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New dead horse just dropped.

As far as scientific evidence can demonstrate, no.

As far as anecdotal evidence suggests, yes.

The likely explanation? If you're the type of person to eat pineapple / drink pineapple juice regularly for a while, you're also likely to do the other things that make your stuff taste delectable - like exercising, eating healthily and not drinking loads of coffee and smoking. Cause if you don't do those other things, you could have all the pineapple you like and still taste bad (particularly smoking).

Vascular + lymphatics.

I can't tell if there are nerves in there as - despite a degree in neuroscience - I have zero knowledge of neuroanatomy.

They do if we threaten their pockets or their lives.

Historically, which one is targeted is their choice.

Yup. We have to be the content we want to see.

How does one deal with people that act like this?

I'll take the opportunity to plug ground.news - it's a site that shows all media sites it can find about a particular news story, displays their political leanings etc, their general writing bias and/or likelihood of misinformation, and then attempts to summarise the story.

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I agree that the goal would be for perception to match intent. But the acknowledgement that in order to do so we must iterate on a poor first communication highlights the fact that the perception is the important aspect as intent is static and unchanged by further iteration.

If perception wasn't at least as important as intent, then you could make a well intentioned communication and not worry if it was received correctly.

I did write some more but managed to fat-finger delete it and now I can't remember what I was trying to say. I'm hoping my point has still come across clearly? Sorry!

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Yes, it is condescending as you belittle the 'brain' role for the aforementioned jobs in retail, hospitality, healthcare, etcetera.

See, I don't disagree with that - because that shifts the statement to be 'encoder and decoder share responsibility for intention and perception' - which is more reasonable, but does not marry up with your original statement of intention all the way.