Human body is a complex system, with so many twists and turns. The more dramatic diet you are trying to introduce, the more careful you have to be.
There is no quick and easy solution, do the fasting thing and you'll lose weight in 10 days and then you can eat whatever you want. No. It's about the choices you make every day, it's about lifestyle. Eat healthy (most of the time), sleep well, rest, exercise, manage stress.. and you should be fine.
Ok, I must take a step back. I have only my personal feeling to back the claim. And that doesn't mean much, considering the fact that I barely ever used TikTok.
So you might be right. My kids (6 and 8) told me a couple of times about life hacks that they saw on YouTube. And that's the only place they visit online, even that being restricted to less than an hour a day on average.
So yeah, new generations might be using that content a bit differently from what I thought.
Looking from addiction perspective, TikTok is even worse. But, as the author said, it's more shallow, so it should be easier to move away from.
I hope that people (or at least majority) will find a way to move from this mindless fun and finally start using all the technology we have at our disposal in some more meaningful way.
I have a sensor LED lights in bathroom and in the kitchen. When I go to someone else's apartment now, usually it takes me a couple of seconds to realize why in the bathroom and it's dark. Haha
I don't know how people live without this. It's so convenient - you don't have to worry about turning on the light when you enter, turning it off when you leave. You're just in - out. At the same time, it saves money, because it's on only while you're in there.
Robot vacuum cleaner. Brought revolution to our lives. Since we got it, we forgot where our regular vacuum cleaner is.
Especially since dust bothers me - I set it up to clean while I'm not in (for example, every day at 10am, when we're at work), and voila! Or when you're not at home for a couple of days, you just trigger it an hour before getting home, and you get a clean apartment when you're home.
So, you get more time because you don't have to vacuum yourself and it does it while you're not in, so the whole process is seamless.
Oh, man, I opened Pandora's box with this question. :)
I'm lucky to have boys of similar age, so they play each other whole day. On the other hand, they do need to eat, use toilet, peacekeeping from time to time, etc., so, it's a whole day duty. Luckily for me, I work for myself (a startup), so I can work anytime I want. For wife it's a bit different, she's 9-5 in normal circumstances, but with kids, it extends to the whole day.
It's not easy, but I love them.
Btw, my kids are 5 and 7 - to those of you with <4 years old kids, don't lose hope. As they grow and get more independent it gets easier. You'll have more time to get back to your side projects.
Look at this situation from the bright side - you are there for them now, when they need you the most, when their personalities are formed. Enjoy every moment, it will pass quicker than you think. Before you know it they'll be kicking you out of their room. And you'll be sad about it. ;)
Imagine if all the companies in the world switched to this friendly, non-competitive mode? I heard something like that before... hmm, communism? You don't have to work (hard), you'll still get your paycheck.
Problem is - it doesn't work in the long term. It can work for a while, until your money runs out or someone more competitive comes along and blows you away.
You are unconvinced until it hits you. I never heard about it before it started bothering me.
It's individual. I have a friend, overweight, never played any sport, never saw him run, sits 16h a day, sleeps 8h a day, has no problem with his back. Another one, skinny, does sports, sits on a pilates ball at work, uses standing table, stretching, and still has back problems.
You can't make conclusions based on your own case. We are all different people, different physiology. Medicine is not maths, 2 + 2 is not always 4. The fact that they can't explain RSI doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It's just that we don't fully understand what's going on there (yet).
I have a German layout keyboard atm (don't ask), and I barely even notice it.
~20 years ago I invested a lot of nerves into learning touch typing, so now I'm flawless with it.
But, let's talk about problems with touch typing - wrists for example. If you don't know touch typing, you move your hands more often, to do stuff. E.g. copy/paste, with touch typing, it's pinky + index finger all the time. Without touch typing, it's, for example, left index + right index. Or something else. Point is, you are not making the same moves all the time.
If you do, you develop RSI. For me, ALT + TAB was the problem. After ~15 years of touch typing, I started feeling first discomfort, and then pain in the wrist. Took some time to discover what's the problem, so now I'm aware and taking action, exercise, stretching, changing layout, switching to split keyboard, etc.
Touch typing is good, but be careful. Make breaks regularly, stretch your hands, invest in the ergo equipment. Think upfront, react before the problems occur. Better safe than sorry.
You are right, their SLA can be a bit different from what we're talking about here (and expect).
In general, we don't know much about this case. It's a post on Reddit, might not even be true. As is, it doesn't make much sense, but we don't know all the details, so maybe we jumped to conclusions.