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Assian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.net to Slop.@hexbear.netEnglish · 12 days ago

Good news everyone! Drinking is healthy again

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Good news everyone! Drinking is healthy again

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Assian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.net to Slop.@hexbear.netEnglish · 12 days ago
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/health/alcohol-drinking-hhs-report.html

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  • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    we’re getting “healthy booze” before we get legal weed, god i hate this fucking country

    • ClimateStalin [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      I’ve been saying for years I need someone to make Alcohol That’s Good For You but this isn’t what I meant

  • dumpster_dove [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Where’s the tobacco lobby during all this? They could stage a comeback and make smoking healthy again!

    • stink@lemmygrad.ml
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      There’s been a big wave of Gen Z’ers growing a mustache, a mullet, and smoking cigarettes for the aura.

      Someone should to a material analysis of how this declining economy is making the youth reminiscent of a time they were not alive to experience but were told were the golden days.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        We’re back to the 70s baby

      • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
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        it’s called “anemoia” apparently, and every time i see someone under 40 with a cigarette in their mouth i want to beat them up

        • LeylaLove [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.net
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          Oh you’d hate me

          • stink@lemmygrad.ml
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            I smoke a few a week, terrible habit for sure

            • LeylaLove [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.net
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              I smoke a lot more than that, probably gonna have to quit because of a new job though. Gonna get switched back over to pouches at some point next time I have the money for nicotine

      • la_tasalana_intissari_mata [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        not being employed somewhere that forces you to look professional

    • relativestranger@feddit.nl
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      about to make a comeback in wisconsin–vapes were essentially banned in that state starting september 1st.

      • mudpuppy [it/its, she/her]@hexbear.net
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        good on them creating some nice entry level drug trafficking jobs

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    This study brought to you by the alcoholic dad from the Kelly comics.

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    Hegseth drunkenly toasting himself in the hotel mirror while a rerun of Mad Men plays in the background. “Don you’ve done it again” he slurs. “Let’s see how those bastards at Rolling Rock think of me now that I’m a Lucky Strike account like Mr Draper”

    He tosses back another highball.

  • peeonyou [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Amazing how quickly shit like this comes around when profits start to fall.

    • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      100% I just posted an article a few days ago about how bourbon is in a free fall

      • peeonyou [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Wine too… there are vineyards in California that are just straight destroying their crops because sales are falling so quickly and they don’t want to have hundreds of tons of rotting grapes to clean up.

        • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          GrapesOfWrathQuote.txt

        • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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          Personal thesis, of course we have all known it’s bad for you, don’t need a study to tell you that self poisoning is probably unhealthy. But with inflation doing what it has done alcohol is an easy category to cut back on, in the case of young people by going out less, and for us nightly drinking uncs by moving down market

          • mudpuppy [it/its, she/her]@hexbear.net
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            i would be buying tons of bourbon if i had any money at all

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I’m always in awe of how everything the US government does is “this dog shit thing? It’s good, actually”

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    I will drink to that

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      Yeah, I mean, I never stopped so I know it’s definitely not healthy.

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    I’ve known barely functional alcoholics who’ve described themselves as “moderate” drinkers.

    I mean in general, I’ve known plenty of people who were/are consuming something or doing something that’s obviously bad, or at least not good for them who’ve told me that it’s good for you in “moderate” amounts, which coincidentally happened to be whatever amount they partook in.

    Also the comments on that article are 90% unverifiable personal anecdotes about how they or their relatives lived to 150 drinking 50 gallons of pure alcohol a day so it’s gotta be good for you

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      I kind of suspect having the kind of easygoing routine that allows for a consistent 2 martini a night experience for decades just might have had a lot more to do with the longevity than the drinking itself

    • lil_tank [any, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      So you mean “moderate drinker” works the same as “moderate right”

    • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      So if George Burns lived to 100 on one martini a day, this guy will live to be 200 right? I think I just discovered the secret to immortality!

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        deleted by creator

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      I mean two martinis in a night isn’t extreme alcoholism lol

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        If you read the recommendations by health experts, that is pretty close to extreme alcoholism.

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          Then extreme alcoholism is not very severe

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    oh thank god I was worried

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    if you’re wondering how a study can reach this kind of conclusion, they don’t take into account other health factors like wealth and immigration status, and most concerning past drinking. turns out a lot of people that don’t drink in the west are people that were heavy drinkers that quit or are trying to quit.

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