Texting on a tiny keyboard on a phone requires much more visual attention than finding a button (which you can feel for anyway), and changing a radio station which you only need to listen for. A drink should also be okay if you’re not raising your head full tilt.

Edit: that said, eating is also a no-no; either because it is a resting/social activity which may reduce concentration, or because accidents happen while you’re eating and you’re going to get distracted wiping sauce off your clothes.

No account on reddit so it has a popup to make an account. More often than not, if you are not touching the close button accurately, touching any part of the screen immediately sends you to the signup page. Another reason why I barely touch that website anymore.

Being a non-American, zero clue. Seems he was more useful to the regime dead rather than alive.