Years ago I was friends with a bunch of Red Bull girls. Their job was to pick up a bunch of cases of Red Bull in their Red Bull-themed mini cooper every morning and drive around all day handing it out for free at events and public parks etc. while being incredibly good-looking. They did this for about a week and then instead they would just dump the cases in the river and go home and get high all day. Then Red Bull started giving them a GPS-enabled PDA to track them and they came to me (programmer type) to see if I could fake the GPS data, which turned out to be really easy to do (the Red Bull app just wrote coordinates into a plain text file every 10 minutes). The ethics of doing this were questionable, but I do feel like I saved a bunch of people from ever trying that godawful death concoction - and as I mentioned, they were all incredibly good-looking.
Yeah, but I'm happy with that. Let's me take back control of when I'm tired. I tried quitting caffeine for months and I don't like it; I was tired when I wanted to be awake and wide awake when I needed to sleep. The predictable crash at the end of the day is pretty useful when timed right.
I always hated it until I accidentally left a can of it in my car in 100°F weather and had nothing else to drink one day. It's actually not bad as a hot drink.
This is why I don't get people that drink coffee when they're hungover. I'd rather just sleep it off or feel like shit and sucking it up. Feeling like shit AND being wired is way worse than that.
This is a normal effect for caffeine. It is a diuretic. Also, my understanding of the different effects you're talking about is that it is only true for people with adhd. Its because people with adhd lack the proper amount of stimulation normally, so providing the right amount of stimulation through a drug will treat the problem without inducing effects associated with overstimulation. They can still experience the same effects that neurotypical people experience when taking stimulants, but they would probably need to take more.
Again, this is just my understanding of it based off of my personal experience as someone with adhd as well as what my therapist has told me. I don't know if its completely accurate or not.
Haven't drunk anything with a lot of caffeine in years, so last time i tried an energy drink my heartrate jumped into the heavens and i couldn't stop sweating
No one else has mentioned that brands seem to be dripping into lemmy. Honestly, never seeing stealth ads, except for kagi which I’ve resigned to, is my biggest draw for Lemmy.
For what it's worth, I'm 100% just sharing memes like I do everyday, and this paranoid dude you're replying to should be ignored. Before this, he has accused me of working for the Oreo company, McDonald's, and a couple of others that I can't remember. It's nuts.
Even if it's not that strong on the positive message, as long as people will show this to others I'm sure some will interpret the message as "This drink won't make your feelings go away but it'll add feeling fast."
I just don't like seeing brands. I guess one could always bend any piece of media containing a product or brand to be an ad. It just didn't sit right with me that there is an increase in memes containing brands on Lemmy as these communities are still developing and I feel like they are somewhat vulnerable to ad riddled memes.