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Both true: fruit is intended to be eaten BUT fruit is not intended to be eaten by human, who sometimes cut the seeds out (apple) or crunch them with teeth and even in the lucky case when he eat it with the fruit he then flush it to toilet which is rarely good condition for growth. Especially if the fruit was transfered hundreds of kilometres out of zone it's able to grow in. And her clone knows exactly how she feels ... and decided to be female. Bell's theorem and few related quantum physics properties suggest it does care. Still, even with superposition theoretically holding infinite amount of data in single particle, humans are more complicated ... because we ARE from particles, and lot of them. Personally I believe that brain includes system for amplifying quantum effects which produces free will ... You can never get the truth out of someone, no matter if by torture or bribe. Most you can get is what he knows or thinks he know, but truth? Most people will not even tell you the factorization of 1100771835408811 ! It will, until someone point out the problem to him. I think he never though about pirating so much to realize that copying dress may be copyright violation (although ... quick google search suggest that it isn't, unless it's jewellery or pattern ; and trademark is separate issue). Funny that the same doesn't work for mass produced music or software. Well, someone got good lawyers and lobbyists soon enough, someone didn't ... But we are not talking about what's legal or moral ; we are talking about Elliot and he will be likely to overthink it and get guilt trip no matter of what makes sense ... Note that those clothes don't last long. I would say that they would work as nice demos.

I would consider the dart gun guy position if there is telescopic and/or laser sight on it. Note that there is example in EGS how you are SUPPOSED to do it. No memory loss, only light confusion. Sadly, medical professional are unlikely to obtain this ... especially the ones in our world.

http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=615 I think that the last image proves Grace is deliberately trolling them.

I... may have to grant you that one, and that is impressive given how many incredibly stupid excuses I have heard for sending undressed women into combat zones. In fact, I cannot offhand think of anything else that stupid right now. o.O I will say that I liked the reason for the Elmore art showing a woman in a chainmail suit that left her chest and cleavage almost entirely exposed. As it turned out, that was not actually armour. It was ceremonial garb she was forced into prior to being sacrificed ritually to the Dark Gods. It does make sense in that case to leave an opening exposing the heart. (It also made sense that she declined the 'privilege' and cut the head priest's throat and made her escape. And that she ditched the 'armour' first opportunity she got.) Personally, I like the "the armor is actually magical and/or partially transparent and is covering much more than it seems" solution, although it often leaves out the "and also, the designer was pervert and/or really liked the trope". Regarding the WORST excuses, I think there is only one more stupid: none. Meaning, pretending that there is nothing to be excused or explained on that armor because it's obviously just fine. Except with no excuse, at least they can claim they didn't realized it.

True ; usually, it only spreads existing misinformation instead of creating it, but the effect is very similar. Note that torture was simplified in fiction long before "24". I think that experienced torturers can get useful informations, but it's definitely not as simple ... or as quick ... and generally not worth it. Also, yes, torture is totally useless for "confessing": you can get useful information from torture only if it's something torturer don't know. Questions like "did you do it" are useless ; "where did you hide the bodies/the bomb" may work, but has the unfortunate problem that you will never be sure if the tortured is just that good at resisting torture or really don't know ; you would need to be verifying multiple claims, because the tortured will CERTAINLY try to say something which is not true, and it can be both BEFORE and AFTER the true information. Certainly. Unfortunately, this kind of entertainment is rare. In fact, I would argue that it can educate in apolitical way, but some people tend to disagree because their personal prejudices are not compatible with scientific view of world and often education in general. Gun control SHOULD be about gun safety. I remember some quote (or was it joke?) about parent teaching gun control every week at firing range. Also, I didn't heard convincing counterargument against "If it would be against the law to have gun, then only outlaws will have guns" yet. I, too, live in country where carrying gun is not popular, and I wouldn't want it changed too quickly, but I don't believe it's good in long run. Kill or harm. But usually, it's simpler to do the one you DONT want to do, so ... It's definitely better than what most cartoons do - avoiding the guns to the point of stupidity. Heroes and villains are allowed to fight by any means and with any amount of collateral damage but neither is allowed to draw gun. Hey, maybe they had calcium deficiency and eating the wall is GOOD for them! Note that I wasn't objecting about chemically sedating them in general, but against using drug with specific sideefect. They should be using something with CLEAR effect.

