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[-] Nobody@lemmy.world 89 points 1 year ago

All this time and energy wasted on chatbots, cancer research, and what have you. What we need is a universal robotic liver, so that we can all stay drunk all the time with no consequences.

[-] janNatan@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

Alcohol also increases your blood pressure, and that has nothing to do with the liver. Still wouldn't be a good idea to be drunk all the time.

[-] Nobody@lemmy.world 92 points 1 year ago

No, there are no consequences. I specifically requested it.

[-] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

Well seeing as Nobody asked for it, I guess we don't have to do anything

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Alcohol is so much work to produce, with many deleterious effects on other parts of your physiology. Cut out the middle man and get a droud implanted. The only extra thing you'll need for the rest of your life is few handfuls of AA batteries.

[-] blandfordforever@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

Yeah! Screw insulin pumps, we need glutathione pumps.

[-] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 80 points 1 year ago

I only drink a couple times per year. I'm typically pretty introverted and quiet, but once I've had alcohol, people keep telling me that I'm so friendly and fun and how they'd like to have some drinks with me again.

Dangerous.

[-] kakes@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago

My family has a history of the bad kind of alcoholism, so I didn't even try alcohol until my mid-twenties.
I was very introverted at the time, and I have to admit, I loved the person I was when I was drunk.

Fortunately for me, I had the willpower and the awareness to realize that just because I liked it didn't mean I needed more. For about 10 years, I drank socially, in moderation, maybe about once a month on average.

I'll admit it did get a bit dicey in University, where I had a drink most days with my friends after class, but I very quickly dropped that habit after graduating.

Not that it's relevant (is any of this story?), but I recently discovered I have an issue with my liver - presumably not alcohol related - and as a precaution I've just stopped drinking entirely. Fortunately I'm a lot more "extroverted" these days, but I'll admit I do miss it sometimes.

[-] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 year ago

Mine has a history of un-fun alcoholism, as well. Apparently it was used to self-medicate our other family history of depression. ๐ŸŽ‰

I'd drink more if I had folks to go out with, but I've cut off a lotta people in the last few years.

It seems that social pressure to drink kind of doesn't go away as you age, huh?

[-] kakes@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Honestly, since weed was legalized here, my entire social group pretty much entirely ditched alcohol in favor of cannabis. Definitely makes it easier for me to not feel pressured to drink, thankfully.

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah for introverts the options in life are basically forever alone, or learn how to use alcohol responsibly. Or irresponsibly if that's your thing. I go back and forth.

[-] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I've learned to be okay with alone-ness. Not sure that self-destruction is the better route, tbh.

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Seems good and probably has zero bad sides to it, go for it. ๐Ÿ‘

Gonna be honest, alcohol is kinda overrates. I dont really drink it and if I do its not that much with lots of water in between, because I don't want to fucking die the next die. But I think that the effect of alcohol isn't very appealing to me. I myself think, that the high you get from weed is much better than being drunk.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I have the opposite effects. Alcohol in moderation (like one drink, about 1.5 "units") makes me feel very gently relaxed but not much else, it's pleasant. Weed makes me feel tired, stupid, and irritated, I have never found the "high". I just feel annoyed and want it to be over. Everyone annoys me because I am myself annoyed. Actually getting drunk drunk is also annoying as fuck but weed I tried even very small amounts, no high. Except one time when young but I suspect that was laced, it was psychedelic. I've tried it a handful of times before and since and no, it feels yucky.

If I'm high i become relaxed and start smiling because everything is just good. No problems and no worries.

[-] Shadowedcross@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I only really like myself and how I behave when I'm drunk, I'm much more outgoing and confident, not to mention it just makes me feel good. I feel like if I had less self control, I could very easily become addicted, but as it is I don't drink that often, and when I do drink I don't drink much.

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 8 points 1 year ago

I hate drunk me, he says the dumbest shit and likes yo air his grievances with people via text at 3am and then sober me has to clean up his mess.

I still say dumb shit, I just don't send paragraphs of a text pointing out why people I like are dicks.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I feel like there must be another way for you to accomplish that feeling while sober, though, you are still you when you have a drink. Letting go a little.

[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

With enough practice you probably trick your brain and be extraverted (to some extent) without alcohol. Or at least that's something I tell myself.

My biggest progress is not attending language lesson while being after a beer or two ๐Ÿ˜.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago
[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

The key is to never get not drunk

[-] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Mmhm, alcohol makes any dumb activity fun, and any person interesting, to you that is, the drunk. It's the reason why I still occasionally drink, but only at weddings and what not, as not attending would cause more issues than just drinking once.

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

But it also makes you dumb.

[-] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yep, not arguing there. Alcohol sucks and I only use it when I have the pleasure of experiencing a social event I didn't wanna attend.

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I already am.

[-] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago

Hm, I don't remember posting this... Probably cuz of all the confidence and extroversion.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Welcotm to the club!

[-] macrocarpa@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Man wait till you meet Charlie

[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Big white horse? That guy?

[-] macrocarpa@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Memory's a bit sketchy but yeah sounds about right

[-] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, I just feel more tired.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

works for me

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