So you're telling me that I don't actually sound like Frank Sinatra on the karaoke after a few beers?

Thanks OP for answering OOP's question!

Hmm yes it does. Alcohol is a depressant, meaning it gets in the way of your nerves firing so you gonna be less coordinated than you normally would. A big rush of adrenaline is going to act as a stimulant, it helps carry messages from one nerve to another, so in that sense yes, it will mitigate some of the effects of alcohol. It's your fight or flight response kicking in to get you out of a dangerous situation. So yes, in some ways it will boost your motor skills temporarily. It will also boost your heart rate and blood pressure, so you will have more blood passing through your liver and kidneys per minute so it may very mildly help you to filter more alcohol from your system.

But that being said, all that alcohol you drank is still in your system. It has not actually sobred you at all. In five minutes when the adrenaline wears off your gonna be back to your stumbly poor decision making self.

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No worries, happy to help.

It does, and I love a good, clear metaphor.

Thank you.

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I mean, conditioning. The first time you swim is fucking terrifying, but once you realize it's not that hard to not drown in still water, it's not that scary.

But this isn't really a universal law - hunger and food, for example. I get intensely hungry every day and feel the same intense relief. It never ends. I get the same intense anxiety in new social situations every single time, and I have to do that a lot at my job. I also used to be a heroin addict and I got the same intense sickness and the same intense high, as long as I could afford it, every day.

I think the real answer is just the concept of "normal."

Its kind of like being hijacked.

Adrenaline is a hormone with incredible "go go go" power, so let's pretend your brain is a car.

When you are drunk, the driver (you) is just slowly cruising along, swaying around, minding their own business, but oh no! A truck is heading straight for you.

Suddenly you passenger, adrenaline, sees you don't know what the fuck you are doing, so they yell in your face to step on the gas, grab the wheel from you and swerv you out of the way to safety.

After the danger has passed and you both quit shitting your pants from fear, you both chill out again and you can resume swaying slowly down the road like the drunk monkey you are.

Make sense?

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Thanks for answering OOP's question!

According to the previous answer, I would say yes and yes.

Adrenaline puts you into "go" mode, but being drunk still means you will be dizzy and numb.

It would be like taking panadol to deal with heartburn/acid reflux.

We factor things we are used to into our daily lives. Someone slipped in the shower and died? That's just how things are. Someone eaten by a shark? That's big news!!! I think the best way t describe it is "familiarity breeds contempt". We're not scared by things we are used to.

OP can refer to the original commenter in a thread, in context of a post with a lot of conversation. So OOP in the same comment refers to the original OP, the person that posted the... Post.

This is what I figured. I've been in situations where you immediately feel "sober". Would it be fair to say that that feeling is just your brain saying "We need to focus on this thing and only this thing right now"?

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The parts of the brain effected by adrenaline are parts related to immediate survival.

It is like giving a surge to your drunk brain so that you can temporarily not die, but it doesn't rid you of your drunkeness at all, it just gives you a chance to fight off your attacker, or whatever is happening.

keep in mind, intoxicated people are easily influenced. that includes overestimating their own sobriety.

So they think "OMG that sobered me up", when in fact, their reflexes and judgement are just as bad, they just convinced themselves that they werent.

Though to some extent, you can "lean into" being drunk if you want, or lean out.

Why that almost seems worse.

So I guess my question is, does adrenaline increase focus, and if so, is its "benefit" lessened by the effects of alcohol?

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It doesn't. At all. When you're intoxicated, you're also relaxed, most of the time. You're not exercising self control. Adrenaline helps to focus your mind on one thing. It doesn't sober you up at all. You're just drunk and focused.

Converting this to farenheit (even tho I'm canadian and know celcius) 25=77 and 125=257

International trade is complicated.

Say we have 3 countries;

Country A

• has companies that produce steel
• has a manufacturing base that consumes steel
• has trade agreements with country B, and country C on steel trade providing lower than normal tarrifs

Country B

• has companies that consume steel

Country C

• has companies that produce steel

It's possible that country A's steel producers can make easier, or even higher profits selling steel in bulk to country B than if they were to service their manufacturing base.

At the same time, their manufacturing base could get cheaper steel from country C if, for example, it costs them less to make it.

Companies in country B, can't trade with companies in country C at the same cheaper rate, because the countries don't have a trade agreement setting lower costs on the steel trade for whatever reason.

It happens when intranational transportation costs more than international for that resource/location combination

Many nations have minimal tariffs on trade from their neighbors.

For the US steel is something that freely crosses borders. Toronto may import steel from Pittsburgh while Minnesota imports from just across the Canadian border because there wasn't a price premium on it. The end result is that the US both important and exports steel but to different locations

It's all about if getting things internally is cheaper than externally. If that changes across the length of the country then some parts may import while others export

There can be a lot of reasons. First, just because something is in the same country doesn't mean it's close. Conceivably, people in western Canada might import a resource from Washington State, and people in Maine might import the same resource from eastern Canada. So it looks like Canada and the US are just swapping resources pointlessly, but it's actually easier and more convenient for everyone to do it that way. Another possibility is that the same resources might be available at different times of year. Maybe the strawberry crop comes in from May to July in Mexico, and from July to September in the US. So in the earlier part of the year, Americans import Mexican strawberries, and later in the year, Mexicans might import American strawberries. Another possibility is that there are differences in the resources available in the respective countries. Americans import Swiss chocolate, which is a fancy luxury good. Swiss people may import American chocolate, which is a cheaper, tasty bad e market candy. If you just see a spreadsheet that is labeled "chocolate", it sounds pointless, but it's really fairly different stuff.