xantoxis

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xantoxis, (edited )

Is she bi? I’m struggling to think of any male romantic attachment she’s had, or any attraction she’s expressed that wasn’t towards a woman.

Edit: Yep, got it, lots of examples here, thank you!

xantoxis,

OK, that scene definitely had some tension

xantoxis,

In fairness to Trump, he’s been pretty busy defending himself from a record number of indictments. Gets in the way of political participation.

xantoxis,

“I’m aware that consciousness still exists under general anesthesia, but the brain is no longer capable of forming memories, so have fun stabbing me with knives, I’m actually going to feel it!”

xantoxis,

Separately, is it still pain if you’re not conscious of it?

Doctors used to assert that babies didn’t feel pain, because 1) they couldn’t tell us about it, and 2) they didn’t remember it later. They would just not anesthetize babies. Of course, that endpoint of this line of reasoning is horrifying, but it’s still a fair question. When we say “pain” do we mean the firing of the nerves, or do we mean awareness of it?

xantoxis,

Teaching a man to fish is also a nice thing to do, though

xantoxis,

Reading into your intention, this is actually more like health insurance than single payer healthcare. Not quite a million little coops, more like a few dozen. And it would end up having most of the same problems of modern US health insurance.

You’ll need someone to administer the program, so you have to give them some power over your money. That means they’d need the power to say “no” to people who are seeking healthcare resources for invalid reasons–things like Munchausen’s syndrome at first, but eventually they’d have to make calls about things that people actually need but can’t prove they need, just like health insurance does now.

If you don’t want do these things, I guarantee your neighbors will insist they be done (ever hung out on nextdoor? those are the people you’ll be pooling your money with). And you’ll go along, because it’s a hassle not to, and hey at least you’re getting your needs taken care of most of the time. If you manage to keep your program free of capitalist influences, you’re going to have to fight corruption instead: “Slip me some dough and I’ll make sure you get seen next.”

So in time you just end up with health insurance, and most of its flaws, if you don’t very carefully watch the people administering your program, if you don’t very carefully fight against the perverse incentives.

The biggest problem, of course, is that existing health insurance would fight it like penicillin fights bacteria. They have had decades to do regulatory capture in their benefit, and if another group comes along that’s almost-but-not-quite health insurance, they’re going to make sure that the regulations they captured keep it from going anywhere, up to the point of trying to make it explicitly illegal.

I think we’re in agreement about single payer, but this ^ is how it benefits us. The government has actual power to fight corruption and isn’t beholden to capital. Now if we only had a way to create a just government.

xantoxis,

Her dropping the clipboard in the last panel is a great detail. That’s the kind of thing that sets great comics apart from good ones.

xantoxis,

Love a nice wet bun

xantoxis,

Even if leaves were prone to cause this, turtles wouldn’t be. The amount of leaves in the world vs the amount of turtles in the world isn’t even comparable.

xantoxis,

stormtrooper is also what they called troops of the SS under hitler so hmmm hmmm hmmmmmmm

xantoxis,

“They think this is better?”

Yes, they actually do. They’re probably conservative dickheads. They know that pink hair is code for “I am a tolerant and kind person; I might be gay but not necessarily; I support counterculture ideas.”

They hate the counterculture ideas. They don’t hate the color pink. Covering it up with a terrible wig makes it about something else.

Or anyway, so they think. What they’ve actually done is given her an opportunity to start conversations about the pink hair.

xantoxis,

Apart from this, what if you just donated several hundred posters at once? They all have to be displayed?

xantoxis,

(I’m going to set aside the fact that your Very Serious reply to my joke post is off-tone, and actually give you a serious answer.)

If you sent hundreds of posters to a school, you would find some school administrators who were only too happy to have the opportunity to plaster the word “God” on every school wall because they’re warped. I acknowledge that’s a thing, let’s move past it.

Most school administrators either a) hate this shit, or b) don’t really give a fuck. If you pulled this prank on one of those schools which–and I really want to stress this–are not on board with the stupid law in the vast majority of cases, you are actually handing them a chance to pull a glorious act of malicious compliance. If I were one of them, I would comply with the letter of the law and wallpaper every wall in the school with these things. Give the kids and the parents a chance to see them, and complain. Who are they complaining to? Not you, your hands are tied, you’re just complying with the law. You will explain this very patiently to every single one of them complaining about a school where every surface says “In God we Trust”. You’re on their side, but the school board and your legislators need to hear about this, because hey, we’re on the same team.

You can even go with them, and testify that your staff had to spend hours putting them up, taking time away from school activities. What are you supposed to do? This hurts the children.

School administrators don’t make the laws, but they can act in a way that brings the issue to the forefront of everyone’s mind. School administrators can give the parents a good reason to take the fight to someone who can actually do something about it.

That might not work, in the end. Texas is run by lunatics, after all. But a huge pile of posters might just be the reason you sleep at night knowing you did what you could.

xantoxis,

Proud of them

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