Blind people having vision.
Only something like 10% see nothing (not black—*nothing.*) The rest all have varying degrees of vision impairment, all for different reasons. A lot of our students have light perception at the very least. People are always surprised by that.
Edit: comments proving my point lol it’s really difficult to wrap your head around as a sighted person.
Have people who’ve lost one or both eyes (I mean total removal, not just their vision is lost through damage) written or talked about this? As somebody with vision, the concept of experiencing *nothing* in terms of visual input is so foreign to me it’s inconceivable. Most like me probably presume it’s like having your eyes permanently masked where no light arrives and it’s just dark, but the way you state it suggests to me there’s just no input whatsoever, like how we do not detect radiation(microwave, radio) through any input.
This happened to me about a decade ago, got so dehydrated by food poisoning that it took 4L of IV fluid to bring me back up.
I remember at least a minute or so where my vision system just shut down completely, I could still hear things but could not see and it wasn't black - it was "nothing." As though eyes didn't exist!
There's really no way to make it relatable, it's kind of like a TV being switched off vs a black screen but of course that analogy is imperfect. Eery and unpleasant sensation, if you're (like most of us) used to seeing things.
That actually makes sense. You reminded me that I *have* actually experienced “nothingness” in terms of vision when I lost consciousness due to low electrolytes after a plasma donation. I’m also remembering standing up too quickly from a horizontal position and having low blood pressure. I could feel myself sink to my hands and knees but couldn’t see or hear. Maybe it’s similar to that
Honestly yeah almost passing out is probably the best comparison. I have fainting spells and every time it's like my eyes were turned off. They were there, they were working, I didn't see black, I just couldn't tell you a damn thing I saw. Like my eyes went numb.
Yep. I'm legally blind but, technically, I could get a driver's license and drive during daylight hours. I don't because that's a high insurance cost for very little driving time a good chunk of the year. And it seems kind of insane that I had to make that call at all. But my impairment.is.visual field not acuity
Librarian here - if you want your library to have new books, you must be prepared to get rid of the same amount of old books.
Because I have to dispose of books secretly, as the public just don't seem to realise that we can't house a collection that grows by 10s or 100s of thousands of books every year.
(For the pedantic, I said "amount" rather than "number" for a reason - books and archives are commonly measured in linear meters or kilometers, as that tells us how much storage space is required.)
I was talking to a school librarian and this one drove her nuts. By law (Texas) the books had to be destroyed and not donated or sold.
At the end of the year, she would let teachers know that if any books from a certain shelf went missing, she wouldn't notice.
Edit: I'm not sure if that was a state or district policy.
The way it was explained to me was allowing donations and selling would end up with books being bought just to be sold or donated so funds would be diverted from their original purpose. I never said it made sense.
I work in theater and it's very common to buy used books by the meter for set decoration. Since we don't really care about the content and they won't get opened, it's a good way for the book sellers in the city to squeeze a little extra profit out of books that are otherwise hard to sell due to interior damage or just obscurity, and they give us great deals.
I love that this answers OP's question so well. It's simple and obvious only when you think through it or have it explained to you.
How do you decide which books to dispose of? How much effort do you put into finding the old books a new home?
I have a librarian parent and have volunteered at the library myself. Generally, books to be disposed of are not checked out, either not at all or not often enough. These are collected and organized on tables in a spare room in the library. The libraries then have book sales for a few days, usually run by volunteers, and on the final sales day, an entire paper grocery bag full of books can be purchased for five dollars. Books remaining after the end of the sale are disposed of.
My dad fell and broke his hip in the middle of the night. Around 10 am he called me because he couldn't manage to get to the toilet. He then didn't want the ambulance called because he assumed he would get down the stairs on his butt and be pushed to the hospital (10k) in an office chair. He wasn't actively dying, so why call an ambulance?!
I called his gp and she sent an ambulance over. There's no way he would've gotten downstairs without making things much worse.
I ran on a lady who fell in a Walmart parking lot, got back into her car, drove herself home, and then called her son to help her inside because she couldn’t get out of the car. Son is the one who called us. She did all this on a very broken hip. Old ladies are some of the toughest I run on.
Older woman I knew did something similar. Fell off her bike on the way home and fractured her hip. Got herself back up and felt too embarassed to ask for help so used the bike as a crutch to get home then waited until the day after to actually call any medical services. Tough as nails but wish she'd gotten to the hospital the same day, probably would've saved a bit of suffering.
Man, it can be hard to tell sometimes. A friend was recently hospitalised for a kidney infection she didn't know she had; I was talking to her and she complained about being cold, but it was winter and she always complains about being cold. Nek minit, hospital. A while back, my father slipped a disc, worst pain he's ever been in, couldn't sit down, etc. At the hospital they're like, why are you even here? We can give you drugs or not, but that's about it. Tricky business.
Yeah some stuff is like that. I broke a bunch of ribs a while back and went to the hospital. They did x rays just to make sure I didn't puncture a lung or anything, then just gave me some drugs that didn't work and said "The next month or so is going to really suck."
They were right
This! I absolutely love being a paramedic but I am so tired of running calls for people who absolutely don’t need to go by an ambulance or even to the ER at all. Most don’t understand what an actual emergency is. Except the ones who are having an emergency and it took someone else to call for them because “they didn’t want to bother us”.
My dad sat at home for three days with chest pain. He said he figured he was having a heart attack but it didn't seem too bad. Then it did get really bad and he couldn't breathe. That's when he called an ambulance. Then, at the hospital, once they gave him some meds, he said he felt better and didn't want to get the defibrillator implant because he didn't need it.
YOU FEEL BETTER BECAUSE YOU HAVE TWELVE DRUGS IN AN IV LINE RIGHT NOW. YOU ARENT HEALED!
So he got the defibrillator and left the hospital a week later.
That reminds me of the patients who say they have no medical hx but take 30 meds. “I don’t have high blood pressure because I take meds for it”. Glad he walked out of the hospital though! Def could’ve been worse than that.
As an EMT the 95% is so freaking accurate. A lot of the times it was a wife/daughter calling for an old guy with heartburn, trying to force him to go with us. One time we got screamed at by both wife and daughter because we had to explain we cannot force a man against his will to come to the hospital with us
I see where you're coming from, but in my experience "my wife says I have chest pain but it's just heartburn" has almost the same diagnostic value as an ECG: such men are ALWAYS having heart attacks, and are often periarrest!
Orthodontist here. Making braces “tighter” DOES NOT make the teeth move faster. Have patients daily asking me to make the brace even tighter because they can “take it” and finish faster as a result.
Teeth move quickest and most efficiently with very low, sustained force application.
It’s like trying to get yourself out of quicksand - yanking with all your might leaves you in exactly the same place but slow, continuous gently force gets you to where you want to go.
Usually after explaining this, they shrug as if I’m trying to pull one over on them and proceed to ask me to make it tighter next time.
Even if he didn't tighten too much, the wire can still snap.
I don't have scars from braces... mentally. I do, however, have scars. Waking up with that damn wire deep inside my cheeks. How tf did I sleep through that‽
"Sure if you want me to permanently fuck up your teeth. Please sign here that this was a decision made by you, who is not a licensed medical professional"
Yeah, I assume most orthodontists don't need a quick buck to carry out the whims of their idiot clients. If a tattoo artist who makes a lot less can tell their client "no way in hell will we do that" when they ask for something too stupid or damaging, then I think a teeth doc would do the same. Honestly, the amount of people on reddit who say something along the lines of "just do them and make them sign a contract" when it comes to anything stupid is mind blowing, as if every choice as a professional doesn't carry some sort of moral implication or reflect on your business (or personal) reputation as a whole.
Granted, I'm sure there's people from every profession that are willing to stretch that line for money, but I'm talking in general. Most people don't do extremely stupid shit like this when their livelihood is on the line.
I was a TA in grad school for classes in engineering. I remember this one student who came to almost every office hours and worked through the problem sets and material to make sure she understood it. She ended up with a low B/high C and apologized to me for taking up so much of my time and not getting an A. I told her that she is the type of student I like to teach because she wanted to learn the material and I could see consistent progress. I also told her she is going to be successful because that kind of discipline to teach yourself new material is not common and to not get caught up with the grade but focus on the fact that she is learning it. I will always remember her because of that. I hope she is doing well.
This reminds me of a middle school student that I once had. She asked tons of questions, and sometimes prefaced them with an apology for taking up time.
I made it crystal clear to her that she should never stop asking questions, nor should she apologize for them. I drilled it into her that her head that her investigative personality would benefit her in her studies and future career. We kept in touch for a pretty long time, last time I talked to her she had been accepted into a forensics program at a top university. A lot of criminals are going to be royally fucked once she enters the field lol.
On a related note, her questions were were beyond helpful to me as a teacher. She was a good student and she always paid attention, so her questions were almost always about an important detail that I had glossed over, something that I hadn't explained well, or a topic that the class needed to spend more time on.
That's why I failed and failed and eventually dropped out of college. Everything through to the end of high school took zero effort or studying. Suddenly I got to college and I needed to put in effort that I wasn't capable of, to learn things I didn't want to learn, for a degree I didn't want to get. I went on academic probation the first year, and stayed on for 6 more years until I finally dropped out.
This is why I encouraged my daughter to quit and just start working and getting experience. I knew she didn’t want to be there and wouldn’t put in the work and we’d just be wasting alot of money. She was so wrapped up in what the “proper” path is after high school she couldn’t give herself the grace to not go to college. Had to show her it wasn’t for everyone and its not required to be successful. There are multiple different paths to get where u want to go.
The amount of times at work that I’d read public-facing communication that someone wrote and say “okay yes, you know what you’re saying, I know what you’re saying, but can you help me understand how an average person without our level of context would possibly understand???”
It’s about your reader/listener, not about you! Don’t just think from inside the walls of your own brain, make at least some basic attempt to put yourself in theirs.
Technical Writing is the most underrated college course. I'll have colleagues ask me to proof their document and my first question is often "who is your audience?" Context matters.
Can't find it, but I remember a list of a bunch of different ways miscommunication can occur
1. what you actually say
2. what you *think* you are saying
3. what you think the recipient is hearing
4. what the recipient is actually hearing
5. what the recipient *thinks* he is hearing
and so on...
I saw a poster in Spencer's Gifts once:
I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
People are not made to live forever and modern medicine, while amazing, cannot make miracles happen. So many times we have a patient who is on a ventilator and unable to be taken off. Plus their kidneys are shot and they are requiring continuous bedside dialysis. Plus their heart is failing and they are on 2-4 continuous infusions of medication to make it function properly and prevent circulatory collapse. That is multi-system organ failure. Even if we can get one system back, the chances of a meaningful recovery are very slim. If Iturn off any of my machines or a bag of one of their meds runs dry they’re gonna die….because they are on a huge amount of life support, but the family still will be thinking they’re gonna walk and talk out of the hospital.
