• normalexit@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    One day at work I literally had the thought that I should make another cup of coffee to calm my nerves before a presentation. Then I thought about how dumb that is, and did it anyways.

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        3 days ago

        It, in fact, did not calm my nerves. I got through it though!

        I was in bad shape either way, at least I got that smooth robust flavor.

        9/10 would do again.

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          ‘Smooth Robust Flavor’.

          I feel like you could have a pretty good advertising campaign bringing back Joe Camel and having him sell coffee and you’d barely have to change anything at all.

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          Glad you did!

          Yesterday, i pressed the wrong buttons and ended up with a latte without coffee. So i decided to add a double espresso, instead of “boring” coffee.

          I definitely got the other, rather hard, robust flavor and my senses only stopped tingling after i had drunk at least a bottle of water afterwards.

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      Caffeine addiction is so normalized that we seldom think in the moment about if caffeine makes our anxiety worse - we just want to not be so tired

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      At my work, I frequently have to get on an order picker and go like 16’ in the air to get down shower pieces, and if I’ve had a bunch of caffeine it makes me far more anxious about the whole thing. I love caffeine as much as the next guy but it is really bad for anxiety.