Join me on Wren and start offsetting your carbon footprint today! We'll plant 10 extra trees for the first 100 people who sign up! www.wren.co/start/upisnotjump I hope you all enjoyed the video! I did a lot less of the editing so could focus on the flow, baby, flow
@@gazzalazza2928 My shop has it. Online shops have it. And yes, transporting is not good, but you actually driving to the shop (specially if its a special shop further away) is still worse.
Biochar exists because California decided their Enviro-Peen was bigger than the forestry service and stopped cutting back the undergrowth... which led to devastating wild fires. Look it up. People who claim to love the environment should be known by their actions.
"The reason coffee has higher yields in open fields is that the trees can get more sun" felt like the perfect lead-in to a "DAMN YOU, SUN!" Is UpIsNotJump softening his stance on the maligned celestial body? More at 11.
Love your content, but it is very important that we acknowledge that the term "carbon footprint" was popularized by a large advertising campaign by the fossil fuel company BP in order to make climate change seem like a personal failing on the part of consumers rather than something that requires wide legislative action. Climate Town on UA-cam has a good summary of this issue.
This is a very good point. Whilst it's still important for the average person to reduce their carbon footprint, as it still helps in the long run, people also need to understand that companies and industry are the largest producers of greenhouse gasses. To compliment op's comment, Kurzgesagt also has a good video which talks about how we as individual people impact the climate, aswell as how companies and governments impact the climate.
It’s really telling when the first options on Wren seem to be flights… really don’t think the average person is taking 4-12 roundtrips a year. Also feels really “Offset your guilt by paying us instead!”
You should do an episode on why chocolate is a nightmare, and how companies like Nestle have forced entire towns into indentured servitude, which is still happening right now, and is how most chocolate we eat in the first world is produced.
@@Lorenzo12799 Fair point. I honestly would just like to see anyone talk about this and bring it to light. It's crazy how much we take stuff like that for granted and completely ignore the human cost of the products we consume.
As someone who runs a local coffee roasting business, this is great thank you for spreading the good word of shade grown coffee and buying from farmers ☕
UpIsNotJump Mirrors Hbomberguy HARD! Do with that fun-fact what you will. Oh, and Science-UA-camrs and Atheist-Channel are kinda blood-related but not enough realize this, making me sad the 2 fanbases dont intermix more!
It’s interesting the grift of carbon footprint caught on so much since it was popularized by BP, if you reduced your carbon foot print to zero for your whole life it would only save a 1/10th of a second of carbon produced from your average US natural gas power plant.
If you kill two random people, you'll offset all of your lifetime polluting, AND the manufacture of the rifle! Acknowledge your power, climb into a clock tower!
@@PutkisenSetä the problem isn’t unsolvable, you just have to attack it at its source. Although I don’t think that we’ll defeat the ills of capitalism through the electoral process. I definitely do appreciate absurdist humor though, it’s my favorite form of comedy.
@@yeoldewar1014 bro do you not realise that anyone complaining about the environment or capitalism on the internet is just either an idiot or a hypocrite, the computer or phone you are using is a direct product of capitalism and chances are exploitation in a third world country of both the child who probably made it and all the children digging for rare materials in Africa and Asia, that's how the world works that why you have any of the clothes on your back, electronics in your house and even the internet itself is a capitalist invention, and the electricity your using come from a power station most likely, you yourself destroy the planet in doing everything you're moaning about, you partake in it the same as everyone else, if you want to bitch and moan about the environment and capitalism go start your own commune in the middle of no where without electricity, plumbing or anything you haven't personally made and produced yourself, without exploiting the world around you adding to climate change. You sound like such a sad or hatefilled human being, acting like you'll be some vanguard of the communist revolution when chances are you're just a keyboard warrior with no discernable skills that will be one of the first against the wall or sent to a gulag if communism was ever actually implemented in he western world. Communism is a vile and evil ideology no better then Nazism or fascism.
Video was recommended to me, youtube algorithm didn’t disappoint. Thank you for the really interesting video! Not sure I can stop the coffee but imma binge your videos ☕️
coffee has three ways of working not just one. 1 is it blocks sleepy receptors as you said 2 is that it makes your body release adrenaline which makes you more awake and alert and increases your heart rate and finally 3 it makes your brain more sensitive to and release more dopamine, acetylcholine, and to a lesser extent serotonin.
Coffee does more than "prevent getting sleepy" actually, it increases heart rate and blood pressure, thus increasing oxygen flow to the brain. The blocking of adenosine (cAMP) prompts norepinephrine - also called noradrenalin - which is very similar to adrenaline (epinephrine), stimulating the heart. I really feel this is missing from the video and giving a slightly misleading picture - not making you sleepy is not all of it, and we all know coffee can increase heart rate ("racing"). Otherwise, excellent video!
I would also like to remind everyone that, as good as reducing your carbon footprint is, especially by funding orgs like in the Video, often contract sides like this take a large amount of the money and the orgs tend to receive a comparatively small amount, so if possible donating directly to the orgs tends to be more useful
And carbon offsets for individuals have nowhere near the impact as carbon legislation for big producers of greenhouse gases. Supporting strong legislation is your best bet and organizations that lobby on your behalf are also worth your money but get comparatively little ad revenue to make their impact seen online.
agreed. its less than a drop in the ocean because no matter how many people make the effort, big corporations are accelerating the climate crisis much more than any individual or group of individuals could ever offset. supporting local politicians who want to make climate change policy is the best way to help the planet. Having said that, doing your part will lead. y example for others, and could lead to more political support in the community
also be careful of scammers, like more than half the "offsetters" out there dont actually do anything except take your money and send you a picture of the same tree they sent to 600k other people.
The science of caffeine was cool to learn. I'd been under the impression it was a stimulant that the body just steadily adjusts to over years of exposure to it takes more to get the same rush from it, but it actually being something that just blocks off receptors that would otherwise take in a hormone that makes us sleepy was interesting, and anecdotally makes a lot of sense with the actual experience I've had with coffee being more akin to "stops me getting more tired" than actively "wakes me up/ keeps me awake".
Actually it's more than not making you sleepy, since the blocking of adenosine (cAMP) prompts norepinephrine - also called noradrenalin - which is basically adrenaline. It increases blood pressure and heart rate, increasing oxygen inflow to the brain, etc. I really feel this is missing from the video and giving a slightly misleading picture - not making you sleepy is not all of it, and we all know coffee can increase heart rate.
Your body also produces more of the receptors with time if you’re taking caffeine, hence why the withdrawal from caffeine can make you exhausted and moody. Your body is uptaking more adenosine.
@@slopcrusher3482 Yes, also creating a habituation effect (over time, caffeine will be less effective because there are more receptors to fill). The receptors probably also decrease again over time if you stop taking in caffeine. Sometimes I stop caffeine intake for a week or so and feel it getting more effective again. Though I'd have to read up on scientific articles to be able to say what periods of time might be how effective there. By the way, the video also mentions that there's more than caffeine in coffee, and I think I read an article once stating that caffeine may not be the only thing that makes coffee effective, since if you isolate it (just take caffeine), it doesn't have as strong an effect. I'd have to research more on that.
coffee has three ways of working. 1 is it blocks sleepy receptors as you said 2 is that it makes your body release adrenaline which makes you more awake and alert and increases your heart rate and finally 3 it makes your brain more sensitive to and release more dopamine, acetylcholine, and to a lesser extent serotonin.
I respect this video immensely. Instead of saying "Don't buy coffee", you're instead saying "try and buy your coffee from somewhere that sells a specific type of bean to help discourage deforestation and once the grounds are done, compost them."
Word bro. I also respect how instead of saying "don't pay my mother to smash her cheeks", you're instead saying "please pay my mother to clap her cheeks because we are in desperate need of money."
"Compost them, it stops carbon from being released at garbage tips" As opposed to releasing it at home, in compost. Are coffee bean grounds even good for compost? Gotta love when activists dont even bother to think.
@@TherealTenmanI They aren't used for fertilizer at garbage dumps. Compost is a much more renewable area for organic food waste. I do believe companies should offer this service as well
@@MrJr1976 Is it though? I literally don't know. What nutrients are kept in used coffee grounds? Plus his original point was environmentalism carbon footprint BS, meaning he doesnt know that carbon here is the same as carbon there.
@@internetuser7 Danish is muddied by too many vowels and throaty sounds while Dutch sounds like a mix of all the Germanic languages and at times sounding a bit like Danish in pronunciation which is not at all too vague of a reasoning from me... Point is both of your languages sound funny and I do not blame the English for mixing you two up when they are constantly stuck in their own bubble.
I cant get enough of his videos and editing style and jokes. On point, as always. Shoutout for Skyrim ambient music in the Ethiopian animation. It always makes me feel so relaxed 😌
Wow that segment on the chemistry of caffeine would have been fun, were I not trying to desperately take my mind off of the krebs cycle during my short break from studying for a biochemistry midterm. WHY DID I GO INTO SCIENCE ITS SO BAD
Ah yes, respiration. A boss level in the unimaginative game that is undergraduate learning by wrote. Memories of pulling hair out, screaming "IF I NEEDED TO USE THIS, I COULD HAVE A PICTURE OF IT STAPLED TO THE WALL". Keep up the slog. It will get better!