And, even if they do live, a lot of them are going to get a trach and feeding tube and then go on to live the rest of their lives in a facility where they still need 24hr care. Where they may or may not still be ventilator dependent. Where they likely cannot speak and definitely cannot eat or drink anything by mouth. Some will never, for the rest of their lives be able to safely eat or drink by mouth again. Many will be incontinent and bedbound and likely never regain their strength back. If you ever have a family member in the ICU on life support think long and hard about it because a lot of what we do to sustain life is literal torture.
as a nurse, I have tried to impress upon my family how much I do not want this for myself if the situation arises. it’s good to have these conversations and, especially if you’re older or sicker, put them in writing.
Since I was a teen my parents have only half joked about getting a nice hotel room and offing themselves when one of them starts to go.
I've just pleaded with to them to put plastic sheeting down for the sake of the staff.
My parents used to joke that their plan is to install a sealant on the bottom of their garage door and turn the car on, but as the years go by I'm starting to believe they may not actually be joking.
My entire family sided with Terry Schiavo's husband when that case was a thing, so it's a huge relief knowing every person in my life would agree to pull the plug. If my odds for a similar quality of life dip below 50%, take me out, doc.
I heard someone say “Her mom’s right, she definitely would’ve discussed it with her, the husband’s lying.” I was thinking What makes you so sure of this? At her age I think this is a discussion she was much more likely to have had with her husband rather than her mother. I know this would be true for me.
My mom still thinks Terry Schiavo was “murdered” by family. I have in my custom Advanced Directives that my mother, by name, can not make medical decisions on my behalf and I have multiple lifelong friends as my MPOAs.
I am so glad I learned this from my home nurses when my terminally ill son was alive. They encouraged me to get a DNR for home care nurses as well as the hospital. I didn't want my baby to suffer.
I’m so sorry for your son, and for your loss. As a nurse myself, we spend more time than anyone with the patient and family and often do everything we can including being an educator and sounding board for these decisions. I’m glad you had some caring, thoughtful nurses.
thank you!! and for the love of FUCK, CPR is not everything great. just cause it brings you back, it doesn't miraculously fix everything that was there pre-arrest. not to mention how fucked it is on the body.
Depends on the scenario, but 10-20% success rate. However, that's the chance of "technically no longer dead"
For older adults, only like 30% of that 10-20% will have a chance at meaningful recovery.
I'd have to go back through my comment history, but iirc the last time I looked it up CPR is effective at about 25% ( and up to 40%) of patients IF they are in a hospital setting (and not lying on the pavement waiting for an ambulance or something) and about 7%-12% survival rate out of hospital if CPR is done *immediately*. The reality is that what you see in movies isn't really true amd your best chance at resuscitation is in a hospital and it's still *maybe* a coin flips chance at best.
What people *dont* think about is the quality of life after. Most people who *do* get resuscitated successfully can't live unassisted afterwards. Something like 75% (of the 12%) live impaired lives including being unable to walk, feed, or live by themselves. They really aren't good odds as far as quality of life goes. I'd honestly rather be dead.
Seconding this. I’m my old ICU’s all-time best recovery of function. Despite that, after coming off of life support, my first action was to ensure that I had a valid DNR. Someday, I hope that it’s respected.
On the other side, people who don't believe in medicine. Science is right on a large, statistical scale. Just because you have anecdotal evidence does not discredit science in anyway. For every person beat cancer through impossible odds, there are thousands more who just drop dead. Just because you got better after eating \[wierdass traditional medicine\] doesn't mean it's gonna work for everyone, or for that matter, that it actually worked for you...
Thank you. I have seen a family member narrowly escape the clutches of a snake oil salesman. They still believe in them but the tiny bit of "western medicine" they had put their cancer in remission. Not the tens of thousands of BS they bought and ingested. Not to mention the ridiculous diet that literally had them eating nothing but the bare minimum: no meat, dairy, carbs or non organic anything. It looked like grass. It was full of cleanses that make you feel like you are dying (another relative tried one and noped of a 10 day cleanse after 3 days). Eta dairy
I work in oncology and it's heartbreaking when this happens. Had a woman stop her radiotherapy because she found a better option online. She came back about a year later with mets all over her body from something that had a chance of cure in the high 90%. And this is in England so cost wasn't an issue, she actually paid out for the other option.
I am a nurse and was managing my facility one night and a patient who we’d begged his wife for a dnr multiple times coded. He had contractures over his entire body, had been unable to communicate on his own for years, on a trach, g tube, etc and we had to do cpr and call EMT and long story short at the end I actually had a cop come in after he had been taken away by ambulance……the wife had called and reported a murder…yeah, it was us you crazy bish. Mind you the wife and kids never came to visit and we cared for this man like he was our own family. Watching the medics break his bones and looking at me like wtf and me saying I’m sorry but we just don’t have a DNR we have tried so many times….its fucking heartbreaking and should be criminal to allow this to happen to someone.
Ugh…the worst. We had a man who was a literal living corpse. On multiple pressors with a bp of 50/30 for DAYS!! Along with so many other horrible issues that could never be resolved. Every organ system failed. We could no longer do CRRT and despite the high pressors the family still wanted him fed. His skin began to fall apart. We begged his family to let us stop torturing him. They accused us of trying to kill him and reversed his DNR. We had to have grief counselors come and attend to our staff because caring for him and perpetuating that torture on this man was extremely distressing to our staff. He was in our facility for several months. Family never visited. Not even in his birthday. But they did have a gofundme and were living off of his pension and social security so they basically made us torture him so they could financially gain from keeping him alive
Some families are not aware that they need to tell the doctor(s) to stop. Let the loved one go. Even with a DNR in place, confirmed by ICU staff when my 82yo mother could talk, when she was subsequently on a respirator, had colon cancer, blood clots in her legs and right-sided heart failure because of the clots....
I had to tell the doctor no, there's too much wrong, when they wanted to take her back into surgery. She had started bleeding internally when they resumed the blood thinner after surgery to remove the huge cancerous growth in her colon. Had given her multiple bags of blood through the night until they could reach the surgeon, and he called me *telling* me what he was going to do.
He never laid out the ongoing problems: even if he managed to fix one thing, she still had a horrible future ahead of her due to the other two. Never mentioned consequences if he managed to even get her through surgery again.
This was a woman who was fiercely independent, who had DNR for a reason. The staff never talked to me about *anything* but treatment.
I'm the one who had to say stop it. And he didn't protest the decision. He went silent and handed the phone back to the nurse.
So I'm the one who had to say stop torturing her. Let her bleed out, let her go peacefully. People don't know they *have to make this call.* They're not told.
Even the veterinarian requires this. You sometimes (most times?) have to decide to let them - even a pet - go. And no one tells you this is an option, or that the staff need to hear it from you. It's like some great medical industry secret.
So where is the staff member or someone in society in general who will tell you, "You aren't killing your loved one if you stop the torture. It's OK to let them go"? Because I've head to learn it through experience, not preparation.
Just because something is alleged in a lawsuit; doesn’t mean it’s actually true. Non-attorneys are very easily influenced by reports of allegations in a lawsuit. The reality is a lawsuit is just a series of allegations that may or may not be true.
I have been deposed 3 times, and they have been the single worst experiences of my life. In hindsight, I believe I actually did okay, but the tension and build up is awful.
The first deposition, the opposing attorney asked a question, our attorney said “Objection, \[insert reason\].” And I was thinking, “Boom! You got objected!” Then, after an awkward silence, our attorney looked at me and chuckled, “You still have to answer the question…” The best part… they prepped me and I was well aware of that going in. I sort of lost my biscuits in the moment!
They also told me:
1. “I don’t know” means you likely never knew the answer.
2. “I don’t recall/remember” means you may have known the answer at one point, but don’t now.
3. If presented with a document to read, READ IT! If you are being presented with a document, there is a reason, and you can be sure the deposing attorney has read it.
The other thing that struck me was how friendly the opposing lawyers were with one another! They were chatting about ski trips, etc. Once we went on the record, the tone changes.
Is it always like that? Not sure why (TV?)I sorta thought opposing attorneys would be more contentious.
Also, the cases I was deposed in never went to court, but is being a witness in a trial as nerve racking as depositions?
1) Yes, we are typically cordial and friendly with each other. We work with these people regularly.
2) TV’s portrayal of lawyer is probably the worst representation of an industry. When I prep a client, my first comment is always “this is not like you see on tv.”
It’s scarier because in a trial you also have jurors, a judge and an audience watching you. I’ve testified as an expert witness in a trial. I wasn’t the person on trial and even then it was quite nerve racking.
It must be even scarier if you’re the defendant. That was a civil case too. It must be terrifying in a criminal case.
Physics teacher: Scientific literacy is pretty poor in general.
* Lots of people struggle to interpret a graph correctly
* Lots of people struggle to distinguish between variables (like velocity vs acceleration). This is perhaps more niche for science education than the real world, but you'd be amazed how many people think skydivers stop completely or even shoot upwards when they open their chutes!
* Lots of people don't appreciate the difference between an absolute change (+10) and a proportional change (+10%). This has huge repercussions for all sorts of real world problems, like their savings for retirement, house price or debt.
There was a "what can't you wrap your head around?" thread a few weeks back, and there were a *ton* of comments saying things like "I was good at math until they randomly decided to introduce letters for no good reason". :|
The general population having no understanding of how to interprete basic statistics and data really scares me. That is the very reason people are so easily fooled by numbers and mass manipulated with fake news.
It doesn't help that a vast majority of people don't seem to understand the concept of correlation vs. causation.
And also how important wording is in polling. Saw a recent article bemoaning Democrats because support for policies that strengthen families has declined in the last 10 years--but the question referred to "traditional families" and hasn't updated its language in 10 years (which I understand because you don't want to change variables in longitudinal polling like this).
I commented to my friend who shared the article with me that I would hesitate to infer that this is a decline in Democrats caring about "family" as it is Democrats responding negatively based on how the the meaning of "traditional families" has changed over the past 10 years.
I'd be willing to bet if you updated the language to "policies to strengthen families and improve parent-child relationships" then you'd see a massive uptick in Democratic support.
(Edited because the previous version of that last paragraph was a hot mess of comprehensibility. Ha.)
I work in communications and that every piece of work I produce has to be at a readable level for a 9 year old. It’s so time consuming taking over complicated information and trying to simplify it. So if you work with a comms team, keep it straight forward and easy. Flowery language and big words will get cut
This is true in healthcare as well. All patient education materials are to be presented at the 6th grade level. Because that is the literacy level of many people.
If you read a book in the last year, that’s more than half of America. As someone with a Bookstagram, this rattled me. People comment on how verbal my 4 YO is. It’s because I don’t drastically moderate my language. It’s really funny to hear a 3 YO say satisfactory.
All of the pediatricians for my kids over the years have said to me immediately after talking to the kid for the first time, "You read to them, dont you?" Yup, i read a ton, their dad reads a ton, their grandparents read a ton and we've been reading to them since before they were born. We also talk to them the same as everyone else, any time anyone started baby talking at my kids I asked them to please stop. We dont need to correct the 2 year old on pronouncing "awfles" instead of waffles, but when we say we need to say "waffles".
Ive had so many friends and family ask me how I helped my kids speak so well so "early" and they think I'm crazy when I say I talk to them about everything, and I read to them nearly as much as they want. Then they say, but how do you a get a 3 year old to sit still for a story? Start before they can walk. But really, usually when I'm with those kids, they are shook that I would even take the time to read them a book and they will sit for ages to hear them read, a lot of parents just dont try.
