or less as recently as 2019. Not as cheap as drinking at home, but enough that most folks without kids working full-time could do it every other weekend.

[-] GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

See, but that's the rub! Who the fuck wants to spend $50 and go to that many bars? I could get a new AAA game for that much that I'll play for hundreds of hours. Or 10 indie games that I'll play for longer!

[-] jaycifer@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

$50 fro 6pm-2am is cheaper per hour than a movie ticket or dinner at a restaurant, and hitting that many bars is easy when they’re all on the same 2-3 block stretch!

Fargo, ND

Well there's your problem, North Dakota doesn't exist.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If you heard the horror stories I heard from friends that went there to work the oil fields, this would be a very very good thing.

[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

$50 or less in 2019? I live in a more urban area of the US than this and if you pregame and go with friends, you can get the equivalent of 5 drinks at 3 bars for well under $20. In 2025.

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago

Drinking less is probably good. I doubt that automatically leads to less dating.

[-] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago

we need cannabis lounges

[-] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 3 days ago

Fuck, and I was just reading Homelessness Is A Housing Problem, and they were talking all about stats and to not buy into intuitive narratives, and low and behold, I have bought into this without looking it up. Guess I should get onto that now.

(And by reading the book, I mean I use a GlaDOS voice pack from Hugginface using SherpaTTS. What a vibe.)

[-] odious@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

wait what, you can get a GlaDOS voice pack for TTS engines? damn. i guess there goes my afternoon. thanks for the hint 😁

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago
[-] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

No, but it does try to destroy my self-esteem. One could say that is a type of murder.

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago
[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago

Well, that's depressing. Although I understand why, if you're not socially confident, approaching a woman romantically can feel terrifying.

I do find it interesting that most young women do want to be approached more, I wasn't expecting that.

I also note the study is silent on how many women have approached a man, and I don't think they even asked the question.

[-] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Depressing? Why? One could choose to live in certain way.

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