It’s from this old yt vid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShUeudtaFg

A reddit post here, a reddit post there, and voilà we’ve located the bomber!

Hadde faktisk en “sånderre grændiosa” på lillejulaften. Og når det var kveldsmat-tid på julaften så varma jeg grændis-restene fra dagen før opp og gnafsa dem i meg.

Well, for non-black women sure. Wasn’t until 1965 for black women.

Interesting list: en.wikipedia.org/…/Timeline_of_women's_suffrage

We’re the only species that can make our own fires. So unless you stumble upon a fire that has started because of a lightning strike or something, cooking over a fire is pretty unnatural.

Between the legs

I used to think so too, but once I had been off caffeine for about half a year I realized that’s not really true. First of all, long-term users of caffeine have just forgotten what it was like before they made it a daily habit. And if they do quit for a couple weeks, and get over the acute phase of withdrawals (usually extreme lethargy, headaches, extreme lack of motivation), they’ll still be in post-acute withdrawal for months (below-average mood and motivation, low’ish energy levels, chaotic sleeping patterns).

I tried several times in my 20s and early 30s to quit. I hit 30 days several times and, still feeling kinda depressed and unmotivated, figured that “I’m just a person who’s brain chemistry requires caffeine to function, I guess” and went back on the bean.

It wasn’t until I reached 2+ months off caffeine until that dull grey cloud of “meh” (or buffer lag, as you say) really started to lift.

At 4+ months I only saw benefits compared to being on caffeine:

• Better focus
• Deeper sleep
• No more “spinning wheels” (doing something unproductive very intensely and feeling like I’m being productive)
• Far easier to think deeply about things without being distracted by my own chaotic thoughts (helped a lot for stuff like coding)
• Better working memory
• Even energy levels throughout the day
• More dependable motivation-levels
• 90%+ reduction in anxiety
• Better overall mood (mood-swings became very rare)
• Way more patient with others and myself. I used to get irrationally angry at myself when I couldn’t figure out coding issues, for example. This also made me a nicer person to be around (got several comments on how I had changed for the better in this regard).

Getting over the post-acute withdrawals also helped me remember what I felt like as a kid/teen: to wake up refreshed and keep trucking all day without significant slumps, then fall asleep quickly at roughly the same time every night (and almost never wake up randomly during the night, as opposed to 3+ wakings).

Keep in mind that the post-acute period varies a lot from person to person. It seems to be mainly based on how long caffeine has been a daily habit, and how much caffeine one has each day. As for me I had a 3-cup (about 300-400mg caffeine) coffee habit from age 18 to 34. I’ve talked to people who had a 1500mg+ daily habit over the same rough timespan as me that didn’t feel fully normal until almost a year had passed.

All that said, I eventually fell back into the caffeine trap once I started drinking alcohol again. Caffeine helps with hangovers a little, and the more often I drank alcohol, the more often I felt I needed the caffeine pick-me-up. Now 4 years later I’m in a cycle of 2-3 days off alcohol (but on caffeine). Then anxiety starts to spike, and I think I need Alcohol “to take the edge off”. Then after what always turns into a massive drinking session I’m in a dopamine deficit for the next 1-4 days and so turn to caffeine to get somewhere close to normal… until I’m unbearably anxious and need to take the edge off again.

Would be nice to go back to complete sobriety (including no caffeine). It’s just a bit daunting knowing how many months I’m going to feel what you’re describing before I see all the benefits.

What does China stand to gain by attacking Russia?

The other guy mentioned rare-earth’s, but Siberia is also extremely rich in non-rare minerals and metals. China would also stand to gain oil, gas, and coal deposits. However one probably overlooked resource is fresh water.

Water is already a massive issue in the northern half of China (not just the arid west, but even around Beijing). Eastern Russia has a lot of fresh water, like for instance Lake Baikal, which contains 20% of the planet’s unfrozen freshwater. I saw some talk (5+ years ago) about China wanting to buy water-rights to this lake and pipeline it through Mongolia, but I’ve not heard of there being any concrete plans in the works yet.

Another possible gain would be access to the pacific and the arctic. In the extreme scenario where Russian Federation splinters, and the eastern states of that federation find themselves without a way to make ends meet, China might make some very favorable deals in the region. Hell I wouldn’t be surprised if they’d federalize under China. And with global warming comes two huge boons:

• Siberia’s tundras thawing, making it easier to access untapped resources.

• North pole remains largely ice-free for at least parts of the year, making shipping between eastern Asia and Europe cheaper and faster.

Maybe. There’s no guarantee that every European nation would be on board with sanctioning the US in this scenario.

The Netherlands (where I believe they have the only manufacturing base of the machines that make advanced chips) might decide that it’s not in their best interest to cut the US off.

Anyways I hope this Greenland shenanigans dies on the vine and my silly scenario never comes to pass.

europe will not go to war over THAT.

Yep. Here’s a fun possible timeline:

• US takes over greenland. Europe will cut off all ties to 'murika, and they’ll be like “why would europe be so mean to us?!”.

• Europe won’t pivot too hard to China/India, but they’ll become preferred trading-partners. EU will become the last bastion of actual Democracy.

• China will take that whole debacle as a green light to take Taiwan (and possibly re-taking manchuria, if not more of Russia).

• Russia will throw a hissyfit (threaten nukes, fail to deliver, and get fucked on the ground/air/sea) and the US will try to come to their aid under the guise of stopping the “yellow threat”. But it’ll fail cuz the US will devolve into a civil war.

• Russia will collapse and splinter, and the rest of the 21st century will be a mess off instability and the odd rogue van-borne nuke going off here and there, because mongol-brained swamp-troglodytes (muscovy) should never had nukes in the first place.