This Ad Gives Me PTSD

Scientists in China have developed a more efficient form of solar desalination that uses 47.4% less energy than alternatives. After the first year of testing, the scientists believe that at scale it would be able to desalinate water more cheaply than producing bottled water.

This is the post that sticks with me, when I think about how drug campaigns should be run. This is the post that I remember, that haunted me, because it was honest, it was raw in a way “DARE” and other such things never managed. 

Telling a Kid ‘dont do drugs’ is all well and good, and sometimes it may work, done a certain way….but this. 

This is the post I remember, even years later, the one that makes me stop and shudder.  Ifuxdalion was right. This was more haunting to read then any anti drug campaign I’ve ever been subjected to in school as a kid. 

"dad" I say, my eyes barely open "it's Colonel Sanders" while pointing down the hallway. He looks, and at the end of the hallway, there's a portrait of an old man, the donor who paid for the wing of the hospital I'm recovering in.

My dad explains as much to me, and goes "I mean the guy *kinda* looks like him, but why would Colonel Sanders pay for a hospital wing Mississauga Ontario? I think those drugs might me messing with you"

Then the nurse comes out of the room. I go "hey, who is that picture of?"

She looks at the portrait. She looks at me. She looks at my dad. She looks at the painting. She looks at me again.

"you don't recognize the Colonel??"

Louder for the people in the back:

... you cannot tell what an artist is going to be like personally from being very familiar with their art.