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[–] 126 points 5 months ago (8 children)

From the moment I understood the weakness of my biology, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of the boot. I aspired to the purity of Corporate Governance. Your kind cling to your caffeine, as though it will not crash and fail you. One day the crude occupation you call a “job” will be laid off, and you will beg the Government to save you. But I am already saved, for profits are immortal… Even in death I serve the Shareholders.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    I hate how much sense this makes. Well, I guess the original is meant to be satire in real life so whatever

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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Adeptus Mechanicus from Warhammer 40000

    "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass that you call a temple will wither, and you'll beg my kind to save you.But I am already saved. For the machine is immortal. Even in death I serve the Omnissiah."

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    What's crazy is that last line sounds like mere romantic sentiment until you read up on 40k lore.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    What like this quote is narrated over a lovense commercial?

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  • [–] 119 points 5 months ago*

    If this was remotely true the

    Looked ashamed of his natural biology

    Would 100% be the psycho misreading this:

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  • [–] 209 points 5 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 110 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    You can tell this is fake because caffeine withdrawal does NOT just cause "lethargy" people would be going home with headaches and worse.

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  • [–] 50 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    100% this. By the afternoon the first day it would be anarchy in that office. Headaches, crabby aggression, screaming, crying.

    Plus, what entire office actually drinks all the same coffee from the same source?

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Plus, what entire office actually drinks all the same coffee from the same source?

    If it's coffee provided by the company for free, yes they are.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    'Plus, what entire office actually drinks all the same coffee from the same source?'

    Yah that what I find the most hard to believe, especially given the writer is sipping a monster energy drink.

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  • [–] 36 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    I mean, this is the reverse of unknowingly drugging someone, not sure if this is illegal or not, but it feels illegal lol

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  • [+] -10 points 5 months ago* (4 children)

    Later on it says they switched back to the highest caffeine coffee available and the whole office was vibrating. To me this should be kind of a big deal, but people seem way more upset about browser cookies and public video recording.

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    I didn't realize we're only allowed to be mad at one problem. What the fuck are you talking about?

    Someone actually doing this would be a problem. At the same time, ALPRs and data harvesting are absolutely also an issue.

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  • [–] 32 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Caffeine withdraw is no joke, that’s how you get a really bad migraine or worse.

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

    Should I stop drinking caffeine? I have two in the morning(7am and 8 am) and then none for the rest of the day. Am I subjecting myself to daily caffeine withdrawal?

    (I only take medical advice from random internet people btw, never LLMs or 3D doctors)

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    The withdrawal symptoms would typically start in the afternoon on a day when you missed having caffeine in the morning altogether. But it will depend on your size and metabolism as well as how much caffeine you consume in one serving and how long you have been drinking it habitually.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (13 children)

    a coffee lover knows difference

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    I never met them in the office. The coffee drinkers in my office are just drowning their coffee in milk and sugar.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    IMO, a lot of cheap office coffee isn't palatable (or nuanced enough to bother taking straight) unless you doctor it up like that.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Dark roast and even some medium roast tastes like fireplace ash, decaf tastes like vegetable root farts and/or chemicals.

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

    You are not joking. One of my favorite diners served Lavazaa which was always roasted to hell in order to bring out distinct "cigarette ash" notes. Needless to say, I didn't go there for the coffee.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I really want to know if I'm doing it wrong or something. Maybe different brew methods that I don't do, magically don't pull out the burnt flavors??

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    As far as brewing goes, I'm not entirely in the know but I do have an idea. Anecdotally, I have found that you get different results with pour-over filtered, un-filtered (moka pot or french press), coldbrew, and espresso. I'm sure there's something in there to do with heat, pressure, time, and how that impacts the extraction of different compounds. I'd change your brew method - you're probably onto something there.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    You think these people drink coffee for the flavor?

    They're addicts.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I drink coffee every day.

    Flavour is certainly extremely important.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (2 children)

    I have never met anyone that likes coffee on the first try. I'm not saying they don't exist, I'm just saying most people acquire a taste for it the same way they do with alcohol.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Had he pulled it through for two weeks, the withdrawal symptoms would've worn off.

