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What incorrect beliefs about your field have become popular/gone viral?
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I have developed a dab hand at scrolling past anyone trying to explain mRNA vaccines on twitter. Not worth the pain of correcting both the person getting it wrong and the helpful strangers correcting them who are also getting it wrong.
Gaming threads are always super interesting because you can tell who doesn't know anything about how coding and software development work.
Hey, my Floppy Disks BetaMax isn't working can you help?
I feel you, you know Computers, help me! I mean yes I know computers really well, but doesn't mean I'm practical like that!
"you must read books all day"
me: blank stares, wondering when the hell I get a chance to read books if I'm shelving them and/or checking them out to people (granted I don't get to deal with the public much since increased covid cases forced us to go back to curbside service)
me: blank stares, wondering when the hell I get a chance to read books if I'm shelving them and/or checking them out to people (granted I don't get to deal with the public much since increased covid cases forced us to go back to curbside service)
Sociology/social worker = Socialism. I'm in Texas and I remember having to explain what sociology was because people assumed it.
Honestly, I think sometimes that makes it worse. Like, there are people here who believe they know more than they do and make wild assumptions sometimes.
Well to be fair to you, that's not exactly something beginners can do! I took lessons for years before starting pointe work.
Film/TV/game critic here: that Rotten Tomatoes decides whether our reviews are fresh/rotten (it's all self-submitted so we do it), also that there's a line of companies with money to bribe reviewers for their positive opinions.
I work in television and film. I've even sold a feature.
The "Man of Steel with Color" video that blew up drove me and a colleague crazy once we saw it. It was so transparently doctored to make the OG movie inauthentically desaturated and lower exposure. The "fixed" footage looked awful, too.
Plenty of people spoke up about the video being bullshit, but by then it was already viral.
The "Man of Steel with Color" video that blew up drove me and a colleague crazy once we saw it. It was so transparently doctored to make the OG movie inauthentically desaturated and lower exposure. The "fixed" footage looked awful, too.
Plenty of people spoke up about the video being bullshit, but by then it was already viral.
To be fair this is understandable with how the IRS communicates.
Sometimes they tell you you owe something, but they don't actually say how much.. whilst also saying that until the issue is resolved you will be incurring fees, but they don't say what those fees are. Of course the jail part is exaggerated, and I haven't read the other posts in that thread.
As a journalist: it doesn't matter how obvious who committed the crime, there has to be an "allegedly" there and it's not just so the newspaper can avoid a lawsuit in the future. Nobody wants defense attorneys to use the press as proof of jury contamination.
No, lightning rods do not infact attract lightning to your house/structure. Instead they help redirect a potential lightning strike to the wires we attach to the rods that then run straight to the strategically placed grounds around the outside of your property.
Out of curiosity, what is your personal opinion of Medicare for all?
I'm a teacher so here are a few:
Teacher's unions make it impossible to fire bad teachers.
Bullshit. All unions afford members is due process and prevent teachers from being fired at will. When I was already tenured I pissed off my principal - who was a fucking asshat - and I was told by the union I could be out of a job within a year depending on how aggressively he pursued going after me.
I played the game and the storm passed but unionization isn't the suit of armor people think it is, although it's still nice to have.
Teachers work five hours a day
Again, bullshit. The amount of personal time I've spent grading, lesson planning, and making supplemental materials is off the charts. I know teachers that clock in at 6:30 AM and don't go home until 5:00 PM. Hell, when I took maternity leave after my daughter was born I still opted to basically teach remotely because the sub couldn't give them what I could.
Anybody can teach
Good fucking luck with this one. I've taught middle school for sixteen years in a low socio-economic district and the skillset to not only manage a class filled with thirteen-year-olds but to also get them engaged and learning isn't something anyone can do anymore than anyone can be a surgeon, a programmer or a pilot.
Standardized Testing is a Necessity
Standardized testing is a complete waste of time that only serves to enrich test-makers while forcing teachers to literally winnow down their curriculum to prepare students for these bullshit exams.
Teacher's unions make it impossible to fire bad teachers.
