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[โ€“] sebb@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

The facts are alcohol doesn't help anyone to survive shit. We know that it's the opposite, it makes life of people that consume it more miserable.

It instead accumulates together with the stress you experience within your life. It adds more stress, not removes it. Cancer is just one thing, but alcohol is very disrupting to your endocrine (hormones) system, mental health.

What you're doing is a form of denialism. That denialism comes precisely from what those labels are addressing. You're being constantly exposed to the image of alcohol as something to enjoy, a pleasure, relief. It's constantly reinforced by movies, TV shows, media, advertisements.

It's not about knowledge. It's about exposure. If you're constantly exposed to an image of alcohol as a positive thing in your life then you will deny it's impact despite the facts, science, and knowledge

[โ€“] sebb@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wow! Finally! ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ‰ It's astonishing that it took so many decades. We knew, we always knew that alcohol causes cancer. Now we also know that the risk is significant from any amount. And of course, it's not just cancer.

Those labels, they really work. Like, the society to big extend quit smoking thanks to those labels.

Policies curbing smoking weren't popular at the time, people criticized them for being too much of an inconvenience and ineffective at the same time. But they really worked and our society became better and healthier because of them. Funny, how watching the debate about alcohol now, reading people's comment here, you can actually relive this experience now just years later. When people say "they should focus on X instead", and things like that, that's a form of denialism

[โ€“] sebb@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The article's specifically about Dutch data, but I suppose it's probably very similar with the most of European countries, or?

[โ€“] sebb@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Similar here. But I didn't have 4GB RAM, I had 256MB. Was some years ago

[โ€“] sebb@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"I could add you to our group chat. Do you have Signal?" Just that. No questions asked. No convincing to anything. Either "Yes" or "Let me just download". Surprised honestly how many people either have it already or at least know it. Obviously might not work if you ever talk to the person 1-1, but starting a group chat only takes 2 people ๐Ÿ˜‰