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Cake day: October 28th, 2022

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  • Days after the attack, in October 2022, Germany’s foreign secret service received a second tipoff about the Ukrainian plot from the CIA, which again passed on a report by the Dutch military intelligence agency MIVD. It offered a detailed account of the attack, including the type of boat used and the possible route taken by the crew, according to German and Dutch officials.

    Oh ya the CIA totally didn’t plan it. They just caught wind of it and asked for the plug to be pulled but only told foreign interference agencies afterwards.











  • I’m surprised they’re turning on him and raising the issue at all. He didn’t seem substantially worse than his 2020 campaign run and Axios (I think) had already floated the “staffers privately tell us he’s senile” piece earlier in his term but it didn’t seem to stick. His current state can’t be a surprise to power brokers so why hang him out to dry now?

    I suspect they’re trying to avoid a primary. The 2020 election showed the average democrat voter is too dumb to pick up on media hints to the insiders’ favorite candidate and the average well-established democrat is too greedy and delusional of their own personal brand recognition to step aside. The pipeline of “chosen ones” that can be legitimized without much pushback at the convention seems empty.


  • The conventional wisdom is no caffeine after 4 but the half life is 4ish hours I remember reading somewhere. It’s better to hard stop caffeine consumption before 2pm.

    I think blue light also conflicts with your body’s natural sleep priming so yeah cutting screentime before bed is a win or at the very least use the night mode or orange filter on your phone after sundown.

    If your schedule is really bad, an acute solution is to hard reset by full commiting to going to bed at your new desired bedtime. Don’t nap or anything that day if you can, and if your desired bedtime is too early you can try taking some melatonin. Don’t use melatonin regularly though.

    That’s how I wrangle my sleep schedule back to a better baseline when it starts to drift towards later nights and waking up exhausted.