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Will the Decline of Drinking Kill Socialization?

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By Ben Sixsmith
| The American Conservative Verified
Culture Will the Decline of Drinking Kill Socialization? Teetotaling youngsters may find they are missing out on an important part of life. Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Older adults, according to new data from the UK, are 50 percent more likely than those under 40 to be regular drinkers. Alcohol consumption in the USA, meanwhile, is at a record low. The youth are more health-conscious, and appear to be increasingly risk-averse as well.
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Eddie

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By Ben Sixsmith
| bensixsmith.com
When I was a young kid, I was given an orange-brown glove puppet in the shape of a dog. I called him Eddie. Eddie and I were inseparable. We really were inseparable. You couldn’t have ripped that glove puppet off my hand with pliers. He soon had a voice — a slow, halting, gravelly voice. He developed an off-kilter way of commenting on human behaviour — seeing the world, as someone said of Peter Cook, from a slight angle.
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I Reviewed (the Free Sample of) MrBeast’s Book to Win 2 $5 a Month Paid Subscriptions

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By Ben Sixsmith
| bensixsmith.com
One reviewer. One free sample. The ultimate challenge. The ultimate prize. James Patterson approaches novels like Henry Ford approached cars. Quantity, in other words, matters more than quality. Patterson has written or co-written more than 200 novels since his debut in 1976. The extent to which he writes the books, though, is questionable.
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