Wait, what? Screw Dali’s story, I want to hear about Fenholt!

You would have to, though, prove that at some point he knew about her in order to declare him culpable. If he didn’t know he had an illegitimate child, you can’t really say he was responsible for much of anything other than her being conceived. Is there any evidence that her mother ever contacted Dali about her? And…

And people decide all the time to not leave things to potential heirs. If Dali wanted his things left to the state, that’s where they should go and stay.

Since a good 30% of the colony ship will likely be unvaccinated, I doubt we’d be spreading anything but corpses and people who are blind, deaf, brain damaged and sterile from complications of easily preventable diseases.

Once his egg allergy was detected, did his pediatrician not discuss with you the vaccine series that is egg-free? Kids pop up with allergies all the time, so there are alternative formulations out there that are safe for them.

Okay, but both of you, swap out “autism” for “spina bifida” and ask if the same holds true for anti-vaccine prejudice? It doesn’t. Anti-vaxx parents are overwhelmingly and rather insanely concerned over one specific thing, and a lot of it goes back to not wanting to admit that there’s something “wrong” with their…

The APS (American Pediatric Society) might have some resources that can help you find who to report him to. No one should be proposing chiropractic adjustments on an infant.

Editing isn’t always for (for lack of a better word) style, sometimes it’s just to cut through a lot of the crap you get when someone is meandering their way to an actual answer or trying to think on their feet for an answer to a question they weren’t prepared for. My guess is that he’s afraid that he’d be edited to…

That’s something I constantly want to scream at some of these people, “YOU WERE FULLY VACCINATED.” It’s like they don’t think at all, preferring instead to be afraid of AutismBoogeyman. You were vaccinated, all your friends were vaccinated, yes, that kid you grew up with that you didn’t realize until recently was…

Whooping cough is awful. I had it a few years ago (don’t know where I was exposed) and I can’t even imagine having a kid with it. As important as initial vaccinations are people, don’t forget to get your boosters, too!

The difficulty with it is mostly that the two things happen at about the same time. The first discernible/diagnosable signs of autism show up at just about the time kids are getting some of their most important shots. So the two things that both just happen to be at about the same time get conflated. It’s like having…

Even just when we were kids, there were kids who died. Influenza-HIB was still killing, deafening and causing brain-damage in kids in the mid to late 80s, was all but eradicated in the early 90s, and is already making a comeback in some communities.

He reminded me of Mayor Mallow from the Papa’s Bakeria game.

Mine happens to be rectangular.

What? No. No, I can’t be a US born citizen and suddenly decide that instead I’m a Welsh citizen and expect people to go, “oh, okay, she’s Welsh.” Similarly, I can’t one day decide that I’m a Sikh. You can emigrate and get naturalized, you can convert from one religion to the other...but that’s not trans-anything. You…

Yeah, I’m pretty sure she was going for option two there. Why else bring up “I’m brown” as an excuse?

It goes beyond that even. There is no black monoculture in the US, even. Everything gets undermined by the assumption that everyone is the same just because the group of everyone that is being referred to shares similar ancestry and pigment. It’s a shorthand for “not-mainstream US white” that really needs to stop…

Injectible? Holy shit does that sound like a bad idea. But then again, the enormous tissue expanders in her breasts and the desire to have the same thing put into her butt so that she can expand that too would indicate that this particular woman has never met a bad idea that she didn’t like.

Ah, thanks!

Clearly you didn’t grow up with a cat that taught herself how to operate doorknobs. Unless the door was actually locked (the only door in the house that had a lock on it was the bathroom door, which also had a gap at the bottom from the house settling that was just big enough for her to get through.) The best way to…