That’s why old fashioned door handles are brass: it has similar qualities (which people realized wayyyyyy before germ theory).

It’s fine, it’s just got a tonsure.

And we all know, there’s no reason a news photographer would like us to think someone else is spidey…

Especially one who can take getting pepper sprayed and needs financial support.

Just tall boots and a codpiece, if you’re feeling confident

Is it poisonous? It looks poisonous, but if it’s edible, I really want to eat one, even if it’s fibrous or bland.

Edit: nothing specific on the fruit, but peonies in general both contain an alkaloid that is toxic in large quantities to humans, and have been used in traditional medicines for millennia. It’s possibly safe, but I won’t risk it.

In that comic, world governments would be simultaneously all powerful and helpless for AI companies. The author (presumably) doesn’t agree with AI companies that they both cannot be stopped and will be destroyed by the slightest legislation.

Not for masochists!

I wouldn’t say that they still use thalidomide to treat it, at least not it in countries with well regulated medical industries, but nausea during pregnancy that causes hyperemesis can absolutely be life threatening, especially without proper treatment (so it’s something you would consider life threatening when weighing a treatment plan, but IV fluids and nutrition through a PICC are obviously a safer and better treatment than thalidomide). The psychological effects of constant, overwhelming nausea can be so serious for the pregnant person that it’s life threatening even without the nutritional problems.

In that case, even if there’s no effective treatment, I still suspect doctors would advise terminating the pregnancy over something like thalidomide though, to be clear. I just had a sister with HG, and saw how devastating it was for her.

We don’t talk about the potential negative side effects of pregnancy or childbirth nearly enough, and the depiction in popular culture of pregnancy related nausea as a harmless annoyance is only one example, but that’s a rant for another day.

Oh, that’s some old school antisemitism :(

Not your comments, others on the post.

We found it: the situation in which people are standing on public transportation and you’re sitting next to an empty seat without moving over, but you’re not the asshole

So anyway, I cheated again and we’re not getting a divorce, but she’s making me build a habitat for peacocks out back.