>just begging for some kind of regulation.

Seems like the market has regulated them quite nicely indeed.

I dislike him even without being fanned by the media. Totally organic dislike for him and his product and his privacy invasion.

Go on a three week video game moratorium. Get on a regular sleep schedule that wakes you up earlier than normal. Make task todo lists. Make “intentions for the week” lists. Make the items small grains of sand sand. Tick them off as you finish some of them. It won’t be everything probably. Get yourself on a program of your choosing and it becomes a virtuous cycle.

Talk to someone too. Not commiserate, which isn’t helpful, but someone who could help or offer objective advice or just even understand you better after you say your piece.

I just did this, and surprisingly it really did help. I started playing "Satisfactory." I found the little successes of progressing felt like when I succeeded at writing a nice clean function. I think the rut, for me, was caused by constantly changing requirements and having no feelings of success.

That's why prison, large companies or just life in the 21st century can be so bad, humans need to be able to feel that they have an impact on their environment.

But it works the other way around, if the game becomes the primary means of satisfying those needs you are going to have a bad time.

Is there a way to mute the weird static sound? I turned off the radio, but the static persists. When I turned on walkie-talkie, the static moved to the speaker of the my mic/speaker combo. Turning off walk-talkie just moved the static back to original speaker.

Maybe you have the "vehicle" application open? It generate grey noise to simulate background noise in real vehicle. Can be turned off by closing the window.

it's still dead, fifteen hours later.

Heh, the modern world would eat that much in about two months. 4? years compressed to 0.25 of a year? (basis ~90mn/day)

I like the taste of spicy food. But 8 hours later my guts are in misery. Any fixes? I asked my stomach/bowel doctor and he said he had the same problem. Knew of no solution.

I would take the other side of that bet for whatever amount of money you’d like.

Small sample of weak (untrained) people moreover.

That itself is a _good_ thing. The people who most need exercise are the people who don't currently exercise.

If showing a small amount of regular effort is effective, compared to a single big effort, then that helps people get healthier.

But they are the people who least need to optimize their routines towards muscle gains. Any remotely sensible routine will get them huge gains if they stick to it.

Beginners need to optimize for a routine that they can consistently follow, not for the most effective exercises.

That's my entire point. if beginners think they need to do huge sessions, that can be intimidating for some.

This research is confirming "just put _some_ effort in consistently", which is basically what you said.

“Functional bodybuilding” what? Bodybuilding is explicitly not functional. It maximizes for appearance/size.

it maximizes building the body, which comes with it's own appearance, sure, but the functionality of a muscle (what you can do with it) is in large part a function of the size

just remember to stretch too :)