/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19808391
>I have literally never seen condos over businesses. Never lived anywhere where zoning would allow that
Yeah yeah I know "omg do Americans really", but how does anyone utter phrases like these without feeling existential dread?
You live in a society engineered to make you miserable and spend a third of your life and money commuting.

>>19371458
>>19371755
>>19371451
The deliberately misleading title of the one article everyone links when claiming "Chess players consume 5k calories over a tournament" has lead to the common misconception that chess players consume those 5k calories by thinking really hard.
While the brain does consume more when at work, the difference in consumption is marginal compared to baseline even when tackling the hardest tasks.
As you'll find if you actually read the study instead of just a pop-science title, high caloric consumption found in tournament chess players is caused by stress, not intellectual work. Muscle tension, heightened heart rate, the body disengaging most heuristics so it can be ready for threats, all of this contributes to your BMR pretty much doubling.

But you'd find the exact same caloric expenditure in some guy stuck in a wooden cage, perfectly still, surrounded by lions and tigers trying to get to him for 6 hours. Because, again, that "5k Calories" figure for chess players is utterly unrelated to intellectual work.
It's all stress.