Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[payn]

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.

I concur. Its always the person/organization with the most money.

 

[payn]

"No longer"? I don't think I've ever shopped happily...

...but I came here for the special offer... Guaranteed personality!

 

[dragoner]

"No longer"? I don't think I've ever shopped happily...

Maybe there's the clash.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

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.

I have frequently used music or environmental sound recordings as an aid to focus. When I passed the bar exam on my 4th try (long story), I had made a heavy metal tape I’d studied to and listened to on my drive over to the testing location.

So when I sat down in the testing venue, I was able to tune out extraneous noises while my “mental DJ” kept playing a handful of those songs on repeat.

Earlier in my life, there was a painting I did with Black Sabbath’s “All Moving Parts Stand Still” on my portable CD player’s repeat mode.

While I haven’t used these in particular, they might work for someone:

 

[Maxperson]

The funny ones are when the person claiming the high educational ground make statements that clearly show they don't have the education that they claim, like the time I got in a debate with an "immunologist" who had no idea that vaccines aren't a 100% defence against that disease.

My wife appears to be immune to the Chickenpox vaccine. She has been vaccinated 3 or 4 times and still shows 0 antibodies for it when she has her blood tested.

 

[payn]

I have frequently used music or environmental sound recordings as an aid to focus. When I passed the bar exam on my 4th try (long story), I had made a heavy metal tape I’d studied to and listened to on my drive over to the testing location.

So when I sat down in the testing venue, I was able to tune out extraneous noises while my “mental DJ” kept playing a handful of those songs on repeat.

Earlier in my life, there was a painting I did with Black Sabbath’s “All Moving Parts Stand Still” on my portable CD player’s repeat mode.

I took an astronomy class in college and it consisted of like 7 or 8 online exams over the semester. I always dropped the needle on Miles' Bitch's Brew when I took those tests. Felt like the album was just made for that.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I took an astronomy class in college and it consisted of like 7 or 8 online exams over the semester. I always dropped the needle on Miles' Bitch's Brew when I took those tests. Felt like the album was just made for that.

My cable system used to have an OK but not great set of music audio channels. I took many online exams to the sounds delivered by their electronic music channel.

 

[overgeeked]

Sign that this is the dumbest possible timeline. People demand that you must be a card-carrying, degree-holding expert to ever speak on a topic while simultaneously ignoring what all the card-carrying, degree-holding experts say.

 

[Mannahnin]

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...

From observation, a lot of those turn out to be doctors of chiropracty. Sometimes dentists, eye doctors, or other medical-related fields misrepresenting the nature of their expertise. Of course there are some crappy MDs out there too.

 

[prabe]

From observation, a lot of those turn out to be doctors of chiropracty. Sometimes dentists, eye doctors, or other medical-related fields misrepresenting the nature of their expertise. Of course there are some crappy MDs out there too.

I'm presuming you mean "optometrists" here, by "eye doctors," and not "ophthalmologists." (Though the latter could fall under your "crappy MDs" thing.)