re: If you have ever had an ambulance save your life, this historian tells you who to thank

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People like OP’s tweet and you who just toss off everything 100% because it doesn’t fit a narrative. Nuance.

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I refuted what her tweet said, and I'm the problem?

You’re not the problem, just a problem.

Was that before or after they invented country music?

It’s a good opportunity to learn and research instead of just throwing out “but horse and carriage”. Obviously black people didn’t invent ambulances.

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She watched the Pitt and now thinks she is an expert on the history of ambulance

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Exactly

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The Pittsburgh service was one of those instances of modern and standardized emergency medicine standards being developed.

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The best part about the Pittsburgh Freedom House service, is that it was developed to service the Hill District, which was and still is for the most part a black neighborhood. The city has been carving up the Hill District and trying gentrify it for years since it's "culture" creeps into the downtown core and does "cultural" things. Thats a different topic, though. They set up this service because the Pittsburgh Police were tasked with ambulance services and the Police used to have issues and would be slow responding to calls because the "culture" of the neighborhood was to greet the police with violence.

The Freedom House public/private partnership was dissolved in 1975. My dad's cousin was the Chief Paramedic in Pittsburgh for several years before he retired and his first assignment was in the Hill District. He always laughed about getting shot at several times because he was trying to save folks while someone in that neighborhood really wanted them dead.

They remind me of old Soviet Union propagandists.

Silly unserious people who exist to laugh at.

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That's a pretty good thing tho.

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Carver didn't invent PB FYI

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Peanut butter, as we know it today, doesn't have a single inventor, but rather a history of development involving several people:

1. Ancient Origins

Aztecs and Incas were known to grind roasted peanuts into a paste centuries ago, but this wasn’t peanut butter in the modern sense.

2. Modern Development

Marcellus Gilmore Edson (Canada, 1884): He was the first to patent peanut paste made from roasted peanuts. His version was more like a thick fluid and not exactly the spread we use today.

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (U.S., 1895): The cereal magnate and health-food promoter patented a process for making peanut butter from raw peanuts. He served it to patients at his sanitarium as a protein substitute.

Dr. Ambrose Straub (U.S., early 1900s): He patented a peanut butter-making machine, helping pave the way for commercial production.

George Washington Carver: He is often (mistakenly) credited with inventing peanut butter, but he didn’t. However, he did promote peanuts heavily and developed over 300 uses for them, contributing significantly to their popularity in the U.S.

Summary

Marcellus Gilmore Edson holds the earliest patent (1884), but John Harvey Kellogg made it more widely known in the U.S. So while no one person can claim sole credit, Edson and Kellogg are the two most directly linked to modern peanut butter’s invention.

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Carver didn't invent PB FYI

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Lawd, don't take their peanut butter away!