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src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ca9e36e4b0cb413c888185/a523322d-336d-4610-b753-3910523a550e/FAQs_critiques.jpg" width="680" height="580" alt="" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, (max-width: 767px) 33.33333333333333vw, 33.33333333333333vw" style="display:block;object-fit: cover; width: 100%; height: 100%; object-position: 50% 50%" onload="this.classList.add("loaded")" srcset="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ca9e36e4b0cb413c888185/a523322d-336d-4610-b753-3910523a550e/FAQs_critiques.jpg?format=100w 100w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ca9e36e4b0cb413c888185/a523322d-336d-4610-b753-3910523a550e/FAQs_critiques.jpg?format=300w 300w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ca9e36e4b0cb413c888185/a523322d-336d-4610-b753-3910523a550e/FAQs_critiques.jpg?format=500w 500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ca9e36e4b0cb413c888185/a523322d-336d-4610-b753-3910523a550e/FAQs_critiques.jpg?format=750w 750w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ca9e36e4b0cb413c888185/a523322d-336d-4610-b753-3910523a550e/FAQs_critiques.jpg?format=1000w 1000w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ca9e36e4b0cb413c888185/a523322d-336d-4610-b753-3910523a550e/FAQs_critiques.jpg?format=1500w 1500w, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ca9e36e4b0cb413c888185/a523322d-336d-4610-b753-3910523a550e/FAQs_critiques.jpg?format=2500w 2500w" loading="lazy" decoding="async" data-loader="sqs"> </div> </div> </figure> </div> </div></div></div><div class="col sqs-col-8 span-8"><div class="sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html" data-block-type="2" data-border-radii="{"topLeft":{"unit":"px","value":0.0},"topRight":{"unit":"px","value":0.0},"bottomLeft":{"unit":"px","value":0.0},"bottomRight":{"unit":"px","value":0.0}}" id="block-dfa7cb247a920516c29d"><div class="sqs-block-content"> <div class="sqs-html-content"> <h2 style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Can you critique my product/design/something I'm 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data-animation-role="image" > <div class="sqs-image-shape-container-element has-aspect-ratio " style=" position: relative; padding-bottom:67.2131118774414%; overflow: hidden;-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(white, black); " > <img data-stretch="false" data-src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ca9e36e4b0cb413c888185/1dc68ebe-f78f-4cf3-a873-1f67bcffda9e/FAQs_+licensing.jpeg" data-image="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ca9e36e4b0cb413c888185/1dc68ebe-f78f-4cf3-a873-1f67bcffda9e/FAQs_+licensing.jpeg" data-image-dimensions="729x572" data-image-focal-point="0.5,0.5" alt="" data-load="false" elementtiming="system-image-block" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53ca9e36e4b0cb413c888185/1dc68ebe-f78f-4cf3-a873-1f67bcffda9e/FAQs_+licensing.jpeg" width="729" height="572" alt="" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, (max-width: 767px) 33.33333333333333vw, 33.33333333333333vw" style="display:block;object-fit: cover; width: 100%; height: 100%; 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