@@GMRay739 lol, yeah, I know, I have DEFINITELY been there. A lot of the material is super interesting, and I love the lab work, but by god some of this just feels like my elementary school teachers saying "you won't have a calculator in your pocket when you get older. Now do your long division". It's actually been really interesting seeing how some profs have adjusted to online classes and exams. Some went for tests that were more focused on the application of knowledge to scenarios that were not implicitly covered in class (eg: "what are some possible results if the oxyanion hole in X enzyme collapsed", if we'd gone over like, the normal function of the enzyme and inhibitor reactions or whatever). That approach is awesome, and makes people feel like there is actually a point to learning the material, but requires actually personally marking the exams, and having questions with multiple potential answers. And I get that marking upwards of a hundred exams sucks, but...yeah. On the other hand, some stuck with the old standby of "what is cleaved by C3 convertase"-you know, results that are easily googleable, or just need verbatim quotes from the notes, and then got angry at the class for cheating when the average was 95%-Not so fun. Agh, sorry for the brick 'o text on that one; bad habit.
You didn't mention one part of the history of coffee that I feel we should all know: Coffee outside of the horn of Africa used to SUCK. The reason for that is that coffee was a priced commodity that only grew around that region and to prevent the farmers, merchants and rulers from missing out on that trade, the beans were roasted before they were sold. That way, people buying them could not plant their own. This meant that by the time your beans were bought, transported to, let's say, Amsterdam, sold again, tansported to London before finally finding their way to the custom's house, the beans would have been weeks old at the minimum. Then, to ensure quality and to prevent people from cutting the valuable commodity with things that weren't meant to be there, the beans were centrally ground, brewed, put in sealed barrels and then distributed to coffee houses, where it would then sit for a while longer before being reheated and consumed. So coffee would have been HORRID back in the day.... and it was still very popular. That means that people either liked the rush a lot, or that it was just as bad as other drinks... I'm very grateful to live in modern times where I have a shop that roasts its own beans 2 days a week within walking distance.
Let's not forget another reason coffee would've been so horrid, primarily in America: food adulteration. During the 1800's through early 1920's, coffee (among many other foods) were often adulterated, meaning they had other additive ingredients in them that were often at the least fairly gross or annoying to be eating, and at were at most toxic and/or deadly to the human body otherwise. Coffee was no exception to the former situation, with grounds frequently being mixed with large ratios of burned and/or roasted chicory and other seeds/beans to make easier to sell in bulk and basically scam the buyer.
Not just that, but also because the dry method was used almost everywhere. The dry method actually makes excellent coffee, but *only if its done in a dry, hot region*. If its done somewhere very humid (aka most places it was being made) then the dry method produces mold and other microbes that make the coffee taste far worse.
Honestly, the sponsor this video sounds like carbon taxes for users rather than producers of carbon emissions, basically get people to pay rather than industries, like "recycle your plastic" vs "don't produce plastic in the first place", this is the kind of thing that should be funded through taxes on the industries responsible, along stuff like rebates on poor families that can't afford the shiny electric car that you want them to buy to not feel guilty about their emissions.
Well, I feel like what you're talking about almost sounds like trickle down economics/carbon reduction. Ultimately, it's going to take concerted efforts from manufacturers and users. Also, When you take Somalia charcoal production or India massive increase in power consumption from their coal reserves, it's actually the end user that is responsible for a sizeable chunk of all CO2 production. Heating homes I think takes up 1/3 of all emissions, if I'm not mistaken.
@@studentt6064 Difference is how those are dealt with. A company seeing its prices rise will try and find ways to lower them, so that ends up with companies working to get rid of the cause of that tax, in which case would mean investment in something greener as source. But people don't really have many options to lower emissions in an effective way, and companies aren't gonna be very helpful on that front.
@@studentt6064 They generally don't unless they absolutely have to because most companies are very aware that consumers are price sensitive. There's a reason why consoles for example are often sold at a loss and their prices stay the same even when the parts rise in price massively. It's because companies are willing to have a smaller profit margin if it means off setting more products because it isn't necessarily easy to scale down production. Things like food, rent, utilities and healthcare are the exception here because consumers don't really have a choice in whether to buy them or not. In the case of plastic waste you just need to retool your production lines to start using some other material, the plastic in packaging is generally the biggest issue but you can in many cases go back to paper and cardboard packaging which is much easier to recycle. This would be encouraged by a carbon tax which raise the costs of products which are carbon intensive like plastic which means that suddenly products that weren't as competitive but had lower carbon emissions actually become competitive.
@@fedbia2003 Its end users faults that the world wont build nuclear power plants? its end users fault that the only decent option for food comes in one time use packaging versus the slightly more costly packaging that can be reused (glass bottles for concentrated liquid for example as you can sell coca cola syrup and let the end user water it down with the water infrastructure, then they reuse the bottle or reeturn it) or even making end users buy reusable storage containers so the only waste is the packaging for bulk materials that could even still be reused. End users have no decision making power over any step of the process.
You know what is a real nightmare: coffee brewing. The diverse methods used to brew, the grind size for each, the types of beans used, the time to brew, the preinfusion time and the pressure (if applicable), etc. It's pretty much an entire science.
James Hoffman will hate me - press button on grinder to set it going, once done put 4ish heaped teaspoons into the filter paper in the clever coffee dripper. pour what I think is right amount of just off the boil water in. stir for a bit, let stand for another bit. there I am. None of that weighing anything nonsense, all volumes or eyeballing. good enough for me. Though it does turn out my out the tap water chemistry is pretty much perfect, or last time I looked it was.
I do completely respect you as a content creator, but I feel like I need to mention that simply offsetting your carbon footprint doesn't work. A tree planted this year takes on average 20 years to take in carbon, so it's not sustainable to just say you'll plant a tree for every long haul flight, and continue to pollute without any thought. Offsetting has it's place, but it worries me that I'm seeing a rise in the commodification of offsetting. While I'm sure there are many really important projects funded by Wren, offsetting is not and shouldn't be marketed as the quick easy fix to climate change.
One of the many problems with these projects is that they mostly use Pines as a reforestation type of tree, and they not only impoverish the soil, but help spread forest fires. Not to mention what these NGOs do in the countries they operate...yesterday I was reading a story about WWF, and it's absolutely terrifying.
Not to mention the changes of some individuals will do nothing compared to entire countries (specifically India and China) with increasing emissions year over year
Well Emily, please give us a better solution. The guy is doing a brand deal with a product he actually cares about, not declaring it the solution to climate crisis. Something helps better than nothing in the end.
@@cartermariano It's more complicated than just pines being 'reforested', It's about whether the trees being planted nourish native biodiversity (i.e. actually reforesting), as opposed to just planting a monoculture of trees over a vast expanse. This is especially relevant because more often than not the trees are planted with the intention of being cut down which just means they will release the carbon that they store back into the atmosphere.
@@noah1535Its true, asdly. I*ve been saying this for years now, if people were actually interested in reducing carbon output, we, globally, would be moving away from traditional power and go totally nuclear. Heck with our methods, the emissions from nuclear power plants we build today could very well be near zero, its insane. But people are too spooked over two nuclear crieses that were caused entirely by government negligence. Tho i suppose i cant blame them, since most countries cant be bothered to put in the little extra to make things actually function.
I know someone who drives like 5 mintues to Starbucks every single morning, then buys something with a massive name (she told me but I can't remember). At $7 she pays $2550 per year not including the opportunity cost of 10 mintues of driving every day. Alternatively store bought coffee makes around 20 10 cup pots of coffee. Even assuming what she bought was 24 straight ounces of coffee, the storebought coffee is like $0.50 per 24 ounces.
I get this is sponsored content, but its important to point out how miniscule an impact your average person has on the environment. When we have multinational corporations putting out massive amounts of CO2, the impact of just one person is *tiny.*
Now add one with all the other persons and you get over a Billion. Now that will have an a huge impact. Now think about why corporations don't care about the environment. Ohh, that right to lower costs so more people will buy those stuff. We are all responsible for this mess and it's time we all pitch in and do what we can, because just like one plus billion can a negative impact. One plus a billion can a positive impact.
@@CunnyMuncher Not even close to point. I can only assume your childish brain can't comprehend. Even though I'm sure it's just your excuse to do nothing and take the path of least resistance. Your part of the problem. It will always be someone else's fault. Someone elses responsible to fix. I've seen this behavior when I was a supervisor. No one wanted to clean and used the go to excuse that no one else cleaned. So I started cleaning. Vatn you guess what happened. They just clinged to thier excuse.
@@meoff7602 Which do you think will be easier: convincing billions of people with their own complex lives - many of whom don't have the financial means to offset or even reduce their contribution to climate change - to completely fix this issue, or mandating that the hundreds of corporations contributing the most to the problem do something about it?
@@meoff7602 Blah blah blah, kid Come back to me when you think 50 people planting some trees for a week will outdo what a chinese chemical plant does in a day.
My best friend recently passed away from covid... we both loved your Bob ross animations especially when he swims by and says I like water lol To remember him that's the tattoo I'm gonna get
I mean, if they do they probably just generally hate being a barista. For coffee nerds like me, origin and roast is everything. Thats like saying bartenders get tired of being asked what brand of whiskey they have
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 A lot of them are just gonna be employees not people who particularly care about coffee even if their job might lead them to it. So to them it would be annoying because they just work there and don't know everything about how it works.
While offsetting is great and all, at the consumers level us attempting to combat climate change is mostly just to make us feel better like we're doing something, energy companies and manufacturers are the ones who must be made to drastically change their methods to stop damaging the systems that remove CO2 from our air and slow or stop the rate at which they add CO2 to the atmosphere. We must all vote for those who will put forward a more environmentally focused agenda that will help us achieve anything against climate change. And we have to do it as soon as possible
By the way, if you're reading this you should also vote for those who stand behind Nuclear power, it's a vital stopgap to allow our renewables to catch up, some European nations are attempting to completely decommission their Nuclear plants and go back to relying on other power sources, in many cases coal and oil, we have to stand up against that.
