kibwen 2 days ago

To be pedantic, we've also been prescribing opioids since Ancient Sumer, 8,000 years ago.

  • thaumasiotes 2 days ago

    Plus it isn't true that we've been drinking coffee for a long, long time.

    Wikipedia:

    > There is no confirmed evidence, either historical or archaeological, of coffee as a [missing word?] being consumed before the 15th century.

    • squigz 2 days ago

      That's more than 600 years. That counts as a long time in my book.

      • thaumasiotes 2 days ago

        It's basically infinitesimal in comparison to almost everything else we eat or drink.

        (Also, an unknown point in the 15th century could be less than 600 years ago.)

    • HK-NC 2 days ago

      I've read about Dandelion coffee being drank long before then in England.