You hit snooze. Cops hit tail lights. Jen Aniston hits yoga poses.

🚔 Body cams changed the rules, now one old cop habit is disappearing

That unnerving tail light tap as the officer strides up to your window was part headgame, part safety measure.

If you’ve ever been pulled over and seen an officer tap your tail light before saying a word, it wasn’t just a weird habit. It was deliberate and more layered than you’d think. On paper, it was about leaving a fingerprint. A literal piece of evidence that you and the officer crossed paths that might be evidence against you if things went sideways. In practice, it was intended to invoke stress and could shift the whole tone of the stop before a single word was exchanged.

That made sense in a pre-body cam world. But now that nearly every stop is filmed, that fingerprint? Useless. Some departments have dropped the practice. Others quietly ignore it. And most younger officers were never taught it in the first place.

But here’s the thing: once the public figured it out, that little tap started raising more questions than it answered. Because what was once framed as a safety move now feels more like a psychological one, and the real reason it's disappearing says a lot about how the playbook is changing for the police and the public alike.

😴 So no one told you sleep was gonna be this way?

Jennifer Aniston’s bedtime routine is backed by science and built for real humans.

After years of struggling with sleep, Jennifer Aniston’s finally found a routine that actually helps her wind down, and it's refreshingly normal. No moon water. No blackout chambers. No celeb nonsense. Just four easy habits that sleep experts say hit all the right notes.

She powers down screens (goodbye, blue light, goodbye, Friends reruns), does some light stretching, fits in a short meditation, and sticks to a consistent bedtime, even on weekends. Each one targets a different part of what keeps us wired at night, and together they help her body and brain know it’s time to chill.

None of the specific advice is groundbreaking, but taken as a whole, it’s an effective routine. And there’s one little thing she does, tucked in at the end of her night, that might be the missing piece in your own routine.

⏰ That extra 10 minutes of sleep is wrecking your whole morning

Sleep inertia is what’s making you feel groggy, disoriented, and weirdly regretful after hitting snooze.

So you finally got a good night’s sleep, maybe even tried Jennifer Aniston’s bedtime playbook, and now it’s time to wake up. Ughhhhhh…

We’ve all been there. The alarm goes off, you smack snooze, and start negotiating with reality: “Just five more minutes.” Maybe ten. Maybe they don’t need really need you at work today. But those amazing bonus Z’s? They feel Zen, but they’re doing you zero favors in the long run.

That post-snooze, zombie mode? It’s called sleep inertia. It happens when your brain gets yanked out of sleep, slips back in, then gets jolted awake again. That back-and-forth messes with your NREM cycle—the part where your body actually recharges.

Instead of waking up refreshed, you just delay recovery. Snoozing is like rebooting your system over and over before it’s fully powered on and get in the zone.

The fix? Small shifts help a lot. Try gentler alarms, a consistent wake-up time (even on weekends), moving your body early, and getting sunlight fast. Cozy, breathable bedding helps too—both falling asleep and staying up.

That foggy feeling that lasts till lunch? Totally fixable. Not your fault. Just a glitch in the matrix.

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💬 From the group text…

Radiohead’s “Creep” has been covered to death, but Erin Morton went through the trouble of resurrecting it just so she could kill it properly. 🎶 What the hell am I doing here? 🎶 You’re melting our whole face off, Erin. Her rendition, dropped during the CCM Musical Theatre program’s annual jam, is the best thing you’ll hear today.

Until tomorrow, may the algorithms bring you only the finest serotonin-inducing content.