@@IAmNotKira Yes, but how they go about fulfilling our demands as consumers is up to them. There is an active choice they must make in every step of manufacturing goods between carbon neutral or beneficial options and the cheap and dirty way. From how their plants are constructed to the materials they use and how they dispose of excess material. Same with power companies, when a company builds a new plant to meet customer demand there is, obviously a choice to be made on what sort of power plant they are going to use. I understand that solar doesn't work everywhere, and that wind and hydro don't either but there are far better options than coal or oil, but coal and oil are *cheap* so they decide to pollute more to save money. They could make power ethically and cleaner but they choose not to. It's infuriating
Wren is a corporation that takes a 20% cut on your donation. If you want the most impact for your money, donate straight to the non-profit organizations which have the best co2 to dollar ratio. For example Eden Reforestation Projects as one of the best ones! :) Ps. Good video though. :)
You realize they'll just cut the forest down for lumber later, right? Ugh, you can take the whitey out of the third world but you can't pull his head out of his ass. They're people. People are clever. You're not, not up there.
@@PutkisenSetä No. For example Eden makes legal contracts with the governments of the counties that are binding, the forests will not be cut down. Also Eden only plants in places, where communities of villages get huge benefits from their forests, and they will take care of them. :) Your comment is misinformed and quite simply not true.
Good video! But carbon offset is a scam for many reasons... one of them being that the offsets are generated over years in the future while the emissions are generated almost instantly at this moment
@@Gorb_Halo carbon offset is the practice of setting in motion the plant/resources to recycle the carbon dioxide in the air into oxygen through whatever processes is chosen basically replace the carbon dioxide you produce throughout your life into oxygen usually through donating to a foundation dedicated to carbon offset or buying bonds that are used to invest into businesses that to just that hope that explains sorry for my tangent
As a 3rd worlder from a coffee growing country, I'll continue shamelessly using my motorcycle since my carbon print is negligible compared to most of y'all
2:57 Fun fact about this; it wasn't intended to be a disguise, everyone knew it was the Sons of Liberty. They dressed as Native Americans because they thought it was the best way to look as American as possible, rather than looking British. Sort of ironic considering what happened to the Native Americans in Massachusetts in the previous century. It's a fact that not many people know.
Your video implies that coffee plantation is somewhat responsible for the deforestation of the Amazon. That is note the case. Brazil is indeed the biggest producer of Coffee but most of the production happens in the South (thousand of miles away from the Amazon). The forest we did cut to plant it though is called the Atlantic Forest which was indeed completely devastated not only by coffee but also by also Sugar Canes, Ranching and all other types of human activities. Just though I had to clarify that.
All forms of industrialized agriculture will have an effect on the environment. Just gotta hope lawmakers and regulators exist lol. Sugar cane industry lined the pockets of Florida politicians for decades causing much damage to the environment
not really though, the brazilian agricultural frontier has been growing over the amazon rainforest for decades now, it is very naive to assume that just because MOST of it is growing in the southern part it doesn't affect the amazon rainforest. a quick google will show that Rondonia is the 6th largest producer of coffee in Brazil, and guess what, it's in the amazon rainforest. Also, the growing need for land to plant different crops, pushes the frontier further into the amazon, if most of the land in MG, SP, RJ, etc is occupied growing coffee, if you want to plant soybeans you are going to need to expand further into untouched land.
@@beig Coffee production in the North Region of Brazil (Amazon) represents less than 5% than all production in Brazil. Even less of the worldwide production. It is a big far cry from "The best place to produce coffee is in the rain forest". The biggest culprit of current Amazon deforestation is Ranching.
This is great. It's videos like this as well as James Hoffman's book that really got down to the nitty gritty of how coffee is made that got me to be more discerning whenever I buy coffee these days. Lotta these folks working the coffee plantations aren't getting compensated well enough for the hard work they put themselves through for a luxury that so many people take for granted.
Is the Denmark (which contains Danish) being shown as the dutch (who are from the Netherlands) intentional? And which one is right, did Denmark spread it or did the dutch?
I know Denmark is a low lying country, and basically right next to the Netherlands, but we are not dutch, i hope this is a joke that i don't understand, r/woosh and all. Love your videos, expected more geographical knowledge from you, but it's ok.
Skipping the roasting, I mean, its a key step for both shelf life and prime flavors. Green coffee does last about forever, but will pretty much not interact with boiling water. The roasting breaks it down for all the use you consider important. I appreciate the info on Ren, I now can double or triple my footprint, as CO2 is plant food. and more means more plant growth.
As a Vietnamese, coffee culture here is huge and most coffee (even instant) are usually grow within the country mostly because we don't use the same type of coffee bean as the rest of the world (usually the world drink arabica which is mostly grown in colombia where as vietnam grow robusta). First time travelling abroad, coffee taste really weird for me till i realize there different type of coffee bean and the taste is fairly different.
@@Falorin what does it have to do with me not liking the video? The comment was about being disappointed & had nothing to do with the actual entertainment value of it
As a Californian I'd like to say thank you for helping out Biochar....most of us are sick of being on fire every fucking summer *cough14year droughtsocaltakesallourwatercough*
I love this video, but as a former barista, *PLEASE* do not ask where the coffee is from. Those people are paid minimum wage, they do not fucking care where its from, will not know, and all you'll do is make them have to trot off to go find the handbook that details it (probably in the middle of a fucking lunch rush). If you want to buy ethical coffee then put in the work and look it up yourself, don't make someone stuck in a shit job do it for you.
I just gotta say, being your camera woman must be the most interesting job in the world right now. I imagine that every time she's called in to film, its a grand adventure.
i used to study in a university focused on the agricultural field, we had a trip to a small town called Xilitla, San Luis Potosi, in the almost northern region of Mexico, its at the top of a mountain, we were visiting the locals who were all farming coffee and were explaining the production of coffee, they use the shade method of growing the plants and also the sun drying method, the local shops all have different bags of coffee from different farmers, i recomend anyone who reads this comment to go and visit the area, its a good and humble place
couple of things: A) This is a great video, I'd love to see more edutainment from your channel. Perhaps you can make a similar video on tea eventually. Keep up the good work. B) The thing with Biochar, I may check myself later, but aren't the redwood forest fires in California somewhat integral to the natural processes of the biome? Does this initiative disrupt that, and if so, how is that disruption measured against the CO2 releases? I'm curious on the subject, I may edit this post later if I find any answers in my research. C) Glad to see Spiffing in there, couldn't talk about coffee without him, lol. Def needs to show up if you do a tea video. D) Something of note: In a lot of places in America, the independant cafe has somewhat gone the way of the dodo. Obviously the closer you move to big cities, the more you'll find, and obviously there are outliers, but significantly more common places to buy prepared coffee at this point in the States are Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, and several regional Gas Station chains such as WaWa on the East Coast. This means in the scenario described in which you would ask your barista where the beans came from, the closest you might get to a satisfying answer is a company line, depending on the location. The most ethical option is often to grind and brew your own beans, which pre-pandemic was difficult because coffee was often needed quickly before commutes. However, now that people work at home, it is at least a little easier to justify. That being said, convenience is always going to be a more heavily considered factor for the majority of consumers than ethical ramifications. Of course, post pandemic, assuming that we ever return to even a semblance of normality, there may be oportunities to start more ground roots, experienced based cafe's in a world where Starbucks has permanently streamlined their business to focus less on in-store customers, and more on online pick-up and drive through orders. This is just my personal take, perhaps people from different areas of this country have a different perspective. Less of an arguement than food for thought I suppose. Anyway, great work, all the best.
The fact this video is only about 17 minutes long is a real shame since they are so enjoyable. Also enjoyed seeing the camera person trying to film a few times there. Also hmm didn't we learn a while ago that, that biochar is what caused the massive forest fires because there is suppose to be small controlled fires periodically to get rid of the old dead stuff and when we clear out all the stuff it causes huge forest fires to happen? I don't know for sure cause I don't remember 100% but seems like that might not be helping.
Thank-you. So many people are obsessed if the cup that they want to throw away is damaging to the environment, and completely forget if the thing inside the cup that they want to throw away is worse for the planet or not!
I swear to some god out there, you could make a video about basically anything in existence and I would still be entertained for the complete duration of it. Thank you for entertaining us in these shitty times.
Moar videos! I know that you lead a busy life .... But pwease, hire people to help you do it! You're so genuinely creative - I know that this isn't your "everyday you" but a persona - yet, we can still feel how much love is being put into these videos, as well as the fact that you're a really good person :). I'm saying this as a frenchie, and we both know that the war between our countries will never end :D (we haz moar land, and moar cheese - joo haz moar rain, and dentists)
"I hear there are a shortage of young people wanting to be scientists. I WONDER WHY" Is exactly how i felt when i started my bio Degree. So much shit is over complicated with these crazy names that all sound almost the same. Still love the classes and degree im going for but, damn they coulda made it easier.
@@jamesmacq4130 It's not overcomplicated because he glosses over everything and doesn't pay attention to detail. He literally showed Denmark instead of the Netherlands when talking about the Dutch.
How can you make biochemistry easier. Dumbing down scientific knowledge taught in school will only make more people susceptible to misinformation and pseudoscience online. People just need to study harder maybe lol
That sponser is sus as fuck. It's essentially guilting you in to supporting "causes" that they could just be outright lying to you about, as well as lying to you about your "carbon footprint". what we need to be doing if we actually want to help the environment is acknowledge that us regular people are not the ones killing it, it's the massive corporations that sell us all of the crap we use on a day to day basis, who completely destroyed the fair and competitive market meaning theres no one to challenge them by attracting customers using ethical business practices.
I love this, I'm going to put in the work to reduce my carbon footprint. However, it feels futile sometimes when I live in a country where a large segment denied the climate crisis even exists.
