Probably not any one thing - but a combination of things:
1. In a work situation once, I was embarrassed while out drinking with the 'team' at my behaviour - not because I made an ass of myself, but I 'went along' with a mean characterization of someone in my group that I never would have done when sober. I decided that wasn't me - and I vowed to NEVER drink with people I didn't respect, or make myself 'vulnerable' to that kind of behaviour.
2. Not drinking 'about something' - like a country song 'drinking because my gal left me' but usually if I drank it was because of stress, it was an escape, a response to painful stimuli, and not a 'joyful enhancement of activity' that it can be in moderation. And finding what I was 'drinking about' (hate your job, feel trapped, an excuse to 'get drunk' etc.) and work on THAT instead.
3. Feeling fat and bloated, and hungover is not something I want to put up with as I get older.
4. Adopting a 'gourmand' vs. 'glutton' mindset - consciously choosing a good experience, vs. the 'mass of experience' - i.e. a shot of a new whiskey enjoyed, vs. a case of Labatt's, etc.
5. Worrying about the cumulative effects of drinking over time - how will you 'know' that you're damaged your liver, brain, memory irreparably? Scary.
So the end result is - in a social (especially work situation) I'll have a drink, but find I rarely finish it - everyone else is on their third or fourth and I'm still enjoying my first. I have a clear head, can enjoy things, etc.
I think Quora is such total garbage info and unfounded opinion I just add them to pihole blacklist.
Quora actually points to a flaw of algo only search engine rankings - do a lot of people link to it? Is it a lot of keyword intense content? Yep and Yep!
But the important - is it actually useful, relevant information - well that's secondary.
PiHole + Little Snitch + JSBlocker on macOS Mojave
JSBlocker is cranked up to to the max - no inline JS, or frames or videos, etc. Then as I go about info surfing I progressively enable services that are vetted like some content delivery services, common JS frameworks, etc.
Wrong. (being the first to do this that is.) One of the creators of the Zeus web server did this writing Zeus while in college. Still a great idea, and of course, vim is awesome.
1. In a work situation once, I was embarrassed while out drinking with the 'team' at my behaviour - not because I made an ass of myself, but I 'went along' with a mean characterization of someone in my group that I never would have done when sober. I decided that wasn't me - and I vowed to NEVER drink with people I didn't respect, or make myself 'vulnerable' to that kind of behaviour.
2. Not drinking 'about something' - like a country song 'drinking because my gal left me' but usually if I drank it was because of stress, it was an escape, a response to painful stimuli, and not a 'joyful enhancement of activity' that it can be in moderation. And finding what I was 'drinking about' (hate your job, feel trapped, an excuse to 'get drunk' etc.) and work on THAT instead.
3. Feeling fat and bloated, and hungover is not something I want to put up with as I get older.
4. Adopting a 'gourmand' vs. 'glutton' mindset - consciously choosing a good experience, vs. the 'mass of experience' - i.e. a shot of a new whiskey enjoyed, vs. a case of Labatt's, etc.
5. Worrying about the cumulative effects of drinking over time - how will you 'know' that you're damaged your liver, brain, memory irreparably? Scary.
So the end result is - in a social (especially work situation) I'll have a drink, but find I rarely finish it - everyone else is on their third or fourth and I'm still enjoying my first. I have a clear head, can enjoy things, etc.