Iirc, the law specifies exposure of the female nipple and areola as the things that are indecent…

So… get some titty tassels with a large enough sticker plate to completely cover your areola, and you’re 100% legal!

You may consider also carrying a taser.

It’s the doppler effect, but with light instead of sound, and for the same reason.

Thing emits sound/light waves at a constant rate: sound/light waves hit you at a constant rate.

Thing continues to emit the same sound/light at the same rate, but starts to move toward you: sound/light waves hit you at a faster rate, causing the sound/light to turn higher-pitched/bluer.

Thing continues to emit the same sound/light at the same rate, but starts to move away from you: sound/light waves hit you at a slower rate, causing the sound/light to turn lower-pitched/redder.

Taco Bell has always been a particular case of “how the fuck are they still in business??” …on top of way over priced, subpar quality, and subpar taste, they sell a product in a saturated market, and nearly all of their competitors are better.

Even if we’re talking shitty fast food, there are dozens of Taco Bell like chains, and almost all of them are better than or at least equal to Taco Bell.

And outside of shitty fast food, actual Mexican food is all over the place. To include more authentic taquarias that usually sell tacos and burritos for like half of what Taco Bell does and their product is fucking delicious. We have one of those near were I live - right across the street from a Taco Bell… and every day Taco Bell has a line around the fucking building, while the cheaper, better, and ready-to-take-your-order place is right fucking there! Drives me insane.

*knife splits entire scene*

“…and it IS cake!!”

Now that was just sour.

With increased size comes a reduction in mobility, increased difficulty in reproduction and maintenance of life. And an increased perception in them being a threat.

A car sized spider would be pretty much immobile, and by that size, a tactical target that would be fairly easy to hunt to extinction.

The bigger the better.

Counterargument: the big ones are much easier to notice and squash. It’s the tiny fucker that just slipped under the collar of your shirt without alerting you that you need to worry about.

I’m sure that itch you just felt was all in your head.

I can’t believe two Kennedys were assassinated, and this guy isn’t one of them.

I made that mistake several times, but iirc it was always a recoverable error. When I stuck that hot loop into the agar it would sizzle, which would tell me I just murdered every bacterium that loop touched; so resterilize actually allow it to cool this time, and repeat the botched step in a slightly different location to pass through a section of bacteria that I hadn’t just dropped a nuke on.

…which is probably shitty technique, but it got me good enough results to get good enough data for class.

More like a giant alveolus. But inside out. With a giant sphincter in the middle. That poops light.

Pretty much. It’s like a little wire loop - sterilize it with a bunsen burner, let it cool, then take a swab from your source specimen and drag it into your agar for that section 1. Sterilize it again with the burner, cool, then drag through the last couple lines of 1 to get region 2. Repeat for 3 and again for 4. The sample size of individual microbes gets exponentially fewer each time - done correctly and region 4 is dotted with individual cells, which you leave alone for a while to incubate, then come back and start making your observations like how it’s interacting with the agar, what color, texture etc; smear it onto a microscope slide, see how it responds to different stains, it’s shape, it’s arrangement… then start checking all those findings against known properties of different microbes until you find a match.

Visual breakdown for anyone interested:

Normal flora can become pathogenic if it finds a way to a part of your body in which it doesn’t normally reside. For example, E. coli is NOT pathogenic when it’s in your lower intestines; different story when it finds a way into your bladder. …and even within the normal ‘home’ of a microbe in question, if your internal chemistry or immune system get out of whack, sometimes that resident flora can get out of control. This is basically ‘opportunistic pathogens’ in a nutshell.

So… every square.

That makes a ton more sense - thank you!

…what’s actually making the cysts radiopaque? I wouldn’t have guessed tape worms or the damage they’re doing to soft tissue to be anywhere near that visible on x-ray

I mean, that’s a good a selling point as any.

Oh, right on! I’ve only worked at a few different hospitals, so the sample size of my anecdote is pretty tiny, but I’ve noticed two trends that seem to contribute:

With newer surgeons, women are quicker to recognize when shit’s getting out of their experience level, and ask for help from their seniors before an emergency unfolds. Men tend to dig themselves into a hole first, then call a senior for a rescue as an absolute last resort.

