Central Nervous Control

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inari@piefed.zip · 219 pts · 76d (1 reply)

LinkedIn lunatic material

QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works · 50 pts · 76d

Well it would have to be real and not a “lawyer meme” as well

cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 131 pts · 76d (8 replies)

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.

psilotop@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 76d (6 replies)

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

Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 33 pts · 76d (5 replies)

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."

dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 76d (3 replies)

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

LePoisson@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 76d

Given that the Omnissiah is the only God I actually involve irl at times, I have to say it is a little bit of a romantic sentiment.

Knowledge is life.

Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 76d (1 reply)

What like this quote is narrated over a lovense commercial?

dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 76d

No, romantic in the "I love god" and embracing the majesty of a wonderful universe sense. In 40k lore, it actually means stuff like this.

Although if automated sex toys were a thing in 40k cannon, they would almost certainly be the domain of The Adeptus Mechanicus.

JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 76d

He's going to feel so silly once he learns the concept of rust.

SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 76d

Fuck caffeine, it's MATH TIME

9point6@lemmy.world · 127 pts · 76d

If this was remotely true the

Looked ashamed of his natural biology

Would 100% be the psycho misreading this:

kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 116 pts · 76d (8 replies)

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

hansolo@lemmy.today · 55 pts · 76d (6 replies)

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?

synapse1278@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 76d (3 replies)

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.

funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 76d

we have a free espresso machine and two free large cafetieres and a coffee shop where you pay on the ground floor. A lot of my colleagues still go to Starbucks across the street.

Chev@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 76d

We have free coffee in our office. It's terrible. Only half the people drink it. Others buy their own.

hansolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 75d

Some, but certainly not all. People have their preferred coffee, out go out for the sake of going out. Free isn't an absolute determiner of human behavior.

Smaile@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 75d (1 reply)

'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.

Napster153@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 75d

Me who buys cheap packets at the nearest convenience store almost every morning.

"You have no control over me! I have my own Spice! My own desert! My Arrakis! My Dune!"

TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 76d

Yeah, I'd consider the urge to commit homicide "worse" (and as a fresh convert, let me say, I'd NEVER get away with this comment on Reddit)

candyman337@piefed.ca · 44 pts · 76d (6 replies)

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

MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 76d

Pretty sure it's illegal

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · -12 pts · 76d (4 replies)

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.

finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 76d

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.

Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 10 pts · 76d (1 reply)

I am sorry if you are able to focus on a single problem at the time

PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 75d

That's just simple conservative values. Critical thinking skills are not applicable.

ddplf@szmer.info · 5 pts · 75d

true, all they care about is eat hot chip and lie

Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 40 pts · 76d (1 reply)

if it was true it's abuse~

aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 76d

Just like corporate governance.

deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 33 pts · 76d (3 replies)

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!

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 76d (2 replies)

read so many variants as well.

still a shitty thing to do to people

Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 76d (1 reply)

Making things up and sharing them on the internet?

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 51d

messing with people's consent about what they put in their bodies

atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 76d (4 replies)

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

DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 76d

Yup, can very much confirm.

Agent641@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 75d (2 replies)

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)

atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 75d

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.

vivalapivo@lemmy.today · -1 pts · 75d

If anything, you should drink more coffee

thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 76d

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

tostos@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 76d (13 replies)

a coffee lover knows difference

VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 76d (7 replies)

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

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 76d

Generally work coffee seems like just get me through another day of this shit medicine.

dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 76d (4 replies)

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

SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 76d (3 replies)

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

dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 76d (2 replies)

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.

SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 76d (1 reply)

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??

dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 75d

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.

JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 76d

That's the only way to get down most office coffee, and sometimes even that isn't enough.

Jax@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 76d (4 replies)

You think these people drink coffee for the flavor?

They're addicts.

PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 75d (3 replies)

I drink coffee every day.

Flavour is certainly extremely important.

Jax@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 75d (2 replies)

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.

PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 75d (1 reply)

I mean with that last bit... I mostly enjoyed the taste of alcohol from a young age.

Jax@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 75d

I'm not saying you don't exist, I'm just saying you're an outlier.

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 76d (5 replies)

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

pastermil@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 76d

Inducing withdrawal is the whole point!

zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 76d (2 replies)

Withdrawal only lasts a few days at most.

DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 76d (1 reply)

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

Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 76d

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?!

edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 76d

Which is why he switched it back, didn't want them becoming comfortable without their addiction. Gotta be able to play that card again in the future.

EldenLord@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 76d

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!

Th4tGuyII@fedia.io · 14 pts · 76d

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

taiyang@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 76d (7 replies)

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.

mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 76d (5 replies)

you bring 2L of coffee to work with you?

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

Bristlecone@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 76d (1 reply)

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

mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 76d

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

taiyang@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 76d

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

Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 76d

I drink 500ml of tea and water at work.
If you can't function without downing 3 or 4 cups of coffee, you need ro adjust something

ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 76d

It’s…time to make some changes in your life lol

Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 76d

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.

plyth@feddit.org · 13 pts · 76d (9 replies)

Fake, but I would love to see it happening IRL.

Carrolade@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 76d (8 replies)

The red flag for me was saying he switched the decaf for the highest caffeine roast available.

