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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • So I’ll preface this by pointing out that nearly every 473ml can of Monster is 150–160mg (same for Rip It and Venom), but you get 200mg for every 355ml can of Alani Nu (or the nastier 7-11 brand, Fusion); no other energy drinks outside those five are worth it from a caffeine-per-dollar nor mg/ml POV. Coffee is always the most cost-effective but when you aren’t eating enough it’s a very powerful emetic.

    I have ADHD severe enough that I would have been put in a Home for Defective Boys if I had been born much earlier, and at my highest caffeine intake I had a high stress office job with an early start. I had to pregame during my commute with two Fusions (200mg each) so that the Rip It I’d have at work would do anything at all. From then on I’d typically have 1–3 more, so I when I was cruising I sat at 700mg–1g per day, but during crunch times I’d get up to 1.6g. My worst was when I stayed up for three days to handle a personal emergency, keeping myself at about 2g per day, and I still had 3 or 4 20-minute cat naps.





  • In general, state-approved interpretations of Chinese history reject the idea that the expanse of land now covered by the CCP regime’s territory was once a region occupied by diverse cultures who fought constantly for supremacy, there is instead a reconstructed continuity of one China that always exists, defending itself against invasion and insurrection, no matter which dynasties replace which. Places now seen as the core of China’s identity were once home to nations that were as ethnically and culturally distinct from one another as they were from the ones in Korea and Japan, for much more of the region’s history than is polite to discuss, but you wouldn’t know it from the official narrative of a country that pays useless slobs 50¢ every time they claim nobody has ever been executed for speaking Manchu.