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re when I was doing that. You can keep doing distracting memes when I do the sip, but some of them were extra distracting today. What's happening with Hawk Newsome? He's leading the murderer chants against Perry. Of course he is. A piece of shit. Of course he is. Woke knew him. I once thought he had potential to be a pos

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itive force in the world, but apparently not.

Well, let's start with the Golden Age. You want to hear the good news? You probably already heard this, but drinking coffee is good for your liver according to a new study. I don't know if these are different stories or the same story dressed up, but I feel like that's the third time I've told you that coffee is good for your liver, which is why I soak my liver in coffee overnight.

Also, caffeine seems to block some kind of dopamine effect when you drink alcohol, meaning that if you were to drink a cup of coffee and then have some alcohol, the alcohol would be less fun. Isn't that weird? Back when I used to drink on weekends, I was sort of a party drinker. I would notice that sometimes I would drink and I didn't feel anything much, and other times I'd have one sip and I'd be like, wow. And I always wondered what was behind that. Like, is it because it wasn't always because I hadn't eaten? It wasn't food, and I always drank exactly the same thing. It was never different. So I wonder now if it's how recently I'd had coffee. Maybe if I'd had an afternoon coffee and then I had an early evening drink, that maybe one canceled out the other. Or dehydration. Somebody says dehydration. Maybe.

Well, anyway, coffee seems to decrease the dopamine hit you get from alcohol. In another study where they

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just could have asked me probably, they found that high blood sugar in healthy adults is linked to lower brain activity. In other words, sugar makes you dumb even if you don't have diabetes. So if your sugar is high, just higher than it should be but not diabetes, it's going to take a few points off your IQ. Now, did all of you know that? Because I feel like I've known that for a long time, that…

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