Artemis Launch on April Fools

[freebeard]

...but it's cheaper than buying [everyone] a new catalytic converter.

Insane asylums existed within living human memory.

Starting in the latter half of the 18th century, progressive politicians and social reformers encouraged the building of massive asylums for the treatment of the mentally ill, who were previously either treated at home or left to fend for themselves. Oregon was the first state to construct a vast, taxpayer-funded asylum. Countless other states followed, and by the start of the 20th century, nearly every state had at least one public asylum.
historycollection.com/16-terrifying-facts-about-mental-asylums-in-the-19th-century/

Oregon State Hospital
Hospital in Oregon, United States
osh.oregon.gov
Oregon State Hospital is a public psychiatric hospital in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the state's capital city of Salem with a smaller satellite campus in Junction City opened in 2014. Founded in 1862 and constructed in the Kirkbride Plan design in 1883, it is the oldest operating psychiatric hospital in the state of Oregon, and one of the oldest continuously operated hospitals on the West Coast. The hospital was established after the closure of the Oregon Hospital for the Insane in Portland, located 47 miles north of Salem Continued in Wikipedia

I had occasion to visit the State Hospital in Salem when I worked for White Bird Clinic.

whitebirdclinic.org/healing-house-the-colorful-history-of-white-bird-clinic/

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Originally Posted by freebeard

Insane asylums existed within living human memory.

I had occasion to visit the State Hospital in Salem when I worked for White Bird Clinic.

I had occasion to stay in an old asylum for a year when I was 19, with 400 other fellas.

The proper takeaway of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest isn't to toss severely mentally ill folks into the streets, but to stop lobotomizing people, and fire nurse Ratchet.