Stornahal t1_j7lmass wrote on February 7, 2023 at 6:13 PM

Reply to comment by DunebillyDave in ‘Flow’, comparable to the Chinese concept of Wu Wei, dissolves our sense of self and transforms our experience of time. It’s an antidote to the modern world’s obsession with multitasking, but finding it depends on balancing the challenge of a task against our skill. by IAI_Admin

Fry vats. Stupid autocorrect

Stornahal t1_j7hl7rr wrote on February 6, 2023 at 9:16 PM

Reply to comment by jamminjalepeno in ‘Flow’, comparable to the Chinese concept of Wu Wei, dissolves our sense of self and transforms our experience of time. It’s an antidote to the modern world’s obsession with multitasking, but finding it depends on balancing the challenge of a task against our skill. by IAI_Admin

I routinely achieve something like this on the food assembly line at work - balancing cooking more beef on the grill, chicken in fry cats with toasting buns & assembling food, I end up in a sort of calm ‘Center of the typhoon’ mode. Until someone comes in and tries to help.

Edit: Just noticed ‘fry cats’

Stornahal t1_j6iy97b wrote on January 30, 2023 at 5:46 PM

Reply to comment by remarkablemayonaise in ELI5: Why are contactless payment methods faster than inserting the chip? by jimmysofat6864

In the UK, card rejections are almost always to force a PIN entry - after a certain amount of time/uses of contactless payment by card.

Doesn’t happen when using phones (due to the use of tokens I think)

Stornahal t1_j0aqpzq wrote on December 15, 2022 at 7:41 AM

Reply to Is there research comparing flu and RSV infection rates between covid vaccinated and unvaccinated cohorts? by rowanskye

From what I have read, the rising rates of RSV, scarlet fever (strep A?) flu etc are due to a lot of people being exposed AT THE SAME TIME.

Prior to CoVid, everyone was exposed and fell sick at fairly constant rates (all thing being equal, such as weather, etc). Then for 18-24 months a significant proportion of the population took non-medical measures to avoid infections (masks, socdist, handsanitising). When we all stopped (most of us anyway), this gave the reservoirs of the various diseases massive numbers of potential victims to infect, especially in schools.