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Risa is always leaking.
Nope, that's Ten Forward leaking there.
They boldly go
I feel like the caffeine is the least of your problems if you drink 70 cups of coffee in a day. ~15 liters of fluid is no joke.
I happen to have seen a documentary that says having 100 is not only possible, it gives you superpowers https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqd-_fHdTyA
Linux users drinking 69.9 cups of coffee to open terminal
With 69 cups of coffee they unlock their own terminal
If I have more than 1 cup of coffee I get so jittery I want to crawl out of my skin lol
Gotta pump up that tolerance! Addiction won't form itself, get chugging!
No thanks, I'm generally trying to go in the other direction
That addiction sucks. Two cups of coffee still makes my skin crawl, but the difference is that one cup doesn't help me anymore and now I also have blood pressure problems.
Luckily, it only takes a week or so to get over it. Choose a holiday or long weekend, commit to no caffeine for 3-4 days, and by the time you have to go back to work again the withdrawal will pretty much be over. Then you can restart the cycle all over again, but you'll get buzzed on a single cup again.
Been a decaf boi for a while now and I have no desire to go back. Just go all the way
How many is that in Panera Lemonades
The LD50 for caffeine is approximately 150mg per kg. Considering a large cup of Panera charged lemonade is 390mg, a 200lb (~ 90kg) person would need to drink 34.5 cups of charged lemonade to be lethal
That's actually on the calculator. Lethal is around 30 30oz cups
About twelve damage seeking lawsuits I reckon. Don’t rightly know what a decent settlement goes for these days.
that means 70 cups is ok
"Your maximum is 7.2 shots per day." (Espresso)
My typical day is 8-12 shots + Concerta for ADHD.
For me it's 1 12oz cup of coffee plus Straterra with my ADHD
Does wonders
So 69.8 should be fine, right?
For slightly over 50% of healthy adults.
LD50 crew represent. The Almighty 50%
Sounds like a challenge
Nice
Nice.
24oz / day over here seems to be the average I gravitate towards.
Less than that, and I start wanting more to stay active. More than that and I start thinking I should cut down, or do a drying out week.
Drying out weeks are maximum give-no-fucks weeks. I have experienced fuck-debt, in which I have fewer than no-fucks-to-give. Goths, doomers and beatniks should totally take note.
What if it's not brewed?
That's a good question because chocolate covered coffee beans are fire
Oh good. 15 is still okay.
Technically even 15L is ok. 69.9 servings of 8 fluid ounces is either 15.888L (UK) or 16.538L (US). Not that I would recommend that anyway, you would have issues from the amount of liquid alone...
I don't think most people would be "OK" after taking a dose that's just below lethal.
So, this is all based on "averages" and such.
While the "lethal dose" of caffeine is "estimated" at between 150 and 200 mg per kg of body weight[^1], the empirical evidence points to the possibility of death with much lower doses: a death with a dose between 3 and 6 mg per kg of body weight has been observed in 2017. However, this is a very broad estimate, based the reported consumption of a precisely unknown quantity of beverages from undisclosed brands... In this case, the individual was also clinically obese at the age of 16, so it is fair to speculate that he never really exercised, and that he had a rather high amount of visceral fat, along with an underdeveloped cardiac muscle.
All this to say that we do not have precise empirical data, nor thorough clinical studies, to exactly estimate the lethal dose of caffeine for humans.
However, we do know that consuming water, or any liquid, can be fatal, with doses as low as 8L over a few hours[^2]. There has been other reports of people dying drinking 11L[^3].
So this was obviously meant in jest, I would not recommend drinking more than a couple coffees a day, and if you do, I would highly recommend to eat healthy, keep hydrated, and regularly exercise.
[^1]: The clinical toxicology of caffeine: A review and case study; section 7.2. — Estimated pharmacokinetics.
[^2]: Fatal water intoxication.
[^3]: YouTube — Chubbyemu, A Mom Drank 3 Gallons Water In 2 Hours. This is What Happened to Her Brain.
Limit is over 2l of tea a day, I'm safe
I have one of those bigass orange Reces mugs. If I put my coffee in there, it's just one cup a day.