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.

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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

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Color, typeface, placement, and general composition affect the human mind in so many ways.

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Just because you take an ambulance to the hospital, doesn’t mean you’ll get seen/a room anytime soon.

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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.

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When you teach a child to read and they are stuck on a word, it is perfectly acceptable to skip over that word and then go back to it. It's perfectly fine to let them choose a word with an appropriate contextual meaning. Then you can ask if the word they've chosen could match the letters and sounds with the word on the page. Ask them can they now think of the word that does (This is just one strategy; there are others).

The amount of times I've seen kids get stressed to tears because an adult is insisting they read a word at a time is too damn high!

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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

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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.

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The concept of ''putting things in their historical context''

To be fair, many historians seem to have hard time doing this as well.

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You can spend all day on Wall Street bets if you want. You can spend all day staring at charts if you want. You can read every piece of news about company X if you want. You could “buy” some dude’s strategy on day trading if you want. You could read every post and follow every trade on /r/realdaytrading if you want.

You aren’t going to make money. That isn’t how the stock market or securities work. You’re a gambler. You’re gambling.

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I work in semiconductor industry. People don’t realize how small 5nm chip designs are. 5nm is approximately 20 atoms wide. Just 20!

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The body needs safety for change. Pushing like you can rush through a process to quickly get it over with doesn’t work.

Body pain, trauma work, healing from anything, learning something new. All of it requires safety and pacing.

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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.

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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

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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!

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Your document/form/advertisement only needs 1, MAYBE 2 different fonts. That's it.

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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.

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Game Designer/Artist No, no you can’t just “add multiplayer”. It’s not that simple. No, increasing the texture resolution doesn’t necessarily mean the game looks better. Especially if your high res texture doesn’t match the rest of the game stylistically No, Bethesda can’t just switch engines. The problems with their games are development issues not engine issues. Also I hate to agree with a games exec but Todd Howard is right that losing all the specialised tools they’ve built for their engine would be madness. No, pixel art isn’t necessarily cheap if you want it to be good. No, that one random woman you’re harassing from one small specific part of the team didn’t make the game “woke” you dumb**s.

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Wood expands and contracts due to moisture!

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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Astigmatism isn’t a disease or even really a condition. We’ve all got some amount from very little (insignificant) to a whole lot. It basically describes how your glasses or contacts need to be made. Or how your LASIK or lens implant needs to be oriented. It is very simply that you need more correction in some places and less in others. A lens that’s the same power 360 degrees around won’t do the trick.

Oh and everyone gets cataracts if you live long enough. 100%. It’s like gray hair.

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If you see one rat/mouse near your house, you or one of your neighbors has a severe infestation or will have one soon. Same goes for roaches and bedbugs. People seem to think "oh, it's just one. What harm can it do?". You see a pest near your house, start inspecting or get your house inspected by a professional ASAP. Can't tell you how many times I showed up to a house and the owner tells me they started seeing them months or weeks ago and didn't pay it any mind, and it turns out they have a really bad infestation.

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The principle of superposition: layers of rock are laid down in sequence, with younger layers on top of older layers. Of course, tectonic forces often disrupt this, but that hurdle to interpreting geology is solved by the principle of original horizontality: rock layers are initially laid down flatly, even if the layers they are laid down on aren't flat at the time. Thirdly, the principle of uniformitarianism states that the processes we see occurring now are the same as occurred in the past. These three things in conjunction let you deconstruct landscapes and interpret the geologic history of areas of various sizes (outcrops, basins, continents).

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You were targeted for an ad? We have all the data we need about you. But we're still throwing s**t 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

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Linguist:

That "proper grammar" scientifically doesn't exist, and is entirely a political concept. Native Speakers of a language generally cannot make grammatical mistakes (except for like actually misspeaking or tripping over their tongue type stuff.)

To further explain; Grammar isn't a set of voted on draconic guidelines a bunch of Academics got together and decided on. Its a collection of malleable but hardwired rules acquired as second-nature to native speakers of a language. Rules that if broken, the transfer of information breaks down and the words become gibberish. These rules are not taught formally, because they do not have to be taught.

Most of what people consider "mistakes" or "bad grammar" is just a dialect that follows slightly different rules than the dialect preferred at schools. Yet neither dialect is going to be any more efficient at transmitting information than the other so long as both speakers speak the same dialect or have dialects closely related enough to understand each other.


Eventually the grammatical rules of each dialect will gradually grow further apart until they are no longer speaking the same language.

As what happened to Latin, and how languages like Spanish, Portuguese, French, Romanian, Italian, Sicilian.... Etc were all born when they were all once just dialects of Latin.

Now they have dialects of their own and will one day shatter just as their mother did.

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I've worked in multiple fields of writing.

A lot of the things people think make good writing are the opposite of good writing.

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Speech ≠ understanding language ≠ using language

Also, cochlear implants ≠ sudden perfect hearing

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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.

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