I thought the comic acknowledged the existence of trans people? Wasn’t there at least a mention at some point of someone’s friend or lover dying because they were a trans woman? I could have sworn there was a conversation in the section where Yorick is chatting with people at the Washington Memorial. I also have a…

Obviously they’re referencing China’s history with opium. However, I highly doubt it wasn’t also a reference to Marx, given that the ruling government is the Chinese Communist Party. The “opiate of the masses” quote is one of the more common-knowledge ones and honestly tracks with the point being made a bit better…

Thank you for missing my entire point. Some notes:

The tension between medical ethics and the public good is what I was referring to. It’s unethical—as a doctor—to perform a procedure on someone without obtaining the appropriate consent. Vaccination is generally enforced by requiring people to have certain kinds for employment or going to school, etc., since it is a…

For sure, but that’s also a different scenario. She was arrested because she refused to stop working as a cook despite being a known carrier of typhoid. I was specifically only talking about medical ethics. Legally, however, you can bar people from participating in society if they are a risk to public health, which is…

Wow, you’ve again stumbled upon why this is one of the most frustrating problems in medical ethics.

Welcome to one of the most frustrating problems of medical ethics, because it’s unethical to force medical treatment on anyone who does not consent to it.

Wouldn’t Dash Con be worse than a McDonald’s ball pit?

That’s kind of what I assumed, personally. Some of the “zips” looked a lot more like a series of hooks and eyes, given the way the fabric was pulling in some of the dresses. I don’t make period clothing typically, but I made a (cosplay) coat a couple years back that had one section pull like that because of a closure.

I’m not talking about the whiter bit there. That could be from some sort of lining or inferfacing or even just that part of the fabric pattern hitting the light a bit differently. I’m talking about the actual fabric pattern. You can see clear transitions where there are seams and darts such as where the gold pattern…

The vertical lines on the back of that dress are darts, though. You can tell by the pattern on the fabric, and the horizontal lines on the back are from seams from a band of material, which is also clear from the fabric pattern?

That all the Democrats in the US Senate could walk out, and there would still be a quorum to conduct business. Thus, the Democratic senators cannot do what the Texan Democratic senators did, because instead of gumming up the system, it would be handing it over to the Republicans without contest.

Which means what was said wasn’t actually a joke and is instead just a shitty comment made by an asshole. I’m genuinely astounded that anyone working in a healthcare setting would hold those sorts of opinions, and I’m sorry you’ve had to deal with this sort of nonsense. I’m pretty sure if the three people you’re…

That’s a funny joke if it’s actually meant to be a joke. It’s mocking the kind of assholes that I would have expected to give flight attendants shit.

Am I imagining things, or do her abs and side-boob look painted on? Those shadows seem a little too dark for the lighting, and her boob kind of looks wrong for the shape of the dress and the cup, which looks like it’s functional in addition to being a design choice.

Sure, Jan.

Oh, for sure. I highly doubt we’ll ever find out the initial sequence of events, either. Personally, I think it’s probably a bat to [insert animal here to] person route of transmission that started the whole shebang, anyway.

That’s just, like, your opinion, man.

I called China totalitarian and a surveillance state in response to you saying it’s communist, which it certainly is not, and stating that was the reason that the capitalist countries screwed up controlling COVID. The article you cited in response to me regarding government satisfaction actually said that while 95% of…

You mean the totalitarian surveillance state with the largest population in the world clamped down hard with what may have been inhumane practices while the third largest populated country in the world, coincidentally at the time led by a fucking anti-intellectual idiot intent on destroying all of the governmental…