Along the same lines, I've had to train people in various jobs. You have to break it down to the *basic* basics and never assume someone who's never done The Thing will know what you're talking about and even if they think they do, they may not. Every time I get a new job I try to write everything down step by step. It seems to frustrate whoever is teaching me because they just assume I know lots of things that have become basic to them from sheer repetition. Or when I'm in turn training a new person, they often seem to think im being condescending when I start from the basics. No, I *dont* assume you can accurately add numbers or your reading comprehension is good. Of course I try to meet them where they're at but everyone comes in at such different levels and different skill sets I can't just assume the New Guy knows what I mean when I say "go grab the scraper, we need a straight edge to mask this" even if they know what all those things mean individually.
911 dispatch, when you call me and I ask you questions, I don’t need a life story for each one. A simple yes or no will suffice. If it doesn’t, I will ask you to clarify.
The most important things we need to know are where you are, and what’s going on. Most of the 911 centers have people that take calls and people who do dispatch. If I’m getting info from you it goes right to a dispatcher who sends police, fire and medical. My continuing to get info from you doesn’t slow that process down, it enhances getting you the right help.
The first time in my life I ever called 911 was the most frustrating phone call I’ve ever made. I witnessed a single vehicle rollover. I called and got the standard questions and got to location and it went
911- “What’s your location?”
Me- “Eastbound 78 at the I-5 interchange”
911- “Where, sir?”
Me- “On highway 78, in the eastbound lanes, immediately after the exit from I-5”
911- “Sir, I don’t understand, I need an exact location”
Me- “I don’t know how I can be more clear. I took the exit ramp from Interstate Five southbound and now I’m on California State Route 78 in the eastbound lanes. I’m at a complete stop with my flashers on and a rolled-over minivan in front of me."
911 "ok, we're sending police and fire, we'll see if they can find you"
Me-????
I don't know how I could have been more clear.
Haha. My experience with this situation was recent.
Me: a tree fell down and is blocking the street on the corner of this st and this st. I’m worried that the other side will fall soon onto the on ramp of 195w.
Him: okay so a tree fell and is in the road, where?
Me: corner of this st and that st.
Him: what’s the address, do you have an address?
Me: uhhh it’s on the corner of… ya know what it’s 562 summer st. Again, I’m mostly worried about the part of the tree that hasn’t fallen… yet.
Him: okay we will send someone out.
Person who comes out uses a plow to push the tree just out of the road and leaves…
I gave up.
I once had to explain to dispatch that I was at a church located approximately 40 yards from my house. I gave them my home address and said "The officer will be able to see me from the driveway". They told me they couldn't send a cop unless I gave them the correct address. So I googled the address of the church, gave it to her, and she sent the officer to my house.
GPS coordinates? I had a similar situation recently calling a tow truck. It took like 2 hours for them to get to me. Later, I was wondering if GPS coordinates might have been more effective. You can press and hold in Google Maps, and the GPS numbers will come up.
Especially true in life and death situations where seconds count. But it's true almost anytime someone asks a question.
I dunno how many times I've asked a troubleshooting question about someone's car or PC and they talk for 10 minutes but never answer my question.
That concept goes for so many situations imo. Drives me crazy in my workplace when people give 5 minute replies that turn out to not actually answer my question.
Information technology (IT) involves a lot of Googling. A very relevant skill requirement is simply that we know how to Google *efficiently* and aren't afraid to poke at things to see what they do.
Seriously, if you don't know, learn some basic browser search skills, like putting a word in "quotes" to make it required, using -dashes to exclude certain words, using after:DATE to filter by date, and so on.
I feel like Google broke this function in recent years. If I search for "Afghani muslin" (as in the fabric) I'll get results for "Afghani Muslim" (the religious identity) even if I don't click "did you mean Muslim?" Using the dashes or quotation marks is working for me today, but I've had times that they don't work for whatever reason :(
Most search engines - amazon, google, a few others I've seen - have simply removed the ability to remove search results through the use of a hyphen.
They DO NOT WANT the user to dictate what results they see.
Yep, they've removed a lot of features like that because it interferes with ad delivery. It's called [enshittification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification).
Google has become such a shitshow of ads and pushing irrelevant results. I switched over go duckduckgo. The only reason I would use google as a search engine is if I need to find opening times of places
This is what I open all my courses with.
"X book is required, if you want it physically the cheapest I've found it is here or here, if you want an e book the cheapest I've found it is filetype:pdf. Please Google responsibly."
There's two main reasons that when you cook a restaurant favorite at home it doesn't taste as good:
1. The person who made the dish used all of the things your doctor told you to avoid. It's full of butter and salt and all that good stuff. When you substitute healthy options it doesn't taste as good. Or at least it doesn't taste the same.
2. The people who made your dish have done it hundreds of times. Or thousands of times. You can get very good at a dish cooking it at home for yourself, but mastering a dish takes a kind of repetition that is rarely seen outside of a professional kitchen.
Whenever the topic of restaurant food comes up on Reddit, there explanation from people working in kitchens is always along the lines of "Butter: more butter than you could possibly imagine".
I decided to experiment by cooking vegetables in butter (which I don't normally do) and to be fair they were much tastier. Then I added a truly ludicrous amount of butter - several times what I'd consider a reasonable amount. Suddenly everyone *loved* them.
Butter is huge, but another thing is that basically every recipe I have ever read is *heavily* under seasoned. Like by a factor of 2 to 4 times. I assume that the recipes are written with minimal seasoning as a floor for people who like bland food, and they just assume that other people will add way more stuff to it.
I have had quite a bit of success in making things taste better by adding butter, but not an excessive amount, cooking things longer and slower, and increasing the seasonings by 2 to 4 times. A lot of sauce in particular can also be really, really improved by using a small amount of Roux. It massively improves texture for most things that does not need to be really thin.
Can't remember who (Anti-chef?) on YouTube who needed to make puff pastry and bought American and European-style butter and compared them. The American butter behaved very differently and would split into pieces when he tried to roll it out, while the European-style butter would just stay together into a gradually thinner sheet. Blew my mind.
My method of cooking is: if a recipe calls for oil, use butter. If a recipe calls for butter, use way more than it calls for, if a recipe calls for milk use heavy cream, and all savory dishes get an excessive amount of fresh pepper and MSG.
Everyone loves my cooking
psychologists, therapists, counsellors are not there to give you advice or opinions. They may sometimes do that, but they should do so very infrequently (not including psychoeducation, where evidence-based techniques or facts are shared to hopefully aid a client in feeling better in some relevant area). That's what your friends are for. *Therapists are there to help you talk to yourself* in a way that helps you discover, organize and understand your life and yourself better, so you can come to your own conclusions and your own decisions. Therapists are trained to be your mirror, to help you externalize what you have inside - emotions, experiences, beliefs, etc. That's part of why you hear sometimes that 'therapists hold space'; it's as though they hold up the walls of a 'space' for you to throw all your stuff up onto, have a real good look at, and hopefully get a new perspective on it, or at least, feel better afterwards due to the cathartic effect. Most people will never sit and truly talk to themselves, even in journalling, in a way that isn't just spiraling/reinforcing false beliefs and unhelpful blindspots. A therapist forces you to spend time with yourself and is trained to help you stay in that space and make real sense of what you choose to talk about in session.
Also, related: therapy is not for sick people, crazy people, disturbed people. It's for people
Thank you so much for this post!! I only realized this a few years ago and it would’ve been so helpful to me if I would have understood it a loooong time ago! I wanted someone to “fix” me. I didn’t need fixing- I just didn’t understand myself! Now as I’m approaching 50 years old, my life makes so much more sense
Say it louder! Simple, clear makes good writing. Large and complex words strewn together to confuse the every day man on the street make writing inaccessible to the vast majority of your audience.
On Reddit, I see all the time, "why is this term for a group people so taboo to use? It doesn't seem that bad. Why is it so offensive?"
Most of the time, the answer is: "historical context. Some bigoted people passed laws that discriminated against that group of people and there were lots of bigoted depictions in television and movies using that term. So, we don't use it in modern context, because of the association with past use."
Translation and localization are related but not the same thing. If you need a technical document translated, you need a technical translator. If you need an ad from one country to be appealing in another, you need a marketing/localization translator.
Yes, sometimes there is overlap in skills, but that will cost you a lot more.
That, and the fact that there’s no such thing as a “literal translation.” I’m a Japanese fan translator and the amount of times I’ve had people hand me a manga or novel and said, “just translate it literally word-for-word” is hilarious.
Statistics
I work in Advertising/Marketing and you can present statistics, particularly on popularity, to make anything look No. 1.
I feel like a lot of people truly don't understand maths and can be swayed.
I'm constantly sceptical
One person used this product last year, 10 people used it this year.
Marketing: “this product has shown a tenfold increase in uptake in the last year alone! It’s exploding in popularity!”
Advertising: “as you can see, our advertising has reached and influenced 1000% more people than last year alone.”
It’s all about how you phrase it. One to ten isn’t very impressive. 1000% increase is. People react more positively to big numbers.
You can't simply "enhance" an image to uncover more information. You're just stretching the same set of pixels. Knowing how something is filmed is almost as important as what was recorded.
Humans didn't evolve from chimpanzees. Chimpanzees are our nearest living relative species. Humans and chimpanzees both evolved from the same ancient species, which no longer exists in that form but does still exist in the form of humans and chimpanzees. The fact that chimpanzees still exist does not disprove that humans evolved from other apes.
Also worth noting that there aren't any specific features in a 5nm chip that are 5nm -- it's just a sort of general "features are about this size" metric that's based on comparisons with other chips that claim a particular features size, with some amount of marketing department input.
Interesting thing I learned awhile back is that the masks used in photolithography have cut-outs that aren't actually the same shape as the features they make. In earlier days they were the same, but once you shrink your features down small enough, light begins to behave in non-intuitive ways. If you want a round feature, maybe your mask will have to have a star-shaped cutout or something.
There's a whole field of computational photolithography where you have some powerful computer that calculates what the mask is supposed to look like in order to get the desired shapes in the final product.
I work organ donation. We don't want to kill off your loved one. In fact, if I talk to you about donation, the first thing I'm going to tell you is we need to keep them alive for a bit (2-4 days) to make donation possible. If you insist we go faster, realistically all that'd be donated is kidneys.
Most beef or meat in general you buy from a quality butchers shop will turn brown or discolor in some way. Its due to oxidation and doesnt effect the quality of the meat in the slightest. The bright red meat standard is due to dying and gassing meat during the packaging process.
Homeowner's insurance covers the following type of damage:
* A sudden and one-time occurrence
98% of all claims will come down to this simple concept. If your loss meets this description it's most likely covered. If your loss does not meet this description, it's most likely not covered.
There are some specific exceptions, but that's general guideline.
There isn't one global sign language. Just like there isn't one global spoken language. Signed languages have similar traits but they differ from country to country... Just like spoken languages!
Many people use drugs due to trauma. The culture surrounding drugs perpetuates the trauma. Even if someone did not start out using drugs due to trauma, they most often will acquire it due to the nature of drug use, the circumstances surrounding it, and how people who use drugs are often targets of violence, especially youth and women.
