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Comment by bbarnett

1 day ago

A puritian dream. Pay, sinner, pay for your hedonistic pleasures!

> A puritian dream. Pay, sinner, pay for your hedonistic pleasures!

I am not aware of such uses for alcohol, but for hallocinogenic drugs, there exist people who don't use them for hedonistic pleasures, but for getting creative, scientific or spiritual inspirations.

  • Early in my career in the 90s, I knew more than one programmer who claimed to be most productive when buzz-coding.

    I never really understood it. To me, focusing intently on a task always seemed like a good way to kill a nice buzz.

    • Cannabis works for me with coding in the right dose and time, but alcohol not at all.

  • Huh?

    Alcohol not used for creativity?

    Ask all the writers who drank themself to death .. or rather, how many writers didn't become alcoholics at some point.

    (But personally I don't like alcohol for creativity)

    • > Alcohol not used for creativity?

      > Ask all the writers who drank themself to death

      I know the names of some famous writers who drank too much, but I am very much willing to admit that people who are using alcohol for creativity are far outside the bubble of people who I am surrounded with, so I can legitimately claim that from my personal life I am not aware of any single example of this phenomenon.

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