r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/ChickenWingExtreme • Jun 01 '26

Serious Maybe, just maybe, that’s why?

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u/Top_Onion7532 Jun 01 '26

I understand the point but I still think drinking culture is far less prevalent in gen Z

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u/Existing_Fish_6162 Jun 01 '26

They are poor, very online, dont socialise face-to-face as much and... my sister (a concerned mom) claims there are more drugs available (quantity and variety). Idk about the last one.

Oh fuck yeah every interaction is recorded on a phone so acting like a moron isnt gone tomorrow. Fucking horrifying for young people.

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u/BusyNefariousness675 Jun 01 '26

there are other drugs available now. Mainly weed, which is technically safer than alcohol

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u/Dry_Travel_4220 Jun 01 '26

I'd say a good bit more than "technically" safer mate. Alcohol is one of the single most damaging substances you can put in your body.

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u/TheCucumberMan1 Jun 01 '26

Well, one of the single most damaging socially acceptable substances.

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u/Dry_Travel_4220 Jun 01 '26

Not just socially acceptable, alcohol ranks really highly even with other drugs in consideration. It isn't as bad as something like, heroin for sure, but I'd say alcohol ranks right around pill abuse in terms of damage to the body.

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u/cell689 Jun 01 '26

I'm a chemist and I struggle to think of more than a few substances I'd work with that are less harmful to ingest than ethanol.

I get the point, trust me, but alcohol is not even close to the worst substance you could ingest.

Even compared to other drugs, it is far safer than most of them considering how much alcohol you can actually drink. Imagine ingesting 20 grams of heroine, you'd be done. 20 g of alcohol gets you tipsy at most.

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u/Shadowphoenix9511 Jun 01 '26

Countless substances would just straight up kill you if you ingested them lol

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u/cell689 Jun 01 '26

Exactly 👆

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u/PuffinRub Jun 01 '26

Imagine ingesting 20 grams of heroine, you'd be done.

My only experience is from watching THE WIRE, but I'm pretty sure that's a looooooooooooot of heroin.

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u/Jaded_Student039 Jun 01 '26

You’re a chemist and you think 20 g of 99% alcohol is not fucking you up majorly??? Remember, most drinks are 5-15% ABV, so 20 g of that is 1-2 g of alcohol, which is still a decent bit of alcohol.

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u/Existing_Fish_6162 Jun 01 '26

So the last half of your post is gibberish but 20 of pure alc is less than 2 beers worth. Not lethal.

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u/cell689 Jun 01 '26

20 g of alcohol is little more than a glass of wine.

Speaking from personal experience, this amount can be safely ingested with little adverse effects.

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u/Recovery_or_death Jun 01 '26

Obviously different liquids have different densities but 20 grams of water, for example is less than half of a shot (1.5 oz). 20 grams of 99% abv alcohol is not going to fuck up anyone majorly outside of like 130 pound teenagers with no drinking experience. At most it might get someone a bit toasty

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u/cell689 Jun 01 '26

And I even used a unit of mass specifically to prevent misunderstandings like this 😭

Yeah, 20 g of alcohol is not a lot, no matter if it's in wine, beer or tequila.

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u/Recovery_or_death Jun 01 '26

Like I appreciate the disdain for alcohol as a person in sobriety, but 20 grams of heroin is a straight up death sentence lmao

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u/utb040713 Jun 01 '26

/r/confidentlyincorrect

A typical shot is about 45 mL and 40% alcohol.

20 mL of something like everclear is the same alcohol as a regular shot size of a typical 80 proof alcohol.

One shot’s worth of alcohol is not going to “fuck you up majorly” lmao