Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

Thomas Shey · 2026-03-23T14:21:17+0000

Willie the Duck said:
Having a public health degree (of any kind) has been a trip these past half-dozen years or so. It's so amazing just how many 'experts' in my field pop up on the internet.

I'm just a reasonably well-educated layman (partly by natural inclination, partly from having worked at a medical library during part of my librarian days) and some of what I see com out of "doctors" on the Internet makes me back slowly away...

payn · 2026-03-23T14:29:36+0000

So, what health topic do yall want to discuss? I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express recently.

Reynard · 2026-03-23T14:33:57+0000

payn said:
So, what health topic do yall want to discuss? I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express recently.

I hope you checked before putting your bag down...

payn · 2026-03-23T14:40:55+0000

Reynard said:
I hope you checked before putting your bag down...

Bag down? I leave it in the car so I dont get bed bugs.

RealAlHazred · 2026-03-23T14:57:23+0000

payn said:
So, what health topic do yall want to discuss?

I have a public health question. I was forced to wear a mask in the supermarket by some loud, angry person in the parking lot, and now I have a sore knee. Who do I sue? The loud, angry person? The supermarket? Mark Zuckerborg? I think it must be that last one; he has more money.

dragoner · 2026-03-23T14:59:43+0000

Can you no longer shop happily? You sound lost.

RealAlHazred · 2026-03-23T15:02:08+0000

In unrelated and slightly serious news, I have found a ridiculous "Life Hack" that has actually, honest-to-goodness improved my productivity in my IT job. And that is, I play this video in the background so I have the theme music from The Terminator (1984) going on while I work. I am not sure if it will work for anyone else, but I have a feeling it will work until the AI crash hits and wipes out all of our retirement accounts.

Dannyalcatraz · 2026-03-23T15:02:15+0000

RealAlHazred said:
I was forced to wear a mask in the supermarket by some loud, angry person in the parking lot, and now I have a sore knee. Who do I sue?

That’s more legal than public health. And the answer is “the one who shot you with the arrow”.