Giant isopods have a life expectancy of 6-9 years, but one of them in an aquarium went on a hunger strike for 5 years.

Wow, I actually have the exact same radio alarm clock as the one pictured in the top right.

I agree with your points and don’t agree with crunch practices, and this is a bit of a nitpick, but what’s your source for crunching decreasing the liklihood of meeting a deadline?

I can easily imagine those things having correlation, as if you’re already on track for a deadline, why would you need to crunch?

I can’t really think of a complete reason for causation to go the other way though.