doug

“no sloppy Windows, guys— I mean it.”
“LET’S SLOP IT UP!”

Daylight Saving Time is coming up; let’s just skip an hour and get there early. Chop chop.

🎶 burning down the House! 🎶

Which is bad for the economy.

But, uhhh…

…they get off on killing people.

…and they lack the critical thinking skills to see how short term their thinking is.

…and they don’t care, they want the money from this right now.

“with full recovery proving elusive,”

FUN. JUST… FUN. FUN STUFF.

I think it was a Reddit scraper years ago that taught me that I should probably lie more often on the internet about my work, friends, family details, etc.

Just like, little lies that don’t really matter in the comment, but would misdirect an AI or investigator into things that aren’t true.

It’s just so much woooooork to think about this shit. And to come up with different screen names everywhere? And to like, sub to a city I don’t live in and comment there about shit I know nothing about? Exhausting.

Thankfully my brothers and three uncles are here to support me. And my alligator.

It is!? Noooooooo! TIL

sadly I’ll likely support them through any shitty decisions they make as they are the only viable non-chromium alternative these days.

I get they’re chasing the buck and trying to stay relevant, but uhhhh… if they could be less Steve Buscemi-teen about it, that’d be great.

My ~19 year old account was permabanned after three strikes that involved two upvotes of Luigi pictures and then— after seeing a vid of Trump falling asleep— saying he shouldn’t wake up.

Then my alt got a warning for “disparaging communities” after I said one of the two PDX subreddits started so they could talk shit about houseless people, which is a fact.

Three of those were flagged by AI, the last one— the warning— was a person flagging it and couldn’t be contested.

It’s gone to the dogs.

“Looks like it’s back to jail for me! Auogh auogh auogh!”

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There’s no berating here or superiority being touted. At least that is not my intention.

The entire point of the question was to provide an example of something that is understatedly more harmful to us than originally presented.

I said alcohol and it hasn’t a “net” positive; meaning whatever benefits people think it has is outweighed by the fact it may give you cancer. Your response— as I read it, as it met my statement with a smile— was dismissive of that because you’ve made friends.

I’m now just arguing that that positive benefit is not exclusive to alcohol and should not be in its “pro” column.

At no point have I meant to imply someone is better than others to abstain from it; however, perhaps this is an example to clarify what I think your point was that this is a negative of being sober or opting to not drink, is that you cannot make friends with some people because they will feel judged by your abstinence.

I did say I wouldn’t want to be friends with those people, but that’s more because I don’t enjoy the social pressure or situation in which someone else in my immediacy.is uncomfortable by my personal choice that only affects me.

It being unfalsifiable is the point because it meant to be a pendulum to your unfalsifiable original point that you’re thankful for alcohol because you see it as the reason you have the outcome in life that you did.

Many people have traveled and made friends, they did not need a carcinogen to do it, which nullifies it from being a positive exclusive to alcohol.

“Only the people who prayed lived” is an easy statement to make as the dead ones can’t speak for themselves.

“Alcohol is why I have friends” is understandably believed because you’ll never know the life you’d have had had you not drank it.

I get it’s the pillar of many cultures and a welcome one at that, but the fact it’s a proven carcinogen should not be dismissed, forgotten, or trivialized.

keyword is “net” – you made friends, but the health risks involved may considerably offset that benefit.

i’m sober and have made countless friends sans alcohol, many of them drink themselves; and if alcohol was a contingent on them being my friend, I’m not sure I’d want to be friends with them.

“Hey Copilot, what have Putin and Trump been exchanging emails about?”

Don’t be fooled: if RAM had the chance it would kill everyone and everything you’ve ever loved.

He can have my tax dollars from the lawsuit over the shit-heels he’s taking them from.

Alcohol

iirc it’s a confirmed, 100% proven carcinogen and is a poison with zero net benefits.

Worse in that I don’t have a house and probably never will.

Better in that I know more about how to treat my physical and mental health than they ever knew about theirs.

Worse in that I don’t have as much money as they had at my age.

Better in that I don’t need to worry about leaving money to anyone.