When you’re at a doctor’s office, you can, at any time and for any reason, deny your doctor the ability to touch you. That’s one of the core principles of bodily autonomy—not even medical professionals can touch you without express consent. Some of this is implicit (like taking blood pressure) or implied, sure, but if…

I don’t think you know what “dystopian” means. Or anything about the US’s border policies. Do you know how difficult it is to get a long-term visa? How many months it often takes to be approved by our refugee program?

Or do you really, genuinely believe people are running across miles of desert in Mexico to cross one…

All careers worth having require work and dedication.

Any word from anyone on the talk that GameStop will have limited stocks of walk-in units for their midnight release? I’ve seen the headline several places, now, but when I called they gave a non-committal answer to the tune of “why not show up and find out?”

Based on my low-level animation experience, it’s probably because instead of calculating joint movement from the inside out as you would when animating manually (which is to say determining where a foot will fall based on the location of the torso, then the rotation hip, then knee, then ankle), you do it…

That’s what our town is doing, since our representative has straight up said he’s not coming. At least he’s consistent, seeing as he’s never set foot in his district office here.

So who do I talk and/or donate to to expedite federal lawsuits over this one? The ACLU seems a good start, but I’m already a member.

PhDs definitely have the right to call themselves “doctors.” That is most certainly and earned title.

Despite their best efforts, even Republicans can’t save the coal industry. Maybe they’ll help it limp along a few more years, but coal just isn’t worth it anymore. Natural gas and oil are far more profitable and far more responsible for the reduction in US coal production.

Really large scale strikes are more about delivering a single, strong message than the protesting equivalent of a siege.

Yeah, I work under the umbrellas of FERPA and/or HIPAA, depending on which lawyers you ask, and none of that shit would fly here. We’re talking firings and lawsuits in the best of cases.

Where do you get the idea that anyone is against deporting violent criminals? No one is against that—you, or someone you listen to, made that bit up to justify mass deportation of harmless civilians. Even sanctuary cities eagerly deport criminals without their paperwork in order.

Litigation. I’m not sure which group would be most appropriate to head it in this case, but these days more than ever before, the answer is lawsuits.

I did laptop repair during undergrad, and I do not blame you for wanting to avoid prying open your laptop. HP in particular is really bad about how they construct those things—they like to use a lot of adhesive and their little plastic hooks that hold it all together are really fragile. I always got mad nervous…

You might want to change your name with that mindset. I find it hard to believe you question anything without being told to, first.

I’d buy that argument if immigration didn’t historically remedy a lot of those problems. Immigrants are more likely to start businesses and generate jobs, have lower crime rates as a demographic than domestic citizens, and benefit the state budget since they pay nearly all the same taxes as locals but get few of the…

As much as I like Sanders—I voted for him in the primaries—we shouldn’t fool ourselves into thinking the Democratic party was going to back him. He is and always has been a staunch independent, and only ran as a Democrat because he knows full well no one running as an independent has a chance. His candidacy was a…

The Democrats did neglect a large portion of the population, which was a mistake, but Trump still fell 3 million behind in the popular vote. I’m fully aware we have an electoral college. That doesn’t change the fact that more people actively voted against him than for. The pushback is never going to stop.

Trouble is, now they just pander to Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania. All the current state of the electoral college does is shift around which states get the most power.

Call your representatives, attend local protests, go to town hall meetings and ask questions. I know they don’t sound like much, but Congress holds most of the power, and Congresspeople need your vote to hold that position. Especially House representatives. If your reps are Democrats, press them to be disruptive and…