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.
Ok, if you ignore the cultural history in Ethiopia and the fact that I really like coffee
Mate and tea have also been consumed for a long time before capitalism.
He was a king. His struggle against italian colonialism was a struggle against capital but he wasn't a communist by any stretch
this is what people sound like when they shit on stimulant medication to treat ADHD btw
no fuck off i need stimulants to have a working brain (even if caffeine is a shitty one)
It is definitely a bit fucked that modern life requires consuming a chemical that tricks your brain into forgetting it's tired
Jokes on them: I drink coffee and do nothing productive all day.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
This is the only substance addiction that doesn't ruin my health or sanity shut up
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.
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.
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.
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.
Is there any actual proof that it "does nothing" after a few weeks?
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
