Theres definitely a truth to it, younger people are drinking less and less every generation, which takes its toll on bars and to some extent clubs too.
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Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Is Anon talking out their ass with those stats, or is this actually true?
Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 3 months ago
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Isn’t it also because going out nowadays is expensive as hell especially if you live in a big city. Young people working part time aren’t going to waste one month’s salary on one night out. And just hanging outside in public sharing a beer will make a nosy boomer call the cops on you for loitering. So the younger generations have learned how to have fun at home without booze.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 3 months ago
There’s never been a point in my life where going out drinking all night has made financial sense. A meal and a beer at a pub, sure, but bars are expensive. And loud. And cramped.
The kids are on to something.
jaycifer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You just have to live in the right city with sufficiently high rates of alcoholism! In Fargo, ND you could get a tall 200 lb+ man proper sloshed over an evening downtown across 5-8 bars for $50 or less as recently as 2019. Not as cheap as drinking at home, but enough that most folks without kids working full-time could do it every other weekend.
tja@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Having fun does not need to make financial sense.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Drinking less is probably good. I doubt that automatically leads to less dating.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
we need cannabis lounges
morrowind@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Here’s the study datepsychology.com/risk-aversion-and-dating/
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Well, that’s depressing. Although I understand why, if you’re not socially confident, approaching a woman romantically can feel terrifying.
I do find it interesting that most young women do want to be approached more, I wasn’t expecting that.
I also note the study is silent on how many women have approached a man, and I don’t think they even asked the question.
someacnt@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Depressing? Why? One could choose to live in certain way.
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Fuck, and I was just reading Homelessness Is A Housing Problem, and they were talking all about stats and to not buy into intuitive narratives, and low and behold, I have bought into this without looking it up. Guess I should get onto that now.
(And by reading the book, I mean I use a GlaDOS voice pack from Hugginface using SherpaTTS. What a vibe.)
odious@lemmy.world 3 months ago
wait what, you can get a GlaDOS voice pack for TTS engines? damn. i guess there goes my afternoon. thanks for the hint 😁
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 3 months ago
does it try to murder you?
AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
No, but it does try to destroy my self-esteem. One could say that is a type of murder.