I at least understand the water fountains and experienced them a few times here and there but the sink blender waiting to chop your fingers is a total mystery.
Mid-thirties here, I lost 35kg this year going from 105kg to around 70kg.
Most important was/is the diet, at the start I wasn't exercising at all and just being very aggressive on the dieting, that's allowed me to lose a lot of the fat very quickly but I noticed I was also losing muscle so eventually I started adding in the exercise.
Once I started working out I couldn't cut the calories quite so intensively as otherwise I was almost passing out during the workouts, so from there on I was being much more precise with my calorie deficit.
Now I've been stable for a while, decently in shape but definitely don't look like the calisthenic heroes I watch on YouTube yet... I entered the much slower phase now where progress is happening at a much slower pace towards those secondary goals (namely a six pack..).
But it doesn't matter, I feel and look great, I feel the benefits every day, so I'm not in a rush. The important part eventually is to find the rhythm that works for you in the long term, it's better to do a little bit regularly than go full-on for 3 months then quit.
I'm no economist but at some point doesn't that fall apart? If everything needs to be generating then aren't we creating a vacuum at the bottom or whatever? Money has to come in and go out equally in the end, no?
Canal has always been a terrible company from as far as I can remember. They had the best programs sure but their ultra-capitalist methods, the fact they were always involved with whatever scandal/corporate abuse and at the time the only channel you had to pay for always turned me off. Especially since France had great public TV and other private channels available for free.
Personally I'm the kind of guy that would probably just remove it and keep eating, however it should be noted that piece of plastic was likely wrapping one of the ingredients, that means one side would be clean and food safe but the other would be the side that laid on random stuff/surfaces, got pissed on by rats in the warehouse, etc etc. Again I wouldn't be too fussed myself because I think a bit of exposure to nasty stuff is part of life but I can definitely see how it could be a problem.
I find Subway absolutely gross anyway and would never eat there, my partner likes it though..
Now I just need to figure out which crimes would get me life in Norway without hurting anyone. Maybe that's not a bad backup retirement plan to be honest...
It's why the paid services are successful. Another option I heard about is to have a "data buddy" so you both install a NAS at each other's house, sort out access etc and that's your off-site.
I'm not sure I was doing exactly what they describe, not sure I was tapping as much as I just wasn't staying regular and drifting +/- 5km/h to the point I got a couple complaints about it. I never realised it before and after that worked on keeping steady and it came quickly.
In movies sometimes they do it for freakishly long, obviously because the car isn't actually driving or because it's sitting on a trailer. It's become a trope, some films parody it.
I've definitely had to teach myself to stop doing that. Now I have all the adaptive cruise control stuff which works perfectly fine for this task and saves on consumption.
Yeah this whole story is first grade script material.