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[Graknorke]

addictive substance

i_dont_think_that_means_what_you_think_it_means.webm

[Frumple]

... I've been around when folks were going through detox for long-term alcoholism, grak. It means exactly what it means.

[Trapezohedron]

I like drinking once in a while, but I never try to go beyond tipsy. I don't know what I might do beyond that.

As to why I am so adamant about not getting beyond tipsy, I've seen people getting amplified by alcohol - amplifying their basest instincts. Some of them are okay, go depressive and good chat. Some resort to punching wives and children. I don't suggest you drink alcohol if you have anger management issues.

Because if anything, Alcohol can get somewhat addictive and amplifies your Id.

[Flying Dice]

Tobacco isn't addictive either, smokers are just too lazy to quit, right? 

[scrdest]

Claiming that alcohol isn't addictive is all the more grating than, say, claiming marijuana isn't, because it's demonstrably provable it's physically addictive, with extremely dangerous withdrawal symptoms.

[Graknorke]

Unless I'm misunderstanding the definition of addictive, alcohol is no more so than anything else which alters your brain chemistry. And that's near everything you intake. You might as well disparage eating sugar or fat.

[Arx]

Unless I'm misunderstanding the definition of addictive, alcohol is no more so than anything else which alters your brain chemistry. And that's near everything you intake. You might as well disparage eating sugar or fat.

Stopping drinking can literally kill you.

Supplementary reading.

[Helgoland]

Unless I'm misunderstanding the definition of addictive, alcohol is no more so than anything else which alters your brain chemistry. And that's near everything you intake. You might as well disparage eating sugar or fat.

That's pretty much the opposite of true. Alcohol withdrawals are much worse even than heroin withdrawals. With heroin, if you go cold turkey, you feel like elephant shit a couple days, and then the animals get smaller and smaller over the course of a couple months. With alcohol, if you go cold turkey, you die. Alcohol has to be replaced with benzos, which means you're just swapping one adiction for another; and then you have to be weaned off those benzos. It's a much slower, much more horrible process.

[Graknorke]

Huh, thanks for that, I didn't know it was so bad. Duly noted then, don't get addicted to ethanol.

[Yoink]

I'm pretty sure you have to drink a lot of regular alcohol to develop that sort of real, tangible addiction, though.
If you're getting very drunk every day and your name isn't Jimmy Buffett, you're gonna have a bad time.

[Sheb]

It really depends on people. Some family have predisposition for alcoholism.

[Graknorke]

Would dolphins eat things other than fish if they were available? Mice and chunks of meat and really anything that is a dead animal or part of a dead animal or a small alive animal.

[Sheb]

Doplhins aso eat squid. Killer whales (which are just large dolphins after all) are known to feast on fishes, squids, but also sea birds and mammals, including beaching themselves to hunt seals. They also sometimes locate penguin on ice floes and create wave to wash them into the seas before hunting them. They have also been reported to eat deers swimming between islands.

So I'd say yes.

[Frumple]

Really, when it comes to dolphins, an easy rule of thumb is to ask yourself whether doing the action in question would make something more or less of a jackass. If the former, dolphins are probably willing. They're the bastards of the sea. And rivers. And occasionally nearby coastlines. Basically everywhere they can reach, really. If they had rocket packs they would probably spend the afternoons buzzing orphanages.

[Rolan7]

Probably because they're exceptionally intelligent, I bet.  My guess is that typical animals just aren't creative enough to invent the social constructs we have, much less break them.
They're still jerks, of course.  Just like humans living in anarchy.