But why wasn’t this compared to caffiene from sources like energy drinks? Then even as a control why wasn’t other stimulants like adderal asked about?

Claiming it’s caffiene by comparing to decaf coffee is dubious to me personally because what kind of people drink decaf? Usually people who were long time coffee drinkers who had to stop for some reason

So is coffee and tea neuroprotective or is caffiene sensitivity a risk factor for dementia?

Is caffiene neuroprotective or is it all stimulants?

The article itself ends in the classic we need to investigate more but that’s clearly not the conclusion most people who discuss this are going to be talking about for the next few months

Decaf coffee has less than 1mg/ floz

Black tea is generally over 5mg/floz

Are you basing this on how alert you feel or do you have some very weak tea and some super strong decaf?

You know they give nitrous to people intentionally during surgery and dental work?

Like you can wear an O2 monitor while you take a whip it and track your oxygen level and I have never seen it drop below 85% which is the level where they start to get concerned in a hospital

Taking opiates cause you to just stop breathing and I had to have a breathing device following a surgery because my O2 levels couldn’t be maintained… and people get prescribed opiates and take them at home all the time with no monitoring

Don’t asphyxiate yourself, don’t do it a bunch of days in a row, and eat some food with B12.

There are also different standards when you care about the environment. Old school fridges used incredibly bad greenhouse gasses (R22 and R142B) and were significantly less efficient using approximately $250 MORE energy per year than a modern fridge (1750 kWh vs 450kwh) so only factoring in your electricity bill you could buy a $2500 fridge every 10 years and break even and if you got a cheaper fridge like a whirlpool you could get a new one every 5 years for 50 years

Don’t get me wrong there is still planned obsolescence but a lot of the older designs aren’t as perfect as people like to remember them being

If your goal is to boil it down to the fundamental levels it’s the ion that’s that cause action potentials that are actually causing thought

If you want to look at it holistically it’s due to the connections of the dendrites and how those interact with each other

We have no control of our neurotransmitters and they are only released in response to stimuli from another cell

If they are such an inexperienced driver or their tires are so unsafe that they can’t drive half the speed limit they shouldn’t be on the road

Or the asshole with awd/4wd that doesn’t realize it doesn’t make your car magic and still ends up in a ditch

Attention isn’t always good, being followed around by a person who can’t pick up social cues who wants to give you all of their attention doesn’t feel good

A girl who wants to hang out with her friends being given unwanted attention by men doesn’t feel good

If I am driving down the road and a cop decides to give me his attention which in the process of, takes away my time and money I am surely going to be upset

Time matters because it’s a limited resource, someone giving you their time means that they have decided to give some of that limited resources to you. It doesn’t always need to be in the form of attention, if I hire a maid and they save me 2 hours of time I don’t need them to sit there and give me attention

Those neurotransmitters just release electrical impulses so if you want to break it down everything about humans reduces down to electricity traveling through out meat

https://www.freon.com/en/industries/refrigeration/residential-refrigeration

R134 was the “safe” refrigerant to replace R-12 because R12 is 11000x more potent of a ghg than co2

There are some new refrigeration units that use R600 but the vast majority of refrigerators are still R134

R600 being a highly flammable gas (it’s butane) has slowed its rollout a lot. Hence why a solid state non volatile refrigerant is still a cool development

Old school refrigerants were absolutely horrendous ghg even modern ones are pretty bad with R134 being 1430x worse of a ghg than CO2

If we can reduce that, that’s good! And metals like titanium are recyclable so yes initially extracting them is bad but the full lifecycle isn’t as terrible

The price of specific items has doubled

Rent, which has outpaced inflation had a national average of $1149 in 2019 and was $1650 in 2025 in order for average rent to have doubled you have to go all the way back to 2007ish

Instead of tracking a burrito, track how much 1lb of chicken cost or bananas or broccoli

That is just such a strange law

I tried googling it because I was curious and the only thing I could find was about temporary structures

Is there a name for the law that I could search?

So woodland that can’t have a permanent dwelling is affordable but woodland that can is cheap?

Like that would make sense if the construction of the building was different but if it’s simply just how often you can spend time on your own land that’s ridiculous

Not from the UK but why can’t you live in a cabin?

A car weighs 2000-4000lbs and can be produced in a mostly automated factory

A reasonable sized house still weighs 50-100k lbs that’s a lot more material and you have the land it is built on. It then takes multiple people days to build.

Houses being as affordable as cars is a pipe dream

The time scale is the other big difference. A credit card is intended to be paid off at the end of the month and gives you much better fraud protection than a debit card

Products like klarna instead have you pay off a tv over months and offer you no real benefit besides racking up debt

They have late fees and can have incredibly high interest if you pay late.

1 in 10 for $30 includes every single man, woman, and child in the United States. In reality there is a much smaller group spending much more money and developing a revolving door of debt where they are chronically in debt for non essential purchases and as soon as one of those payments goes late they will be slapped with a bunch of late fees and interest that will make them miss other payments and get even more late fees and interest until they end up underwater

Klarna got 2.8B in revenue last year and they did it with those “interest free” loans

They sell it, some of it is sold to advertisers but recently companies like palantir have been buying these large collections of data, de anonymizing it and then they can use it to develop profiles about people which they can then sell to the government

And that’s what they admit to doing

Once your data is out there it’s essentially impossible to get it back