Focus on other things you can do as well - politics, law, protest. That's where you can really make a big impact. Your carbon footprint is limited to the amount that you produce which is inconsequential when compared with total global carbon emissions. Also doing something, rather than not doing something (which is essentially what reducing your carbon footprint is - not driving, not flying, not eating meat etc) gives you a solid sense of purpose which is enriching rather than just depressing.
maybe because it DOESNT exist ? we had much warmer period in middle ages even warmer period around year 0 and much MUCH hotter period around 3000 and 8000 BC ... so please explain to me how current temperatures are a "crisis" when those warmer periods that came before were also periods when the humanity prospered the most in the past ...
@@hardlyaaron ah sure, just you saying so makes it not be a reality right ? xD its funny how global warming fanatics instantly run out of arguments the second someone points out that what we are experiencing now isnt even CLOSE to being the hottest this planet was in the past and that those warm periods were BENEFICIAL to the life on a global scale...
Did folks mention that you left out the whole "Roasting" step with all it's variations and carbon footprint issues? At least I missed it when I watched. Laughed the whole way through tho. Nice job.
We should make giant floating platforms over the ocean to grow coffee and therefore not wipe out forests. How can we make more soil and more growing area?
Well if we're already making an artificial bed for growing, we might as well make vertical semi-hydroponic growing racks that can increase the growing surface area of a farm and produce higher yeilds per unit area.
Trouble with coffee is it likes a bit of altitude for the day/night temperatures, and the climate at sea is pretty harsh and salty. You could grow some cool grasses that way though, and grasses use a more efficient photosynthesis that can sequester carbon.
I wont lie, the carbon project thingy is kind of awful sounding in a way for nature as natural forests are supposed to natirally burn from time to time in California and other such places which burns away the flammable stuff while giving nutrients to the forest that allow the trees to grow even better and as such help offset the carbon released in the fires as the trees themselves don't burn, just their outer layers.
Instead, lets pay to get together a group of hunters to go around shooting anyone who does anything stupid with fire in the woods during high fire risk seasons. I swear, California got given to Californians, just the absolute worst people to be given responsibility over one of the most beautiful, naturally bountiful chunks of land on the planet.
Yeah preventing all fires is a horrible strategy because when a fire does occur (and it will eventually) it is so intense it exterminates all plant life in an area for years/decades, frequent controlled back burning prevents large uncontrollable fires.
@@charliecoke7396 the solution is co trolled burnings, which makes it so any fires that happen are limoted in intensity due to flammable material having been burned with controlled fires
It's 3 am here in Brazil, my wife's asleep and I'm here rewatching this cause I'm not sleepy. I got up to take a sip of soda straight from the bottle cause I'm disgusting and I was informed to only contact the farmers with important questions. I read the e-mail on screen and so help me God tons of soda went into my nose for me to squirt laughing but I held it in to not wake my wife up and not make a huge mess on our tiny apartment. What's *_your_* favorite colour, reader?
"Hehehe, I *have* to drink 3 cups of coffee a day to keep me running, and you won't like me until I have my coffee!!!" "isn't that just like...withdrawal symptoms?" " *PAH* COFFEECOFFEECOFFEECOFFEECOFFEECOFFEE, where's my COFFEE?! OH GOD I HAVE A HEADACHE, AHHHH-" Based on a true story
As an ex-coffee drinker, I now join you in this. I used to use caffeine religiously. It was an addiction, and I can see clearly now that many people around me are as in denial about it now as I was then. The amount of coping that goes on is hilarious. If you replaced the coffee part of the lines they drop with any other drug, it would be awkward, like "Hahaha, I'm such a drug addict!" I don't know... I see the differences in certain types of addictions find, but it's a weird disconnect, as though they don't want to acknowledge it as a 'real' drug. Maybe some people do just tolerate it drastically better. But I'm willing to be that many chronic caffeine users would be surprised to discover how much that coffee habit is really altering for them. They have no reference to illuminate that with because their baseline is 'caffeinated'. Caffeine is a dirty drug. I see it less as a stimulant and more of a mildly uncomfortable, not-sleepy drug.
Love the educational videos, informative and entertaining. I drink a lot of coffee so I’ll definitely be more conscious of what I’m buying now, thanks for the tips!
Join me on Wren and start offsetting your carbon footprint today! We'll plant 10 extra trees for the first 100 people who sign up! www.wren.co/start/upisnotjump
I hope you all enjoyed the video! I did a lot less of the editing so could focus on the flow, baby, flow
Got rid of some porn links in your comment section for you (I fucking love coffee, i'm drinking one write now)
This video is a joke. How am I supposed to buy beans with a farmers name on the bag from a local shop? How out of touch can you get.
@@gazzalazza2928 then shop somewhere else
@@gazzalazza2928 My shop has it.
Online shops have it.
And yes, transporting is not good, but you actually driving to the shop (specially if its a special shop further away) is still worse.
Biochar exists because California decided their Enviro-Peen was bigger than the forestry service and stopped cutting back the undergrowth... which led to devastating wild fires. Look it up. People who claim to love the environment should be known by their actions.
"The reason coffee has higher yields in open fields is that the trees can get more sun" felt like the perfect lead-in to a "DAMN YOU, SUN!" Is UpIsNotJump softening his stance on the maligned celestial body? More at 11.
dead joke
@@louikristensen9316 Damn you, son.
@GELAS PECAH🔞
Damn you, son
You mean smun
But the sun is helping the growing process so wouldn’t it be…”Thank you, sun”?
Once a teacher always a teacher.
a pile of nipples.
No
This also works for murderors. don't kill people, kids~
Yes but he's one of the fun ones
Oh boy I’ve been Taught
Understanding that caffine is more of a painkiller to tireness rather than something that gives you energy is what motivated me to drink responsibly.
It's a really damn good painkiller.
Love your content, but it is very important that we acknowledge that the term "carbon footprint" was popularized by a large advertising campaign by the fossil fuel company BP in order to make climate change seem like a personal failing on the part of consumers rather than something that requires wide legislative action. Climate Town on UA-cam has a good summary of this issue.
THANK YOU! Came looking only for this comment if this has been posted yet.
Was hoping someone would clarify this in comments. Kudos 🤙🏽
This is a very good point. Whilst it's still important for the average person to reduce their carbon footprint, as it still helps in the long run, people also need to understand that companies and industry are the largest producers of greenhouse gasses. To compliment op's comment, Kurzgesagt also has a good video which talks about how we as individual people impact the climate, aswell as how companies and governments impact the climate.
It’s really telling when the first options on Wren seem to be flights… really don’t think the average person is taking 4-12 roundtrips a year. Also feels really “Offset your guilt by paying us instead!”
@@DeathnoteBB Wren really looks like modern day climate focused version of Indulgences.
You should do an episode on why chocolate is a nightmare, and how companies like Nestle have forced entire towns into indentured servitude, which is still happening right now, and is how most chocolate we eat in the first world is produced.
@Cr1tiKaL 2.0 🅥 ignore, dislike, report.
I feel his video style is abit too light hearted for that
@@Lorenzo12799 Fair point. I honestly would just like to see anyone talk about this and bring it to light. It's crazy how much we take stuff like that for granted and completely ignore the human cost of the products we consume.
Agreed....
Sounds preachy, which is becoming the norm. I miss fun videogame escapism, now he just makes me feel bad about stuff
As someone who runs a local coffee roasting business, this is great thank you for spreading the good word of shade grown coffee and buying from farmers ☕
UpIsNotJump Mirrors Hbomberguy HARD!
Do with that fun-fact what you will.
Oh, and Science-UA-camrs and Atheist-Channel are kinda blood-related
but not enough realize this, making me sad the 2 fanbases dont intermix more!
The Absolute Nightmare cinematic universe is expanding to include all things. None shall escape!
I think existence is a nightmare already includes everything
Nightmares are an absolute nightmare next?
666th like, never escape now
@Mr.Squide all I understood in that is the word butter. Fair enough sir, consider your link clicked
@@gibrantrejo3258 non existent things are a nightmare? 🤔
It’s interesting the grift of carbon footprint caught on so much since it was popularized by BP, if you reduced your carbon foot print to zero for your whole life it would only save a 1/10th of a second of carbon produced from your average US natural gas power plant.
If you kill two random people, you'll offset all of your lifetime polluting, AND the manufacture of the rifle! Acknowledge your power, climb into a clock tower!
@@PutkisenSetä what is the point of your response? Seems like you’re just trolling.
A little bit. Absurdity seems like a sensible response to an absurd, unsolvable problem.
@@PutkisenSetä the problem isn’t unsolvable, you just have to attack it at its source. Although I don’t think that we’ll defeat the ills of capitalism through the electoral process. I definitely do appreciate absurdist humor though, it’s my favorite form of comedy.
@@yeoldewar1014 bro do you not realise that anyone complaining about the environment or capitalism on the internet is just either an idiot or a hypocrite, the computer or phone you are using is a direct product of capitalism and chances are exploitation in a third world country of both the child who probably made it and all the children digging for rare materials in Africa and Asia, that's how the world works that why you have any of the clothes on your back, electronics in your house and even the internet itself is a capitalist invention, and the electricity your using come from a power station most likely, you yourself destroy the planet in doing everything you're moaning about, you partake in it the same as everyone else, if you want to bitch and moan about the environment and capitalism go start your own commune in the middle of no where without electricity, plumbing or anything you haven't personally made and produced yourself, without exploiting the world around you adding to climate change. You sound like such a sad or hatefilled human being, acting like you'll be some vanguard of the communist revolution when chances are you're just a keyboard warrior with no discernable skills that will be one of the first against the wall or sent to a gulag if communism was ever actually implemented in he western world. Communism is a vile and evil ideology no better then Nazism or fascism.
