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

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.

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

• 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

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

Who fucking drinks milk when they go to a restaurant

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

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

Which is cool

Getting rid of the NCR is ludicrous and is blatantly just Bethesda diminishing the creations of everyone who isn’t Bethesda.

3 and 4 are the worst stories in the series. Yet Bethesda seems intent on making them the main stories.

I am dreading seeing how they incorporate New Vegas given what they did to the NCR. I would rather that they not even touch it at this point

Watched 6 episodes and I think I’m done. It’s boring and very contrived and simply written. I’m not enjoying any of the characters or performances either

The prop and costume design is well done. That’s about it

Also, they erased the New California Republic despite setting the show in California. Not sure why Bethesda hates ideas that they didn’t personally create, but it’s very off-putting

There’s also murder and significant gore as well

Yeah the US doesn’t support “democracy”, they support the material interests of the US. Which occasionally, but certainly not always, overlap with free democratic elections

That is however a claim promulgated by the propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist State:

The United States has long used democracy as a tool and a weapon to undermine democracy in the name of democracy, to incite division and confrontation, and to meddle in other countries’ internal affairs, causing catastrophic consequences.

Wow, thanks for letting me know that the CCP actually knows what they’re talking about on this issue

I don’t think many people equate Lemon with journalism, hard-hitting or otherwise. He’s a pundit and a talking head, or at least was at CNN.

Here, it seems he did engage in some constructive interviewing. Which is a good thing. But he certainly does not have a meaningful history of such behavior.

Hopefully this willingness to directly criticize and question power will continue, and will apply to other global oligarchs as well in addition to Musk

Literally everyone on this site is an anonymous account. Why would you possibly think that is a relevant point? Plus your account is less than 30 days old, so if we’re going to start questioning users’ motives and origins then perhaps we should start with you

And I watch congressional hearings with intelligence agency leaders. They have affirmed that our messaging (propaganda) efforts on the internet have greatly improved since 2016. Which is evident just from comparing Reddit today to reddit in 2015

That may have been true in 2014.

It is no longer true in 2024

What’s wrong with lemm.ee?

Blocked

Considering many of the others that have been defederated. I think it’s kind of hypocritical that Lemmy.ml hasn’t.

So what? If it was wrong to defederate from those other instances then this can be wrong as well

However it’s important to remember that each server is answerable to it’s community and ownership

Or, more accurately, answerable to the appearance of a community and ownership. All of the major instances are heavily astroturfed by various state and corporate entities. Which includes both the United States/West and China/Russia. World is western aligned and ML is not. It’s a proxy war in cyberspace, same as occurs on reddit and Twitter and elsewhere. The solution to such a proxy war is not to cede all ground to the West - such action would not promote truth or critical thought

governments shouldn’t have the ability to degrade our platform with shills and LLMs

I agree, but that is exactly what the United States and the West does.

China, Russia, and Iran do it as well, of course.

.world spent months denying the genocide in Gaza. It’s a shithole that is likely an op run by western governments to herd in normies and push favorable narratives. Not remotely hard to see that