There isn't really a pattern to it, it's just a two-toned shirt. Previously we saw it go from having the lighter part going over the shoulder as if Drake's wearing a tank top over a T-shirt, to having the lighter part stay below the armpits, and back again. But this time, there's still the light band going over the shoulder, but his pose is distorting it. I'm still calling it a pattern (although simple one) until I learn better word for it. I think the lighter part is more distorted than what could be explained by difference in pose. But as I said, I'm not completely certain of it ...

The correct reply is "I do and therefore I'm not a vegan" Human is not able to survive without eating other lifeforms or at least parts of them. Arguably least "violent" food is milk and eggs (unfertilized of course), despite many vegans not eating it. Even just recognizing that animal is expressing desire against something is not so easy. Starting with the relatively common knowledge that cats and dogs have almost opposite body languages ...

That's because similarly to darkness, stupidity is negative quantity. Turning off the light bulb doesn't allow darkness to spread from corner, nor does it create it and emit from the bulb ; the darkness is only absence of light. (We will now ignore the magical Darkness from some universes, which is obviously something more). Similarly, turning on the television doesn't start actually spreading some physically measurable quantity of stupidity, it just too often fails to spread any information ; problem is that if you focus your brain on something, it assumes there is some information which needs to be processed, and if you focus it on something which totally lacks useful information too often, it is then surprised when you try to focus it on something different and may take it some time to actually start working. Also, brain has some similar traits to muscles ; and some people fail to train it so much if they use their muscles the same way they would get bedsores. The equivalent of magical Darkness is misinformation ; entertainment rarely produces that, while news do that often. Misinformation can truly spread in way similar to information and can go from one media to other.

But very manpower intensitive. I think the modern method is overall faster when you need to perform a cerebrectomy on an entire population. I would object based on the manpower required in preparing all those shows, if not for the existence of reruns. Although the objection still holds in case of news. Those are rarely rerun.

I don't think shrugging up could change the pattern that way, but I'm not completely certain of it ...

To be fair, that's the part that comes closest to recreating the effect of watching modern entertainment TV and news. I agree that the principle is similar, but Egyptian way is way quicker.

Freefall last week. FF by 2 comics as well (it's today's so no permalink till Wednesday) The list of cross species consent in comics would be very long. But note that both of them are sentient in this case (although the possibility of direct order would complicate matters a lot). The main lesson of Kinsey scale missing from this discussion is that there are more options than just having on not having some trait (kink). Unless you can prove causal connection or at least very strong correlation, you should consider all traits independent. Meaning that it's not surprising if someone who has high score in kink and low score in gender preference would consider the king more important, while someone with similar score in both would insist that gender matters as well. Are you similarly squicked by missing consent from non-live forms (things)? Like dildos? What about plants? Those are technically alive, and yet you can't expect much consent from banana or cucumber. Sure, you can force many animals to do things they don't like, but I fail to see why having sex with them will be worse than anything else. It's not like you can make them pregnant. Also, I don't really believe the animal isn't able to show it doesn't like something - at least until you deliberately train it out of it. (I also fail to see them as attractive in reality ... anthropomorphized animals may be different case, but they are often sentient as well.)

Well Edward apparently chatted with Mr. Dunkel a fair bit during his time off work. If Mr. Dunkel mentioned having Elliot pick up a TV stand as well, Edward could have been like "Here, you'll need these to explain it to him." Nah, Edward isn't likely to offer stuff like this without asking. If Mr. Dunkel asked for help, however ... (And they really didn't needed the big plan. Small plan would suffice.)

