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Hasn't it been that way for at least a few hundred years? I'm surprised the article didn't mention the OG stimulant, tobacco.
by jollyllama 1mo ago
Hasn't it been that way for at least a few hundred years? I'm surprised the article didn't mention the OG stimulant, tobacco.
- theokrueger 1mo agocoffee houses (previously a threat to the monarchy) would buckle at their knees in front of the dose in caffiene pills or energy drinks even tobacco has turned to vaping to deliver more nicotine quicker
- homer456 1mo agoSometimes I wonder if coffee is responsible for modernity.
- mapontosevenths 1mo agoIt literally is. Technologists are all the degenerate intellectual children of Voltaire - who famously drank 40-50 cups of coffee per day.
- ahartmetz 1mo agoProbably, by replacing alcohol in places where people gathered during daytime.
- BiraIgnacio 1mo agoPerhaps since the beginning of what we came to call society.
- hoppp 1mo agoThe romans had society. No tobacco or coffee
- AndrewKemendo 1mo agoThey were alcoholics, opioid and weed smokers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_abuse_in_ancient_Rome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_abuse_in_ancient_Rom... Also there’s absolutely no aspect of Rome that I would want to repeat it was a bunch of pederasty, slavery and overall horrific conditions for almost everybody
- hoppp 1mo agoHeroin? That was not discovered till acetylation was invented in the 19th century.
- grackasthebig 1mo ago[dead]
- oopsieDayz 1mo agoPresident ran a child rape cult First world office workers codependent on sweatshop slavery ...but conditions improved for majority 1 of 3 we did better than the Romans
- cindyllm 1mo ago[dead]
- nitwit005 1mo agoEven animals will do things like get drunk on fermented fruit. Humans just figured out how to get a regular supply.