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Aha! But Germany is also a federation. So it's only fair to compare Alabama to Saarland. Oh, wait...

The report compares countries, not states. What point are you trying to make by comparing US states with EU countries (and Canada, and Australia, and New Zealand)?

If the world suddenly turns into a Mad Max movie set, your debtors will still hunt you down. Don't just assume your debt will magically disappear.

> a three-ring binder called the Prompt File, stuffed with printouts of the dozens of tables in the system, and religiously updated anytime anyone changed anything of significance.

Hey, at least they had documentation.

> March 397th, 2020

It sure felt like a long month.

Restrictions were lifted while most people under 30 weren't even vaccinated once. It was announced as "the summer of love", but unfortunately it's starting to look more like "the summer foreign holidays are cancelled due to travel restrictions".

From an article on The Atlantic website [1] concerning the origin of the goal of 10,000 steps per day:

> Based on conversations she’s had with Japanese researchers, [professor of epidemiology I-Min] Lee believes that name was chosen for the product because the character for “10,000” looks sort of like a man walking. [2]

If the character for 5,000 or 50,000 happened to have looked like a walking person, we might have had that number of steps as our daily or weekly goal. It's remarkable that the actual optimum of steps for health benefits is that close to a heuristic from the 1960s.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/05/10000-ste...

[2] http://www.kanjidamage.com/kanji/85-10000-%E4%B8%87

> Caffeine itself might not be bad for you, but the sleep it’s stealing from you may have a price. According to [neuroscientist Matt] Walker, research suggests that insufficient sleep may be a key factor in the development of Alzheimer’s disease, arteriosclerosis, stroke, heart failure, depression, anxiety, suicide and obesity. “The shorter you sleep,” he bluntly concludes, “the shorter your lifespan.”

> But here’s what’s uniquely insidious about caffeine: the drug is not only a leading cause of our sleep deprivation; it is also the principal tool we rely on to remedy the problem. Most of the caffeine consumed today is being used to compensate for the lousy sleep that caffeine causes – which means that caffeine is helping to hide from our awareness the very problem that caffeine creates.

After reading just the headline my initial reaction was "Well, no. It's never time to give up caffeine." But after reading the article I must say my view has changed somewhat. Not enough to banish caffeine forever, but enough to question the amount of 'maintenance caffeine' I consume to offset the consumption of the previous day. This cycle is somehow culturally accepted when it concerns caffeine, yet frowned upon when it involves alcohol. Essentially, it's the same trap.