Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[dragoner]

But at least it was funny.

I'm old so that hearing about catching the vapors ...

 

[CleverNickName]

public health policies have saved more lives than medicine ever will. Pharma researchers and MDs may develop a vaccine, but public health officials are the ones who set the policies regarding who gets them and when- especially if they’re deemed crucial enough to mandate inoculations for subgroups or even huge swaths of a population.

This cannot be repeated enough. Say it again for the folks in the back.

 

[CleverNickName]

Indoor plumbing and sewers likely save more people than any drug every discovered.

One of my colleagues is a wastewater engineer. He always says, "Sewer treatment plants save more lives than hospitals," and he's absolutely right.

 

[Scribe]

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lol whatever ghost said that will remain forever ignored.

 

[Ryujin]

I'm old so that hearing about catching the vapors ...

Rather oddly, despite the explicit content warning, it's probably more socially acceptable than "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors.

 

[dragoner]

Rather oddly, despite the explicit content warning, it's probably more socially acceptable than "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors.

TBH I watched it and didn't here much that was explicit any more so than what is done today. It was a more innocent age. Yeah, Turning Japanese didn't age well.

 

[RealAlHazred]

My wife is getting an ulcer. She normally puts up with my stubbornness, and my daughter's stubbornness, but my dad is 91 and has the same stubbornness (I really feel like we must be genetically predisposed). He got a pacemaker and has much more energy than he's had in years; it's likely his heart was deteriorating and that was feeding all of his other problems. He's supposed to take it easy, and as soon as my wife drove me to the airport he went and moved furniture.

I told her that at least she didn't have to worry about that kind of stuff from me. Dead silence on the phone. Then she asks me, "What did you tell me about the Exxon Valdez?"

Ladies and gentlebeings, 37 years ago today, the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska. At the time it was the largest oil spill in history; here it is almost 40 years later, and it is still the second largest after Deepwater Horizon. Exxon was supposed to try to contain and mitigate the spill but their response was extremely lackluster for a multibillion dollar corporation; later inquiry found that they had not been keeping their sites prepared to respond to such spills, probably because of the cost of maintaining active drills and up-to-date equipment. In fact, the initial spill was probably caused by fatigue on the part of the crew, because the industry had been driving its crews to longer hours to save money. Also, the radar on the ship had been busted for more than a year, again because it was expensive.

There was a concerted effort to boycott Exxon due to all of these shenanigans. I took part.

And I have not bought gasoline at an Exxon station, or even patronized the convenience store, or sent a thin dime in their direction, in 37 years.

So I guess the stubbornness runs in the family and my wife is screwed.

 

[Artamo]

It’s one of those days where I have typed, erased, and retyped a response multiple times, took a breath, and decided there’s no use or point in me posting it anyways.

This post shall stand as a monument to my inner strength this day.

 

[Reynard]

It’s one of those days where I have typed, erased, and retyped a response multiple times, took a breath, and decided there’s no use or point in me posting it anyways.

This post shall stand as a monument to my inner strength this day.