• 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