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Alcohol has been an essential facilitating element of human socialization in every human civilization since Mesopotamia

Which is cool

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Who fucking drinks milk when they go to a restaurant

Autism is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be ... unnatural

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Unless it's in baking or coffee/drinks or cereal it's pretty fucking weird to drink it

Maybe acceptable with certain desserts tbh. But not with an actual meal

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  • Criticizing alcohol consumption = you sleep

  • Criticizing milk consumption = real shit

Also, let people dislike things. If Criticism diminishes your own enjoyment of a thing then you don't actually like that thing

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Me? I can't understand why this is such a weird thing to you people.

And yet you made this post which does the same thing re: alcohol consumption

Wine pairings with meals are a thing for a reason. Milk pairings, not so much

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You can't ban something unless it exists and is a part of your society. Alcohol existed prior to Islam in Arabia and still exists there today. Legal Prohibitions do not cause a substance to disappear.

Alcohol is just fermented grain. Everyone had grain. Therefore everyone had alcohol. Including the Americas

So yes, there is evidence of alcohol consumption in the New World prior to European contact. Indigenous peoples in various parts of the Americas developed fermented beverages from local ingredients long before Europeans arrived.

  1. North America: Various tribes produced alcoholic drinks from berries, maize, and other native plants. For example, the Apache made tiswin from corn, and the Chicha was popular among many tribes in North America.

  2. Central America: The Aztecs brewed pulque from the sap of the agave plant. This drink was not only consumed for enjoyment but also held religious significance.

  3. South America: Chicha, a beer made from maize, was widely consumed across the Andean region. This beverage was integral to social and ceremonial functions.

These indigenous beverages varied widely in production, ingredients, and cultural significance but demonstrate that alcohol consumption was indeed present in the New World prior to European contact.

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There's a loneliness epidemic and low alcohol consumption rates are a contributor to that

Getting drunk and then talking to a bunch of people you don't know is how people meet people. That's an essential and long running aspect of human socialization.

If you regularly talk to new people and make friends in other ways then that's fine. But clearly the majority of Lemmy/Reddit users aren't doing that. And young people in general aren't doing it either. Meeting strangers irl and chatting them up is how you make friends and alcohol facilitates that

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I really don't understand this site's/reddit's fear of alcohol. Moderate drinking is not a problem. And it does assist with socializing, which seems like it would be beneficial for most people on here.

The idea that people here are afraid of/resistant to drinking, yet will use cannabis and other materials seems very strange. Just go to the bar and meet some people - it's fun and it won't hurt you. Alcoholism is obviously an issue, but alcoholism isn't caused by moderate drinking. Just don't be an idiot and you don't have anything to worry about

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It’s time for men like you to realise that

Why are you talking to a 15 year old like that?

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Men don't run the world, oligarchs run the world

The homeless men you walk past on your way to work do not run the world

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Muslims need to sack up and realize there's a lot of Muslims out there that are creepy. It's up to you as a stand up Muslim to call these creepy Muslims out when they act up. Normal people don't owe you anything, you stand up for them because it's the right thing to do, and not because you want acceptance.

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The United States is a democracy only if oligarchies are democracies

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Some woman on the internet said she would feel safer spending a night in the woods with a random bear rather than with a random black man

Changes their answers considerably

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Weird that you're so afraid of black men that you'd prefer a bear over them.

This is how George Floyd happens

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What is the point in ever defending a billionaire for any reason?

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You know what else regularly grinds up and destroys children?

Poverty.

Which occurs to far more millions of people than whatever tf this princess went through

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But you don't become the biggest pop star ever with a completely healthy upbringing, either, right?

Paul McCartney had, by all accounts, an idyllic childhood

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She treats people horribly.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-33678225

She's a lawful evil devil who seems to be very mean and very manipulative

Aka, a billionaire

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Our goal should be to resist and overcome those harmful instincts. That's kinda the purpose of ethics/morality

Whereas her "art" seems to encourage us to give into our base impulses of vindictiveness, scorn, petty jealousy, grudges, etc.

Not a very Christlike role model. Which is ironic given the protestant religious/cultural upbringing of much of her fanbase

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That's not what he's alleging. He's implying that she has a network and team that will destroy people who publicly oppose her

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No one should have to figure it out.

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Would you like a cookie?

Are you geriatric? Didn't realize i was using Tumblr in 2013

Fucking millenials lmao

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Cobain literally says "that's a David Bowie song" after they play it. It's on the recording. Anyone who is a nirvana fan would then know that because he spoonfeeds it to you

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You can't argue this without being called a conspiracy theorist who likely also believes that 9/11 was an inside job as well (or at least was permitted to occur by the CIA)

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No I don't think any of the existing parties are sufficient (DSA or greens).

