• KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I'm pretty sure it was actually invented by plants to kill things that tried to eat them, only for people to come along like "omg cool literal poison, I love this" and actively propagate that plant all over the world.

  • OgdenTO [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Ok, if you ignore the cultural history in Ethiopia and the fact that I really like coffee

  • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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    2 years ago

    Coffee actually can be traced back to 15th century Ethiopia.

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    2 years ago

    this is what people sound like when they shit on stimulant medication to treat ADHD btw

  • jkfjfhkdfgdfb [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    no fuck off i need stimulants to have a working brain (even if caffeine is a shitty one)

  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    It is definitely a bit fucked that modern life requires consuming a chemical that tricks your brain into forgetting it's tired

    • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Coffee helps me focus on reading web serials so I don't bounce between them and the spread sheets I'm supposed to be looking at so much.

    • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      also because sometimes you get a competent manager figuring out that it's cheaper to pay for the coffee than have people show up late because the line at starbucks is insanely long.

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      2 years ago

      surely you're thinking of nicotine??? either that or you have the least amount of adhd of anyone on earth, caffeine is absolutely a stimulant

      • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Nicotine also has clear psychoactive effects beyond just alleviating addiction to nicotine. I honestly wonder how the myth that it's not psychoactive began, if it's from some people just not reacting as strongly as others to it or if it's a distorted retelling of the state a nicotine addict can end up in where the strongest effect it has is stopping its own withdrawal symptoms.

        • Darthsenio_Mall [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I think there's a popular quitting cigarettes book that frames nicotine addiction like this and maybe framing it in that way helps some people to quit? pretty sure this is a half remembered thing from an episode of true anon

  • shiteyes2 [any]
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    2 years ago

    This is the only substance addiction that doesn't ruin my health or sanity shut up

    • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      People drink caffeine out of habit and staving off the bad effects rather than any perceived increase in productivity.

      i can definitely focus more on my writing when i'm caffeinated as not. including when i don't have any for a while and my body adjusts to an unstimulated normal.

        • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          please read entire comments when replying to them

          including when i don’t have any for a while and my body adjusts to an unstimulated normal.

          and consider that you're denying the existence of executive function disorders, which stimulants absolutely help people with.

            • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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              2 years ago

              Why would this contradict anything I’ve said. Of course caffeine makes you feel alert if you haven’t taken it recently.

              no, i meant that regular caffeine use beats no caffeine at all even provided enough time to be used to no caffeine

              as capitalists would never provide an accommodation like coffee for people with executive function disorders unless they were forced to.

              yeah it's called self-medicating, asshole.

                • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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                  2 years ago

                  This is what you wrote and quoted to me in response. Literally stating an unstimulated normal caused by not having any caffeine for a while. Don’t get upset if people misunderstand you if you write the exact opposite of what you mean.

                  i didn't write the opposite of what i meant, although i apparently could have been more clear.

                  Does everyone who drinks coffee have executive function disorder?

                  no but you cant say "caffeine just does x" because that's normative ableism that you're now doubling down on. fuck you, disengage.

            • BerserkPoster [none/use name]
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              2 years ago

              That makes sense, I haven't quit caffeine in years but I like the taste and the ritual every morning. I also have diagnosed ADHD since forever so idk if that changes anything but I feel that it helps me. That being said I have no proof