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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 82 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Technically, we have made progress. The US is no longer known for bootlegging.

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 46 points 11 months ago

Yep, the bootleggers (drug sellers) are now legit.

[–] BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Alcohol is a drug. Drugs dominate the markets; we export more drugs than any other country. Bootlegging never went away.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think the fentanyl crisis is significantly worse, and the US is known for poor quality alcoholic beverages (even when that reputation is undeserved).

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Alcohol I think mildly saves itself on accident too. For instance I had moonshine last night, made by a member of a local biker gang, not the stuff at the store labeled moonshine. Many of the makers charge quite a bit because it isn't all that cheap to make unless you are mass producing. Generally that means you end up having other Alcoholic beverages with moonshine which the main issue with is methanol poisoning if not distilled properly. ( The methanol boils off at a lower temperature than the ethanol) So if they don't distill it perfectly the methanol poisoning can set in, but one remedy for methanol poisoning is Ethenol. So if someone is drinking some moonshine and some actually produced by a legitimate company liqour on the side (shots of whiskey or such) they are actually fighting the impurity of the moonshine.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

So we got that going for us I guess..