The people who say they need 3 cups of black coffee to start their day are just addicts with a high tolerance that experience mild withdrawal symptoms each morning.
If you feel like that, it’s your body crying for you to take a break.
If you like an occasional cup of coffee or energy drink to get through something, then that’s fine. But if you ever feel like one isn’t working like it used to, you should take a break from caffeine to reset your tolerance, not up the dosage like an addict.
I am neutral on coffee itself but “coffee culture” can be pretty obnoxious. All the shopworn dad jokes about it, the impervious entitlement about needing coffee in the same way people need air to live. The highly specific prep and snobby opinions on types of drinks and how they’re made. It all gets very old, very fast IMO.
The Decoder Ring podcast did an interesting episode recently on how all coffee shops are exactly alike, all over the world. It was eye opening for me.
I bet you’d get a lot of upvotes* if you posted this to the community lol