I love that he is a gamer and a teacher. I get reminded to learn new things every so often when watching his videos
Spiffing Brit is omnipresent, he watches over all of us good tea drinkers. He protects us from the vile coffee degenerates.
Only if you hang the queen's picture on your wall.
@@Potatinized doesn't everyone have a few of those?
The jew fears the coffee chad
Not me I drink cold tea. America n South knows what’s up.
Im the ultimate degenerate.
I drink tea AND coffee at the same time.
Video was recommended to me, youtube algorithm didn’t disappoint. Thank you for the really interesting video! Not sure I can stop the coffee but imma binge your videos ☕️
Whoah! Didnt expect you here, Adrian!
Thoroughly enjoy your videos, despite how grim they are.
coffee has three ways of working not just one. 1 is it blocks sleepy receptors as you said
2 is that it makes your body release adrenaline which makes you more awake and alert and increases your heart rate
and finally 3 it makes your brain more sensitive to and release more dopamine, acetylcholine, and to a lesser extent serotonin.
Coffee does more than "prevent getting sleepy" actually, it increases heart rate and blood pressure, thus increasing oxygen flow to the brain. The blocking of adenosine (cAMP) prompts norepinephrine - also called noradrenalin - which is very similar to adrenaline (epinephrine), stimulating the heart.
I really feel this is missing from the video and giving a slightly misleading picture - not making you sleepy is not all of it, and we all know coffee can increase heart rate ("racing").
Otherwise, excellent video!
It's also a very effective bronchodilator as many asthmatics know.
Do emphamethamphetamines dumb dumb it’s ethically sourced
@@leslielandberg5620 so is cocaine
@@leslielandberg5620and tobacco
UP HAS BLESSED US THIS DAY WITH A SACRED VIDEO! PRAISE BE!
It's always a great day when upisnotjump posts a new video
The only thing that can make a Friday better
I am currently praying the the great altar of coffee as I listen to this video. ( I am a coffee roaster by trade, and am at work at the moment)
He drink his coffee
PRAISE THE SUNN!!!
The Spiffing Britt had me dead! lmaoo
If I see an UpIsNotJump and Yogscast collab, my life will be complete.
Upisnotjump in ttt when
Dude, as soon as he said "coffee is our favorite drink here" I was like "you're gonna make some spiffing enemies my friend"
Yorkshire Tea wants to know your location
god yes
Rimmydownunder when?
UpIsNotJump: The Dutch
Also UpIsNotJump: Shows Denmark
Thank you I thought I was going crazy
I would also like to remind everyone that, as good as reducing your carbon footprint is, especially by funding orgs like in the Video, often contract sides like this take a large amount of the money and the orgs tend to receive a comparatively small amount, so if possible donating directly to the orgs tends to be more useful
And carbon offsets for individuals have nowhere near the impact as carbon legislation for big producers of greenhouse gases. Supporting strong legislation is your best bet and organizations that lobby on your behalf are also worth your money but get comparatively little ad revenue to make their impact seen online.
agreed. its less than a drop in the ocean because no matter how many people make the effort, big corporations are accelerating the climate crisis much more than any individual or group of individuals could ever offset. supporting local politicians who want to make climate change policy is the best way to help the planet. Having said that, doing your part will lead. y example for others, and could lead to more political support in the community
@@ethandoingstuff1433I've just given up hope, politicians don't care and nothing we do can fix what our ancestors have done
I don't think this comment gives the right incentive to people, they'll just get demotivated.
also be careful of scammers, like more than half the "offsetters" out there dont actually do anything except take your money and send you a picture of the same tree they sent to 600k other people.
The science of caffeine was cool to learn. I'd been under the impression it was a stimulant that the body just steadily adjusts to over years of exposure to it takes more to get the same rush from it, but it actually being something that just blocks off receptors that would otherwise take in a hormone that makes us sleepy was interesting, and anecdotally makes a lot of sense with the actual experience I've had with coffee being more akin to "stops me getting more tired" than actively "wakes me up/ keeps me awake".
Actually it's more than not making you sleepy, since the blocking of adenosine (cAMP) prompts norepinephrine - also called noradrenalin - which is basically adrenaline. It increases blood pressure and heart rate, increasing oxygen inflow to the brain, etc.
I really feel this is missing from the video and giving a slightly misleading picture - not making you sleepy is not all of it, and we all know coffee can increase heart rate.
Your body also produces more of the receptors with time if you’re taking caffeine, hence why the withdrawal from caffeine can make you exhausted and moody. Your body is uptaking more adenosine.
@@slopcrusher3482 Yes, also creating a habituation effect (over time, caffeine will be less effective because there are more receptors to fill).
The receptors probably also decrease again over time if you stop taking in caffeine. Sometimes I stop caffeine intake for a week or so and feel it getting more effective again. Though I'd have to read up on scientific articles to be able to say what periods of time might be how effective there.
By the way, the video also mentions that there's more than caffeine in coffee, and I think I read an article once stating that caffeine may not be the only thing that makes coffee effective, since if you isolate it (just take caffeine), it doesn't have as strong an effect. I'd have to research more on that.
coffee has three ways of working. 1 is it blocks sleepy receptors as you said
2 is that it makes your body release adrenaline which makes you more awake and alert and increases your heart rate
and finally 3 it makes your brain more sensitive to and release more dopamine, acetylcholine, and to a lesser extent serotonin.
Also weird to learn that the body actively makes a hormone to 'make' you feel tired.
Fun fact, culdee is sudric (the native language of sodor) for companion of god. Yes Thomas the train has its own lore.
I respect this video immensely. Instead of saying "Don't buy coffee", you're instead saying "try and buy your coffee from somewhere that sells a specific type of bean to help discourage deforestation and once the grounds are done, compost them."
Word bro. I also respect how instead of saying "don't pay my mother to smash her cheeks", you're instead saying "please pay my mother to clap her cheeks because we are in desperate need of money."
"Compost them, it stops carbon from being released at garbage tips"
As opposed to releasing it at home, in compost.
Are coffee bean grounds even good for compost?
Gotta love when activists dont even bother to think.
@@TherealTenmanI They aren't used for fertilizer at garbage dumps. Compost is a much more renewable area for organic food waste. I do believe companies should offer this service as well
@@MrJr1976 Is it though? I literally don't know. What nutrients are kept in used coffee grounds?
Plus his original point was environmentalism carbon footprint BS, meaning he doesnt know that carbon here is the same as carbon there.
@@TherealTenmanI Seriously just look it up. They are good and my comments keep getting deleted.
As I Dutchman I am gonna go ahead and pretend that showing Denmark when mentioning us didn't trigger me. Still, great video mate
My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined! (lovely video tho :D)
Hallo Nachbar! In the next shot you do see the arrows coming from roughly the right location, though. Is there a joke that went over my head in there?
@@XmarkedSpot Just a comedic reference about how English speakers keep confusing the Dutch and the Danish for no reason.
@@TechWechSech i (as a dane) is also triggered
@@internetuser7 Danish is muddied by too many vowels and throaty sounds while Dutch sounds like a mix of all the Germanic languages and at times sounding a bit like Danish in pronunciation which is not at all too vague of a reasoning from me...
Point is both of your languages sound funny and I do not blame the English for mixing you two up when they are constantly stuck in their own bubble.
I cant get enough of his videos and editing style and jokes. On point, as always.
Shoutout for Skyrim ambient music in the Ethiopian animation. It always makes me feel so relaxed 😌
Wow that segment on the chemistry of caffeine would have been fun, were I not trying to desperately take my mind off of the krebs cycle during my short break from studying for a biochemistry midterm.
WHY DID I GO INTO SCIENCE ITS SO BAD
Bruh I’m doing science honours now. It’s in Zoology so not so bad but my lord I really do not have much of an interest going into Academia.
Ah yes, respiration. A boss level in the unimaginative game that is undergraduate learning by wrote. Memories of pulling hair out, screaming "IF I NEEDED TO USE THIS, I COULD HAVE A PICTURE OF IT STAPLED TO THE WALL".
Keep up the slog. It will get better!
@@GMRay739 lol, yeah, I know, I have DEFINITELY been there.
A lot of the material is super interesting, and I love the lab work, but by god some of this just feels like my elementary school teachers saying "you won't have a calculator in your pocket when you get older. Now do your long division".
It's actually been really interesting seeing how some profs have adjusted to online classes and exams.
Some went for tests that were more focused on the application of knowledge to scenarios that were not implicitly covered in class (eg: "what are some possible results if the oxyanion hole in X enzyme collapsed", if we'd gone over like, the normal function of the enzyme and inhibitor reactions or whatever). That approach is awesome, and makes people feel like there is actually a point to learning the material, but requires actually personally marking the exams, and having questions with multiple potential answers. And I get that marking upwards of a hundred exams sucks, but...yeah.
On the other hand, some stuck with the old standby of "what is cleaved by C3 convertase"-you know, results that are easily googleable, or just need verbatim quotes from the notes, and then got angry at the class for cheating when the average was 95%-Not so fun.
Agh, sorry for the brick 'o text on that one; bad habit.
You didn't mention one part of the history of coffee that I feel we should all know:
Coffee outside of the horn of Africa used to SUCK.
The reason for that is that coffee was a priced commodity that only grew around that region and to prevent the farmers, merchants and rulers from missing out on that trade, the beans were roasted before they were sold. That way, people buying them could not plant their own. This meant that by the time your beans were bought, transported to, let's say, Amsterdam, sold again, tansported to London before finally finding their way to the custom's house, the beans would have been weeks old at the minimum.
Then, to ensure quality and to prevent people from cutting the valuable commodity with things that weren't meant to be there, the beans were centrally ground, brewed, put in sealed barrels and then distributed to coffee houses, where it would then sit for a while longer before being reheated and consumed.
