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Coffee on the Road

Hello and a caffeinated musing from "pretty Idaho."

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Whitney
Aug 21, 2024
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I’m a willing participant in our culture-wide addiction, so I prefer to ignore the strong evidence that caffeine inhibits blood flow to the brain.

While side-eyed conspiracy theorists take this fact as evidence that Big Coffee is part of the plan to ply us with “slave juice” and keep us stuck in the corporate hamster wheel, I welcome the break. At full …

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