PurplePenguin
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I keep coming across a lot of people with flu at the moment, but I'm hoping my vaccine holds out. If it does, then I think £12 was a good investment.
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Pharaoh
I wouldn't be surprised if my lurgy is flu (I was vaccinated), but it's nothing in comparison to my unvaccinated bout in 1990.
secretsqirrel
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Spot the AI graphic - seems like the mask should be worn like Zorro's.
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Yeah there are some dirty feckers that think its ok not to wash their hands anymore
And also the barstewards who get so close to you when they talk to you that you feel their breath on your face. They can FRO.
Pblakeney
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Yeah there are some dirty feckers that think its ok not to wash their hands anymore
...and those who want to shake hands after sneezing into them.
Some credit for covering their mouth in the first place but come on!
Dorset Boy
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That's because the stike is not justifiable.
I suspect they have virtually zero sympathy from the general public.
Pross
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Apparently 28% of the public support them. I suspect they believed that people banging saucepans outside their houses every week in lockdown genuinely supported them rather than them just engaging in a bit of virtue signalling to break the monotony (I think most probably actually have more sympathy with nurses than doctors too).
The doctors may want to put forward more likeable representatives if they want to increase support, this one just came across as whining and self-entitled.
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Interesting, if not surprising.
Being a dinosaur, can't say I'm a fan of them, but then equally I wasn't overly impressed by having 57 buttons available to my two hands on the hire car Fiesta I had a couple of years ago.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3746059.3747683
Being a dinosaur, can't say I'm a fan of them, but then equally I wasn't overly impressed by having 57 buttons available to my two hands on the hire car Fiesta I had a couple of years ago.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3746059.3747683
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First Aspect
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This is a compelling argument in favour of a 1991 Nissan.
Pblakeney
Guru
My car has a combination of touchscreen and buttons.
The touchscreen is only used when parked for initial setup as I think they are a really bad idea (as above) but that's "progress".
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Actually, you'll see I've edited my post, because if you read the actual paper, it seems to be more the case that under the conditions of the experiment, people generally self-regulated the use of the touchscreens (both in glances and in touching) depending on the cognitive load. But that does suggest that they are (mostly) an unnecessary & unhelpful distraction *while driving*, given that your principal task is not to kill or maim anyone inside or outside the car. (The experiment did not introduce stressful or unexpected driving situations.)
The 1991 Nissan (or 2003, in my case) has a speed/odometer, fuel & temperature gauges, and a few warning lights. And that's ample to get me from A-B safely.
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I'm not entirely sure that we aren't twins who were separated at birth. Though I think my mum would have told me.
