40 Pieces Of “Common Knowledge” People Outside These Professions Don’t Know

And please, if you're approaching an intersection and see that a semi is going to be turning into your lane/direction, please stop well short of the intersection and allow them to swing wide to make the turn! The few extra seconds to allow them easier passage will make everything so much better!

There was an ad campaign where I live a little while ago about this, because so many accidents were happening. Also about giving space when they're turning.

This. My work vehicle is a 20 ton bucket truck. Everyone is obsessed with getting around me. I get it we’re slow but when you cut me off remember. If I hit you I won’t even feel it but there’s a good chance you’ll be dead. I can’t stop as fast as a civic. I have that follow distance for a reason, I don’t want to hurt anyone. Stop whipping around me just to immediately turn right.

Also, if you are behind a semi and you can't see the driver's mirrors, the driver can't see you.

Thank you for posting this!!!!! Same things with buses

If you are prescribed something then you need it. Take it as directed and don't just stop, some meds need to be gradually reduced.

I had someone tell me my antidepressants were a "crutch" told him that they were the only thing keeping me from beating the c**p out of him for stupidity.

TIL people are taking mental health advice from TikTok

Julie, you are 100% correct! I've been on Prozac/fluoxetine for 30 years. I've tried to taper off and it's not been pretty. The side effects, for ME, have been slight. I am a long-time mental health professional. If meds aren't working or have intolerable side effects SPEAK UP! Please don't just stop taking them. There could be an alternative dosage or med that will work.

Advocate for meds here, I'm still functioning and living independently. Bad days, sure, but meds make so much difference.

The company I work for did a study on this issue as part of their ESG report as they use a lot of fabric, they looked into the amount of fabric that ends up in landfill every year around the world and it is a massive polluter. The figures were staggering

If the fashion industry made clothing that lasted more than a couple of months it would help just a little bit. There used to a mill near me that processed massive bales of mostly woollen clothing/textiles. The contents were shredded and then re-spun to make skeins, hanks and balls ready to be used for knitting and re-use in the clothing/textile industries. It was called a shoddy mill. It’s heartening to know that a mill in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire has been reopened to provide this in order to prevent landfill waste.

The commercial fishing industry is right behind these guys. There are 5 known, huge garbage patches in our oceans. The largest of which is located between California, USA, and Hawaii, USA. It is about 3 TIMES the size of the country of France. Almost all of it is lost, abandoned, broken ghost gear. Fishing nets alone account for about 50% of the garbage.

kind of the same thing, since like 60%+ of clothes are made from synthetics, mostly polyester, aka oil.

And fishing

I agree - up to a point - ultra processed food will be the death of us - but. Where there are essential amino acids (protein) and essential fats there are no essential carbohydrates. Vitamins, minerals and fibre - all of which are found in vegetables and fruits, but carbs - no. There is a vast difference between plant based whole foods and what a lot of people think of as carbs (pasta, bread, white rice etc.)

The ADA guidelines for daily carbohydrates for diabetics is still too high. For obesity and diabetes type 2 management, greatly restricting your carbs intake is the only real way to make a significant reduction in your weight and blood sugar numbers.

As a colon cancer survivor, I can confirm this information is REPEATED ad-nauseum from my oncologist, family doctor and every other health professional I have dealt with.

anything in excess is bad, and most people eat excess carbs, hence the "carbs are bad" belief.

Unless you have had gastric bypass......super low carb diet. Like just a tiny amount or you get dumping syndrom. At least I do. I miss bread. But I am healthy and many things I was worried about are not an issue any longer.

You're my favourite person in the world I wish they'd hire you for more stuff I miss instructions!!! (I am one of the only people that reads them)

When we got a board game as a present as kids, I was always the one who would sit down and thoroughly read the rules and explain them to my siblings. To this day they haven't realized why I won so often.

Maybe if you didn't spend the first ten pages congratulating me on my wise purchase, and the second ten pages fault finding with such gems as "plug it in" I'd read them.

I always read instructions. But I am also able to understand them.

I used to write work instructions for complex and potentially dangerous manufacturing processes. Our standard was to write so that folks with a 7th grade reading level could use them. When I moved on to other factories I often found work instructions that bordered on unreadability. Even the safety sections were obtuse. Scary.

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It isn't magic, it's the endless permutation of various applications running simultaneously causing unpredictable outcomes. A reboot just starts the chaos over from the beginning.

People get sick of being told to reboot, but they lie and say they already did. Anyone who has done tech support will tell you you have to trick people into rebooting to make sure it's done. I'd tell them it's good that you rebooted, now let's try the next thing: tell me all the lights and buttons you see in the front of your cpu, okay good, push in the large round one for 3 seconds. "Uhh, did you just have me reboot?...hold on, never mind, I fixed it. Didn't need you after all!" Made me hate answering any phone for life.

I do tech support. Sometimes we know just a tad more about something than you do. But we've done it 100s of times. please let us help.

An acquaintance worked as a Microsoft support tech. He mostly Googled to find the solutions.

Ash-water sounds appropriately unappealing IMO!