Interesting Links for 20-02-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Tory ban on phones in schools is a non-policy for a non-problem.

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2. AI Generated Videos Just Changed Forever

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3. Are you anxious? Do you sleep badly? Then if you drink coffee or tea you should stop it.

(tags:anxiety coffee tea caffeine )

Comments

[lilysea]

Forgot to add: one of the other things I found in 2 or 3 months without coffee

is that I rely on coffee to have the oomph (physical energy, mental energy)

to leave the house.

No coffee? Leaving the house to eg go to the doctor's surgery or the supermarket isn't happening.

[andrewducker]

That doesn't surprise me - adapting to caffeine takes between 3 and 14 days, and so after that point your body expects there to be caffeine and struggles without it. (You are, of course, back to being how you would be without it, except it's delivered in doses, rather than being your bodies natural state).

[channelpenguin]

That seems odd to me - I would have expected an adaptation back to not needing caffeine. Certainly on the 3 month timescale. I have spent large amounts of my life without caffeine and it only takes me max 2 weeks to adapt / deadapt each time. I wonder what is going on with you that is different?

[lilysea]

I have a chronic physical illness that causes severe physical and mental exhaustion, so my

baseline is being mostly bedbound and needing a power wheelchair to leave the house.

So caffeine lets me spend energy I don't have, and then crash for days/weeks afterwards.

[channelpenguin]

Oh. Well yes. That really does explain it.