With seasoned surgeons, women tend to be nicer to their team; men tend to be assholes. This is problematic if someone on the team is more timid - there have been instances where someone notices something like a hole in the surgeon’s glove, but didn’t say anything about it because they were afraid of inciting the surgeon’s anger… and then the patient ends up with an infection. As the tech or nurse in the OR, you need to bold as fuck sometimes. I.e., when I was a couple years into this job, we were wrapping up a big open-belly case, surgeon starts closing while the nurse and I were doing our counts. Counts were no good - one of our lap sponges was unaccounted for. “Doc, stop closing, we’re missing a sponge” …he ignored me and kept closing… so I reach over with a pair of scissors and cut the needle off the suture he was using. He proceeds to lose his shit, we do a sweep of the abdomen, and sure as shit there’s the missing lap. Then he doubles down and starts snapping about how lucky I was that it was in there. Both the nurse and I start chewing him out - literally doesn’t matter if it’s not in there, if your surg tech says there might be a retained sponge, you stop what you’re doing and start looking for that sponge. Were I less blunt with that dude, he’d have finished that stitch and closed the cavity, so now the nurse has to chart that a cavity was closed with a wrong count, then legal gets involved. I literally saved that dude from some serious trouble, but he was too butthurt to be anything other than pissed.

Anyway, women tend not to pull shut like that. Every time I’ve needed to call the room to a halt with a female surgeon, she’s just been on board with addressing the problem. Men feel like I’m challenging them personally that they need to contest; women see it as a challenge to the entire team that we all collectively need to resolve.

To be clear, most surgeons male or female just want what’s best for the patient and don’t put up a fight when I raise a concern… but when there is pushback, it’s generally from a man.

so the ones that make it are more skilled on average than men who don’t have to overcome those challenges?

Hadn’t considered that, but you’re probably right. Female doctors get a lot more stupid pushback. A year or so ago, I was in a thyroid case, doc was one of the younger women on the ENT crew. Also super small. …and people treat her like a fucking child. Anyway, we had recently had issues with pathology following her orders, so once she was done taking specimens, she ran them down to pathology herself to make sure everything went smoothly… the lab tech who received them literally told her to ‘go back to the OR and ask the surgeon to clarify the order’ lol. She would have been 100% justified in exploding at that tech, but she didn’t cuz she’s actually a decent person. That kind of shit never happens to men. I’ve been called ‘doctor’ more times than I can count, despite the giant green “TECH” label hanging below my name tag. “Quite the promotion, sir, but if you’re not trying to kill the patient you should probably bounce that question off of someone who knows what they’re doing.”

My take on feminism is that it just means equal rights and equal treatment, so fuck yeah I’m a feminist.

I once had a physical therapist tell me she wasn’t a feminist because she thought women couldn’t be as physically capable as men when serving as soldiers

That argument has always seemed like a cop-out to me. The division there is with physical ability, not gender. Establish the physical requirements and call it a day. There are weak-ass men who have no business getting near fields like that; and strong-ass women who blow the physical requirements out of the water.

Overall, men will pull ahead in jobs that emphasize physical labor - that’s fine. The flip side is also true, with other jobs favoring the anatomy and physiology of women. Aviation comes to mind. Especially if we’re still in the context of military, size and weight both need to be LOW. So same spiel - establish the requirements as the job demands and call it a day; weight and size limits will tend to favor women.

In either case, marking it as men-only or women-only is fucking stupid; but the demands of a specific career field leaning into anatomical and psychologic advantages of one sex vs the other is fine so long as the numbers reflect the actual demands.

*This does come with the need for and oversight, though, as the potential for abusing a system like that is high in order to accomplish sexist goals.

There’s something to be said for the mental side as well. Speaking as a surgical tech, the best techs I’ve worked with have consistently been women. I couldn’t begin to tell you why, and I’m backing this on the tiny field of view I’ve had into this field, but anecdotally, women are just better. I get a similar impression looking to the nurses and doctors, but I don’t have the expertise to really judge either of those.

Tldr, utilize people’s strengths, but don’t be a sexist asshole about it.

Murder is fucked up, human or not.

Couple issues with that. Murder is just illegal homicide. The homicide bit means it’s definitively only dealing with humans, and the legal bit is only as fucked up (or not) as the law itself, and history is littered with examples of legality clashing with morality.

We have some really evil folks in this world and they’re protected by the same laws as everyone else. Some of those evil people are doing things like running countries or mega-corporations or engaging in some other means of causing a massive scope of death and/or suffering. You find yourself in a position in which you could feasibly take their life - do you? It’s illegal: very much murder. But allowing them to persist allows whatever evil they’re inflicting on everyone else to also persist.

I know none of this is what you’re talking about, but I see the word ‘murder’ pop up a lot in conversations like this, and it’s just not the correct word for what you’re trying to describe. You can make a solid case for the morality of veganism without relying on the connotation of buzzwords that aren’t actually relevant.