Decaf is roasted pretty dark, because the roasty flavors that creates help cover up some of the flavor destruction you get from the decaffeination process.

High caffeine roasts are light ones, though, because the roasting process itself slowly degrades the caffeine.

Thus, he's saying he replaced a bunch of dark roast decaf coffee with one of the lightest available, and nobody noticed. That'd be like swapping someone's chocolate milk for strawberry milk and them somehow not noticing. You'd even see the difference the moment you looked at the beans, because almost-black and very light brown are different colors.

Next time someone wants to share this story, say you replaced the decaf with a similar roast of regular. That will at least sound plausible to the coffee people.

Serinus@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 76d (6 replies)

While I agree with your facts, I think you overestimate what most people will notice. The hue of the coffee beans would probably slip past most people, even if significant.

Carrolade@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 76d (5 replies)

Possibly. I will admit that it's uncaffeinated people we are asking to distinguish between the two, which is worthy of consideration.

Still though, it's like looking at toast and not noticing how toasted it is. Colors are something that just stand out, a lot, unless you're pretty distracted. If we were running a single individual through the trial then sure, but multiple people? I don't like the odds.

Lumidaub@feddit.org · 5 pts · 76d (4 replies)

People know what the colours mean for chocolate/strawberry milk and toast. Reading you explain that the espresso beans would be noticeably darker, I went "Oh yeah, makes sense". But I wouldn't question the colour of coffee beans unprompted, as long as they're bean-shaped.

Carrolade@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 76d (3 replies)

Okay that's fair. Would you notice the flavor difference between strawberry and choc milk though? Because that's on par with the flavor difference between the two coffees. Dark roasts taste roasty, light roasts taste fruity. My comment on bean color was a minor side note that I ended with, the much bigger difference is in the flavor.

Given then that we have these multiple, fully independent differences that could be noticed (different beans, different flavor, not having caffeine), a bunch of people missing all of them is not likely imo, unless all of them are particularly oblivious. All it takes is one person to notice, after all.

Lumidaub@feddit.org · 3 pts · 76d (2 replies)

Gotta be honest, I've never noticed any particular taste in coffee other than "yep, coffee". I absolutely believe that there are differences but if I'm not looking for them (especially if I'm drinking it while working), I won't notice. And even then I wouldn't assume that it's decaf.

Carrolade@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 76d

Yeah, I think that's most people. Have you tried a light roast coffee though? They're not common at all, and most people don't like them in my experience. Those two things are probably related.

arrow74@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 76d

It's the work coffee pot not that weird for the brew to change

Hoodoir@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 75d

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.

grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 76d (1 reply)

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

VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 76d

Yep! Decaf gives me a huge headache.

BillyClark@piefed.social · 9 pts · 76d
Blackout@fedia.io · 8 pts · 76d

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

SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 76d (3 replies)

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

lonefighter@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 76d (2 replies)

Dwight would have been drinking beet juice, not Red Bull

Zink@programming.dev · 3 pts · 76d

While whispering to himself "a warrior's energy drink"

SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 76d

Fair point. Wait. That is exactly something Dwight would say. Nice try.

IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf · 6 pts · 76d (6 replies)

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

Ogy@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 76d (2 replies)

A likely indicator of ADHD

PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 75d

Meanwhile my Audhd partner drinks coffee before they go to bed.

DakRalter@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 75d

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!

DakRalter@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 75d

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.

QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 75d

Coffee doesn't even do that to me, nor does any caffine. Hell I can drink a monster energy right before bed

JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 75d

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.

bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 76d

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

SethDove@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 75d (1 reply)

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.

brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 75d

Light roast tends to be more caffeinated than darker roasts.

Also, different bean times have different amounts of caffeine, but I haven't tested this personally.

LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 76d

I wonder to what extent placebo would exist here.

imperious_melange@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 76d
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Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 76d

pure poetry heh

Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 76d

Disco Elysium

EldenLord@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 76d
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Fedizen@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 75d (1 reply)

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

SethDove@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 75d

Decaf has very* little caffeine.

wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 0 pts · 76d (2 replies)

Please tell me this is satire...

Loreshield@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 76d (1 reply)

No...! YA THINK?! COULD IT BE?

wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 0 pts · 76d

You never really know these days. I've seen plenty of shit that could've been satire except it was from people who were dead serious...

Hadriscus@jlai.lu · -2 pts · 76d (8 replies)

I tried coffee once, I do not recommend. I couldn't sleep for two days and was extremely anxious, could not focus on anything. Strongest chemical I've tried, bar the sleeping potion for the wisdom teeth

Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 76d (1 reply)

what are you twelve?

Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 76d

I was 23 then

MeThisGuy@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 76d

half the world runs on coffee, a 3rd on tea, a quarter on energy drinks, and a probably an 8th on amphetamines

possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 76d (4 replies)

sorry about your genes

Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 76d (3 replies)

my reaction is due to genetics ?

leagman1@feddit.org · 3 pts · 76d

A reaction this strong probably is. But it's ok, don't let anyone tell you it isn't.

fullsquare@awful.systems · 2 pts · 75d

it might be that one of your drug-metabolizing enzymes doesn't work properly, tell your doc, there are tests for that

possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 76d

your caffeine intolerance means your bloodline is weak /s