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Forget cereal bars, what's your flavor of drug in the morning? (lemy.lol)
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https://fortune.com/2026/03/04/palantir-tech-companies-offices-vending-machines-tobacco-worker-productivity/

Free drugs for being a good cog? Man now we are talking business perks.

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[–] 4 points 8 months ago* (13 children)

I mean, tech jobs and stimulants have always gone hand in hand. My theory is that's because the field attracts a lot of people with ADHD.

This is functionally no different than a company providing coffee.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (12 children)

    I'm as much of a "caffeine is an addictive psychoactive drug" person as the next but nicotine is so much worse.

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago (11 children)

    By itself it isn't. It's all the other bullshit in tobacco that is so much worse.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    No, it's true. The LD50 for nicotine is only 0.8mg/kg, but for caffeine the LD50 is 192mg/kg.

    The other bullshit in tobacco does make it worse than pure nicotine, but just pure nicotine is more dangerous than pure caffeine.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    I mean I consume maybe 6-7 mg of nicotine, but probably less, per day by vaping. At 0.8mg/kg I would have to consume over 80 to reach LD50 and I believe that has to be in your blood at once.

    My caffeine intake is around 400 mg per day. LD50 is over 20 literal grams.

    Going by these numbers it does indeed sound like the nicotine is worse, but neither one is ever going to get close to the LD50. If I were to significantly increase my nicotine intake, it'd get nauseating for me pretty fast. Caffeine I could probably double without noticing a damn thing, but beyond that I think it will start affecting me too much too.

    Also that's over a day, whereas I believe LD50 implies it'd have to be in your blood all at once?

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Nicotine is a poison, many or most of the cardiac issues associated with smoking are due to nicotine, not the ancillary chemicals in cigarette smoke.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    That's not true.

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4958544/.

    Also, the dose makes the poison. Humans safely consume all kinds of things that would be harmful in large quantities.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Did you read the study? The abstract asserts that vaping is less bad than smoking cigarettes, but there’s a ton of negative cardiovascular effects they link to nicotine alone.

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