I’d love to have sources on this to shove in my folks’ faces. Can you point me to any?

I know I’m perfect.

I can’t tell if this is intentional and based or just typo. Either way, thanks for the chuckle.

Hey friend, this is c/NoStupidQuestions.Ease up on the tone.

I know I feel for OP’s take since I feel largely the same way about my Mom. I’m hesitant to enumerate my grievances against her, but I don’t think her actions really ever quite amounted to “abuse”.

There’s been a lot of keeping secrets, lying, asking me to keep secrets and lie on her behalf, insisting I maintain relationships with legit bad people in the extended family, feeding the worst tendencies of people in the near family, and just being manipulative in general. And that’s before we talk about her probable (though never proven) cheating on my old man or her heavy marijuana use during mine and my siblings early childhood (older sis talks about her doing things that probably hit the level of abusive neglect while high for days at a time, but that was before I can remember).

So yeah, now that I’m in my mid-late 30’s, I don’t really talk to her much. I don’t think I hit the level of “would enjoy her suffering”, but I don’t intend to go out of my way to see her again.

I hope I’m the outlier in the sense of my story is rare, but I do see why others can not love their parents, even when they weren’t abusive in the strictest sense.

Yeah, so not ideal, but still workable despite being built off ancient technology in an ancient time.

To expand on other response, your link goes to another post. That post appears to have the video directly attached but isn’t loading (at least via Voyager).

Well I mean, why stop at just alcohol ads? I say we ban them all.

^^ Only kinda joking there. I do hate ads, esp those that interrupt whatever content I was involved in (TV, streaming, pop-up). Ones that just kinda set on the side are mostly okay (billboards, banner ads, those pamphlets at hotels, etc).

Yeah, I could never fly an economy flight without a drink or three to lighten the spirits.

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?

Edit: ignore me. @[email protected] has a better comment that brings the receipts.

Not sound like a Devil’s Advocate, but IIRC from High School history, Lincoln had the authority to mobilize the US Army for 90 days to fight the Confederates. Seems like that was a major part of the delay in declaring the Civil War a war (that is, the Union thought the Confederates would be easily pushed over w/i the 3 months that Lincoln could just do whatever he wanted with the Army).

As good as Lincoln was, I understand he played a bit fast and loose with war time powers of the president and most contemporary criticism of him was relayed to to that.

But anyway, I assumed that power hadn’t been significantly changed over the century and a half since.

Haven’t checked in it in years, but I used to have a strange affection for Magiea OS. Quick peek makes it look like last major update was 2023, so maybe not maintained anymore.

But also got really cozy with Parrot OS (home version).

So the way to get the $1,000,000 is to be the kind of person who would pick only the first box, but then at the last minute change.

That’s what makes it a paradox.

Yes, however, that doesn’t mean there can’t be utility in engaging with the thought experiment.

The prisoners dilemma is one that I brushed aside for a long time as just a dumb problem when i first encountered it, but over the years, I’ve seen its utility in all kinda of situations.

Hmmm, that’s a good and interesting follow on thought. No idea where we’d land for p, nor how we’d begin to calculate it. But interesting line of thinking.

That’s an interesting take. I think I’ll need to chew over the full implications of my choices affecting everyone else’s choice.

The usual for me is that I flip back over to my editor and hit ctrl+save, cause heaven forbid I ever remember to do that before running.

Best of luck with it fam. Good to know there’s a healthy exit somewhere out there.

Ugh, just wish it was someone more…ideologically agreeable…that was making this kind of statement.

Can’t find a source for it in the quick, but I remember there being a huge set of claims that were expected to be denied by United Healthcare (corporation who’s leader was killed) based on the historical precedence they’d set, but were approved. I want to say that was still going for at least 6 months following the killing, but sounds like they’re ratcheting back to previous practices.