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Taking Caffeine pills make more sense in every way possible than drinking Coffee. (programming.dev)

submitted 18 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Drinking Coffee stains teeth.
Caffeine pills is way cheaper than Coffee.
Swallowing Caffeine pill is more efficient than trying to drink coffee.
You can't control the caffeine dose with Coffee, but you can with pills.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

Caffeine pills are probably a lot easier to accidentally overdose on. If you make coffee you can see the beans for yourself and have a rough idea of how much caffeine you could be getting (if imprecise). With pills you have to take the manufacturer's word for it. Maybe one of them decides to cut corners and put way less caffeine than they say, you think you've been taking X milligrams of caffeine and know how you react to it, but then try a different brand and get surprised with way more than you were expecting. Not to mention how it's easy to take a bunch of pills as opposed to the more time consuming and unpleasant process of brewing and drinking large volumes of coffee, which isn't something an unaware person can easily do by mistake.