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One 8oz cup of Starbucks coffee (the smallest size) or two shots of espresso has roughly 150mg of caffeine, according to their posted metrics. Most customers li

• mandmandam 3y ago
  > Most customers likely consume multiple times that. Not according to the authors, who make this clear in the paper: > we estimated an average daily consumption of 137 mg/day, with a range of 30-270 mg/day by using averages reported in previous trials Starbucks is bad coffee anyway. Boycotting them is easy.
  • ghusto 3y ago
    > Starbucks is bad coffee anyway. It's better coffee than those places that want to make coffee the "proper way", but can't. I understand the "corporations-bad" source of the hate for Starbucks, but their coffee is okay precisely because they're driven by corporate goals: Press button, coffee comes out, calibrated the same as every other Starbucks in the world; to be passable.
    • mandmandam 3y ago
      > I understand the "corporations-bad" source of the hate for Starbucks No, you don't. If you did, you wouldn't talk about it like that. And their coffee is bad, not [just] in a "this company illegally attacks unions, treats their workers heinously, undercuts small businesses to gain a monopoly, and are currently actively supporting a genocide" kind of way, but in a "these beans are literally burnt" kind of way. Some people might like burnt beans, in the same way some people like burnt steak, or prefer McDonalds over a real burger. Fine. You're allowed to like bad coffee.
      • ghusto 3y ago
        The other claims you make aside, what does "actively supporting a genocide" mean? I'm genuinely interested.