A society that runs on stimulants is badly broken
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A society that runs on stimulants is badly broken
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Re: A society that runs on stimulants is badly broken
#2Hasn't it been that way for at least a few hundred years? I'm surprised the article didn't mention the OG stimulant, tobacco.
Re: A society that runs on stimulants is badly broken
#3I was on a prescribed stimulant for 6 months. It was nice for work, but it ended up with too many side effects that kind of mess with ones head. It tends to "simplify" complex decision making processes and not just for code but for life decisions.
Re: A society that runs on stimulants is badly broken
#4I was on a prescribed stimulant for 6 months. It was nice for work, but it ended up with too many side effects that kind of mess with ones head. It tends to "simplify" complex decision making processes and not just for code but for life decisions.
Simplifying decisions can be a positive outcome, just to add balance to your comment.
Re: A society that runs on stimulants is badly broken
#5I don't know how we do it. I am much more clearheaded without coffee or anything of the sorts.
Re: A society that runs on stimulants is badly broken
#6I was on a prescribed stimulant for 6 months. It was nice for work, but it ended up with too many side effects that kind of mess with ones head. It tends to "simplify" complex decision making processes and not just for code but for life decisions.
Simplifying decisions can be a positive outcome, just to add balance to your comment.
And I don't disagree!
Re: A society that runs on stimulants is badly broken
#7Hasn'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
Re: A society that runs on stimulants is badly broken
#8I was on a prescribed stimulant for 6 months. It was nice for work, but it ended up with too many side effects that kind of mess with ones head. It tends to "simplify" complex decision making processes and not just for code but for life decisions.
> It tends to "simplify" complex decision making processes and not just for code but for life decisions.
Improving executive function is literally the point of prescription stimulants.
Rather than endless spirals about whether you should do ___, it just makes everything sound like a great idea to you...for better or for worse.
Cocaine has the same effect, only amplified.
Re: A society that runs on stimulants is badly broken
#9Hasn't it been that way for at least a few hundred years? I'm surprised the article didn't mention the OG stimulant, tobacco.
Sometimes I wonder if coffee is responsible for modernity.
Re: A society that runs on stimulants is badly broken
#10I do find the economics / work narrative relatively unconvincing. For one workload in the developed world has fallen by about 40-50% over the last 100 years. Consuming stimulants is as popular among call it the 'lazy bum class' (no offense, I grew up in a deadbeat town) as it is among strivers. Coffee goes back five thousand years, Nicotine as far as recorded history, that is 10k+ years.
They've always had recreational or even ritual use, and the health fads against stimulants and cleansing crazes usually come from the work-obsessed than anyone else. So I don't think that we run on stimulants, I'm pretty sure we'd do them regardless.