It's a drug, it effects your behaviour/mood, you must have done some weird shit on it

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[–] 40 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I hate to be that guy, but, "source?" The espresso number "feels" a bit off, and some Internet searching agrees better with intuition:

According to USDA, 1oz of espresso is 63mg and 1C coffee is 92mg.

Just googling around, and both DDG and Google summary report 64mg/shot (with the obvious disclaimer about trusting AI summaries).

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I once met an old journalist that ran a bed and breakfast in southern Ontario. Great guy who worked for the Toronto Star for several years in the 60s and 70s.

    He said that work was a lot more hectic back then because everything was manual and you had constant deadlines with no conveniences. He said that his day started at about 5 or 6 and depending on how busy the day was, he'd be in bed by 2 or 3 or not at all to make a deadline.

    He said he drank coffee but at one point drinking so much liquid was forcing them to go to the bathroom so much that he and a few others opted to start just eating the coffee beans instead. They got the caffeine kick without wanting to pee.

    He suffered a massive heart attack in his 50s, slowed down after, quit eating coffee beans and retired in his 60s.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I assume they were all smoking nonstop as well, I’m surprised he even made it to 60

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I remember him saying that after he saw a couple of his colleagues who were the same age, doing the same thing die either doing their work or shortly after ... he realized his time was up and he just retired before it killed him. Yes he said he did smoke like everyone, just not as heavily as most and he quit earlier than most.

    He said he saw the writing on the wall and knew that if he continued, he would have died at his desk .... so he and his wife just packed it all in, sold everything they had in the city, moved to the country and opened a bed and breakfast instead.

    His place was amazing tho ... they had a small library that was filled with all his old magazine, newspaper work, books, prints, documents, papers, everything ... and when you sat with him, he could sit for days telling you stories. This was all about 20 years ago and the old guy (he was in his 70s at the time) is probably gone now but what a character.

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  • [+] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago

    Oof yeah. My mum has a good coffee machine, and when I moved out she offered it to me. I had to refuse because I knew that if it was just me in the house I would a) drink it to the point I would never sleep again, and b) it made me way more likely to visit her often if I know she has good coffee

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Took caffeine pills, stayed up 4 days, saw strange colours, broke down and slept
    Luckily made it home, the snow was looking really cosy

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago

    Longest I've stayed up is a 3 and bit days. I didn't hallucinate, because I wasn't drinking caffeine (you can stay surprisingly alert and mellow on just fruit), but I definitely had massive lapses in judgement when crossing the road

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago
    [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    TIL: Cocoa contains a significant amount of caffeine...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    "affects" *

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Less than 400 mg a day is suggested for heart health.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Discovered that the caffeine in soda is the cause of bad munchies and not the same as coffee. Drink decaf soda and coffee now, lost weight, lol’d.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I tried decaf Coke Zero and I have to admit it makes me miserable. Can't work out if it's my head expecting the caffein high and not recieving it, or if it's something in the chemicals itself that acts as a depressant

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Isn't caffeine in soda added in a relatively pure form in the end of the proces, unlike coffee/tea/cacao where it part of the 'source' of the end product? I don't think they have to substitute the caffeine for some decaf ingredient. If that's true, that would rule out your second guess.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago

    Huh - that's actually good to hear. I thought they had to do the same creepy stuff they do to coffee to decaffeinate it, rather than just not adding it at all.

    In that case I guess I've just got to train my brain to not immediately expect the caffeine high when drinking it

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Weirdly, my sensitivity to caffeine has gone through the roof in my 40s. I just turned 48 and, if I drink just one cup of coffee after mid-day, I'm not going to get to sleep until about 3am.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Threw 5/7ths of my life away

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    If I have too much coffee, I get irritating eye twitches and feel unpleasant.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    My freshman year of college i drank one of the largest cans of red bull and a big coffee right before heading to a math class. I was tweaking scribbling absurd doodles in my notebook.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Did it help you math better, or were the doodles largely untethered to reality

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Back in the day, when I would hang out all day every day at a coffeehouse, I drank like three pots of coffee in two hours. I ended up standing up on a chair and flailing around, then completely crashing out and feeling like I was going to die.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yep, sounds about right. One of the reasons I can't work on a laptop in a coffee shop (other than the maddening music on a loop you can't faze out) for long is just the creep of the caffeinated treadmill

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    Brewed coffee has more caffeine than an espresso?

    Never thought of this. Thought they were relatively the same concentration.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The liquid you drink with filtered coffee has had much more time to steep in all the caffeine from the crushed beans compared to the espresso machine where the liquid travels though the crushed beans under high pressure. This graph might also consider size, but an americano is usually a double espresso with more water so i think they are refering to the brewing method and not the size.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    filtered coffee has had much more time to steep in all the caffeine

    True, but I think it's more complicated than that. Filtered coffee is typically a coarse grind, espresso is fine---and fine grind has a larger surface area to volume ratio, which helps with extraction.

    I have also heard that caffeine leaches out fairly quickly, so it gets to be diminishing returns pretty quickly.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    it's more complicated than that

    Totally, i believe the bean and the burning process also matter in how much caffeine a cup of coffee has in the end. Also i believe espresso coffee is fattier wich influences the flavour and caffeine amount because a filter let's less particles true or something.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Brewed coffee as opposed to dry beans? Assuming you mean black it is espresso with water. Green tea is about 30-40mg what is this :D

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