Bullshit. All unions afford members is due process and prevent teachers from being fired at will. When I was already tenured I pissed off my principal - who was a fucking asshat - and I was told by the union I could be out of a job within a year depending on how aggressively he pursued going after me.
I played the game and the storm passed but unionization isn't the suit of armor people think it is, although it's still nice to have.
Teachers work five hours a day
Again, bullshit. The amount of personal time I've spent grading, lesson planning, and making supplemental materials is off the charts. I know teachers that clock in at 6:30 AM and don't go home until 5:00 PM. Hell, when I took maternity leave after my daughter was born I still opted to basically teach remotely because the sub couldn't give them what I could.
Anybody can teach
Good fucking luck with this one. I've taught middle school for sixteen years in a low socio-economic district and the skillset to not only manage a class filled with thirteen-year-olds but to also get them engaged and learning isn't something anyone can do anymore than anyone can be a surgeon, a programmer or a pilot.
Standardized Testing is a Necessity
Standardized testing is a complete waste of time that only serves to enrich test-makers while forcing teachers to literally winnow down their curriculum to prepare students for these bullshit exams.
IT- and the idea that all tech workers are rich. People hear about the employees of Google, Facebook, Apple and other "big tech" companies being extremely well compensated, and they are. But while those companies are big in terms of mindshare and profits, in terms of employees they're actually pretty small, and hire the talent elite only. The majority of the tech world, the day to day running of IT for businesses, that was hyped up as the mass middle class employment sector of the future to replace manufacturing, has been hollowed out by offshoring to low wage countries and other forms of corporate cost cutting for shareholder value.
I'm in the funeral industry.
Reality is that most funeral parlors are family operated and service-oriented businesses. Around 50 percent of the businesses are run by women, so the stereotype of the pale middle aged man with grey skin and black suit couldnt be farther from the truth.
Reality is that most funeral parlors are family operated and service-oriented businesses. Around 50 percent of the businesses are run by women, so the stereotype of the pale middle aged man with grey skin and black suit couldnt be farther from the truth.
I know mainstream media definitely has some corruption/bias issues, but I have a few classmates who have become successful journalists and I know for a fact they do their very best to present truthful, objective news. Really drives me up the wall seeing all these MSM ARE OWNED BY THE EVIL CABAL blah blah bullshit.
Former soldier, people still think all military personnel get deployed, shoot people...honestly unless you're infantry, you'll probably never seem combat (and even then the chances are slim as hell). Soldiers are just brainwashed killers,nope most soldiers I knew at least were normal people who used the Army to their advantage, not everyone joins out of desperation. All Soldiers are not patriots either, I think I've only met like 3 people who said they joined due to "patriotism".
Once you actually know about something, watching randos on the internet talk about it really reveals how much of our discourse is led by popularity, memes, unearned confidence and browbeating in lieu of actual understanding.
This. I work as a nonprofit fundraising consultant - and worked at a food bank. Multi-year general operating funds enable organizations to actually accomplish their missions. Restricting gifts to specific funds tends to do more harm than good imo.
Also....working at a nonprofit is not something you do as a 'sunset career' to give back to your community...it is a legit profession that requires unique skills and experience.
Preach! Fund overhead costs - they are so vital to an effectively run organization. "Only 5% of our budget goes to overhead" either means they are underpaying staff OR they are wrapping up some costs into programming to make it seem like their overhead is low. When do donating to an org, focus on impact and like you said, trust them to do great work.
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I'm in the funeral industry.
Reality is that most funeral parlors are family operated and service-oriented businesses. Around 50 percent of the businesses are run by women, so the stereotype of the pale middle aged man with grey skin and black suit couldnt be farther from the truth.
This whole time I thought you were a lawyer because of your avatar.
The industry has been actually growing, though.
As the Earth feels ever smaller, demand for translators and interpreters skyrockets
In an increasingly globalized economy, companies and government agencies alike need more translators and interpreters.