So coffee would have been HORRID back in the day.... and it was still very popular. That means that people either liked the rush a lot, or that it was just as bad as other drinks...
I'm very grateful to live in modern times where I have a shop that roasts its own beans 2 days a week within walking distance.
Africa was doing work back then too
Let's not forget another reason coffee would've been so horrid, primarily in America: food adulteration. During the 1800's through early 1920's, coffee (among many other foods) were often adulterated, meaning they had other additive ingredients in them that were often at the least fairly gross or annoying to be eating, and at were at most toxic and/or deadly to the human body otherwise. Coffee was no exception to the former situation, with grounds frequently being mixed with large ratios of burned and/or roasted chicory and other seeds/beans to make easier to sell in bulk and basically scam the buyer.
@@boomboomfiyah "would you want a dash of cocaine with that"
Not just that, but also because the dry method was used almost everywhere. The dry method actually makes excellent coffee, but *only if its done in a dry, hot region*. If its done somewhere very humid (aka most places it was being made) then the dry method produces mold and other microbes that make the coffee taste far worse.
and there i thought i'd be gross for drinking half-day-old cold coffee (without reheating)...
The worst part about rewatching an UpIsNotJump video, is that I can't press Like again :(
*TEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*
new phone who dis?
Quiet time Spiff ;-)
How does this only have 11 likes 9 hours after being posted?
Why is there a translate to English button on this?
@@Runiat He was speaking in British.
Honestly, the sponsor this video sounds like carbon taxes for users rather than producers of carbon emissions, basically get people to pay rather than industries, like "recycle your plastic" vs "don't produce plastic in the first place", this is the kind of thing that should be funded through taxes on the industries responsible, along stuff like rebates on poor families that can't afford the shiny electric car that you want them to buy to not feel guilty about their emissions.
Well, I feel like what you're talking about almost sounds like trickle down economics/carbon reduction.
Ultimately, it's going to take concerted efforts from manufacturers and users. Also, When you take Somalia charcoal production or India massive increase in power consumption from their coal reserves, it's actually the end user that is responsible for a sizeable chunk of all CO2 production. Heating homes I think takes up 1/3 of all emissions, if I'm not mistaken.
I mean, taxes on users or producers usually end up the same, because the industry is just going to offload the costs on the users anyway.
@@studentt6064 Difference is how those are dealt with. A company seeing its prices rise will try and find ways to lower them, so that ends up with companies working to get rid of the cause of that tax, in which case would mean investment in something greener as source.
But people don't really have many options to lower emissions in an effective way, and companies aren't gonna be very helpful on that front.
@@studentt6064 They generally don't unless they absolutely have to because most companies are very aware that consumers are price sensitive. There's a reason why consoles for example are often sold at a loss and their prices stay the same even when the parts rise in price massively. It's because companies are willing to have a smaller profit margin if it means off setting more products because it isn't necessarily easy to scale down production. Things like food, rent, utilities and healthcare are the exception here because consumers don't really have a choice in whether to buy them or not.
In the case of plastic waste you just need to retool your production lines to start using some other material, the plastic in packaging is generally the biggest issue but you can in many cases go back to paper and cardboard packaging which is much easier to recycle. This would be encouraged by a carbon tax which raise the costs of products which are carbon intensive like plastic which means that suddenly products that weren't as competitive but had lower carbon emissions actually become competitive.
@@fedbia2003 Its end users faults that the world wont build nuclear power plants? its end users fault that the only decent option for food comes in one time use packaging versus the slightly more costly packaging that can be reused (glass bottles for concentrated liquid for example as you can sell coca cola syrup and let the end user water it down with the water infrastructure, then they reuse the bottle or reeturn it) or even making end users buy reusable storage containers so the only waste is the packaging for bulk materials that could even still be reused. End users have no decision making power over any step of the process.
Can't help but 💗 this Guy .
Best vibes and edited videos ever :)
Especially your gaming videos. O yeah
You know what is a real nightmare: coffee brewing. The diverse methods used to brew, the grind size for each, the types of beans used, the time to brew, the preinfusion time and the pressure (if applicable), etc. It's pretty much an entire science.
James Hoffman will hate me - press button on grinder to set it going, once done put 4ish heaped teaspoons into the filter paper in the clever coffee dripper. pour what I think is right amount of just off the boil water in. stir for a bit, let stand for another bit. there I am. None of that weighing anything nonsense, all volumes or eyeballing. good enough for me. Though it does turn out my out the tap water chemistry is pretty much perfect, or last time I looked it was.
Meanwhile I can just dump hot water on some grass for 3 minutes and my tea is ready.
Superioritea.
science... in the same way sharpening a pencil is science
Just drink instant coffee like a normal human being.
@@kicsiqki I'd rather drink diarrhoea. It'd taste better for starters lol
I do completely respect you as a content creator, but I feel like I need to mention that simply offsetting your carbon footprint doesn't work. A tree planted this year takes on average 20 years to take in carbon, so it's not sustainable to just say you'll plant a tree for every long haul flight, and continue to pollute without any thought. Offsetting has it's place, but it worries me that I'm seeing a rise in the commodification of offsetting. While I'm sure there are many really important projects funded by Wren, offsetting is not and shouldn't be marketed as the quick easy fix to climate change.
One of the many problems with these projects is that they mostly use Pines as a reforestation type of tree, and they not only impoverish the soil, but help spread forest fires. Not to mention what these NGOs do in the countries they operate...yesterday I was reading a story about WWF, and it's absolutely terrifying.
Not to mention the changes of some individuals will do nothing compared to entire countries (specifically India and China) with increasing emissions year over year
Well Emily, please give us a better solution. The guy is doing a brand deal with a product he actually cares about, not declaring it the solution to climate crisis. Something helps better than nothing in the end.
@@cartermariano It's more complicated than just pines being 'reforested', It's about whether the trees being planted nourish native biodiversity (i.e. actually reforesting), as opposed to just planting a monoculture of trees over a vast expanse. This is especially relevant because more often than not the trees are planted with the intention of being cut down which just means they will release the carbon that they store back into the atmosphere.
@@noah1535Its true, asdly. I*ve been saying this for years now, if people were actually interested in reducing carbon output, we, globally, would be moving away from traditional power and go totally nuclear. Heck with our methods, the emissions from nuclear power plants we build today could very well be near zero, its insane. But people are too spooked over two nuclear crieses that were caused entirely by government negligence.
Tho i suppose i cant blame them, since most countries cant be bothered to put in the little extra to make things actually function.
I know someone who drives like 5 mintues to Starbucks every single morning, then buys something with a massive name (she told me but I can't remember). At $7 she pays $2550 per year not including the opportunity cost of 10 mintues of driving every day. Alternatively store bought coffee makes around 20 10 cup pots of coffee. Even assuming what she bought was 24 straight ounces of coffee, the storebought coffee is like $0.50 per 24 ounces.
I get this is sponsored content, but its important to point out how miniscule an impact your average person has on the environment. When we have multinational corporations putting out massive amounts of CO2, the impact of just one person is *tiny.*
Now add one with all the other persons and you get over a Billion. Now that will have an a huge impact. Now think about why corporations don't care about the environment. Ohh, that right to lower costs so more people will buy those stuff. We are all responsible for this mess and it's time we all pitch in and do what we can, because just like one plus billion can a negative impact. One plus a billion can a positive impact.
@@meoff7602 Thinking a billion will follow is naïve to a childish level. Humans naturally take the path of least resistance.
@@CunnyMuncher Not even close to point. I can only assume your childish brain can't comprehend. Even though I'm sure it's just your excuse to do nothing and take the path of least resistance. Your part of the problem. It will always be someone else's fault. Someone elses responsible to fix.
I've seen this behavior when I was a supervisor. No one wanted to clean and used the go to excuse that no one else cleaned. So I started cleaning. Vatn you guess what happened. They just clinged to thier excuse.
@@meoff7602 Which do you think will be easier: convincing billions of people with their own complex lives - many of whom don't have the financial means to offset or even reduce their contribution to climate change - to completely fix this issue, or mandating that the hundreds of corporations contributing the most to the problem do something about it?
@@meoff7602 Blah blah blah, kid
Come back to me when you think 50 people planting some trees for a week will outdo what a chinese chemical plant does in a day.
You should definitely do a video on energy drinks.
This was... Eye opening to say the least.
Oh?
Yes pls
My best friend recently passed away from covid... we both loved your Bob ross animations especially when he swims by and says I like water lol
To remember him that's the tattoo I'm gonna get
With existence being such a nightmare, coffee makes it easier to swallow
Only time spitting is acceptable.
Irish Coffee even more so.
I can imagine so many baristas hate the question "where does the coffee beans come from?"
I mean, if they do they probably just generally hate being a barista. For coffee nerds like me, origin and roast is everything. Thats like saying bartenders get tired of being asked what brand of whiskey they have
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 A lot of them are just gonna be employees not people who particularly care about coffee even if their job might lead them to it. So to them it would be annoying because they just work there and don't know everything about how it works.
Now that you've drank coffee you should have enough energy to make Existence Is An Absolute Nightmare Part 3
I just love the brief moment of the spiffing brit
Me too
It's okay! You're allowed to have an unhealthy Jeff Goldblum obsession. It's only natural.
you had to of been the best teacher anyone ever had
While offsetting is great and all, at the consumers level us attempting to combat climate change is mostly just to make us feel better like we're doing something, energy companies and manufacturers are the ones who must be made to drastically change their methods to stop damaging the systems that remove CO2 from our air and slow or stop the rate at which they add CO2 to the atmosphere. We must all vote for those who will put forward a more environmentally focused agenda that will help us achieve anything against climate change. And we have to do it as soon as possible
By the way, if you're reading this you should also vote for those who stand behind Nuclear power, it's a vital stopgap to allow our renewables to catch up, some European nations are attempting to completely decommission their Nuclear plants and go back to relying on other power sources, in many cases coal and oil, we have to stand up against that.
