Comment on A society that runs on stimulants is badly brokenComments−jollyllama14dHasn't it been that way for at least a few hundred years? I'm surprised the article didn't mention the OG stimulant, tobacco.−theokrueger14dcoffee houses (previously a threat to the monarchy) would buckle at their knees in front of the dose in caffiene pills or energy drinkseven tobacco has turned to vaping to deliver more nicotine quicker−homer45614dSometimes I wonder if coffee is responsible for modernity.−mapontosevenths14dIt literally is. Technologists are all the degenerate intellectual children of Voltaire - who famously drank 40-50 cups of coffee per day.−ahartmetz13dProbably, by replacing alcohol in places where people gathered during daytime.−BiraIgnacio14dPerhaps since the beginning of what we came to call society.−nitwit00514dEven animals will do things like get drunk on fermented fruit. Humans just figured out how to get a regular supply.−hoppp14dThe romans had society. No tobacco or coffee−AndrewKemendo14dThey were alcoholics, opioid and weed smokershttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_abuse_in_ancient_Rom...Also there’s absolutely no aspect of Rome that I would want to repeatit was a bunch of pederasty, slavery and overall horrific conditions for almost everybody−hoppp14dHeroin? That was not discovered till acetylation was invented in the 19th century.−perilunar14dno, opium.−hoppp14dThey edited the original comment, first they wrote heroin to which I responded.−oopsieDayz13dPresident ran a child rape cultFirst world office workers codependent on sweatshop slavery...but conditions improved for majority1 of 3 we did better than the Romans
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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.
coffee 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
Sometimes I wonder if coffee is responsible for modernity.
It literally is. Technologists are all the degenerate intellectual children of Voltaire - who famously drank 40-50 cups of coffee per day.
Probably, by replacing alcohol in places where people gathered during daytime.
Perhaps since the beginning of what we came to call society.
Even animals will do things like get drunk on fermented fruit. Humans just figured out how to get a regular supply.
The romans had society. No tobacco or coffee
They were alcoholics, opioid and weed smokers
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
Heroin? That was not discovered till acetylation was invented in the 19th century.
no, opium.
They edited the original comment, first they wrote heroin to which I responded.
President 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