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For $0 a month you can drink water from the tap. It's healthy and doesn't require installing an app. (Psst. You should be finding ways to balance your diet, no

For $0 a month you can drink water from the tap. It's healthy and doesn't require installing an app. (Psst. You should be finding ways to balance your diet, not contribute to its destruction.)

jrockway 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#Health_benefits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#Health_benefits
- pbhjpbhj 12y ago
  and don't forget to read the following section on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#Health_risks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#Health_risks . Anecdotally I've found I'm more alert [in the mornings particularly] without caffeine but cutting it out hasn't helped me normalise my sleeping patterns.
  - ivanche 12y ago
    If you want to normalise sleep patterns, I strongly recommend text "Good sleep, good learning, good life" (http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm) It is quite long but IMO very well worth it.
    - pbhjpbhj 12y ago
      Thanks that looks very useful reading this part now http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm#Curing_DSPS_and_insomnia http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm#Curing_DSPS_and_... - sounds like I'll need to sell the children and buy a farm ;0)>
- jon_black 12y ago
  Coffee isn't poison! YAY! Oh...wait...but... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#Health_risks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#Health_risks Seriously, my point was, whilst everyone ran around hyperventilating at the thought of saving money on coffee (oh my god oh my god oh my god cheaper coffee) they (possibly - I didn't perform any research) overlooked the quite probable (I'm actually not a mathematician) fact that they're already drinking too much, and such a scheme will cause them to drink even more (up 20% you say?). I love sarcasm. I hope I didn't offend anyone. I'm in a weird mood today.
QuantumChaos 12y ago
Coffee is good for you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#General_health http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#General_health
- hiphopyo 12y ago
  Those health benefits are more for people in their 80s. The coffee bean is actually a poison that the coffee plant uses to deter herbivores. Not to mention a recent Danish study that suggests pregnant women should abstain from caffeine as it's lethal to the fetus.
  - jp555 12y ago
    Your first claim is illogical. THC is an insecticide, yet not a single human has ever died from consuming cannabis. NOTHING is "Good" or "Bad" without proper context. "Suggest" is not a very convincing word to me. Sounds more like a hypothesis than a conclusion. I highly doubt any ethics board would approve a double-blind clinical trial exploring how much coffee consumption is required to kill a human fetus in utero. Who are these monstrous Danish scientists!?
    - hiphopyo 12y ago
      You're absolutely right -- everything turns to poison in excess. Fun fact about THC though: "[...] babies of women who used cannabis at least once per week before and throughout pregnancy were 216 g lighter than those of non-users, had significantly shorter birth lengths and smaller head circumferences." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11843371 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11843371
      - jp555 12y ago
        That's still more hypothesis, not conclusion. "Self-completed questionnaire on use of cannabis before and during pregnancy." = Observational study = result can ONLY be a hypothesis. It's right there in the conclusion "may be associated" = "they do not know if this is true at all". Next step would be to run a double-blind clinical trial, and have an unknown-half of the subjects smoke pot and compare that to the control to test if their hypothesis is true or not. Until then, it's only conjecture.
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jp555 12y ago
Coffee is very good for you. Water from the tap is not free, it is a cost everyone pays in some way or another (built into rent or part of property taxes). Even if you still live with your parents, a dollar they spend on the water bill is a dollar less for you.
- mseebach 12y ago
  Tap water for drinking is effectively almost free, and free water fountains are indeed ubiquitous. It's the two 30-minute showers a day that kill your parents water (and heating) bills.
  - jp555 12y ago
    Actually more than anything it's the condo pool (and the dozens of owners who have not yet moved to low-flow toilets) that kills our water bill. :P ... also coffee is almost entirely water... so by your logic it's "almost free" as well.
    - mseebach 12y ago
      > ... also coffee is almost entirely water... so by your logic it's "almost free" as well. No, not by my logic, not by anyone's logic. Almost the entire price of a cup of coffee covers the "bean" and "labour" part of it. The contribution of the cost of the water to the final cost of a cup of coffee is ... almost nothing at all.
      - jp555 12y ago
        you pay yourself to put a pot of coffee on at home? I thought you were talking about tap water? A 10-cup pot of coffee at home is like $0.10 of ground beans. I meant that is pretty close to how "free" my tap water is.
  - jrs99 12y ago
    if you really wanted free coffee you could probably find it somewhere.
pwthornton 12y ago
Let us know how your $0 a month diet works out for you.