@@umad42 i fucking love nuclear power, the one thing that can absolutely murder Big Oil, and you dont giant amounts of minerals (like Solar)
Here here. It's all about voting with your actual vote and with your wallet!
Surely energy companies and manufacturers are just following the market that we set?
@@IAmNotKira Yes, but how they go about fulfilling our demands as consumers is up to them. There is an active choice they must make in every step of manufacturing goods between carbon neutral or beneficial options and the cheap and dirty way. From how their plants are constructed to the materials they use and how they dispose of excess material. Same with power companies, when a company builds a new plant to meet customer demand there is, obviously a choice to be made on what sort of power plant they are going to use. I understand that solar doesn't work everywhere, and that wind and hydro don't either but there are far better options than coal or oil, but coal and oil are *cheap* so they decide to pollute more to save money. They could make power ethically and cleaner but they choose not to. It's infuriating
i have literally never touched a cup of coffee in my life but i'll sit here and watch this man with orange spandex pants explain it for 15 minutes.
...and the next thing you are going to tell us is that everything you say is a lie...right ?
LOL
I don't drink coffee either. I thought it was just me. =D
3:53 “The Dutch!”
(Shows the Danish)
Hmmm oops
technically speaking holding your breath for rest of life seams possible to me .... if you suffocate then it sure was for rest of your life
You know, you're not wrong
Ah yes: the krebs cycle. This, a level photosynthesis and chemosynthesis are the main reasons I loved and hated a level biology
I preferred physics.
I got to build a bridge and a trebuchet.
i am so entertained by some weirdo explaining coffee, i love you
Wren is a corporation that takes a 20% cut on your donation. If you want the most impact for your money, donate straight to the non-profit organizations which have the best co2 to dollar ratio. For example Eden Reforestation Projects as one of the best ones! :)
Ps. Good video though. :)
You realize they'll just cut the forest down for lumber later, right? Ugh, you can take the whitey out of the third world but you can't pull his head out of his ass. They're people. People are clever. You're not, not up there.
@@PutkisenSetä No. For example Eden makes legal contracts with the governments of the counties that are binding, the forests will not be cut down. Also Eden only plants in places, where communities of villages get huge benefits from their forests, and they will take care of them. :)
Your comment is misinformed and quite simply not true.
Good video! But carbon offset is a scam for many reasons... one of them being that the offsets are generated over years in the future while the emissions are generated almost instantly at this moment
Ok I’m an idiot what is a carbon offset
@@Gorb_Halo a carbon footprint is anything that produces co2 into the environment basically. Anything like cars, planes all that stuff
@@Gorb_Halo carbon offset is the practice of setting in motion the plant/resources to recycle the carbon dioxide in the air into oxygen through whatever processes is chosen basically replace the carbon dioxide you produce throughout your life into oxygen usually through donating to a foundation dedicated to carbon offset or buying bonds that are used to invest into businesses that to just that hope that explains sorry for my tangent
are there better reasons? cause that one sucked. :)
Love the picture of Denmark when saying "The Dutch" ..
As a 3rd worlder from a coffee growing country, I'll continue shamelessly using my motorcycle since my carbon print is negligible compared to most of y'all
where?
@@binns5302 Colombia
gotta live our lives somehow
If we got rid of China we'd get rid of 70% of the Earth's carbon footprint.
@@thatguybrody4819 the hell does that even mean? O.o
as an American I can say your explanation on how the Boston Tea Party went was 100% accurate
This guys so entertaining he could make a 17 minute video on coffee and I still watch the whole thing
2:57 Fun fact about this; it wasn't intended to be a disguise, everyone knew it was the Sons of Liberty. They dressed as Native Americans because they thought it was the best way to look as American as possible, rather than looking British. Sort of ironic considering what happened to the Native Americans in Massachusetts in the previous century. It's a fact that not many people know.
Your video implies that coffee plantation is somewhat responsible for the deforestation of the Amazon. That is note the case. Brazil is indeed the biggest producer of Coffee but most of the production happens in the South (thousand of miles away from the Amazon). The forest we did cut to plant it though is called the Atlantic Forest which was indeed completely devastated not only by coffee but also by also Sugar Canes, Ranching and all other types of human activities.
Just though I had to clarify that.
Rip to the Atlantic Forest
All forms of industrialized agriculture will have an effect on the environment. Just gotta hope lawmakers and regulators exist lol. Sugar cane industry lined the pockets of Florida politicians for decades causing much damage to the environment
not really though, the brazilian agricultural frontier has been growing over the amazon rainforest for decades now, it is very naive to assume that just because MOST of it is growing in the southern part it doesn't affect the amazon rainforest. a quick google will show that Rondonia is the 6th largest producer of coffee in Brazil, and guess what, it's in the amazon rainforest. Also, the growing need for land to plant different crops, pushes the frontier further into the amazon, if most of the land in MG, SP, RJ, etc is occupied growing coffee, if you want to plant soybeans you are going to need to expand further into untouched land.
@@beig Coffee production in the North Region of Brazil (Amazon) represents less than 5% than all production in Brazil. Even less of the worldwide production. It is a big far cry from "The best place to produce coffee is in the rain forest".
The biggest culprit of current Amazon deforestation is Ranching.
@@Warkid1993 Not that I disagree, views on deforestation are often very naive about the impact of human activity on the environment.
This is great. It's videos like this as well as James Hoffman's book that really got down to the nitty gritty of how coffee is made that got me to be more discerning whenever I buy coffee these days. Lotta these folks working the coffee plantations aren't getting compensated well enough for the hard work they put themselves through for a luxury that so many people take for granted.
Is the Denmark (which contains Danish) being shown as the dutch (who are from the Netherlands) intentional? And which one is right, did Denmark spread it or did the dutch?
considering the dutch's closer ties to indonesia, i would make the assumption it was us dutchies spreading it to asia
@@shadowsketch926 Almost certainly since the Dutch are also responsible for the first overseas tea exports in the early 1600s.
I am wondering this too, although I assume it's the Dutch because Dutch East India company and *gekoloniseerd*
It's definitely the Dutch that spread it, I think showing Denmark is just a mistake
I know Denmark is a low lying country, and basically right next to the Netherlands, but we are not dutch, i hope this is a joke that i don't understand, r/woosh and all. Love your videos, expected more geographical knowledge from you, but it's ok.
As a Dutchman I got real confused there for a second! I too hope it's a joke that went over my head!
Feeling the same man, i was really confused too
as a canadian I to went WAIT WHAT THE FUCK
As a Dane i also needed to watch that twice and was like "Undskyld mig! Jeg er ikke fra Holland!" XD
@@MrHoberg I mean, I'm Dutch and not even I am from Holland ;-)
Skipping the roasting, I mean, its a key step for both shelf life and prime flavors. Green coffee does last about forever, but will pretty much not interact with boiling water. The roasting breaks it down for all the use you consider important. I appreciate the info on Ren, I now can double or triple my footprint, as CO2 is plant food. and more means more plant growth.
The yogcast crossover I never expected but thoroughly enjoyed
Man I keep forgetting he's technically part of the yogs now
I personally don't mind the switch from video game vids. Very enjoyable video, good work!
Man when I see a new video from you I get crazy excited!
As a Vietnamese, coffee culture here is huge and most coffee (even instant) are usually grow within the country mostly because we don't use the same type of coffee bean as the rest of the world (usually the world drink arabica which is mostly grown in colombia where as vietnam grow robusta).
First time travelling abroad, coffee taste really weird for me till i realize there different type of coffee bean and the taste is fairly different.
We can all agree that he never disappoints us with his content
What about his video on fallout 2?
This video looks like a high school project though
@@Faux_Fox_ Imagine not liking a video because someone have a different opinion then yours
@@Falorin what does it have to do with me not liking the video? The comment was about being disappointed & had nothing to do with the actual entertainment value of it
@@Faux_Fox_ then its me who didn't understand your comment sorry about that
As a Californian I'd like to say thank you for helping out Biochar....most of us are sick of being on fire every fucking summer *cough14year droughtsocaltakesallourwatercough*
I love this video, but as a former barista, *PLEASE* do not ask where the coffee is from. Those people are paid minimum wage, they do not fucking care where its from, will not know, and all you'll do is make them have to trot off to go find the handbook that details it (probably in the middle of a fucking lunch rush).
If you want to buy ethical coffee then put in the work and look it up yourself, don't make someone stuck in a shit job do it for you.
As a coffee-obsessed person who is into chemistry, and ethical sourcing, this video was awesome!!
I just gotta say, being your camera woman must be the most interesting job in the world right now. I imagine that every time she's called in to film, its a grand adventure.
I chipped my tooth is the most relatable thing in this video. I did it so many time i switched to a plastic cup.
Coffee is a perfectly balanced drink with no exploits.
i used to study in a university focused on the agricultural field, we had a trip to a small town called Xilitla, San Luis Potosi, in the almost northern region of Mexico, its at the top of a mountain, we were visiting the locals who were all farming coffee and were explaining the production of coffee, they use the shade method of growing the plants and also the sun drying method, the local shops all have different bags of coffee from different farmers, i recomend anyone who reads this comment to go and visit the area, its a good and humble place
Someone should put together a supercut of Matt starting a sentence with "high-pitched voice breaking".
I love this documentary type videos, amazing as always
couple of things:
A) This is a great video, I'd love to see more edutainment from your channel. Perhaps you can make a similar video on tea eventually. Keep up the good work.
