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Free drugs for being a good cog? Man now we are talking business perks.
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Free drugs for being a good cog? Man now we are talking business perks.
Nicotine : one of the only drugs that makes you a better slave ; therefore, one of the very few legal ones.
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?
The original nazis used meth, but these fash aren’t quite there yet.
Is there more footage of Hitler tweaking? Show modern nazis what their shitty “master race” looks like.
Allies used amphetamines too.
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.
That’s fucking hilarious, hitler was a tweaker
Well if you like that, perhaps you’ll also enjoy reading about his deformed genitals.
Looks like random addict from the street, just in less usual attire.
I’m holding out for free cocaine
This guy gets it. My company almost does this already by making my Adderall script only $10
Only because they don’t yet have approval to hand out amphetamines
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.
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.
I don’t smoke, but would still sometimes go out with my colleagues who do smoke.
Fuck this to hell. I want tobacco to go extinct, not be more accessible.
If there was a button that just made every tobacco plant (and the backups in that one seed vault place) die, I would keep pushing it for days just to make sure it was all gone. Including existing smoking products.
Not sorry not sorry. Addicts all going cold turkey that day.
As a nicotine addict, I wouldn’t advise this. Making every one of us go cold turkey in one moment will be the end of humanity. Nicotine withdrawal is no joke.
I don’t understand your fury to be honest. It’s unhinged. So what happened to make you feel this way?
Yes drugs are bad, we should all have to rawdog experiencing the planet boiling.
What an enlightened take, that’s positively upvoted — no less!
Mind your own business.
Well, headache medicine sometimes includes nic… They would probably just switch it to something worse.
Man, just xanax and adderall lol.
I’ve heard Meth keeps you on even longer, the Nazis knew that already with Panzerschokolade.
Yeah but there’s always an Adderall shortage
What do you think free coffee is for?
Less for the caffein, more for stopping people from going out for coffee.
Both.
At this point I think it’s safe to say we’re locked into the dystopian future and the utopic one was but a dream.
Fun fact:
The guy that coined the term Utopia, actually meant for it to act as a pun, for “no such place” or to imply it was a false dream.
Such as, people will use the mirage of a utopia to hide the very real dystopia that this path creates.
A Eutopia is an actually “good place”. A thing we have not been working towards. George Orwell also called his society a Utopia as it was a false good place.
for anyone just interested in reading a recent study on the effects of nicotine.
I found this review paper interesting and I don’t doubt that nicotine can have therapeutic effects but the funding source worried me.
Conflict of interest
Authors YC, XW, XZ, HT, YZ, JZ, and SZ were employed China Tobacco Anhui Industrial Co., Ltd.
The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
The authors declare that this study received funding from Technology Project of Anhui Zhongyan Industry Co., Ltd. The funder had the involvement in the study design, data analysis, decision to publish, and preparation of the manuscript.
Funding Statement The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was financially supported by the Technology Project of Anhui Zhongyan Industry Co., Ltd. (2022156), Science and Technology Projects of State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (110202201046XX-05), Startup Program of XMU and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.
Damn. That study is toasted.
I read through it and just thought they were being generous with the fact that they were stating the positives as mostly people with depression and ADHD self medicating with an addictive substance that didnt really help as much as cause a feedback loop that felt better but more addictive…
The fact that they state the funders directly had involvement in the study… Oof.
Why not just skip straight to the point and save us all a decade or so. Meth on tap.
I already wish them slow cancer so good job.
Hmmm, how much you want to bet the tobacco companies slipped a little money under their door mat
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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If Russia invades Finland just give them a crate of pervitin and they will be in Moscow by sunrise.
Nicotine is synergetic with amphetamines, double win.
I do miss easy access to amphetamines
It’s appalling that they’re doing it but they aren’t tobacco products, they nicotine products.
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.
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.
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.
And here’s me, reading that tech companies are feeding their employees tabasco and wondering just what that’s supposed to do.
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.
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
If you have time Andrew Huberman breaks it down. youtu.be/uXs-zPc63kM
Why don’t they just use their job replacing AIs?
Is coffee not good enough anymore?
Considering the dosage amounts of caffeine that seem normal to people now…
No.
Always with the “extract every ounce of yourself for us”, never with the “take care of yourself to maximize your potential for us”.
No reason any worker couldn’t just throw em in the trash, right?
I imagine you would be fired and charged for destruction of property and then they would make you feel bad by having you apologize to your coworkers for hindering their ability to put forth more work.
It works…at first.
Coffee is my drug of choice.
Until they have newbies trying that stuff and ending up puking and/or having headaches
just realized decaf is not an option in my office 🤔
Is there some not-yet-specified condition of broad moral-displacement inherent to surveillists?
Amlodipine.
Like when they offer smoke breaks.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Now that’s some cyberpunk dystopian shit. Corpos drugging up employees for productivity.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 1 day ago
in thee 1960s 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.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Don’t worry, the Kent Micronite filter cigarettes helped with cancer thanks to the power of asbestos.
zeezee@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
I mean that’s not new - tech companies will still advertise “coffee on tap” as a perk to work for them
toiletobserver@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Can confirm, my time at microslop in the mid 2000s included break rooms with coolers full of every caffeinated beverage you can think of.
scytale@piefed.zip 1 day ago
And no decaf, at least for the ones I’ve seen.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 day ago
Hey with the added benefit of addiction they can’t afford to leave the office now!
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.