I was reading this thinking where the hell is he going with this??? Then I saw the Gladwell burn. Well played sir

Fuck venture capitalists.

That’s it, thanks everyone.

Hoo Boy. The Boomer Signal is flashing above gotham. Get ready to be (at best) sea lioned to death by a legion of Doo-wop loving, hippie to yuppie without hitching a step latent racist #NotAllBoomers.

So could the Rays.

As an Astros fan, I hope Ray is right. But I feel like the baseball playoffs are a different animal. The sample size is large enough that a significantly better team should win, but short enough for funky things to happen. And I guess I just don’t think any team is significantly better than any other. (Most of the…

Remind me again what the acceptable number of children getting easily preventable serious brain injuries at baseball games?

+1,000

I’ve sat behind the screen behind home plate years ago and I think it starts out as a very minor nuisance and you stop noticing it is there after about 5 minutes.

Well this is just a preposterous take that I will absolutely oblige.

This smacks of desperation. It comes off as really defensive. But you’re an adult (I think) so you do what you wanna do! But jeez louise, this is approaching Trumpian-levels of defensiveness. 

Please tell me if I’m actually dumb since I’m not a public health expert...

Can we at least group these under a special Kinja site for the authors who clearly vape and need an outlet to write about it or whatever is going on? Because it’s getting kinda ridiculous at this point— they can call it “Poof” or something

Teens may be young and impressionable, but they had all but quit smoking. I’ve seen so many arguments that are something like “At least now they’re vaping instead of smoking!” But I’m 25 and when I was in high school I didn’t know a soul who smoked, and if anyone did the herd mentality was that it was gross. In less…

can’t you just chew the nicotine gum or get the patch if you must?

I remember being a teen and being stupid and impressionable. Part of me is just like, teens are always going to do dumb things.

“VAPING IS HELPING MILLIONS OF PEOPLE QUIT SMOKING LET’S NOT FORGET THIS.”

I look forward to the next instalment of “I’m an adult and I can do what I want, I no longer live under your roof MOM so no longer have to live by your rules”

Excellent point! Esther is clearly trying to justify a poor habit and using her platform to do so. No telling how many impressionable people will read this and get the wrong message. 

Daniel Giovenco, PhD, MPH

I’m pretty sure at no point in this interview did he say vaping was “perfectly fine”