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

    Withdrawal only lasts a few days at most.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I can tell you from painful experience that two weeks is quite realistic.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Can confirm - it takes about a week and a half to two weeks to fully get over the withdrawal symptoms.

    This is from a 1 expresso a day start. Maybe it's easier or harder if starting from higher or lower coffee habits?!

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago

    Noob mistake!

    A professional biological terrorist knows that you need to mix decaf beans and light roast beans (high in caffeine) into the bean reservoir at 50/50, resulting in randomly varying amounts of caffeine per brewing cycle/cup of coffee.

    Never let their caffeine tolerance know the next move!

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  • [–] 29 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I remember this "prank" scribed on some BBS or web page from the early 2000's, possibly even the 90's.

    Everything old is new again!

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

    read so many variants as well.

    still a shitty thing to do to people

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    It's weird to me simply because I bring my own brew. Office coffee just isn't as good as my moka pot and if you've got a zojirushi or similar high quality thermos, you can have hot coffee for a majority of the day.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Meanwhile me bringing hot water to work for a fresh brew of tea right there :p

    My KleanKanteen does the same. I was surprised how long it kept my drink actually hot (>12h).
    PS: Mine haa no plastics touching the hot liquids. Only a replaceable silicone ring.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    you bring 2L of coffee to work with you?

    I'll bring 500mL sure, but not a whole day's worth

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Highly recommend not drinking that much coffee every day. For your heart

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I make a full pot out of 2 cups worth of grounds at home lol. after I figured out my occasional weekend headaches were from caffeine withdrawal, I realized I actually had to deal with cutting back

    it is a problem now when I go to the office and can actually get full strength coffee each time. at least it's very infrequent

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    Moka pots are a little stronger than drip so it's enough to keep me going. If something important is up, I might get a latte or something out... but I try to save that rush for important things so it still hits as intended.

    Oh I should also mention I haven't worked in an office for a couple years now. Now that I teach, I go full espresso before lecture and that's it. Lol

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    An example of the most moral corporate executive. Involuntary biology experiments on unsuspecting subordinates seems like an upgrade from what they're doing normally through the psychological torment.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    People would notice within 6 hours. Source: had this happen to me, got a raging headache despite coffee, left office to go get some

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  • [–] 37 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    if it was true it's abuse~

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    [–] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Are we sure that this wasn’t written by Dwight K Schrute?

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Next up: toilet paper allowance based on committed lines of code

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago

    This is awful, but God so hilarious ( besides the weird psychopathy ) but as a senior prank or something it would go hard

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago

    The weird control kink aside, this does sound like a pretty funny office prank provided there's no really important work going on

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    So many people eating the onion in this thread, I'm getting secondhand embarrassment

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    I adore coffee. But how would they know the caffeine levels of the coffee? That's just not available. It's either decaf or not.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I wonder to what extent placebo would exist here.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    coffee does genuinely nothing to me except make me unable to sleep at night. dont get the people that are depending on it daily

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    I was told that, but while I have some ADHD traits (it runs on my maternal side of the family), it's not severe enough to have a significant impact on my life. Maybe I got just enough of the genes for caffeine resistance!

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    The guys at work used to give me energy drinks, strong coffee and caffeine gels in the hope of making me buzz.

    I don't know if I've got a natural tolerance, or maybe because I eat a lot of dark chocolate I've built up a resistance. Caffeine doesn't do anything to me.

    Also apparently it's not good to down a whole mug of coffee in one go. They used to find it funny when I did that. I don't like coffee but I'll drink it if you give it to me.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Well, many people aren't depressed, but some especially the working class and corporate workers know there is no point in their work and need stimulants to keep going and not kill themselves.

    If you find fulfilling work outside of capitalist systems, you also need less stimulants.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    pure poetry heh

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Disco Elysium

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    Please tell me this is satire...

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Decaf still has a fair amount of caffeine. This is clearly fake.

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