Ah, so the correct answer is to just hate everyone?

/s

Hmmm, I don’t think I’ve ever tried DrugsOS. Can you link to their site?

Props to the article for listing some of the extensions.

Sure do wish they’d list all that they investigated and publish as a “sells data / doesn’t sell data”

Yup, and I think that’s a symptom of how isolating modern society is (as opposed to the disease society suffers from).

I def do not advocate for drinking alone in any quantity, but I would also never advocate to remove alcohol from society. It feels reasonable to conclude that since every society that’s ever had success at some level has had some form of mind altering substance (usually alcohol) that was consumed recreationally and regularly.

Yeah, in terms of individual health, I have no doubt that avoiding alcohol all together the best bet.

Personally, I subscribe to a flavor of “social lubricant” take on alcohol. That is, being a human and managing all the required social interactions and minor slights, stressors, stigmas, etc is a lot. And alcohol works to turn off some of the parts of the brain most active in social situations. That is to say that alcohol (and/or other mood altering drugs) are bad for the individual, but good for society.

Do need to caveat that take with: there’s a left and a right to what’s acceptable levels of intoxication. I don’t think the world would be better with everyone getting outright shit faced every night, and even a glass every night might be excessive; its easy to fall prey to addiction and that’s undesirable. But also, I don’t think we’d be better off without alcohol all together. I think a couple glasses per week - and not drinking those glasses alone - makes for a healthy enough middle ground.

Bit of a shot in the dark, but seems like cigarette companies have lied in front of congress / courts saying cigarettes are healthy / not bad for you and have been caught red handed in their lies.

Big alcohol hasn’t ever done anything that egregious. Everyone knows its not exactly healthy to drink, and Big Alcohol doesn’t seem to have ever argued that. I know there’s the occasional “a glass of red wine is good for your heart” stuff, but they’re also not making any attempt to deny a gallon of wine per day will probably cause cirrhosis, ya know?

Ooooo, I hadn’t heard about this.

Can you link to more info?

Edit: Nevermind, my lousy google-fu proved adequate.to find this one. Link for the lazy

Nitpick, but:

have increased evapotranspiration, which is a portmanteau of evaporation and transpiration

Bruh, if you’re going to explain a not-at-all unclear fancy word, why not just use the explanation in the article (e.g. “have increased evaporation and transpiration”)

This smells of AI writing.

Well I mean people just keeping telling stories about them; the they just drag on and on

Yeah, I still feel the same, but car was scratching at 20 years old and maintenance was becoming more than I have time for these days. So swapped to an (almost) new hybrid.

I regret it almost every day (not that the hybrid is bad; its just not the same feel. Plus all these newfangled sensors are a bitch).

The true path to this level of enlightenment is not in smoking or not smoking. Rather instead look to the existential questions of whether it is inside you already (and by that I mean I just ate the whole brownie despite my bud warning me that was too much).

different units for different magnitudes

I’m not sure I get what you mean? Are you saying how we use ounces for tiny weights, pounds for “human”-ish weights, and tons for huge weights?

100 warm

Yeah, I suppose that’s one way to describe 100°C

Man, I remember those.

After only owning/driving them for 20+ years, I finally just swapped from a manual to an automatic. Suddenly want to see if there’s an aftermarket kit to make a foot switch work for my car. I mean, my left foot has to do something

Wait, Chat, is this real?