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Krauerking@lemy.lol to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

Forget cereal bars, what's your flavor of drug in the morning?

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Forget cereal bars, what's your flavor of drug in the morning?

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Krauerking@lemy.lol to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 5 months ago
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https://fortune.com/2026/03/04/palantir-tech-companies-offices-vending-machines-tobacco-worker-productivity/

Free drugs for being a good cog? Man now we are talking business perks.

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  • roofuskit@lemmy.world
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    Now that’s some cyberpunk dystopian shit. Corpos drugging up employees for productivity.

    • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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      in the 1960s American cigarette companies used to leave free packs of cigarettes in freshman dorms at the beginning of the school year because at least some of them would get bored and try it.

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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        Don’t worry, the Kent Micronite filter cigarettes helped with cancer thanks to the power of asbestos.

        • potoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.world
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          “Your honor, you can’t deny they helped with the cancer…”

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      I mean that’s not new - tech companies will still advertise “coffee on tap” as a perk to work for them

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        Can confirm, my time at microslop in the mid 2000s included break rooms with coolers full of every caffeinated beverage you can think of.

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        And no decaf, at least for the ones I’ve seen.

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      the whole idea of a coffee ‘break’ was created to pump stimulants into workers to improve productivity.

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        I think it is the unintended side effect of taking a short break which actually increases productivity.

        There are studys that show that constant coffein consumption just make being caffeinated the new normal.

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          This is why my days are mostly breaks anymore. You should see how productive I am!

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      Hey with the added benefit of addiction they can’t afford to leave the office now!

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      Who’s actually going to use these if they’re not already a smoker / vaper? Maybe they’re just providing them so people don’t have to get up and go outside for 5-10 minutes to smoke.

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    Your browser does not support playing HTML5 video. You can download a copy of the video file instead.

    Nazi Germany and Methamphetamine

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      Is there more footage of Hitler tweaking? Show modern nazis what their shitty “master race” looks like.

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        I don’t have footage, but there’s a book called Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Normal Ohler telling all about the drug use.

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        Allies used amphetamines too.

        https://allthatsinteresting.com/ww2-amphetamine-use

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      That’s fucking hilarious, hitler was a tweaker

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        Well if you like that, perhaps you’ll also enjoy reading about his deformed genitals.

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Looks like random addict from the street, just in less usual attire.

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    I’m still going outside for a smoke when I get my 15. They are only providing pouches (snuff) so people don’t have to leave their workstation to get their fix.

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      Yeah. I can’t wait for my complimentary IV and catheter at my cubicle and 0 breaks.

      I used to take smoking breaks without smoking cause it wasnt fair to dish them out to only smokers.

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      I don’t smoke, but would still sometimes go out with my colleagues who do smoke.

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    Only because they don’t yet have approval to hand out amphetamines

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    What do you think free coffee is for?

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      Less for the caffeine, more for stopping people from going out for coffee.

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        Both.

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    bRinG BaCk PErViTIn

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      If Russia invades Finland just give them a crate of pervitin and they will be in Moscow by sunrise.

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      Nicotine is synergetic with amphetamines, double win.

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      I do miss easy access to amphetamines

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    Hmmm, how much you want to bet the tobacco companies slipped a little money under their door mat

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      I don’t want to lose money having to take the opposite of you. The likelihood they are actually just buying this at market price and don’t have a contract is so low it might as well be rigged.

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    It’s appalling that they’re doing it but they aren’t tobacco products, they nicotine products.

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      A lot of the nicotine in products like these is made from tobacco. Some of it is synthetic nicotine, some is plant-derived.

      I couldn’t find statistics but at least some companies have different product names for synthetic vs natural.

      e.g. “VELO” is plant-derived while “VELO Plus” is synthetic.

      https://nicokick.com/us/pouch-perfect/products/velo-vs-velo-plus

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        In my opinion this is splitting hairs. Chewing tobacco, cigarettes, cigars, etc., are tobacco products having tobacco as a main ingredient. Nicotine gum, pouches, patches, and ecigs are nicotine products as they have nicotine (synthetic or derived) but no actual tobacco. If the got the nicotine from eggplants you wouldn’t call it an eggplant product.

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          I wouldn’t, but I wouldn’t say someone else was wrong if they did.

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        Almost all of it is tobacco-derived, which is why I always found the “tobacco companies are trying to get vapes banned” idea ridiculous. They’re the ones making the stuff that goes in the vapes.

        I think the point of the distinction is regarding cancer. Tobacco on the gums causes mouth cancer, nicotine maybe maybe not.

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      And here’s me, reading that tech companies are feeding their employees tabasco and wondering just what that’s supposed to do.

    • 🇸‌🇵‌🇪‌🇨‌🇺‌🇱‌🇦‌🇹‌🇪‌🇷‌@lemmy.world
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      Nicotine by itself isn’t any worse than caffeine. I hate that puritanical American bulldozers right and left, call nicotine pouches and vapes tobacco products. Shut the fuck up nerds. Pop a zynn and watch some TV.

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        I am of your same opinion about nicotine, but I will say that the pouches are making my gum receed noticeably after about 1 year of daily use… trying to switch to gum now

        • 🇸‌🇵‌🇪‌🇨‌🇺‌🇱‌🇦‌🇹‌🇪‌🇷‌@lemmy.world
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          I think that’s my biggest fear about using them. I think I’ll keep an eye out for that at well. If it starts to happen, I’ll probably just quit nicotine. I can’t put stuff in my lungs and I hate gum.

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            nicotine independently damages the endothelium (innermost lining of blood vessels) leading to stroke heart attack poor wound healing after injury or surgery etc. even without tobacco

            probably why it damages gums

            not worth the very small benefits

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        If you have time Andrew Huberman breaks it down. https://youtu.be/uXs-zPc63kM

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    Always with the “extract every ounce of yourself for us”, never with the “take care of yourself to maximize your potential for us”.

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    The original nazis used meth, but these fash aren’t quite there yet.

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    Nicotine : one of the only drugs that makes you a better slave ; therefore, one of the very few legal ones.

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      Yeah, I mean there were the amphetamines and opiates that they thought made people better workers too but that was just during periods where people hated reality and they realized the disassociation was worse for efficiency so now just back to nicotine.

      Why can’t we make our own study that says that the dopamine of watching a live hibachi chef makes us a better slave and at least get a flaming volcano of onion out of this?

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    It works…at first.

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    Why don’t they just use their job replacing AIs?

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    I’m holding out for free cocaine

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      This guy gets it. My company almost does this already by making my Adderall script only $10

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    Coffee is my drug of choice and my work provides it for me. Thank you, work.

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