The Pros and Cons of Alcohol

less than 1m read

·Nov 7, 2024

What alcohol does is it narrows your focus to the present, and it makes you opaque to threats. Essentially, so it's quite fun in that regard, because it allows you to be enthusiastic without any concern for the future.

The problem with that is you tend to act like a jackass, but there's an advantage too. It's like, 'cause I wonder about this when you have men and women who are on the front lines, and they're putting their life at risk, and they've been there for like a week and a half.

They go off and they have a couple of days off, and they want to blow off some steam. So they have a rius party, and rius parties are where stupid things happen. But having said that, I don't exactly understand how much steam you do have to blow off in order to be able to tolerate the life that you're leading— that high stress, anything is possible at a moment's notice life.

I've already said I know what alcohol contributes to these sorts of situations, but by the same token, you know, it's like how much do people need to let off steam?

Part to whole ratio word problem using tables

True Signs You're a Winner or LOSER | Kevin O'Leary

View All

Reshma Shetty, Founder of Ginkgo Bioworks at the Female Founders Conference

Thank you all for being here today. It’s a real honor to be around such an amazing group of women. I’d like to thank Sharon and Kat for inviting me to come talk to you all. It’s a real honor. As Jessica said, I’m a co-founder of a company called Topeka Bi…

Contextualization--Islam | World History | Khan Academy

Here is a passage from the Scottish philosopher and writer, even a little bit of mathematics historian Thomas Carlyle. He wrote this in “On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History,” and this is in reference to his view on Muhammad and the spread o…

What The Recession Will Do To Russians | Meet Kevin

[Music] How do we start? There’s so much going on. I think we have to start with Ukraine. How do you handle this when you’re investing? You try to figure out likely outcomes, and you know, it’s very difficult because obviously, Putin is unpredictable. Ev…

Which credit card is better for you? | Consumer credit | Financial Literacy | Khan Academy

And now we are going to play the game: which credit card is better for you? The reason why I’m saying “for you” is because, in many cases, one credit card could be better than another person depending on how they plan on using it. So pause this video and …

Could Tweaking Our Memories Help Us Feel Better? | Nat Geo Live

The work that I’ve been doing at MIT focuses on finding individual memories in the brain and then trying to actually tinker with those memories. Can we turn them on? Can we turn them off? Can we change the contents of those memories? Ethical stuff aside, …

How These Lost Bombs Could Destroy Everything

On the 5th of February 1958, a Mark 15 thermonuclear bomb was loaded onto a B-47 aircraft stationed at Homestead Air Force Base in Southern Florida. The plane was to take part in an extended training mission meant to simulate an attack on the Soviet Union…

The Pros and Cons of Alcohol

More Articles