But I just layed down after having one. You want me to get up again?

The water meme has spoken.

Hydrate yourself. This is a threat.

Of course coffee counts. It's still water and has no salt. It will not be close to enough, but still.

You do need salt, or that water just instantly becomes piss.

I am in a place that requires bottled water. And bottled water costs money. But a fast food chain has a special: 1.50USD, and you get a free coffee once every 2 hours for 30 days.

o7

Wow xD

Idk, just, no? Bottled water or water from the tap or whatever all has no salt.

We do need a certain amount of salt, but it doesn't need to come from the water, drinks do not need to be isotonic to hydrate you.

Instantly you say?

Does coffee count?

That's really not the case. Most tap water and bottled water have some salt and the amount varies widely by brand/location.

Why do they require you to have bottled water

Tap water isn't safe in asia outside of Japan, and in much of Japan it tastes like chlorine once you notice it.

(loads painfully unfunny, excruciatingly boring meme) They’d better have hydrated, or things are about to get …unpleasant.

The bottom text on the picture says that coffee doesn’t count. Sorry!

I believe they're using 'Instantly' like this.

That's why I only drink water sanitized with 40% ethanol. Zero chlorine. Bacteriologically super safe. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Make me.

We live in an age where sociopaths get votes and people overhydrate in response to propaganda from Coca Cola. 🤦‍♂️

The "8 glasses of water a day" thing is literally just made up by employees of Coca Cola. To sell more aquafina. Never quite understood how people believe that peeing every 20 minutes makes one healthier. There's no evidence for it.

Coors light it is, thanks meme.

But, but…. I’m on the toilet right now.

Sorry wasn’t hydrated enough to even see there was text down there.

You are literally sitting on a water chair and not hydrating?

I also only drink satanized water

No worries, hope you get hydrated soon!

Guess which water is used for the coffee buddy xD

drowns you in tub

uwu

Caffeine in the coffee is a diuretic though. It'll make you lose more water through urination than if you drank the equivalent volume in just water.

This doesn't actually seem to be completely true. The diuretic effect isn't enough to really impact the benefits if drinking a 99% water solution.

Although caffeine is a diuretic, coffee is net hydrating.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/coffee-dehydration

My cup of tea was unsatisfying, but water is also unsatisfying, task initiation broken

Add sugar!

Immediately my thought was "oh, is it tea time?"

I'll drink water in the middle of the night by the light of my phone screen like the forces that be intended.

I guess the fast food place is really close to where you work? How do they afford to offer this? Like they get bulk sanitized water, or have their own filtering system? Or is it safe to just boil and use?

Nope, only true in extreme cases. I was curious about that years ago, and while it might make you need to urinate more frequently, it doesn't actually make you urinate more volume unless you consume way more caffeine than your body is used to. Now, alcohol on the other hand, anything over like 3-5% ABV does have a net dehydrating effect.

I feel like my grandma said this in the 1980s before Aquafina was a thing.

Jokes on you, I have a cold and have been drowning myself in water, tea and orange juice

AKA 1945 US Food and Nutrition Board? Because that's where it seems to come from.

Apparently I was victim to a widely circulated myth. Apparently though, that board also specified that most of that recommendation was covered by water within food. The "IT HAS TO BE ACTUAL PURE WATER" thing was added on later by others.

So where did the myth of the 8 glasses come from? Fox says it likely stems from a decree from the U.S. Food and Nutrition Board issued back in the 1940s. It suggested that everyone drink 2.5 liters (84.5 ounces) per day — so not far off from today's standard. But even back then, that same recommendation clarified that a majority of that water comes, not from a glass, but from "prepared foods."

Source: https://www.tuftsmedicine.org/about-us/news/medical-myths-drink-8-glasses-water-each-day

I guess the fast food place is really close to where you work? How do they afford to offer this? Like they get bulk sanitized water, or have their own filtering system? Or is it safe to just boil and use?

It's a 15 minute walk or a 5 minute ebike ride, but the rideshare moped costs an extra 15 cents each way. But the fast food place is all over China so it's available whatever city I picked that month.

They have a filtering system, I can boil water, but then I don't get free coffee.

"no salt" as in neglible. Of course it isn't distilled water. And that's also what's in the coffee.

Wow that's actually genius!

Since there is a little less water than in pure water, we could call it "little water". And brand it with a foreign sounding name because that's cool. Maybe a Slavic language?

We're onto something here.

This is an ADHD meme community sir/madam. We are not functional enough to drink a couple of glasses a day, let alone 8.

Sure, but drinking any amount of caffeine will result in more water being excreted than if you have no caffeine, right?

Coffee does count, btw. The amount of water used to make coffee counteracts the diuretic effect. This is pretty common knowledge.

And no water at all is worse than water from coffee. Do you know what a net positive is?

Coffee is always the answer. Full stop. Do you need hydration? Coffee. Do you need a friend or something to hold? That's right, Coffee. Do you have to stop to pee every 30 minutes on a road trip? You guessed it, still Coffee!

Yes. I don't need the snark thank you ❤️