In my case, I translate instruction manuals and tech-related documentation for my company. We can't even outsource these translations because you need access to the prototype camera, monitor, etc. to actually know how it works and how its functions can be properly explained in other languages. Translating is not simply changing words. And neither is localization, which requires further cultural understanding.
You do shout "OH YES!!!" in a high pitched voice though right?I'm in the funeral industry.
Reality is that most funeral parlors are family operated and service-oriented businesses. Around 50 percent of the businesses are run by women, so the stereotype of the pale middle aged man with grey skin and black suit couldnt be farther from the truth.
And in time it will be able to. I wouldn't be surprised if in 20 years we have something close to a perfect universal translator. Like, 20-years-ago we didn't even have maps of the entire planet at our finger tips and relied on paper or very horrible satellite GPS that cost a fortune.
My academic field is Japan and there's a lot of incorrect beliefs or assumptions regarding history and culture, but it's the myth that Japan is inherently weird and wacky that annoys a lot of my Japanese colleagues.
In a similar vein, legal tender has a very narrow and specific definition (at least in the United Kingdom) regarding debts that has no bearing on everyday life. It does not mean you have the right to pay for this packet of Polos with a £50 note. Whenever a customer started talking about legal currency, The Office came to mind.
True. There's a bit of "it has to have been this" assumptions when a game gets cancelled/delayed/whatever, and usually it's like... probably not, but even if you're right that was a big assumption.
So much.
That big Pharma is hiding the cure for cancer or any other disease. Do you know how much money they would make? There's other shady stuff they can and do but not this.
I haven't been able to work in the field yet because of covid (I only graduated as a flight attendant last year), but the ignorance amongst the public about almost everything in the aviation industry pisses me off. No, we do not lose your luggage on purpose. No, pilots do not do anything for 13 hours in a 14 hour flight. There could be a group of 10 businessmen working at their laptops in the cabin and the pilots would still be the hardest working people in the airplane. No, flight attendants are not just 'waiters in the sky', the amount of training we have to go through just to keep your face safe. My parents used to think that it was just serving food and drinks, but them seeing me come back home and tell them about everything I learned that day for THREE years straight changed their minds. There's a lot more involved.
I do regulatory stuff for drinking water utilities and whenever I mention that there's new ideas on how there are improvements to be made to the monitoring process to better plan treatment and decrease risk of any contaminants being at a dangerous level, I get told the same bullshit:
"Well you know, anyone around here who has a degree and isn't poor just buys bottled water anyways"
Bottled water which gets tested for a lot less and doesn't have any transparency to the consumer on what levels of contaminants it actually has. Even I have no way of knowing of accessing any data on it. It's basically if you took tap water, tested it less, and then threw it into a wasteful plastic container. People always make the stupidest assumptions whenever they're paranoid about health bullshit.
Um....there's just too much damn 5G. Nothing can be done about it.
"Well you know, anyone around here who has a degree and isn't poor just buys bottled water anyways"
Bottled water which gets tested for a lot less and doesn't have any transparency to the consumer on what levels of contaminants it actually has. Even I have no way of knowing of accessing any data on it. It's basically if you took tap water, tested it less, and then threw it into a wasteful plastic container. People always make the stupidest assumptions whenever they're paranoid about health bullshit.
Um....there's just too much damn 5G. Nothing can be done about it.
OP asked for incorrect beliefs ;D.
Just two I saw in the past half hour..
Last gig I worked was marketing for surgical instruments. I don't think anyone has even thought of this profession outside of the purchasing department at hospitals :(
That all gas meters and all their manufacturers wants to fuck with you, so their meters are actually rigged to measure +inf. % of what they actually should. If they would know the incredible amount of tests these products go through..
is a possibility the husband under utilized his withholding allowances and basically owed~5700 which ate up the refund when filed jointly?
That to be a programmer/software developer, you need to be good at maths. Also that software developers are the best people to help you fix your computer (I hardly use Windows except for work, and we have an IT department to fix anything that goes wrong with my work laptop).
As someone who has used Linux almost exclusively for the last 20 years, I find Windows 10 to be horrible.