Also his shirt changed. Why? In game tournaments, everyone is already supposed to know cheating is forbidden. They don't need to remind them, anyone caught cheating is removed from game.

Personally I consider the part where they pull the brain through the nose most troublesome. Exactly the problem I was talking about. And it can be even worse if the personal decides to use drugs to keep them from complaining. (I would add details but I don't remember enough ...)

... seriously? Elliot already has Ashley and Susan in queue. Also, I think he would mention Justin ... ... so far, we have Noah and Tedd as examples and those are pretty androgynous, Justin very much isn't. Meanwhile, Justin has Luke now. I think leaving it to interpretation would be dangerous if he already figured out ...

That must be a nice place to be treated. If I should ever happen to get into a situation like that again, I'll have to get into one of these. Ok, I'm admitting that I don't have personal experience with mental institution. (I don't even have personal experience with nursing home, but my grandmother knows some people there.)

You have it the other way. I was commenting that people in nursing homes need reason to live - because them LACKING it is the worst problem they have. People in mental institution usually have other, more serious problems (sometimes actually solvable by medications). While there are surely exceptions, in most cases they already HAVE reason to live, therefore they don't need another one. (Another exceptions I guess will be some psychopaths, which already have reason to live but they definitely need another which would be less damaging to the people around them.)

I thought that light was just to highlight the angelic halo Grace is wearing because she is so innocent, pure, and modest. Obviously.

So why is seafood so expensive? That's how good they are at distraction.

Only one (snerk). Who isn't hiding something from someone? If Mr. Dunkel has spell for summoning diagrams, it must be more than just visiting the same school. But maybe they really had it printed at a print shop.

Grew them or married them. I'm pretty sure the females in Nanase family rarely married someone with magic boobs. Nanase will be first one in this regard. That's why her mother is so nervous about it. Interesting. Maybe Mr. Verres and Mr. Dunkel have a common grandparent they have inherited an affinity for maps and charts from? Would explain why Dunkels are that much used to magic. But it could also be earlier relative (grand-grand-parent for example).

So, instead of seeing it as evidence about her fitting a particular orientation, you're taking it as evidence that she fits a particular trope. Six of one, half a dozen of the other. You're still assuming an awful lot based on one peck on the cheek goodbye. I agree that this would be very bad approach for real person. But Elliot's alter egos are SUPPOSED to be trope (or cliché). Also, word of god. Well, ok, Dan said that he's not sure himself, but he also confirmed that what Lisa said matches already established facts. Also, unlike real people, the limited span of comics means that in general we speculate based on data which would be grossly inadequate if it would be about reality. And the Chekhov's gun means that we have bigger chance to be right anyway: there is a lot more red herrings in real life than in any story.

I see connection. Considering even psychiatrists often have problem diagnosing, I'm not surprised psychiatry didn't get far. In Denmark we have mental 'health' institutions where patients will be kept immobilised and/or heavily drugged for weeks or months on end because it makes them easier to deal with. The patients' actual health, mental or physical, is at best a tertiary consideration if it even rates at all. Part of the problem is lack of funding. In my personal opinion the principal difference between these places and a medieval bedlam is that in the more 'modern' version, the floors are kept cleaner. There are people for which this is best option. But it's definitely not true for everyone who is there (likely not even 10%), and regarding people freaking out on ER, what if they have REASON to freak out? How are you supposed to examine person whose state was both physically and psychically altered? ... on the other hand, there are worse things like keeping patients in mental health institution drugged to not bother. Like doing the same to people in nursing homes. Lot of people there need reason to live and to keep trying, not drugs, especially sedative ones.

... to be exact, between second and third panels the "books" are mirrored again. Isn't this classical healing animation? No idea from which game, but I think I saw it parodied multiple times. Unless it was just similar. She has additional senses in her antennae, but she doesn't have now. Don't remember anything about hearing.