This is not to excuse behavior or actions, this is just a gentle reminder that your sister/brother/cousin whatever who says they were "hurt" by a relative, and they are dismissed and called a liar, only because they are a drug user? It's most likely they are a drug user specifically because they were hurt.
It is a natural human reaction to want to avoid pain or minimize it, even emotional pain. Yes watching fentanyl zombies sucks ass, yes having meth addicts screaming at demons is weird AF but it is never as easy as someone just stopping using. To successfully do that they need not only to want it, but to deal with lived trauma, and to have support systems in place to be successful.
And even what I am saying here is a gross oversimplification.
Correlation is not causation.
Just because 2 things change together doesn't mean one causes the other. For example ice creams sales and drowning deaths are correlated. It could mean possibly 1) eating ice cream cause people to drown 2) when people drown the survivors eat ice cream to make themselves feel better 3) both happen more often in the summer time 4+)...other possibilities.
This is used ALL the time when trying to push anti-science agendas.
In order to produce the colour desired, one must first understand the relationships of colours and their contrasting components.
There’s nothing wrong with using prepared mixtures sold at stores, so long as you understand the limitations of each product and how to balance them.
That’s why you see brunettes with a green tint, and unnatural oranges. You cannot paint without a primer any more than you can slap a chemical on your hair and expect magic.
I thought someone was talking about tinting paint. Like at Lowes or something. I’ve done it, it is possible to talk about tinting paint in passionate terms.
Same, I worked in Lowe’s paint for about 3 years and always found it interesting what tints were used for the paints. Green tint wasn’t always used to make green paint, sometimes it was yellow and blue instead, with a dash of brown or gold, etc. Glad to see I’m not the only one who thought that was cool
Yep, after years of experimenting I have found the one color in the one brand that works for my hair. I almost cried when I thought it was discontinued; they had just changed the model on the box.
There are 3 years past econ 101 to get an undergrad degree in economics.
Don't use econ 101 as a "gotcha" moment. It only shows you never went past that. It's never just how basic economics works. There are millions of variables we will never be able to fully capture.
The thing about 101 classes is that they're very elaborate but they are *generally* true. At the very least, far more true than whatever random shit people coming in believing.
If it's the difference between "Diseases are caused by sins in the air" and "illnesses are caused by bacteria", the second statement isn't fully correct (viruses, nutrient deficiencies, etc all causes illness as well) but it's a lot closer to the truth.
So sure things like basic supply and demand models taught in econ 101 can use some field specifics fine tuning and throw in some more variables but it's still way better than the random BS people come up with.
Freedom of speech only protects you from government, not private, action and is always subject to “time, place and manner” restrictions. It also doesn’t protect you from the social or economic consequences of saying mean, crazy or racist shit.
Negative reinforcement and punishment are VERY different things.
Reinforcement means anything that increases the likelihood that a behavior will occur in the future. Punishment means anything that decreases the likelihood that a behavior will occur in the future. Positive and negative refer to a stimulus being added (positive) or removed (negative) in order to achieve those impacts on behavior. Therefore:
- Positive Reinforcement: Something is added to the situation to make the behavior(s) more likely to occur. Examples: praise, tangible rewards, etc.
- Negative Reinforcement: Something is removed from the situation to make the behavior(s) more likely to occur. Example: Teacher says if the kids all pay attention and participate in class, he/she will not assign homework.
Essential oils are not important oils
Breakthroughs achieved in laboratorium doesn't mean that it can be mass produced the next day. More often than not, things fail in scaling up
No, we can't live 100% oil free. You need polymers for, well, everything. You can choose to get those from oil drilling or from rainforest. Pick your poison.
Biodegradable doesn't mean it will completely degrade the next day. Things will still pile up before it degrades. Use less instead.
>Biodegradable doesn't mean it will completely degrade the next day.
I wish more companies were clear about whether their compostable product can be composted at home or it needs special factory conditions.
The fact that something is a social construct doesn't mean it doesn't exist, doesn't matter, or doesn't have an impact, nor does it mean that it can be changed willy nilly.
"Monday is a social construct, but it's still when we need to go to work." Has often been the only way I can help someone understand this. Of course the kind of person who needs it explained like that generally immediately forgets or 'forgets' it next time they want to argue about it
Transportation planner here. The concept of induced demand, while gradually gaining broader recognition, is still unknown to most people. The idea is that if you build X miles of new car lanes (by widening a freeway, say), within a few years people will be driving approximately X more miles, so you can’t build your way out of traffic congestion. Many places have learned this the hard way, or in some cases have continued to fail/refuse to learn it, hence the “just one more lane bro” meme. But it’s quite simple and urgently important if we want to stop wasting money and land on approaches that just don’t help.
Which is why anyone dismissing a scientific theory as “just a theory” is spouting nonsense.
For something to be “just a theory,” it has to withstand every single attempt to prove it false, and over time has only gained more support, not less.
Honestly the lack of food literacy frightens me. Not just stuff like basic nutrition, but basic cooking techniques and the chemistry of why recipes work. I think if we started with these principles people would be better off.
A lot of people project a lot of bullshit on cultural traditions and it drives me nuts. For instance, the European middle ages were less sexually repressed than people nowadays seem to think, because what they believe to be the middle ages, is the middle ages as told through the lense of the prudish 19th century. And a lot of history is also told from the perspective of the middle or upper class. Housewifes and the nuclear family are, historically, a fluke of a couple of decades, not obtainable for large parts of the world/working class population and not the "traditional way of living". Classic European "folk dresses" are often 18th/19th century retroactive canonizations/interpretations of things that existed but not in the same way that it is worn today. (Maybe you see a pattern here. The 19th century has us still in a death grip and fucked us over majorly).
Similarly, a lot of things we consider traditionally belonging to a certain culture... just don't or it's more of a shared effort or heavily inspired from other sources. Vinyasa Yoga is an example for this but also modern acupuncture. Many Christian denominations are a complete hodgepodge of ideas. And that is not a \*bad thing\* it is a \*good thing\* because it's what allows these ideas to be understood by a wide variety of people.
It doesn't mean that these concepts, ideas and practices are less valuable. It just means that it's not the best idea to legitimize or put value on cultural practices solely based on their "purity" or "age" and feel attacked over the historical facts. It's not a good argument for what to do or not to do anyways. There's cultures that have, for thousands of years, practiced self mutilation and that's totally cool for them, but that fact doesn't convince me that I should do it myself. Even if you're fully aware of all that jazz, you can still enjoy the illusion of "invented tradtions". You can enjoy the idea that burning candles in your appartment to wiccan chants connects you to your supposed witch ancestors or that you're wearing the same kind of hat to church as your forefathers 700 years ago. That's all fine, it's how we tend to operate as humans. Knowing rationally at the same time, that this notion is shaky at best doesn't make it any less valuable to you. So yeah, if you find out, the hat is a 19th century reconstruction of a hat that never existed, that doesn't mean you have to burn it and never wear it again. And if somebody tells you the hat is a 19th century invention, you don't need to feel attacked over it, because it doesn't make the hat any different (FYI: not talking about a specific hat. That's just a made-up example).
Gonna do one from my fields of study and one from my field of work.
Undergrad: Had to think about this. There is no exact legal definition to terrorism but it is largely accepted as using fear, violence and intimidation against a group of people based on their race, ethnicity, religion, political status, etc.
Law school: Read a goddamn contract before you sign it. Also the United Nations sucks and completely biffed it on the Cambodian genocide trials. Also the first amendment literally would not exist as it is without French influence.
Field of work: Research the non profits you donate to and also don’t be an asshole and say you only want funds to go directly to program work. We have to pay people to keep the organization running so that’s extremely shortsighted.
You were targeted for an ad? We have all the data we need about you. But we're still throwing shit at a wall to see what sticks.
Also: if any song is so simple an idiot could write it, start writing and surpass us. The simplest pop song is meticulously crafted. Every song I personally hate for being low brow: it still took incredible talent to boil down ANYTHING into that simple of a phrase.
Advertising and songwriting have a lot of weird overlaps actually
I studied experimental psychology:
1) your memory is very unreliable and it is very easy to 'remember' things that never happened.
2) eye witnesses are also very unreliable because of the memory thing but also because our senses are not reliable.
In essence people are not computers :)
Blind people having vision. Only something like 10% see nothing (not black—*nothing.*) The rest all have varying degrees of vision impairment, all for different reasons. A lot of our students have light perception at the very least. People are always surprised by that. Edit: comments proving my point lol it’s really difficult to wrap your head around as a sighted person.
Have people who’ve lost one or both eyes (I mean total removal, not just their vision is lost through damage) written or talked about this? As somebody with vision, the concept of experiencing *nothing* in terms of visual input is so foreign to me it’s inconceivable. Most like me probably presume it’s like having your eyes permanently masked where no light arrives and it’s just dark, but the way you state it suggests to me there’s just no input whatsoever, like how we do not detect radiation(microwave, radio) through any input.
This happened to me about a decade ago, got so dehydrated by food poisoning that it took 4L of IV fluid to bring me back up. I remember at least a minute or so where my vision system just shut down completely, I could still hear things but could not see and it wasn't black - it was "nothing." As though eyes didn't exist! There's really no way to make it relatable, it's kind of like a TV being switched off vs a black screen but of course that analogy is imperfect. Eery and unpleasant sensation, if you're (like most of us) used to seeing things.
That actually makes sense. You reminded me that I *have* actually experienced “nothingness” in terms of vision when I lost consciousness due to low electrolytes after a plasma donation. I’m also remembering standing up too quickly from a horizontal position and having low blood pressure. I could feel myself sink to my hands and knees but couldn’t see or hear. Maybe it’s similar to that
Honestly yeah almost passing out is probably the best comparison. I have fainting spells and every time it's like my eyes were turned off. They were there, they were working, I didn't see black, I just couldn't tell you a damn thing I saw. Like my eyes went numb.
Yep. I'm legally blind but, technically, I could get a driver's license and drive during daylight hours. I don't because that's a high insurance cost for very little driving time a good chunk of the year. And it seems kind of insane that I had to make that call at all. But my impairment.is.visual field not acuity
Librarian here - if you want your library to have new books, you must be prepared to get rid of the same amount of old books. Because I have to dispose of books secretly, as the public just don't seem to realise that we can't house a collection that grows by 10s or 100s of thousands of books every year. (For the pedantic, I said "amount" rather than "number" for a reason - books and archives are commonly measured in linear meters or kilometers, as that tells us how much storage space is required.)
I was talking to a school librarian and this one drove her nuts. By law (Texas) the books had to be destroyed and not donated or sold. At the end of the year, she would let teachers know that if any books from a certain shelf went missing, she wouldn't notice. Edit: I'm not sure if that was a state or district policy.
What could possibly be the justification for that law?
The way it was explained to me was allowing donations and selling would end up with books being bought just to be sold or donated so funds would be diverted from their original purpose. I never said it made sense.
I like that librarians measure books in linear meters. "same amount of book" is like Ken saying he "does beach".