B) The thing with Biochar, I may check myself later, but aren't the redwood forest fires in California somewhat integral to the natural processes of the biome? Does this initiative disrupt that, and if so, how is that disruption measured against the CO2 releases? I'm curious on the subject, I may edit this post later if I find any answers in my research.
C) Glad to see Spiffing in there, couldn't talk about coffee without him, lol. Def needs to show up if you do a tea video.
D) Something of note: In a lot of places in America, the independant cafe has somewhat gone the way of the dodo. Obviously the closer you move to big cities, the more you'll find, and obviously there are outliers, but significantly more common places to buy prepared coffee at this point in the States are Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, and several regional Gas Station chains such as WaWa on the East Coast. This means in the scenario described in which you would ask your barista where the beans came from, the closest you might get to a satisfying answer is a company line, depending on the location. The most ethical option is often to grind and brew your own beans, which pre-pandemic was difficult because coffee was often needed quickly before commutes. However, now that people work at home, it is at least a little easier to justify. That being said, convenience is always going to be a more heavily considered factor for the majority of consumers than ethical ramifications. Of course, post pandemic, assuming that we ever return to even a semblance of normality, there may be oportunities to start more ground roots, experienced based cafe's in a world where Starbucks has permanently streamlined their business to focus less on in-store customers, and more on online pick-up and drive through orders. This is just my personal take, perhaps people from different areas of this country have a different perspective. Less of an arguement than food for thought I suppose.
Anyway, great work, all the best.
The fact this video is only about 17 minutes long is a real shame since they are so enjoyable. Also enjoyed seeing the camera person trying to film a few times there.
Also hmm didn't we learn a while ago that, that biochar is what caused the massive forest fires because there is suppose to be small controlled fires periodically to get rid of the old dead stuff and when we clear out all the stuff it causes huge forest fires to happen? I don't know for sure cause I don't remember 100% but seems like that might not be helping.
I’d genuinely watch an hour and a half of this getting into the finer detail for sure
You may have left teaching but apparently teaching never left you
Thank-you. So many people are obsessed if the cup that they want to throw away is damaging to the environment, and completely forget if the thing inside the cup that they want to throw away is worse for the planet or not!
Spiff will invade anyone that tries to shit on tea
The face of regret you made as you ate that cup of salt was great
Another masterpiece of a video everytime I see a new video I drop whatever I'm doing and I go watch it
I swear to some god out there, you could make a video about basically anything in existence and I would still be entertained for the complete duration of it.
Thank you for entertaining us in these shitty times.
I for one found the krebs cycle very interesting when I was 17 and am currently studying biochemistry at university. To each their own I guess…
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Moar videos! I know that you lead a busy life .... But pwease, hire people to help you do it! You're so genuinely creative - I know that this isn't your "everyday you" but a persona - yet, we can still feel how much love is being put into these videos, as well as the fact that you're a really good person :).
I'm saying this as a frenchie, and we both know that the war between our countries will never end :D (we haz moar land, and moar cheese - joo haz moar rain, and dentists)
"I hear there are a shortage of young people wanting to be scientists. I WONDER WHY" Is exactly how i felt when i started my bio Degree. So much shit is over complicated with these crazy names that all sound almost the same. Still love the classes and degree im going for but, damn they coulda made it easier.
You musta been an amazing teacher with how well you get your point across without over complicating it
@@jamesmacq4130 It's not overcomplicated because he glosses over everything and doesn't pay attention to detail. He literally showed Denmark instead of the Netherlands when talking about the Dutch.
How can you make biochemistry easier. Dumbing down scientific knowledge taught in school will only make more people susceptible to misinformation and pseudoscience online. People just need to study harder maybe lol
I'm enjoying these non video game reviews. High quality content that we've come to expect from Up.
I love learning stuff from you!
That sponser is sus as fuck. It's essentially guilting you in to supporting "causes" that they could just be outright lying to you about, as well as lying to you about your "carbon footprint". what we need to be doing if we actually want to help the environment is acknowledge that us regular people are not the ones killing it, it's the massive corporations that sell us all of the crap we use on a day to day basis, who completely destroyed the fair and competitive market meaning theres no one to challenge them by attracting customers using ethical business practices.
"sell us all of the crap we use on a day to day basis, "
ah yes, it their fault for selling you things, not your fault for freely buying them.
Ah yes, like the market/corpos you mentioned would survive if you'd stop buying unnecessary things. It's all them! For shureeeeee
Coffee addict checking in
Same
I always watch this while drinking coffee.
10/10 very interesting
People like you give me glimmers of hope for humanity, until I see the reply section of a comment on a space edit or any MIBU fact video
I love this, I'm going to put in the work to reduce my carbon footprint. However, it feels futile sometimes when I live in a country where a large segment denied the climate crisis even exists.
Focus on other things you can do as well - politics, law, protest. That's where you can really make a big impact. Your carbon footprint is limited to the amount that you produce which is inconsequential when compared with total global carbon emissions. Also doing something, rather than not doing something (which is essentially what reducing your carbon footprint is - not driving, not flying, not eating meat etc) gives you a solid sense of purpose which is enriching rather than just depressing.
maybe because it DOESNT exist ?
we had much warmer period in middle ages
even warmer period around year 0
and much MUCH hotter period around 3000 and 8000 BC ...
so please explain to me how current temperatures are a "crisis" when those warmer periods that came before were also periods when the humanity prospered the most in the past ...
@@Asghaad No
@@Asghaad don't feed the troll.
@@hardlyaaron ah sure, just you saying so makes it not be a reality right ? xD
its funny how global warming fanatics instantly run out of arguments the second someone points out that what we are experiencing now isnt even CLOSE to being the hottest this planet was in the past and that those warm periods were BENEFICIAL to the life on a global scale...
This pulled me out of my major depressive episode for a while. Thank you.
Did folks mention that you left out the whole "Roasting" step with all it's variations and carbon footprint issues? At least I missed it when I watched. Laughed the whole way through tho. Nice job.
We should make giant floating platforms over the ocean to grow coffee and therefore not wipe out forests. How can we make more soil and more growing area?
Sounds like a way to kill plant life in the ocean instead
@@TheJango2106 That might be a problem. But the ocean is huge. And we could move it around so it's not always over one spot.
Well if we're already making an artificial bed for growing, we might as well make vertical semi-hydroponic growing racks that can increase the growing surface area of a farm and produce higher yeilds per unit area.
@@st4rlightr4v3n4 Sounds neat
Trouble with coffee is it likes a bit of altitude for the day/night temperatures, and the climate at sea is pretty harsh and salty. You could grow some cool grasses that way though, and grasses use a more efficient photosynthesis that can sequester carbon.
The 1 second spiffing brit cameo lmfao
I've learned so much about my favourite dirty beans water today. Thank you!
Man this is some deep coffee lore
I wont lie, the carbon project thingy is kind of awful sounding in a way for nature as natural forests are supposed to natirally burn from time to time in California and other such places which burns away the flammable stuff while giving nutrients to the forest that allow the trees to grow even better and as such help offset the carbon released in the fires as the trees themselves don't burn, just their outer layers.
Instead, lets pay to get together a group of hunters to go around shooting anyone who does anything stupid with fire in the woods during high fire risk seasons.
I swear, California got given to Californians, just the absolute worst people to be given responsibility over one of the most beautiful, naturally bountiful chunks of land on the planet.
Yeah preventing all fires is a horrible strategy because when a fire does occur (and it will eventually) it is so intense it exterminates all plant life in an area for years/decades, frequent controlled back burning prevents large uncontrollable fires.
@@charliecoke7396 the solution is co trolled burnings, which makes it so any fires that happen are limoted in intensity due to flammable material having been burned with controlled fires
It's 3 am here in Brazil, my wife's asleep and I'm here rewatching this cause I'm not sleepy. I got up to take a sip of soda straight from the bottle cause I'm disgusting and I was informed to only contact the farmers with important questions. I read the e-mail on screen and so help me God tons of soda went into my nose for me to squirt laughing but I held it in to not wake my wife up and not make a huge mess on our tiny apartment.
What's *_your_* favorite colour, reader?
I currently have Covid (2nd time round, not as rough but still no fun) and this video has cheered me up so, so much. Thank you UpIsNotJump!!
It is so weird being a non coffee Drinker and watching you all take your morning dose of your drug.
"Hehehe, I *have* to drink 3 cups of coffee a day to keep me running, and you won't like me until I have my coffee!!!"
"isn't that just like...withdrawal symptoms?"
" *PAH* COFFEECOFFEECOFFEECOFFEECOFFEECOFFEE, where's my COFFEE?! OH GOD I HAVE A HEADACHE, AHHHH-"
Based on a true story
imagine being sent to the twilight zone simply because people do something you don't do
As an ex-coffee drinker, I now join you in this. I used to use caffeine religiously. It was an addiction, and I can see clearly now that many people around me are as in denial about it now as I was then. The amount of coping that goes on is hilarious. If you replaced the coffee part of the lines they drop with any other drug, it would be awkward, like "Hahaha, I'm such a drug addict!"
I don't know... I see the differences in certain types of addictions find, but it's a weird disconnect, as though they don't want to acknowledge it as a 'real' drug.
Maybe some people do just tolerate it drastically better. But I'm willing to be that many chronic caffeine users would be surprised to discover how much that coffee habit is really altering for them. They have no reference to illuminate that with because their baseline is 'caffeinated'.
Caffeine is a dirty drug. I see it less as a stimulant and more of a mildly uncomfortable, not-sleepy drug.
coffee and IBS do NOT mix, let me tell you.
@Armateras Imagine having to take an addictive drug every day just to function.
Love the educational videos, informative and entertaining. I drink a lot of coffee so I’ll definitely be more conscious of what I’m buying now, thanks for the tips!