Working Families Party

https://www.youtube.com/live/lrZpiylf4nA

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A conspiracy is an agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.

Such things indisputably occur everyday

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If that were true then the United States would have been communist by now

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But incremental change will not ever fix our problems, not even if Biden-style dems are elected consecutively for the next 100 years.

Our very system is a threat to the living standards of normal Americans because our system has been taken over by billionaires/oligarchs. Therefore, the only way to fix it is structural change. Incrementalism is inherently insufficient. And a belief in incrementalism is a refusal to fully acknowledge the scale and scope of the problem.

Trump is popular because our system is rotten and is designed to empower the ownership class at the expense of the working class. Until that precise issue is resolved, we will never be nationally secure from domestic fascism

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Maybe a country built on genocide and slavery is a bad idea that can't ever be fixed.

Agreed, but replacing the United States with a new state, one created with a Constitution 2.0 so to speak, would likely be sufficient if executed properly.

Fundamentally though, we need to remove the current ownership class from power and instead place power within the working class. Oligarchs cannot exist if a society is to be free from fascism

Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning (nymag.com)

Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning::CEO Bruce Dixon told staffers that Vice Media will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing stories on the site.

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It was preclickbait articles written by alternative-adjacent freelance writers.

Aka, real people writing about real things. Some of which were vulgar. But life is vulgar. And so was the internet originally

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All billionaires are evil. That includes all female billionaires

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You're treating her better than Elon purely because she's a woman. That's sexism

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You're saying it's valid and good for her to worry about stalkers. You are not saying the same about Elon. This is purely because she is a woman and he is a man. This is sexism.

Women are not delicate flowers who need to be protected. Men are not tough monsters who do not need protecting.

Billionaires are destructive enemies of humanity - gender doesn't affect that analysis

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No it's like saying a person-shaped cloud doesn't exist.

To describe it as person-shaped is subjective and another viewer may describe the same cloud as butterfly-shaped. Because it's a subjective interpretation of a static objective object. Like abstract art.

People/animals exist and are "real" in that all of us have agency and a sense of self that is not conditionally dependent on the identical perception of others.

A person-shaped cloud is only "person-shaped" if viewers claim it is. An arrangement of viewable disparate stars is only "Orion" because the Greeks, and now us, decided it was. But I am me and you are you regardless of what anyone else thinks, and always will be.

We aren't a collection of particles, we are more than the sum of our parts. We have agency and a mind and self-identity. A cloud or a star constellation has none of those things. They are inanimate unfeeling objects that only gain meaning, (astrological, imaginative, or otherwise) when humans/sentient beings ascribe that meaning to them. Human beings, and all living things, have inherent meaning because of their sentience and inherent uniqueness. Which is why genocide is a greater loss than the destruction of a rock - it's the permanent death of unique living beings.

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It's one thing to say that constellations of stars don't exist. It's another thing to say that the constellation "Leo" doesn't exist because it isn't a lion and our perception of the spatial relationship of those stars has nothing to do with lions, or with mystical astrological significance.

Those stars are present in space in a certain way. And we can perceive them in our sky in a certain way. But whether those stars are "connected" in any meaningful way, or whether they contain any inherent Lion relevance is purely a creation of human imagination derived from real observable objective phenomena. We could just as easily have said that Leo was Orion, and Orion was Leo, and have been equally correct. It's subjective. Which doesn't mean it's meaningless for us, otherwise art would be meaningless. But it does mean that it isn't "real" in the same way that gravity or the sun are real. Anything whose continued existence is conditioned on belief isn't "real" in an objective sense.

Belief can certainly will unreal things into meaningful reality though. But, absent that belief, those things will not exist.

Really this is a discussion centered around the inadequacy of the English word "real." Perhaps other languages have specific words that would more clearly demonstrate this distinction. Because clearly gravity and Pisces are not both "real" in the same way. The former is objectively real and the latter is subjectively real. And we're talking past each other by not simply having seperate words that distinguish between those concepts

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The web was already flooded with human generated spam, adding AI spam to the mix hasn't really changed anything meaningful - you still can't find useful content on the vast majority of webpages.

"The river was already flooded with human generated pollution, adding truckloads of nuclear waste to the mix hasn't really changed anything meaningful - you still can't go swimming or eat the fish in the majority of waterways."

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Yes it is, you just can't keep up

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If you're a real person then you're very unlikable and antisocial

If you're a shill against Brave then you're bad at your job. I'm going to check Brave out now because of your offensive and unlikable behavior

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It makes you angry, and that's enough. I downloaded and am using it now, it works great so far. And if it is avoided by cruel people like you then all the better

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No, you showed me - that cruelty and bigotry are the main reasons that people oppose this browser

Enjoy living in your world of pain

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Bigotry against empathy

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Human fucking beings

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