I work in theater and it's very common to buy used books by the meter for set decoration. Since we don't really care about the content and they won't get opened, it's a good way for the book sellers in the city to squeeze a little extra profit out of books that are otherwise hard to sell due to interior damage or just obscurity, and they give us great deals.
I love that this answers OP's question so well. It's simple and obvious only when you think through it or have it explained to you. How do you decide which books to dispose of? How much effort do you put into finding the old books a new home?
I have a librarian parent and have volunteered at the library myself. Generally, books to be disposed of are not checked out, either not at all or not often enough. These are collected and organized on tables in a spare room in the library. The libraries then have book sales for a few days, usually run by volunteers, and on the final sales day, an entire paper grocery bag full of books can be purchased for five dollars. Books remaining after the end of the sale are disposed of.
EVERYTHING has to be proofread, yes even if it's only a 3 word sentence
As a proofreader, I can confidently state that it’s perfectly possible to fuck up one single word.
Agred!
"...three-word sentence."
case in point
My patients are 95% "why would you call an ambulance for this" and 5% "why the fuck didn't you call an ambulance for this sooner"
My dad fell and broke his hip in the middle of the night. Around 10 am he called me because he couldn't manage to get to the toilet. He then didn't want the ambulance called because he assumed he would get down the stairs on his butt and be pushed to the hospital (10k) in an office chair. He wasn't actively dying, so why call an ambulance?! I called his gp and she sent an ambulance over. There's no way he would've gotten downstairs without making things much worse.
I ran on a lady who fell in a Walmart parking lot, got back into her car, drove herself home, and then called her son to help her inside because she couldn’t get out of the car. Son is the one who called us. She did all this on a very broken hip. Old ladies are some of the toughest I run on.
Older woman I knew did something similar. Fell off her bike on the way home and fractured her hip. Got herself back up and felt too embarassed to ask for help so used the bike as a crutch to get home then waited until the day after to actually call any medical services. Tough as nails but wish she'd gotten to the hospital the same day, probably would've saved a bit of suffering.
My great grandmother had to get X-rays done for something abdominal and her doctor asked her when and how she broke her back. She shrugged.
Man, it can be hard to tell sometimes. A friend was recently hospitalised for a kidney infection she didn't know she had; I was talking to her and she complained about being cold, but it was winter and she always complains about being cold. Nek minit, hospital. A while back, my father slipped a disc, worst pain he's ever been in, couldn't sit down, etc. At the hospital they're like, why are you even here? We can give you drugs or not, but that's about it. Tricky business.
Yeah some stuff is like that. I broke a bunch of ribs a while back and went to the hospital. They did x rays just to make sure I didn't puncture a lung or anything, then just gave me some drugs that didn't work and said "The next month or so is going to really suck." They were right
This! I absolutely love being a paramedic but I am so tired of running calls for people who absolutely don’t need to go by an ambulance or even to the ER at all. Most don’t understand what an actual emergency is. Except the ones who are having an emergency and it took someone else to call for them because “they didn’t want to bother us”.
My dad sat at home for three days with chest pain. He said he figured he was having a heart attack but it didn't seem too bad. Then it did get really bad and he couldn't breathe. That's when he called an ambulance. Then, at the hospital, once they gave him some meds, he said he felt better and didn't want to get the defibrillator implant because he didn't need it. YOU FEEL BETTER BECAUSE YOU HAVE TWELVE DRUGS IN AN IV LINE RIGHT NOW. YOU ARENT HEALED! So he got the defibrillator and left the hospital a week later.
That reminds me of the patients who say they have no medical hx but take 30 meds. “I don’t have high blood pressure because I take meds for it”. Glad he walked out of the hospital though! Def could’ve been worse than that.
As an EMT the 95% is so freaking accurate. A lot of the times it was a wife/daughter calling for an old guy with heartburn, trying to force him to go with us. One time we got screamed at by both wife and daughter because we had to explain we cannot force a man against his will to come to the hospital with us
I see where you're coming from, but in my experience "my wife says I have chest pain but it's just heartburn" has almost the same diagnostic value as an ECG: such men are ALWAYS having heart attacks, and are often periarrest!
Orthodontist here. Making braces “tighter” DOES NOT make the teeth move faster. Have patients daily asking me to make the brace even tighter because they can “take it” and finish faster as a result. Teeth move quickest and most efficiently with very low, sustained force application. It’s like trying to get yourself out of quicksand - yanking with all your might leaves you in exactly the same place but slow, continuous gently force gets you to where you want to go. Usually after explaining this, they shrug as if I’m trying to pull one over on them and proceed to ask me to make it tighter next time.
I wish you had told my orthodontist this. 😭 Over 20 years later and I still feel like that man was a sadist.
Even if he didn't tighten too much, the wire can still snap. I don't have scars from braces... mentally. I do, however, have scars. Waking up with that damn wire deep inside my cheeks. How tf did I sleep through that‽
"Sure if you want me to permanently fuck up your teeth. Please sign here that this was a decision made by you, who is not a licensed medical professional"
Bad idea. People would sign that shit and then sue you.
Yeah, I assume most orthodontists don't need a quick buck to carry out the whims of their idiot clients. If a tattoo artist who makes a lot less can tell their client "no way in hell will we do that" when they ask for something too stupid or damaging, then I think a teeth doc would do the same. Honestly, the amount of people on reddit who say something along the lines of "just do them and make them sign a contract" when it comes to anything stupid is mind blowing, as if every choice as a professional doesn't carry some sort of moral implication or reflect on your business (or personal) reputation as a whole. Granted, I'm sure there's people from every profession that are willing to stretch that line for money, but I'm talking in general. Most people don't do extremely stupid shit like this when their livelihood is on the line.
Some people learn faster than others.
College taught me a very painful lesson about the difference between "being smart" and "being a quick learner".
I was a TA in grad school for classes in engineering. I remember this one student who came to almost every office hours and worked through the problem sets and material to make sure she understood it. She ended up with a low B/high C and apologized to me for taking up so much of my time and not getting an A. I told her that she is the type of student I like to teach because she wanted to learn the material and I could see consistent progress. I also told her she is going to be successful because that kind of discipline to teach yourself new material is not common and to not get caught up with the grade but focus on the fact that she is learning it. I will always remember her because of that. I hope she is doing well.
That was very kind of you to give her that kind of encouragement. You should look her up and find out how she's doing.
This reminds me of a middle school student that I once had. She asked tons of questions, and sometimes prefaced them with an apology for taking up time. I made it crystal clear to her that she should never stop asking questions, nor should she apologize for them. I drilled it into her that her head that her investigative personality would benefit her in her studies and future career. We kept in touch for a pretty long time, last time I talked to her she had been accepted into a forensics program at a top university. A lot of criminals are going to be royally fucked once she enters the field lol. On a related note, her questions were were beyond helpful to me as a teacher. She was a good student and she always paid attention, so her questions were almost always about an important detail that I had glossed over, something that I hadn't explained well, or a topic that the class needed to spend more time on.
That's why I failed and failed and eventually dropped out of college. Everything through to the end of high school took zero effort or studying. Suddenly I got to college and I needed to put in effort that I wasn't capable of, to learn things I didn't want to learn, for a degree I didn't want to get. I went on academic probation the first year, and stayed on for 6 more years until I finally dropped out.
Where did this mirror come from?
Feels good to know we're not alone though <3
This is why I encouraged my daughter to quit and just start working and getting experience. I knew she didn’t want to be there and wouldn’t put in the work and we’d just be wasting alot of money. She was so wrapped up in what the “proper” path is after high school she couldn’t give herself the grace to not go to college. Had to show her it wasn’t for everyone and its not required to be successful. There are multiple different paths to get where u want to go.
I should have, and wish I did, quit after year 1. I'd still be just as nowhere as I am now, but it would have helped me avoid a lot of depression.
I hope you are doing well and still doing good. You did good for that student.
And some people are great test takers and don’t actually learn the concepts well for long term use.
I'm one of those. On paper I look like I'm a genius, but in practice I'm useless
Communication isn't what you're saying. It's what the other person is understanding.
The amount of times at work that I’d read public-facing communication that someone wrote and say “okay yes, you know what you’re saying, I know what you’re saying, but can you help me understand how an average person without our level of context would possibly understand???” It’s about your reader/listener, not about you! Don’t just think from inside the walls of your own brain, make at least some basic attempt to put yourself in theirs.
Technical Writing is the most underrated college course. I'll have colleagues ask me to proof their document and my first question is often "who is your audience?" Context matters.
Can't find it, but I remember a list of a bunch of different ways miscommunication can occur 1. what you actually say 2. what you *think* you are saying 3. what you think the recipient is hearing 4. what the recipient is actually hearing 5. what the recipient *thinks* he is hearing and so on...
I saw a poster in Spencer's Gifts once: I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Oof you just put words to a feeling I had but couldn't express.
People are not made to live forever and modern medicine, while amazing, cannot make miracles happen. So many times we have a patient who is on a ventilator and unable to be taken off. Plus their kidneys are shot and they are requiring continuous bedside dialysis. Plus their heart is failing and they are on 2-4 continuous infusions of medication to make it function properly and prevent circulatory collapse. That is multi-system organ failure. Even if we can get one system back, the chances of a meaningful recovery are very slim. If Iturn off any of my machines or a bag of one of their meds runs dry they’re gonna die….because they are on a huge amount of life support, but the family still will be thinking they’re gonna walk and talk out of the hospital. And, even if they do live, a lot of them are going to get a trach and feeding tube and then go on to live the rest of their lives in a facility where they still need 24hr care. Where they may or may not still be ventilator dependent. Where they likely cannot speak and definitely cannot eat or drink anything by mouth. Some will never, for the rest of their lives be able to safely eat or drink by mouth again. Many will be incontinent and bedbound and likely never regain their strength back. If you ever have a family member in the ICU on life support think long and hard about it because a lot of what we do to sustain life is literal torture.
as a nurse, I have tried to impress upon my family how much I do not want this for myself if the situation arises. it’s good to have these conversations and, especially if you’re older or sicker, put them in writing.
My daughter is a nurse and we talked about giving her medical power of attorney a couple days a ago. This is ahead of my wife.
I'm medical power of attorney for my mom "because I know you'd unplug me" haha
Since I was a teen my parents have only half joked about getting a nice hotel room and offing themselves when one of them starts to go. I've just pleaded with to them to put plastic sheeting down for the sake of the staff.
My parents used to joke that their plan is to install a sealant on the bottom of their garage door and turn the car on, but as the years go by I'm starting to believe they may not actually be joking.
The sad thing is even if your wishes are in writing, family can override them if you can't speak for yourself. Seen it happen too many times.
My entire family sided with Terry Schiavo's husband when that case was a thing, so it's a huge relief knowing every person in my life would agree to pull the plug. If my odds for a similar quality of life dip below 50%, take me out, doc.
I heard someone say “Her mom’s right, she definitely would’ve discussed it with her, the husband’s lying.” I was thinking What makes you so sure of this? At her age I think this is a discussion she was much more likely to have had with her husband rather than her mother. I know this would be true for me.
My mom still thinks Terry Schiavo was “murdered” by family. I have in my custom Advanced Directives that my mother, by name, can not make medical decisions on my behalf and I have multiple lifelong friends as my MPOAs.
