Durnesque-Esque

are we drawing the connection between worker safety and consumer safety & public health yet?

More on the health point:

"US Department of Labor proposes more than $1M fine following worker fatality at New Jersey vegetable processing facility"

been entranced with this screenshot from a smosh video for the past like, month, and i finally figured out why.

Like last week, I had to mail a package and my local USPS was absolutely SWEALTERING. And the staff only had a few fans, some of which they were using faced towards customers, to try and keep us cool.

While doing my transaction, I was chatting with the worker about how crazy this was and how I hoped she had her own fan too, because I could only see the customer-benefit ones. She said yes, but I also asked if there was anyone I could complain to on her behalf and she immediately said yes again and to please do it! She wrote a more direct customer service number on my receipt which I was able to call Friday.

To be clear, I was kind and polite; I stressed how good the workers at this office were and how efficient always: "It's my local post office," but also how unbearable the heat was and how I couldn't imagine MY poor local staff having to suffer in that heat all day. I don't know yet if it will have an immediate effect for the workers, I hope it will though.

I refer, of course, to the time Buzz Aldrin (age 72 at the time) cold-cocked a moon landing conspiracy theorist straight in his smug face after being accused of being a coward, liar, and thief.

Yes, someone was indeed dumb enough to tell a man so unafraid of death that he was willing to go into the void on a fragile explosive rocket, a coward.

Said dumbass was filming this confrontation as some sort of proof of moon fraud, but has instead captured this glorious moment of near-cosmic justice for us to loop for all time.

I'm sick of all the boring normie summer holidays. We need a new big blow-out thing that we all actively look forward to every year, and I nominate Moon Day.

July 20th is the anniversary of when humans first landed on the moon- one of the greatest achievements in our species' history, and I cannot believe we don't make a bigger deal out of it. We landed on THE MOON.

We should be taking July 20th every year to celebrate the beauty of our celestial sister-world, the drive and perseverance of the human race to actually make it there, the jaw-dropping genius of the women who wrote towers of mathematical formulas to make it possible, the bravery of the astronauts who went there and came back in one piece, the cool rocks they found!

Moon Day shouldn't just be a day where we go "oh that's cool," and move on. It should be a day where we we get to ignore the idiots in power who are trying to ruin our good name and scream to the sky "HUMANS ARE AWESOME AND WE CAN DO AWESOME THINGS"

Anyway, as much as I love gushing about the moon and moon day, I'm drawing a blank on what new traditions I'd actually want to attribute to it. But if I ever get the chance, I would really want to start some new traditions in the local community (On the grounds that it's been a while since I've seen anyone do that).

In an ideal world, I'm envisioning an excuse for a nighttime summer festival, showcasing lunar symbolism and rituals from around the world, moon-rock candy, alien mascots or something, people showing off cool science projects, idk.