Many meal-shake type products are made with whole foods, have sufficient volume to be filling, and have tons of fibre. There are even some companies (e.g. Huel) that sell what are essentially dehydrated, fortified meals, which provide some variety and also involve chewing.

In the context of nutrition and physiological wellbeing there's not really anything wrong with these products, and most are going to be better than a typical diet in many parts of the world. The issue, I would guess, is that the good ones aren't cheap.

The problem with a spinner is that because tons of software doesn't hook it up to a reliable "are we still doing meaningful work here" check users will assume the thing is frozen if the spinner is there for more than a few seconds. That doesn't happen with a progress bar, because it implies progress is actually happening.

This isn't necessarily true though. For example, it's a lot easier to read text if it's in a fairly narrow column since you don't have to scan horizontally to read it.

> This study has to be wrong, it's just common sense

This is an incredibly weak argument. They excluded a number of conditions that can affect sleep quality, only some of which are exclusively genetic. And even then, "you're genetically predisposed to a condition that may affect your sleep quality" is a very different statement than "you're genetically predisposed to poor sleep," which is essentially what your initial comment of "I'm unhealthy but I still feel alert in the morning, therefore genetics" was saying.

That's not a particularly uncomfortable position. But yes, she's literally wrapped in christmas lights, so I'm guessing this is not meant to be a realistic portrayal of an average woman's evening. Clearly some artistic license is being taken.

There have been later fictional variants that had habitable elements, but the original description was just an energy collection device