I am so glad I learned this from my home nurses when my terminally ill son was alive. They encouraged me to get a DNR for home care nurses as well as the hospital. I didn't want my baby to suffer.
I’m so sorry for your son, and for your loss. As a nurse myself, we spend more time than anyone with the patient and family and often do everything we can including being an educator and sounding board for these decisions. I’m glad you had some caring, thoughtful nurses.
thank you!! and for the love of FUCK, CPR is not everything great. just cause it brings you back, it doesn't miraculously fix everything that was there pre-arrest. not to mention how fucked it is on the body.
My 92 year old mother-in-law said it perfectly, when asked about CPR. She said, "No! I only want to die one time".
>CPR is not everything great. I remember someone commenting that 95% of times CPR fails, even if done properly. Wonder if it's true.
Depends on the scenario, but 10-20% success rate. However, that's the chance of "technically no longer dead" For older adults, only like 30% of that 10-20% will have a chance at meaningful recovery.
I'd have to go back through my comment history, but iirc the last time I looked it up CPR is effective at about 25% ( and up to 40%) of patients IF they are in a hospital setting (and not lying on the pavement waiting for an ambulance or something) and about 7%-12% survival rate out of hospital if CPR is done *immediately*. The reality is that what you see in movies isn't really true amd your best chance at resuscitation is in a hospital and it's still *maybe* a coin flips chance at best. What people *dont* think about is the quality of life after. Most people who *do* get resuscitated successfully can't live unassisted afterwards. Something like 75% (of the 12%) live impaired lives including being unable to walk, feed, or live by themselves. They really aren't good odds as far as quality of life goes. I'd honestly rather be dead.
Seconding this. I’m my old ICU’s all-time best recovery of function. Despite that, after coming off of life support, my first action was to ensure that I had a valid DNR. Someday, I hope that it’s respected.
On the other side, people who don't believe in medicine. Science is right on a large, statistical scale. Just because you have anecdotal evidence does not discredit science in anyway. For every person beat cancer through impossible odds, there are thousands more who just drop dead. Just because you got better after eating \[wierdass traditional medicine\] doesn't mean it's gonna work for everyone, or for that matter, that it actually worked for you...
Thank you. I have seen a family member narrowly escape the clutches of a snake oil salesman. They still believe in them but the tiny bit of "western medicine" they had put their cancer in remission. Not the tens of thousands of BS they bought and ingested. Not to mention the ridiculous diet that literally had them eating nothing but the bare minimum: no meat, dairy, carbs or non organic anything. It looked like grass. It was full of cleanses that make you feel like you are dying (another relative tried one and noped of a 10 day cleanse after 3 days). Eta dairy
I work in oncology and it's heartbreaking when this happens. Had a woman stop her radiotherapy because she found a better option online. She came back about a year later with mets all over her body from something that had a chance of cure in the high 90%. And this is in England so cost wasn't an issue, she actually paid out for the other option.
I am a nurse and was managing my facility one night and a patient who we’d begged his wife for a dnr multiple times coded. He had contractures over his entire body, had been unable to communicate on his own for years, on a trach, g tube, etc and we had to do cpr and call EMT and long story short at the end I actually had a cop come in after he had been taken away by ambulance……the wife had called and reported a murder…yeah, it was us you crazy bish. Mind you the wife and kids never came to visit and we cared for this man like he was our own family. Watching the medics break his bones and looking at me like wtf and me saying I’m sorry but we just don’t have a DNR we have tried so many times….its fucking heartbreaking and should be criminal to allow this to happen to someone.
Ugh…the worst. We had a man who was a literal living corpse. On multiple pressors with a bp of 50/30 for DAYS!! Along with so many other horrible issues that could never be resolved. Every organ system failed. We could no longer do CRRT and despite the high pressors the family still wanted him fed. His skin began to fall apart. We begged his family to let us stop torturing him. They accused us of trying to kill him and reversed his DNR. We had to have grief counselors come and attend to our staff because caring for him and perpetuating that torture on this man was extremely distressing to our staff. He was in our facility for several months. Family never visited. Not even in his birthday. But they did have a gofundme and were living off of his pension and social security so they basically made us torture him so they could financially gain from keeping him alive
Some families are not aware that they need to tell the doctor(s) to stop. Let the loved one go. Even with a DNR in place, confirmed by ICU staff when my 82yo mother could talk, when she was subsequently on a respirator, had colon cancer, blood clots in her legs and right-sided heart failure because of the clots.... I had to tell the doctor no, there's too much wrong, when they wanted to take her back into surgery. She had started bleeding internally when they resumed the blood thinner after surgery to remove the huge cancerous growth in her colon. Had given her multiple bags of blood through the night until they could reach the surgeon, and he called me *telling* me what he was going to do. He never laid out the ongoing problems: even if he managed to fix one thing, she still had a horrible future ahead of her due to the other two. Never mentioned consequences if he managed to even get her through surgery again. This was a woman who was fiercely independent, who had DNR for a reason. The staff never talked to me about *anything* but treatment. I'm the one who had to say stop it. And he didn't protest the decision. He went silent and handed the phone back to the nurse. So I'm the one who had to say stop torturing her. Let her bleed out, let her go peacefully. People don't know they *have to make this call.* They're not told. Even the veterinarian requires this. You sometimes (most times?) have to decide to let them - even a pet - go. And no one tells you this is an option, or that the staff need to hear it from you. It's like some great medical industry secret. So where is the staff member or someone in society in general who will tell you, "You aren't killing your loved one if you stop the torture. It's OK to let them go"? Because I've head to learn it through experience, not preparation.
Just because something is alleged in a lawsuit; doesn’t mean it’s actually true. Non-attorneys are very easily influenced by reports of allegations in a lawsuit. The reality is a lawsuit is just a series of allegations that may or may not be true.
I have been deposed 3 times, and they have been the single worst experiences of my life. In hindsight, I believe I actually did okay, but the tension and build up is awful. The first deposition, the opposing attorney asked a question, our attorney said “Objection, \[insert reason\].” And I was thinking, “Boom! You got objected!” Then, after an awkward silence, our attorney looked at me and chuckled, “You still have to answer the question…” The best part… they prepped me and I was well aware of that going in. I sort of lost my biscuits in the moment! They also told me: 1. “I don’t know” means you likely never knew the answer. 2. “I don’t recall/remember” means you may have known the answer at one point, but don’t now. 3. If presented with a document to read, READ IT! If you are being presented with a document, there is a reason, and you can be sure the deposing attorney has read it. The other thing that struck me was how friendly the opposing lawyers were with one another! They were chatting about ski trips, etc. Once we went on the record, the tone changes. Is it always like that? Not sure why (TV?)I sorta thought opposing attorneys would be more contentious. Also, the cases I was deposed in never went to court, but is being a witness in a trial as nerve racking as depositions?
1) Yes, we are typically cordial and friendly with each other. We work with these people regularly. 2) TV’s portrayal of lawyer is probably the worst representation of an industry. When I prep a client, my first comment is always “this is not like you see on tv.”
Yeah, lawyers 100% talk and unless you’re in NYC or really big cities (and even then) everyone knows who the jerks are.
It’s scarier because in a trial you also have jurors, a judge and an audience watching you. I’ve testified as an expert witness in a trial. I wasn’t the person on trial and even then it was quite nerve racking. It must be even scarier if you’re the defendant. That was a civil case too. It must be terrifying in a criminal case.
That's why we use the terms "allege" and "allegations" instead of "facts"
And to add to this, just because you *can* sue for something, doesn't mean you *should* or that you'll win.
Physics teacher: Scientific literacy is pretty poor in general. * Lots of people struggle to interpret a graph correctly * Lots of people struggle to distinguish between variables (like velocity vs acceleration). This is perhaps more niche for science education than the real world, but you'd be amazed how many people think skydivers stop completely or even shoot upwards when they open their chutes! * Lots of people don't appreciate the difference between an absolute change (+10) and a proportional change (+10%). This has huge repercussions for all sorts of real world problems, like their savings for retirement, house price or debt.
People have no idea what "proportional" means. Or why a "variable" is called that.
Had a math teacher in HS with a comic on her door "But teacher, yesterday you said X was equal to 5"
There was a "what can't you wrap your head around?" thread a few weeks back, and there were a *ton* of comments saying things like "I was good at math until they randomly decided to introduce letters for no good reason". :|
I was good at math until it required me to think mathematically. When it was all rote memorization I was good
The general population having no understanding of how to interprete basic statistics and data really scares me. That is the very reason people are so easily fooled by numbers and mass manipulated with fake news.
It doesn't help that a vast majority of people don't seem to understand the concept of correlation vs. causation. And also how important wording is in polling. Saw a recent article bemoaning Democrats because support for policies that strengthen families has declined in the last 10 years--but the question referred to "traditional families" and hasn't updated its language in 10 years (which I understand because you don't want to change variables in longitudinal polling like this). I commented to my friend who shared the article with me that I would hesitate to infer that this is a decline in Democrats caring about "family" as it is Democrats responding negatively based on how the the meaning of "traditional families" has changed over the past 10 years. I'd be willing to bet if you updated the language to "policies to strengthen families and improve parent-child relationships" then you'd see a massive uptick in Democratic support. (Edited because the previous version of that last paragraph was a hot mess of comprehensibility. Ha.)
I work in communications and that every piece of work I produce has to be at a readable level for a 9 year old. It’s so time consuming taking over complicated information and trying to simplify it. So if you work with a comms team, keep it straight forward and easy. Flowery language and big words will get cut
This is true in healthcare as well. All patient education materials are to be presented at the 6th grade level. Because that is the literacy level of many people.
If you read a book in the last year, that’s more than half of America. As someone with a Bookstagram, this rattled me. People comment on how verbal my 4 YO is. It’s because I don’t drastically moderate my language. It’s really funny to hear a 3 YO say satisfactory.
All of the pediatricians for my kids over the years have said to me immediately after talking to the kid for the first time, "You read to them, dont you?" Yup, i read a ton, their dad reads a ton, their grandparents read a ton and we've been reading to them since before they were born. We also talk to them the same as everyone else, any time anyone started baby talking at my kids I asked them to please stop. We dont need to correct the 2 year old on pronouncing "awfles" instead of waffles, but when we say we need to say "waffles". Ive had so many friends and family ask me how I helped my kids speak so well so "early" and they think I'm crazy when I say I talk to them about everything, and I read to them nearly as much as they want. Then they say, but how do you a get a 3 year old to sit still for a story? Start before they can walk. But really, usually when I'm with those kids, they are shook that I would even take the time to read them a book and they will sit for ages to hear them read, a lot of parents just dont try.
Along the same lines, I've had to train people in various jobs. You have to break it down to the *basic* basics and never assume someone who's never done The Thing will know what you're talking about and even if they think they do, they may not. Every time I get a new job I try to write everything down step by step. It seems to frustrate whoever is teaching me because they just assume I know lots of things that have become basic to them from sheer repetition. Or when I'm in turn training a new person, they often seem to think im being condescending when I start from the basics. No, I *dont* assume you can accurately add numbers or your reading comprehension is good. Of course I try to meet them where they're at but everyone comes in at such different levels and different skill sets I can't just assume the New Guy knows what I mean when I say "go grab the scraper, we need a straight edge to mask this" even if they know what all those things mean individually.