For $0 a month you can drink water from the tap. It's healthy and doesn't require installing an app. (Psst. You should be finding ways to balance your diet, not contribute to its destruction.)

jrockway 12y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#Health_benefits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#Health_benefits

pbhjpbhj 12y ago
and don't forget to read the following section on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#Health_risks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#Health_risks . Anecdotally I've found I'm more alert [in the mornings particularly] without caffeine but cutting it out hasn't helped me normalise my sleeping patterns.
- ivanche 12y ago
  If you want to normalise sleep patterns, I strongly recommend text "Good sleep, good learning, good life" (http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm) It is quite long but IMO very well worth it.
  - pbhjpbhj 12y ago
    Thanks that looks very useful reading this part now http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm#Curing_DSPS_and_insomnia http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm#Curing_DSPS_and_... - sounds like I'll need to sell the children and buy a farm ;0)>
jon_black 12y ago
Coffee isn't poison! YAY! Oh...wait...but... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#Health_risks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#Health_risks Seriously, my point was, whilst everyone ran around hyperventilating at the thought of saving money on coffee (oh my god oh my god oh my god cheaper coffee) they (possibly - I didn't perform any research) overlooked the quite probable (I'm actually not a mathematician) fact that they're already drinking too much, and such a scheme will cause them to drink even more (up 20% you say?). I love sarcasm. I hope I didn't offend anyone. I'm in a weird mood today.

QuantumChaos 12y ago

Coffee is good for you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#General_health http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee#General_health

hiphopyo 12y ago
Those health benefits are more for people in their 80s. The coffee bean is actually a poison that the coffee plant uses to deter herbivores. Not to mention a recent Danish study that suggests pregnant women should abstain from caffeine as it's lethal to the fetus.
- jp555 12y ago
  Your first claim is illogical. THC is an insecticide, yet not a single human has ever died from consuming cannabis. NOTHING is "Good" or "Bad" without proper context. "Suggest" is not a very convincing word to me. Sounds more like a hypothesis than a conclusion. I highly doubt any ethics board would approve a double-blind clinical trial exploring how much coffee consumption is required to kill a human fetus in utero. Who are these monstrous Danish scientists!?
  - hiphopyo 12y ago
    You're absolutely right -- everything turns to poison in excess. Fun fact about THC though: "[...] babies of women who used cannabis at least once per week before and throughout pregnancy were 216 g lighter than those of non-users, had significantly shorter birth lengths and smaller head circumferences." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11843371 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11843371
    - jp555 12y ago
      That's still more hypothesis, not conclusion. "Self-completed questionnaire on use of cannabis before and during pregnancy." = Observational study = result can ONLY be a hypothesis. It's right there in the conclusion "may be associated" = "they do not know if this is true at all". Next step would be to run a double-blind clinical trial, and have an unknown-half of the subjects smoke pot and compare that to the control to test if their hypothesis is true or not. Until then, it's only conjecture.

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jp555 12y ago

Coffee is very good for you. Water from the tap is not free, it is a cost everyone pays in some way or another (built into rent or part of property taxes). Even if you still live with your parents, a dollar they spend on the water bill is a dollar less for you.

mseebach 12y ago
Tap water for drinking is effectively almost free, and free water fountains are indeed ubiquitous. It's the two 30-minute showers a day that kill your parents water (and heating) bills.
- jp555 12y ago
  Actually more than anything it's the condo pool (and the dozens of owners who have not yet moved to low-flow toilets) that kills our water bill. :P ... also coffee is almost entirely water... so by your logic it's "almost free" as well.
  - mseebach 12y ago
    > ... also coffee is almost entirely water... so by your logic it's "almost free" as well. No, not by my logic, not by anyone's logic. Almost the entire price of a cup of coffee covers the "bean" and "labour" part of it. The contribution of the cost of the water to the final cost of a cup of coffee is ... almost nothing at all.
    - jp555 12y ago
      you pay yourself to put a pot of coffee on at home? I thought you were talking about tap water? A 10-cup pot of coffee at home is like $0.10 of ground beans. I meant that is pretty close to how "free" my tap water is.
- jrs99 12y ago
  if you really wanted free coffee you could probably find it somewhere.

pwthornton 12y ago

Let us know how your $0 a month diet works out for you.