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Re:Things I Learnt in 2023 by fasterik on Sunday January 14, 2024 @03:24PM (#38994099)
I wouldn't consider functional alcoholism to be a good thing for anyone. It's especially bad for brain development under age ~25, before the prefrontal cortex is fully developed.

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/alcohol-and-adolescen...

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Re:Things I Learnt in 2023 by bsder on Sunday January 14, 2024 @05:02PM (#38994875)
Drinking contaminated water could kill you for most of the first half of the 20th century.

So, it's probably an unclear tradeoff, historically.

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Re:Things I Learnt in 2023 by oa335 on Sunday January 14, 2024 @05:56PM (#38995297)
I’ve recently read that the idea that pre moderns drank alcohol as an alternative to contaminated water is a myth. See https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ol1h45/comme...
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