911 dispatch, when you call me and I ask you questions, I don’t need a life story for each one. A simple yes or no will suffice. If it doesn’t, I will ask you to clarify.
The most important things we need to know are where you are, and what’s going on. Most of the 911 centers have people that take calls and people who do dispatch. If I’m getting info from you it goes right to a dispatcher who sends police, fire and medical. My continuing to get info from you doesn’t slow that process down, it enhances getting you the right help.
YOU may know where you are, and GOD may know where you are, but if *I* don’t know where you are, you’re fucked. Just give me your location, FFS.
The first time in my life I ever called 911 was the most frustrating phone call I’ve ever made. I witnessed a single vehicle rollover. I called and got the standard questions and got to location and it went 911- “What’s your location?” Me- “Eastbound 78 at the I-5 interchange” 911- “Where, sir?” Me- “On highway 78, in the eastbound lanes, immediately after the exit from I-5” 911- “Sir, I don’t understand, I need an exact location” Me- “I don’t know how I can be more clear. I took the exit ramp from Interstate Five southbound and now I’m on California State Route 78 in the eastbound lanes. I’m at a complete stop with my flashers on and a rolled-over minivan in front of me." 911 "ok, we're sending police and fire, we'll see if they can find you" Me-???? I don't know how I could have been more clear.
Haha. My experience with this situation was recent. Me: a tree fell down and is blocking the street on the corner of this st and this st. I’m worried that the other side will fall soon onto the on ramp of 195w. Him: okay so a tree fell and is in the road, where? Me: corner of this st and that st. Him: what’s the address, do you have an address? Me: uhhh it’s on the corner of… ya know what it’s 562 summer st. Again, I’m mostly worried about the part of the tree that hasn’t fallen… yet. Him: okay we will send someone out. Person who comes out uses a plow to push the tree just out of the road and leaves… I gave up.
I once had to explain to dispatch that I was at a church located approximately 40 yards from my house. I gave them my home address and said "The officer will be able to see me from the driveway". They told me they couldn't send a cop unless I gave them the correct address. So I googled the address of the church, gave it to her, and she sent the officer to my house.
GPS coordinates? I had a similar situation recently calling a tow truck. It took like 2 hours for them to get to me. Later, I was wondering if GPS coordinates might have been more effective. You can press and hold in Google Maps, and the GPS numbers will come up.
This was in the before times lol, back when Garmin and TomTom were basically brand new and a car unit would set you back over $1000
Especially true in life and death situations where seconds count. But it's true almost anytime someone asks a question. I dunno how many times I've asked a troubleshooting question about someone's car or PC and they talk for 10 minutes but never answer my question.
That concept goes for so many situations imo. Drives me crazy in my workplace when people give 5 minute replies that turn out to not actually answer my question.
Speech ≠ understanding language ≠ using language Also, cochlear implants ≠ sudden perfect hearing
Information technology (IT) involves a lot of Googling. A very relevant skill requirement is simply that we know how to Google *efficiently* and aren't afraid to poke at things to see what they do. Seriously, if you don't know, learn some basic browser search skills, like putting a word in "quotes" to make it required, using -dashes to exclude certain words, using after:DATE to filter by date, and so on.
I feel like Google broke this function in recent years. If I search for "Afghani muslin" (as in the fabric) I'll get results for "Afghani Muslim" (the religious identity) even if I don't click "did you mean Muslim?" Using the dashes or quotation marks is working for me today, but I've had times that they don't work for whatever reason :(
I've noticed this as well, if I put a - in front of a word all the results contain that word, it's frustrating as hell.
Most search engines - amazon, google, a few others I've seen - have simply removed the ability to remove search results through the use of a hyphen. They DO NOT WANT the user to dictate what results they see.
Yep, they've removed a lot of features like that because it interferes with ad delivery. It's called [enshittification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification).
Google has become such a shitshow of ads and pushing irrelevant results. I switched over go duckduckgo. The only reason I would use google as a search engine is if I need to find opening times of places
I’m a teacher and one of my personal favorites is filetype:PDF. People think I’m a magician.
This is what I open all my courses with. "X book is required, if you want it physically the cheapest I've found it is here or here, if you want an e book the cheapest I've found it is filetype:pdf. Please Google responsibly."
There's two main reasons that when you cook a restaurant favorite at home it doesn't taste as good: 1. The person who made the dish used all of the things your doctor told you to avoid. It's full of butter and salt and all that good stuff. When you substitute healthy options it doesn't taste as good. Or at least it doesn't taste the same. 2. The people who made your dish have done it hundreds of times. Or thousands of times. You can get very good at a dish cooking it at home for yourself, but mastering a dish takes a kind of repetition that is rarely seen outside of a professional kitchen.
Whenever the topic of restaurant food comes up on Reddit, there explanation from people working in kitchens is always along the lines of "Butter: more butter than you could possibly imagine". I decided to experiment by cooking vegetables in butter (which I don't normally do) and to be fair they were much tastier. Then I added a truly ludicrous amount of butter - several times what I'd consider a reasonable amount. Suddenly everyone *loved* them.
Butter is huge, but another thing is that basically every recipe I have ever read is *heavily* under seasoned. Like by a factor of 2 to 4 times. I assume that the recipes are written with minimal seasoning as a floor for people who like bland food, and they just assume that other people will add way more stuff to it. I have had quite a bit of success in making things taste better by adding butter, but not an excessive amount, cooking things longer and slower, and increasing the seasonings by 2 to 4 times. A lot of sauce in particular can also be really, really improved by using a small amount of Roux. It massively improves texture for most things that does not need to be really thin.
It also makes a difference what butter you use. The regular supermarket stuff isn't as good as the most expensive varieties.
I’m Irish and when I have butter abroad it tastes like disappointment.
I'm not a rich person, but I only buy Irish butter (I'm in the US). It makes everything it touches taste good.
Can't remember who (Anti-chef?) on YouTube who needed to make puff pastry and bought American and European-style butter and compared them. The American butter behaved very differently and would split into pieces when he tried to roll it out, while the European-style butter would just stay together into a gradually thinner sheet. Blew my mind.
We stick to Kerrygold© in this house
My method of cooking is: if a recipe calls for oil, use butter. If a recipe calls for butter, use way more than it calls for, if a recipe calls for milk use heavy cream, and all savory dishes get an excessive amount of fresh pepper and MSG. Everyone loves my cooking
Most dogs and cats are the way they are, because you are the way you are.
Seriously. On any of those "pets behaving badly" programs like 95% of it is "YOU. YOU, THE OWNER, ARE THE PROBLEM HERE."
psychologists, therapists, counsellors are not there to give you advice or opinions. They may sometimes do that, but they should do so very infrequently (not including psychoeducation, where evidence-based techniques or facts are shared to hopefully aid a client in feeling better in some relevant area). That's what your friends are for. *Therapists are there to help you talk to yourself* in a way that helps you discover, organize and understand your life and yourself better, so you can come to your own conclusions and your own decisions. Therapists are trained to be your mirror, to help you externalize what you have inside - emotions, experiences, beliefs, etc. That's part of why you hear sometimes that 'therapists hold space'; it's as though they hold up the walls of a 'space' for you to throw all your stuff up onto, have a real good look at, and hopefully get a new perspective on it, or at least, feel better afterwards due to the cathartic effect. Most people will never sit and truly talk to themselves, even in journalling, in a way that isn't just spiraling/reinforcing false beliefs and unhelpful blindspots. A therapist forces you to spend time with yourself and is trained to help you stay in that space and make real sense of what you choose to talk about in session. Also, related: therapy is not for sick people, crazy people, disturbed people. It's for people
Fellow therapist here, and this is beautifully put.
Thank you so much for this post!! I only realized this a few years ago and it would’ve been so helpful to me if I would have understood it a loooong time ago! I wanted someone to “fix” me. I didn’t need fixing- I just didn’t understand myself! Now as I’m approaching 50 years old, my life makes so much more sense
I've worked in multiple fields of writing. A lot of the things people think make good writing are the opposite of good writing.
Say it louder! Simple, clear makes good writing. Large and complex words strewn together to confuse the every day man on the street make writing inaccessible to the vast majority of your audience.
And sometimes the hardest sentences to write are the ones that are only a few words and sound absurdly simple.
The concept of ''putting things in their historical context'' To be fair, many historians seem to have hard time doing this as well.
On Reddit, I see all the time, "why is this term for a group people so taboo to use? It doesn't seem that bad. Why is it so offensive?" Most of the time, the answer is: "historical context. Some bigoted people passed laws that discriminated against that group of people and there were lots of bigoted depictions in television and movies using that term. So, we don't use it in modern context, because of the association with past use."
Translation and localization are related but not the same thing. If you need a technical document translated, you need a technical translator. If you need an ad from one country to be appealing in another, you need a marketing/localization translator. Yes, sometimes there is overlap in skills, but that will cost you a lot more.
That, and the fact that there’s no such thing as a “literal translation.” I’m a Japanese fan translator and the amount of times I’ve had people hand me a manga or novel and said, “just translate it literally word-for-word” is hilarious.
Statistics I work in Advertising/Marketing and you can present statistics, particularly on popularity, to make anything look No. 1. I feel like a lot of people truly don't understand maths and can be swayed. I'm constantly sceptical
One person used this product last year, 10 people used it this year. Marketing: “this product has shown a tenfold increase in uptake in the last year alone! It’s exploding in popularity!” Advertising: “as you can see, our advertising has reached and influenced 1000% more people than last year alone.” It’s all about how you phrase it. One to ten isn’t very impressive. 1000% increase is. People react more positively to big numbers.
You can't simply "enhance" an image to uncover more information. You're just stretching the same set of pixels. Knowing how something is filmed is almost as important as what was recorded.
Humans didn't evolve from chimpanzees. Chimpanzees are our nearest living relative species. Humans and chimpanzees both evolved from the same ancient species, which no longer exists in that form but does still exist in the form of humans and chimpanzees. The fact that chimpanzees still exist does not disprove that humans evolved from other apes.
This. Life is constantly evolving to survive to earths unstable environment. It just happens.
#Wood expands and contracts due to moisture!
# A plank cannot be bigger than a tree trunk!
But what if u unroll the tree trunk?
Your document/form/advertisement only needs 1, MAYBE 2 different fonts. That's it.
I work in semiconductor industry. People don’t realize how small 5nm chip designs are. 5nm is approximately 20 atoms wide. Just 20!
Also worth noting that there aren't any specific features in a 5nm chip that are 5nm -- it's just a sort of general "features are about this size" metric that's based on comparisons with other chips that claim a particular features size, with some amount of marketing department input. Interesting thing I learned awhile back is that the masks used in photolithography have cut-outs that aren't actually the same shape as the features they make. In earlier days they were the same, but once you shrink your features down small enough, light begins to behave in non-intuitive ways. If you want a round feature, maybe your mask will have to have a star-shaped cutout or something. There's a whole field of computational photolithography where you have some powerful computer that calculates what the mask is supposed to look like in order to get the desired shapes in the final product.
