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Alcohol fuckin sucks(CW: substance abuse) (hexbear.net)
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Got back from family vacation, got on the dreaded Facebook, found out the woman who was my first gf 12 years ago, and subsequently a friend I talked to pretty frequently, had died of liver failure at 33 years old.

Looking back on it, when she was drinking 12 years ago it just seemed like a fun time. I didn't know she sustained that pace for a decade plus. Some other things took a toll too, like an eating disorder.

Anyways, I am fuckin sad, fuck alcohol, it's as bad as heroin but capitalism gotta make that $$$$$

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[–] booty@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago (4 children)

It's the worst drug. And people look at you like you've lost your mind if you say you don't partake

[–] Amos@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

In my experience they straight up don't know how to engage with you. Typically they get defensive about their own habit after you say "no thanks".

Wife and I drank casually (but still too much) and stopped last year. We lost weight and our baseline sense of well-being is much higher. Once you get far enough away from drinking, it becomes alarmingly clear that people are straight-up poisoning themselves, and have no idea how to socialize without it.

[–] Ishmael@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

I work in the live entertainment industry which means I'm often sober working in a room full of drunks and it truly is like watching everyone slowly become brain-damaged

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

Typically they get defensive about their own habit after you say "no thanks"

this feels very similar to how people often perceive it as a personal attack when someone at the table says they're vegan

[–] Chronicon@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I feel like that's changing, at least in my circles/generation. A lot of us still drink, but give mad respect to those who quit, its objectively just (kinda fun) poison.

[–] Amos@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Alcohol consumption among millennials is plummeting, and Gen Z never fucked with it much to begin with.

[–] Ishmael@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

I've heard Gen Z doesn't like to drink because they've grown up being filmed all their lives and don't want to be caught on camera being an idiot

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

And people look at you like you've lost your mind if you say you don't partake

I hate it so much. Some people can't even process the phrase "I don't drink"