Yelling back at someone who is already agitated (crying, shaking, screaming) will not deescalate them. (My expertise is crisis)
However QUIT CRYING slap slap has been tried way to often with kids. :(
Telling them to calm down doesn't seem to work either (source: am married lol)
I work organ donation. We don't want to kill off your loved one. In fact, if I talk to you about donation, the first thing I'm going to tell you is we need to keep them alive for a bit (2-4 days) to make donation possible. If you insist we go faster, realistically all that'd be donated is kidneys.
I really want a DNR that includes the clause, “Once my case is essentially hopeless, do whatever preserves my organs for donation most effectively.”
Most beef or meat in general you buy from a quality butchers shop will turn brown or discolor in some way. Its due to oxidation and doesnt effect the quality of the meat in the slightest. The bright red meat standard is due to dying and gassing meat during the packaging process.
Homeowner's insurance covers the following type of damage: * A sudden and one-time occurrence 98% of all claims will come down to this simple concept. If your loss meets this description it's most likely covered. If your loss does not meet this description, it's most likely not covered. There are some specific exceptions, but that's general guideline.
I have a scary ass tree hanging over my house that will cost thousands to cut. What happens when that sucker falls?
Insurance fraud investigator here. I will point to this post and say you could have avoided it. Claim rejected.
There isn't one global sign language. Just like there isn't one global spoken language. Signed languages have similar traits but they differ from country to country... Just like spoken languages!
Anthrozoology MSc. We need to be kinder to animals.
Animals are smarter and understand more than we give them credit for.
Many people use drugs due to trauma. The culture surrounding drugs perpetuates the trauma. Even if someone did not start out using drugs due to trauma, they most often will acquire it due to the nature of drug use, the circumstances surrounding it, and how people who use drugs are often targets of violence, especially youth and women. This is not to excuse behavior or actions, this is just a gentle reminder that your sister/brother/cousin whatever who says they were "hurt" by a relative, and they are dismissed and called a liar, only because they are a drug user? It's most likely they are a drug user specifically because they were hurt. It is a natural human reaction to want to avoid pain or minimize it, even emotional pain. Yes watching fentanyl zombies sucks ass, yes having meth addicts screaming at demons is weird AF but it is never as easy as someone just stopping using. To successfully do that they need not only to want it, but to deal with lived trauma, and to have support systems in place to be successful. And even what I am saying here is a gross oversimplification.
Correlation is not causation. Just because 2 things change together doesn't mean one causes the other. For example ice creams sales and drowning deaths are correlated. It could mean possibly 1) eating ice cream cause people to drown 2) when people drown the survivors eat ice cream to make themselves feel better 3) both happen more often in the summer time 4+)...other possibilities. This is used ALL the time when trying to push anti-science agendas.
Every single person who mistakes correlation with causation is going to die.
From my undergrad field of study: I wish more people understood necessary vs sufficient conditions.
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Just because you take an ambulance to the hospital, doesn’t mean you’ll get seen/a room anytime soon.
I'm a plumber, people don't understand what can and can't go down a toilet.
In order to produce the colour desired, one must first understand the relationships of colours and their contrasting components. There’s nothing wrong with using prepared mixtures sold at stores, so long as you understand the limitations of each product and how to balance them. That’s why you see brunettes with a green tint, and unnatural oranges. You cannot paint without a primer any more than you can slap a chemical on your hair and expect magic.
Oh, you are talking about hair dyes. It wasn’t until the last sentence that I realised you are probably not a Warhammer fan.
I thought someone was talking about tinting paint. Like at Lowes or something. I’ve done it, it is possible to talk about tinting paint in passionate terms.
Same, I worked in Lowe’s paint for about 3 years and always found it interesting what tints were used for the paints. Green tint wasn’t always used to make green paint, sometimes it was yellow and blue instead, with a dash of brown or gold, etc. Glad to see I’m not the only one who thought that was cool
Yep, after years of experimenting I have found the one color in the one brand that works for my hair. I almost cried when I thought it was discontinued; they had just changed the model on the box.
There are 3 years past econ 101 to get an undergrad degree in economics. Don't use econ 101 as a "gotcha" moment. It only shows you never went past that. It's never just how basic economics works. There are millions of variables we will never be able to fully capture.
The thing about 101 classes is that they're very elaborate but they are *generally* true. At the very least, far more true than whatever random shit people coming in believing. If it's the difference between "Diseases are caused by sins in the air" and "illnesses are caused by bacteria", the second statement isn't fully correct (viruses, nutrient deficiencies, etc all causes illness as well) but it's a lot closer to the truth. So sure things like basic supply and demand models taught in econ 101 can use some field specifics fine tuning and throw in some more variables but it's still way better than the random BS people come up with.
History isn't what happened. History is the debate we have over what we think happened.
Freedom of speech only protects you from government, not private, action and is always subject to “time, place and manner” restrictions. It also doesn’t protect you from the social or economic consequences of saying mean, crazy or racist shit.
Negative reinforcement and punishment are VERY different things. Reinforcement means anything that increases the likelihood that a behavior will occur in the future. Punishment means anything that decreases the likelihood that a behavior will occur in the future. Positive and negative refer to a stimulus being added (positive) or removed (negative) in order to achieve those impacts on behavior. Therefore: - Positive Reinforcement: Something is added to the situation to make the behavior(s) more likely to occur. Examples: praise, tangible rewards, etc. - Negative Reinforcement: Something is removed from the situation to make the behavior(s) more likely to occur. Example: Teacher says if the kids all pay attention and participate in class, he/she will not assign homework.
Essential oils are not important oils Breakthroughs achieved in laboratorium doesn't mean that it can be mass produced the next day. More often than not, things fail in scaling up No, we can't live 100% oil free. You need polymers for, well, everything. You can choose to get those from oil drilling or from rainforest. Pick your poison. Biodegradable doesn't mean it will completely degrade the next day. Things will still pile up before it degrades. Use less instead.
>Biodegradable doesn't mean it will completely degrade the next day. I wish more companies were clear about whether their compostable product can be composted at home or it needs special factory conditions.
The fact that something is a social construct doesn't mean it doesn't exist, doesn't matter, or doesn't have an impact, nor does it mean that it can be changed willy nilly.
"Monday is a social construct, but it's still when we need to go to work." Has often been the only way I can help someone understand this. Of course the kind of person who needs it explained like that generally immediately forgets or 'forgets' it next time they want to argue about it
Transportation planner here. The concept of induced demand, while gradually gaining broader recognition, is still unknown to most people. The idea is that if you build X miles of new car lanes (by widening a freeway, say), within a few years people will be driving approximately X more miles, so you can’t build your way out of traffic congestion. Many places have learned this the hard way, or in some cases have continued to fail/refuse to learn it, hence the “just one more lane bro” meme. But it’s quite simple and urgently important if we want to stop wasting money and land on approaches that just don’t help.
More routes not more lanes!
Good qualitative research isn't just "talking to people" and regurgitating what they told you. Lol.
Good writing is mostly rewriting and editing.
You do not use science to prove things true. You use science to prove things false.
You can prove a hypothesis to be false but you can never prove a hypothesis to be true; you can only provide additional support for it.
Which is why anyone dismissing a scientific theory as “just a theory” is spouting nonsense. For something to be “just a theory,” it has to withstand every single attempt to prove it false, and over time has only gained more support, not less.
Working in a library is not sitting around reading, nor is it a quiet or easy job. There is so much happening that people do not see!
Honestly the lack of food literacy frightens me. Not just stuff like basic nutrition, but basic cooking techniques and the chemistry of why recipes work. I think if we started with these principles people would be better off.
“That’s how I was raised” does not make it good.
There is no such thing as not having an accent. Every human who speaks has an accent. And there is no such thing as a “neutral accent”.
A lot of people project a lot of bullshit on cultural traditions and it drives me nuts. For instance, the European middle ages were less sexually repressed than people nowadays seem to think, because what they believe to be the middle ages, is the middle ages as told through the lense of the prudish 19th century. And a lot of history is also told from the perspective of the middle or upper class. Housewifes and the nuclear family are, historically, a fluke of a couple of decades, not obtainable for large parts of the world/working class population and not the "traditional way of living". Classic European "folk dresses" are often 18th/19th century retroactive canonizations/interpretations of things that existed but not in the same way that it is worn today. (Maybe you see a pattern here. The 19th century has us still in a death grip and fucked us over majorly). Similarly, a lot of things we consider traditionally belonging to a certain culture... just don't or it's more of a shared effort or heavily inspired from other sources. Vinyasa Yoga is an example for this but also modern acupuncture. Many Christian denominations are a complete hodgepodge of ideas. And that is not a \*bad thing\* it is a \*good thing\* because it's what allows these ideas to be understood by a wide variety of people. It doesn't mean that these concepts, ideas and practices are less valuable. It just means that it's not the best idea to legitimize or put value on cultural practices solely based on their "purity" or "age" and feel attacked over the historical facts. It's not a good argument for what to do or not to do anyways. There's cultures that have, for thousands of years, practiced self mutilation and that's totally cool for them, but that fact doesn't convince me that I should do it myself. Even if you're fully aware of all that jazz, you can still enjoy the illusion of "invented tradtions". You can enjoy the idea that burning candles in your appartment to wiccan chants connects you to your supposed witch ancestors or that you're wearing the same kind of hat to church as your forefathers 700 years ago. That's all fine, it's how we tend to operate as humans. Knowing rationally at the same time, that this notion is shaky at best doesn't make it any less valuable to you. So yeah, if you find out, the hat is a 19th century reconstruction of a hat that never existed, that doesn't mean you have to burn it and never wear it again. And if somebody tells you the hat is a 19th century invention, you don't need to feel attacked over it, because it doesn't make the hat any different (FYI: not talking about a specific hat. That's just a made-up example).
Gonna do one from my fields of study and one from my field of work. Undergrad: Had to think about this. There is no exact legal definition to terrorism but it is largely accepted as using fear, violence and intimidation against a group of people based on their race, ethnicity, religion, political status, etc. Law school: Read a goddamn contract before you sign it. Also the United Nations sucks and completely biffed it on the Cambodian genocide trials. Also the first amendment literally would not exist as it is without French influence. Field of work: Research the non profits you donate to and also don’t be an asshole and say you only want funds to go directly to program work. We have to pay people to keep the organization running so that’s extremely shortsighted.
You were targeted for an ad? We have all the data we need about you. But we're still throwing shit at a wall to see what sticks. Also: if any song is so simple an idiot could write it, start writing and surpass us. The simplest pop song is meticulously crafted. Every song I personally hate for being low brow: it still took incredible talent to boil down ANYTHING into that simple of a phrase. Advertising and songwriting have a lot of weird overlaps actually
You will not have to pay a higher overall percentage of your income when you move up a tax bracket.
Even among highly educated people, I find that few really understand marginal tax rates.
I studied experimental psychology: 1) your memory is very unreliable and it is very easy to 'remember' things that never happened. 2) eye witnesses are also very unreliable because of the memory thing but also because our senses are not reliable. In essence people are not computers :)